The HTC Kaiser has now launched in Europe. It has been a long awaited smartphone. It is 3.5G compatible and runs Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional, has a built in QWERTY keyboard, GPS, 3 mega pixel auto focus camera, Bluetooth, 128MB RAM, Wifi b/g and a 2.8 inch display. The phone will be available on Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica Group and Vodafone.

This is one particular phone I am going to try get my hands on when my upgrade is due in a month or 2. Having the keyboard and large screen as well as built in GPS makes this phone a great phone to have.

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The phone above is by Wilcom and is shaped like a battery and uses a AAA battery to get its power. The AAA battery can power the phone for 250 hours on standby with about 5 hours of talk time. On the feature side this phone is about as basic as you can get these days. It has no screen, no MP3 player built in, no 3G access and not much else.

I am not sure how a phone like this will fair in the industry. It isnt the type I would go for as I like to have quite a few features packed in to a mobile phone. I am sure it might catch some peoples attention though.

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The FrogPad is a mobile keyboard which does not use the conventional QWERTY keyboard layout. Instead, the FrogPad has 20 keys but still promised easier use then a standard keyboard. The keyboard is to be used one handed allowing you to hold documents in the other hand. It is small and measures 5 x 3.5 x .4 inches and connects via Bluetooth to any Bluetooth device that supports the HID Bluetooth profile. According to ThinkGeek, you will be typing at 40 words per minute with in 10 hours of using the keyboard. Compare this to the 56 hours needed to achieve the same on a QWERTY keyboard it seems like the FrogPad is the way to go.

The FrogPad will set you back $149 for the right handed Bluetooth version with cheaper prices for the USB left and right hand version. For some reason there is no left hand Bluetooth version listed.

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The Nokia 6555 was announced today by Nokia. It is a 3G phone which is very sleek looking. It has a QVGA screen capable of displaying 16 million colours. The camera is capable of 6x zoom which can be used to capture self portraits. One of the cool design features of the phone is the hinge which is recessed which makes a smooth curve when opened. On the storage side of things the phone has 30Mb of built in RAM which is expandable by using a microSD card. Bluetooth connectivity is also built in.

Via: Mobile88

If you have seen the Matrix movie then you will be familiar with the green Matrix text which scrolls down the screen quite often during the film. A screen saver generator has been created which allows you to input your own text and import the animated GIF file on to your mobile phone to use as the backdrop.

The generator can be found here.

An NES emulator has been created for the iPhone although, as can be seen from the video it doesnt look too playable. Hopefully those little bugs can be ironed out to bring it to the speed we all want. As well as being able to load up the emulator, of course there are a lot of games such as Super Mario Bros, Metroid and Zelda. The controls are used on the touch screen which also emulates the NES controller.

I do like the look of this, and if they can get it to run a bit faster and iron out some quirks all should look great.

Via: Wired

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If you own an iPhone then the cool gorilla is something you might want to check out should you be travelling in to Europe. Cool Gorilla is a web based app which is very simple and provides translations into six languages for popular phrases which you might need while travelling. To use the application you just need to browse to www.coolgorilla.com/iphone on your iPhones browser and tap away through the menus. When you select the language, category and phrase you want you have the option to tap on the screen and have the iPhone speak the phrase for you.

It would be cool if they could eventually translate your voice on the fly while talking, but thats a fair few years off yet. For now, you will need to make do with the cool gorilla translator to help you out of tough situations.

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The shower radio is waterproof and also features caller ID so that when someone calls your phone you can see in the shower if its worth getting cold to go answer the call. It measures 5.5 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches and is powered by 4 AA batteries for the radio with 2 more AA batteries for the caller ID feature. Also, if you get a number of calls in the shower it will also memorise up to 10 numbers for you to scroll back through. The waterproof shower radio will cost you $49.95 from GadgetUniverse.