If you love the iPhone, but don’t like the smooth on-screen keyboard, this gadget might help. It will give you the “feel” of actually typing on a real keyboard. It is an overlay that provides tactile cues to your fingertips to help find the right key.

Do you love the iPhone, but struggle with the smooth on-screen keyboard? Personally, I’ve found it pretty easy to use, but the touchscreen definitely doesn’t offer the touch-typing feedback that you get with physical keys. This new, low cost screen overlay for the iPhone claims to provide tactile cues to your fingertips to help them find their way.

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Tiny tiny tiny. This cell phone, called the Modu Mini has reached the official status of “the lightest mobile phone in the world”. It weighs just 1.4 ounces, and measures .3 thick. And the record is official, according to the Guiness Book Of World Records. Actually, the Modu Mini Phone is a gadget that is really the core of a mobile phone, but it can act on its own. You can also put other “jackets” on the phone to expand it to things such as a gaming phone, smartphone, or music phone.

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Nokia PC Suite is a package of Windows-based PC applications developed especially for use with Nokia phones. Depending on your phone model, Nokia PC Suite lets you edit, synchronize and back up many of your phone’s files on a compatible PC through a cable or wireless connection.

Automatic, secure data, information, pictures, and music transfer from phone to phone or phone to PC
* Fast, easy connection to the Internet
* Connect wirelessly or via cable
* Connect by using your phone as a modem
* Manage messages, contacts, images, and music
* Synchronize your phone and PC calendars
* Install Java™-based applications in your phone
* Convert ringing tone formats
* Play multimedia messages and videos
* Send text messages from the PC
* Back up and restore phone files
* Over 30 languages

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Sharp has announced a new smartphone known as the Softbank 922SH. It features the quick 3G network, full QWERTY keyboard, and a large 3.5 inch screen with VGA resolution. Other features include external 1.2 OLED screen, sending and receiving email when the phone is closed, a business card scanner, and microSD slot. It will start shipping at the end of March in Japan.

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The Chinese have a way with cloning gadgets. Now they have cloned a Black 8 GB Nokia N95 that is on sale in the Philippines for only $161.35. The phone has twin cameras (why, I am not sure), dual slide out for the music player and keypad, MicroSD, MP3/4 Compatable, and of course, Bluetooth. Here is what the Chinese website says about the phone: “MOST LATEST N95 BLACK 8 GIG CLONE HAS JUST ARRIVED! STRAIGHT FROM THE CLONING GODS OF CHINA! WE BRING YOU THE ALL NEW N95 DUAL SLIDE VERSION! A CLONE THAT IS TRULY WORTHY TO BE CALLED AN EXACT REPLICA! SAME DIMENSION, MARKINGS, FEEL …. OVER ALL CLOSEST TO THE REAL N95 BLACK 8 GIG. THIS LATEST CLONE NOW COMES WITH DUAL SLIDE FEATURE, DISPLAY INTERFACE CHANGES TO PANORAMIC VIEW AND WITH THE SAME SIGNATURE N95 INTERFACE WHEN IN MEDIA MODE (SLIDE DOWN MODE).” I’m not sure why they were yelling…

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Nokia has announced plans to make Microsoft Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian OS, the world’s leading smartphone software, as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Adding support for Silverlight will extend opportunities for developers to create rich, interactive applications that run on multiple platforms in a consistent and reliable way.

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering next-generation media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight is already powering thousands of applications around the world and organizations including Entertainment Tonight, the NBA and NBC Universal to deliver superior Web-based experiences to their customers. The arrangement with Nokia will substantially extend the reach of Silverlight by making the platform available for hundreds of millions of devices, including S60 on Symbian smartphones from a range of manufacturers, as well as Nokia Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.

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LG Electronics, Inc. and DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX), a digital media company, has announced that the LG Viewty camera phone (Model: LG-KU990) is the first mobile phone with DivX Certification to natively record video in the high quality DivX® format. The LG Viewty enables consumers to capture high-resolution video, comparable in quality to what they would expect from a video camera, on their mobile phones, DivX videos recorded through the LG Viewty can easily be uploaded to online video sites or can be played back on any DivX Certified® consumer electronics device, including DVD players, gaming consoles and portable media players. The LG Viewty is a professional-level camera phone with features that surpass most phones on the market and includes 5.0 mega-pixel still image capture, manual focus, image stabilizer, handwriting recognition for photo editing, a document viewer, voice recording and 120 fps 640 x 480-pixel DivX video encoding. The LG Viewty has undergone a rigorous testing program, as do all the products that bear the DivX Certified logo, to ensure a high-quality DivX media experience. LG Viewty, currently for sale in Europe, will begin shipping immediately with DivX encoding capabilities.

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LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, has unveiled its LG-KF510 at the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. LG-KF510 is a stylish, fashionable phone catering to users’ demand for slimmer phones with unique design accents. The LG-KF510 will be available in major markets worldwide sometimes this month. At just 10.9 mm thick, the LG-KF510 is the extremely slim slider phone. It combines a slim style with strength created by its metal frame and tempered glass. At the center of its design are metal gradation paint schemes available in Stardust Dark Gray or Sunset Red.

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Samsung has a fairly new handset called the Muse. It has MP3 Playback, a whopping 64 MB of internal memory, a 2 megapixel camera with video recording capability, GPS, Stereo Bluetooth, and XM Radio. It is offered now by Alltel for $90.

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Electronics keep getting thinner and thinner, especially cell phones. Samsung claims to have the slimmest CMOS camera module of its kind, just 8.5 mm thick. What that means is that camera phones will be able to be much thinner than even now, since the camera’s “guts” are thinner. It comes in a 8 and 5 MegaPixel model, and should be available sometimes later this year. And it has a lot of other features such as anti shake, a 1-cm macro, and face tracking technology.

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