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Did you know that the biggest obstacle and expense for electric cars is battery technology? How dumb is that! As an idiot 4 year-old I could tell you that batteries didn’t last long enough and were too expensive. And today batteries aren’t going into small plastic dinos that trip over the shag and make you curse Christmas.

If you have kids you know the aggravation that comes standard with every battery purchase. You know they won’t last long, they’re expensive and the rechargeable alternatives seem to either drain too fast, or only give you about a dozen charges before providing the power equal to a sock-over-carpet shock. They need all sorts of batteries, many of which you can’t get at the supermarket. Besides the standards for their Wii controllers, MP3 players and so on, there are cell phone batteries, because all kids these days have cell phones (yes they do, I checked), and laptop batteries (verified that too).

I’d boycott batteries if I could. We either need everything to use something that I can get at my local food shop (goodbye cell phone battery!) or everything should just be solar. Slap solar cells on that dino and maybe there will be fewer tears at Christmas. Fewer dropped calls from my cell phone. Fewer pollutants in the atmosphere. And fewer things for John McCain to be wrong about.

I already have an iPod Touch, but once the iPhone is available with other carriers I’m getting one (no AT&T in my area). I love the large screen for watching a movie, or my latest download of Robot Chicken! The real exciting thing for the future of the iPhone is the SDK. This opens the cell phone to virtually unlimited possibilities. I’m hoping the iPhone SDK brings some games that I don’t have to have an Internet connection to play.

I think the iPhone SDK developers probably have even better ideas than just games. Helpful applications would be nice too. How about a more advanced word processor? A password vault…protected by a password of course (I have so many accounts in so many different places that I’ve started keeping some on my iPod Touch, and would likely do the same on an iPhone). The ability to play more file types would be nice too, but I honestly don’t know if the SDK and developers will have access to that in the media player portion of the iPhone. If not, maybe they could create a whole new software to access files from on the iPhone.

So here’s a wishlist:

• Games
• Word Processor
• Spreadsheet App.
• Password Vault
• Media Player (for more file types like .avi)
• Connection to GMail, AIM, Chat

Samsung’s cool new double-sided cell phone/MP3 player, the SPH-M620, or Ultra Music, is listed on Sprint’s website. While it isn’t listed as for sale, or detailed, it is labeled “Coming Soon” in Sprint’s Game Lobby.

It’d be nice if Samsung’s website would give us some details, like an available date…or even month.

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Samsung’s Ultra-Music (SPH-M620) on Sprint’s website.

I’ve been waiting for the cell phone and MP3 player (either combined into one gadget, or kept as individual products) that’ll make me drool. Turns out Samsung announced them at CES this year. Disregard the iPhone and the iPods, we all know Apple locks you in to having to stay with their products forever (that’s the evil side of iTunes).
The Cell Phone: Samsung’s Ultra Music is slim and sweet. One side’s got the phone, granted with a small screen, and the other’s got the MP3 player. It’s even sporting a 1 to 2 (reports differ) megapixel camera. The onboard memory is a measly 100mb, but it takes microSD cards, so that’ll give you 2gb. The downer is it will be released on Sprint, a provider which doesn’t have coverage in the uber-boonies I live in.
The MP3 Player: Even though I could just use the above, Samsung’s K3 is too sweet to not get (I’m saving my Christmas gift certs for it). It’s a very slim flash-based player with up to 8gb of memory, just enough for me to consider.

Both the above should be available in March.

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New Samsung products rock!

Who needs a camera when you’ve got a phone like this? It’s Samsung’s new 10 megapixel mobile phone. This monster, in a little package, also sports a 3x optical zoom (5x digital), media player, ability to play television broadcasts, bluetooth, and a few other feature checkmarks.

If you want it soon, move to Korea where it’ll available in just a few months. No word on a domestic release.

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Over a few years, mobile tones, cheap ring tones, mobile phone logo and downloadable game for mobile phones have become very popular among a large cross-section of mobile phone users in different parts of UK as well as other parts of the globe. A number of online providers of mobile phone logos, mobile tones as well as downloadable game for mobile phones have evolved and there is tremendous competition among them to make their presence felt in the telecom market. Many among them are enticing mobile phone users with offers that involve a lot of “small print.” Many of these offers do not respect the right of the mobile phone users to get what they are entitled to when they pay money for downloading of different types of mobile content in the form of mobile tones, mobile phone logo, cheap ring tones, other types of ring tones or those who are engaged in game downloads in their mobiles.

To protect the interests of consumers in this environment becomes all the more necessary. In this context, a number of rules have been devised to protect the rights of mobile phone users in UK for game downloads in their mobiles or in the instances of downloading of cheap ring tones, funny ring tones or a mobile phone logo. All firms that want to sell mobile phone content have to strictly follow these set of rules. These rules have been drafted by the Mobile Entertainment Forum and the UK’s phone firms.

Under the tenets of the new rules, the online firms must be transparent in their operations. They must provide all information to the end-consumers. The consumers must know what type of mobile tones or mobile phone logos they are expected to get for their money and also how they could discontinue the services of the online providers, offering the same, if they are dissatisfied with their services. The advertisements of these firms must speak in detail about the prices and time periods of the various offers in mobile tones, cheap ring tones, funny ring tones, mobile phone logos and downloadable games for mobile phones that are on offer.

Mobile phone users as consumers of the services of online retailers and providers of mobile content have a right to know what they are actually getting into, when they make a purchase of a mobile tone, mobile phone logo or game downloads for their mobiles. These rules would greatly improve the market dynamics of this sector of the mobility marketplace and would give more reasons for mobile phone users to make their online purchases of mobile phone logos, funny ring tones, Nokia ring tones, downloadable games for mobile phones, mobile tones and other forms of mobile phone content, with some degree of confidence.

About The Author
Mark Bishop is the webmaster of http://www.ringtoneship.co.uk, a site specializing in the different genres of ringtones, including polyphonic ringtones, mobile games, mobile phone, wallpapers themes and logos….

mark.bishop2006@gmail.com