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Mar
22

Earloomz fashionable Bluetooth HeadsetsGive the consideration of we’re always busy and we love talking on phone with our friends, or sometimes we just have to make calls, and it has been said that it’s healthier to make calls using a bluetooth, so it is quite essential for us to get a bluetooth headset! Then the question is: Can we get a nice funny one?

 

When it comes to the bluetooth headset market, only until recently are companies starting to realize that style and color are becoming much more relevant and appreciated versus the traditional boring black headset with a boom mic. Earloomz is one such company that goes even beyond color choices, for their bluetooth headsets by fusing fashion, and pop culture with technology. Earloomz has hundreds of graphics and licensed images to choose from such as Lady Gaga, Betty Boop, the Godfather, Star Trek and more. So for those who thought this was just a skin you put on your bluetooth headset you would be wrong.  It’s actually fashion, a different lifestyle! Get a unique funny bluetooth headset and show your personality!

 

However, as much as I love Lady Gaga, I would probably never wear this as a bluetooth headset. Regardless, the concept is great and the more unique bluetooth headsets the merrier, I just hope the quality is as good as the imagery, for that’s what we really need for a blutooth headset. The Earloomz bluetooth headsets retail for $59.95 and they debuted at CES and will be on display at MacWorld.

 

Interesting, funny and hopefully functional, this is the blutooth headset we want, and we need! I love the Star Trek one, how about you?

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Feb
10

Sony Ericsson today unveiled the Aspen, an eco-friendly Windows Mobile smartphone, as the company pushes towards greener phones that are safer for the environment.

The company, a joint venture between Sweden’s Ericsson and Japan’s Sony, said the Aspen is made from recycled plastics and waterborne paints and use an optimized display light sensor that consumes less energy. It also comes in a smaller package to decrease CO2 emissions from transportation and an e-manual to reduce paper usage.

The Aspen runs Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6.5.3 platform, allowing users to open and edit Office files, browse the Web, send emails and check up on Facebook and Twitter with one flick of the finger. It also integrates a 2.4-inch touch screen display, built-in QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and high-speed HSDPA Internet.

“The Sony Ericsson Aspen is the business phone with a conscience,” Said Quentin Cordier, Sony Ericsson’s global marketing manager. “With the latest version of Windows Phone, it has a rich user interface and powerful productivity tools.”

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In 2008, the company announced its “GreenHeart” initiative, a project to explore green technologies and use environmentally safe parts in its handsets, such as bio-plastic housings, recycled plastic keypads, eco-friendly chargers and environmentally conscious packaging. To date, four GreenHeart phones have been released — the Elm, Hazel, Naite and C901 handsets.

Other rivals including Motorola, Samsung have also designed eco-friendly phones — including Samsung’s solar-powered “Blue Earth” device.

In recent years, Sony Ericsson has been in a downward slide, mainly due to its heavily focus on mid-range Walkman music and Cyber-Shot camera phones when consumer demand quickly shifted to touch screen smartphones — such as Apple’s iPhone, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Google Android devices.

In June, the struggling company announced plans for a turnaround effort by developing new high-end smartphones using Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Nokia’s Symbian platforms.

It posted a narrower fourth-quarter loss last week, indicating that the company may be slowly progressing in its comeback plans.

Sony Ericsson said the Aspen will be available in selected markets in the second quarter.

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Jan
07

LephoneAs we all can see the ownership of smartPhone is growing and the SmartPhone market has been growing rapidly in 2009 and will continue this year. Then as a result, more and more corporations have entered the heated area of SmartPhone! Lenovo gave us a chance to check out their latest smartphone at CES 2010.

 

The LePhone is Android-based with a complete facelift and hardly any of the original OS sticking out. I wonder they intended it to be, but it seems like a sort of interesting mix of webOS, iPhone, and Android features. I quite liked it. In shape it’s quite pleasing, a little big, but with a good heft and solid feel. The screen is a gorgeous 3.7″ 800×480 OLED one. It’s got volume buttons on the left side, there, and a reprogrammable button on the right. It’s got a Pre-like dark area at the bottom that’s also touch-sensitive, and works as either a home button or for simple swiping gestures. It’s got the usual fixins: GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and all that, and it’s running on a Snapdragon processor, though I couldn’t seem to suss out the RAM or internal storage. We’ll hear more about that soon.

 

Lephone keyboardThe OS is Android, and should be 2.0 at launch, though they declined to say when that might be. It’s completely skinned, though — Lenovo has it equipped with a sort of dual mode home screen, with one (the flower) being a contact jump-off point: you scroll through your contacts and then can pick a petal to message, call, or whatever. It’ll work if you can choose which contacts are included in that scrolling list, but if you have a couple hundred it’ll get confusing mighty fast. The other home screen is a series of widgets, they call it Widget Space, with stuff like weather, stocks, latest emails, that sort of thing. There’s also media playback and all that — there was a little screen for selecting streaming TV channels or what appeared to be some pre-prepared content, movie trailers and such. The apps “drawer” is now a series of pages, like iPhone apps. It’s a proven technique, though of course slightly derivative. There’s a connector on the left side with a cover that attaches magnetically. It lets the Lephone connect to what is envisioned as a series of peripherals. And also a keyboard. Although the key layout is tweaked in a slightly weird way. But it worked normally and actually closed up to form a large clamshell you could carry around.

 

The device will probably be released in China first, then expand to the US, and this couldn’t be soon, still I was impressed by the phone and the complete little ecosystem they had going. I love some Lenovo, and it looks like they know what they’re doing. So how do you feel about this? Among all these SmartPhone storms would you pick this one for the near future of your life? Tell me!

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