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Apr

The Business in Downloadable Ringtones – An Overview

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Categories: Gadget and Others

Over the years, the disposable income of a general consumer has increased and the quality of life of a representative individual of the global economy has improved considerably. More and more people are enjoying the best that technology has to offer!
For instance, the use of mobile phones has become a common phenomenon across the globe as they are best suited to our fast-paced lives and busy schedules. Many of us possess some of the latest models of mobile phone handsets and use the same to download different types of mobile content such as mobile phone games, Java games, mobile ringtones, real tones, polyphonic ringtones and monophonic ringtones.

The business in different types of mobile content including mobile phone ringtones has never been better! As a matter of fact, telecommunication companies are making big bucks by selling ring tones and other content to mobile phone users. The global business in ringtones generated around $4 billion dollars in 2004.

Users are downloading a multitude of ringtones in different categories such as monophonic ringtones, polyphonic ringtones and real music ringtones to meet their diverse needs. People from all walks of life are using mobiles in connecting with loved ones. Mobiles are also being used as fashion accessories or as status symbols, within a certain social stratum.

Some mobile phone users are listening to their favorite songs as real tones and polyphonic ringtones. Many among them are downloading ringtones rather than listening to the original songs and are often paying more for ringtones than the original music compositions.

Technological innovation has also been supporting this trend of increasing popularity of ringtones. Mobile phone ringtones that can better represent an original music composition such as real tones, mp3 tones and polyphonic ringtones have evolved over the years.

Consequently, the business in mobile phone ringtones is in an upbeat mood. As a matter of fact, within a very short span of time, it has grown considerably in stature and importance. In addition, the influence of the business of downloading of ringtones on the music industry has been quite striking. It has been estimated that the global music industry is gaining a large percentage of its profits from ringtones alone!

In the future, consumers can expect specific software solutions which would assist them to transfer music from their personal collections to mobile phone handsets. Consequently, the market for ringtones is expected to be divided between service providers offering ready made ringtones and those that would offer software for turning music into ring tones. Mobile content providers and record companies have to understand these trends and adjust themselves accordingly to maintain the existing tempo in the business for downloadable ringtones.

Apr

Mobile Tones: Emerging as a Favorite Among Consumers!

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Categories: Gadget and Others

Mobile users love the sound made by different genres of ringtones from real tones and true ringtones to polyphonic ringtones and even monophonic ringtones. The phone enhanced sale of mobile phone ringtones in UK as well as other parts of the world is a proof to the fact that mobile phone ringtones are emerging as a favorite among consumers.

Ringtones have been successful in capturing a share of the global music market as well. As a matter of fact, mobile phone ringtones comprises of about ten percent of the same.

The real ringtones and true ringtones were originally used as a form of advertisement for the original music compositions. But, with time, they assumed a significance of their own. People and more specifically, music lovers began to download and listen to different types of mobile ringtones such as mp3 ringtones, true ringtones, real ringtones, polyphonic ringtones and others. They were able to use these different types of mobile phone ringtones to add an individual touch to their handsets. And more importantly, these ringtones gave them the flexibility to listen to their favorite songs, at different times of the day!

This demand for mobile phone ringtones have translated into a profitable business in the same. The revenues accrued from the business in mobile phone ringtones have increased over the years. As of now, the revenue from the download of mobile hone ringtones are being divided between artists, music companies and mobile phone companies. Even after paying the royalties to the original singers and original music composers, it makes sense for mobile phone companies to take steps for ensuring that phone users get to hear the best sounds in mobile phone ringtones.

According to a recent estimate, the sale of ringtones is expected to increase to around $5.2 billion through 2008. Fuelled by high consumer demand, the business in mobile phone ringtones looks good in the foreseeable future!

Apr

An extremely squeezable soft phone

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Categories: Gadget, Innovation, Others and Product Reviews

Despite the great variety of phones that are available at the moment there are still some concepts that seem to be very improbable. The Soft Phone concept by designer Quin Jiang is probably one of the most incredible ones.

To understand better the main idea of given concept imagine a phone made from cotton. It’s very soft, pliable, and light, yet never compromising on power or performance. The Soft Phone is based on the electronic cellulose structures; however its functionality is high enough to satisfy customers’ needs.

As for the whole structure of the phone it represents a series of discs with electronic fabric stretched in between. The interface uses a combination of tactile gestures like squeezing to hang-up and touching, which detects a deformation on the surface to register input. The fibers are fine enough and optically clear allowing light energy to pass through to display simple contextual menus. The cell antenna, battery, camera, and micro electronics are contained inside a tiny clip which itself is made of soft, squeezable, stress-reducing silica. The Bluetooth earphones have a special slot that makes them easy to clip on the wire. Then the wire would charge the earphones via Electromagnetic Induction Technology.

Whenever you need a full QWERTY just unfurl the collapsible structure. Moreover if 3G net is strong one day, Soft Phone with the powerful information receiver will become popular without the memory card.

Given concept being so innovational will probably be to users’ taste. I hope it will be possible soon to test it.

Mar

Simple cell phone with no buttons

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Categories: Gadget, Innovation, Others and Product Reviews

Some experts think that in near future we will go back to using simple devices. Even now there is a growing tendency to produce less functional, but very original things. This happens because there are people who don’t pay much attention to the amount of functions that a device has and the only criterion while buying something is design of the gadget. Cell phones are not an exception.

The given gadget is just of that kind. It’s absolutely different from all the things that you’ve seen before. Its novelty consists in the fact that there are no buttons at all. Instead of them it has holes. So to “push” a button you just need to stick your finger into the hole. This concept has a small display where dialing/calling numbers, time and date are indicated. It also has a phone book in order to simplify number dialing. In case you want to change any configurations you need to insert your finger into the “menu” hole. As you realize it’s very thin. Actually there is no information about its battery, but according to the small number of functions it’s possible to conclude that such a cell phone will be able to work for quite long on one charge.

Thus, those people who are bored with all the camera phones and smartphones can choose this gadget in case they want to use something simple and unusual. Moreover, it will be probably sold at quite a reasonable price. Yet, some may say that its lack of functions will force them to throw it away just in some days.

Mar

"Green" technologies – Kinetic energy to charge cell phone

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Categories: Gadget, Innovation, Others and Product Reviews

Nowadays different cell phone producing companies make a lot of efforts to prolong battery life of their products. But despite the fact that some of them achieved quite significant results in this domain, it’s still impossible not to charge your cell phone at all. Yet Ricardo Baiao is sure that an absolutely new approach to the problem helps to find the best solution. His idea is based on the usage of kinetic energy to charge the phone. Something of that kind is used in the kinetic watch.

Thus, the Atlas Kinetic Cell Phone concept focuses on “green” technologies without sacrificing design. It’s all made just of two materials: aluminum and glass. The central sapphire glass reveals the generating and charging unit. Power comes from kinetic energy similar to that found in watches that use oscillating weight to power mainspring. Due to the power source of this gadget it contains only basic features. So there is no digital camera, mp3 player, Dictaphone, games and so on. But in case the phone runs out of power because it was at rest for too long, the only thing you have to do is to give it a few upside down turns to get the kinetic rotors going again.

It seems that with this kinetic cell phone you will never have to worry about batteries. Yet before buying such a device think if you are ready to sacrifice all the functions that you have been accustomed to. A very original design of this gadget will probably contribute a lot to the final decision making.

Mar

Chanel Choco phone – first-class design!

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Categories: Gadget, Innovation, Others and Product Reviews

The market of the exclusive cell phones develops no slower than that of usual ones. The reason for this consists in the fact that many reach and famous people prefer to buy very expensive cell phones of limited editions. Generally the only thing that distinguishes these original devices from traditional ones is their first-class design. An absolutely new cell phone by Chanel represents one of such exclusive devices.

The gadget called the Chanel Choco phone is a cell phone that has been designed by Fred de Garilhe. It works by “integrating an optical fiber system that displays image between two glass parts. There are 12 micro lighter fibers that project image components to the glass, enabling thus quite a good luminosity, and keep the mobile phone concept as light as possible. But all the lights appear just when you open the phone by pushing removable part on the side of it.” In addition to this given cell phone looks incredibly great standing for Madame Coco Chanel’s superb design sense. Actually on the first glance the gadget doesn’t seem to be a phone at all. When it is closed, it looks more like a piece of chocolate, but made from white, black, or yellow gold surface.

Thus, given cell phone has every prospect to success. Moreover, I think that it will be desired by many people, despite its price that will probably be quite a high one, because nothing of this kind has been created before.

Mar

Strap-Ya Sun power for extra talk time

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Categories: Gadget, Others and Product Reviews

Nowadays many people clearly understanding that all the major natural resources are very limited started to pay even more attention to the energy they use. Moreover some of them worry about their impact on the environment. As a consequence we try to use different alternative energy sources. It’s obvious that the easiest “green” power source which can be incorporated into many gadgets is that of the sun. Some practical solar designs for recharging phones have been already produced, however, the latest product from Strap-Ya looks much worthier.

This concept represents a solar panel that looks like a simple trinket. Yet it’s designed to prolong your cell phone’s work time. Despite the fact that the solar panel will not directly charge your cell phone, it will charge a small battery booster that can give your phone up to 25 minutes of extra life. It should be emphasized that this gadget is not supposed to be used for a full charge because you will need to wait between 6-10 hours of fair sun rays to do so. But it can help you a little bit in case of emergency. Besides that due to its small design it won’t occupy a lot of space, so you can let it hang out of your pocket.

The gadget has recently appeared in Japan. So in case you really need the spare power for your cell phone and like small useful things, you will be able to buy it soon.

Feb

MCube – Cell phones’ best friend

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Categories: Gadget, Innovation, Others and Product Reviews

To ensure the efficient functioning of your cutting-edge cell phone you need a lot of different devices (such as: charger, Bluetooth headphones, speakers and so on). Of course it’s not a trouble to get them, more by token, that the majority of these devices are generally available with the cell phone. Yet the problem is about the possibility to lose some of them. Moreover some people do not like “boring” devices that perform just a single function. That’s why a group of Korean designers invented a new all-in-one gadget.

This concept made in the form of a small cube is named MCube. It performs a lot of functions and can be used as a wireless charger, Bluetooth speaker, and information display. The only thing you should do is to place your mobile near the MCube. Using short range induction technology, your cell phone gets charged while all the information like date, time, messages, and caller ID are transferred to the MCube’s built-in display. What’s more, the touch controls on the gadget enable you to access your mobile’s music files and play them with the help of built-in speakers via Bluetooth.

Thus it’s not a device that can be used outside while you are driving a car or walking on the street. However, due to its great design, usefulness, and functionality it is a kind of gadget that you should have at home in order to make the usage of your cell phone easier and more pleasant.

Feb

NEC’s liquid-powered cell phones

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Categories: Gadget, Innovation, Others and Product Reviews

Sometimes looking at the great variety of all those high-end cell phones it seems that nothing more can be designed. However the creativeness of modern designers and engineers shows that the previous statement has nothing common with the reality. Thus, according to the latest news NEC will produce absolutely innovative liquid-powered cell phones in the near future.

At present given gadget is just a prototype, so there is no possibility to mention all the novelty’s features. Yet, this NEC liquid flask cell phone seems to be the combination of being liquid-powered and touchscreen. It means that the liquid inside will drain as you are using the phone, allowing you to see just how much power left. It sounds incredibly, isn’t it? As usually, nothing said about the future price of the concept, but as NEC informs it is going to be released sometime in 2008. Of course it’s hard to imagine what functions this phone will be able to perform but according to the given picture it won’t have even a usual digital camera. If so, this will be a “slight” disadvantage of this gadget.

In case all the mentioned features are true, the demand for this flask phone will be very impressive, because quite a significant amount of people will want to buy such an original and unusual device. At the same time all those who like this concept should hope that it will not be a Japan-only release.

Feb

The most expencive cell phone US$ 1,43 million – Le Million

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Categories: Gadget, Others and Product Reviews

There is no need to talk about the significant role of cell phones in our life. The fact that they turned into something really necessary and important explains why almost everybody has a cell phone. Thus, people started paying more attention not just to the functionality of these devices, but to the way they look as well. As a consequence we got a great variety of them pretty looking phones.

Recently Swedish company Goldwish designed Le Million cell phone that is considered to be the most expensive in the world. It’s made of red, yellow and white gold and encrusted with diamonds of 120 carats. Moreover its backboard is covered with crocodile leather. As regards the price of this gadget it almost corresponds to the name that was given to this device, yet it’s a little bit bigger – 1,43 million dollars.

There is no information about the characteristics of this cell phone and probably this is quite an understandable fact, because they are of no importance. The edition of this gadget is very limited – just three Le Millions will be sold in the world. So everything shows that the uniqueness of the gadget is the only feature, with help of which designers intend to attract people’s attention, especially of reach ones.

As far as we – mere mortals – are concerned I don’t think that someone will really dream about this cell phone. Of course it looks great, but it’s too expensive. Such kind of things should be kept shut up in a safe and not put into the pocket.