MILITANTPLATYPUS

On Monday, the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP)–a forum dominated by operators but including manufacturers such as Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG–announced that its members had agreed on micro-USB as the future common connector.

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Nokia is raising the bar (I wish cingular hadn’t co-opted that phrase) with it’s latest concept phone. The design offers a very slick looking full touch-screen face. This really opens up a lot of design, as well as function possibilites; provided it doesn’t go the way of the nano..

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The video is a must watch. The concept is pretty cool; a motion sensor in a cellphone, that allows you to interact with it in a new way. Funny thing is, I can’t think of another use for it other than the one in the video.

Link to video

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Let’s break it down, shall we.

I have seen all of those dorks really cool guys wandering around with their bluetooth headsets on, just in case some one calls, they can answer imediately.

While I don’t think that I am lame cool enought to go that route, I am considering this bad boy. Get incoming calls and SMS alerts on your watch by either a tone or vibration (no jokes please). It can also display incoming messages, signal strength, and battery life on the watch itself.

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on second thought, I think I will wait untill it comes down in size a bit..

No this isn’t some cheesey add, this is a how-to

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What is the latest and greatest in cellular these days? Balloons. Yep, balloons. Extend America thinks that instead of using 1,100 towers at $250,000 each to cover their home state of North Dakota, they could use 3 balloons at $55 a piece. Follow the link on the ‘via’ for some details on what they are up to.

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Wow, Motorola is definately the slut of the tech world. First Apple, now Google..

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