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Windows Mobile 6.5.1 (or whatever it's called) looking ready for primetime

by Chris Ziegler posted Oct 22nd 2009 @ 5:48PM

Even before 6.5 got official, the Windows Mobile community has been toying around with post-RTM leaked builds that really amp up the finger-friendliness -- thing is, no one seems to know what it is, what it's called, when it's coming, who will get it, or how it meshes with the upcoming release of WinMo 7 next year. For now, it's being informally called 6.5.1 -- sounds like a fair name to us -- and new mockups floating around suggest that Microsoft really wants to bridge the gap and make major user experience modifications to 6.5; the pre-7 platform hasn't yet reached the end of the road, apparently. Big buttons at the bottom of the screen look like they should be usable by even the fattest of fingers on a resistive display (and indeed, we've seen various forms of these in leaked builds) and interface elements throughout the OS have been spruced up to finally put the stylus to bed. We'll take it, but we would've been happy to take it in lieu of 6.5, too.

NTT DOCOMO's Touch Wood mockups make naughty puns easy

by Thomas Ricker posted Sep 24th 2009 @ 5:20AM

We're still not entirely sold on the intersection of gadgets and wood. Nevertheless, companies keep pumping out the concepts in response to our greener times. Here's NTT DOCOMO's effort using surplus wood leftover from Pacific culling operations. The Touch Wood prototype was developed in tandem with Sharp and Olympus and is based on the SH-04A slider. A Touch Wood mockup (pictured above) resembling a more feminine bean was also announced. In either case, the Touch Wood body is made of cypress without adding any artificial coloring or paint. And by using Olympus' 3D compression molding technique, they've manage to maintain the kind of durability, and resistance to water, insects, and mildew that you'd expect from, well, a tree. The handsets will be on exhibit in October at the ITU Telecom World and CEATEC Japan shows... touch wood. SH-04A prototype pictured after the break.

[Thanks, Stop Spamming]

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Keepin' it real fake, part LXVI: hand-knit iPhone edition

by Sean Cooper posted Jul 9th 2007 @ 4:32PM

If you're like some and just couldn't take all that lining up business to buy an iPhone, fear "knot," a knit phone may be for you. Daddytypes posted some pics of an iPhone that his mom knitted for him (we also spotted a hand-knit Pop-Tart) and while hugely strange, it is rather crazy cool at the same time. We're particularly digging the mostly true to life button layout and color scheme on the back -- we're betting If knitting was an Olympic sport, mama Dadddytypes would definitely be a contender for gold. So if your fingers -- or a family member's -- are talented enough, check the how-to on the site to help get you on your way.

[Via textually.org]

Sony Ericsson's first Bravia DVB-H phone, or bad fake?

by Chris Ziegler posted Dec 21st 2006 @ 1:45PM

It's been suggested that a couple Bravia-branded phones packing DVB-H tuners are in the works from the folks at Sony Ericsson, and a blurry picture floating around the 'nets the last couple days seems to back that up. After the introduction of the W44S on Sony's native soil, it seems like it'd make sense to expand the Bravia line, but hold the phones -- why does the top of the device look so heavily retouched? And don't the buttons look a little fakey? It's been suggested that this could be an official non-functional mockup of what such a handset might look like, but can't Sony Ericsson, with their fancy engineers, computers, and machinery, make something a little more realistic than this? If it's legit, we should hear more in early '07; if not, we suspect mobile TV fans of the world will be shedding a few tears.

[Via gearfuse]

Worst iPhone mockup ever utilizes Apple Remote

by Darren Murph posted Nov 10th 2006 @ 10:56AM

Ok, so Apple mockups seem to surface every other week or so, and while some renditions are utterly believable, there are a few that take the cake when it comes to eliciting a grin. The latest iPhone forgery (vid after the break) is brought to us courtesy of an (unsurprisingly) anonymous individual and YouTube, where an Apple Remote is apparently (and magically, no less) transformed into a cellphone. Aside from the awfully rendered fonts, "2D" appearance, and out-of-sync "clicks," we highly doubt Apple would create a mobile based on a Front Row controller. Regardless, we thank the dear creator for giving us such a hearty laugh, but this unfortunately won't quite make the cut for FCC Fridays.

[Via TUAW]

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