The Nokia N95 has a built in accelerometer. To make use of this, a company in France has created some software called Nokmote which allows you to control the N95 by tilting it left, right, up or down. To skip through menu’s you just flick it to the left or right and then push the phone quickly away from you to select the item. The software is not just for menu’s though. It also allows you to play games, browse through photo albums and control the media player. With the video being in French I have no clue what was actually said, but do check out the game when attached to the screen as the N95 can be used like a Wii Controller which is cool.

What I would like to see (if it’s not already there) is certain shakes and twists quick launching applications. Such as a tilt right to create a new SMS and a twist right to open up your address book etc…

The software will be available in December at Bysamir.

The N82 from Nokia has some fairly impressive specs such as a 5 mega pixel camera with Xenon flash. Connectivity is plentiful too with HSDPA, Wi-fi, Bluetooth A2DP and GPS. The phone compares to the N95 in specs but is not a dual slider (or single slider) and has a keypad on the front face. We are expecting to see an official announcement about the phone in December.

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The Power Brick is a new battery device which is high capacity. It has a 2400Mah capacity allowing it to charge a regular mobile phone or iPod about three times before it needs recharging it’s self. It weighs less then 100g and can be charged by USB. Outputs on this device are a plenty too. It comes with “tips” for Nokia (x2), Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola/Blackberry/mini USB, iPod, PSP and digital cameras. Also in the pack is a retractable USB cable which connects the tips to the battery. Full charge can be held for 3 months and the on/off switch is located on the side. So you do not loose all the bits and bobs included, the package comes with a small white case too.

For those who are out and about a lot, this small package could be a nice source of power should you need to make a call and your phone is dead.

It costs just £14.99 also which is not bad considering it contains all the above tips for a ton of devices.

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TechLives owner recently purchased a Nokia E61i after several days of hunting around for the perfect phone. In summery the phone does real well. It’s slim, has a plethora of connectivity including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The keypad is QWERTY which can handle easily around 25 WPM. The screen is 2.8 inch and it has a 2 mega pixel camera. It runs on the Symbian OS 9.1 S60 3rd Edition and includes office apps such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Overall techlivez is happy with the E61i and mentions it is a good step between a phone and Pocket PC.

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The Nokia N95 8Gb model will be coming to a store near you soon. Shipments of the 8Gb phone started today which features a large screen, Assisted-GPS and improved battery power. Along side those features is a massive 5 Megapixel camera, Wireless Lan, HSDPA and a 2 way slide which gives access to the keypad for making calls, and sliding the other way opens up the multimedia controls. 8Gb of memory can store 20 hours of video and around 6000 songs.
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An interesting device has been created by Samsung which is a micro-fuel cell. What makes this fuel cell different is that it runs on H2O. It works by water!! By mixing metal with water and oxygen it should be able to get three watts of power which is around 10 hours of use. The main problem right now with this is that the hydrogen cartridge needs to be replaced regularly. No doubt, future versions will be easily topped up with just water with out the replacement every few days. This is a nice step forwards as I suspect a lot of places with many mobile phone users will probably (luckily) have access to water to power it.

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