phone gun!!

If you remember "Tommorow Never Dies" the Bond flick in which he controls his BMW with an Ericsson phone which was also capable of delivering a lethal shock. Well move over 007 here is the Cell phone gun, it looks like a normal in fact an ancient cell phone however it is a fully functional gun which fires .22 calibre rounds. Take a look at the video at how it is all done.

Though it may sound interesting it poses a serious security threat and has got law enforcement agencies all over the world baffled. It packs a lethal dose and can fire four rounds in succession, just by hitting keys 5, 6, 7 and 8 keys.

The guns are loaded by twisting the phone in half. The .22-caliber rounds fit into the top of the phone under the screen. The lower half, under the keyboard, holds the firing pins. The bullets fire through the antenna by pressing the keypad from numbers five to eight.

Airport authorities across Europe are implementing systems to X-ray all cell phones.
Oh and unlike 007 the phone does not work

v517 from lenovo

The sleek V517 from Lenovo comes in pink and is targetted at females unlike other phones like the Motorola RAZR which have a pink version. The V517 effortlessly combines style with functionality. The GSM slider phone suits the palm of young females and is easy to operate says Lenovo. The light pink exterior has falling snow flakes designed all over it. On the left side you have the earphone slot and a dedicated camera key. The button is feather touch enabled so only a gentle press is required to capture that special moment. Being a chic phone doesn't mean Lenovo has cut down on features. The V517 has a 1.3 Megapixel camera with LED Flash and support for video recording. You can preview the images on the large TFT screen. With the built in MP3 player you can enjoy music on the move. You enjoy your favourite tracks as the V517 has a built in Micro SD card slot. You can easily transfer captured images and video recordings to the memory card.

The Lenovo V517 has a BMI calculator (Body Mass Index) which tells if you are underweight, overweight or perfect. It can also accurately calculate male BMI index so your boyfriend is overweight you can ask him to take longer walks with you. It also includes a physiology periodic table which records menstrual period time and reminds you to pay attention as necessary.

At the moment the V517 will be available at stores in Taiwan not sure when it will hit the States and Europe

motorola "Q"

The delightful "Q" from Motorola has now gone in for the UMTS look. With Nokia also jumping into the fray, it was not going to be long before everyone else joining the band wagon. Obviously Motorola must have known about this and have the Q with UMTS support ready for release.

Touted as the first family of devices that blend style with productivity; the Q offers an uncompromising combination of a great phone, powerful email and captivating entertainment features that deliver a strong business and personal mobile experience. People of all professions, interests and ambitions can be productive, in-touch and stylish whenever and wherever they choose.

“The addition of UMTS to the Motorola Q family expands the capabilities and geographic reach for those that want a true mobile PC-like experience without the size and weight of a PC,” said Ron Garriques, Executive Vice President, President, Mobile Devices, Motorola, Inc. “Q liberates everyone from the restraints of today’s office and lets them stay productive, creative and entertained whenever and wherever they are.”

The first Q is expected to ship with CDMA/EVDO capabilities later this quarter with the newly unveiled version expected to be available for operator trials in late Q4 2006. The Q device family leverages Microsoft’s familiar and trusted Windows Mobile software which delivers corporate mobile messaging support out of the box with Exchange 2003, and is also optimized for a variety of third party email solutions that enable an even broader set of corporate email capabilities

mobile troubles!!!

nokia 6111

Featuring a stylish classic design, the soft slide mechanism of the Nokia 6111 smoothly reveals its keypad. Blending technology with a sophisticated look and feel, the Nokia 6111 comes with a 1-megapixel camera and flash, and a 6x digital zoom. The screen (128x160 pixels) supports up to 262,144 colors and displays pictures in either portrait or landscape mode. The rounded edges of the Nokia 6111 seem to be the latest style since the other phones announced alongside have also got the same design. The classic slider design of course makes the handset very convenient to hold as well as carry around in the pocket.

In addition to its ergonomic design, the Nokia 6111 offers a number of new messaging options. Push to talk functionality connects to groups or individuals at a push of a button while Nokia Xpress audio messaging enables sharing of voice clips and greetings with friends and family. When you need to get files from one device to another, the Nokia 6111 phone gives you true versatility with Bluetooth technology, infrared, Pop-Port, and USB. The GSM 900/1800/1900 Nokia 6111 has an estimated retail price of 270 EUR before subsidies or taxes.

tv phone with remote control

Curitel has come out with an intersting idea to make DMB handsets all the more popular. Remember TV's in the olden times? No remote controls, which meant you get up each time you wish to change channels. Since todays handsets have satellite access, they can tune into a score of channels. Once you set up the T.V. phone at a position that is comfortable to watch from, it is very irritating to lift it up, use the small keypad to flick the channel and set it up again. There could even be reception trouble since its not exactly fun to set up the antenna each time to recieve the best possible transmission.

Now the PT-L1800 comes with its own remote control. This lets you set up the handset on the table, put your legs up and use the remote control to effortlessly flick channels. Other features of this baby include a Tv out / PC out connection; an MP3 player (of course) ; TV capture function (record), speaker phone, GPS, T-Flash memory card etc. Also present is a rotating megapixel camera lens, its really cool since the flash also rotates along with the lens so shooting a picture in any direction is possible with the flash support.

Samsung SGH P900-tv phone

The SGH P900 that Samsung has just announced specially for Europe will be the first T-DMB (Terrestrial - Digital Media Broadcasting) handset. Enjoy the 2.2" QVGA display by watching TV on it. Additional features will include a MP3 player and a 2 megapixel camera.
To receive TV signals, users can easily flip the 2.2" TFT LCD screen to a horizontal position for optimal viewing. With a high resolution QVGA (240x320 pixels) screen with 262,144 colors, TV images are clear, crisp and flicker-free. The display shows up to 30 pictures per second, allowing users to enjoy a vivid live broadcasting as if they were at home.

The SGH-P900 comes in a compact size of 92 x 49 x26 mm. Seamless connection with personal computers is guaranteed by a built-in USB port and Bluetooth functionality. It also supports TV-output function, online browser, personal information manager and series of office functions. The SGH-P900 also features all of the classic functions of a high quality GSM/GPRS mobile.

Moreover, the 128MB user memory and the external memory let this innovative multimedia phone not just play, but also record and save TV broadcasts, videos and games. All of these add up to a whole lot of fun for soccer fans, who can print out their favorite goal moments or re-live match highlights in video format, even when the game is over.

This model will be revealed at 3GSM held at Barcelona in February and will be released in the Second Quarter of 2006.

Limited damage from Nyxem virus

Nyxem-E caught out PC users all over the world
Early reports suggest damage has been light from the destructive Nyxem virus.
The Windows virus was set to start deleting popular file types on 3 February and was known to have infected more than 300,000 machines.

But computer security groups in nations where Nyxem infections were high said few users lost data because of the bug.

Experts speculated that the publicity prior to Nyxem's trigger date may have prompted people to clean up machines and prepare defences.

Lost files

Computer security companies have been sounding the alarm about Nyxem-E since 16 January when the virus first appeared. Nyxem-E is also known as Blackworm, MyWife, Kama Sutra, Grew and CME-24.

Since then anti-virus and mail filtering firms have caught millions of copies of the bug which is a variant of a malicious program that debuted in March 2004.

Unlike many more recent viruses, Nyxem-E is destructive and is timed to delete files in 11 popular formats it found on infected machines. A timer inside the malicious program set it to start deleting on the third of every month.

NYXEM FILE TARGETS
DMP - Oracle files
DOC - Word document
MDB - Microsoft Access
MDE - Microsoft Access/Office
PDF - Adobe Acrobat
PPS - PowerPoint slideshow
PPT - PowerPoint
PSD - Photoshop
RAR - Compressed archive
XLS - Excel spreadsheet
ZIP - Compressed file

But as the early hours of 3 February unrolled, national computer security organisations reported few problems. Security firm Network Box said as the day progressed it was catching fewer and fewer copies of the bug.

Security researchers had a very good idea of where the infections were concentrated because every compromised PC reported in to a website associated with the virus. In total more than 300,000 computers reported they had been infected.

According to early analysis of the statistics, infections were highest in India, Peru and Italy. Later work suggested Malaysia too could be hard hit.

One of the few reports of damage came from Milan's city government which shut down its computer network to clean up the infection.

But the Indian chapter of the Computer Emergency Response Team said it was getting a lot of calls for information about Nyxem-E but no-one was reporting data losses.

Similarly, computer security workers in Australia, Hong Kong and Japan said damage was light to non-existent.

Speaking on Friday afternoon, Itsuro Nishimoto, an executive at Tokyo-based computer security company LAC Corp, said: "It's well past the deadline but we haven't confirmed any cases of the Kama Sutra in Japan, which suggests we're not looking at a major outbreak."

Similar reports came from Hong Kong.

"Our assessment of the worm damage is 'not serious'," said Roy Ko from Hong Kong's national computer security co-ordination centre.

TOP NYXEM NATIONS
1) India - 37%
2) Malaysia - 23%
3) Indonesia - 9%
4) Thailand - 5%
5) Philippines - 4%
6) United Arab Emirates - 3%
7) Singapore - 3%
8) United States - 2%
9) Peru - 2%
10) Sri Lanka - 1%
He added: "Big corporations will surely be able to avoid it if they update their anti-virus software frequently enough. We're more worried about individual users and small businesses."

Analysis by mail filtering firm MessageLabs suggested that the number of infected machines pumping out copies of the virus had fallen to about 20,000 from the earlier high.

MessageLabs said the publicity surrounding the worm had led many to clean up computers prior to the trigger date. Its figures suggested that more than 11,000 computers were getting disinfected every day during the last week.

The virus is thought to have racked up a significant amount of victims because it falsely promised pornographic pictures and movies to those that opened attachments on e-mail messages it used to travel in.

Some of these messages managed to slip through defences because they were disguised as unusual types not typically associated with viruses.

Anti-virus companies urged people to update their security software and to use removal tools if they were unlucky enough to fall victim to the bug.

cell phone jammer

Have you been in situations where, forget cell phone etiquette even basic courtesy is not present in people. Whats worse is that you could be in a movie theatre or a play or Opera and just because of that single person who refuses to cut his conversation short or move out to let others enjoy the show, making everyone suffer. When polite "shoos" or "quiet pleases" are simply ignored, you know its time to take matters into your own hands. Much as you would like to just grab his cell phone and throw it out the door, it would probably mean that you end the night with police. What is really required are some covert super powers.

It would be just perfect if you had a portable tiny cell phone jammer which would cause every cell phone in a small area to be unable to catch the network. Its not just honest to god wishing that I am doing here, but telling you folks about an electronic device which is very much available in Japan. Just recently released, the "Portable Director II" does all this and more. Able to operate in a region of 3 metres, the device shuts down or rather jams all the cell phones in its vicinity. There are two types of methods that you can use, one is the conitnous operation in which the device constantly jams all cell phones while the other is the battery saving timer mode. This one jams cell phones for 70 seconds and then goes off , restarting on its on after some time. The miny device, has a size of 47 x 61 x 13 mm and a weight of 20 grams.
Since the device is available only in Japan at this point, the manufacturer has only mentioned baout the neworks that it can jam over there. However it seems very versatile and can be easily adapted to the networks of the country in which it is supposed to be sold. eg: NTT_DOCOMO (800MHz), FOMA (2gHz), VodaFone (1. 5gHz) etc. Even if the device is kept constantly on, it can jam cell phones for 4 hours at a stretch, more then enough to last the movie that you so desperately want to see uninterrupted.

Nokia E61 to be released this month

The Nokia E61 business phone is rumored to release in mid-February according to MobileBee. The E61 also known as Nokiaberry is Nokia's answer to the Motorola Q smartphone. The Nokia E series is for business users and includes Nokia E70, E60 and the E61. The E61 (GSM850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA2100) sports a QWERTY keyboard and it's large display supports 16 million colors. It supports multiple email clients multiple mobile email clients like BlackBerry Connect, GoodLink, Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail, and Visto Mobile, the Nokia E61 provides seamless and encrypted mobile connectivity. It runs on Series 60 Operating System (version 9.1) and has 75 MB of internal memory and a Mini SD card slot for more memory.

The Nokia E61 has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The price of the Nokia E61 will be around $499.99.

SonyEricsson W41S - musicphone

The W41S wins you over easily, thanks to its very appealing looks and of course the complete state of art technology that has been used in it. We have mentioned about the W41s more than once on this site, however with some pretty detailed pictures and details popping up, we could not help posting more details for our users.

Like all the recently announced or released handsets for KDDI; the W41s which is made by SonyEricsson is a clamshell. The images that we have feature a W41s in gleaming blue color. SonyEricsson have given this phone a small monochrome displayon the outside, nothing fancy like the Samsung clamshells which have high end secondary displays. However the display being longitudinal and set at an angle vertical to the phone, makes it look different and cool. The writing at the top is a warning that the handset is FeLiCa compliant. Just below the display, there is a big LED which turns on whenever the FeLiCa system is activated.

For more details on FeLiCa, suggest you read: A phone which can replace tickets, credit cards, I-cards and more.

Opening the clamshell shows the designer keypad. Having a shade just slightly darker then that of the color, the sleek keypad adds to the beauty of the phone. The small camera lens is powerful enough to take photogrpahs of 1.3 megapixels at the most. At the hinge, there is a smaller LED which basically shows network connectivity. The W41S can be charged by placing it in the charge stand rather than the usual chargers which simply snap into the power port of the handset. Since the handset lays special emphasis on its music features, one simply needs to check out the earphones attached to the phone. They come with a complete controller allowing you to change tracks, adjust the volume and of course talk into it, using it as a normal handsfree when there is a call. The handset is also LISMO compatible, KDDI's music service which allows users to download music , something like Apple's iTunes.


Downloaded music can be stored on the handsets own memory (40 megabytes) or the memory stick duo (which can take a stick of upto 2 GB maximum size). The handset can also recieve FM radio channels. The camera and accompanying software can be used to set up the handset as a bar code reader, something that most high end phones in Japan are able to do.