Telstra along with local bank, NAB and Visa have launched a contactless, mobile phone payments trial with a group of consumers and participating merchants at Melbourne’s Docklands.This technology allows consumers participating in the trial to remotely download their NAB Visa credit card software application onto their Telstra mobile phone SIM card, enabling them to purchase goods and services by waving their mobile phone over a participating NAB merchant’s reader. read more…
 
One of the largest social network services in the world has just launched a mobile version. hi5 Networks has announced the availability of hi5 Mobile, available on mobile phones in 26 different languages.”No other social network offers mobile support in as many languages as hi5. This extensive in-language support represents a significant market opportunity for the company,” the release boasts. Â read more…
 
The FCC has approved the latest product of the Hitachi, Casio partnership; an Exilim-branded 8-megapixel camera phone. Comes in a clanshell cellphone design, Casio Exilim W63CA sport a 800 x 480 swivel screen. This Hitachi-Casio phone is going to receive Exilim branding, not unlike the slim line of digital cameras from Casio.Its 8 megapixel sensor is using new new Omnivision sensor, which is never used on any camera phone before. read more…
 
Taking cellphone photography up a professional notch, the Mobile Phone Camera Telescope allows users to turn any cameraphone or digital camera into a professional unit with some real zoom power. Offered by Brando, a Hong Kong based online retailer, the so-called “HTC Touch Diamond Mobile Phone Telescope” can be attached on the back of the handset in order to offer the equivalent of 6X digital zoom for its photo camera. It overcomes the short coming of camera cellphone that can only near-sighted, it also makes distant view for you at the moment. The advantage of HTC’s handset that the new design runs of rays can effectively avoid the contortion of image, and makes the super wide angle, the larger luminous flux, the higher visual acuteness, good for color reduction, which makes the high quality of photography.
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E-Ten today let us know that they will soon launch the Glofiish V900 and the Glofiish X610 after unveiling back in February and confirmed again in June. The two new releases point out that the company is trying to improve their portfolio with quality handsets.
The Glofiish X610 is an upgraded version of E-Ten’s X600 featuring E-Ten’s Today screen plug-in, based on Spb Mobile Shell V2.1 as well as the ID is a little different from Glofiish X600 by using a flat touchscreen (which is quite common for today’s Windows Mobile Professional smartphone). read more…
