Landline phones ringing up features (The Pantagraph)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Land-line telephones, welcome to the party. In recent years, as phone companies have beefed up their cellphones with a steady stream of enhancements, innovations to the old land-line phone have been slow to come.

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Sony Ericsson Dominate Telia Most Popular Handsets (Cellular-News.com)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Mobile broadband continued to be a big seller in Telia’s retail stores in Sweden, and as a result, sales of USB modems topped the list for September. Six out of nine mobile phones on the list were from Sony Ericsson, of which two were new models for September.

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Send your snapshots (Detroit Free Press)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Is your digital camera filled with great photos of your family? Pick the best and send it to the Free Press, with the story behind the picture, and we’ll randomly select one for “My Family” each week. E-mail to familylife@freepress.com. Tell us who’s in the picture, including full names, ages and hometowns. Also include a daytime phone number.

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Hello, innovation: Companies are trying to teach old phones some new tricks (Deseret Morning News)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Land-line telephones, welcome to the party. In recent years, as phone companies have beefed up their cell phones with a steady stream of enhancements, innovations to the old land-line phone have been slow to come.

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Storing the ‘most documented generation’ (The State)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Thanks to cheap and easy-to-use recording devices — digital cameras, camcorders, camera phones — today’s kids are forming the most documented generation ever, as parents, relatives and friends capture forever the first, second and hundredth smile. The challenge will come in managing all the data and making sure they get migrated and cared for along the way. The research company InfoTrends …

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Samsung U100 sets Guinness World Records as world’s slimmest phone (AME Info)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, is celebrating the entry of its slimmest mobile phone, Samsung U100, in Guinness Book of Records 2008.

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Qtel offers MobileCam (AME Info)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Qatar Telecom (Qtel) has launched a new 3G MobileCam service, reported the Peninsula. The wireless camera can be accessed via 3G video calls from a subscriber’s mobile phone and offers possible surveillance of a home or office.

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POKIN AROUND: I lament: Where are you, cell phone? Why did you desert me? (Wentzville Journal)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Last week my cell phone ran off. One day my trusted partner was with me and then poof! It was gone.

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Qtel launches 3G MobileCam service (Gulf Times)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Business Reporter QTEL has launched its new MobileCam service using 3G technology. The 3G MobileCam is a wireless camera that can be placed at one’s home or office and accessed via 3G video calls from one’s mobile phone from anywhere, anytime.

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COMPONENTS: Ultra-small charge pumps target cell phones (Embedded Systems Programming Magazine)

Camera Phone Fanatic wrote this mid-morning:

Camarillo, Calif. — Semtech Corp. has released its SC62X family of ultra-small (3.0 x 3.0 x 0.6 mm) and highly programmable charge pumps for providing power to LCD backlights, LED flash and camera modules in mobile phones.

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