Qipit is a wonderful free service that lets mobile phone users to send their photos via email or fax. It can even send the content in PDF format to your email address. Upon register, you’ll receive an account that allows unlimited email and faxing of your digital copies, as well as up to 100 pages of storage space. Of course, your cell phone must have a built-in camera module along with internet connection support. However, be sure to check out Qipit’s compatibility page first.

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LG – Nortel has just announced that WiMax Video Phone is its current project. Not much detail about the handset has been revealed. From the outside, it looks like a normal home/land phones with an additional video display and camera module attached. Your face (and your friend’s face) will be transferred over the phone via IEEE 802.16e network.

I’ll post more detail about this phone later when I get more information.

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It might look ugly, but I’ve dreamt about this kind of cell phone for a long time. Created by Seok Hong Jeong, a Korean inventor, this phone prototype comes with twin colors display beside one another. It supposedly use some kind of sliding mechanism, wherein the top screen can slide halfway to the left and the bottom screen halfway to the right, effectively producing side-by-side displays. According to the inventor, the idea of dual-display cell phone is “specifically designed to optimize mobile internet services for a wide-ranging variety of multimedia contents. In effect, you have a portrait display for all your regular cell phone needs, but a widescreen landscape for mobile surfing.”

This cool concept was recently revealed during the Seoul International Invention Fair 2006 exhibition. Seok Hong Jeong himself is now currently waiting for the approval of the patent he already applied for the prototype. He hopes to cooperate with existing cell phone makers and service providers to turn his idea into a reality.

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Yes, you can use your phone to reserve movie ticket or order fast food. And now, you can also play music from the jukebox in the bars, restaurants, etc, simply by sending a text message to the thing. Within seconds, your favourite music will be played. Nice, isn’t it?

This cool SMS Jukebox feature is provided by Orange France to its subcribers. For the start, 20 sites scattered around the heart of Paris will have this special SMS-enabled Jukebox. Later, Orange will invade the whole country with thousand of these istalled.

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Here’s the sceario — One day, while you’re traveling away from home, in the middle of a country far far away, you got a heart attack! Those kind local citizen brought you immediately to the nearby hospital, but the problem is, the doctor doesn’t have your up-to-date medical information, so they can’t decide the best treatment for you. Well, you don’t want that to happen, right?

Worry not, here comes the solution, the EMI r911 card which holds all of your personal health information. With the size of a business card, it fits perfectly into your pocket. But who might guess that it keeps tons of detailed emergency medical data, including blood type, allergies, prescriptions, medications, dosages, and even preferred products. In the needed time, r911 will really safe your life. Incase you didn’t know, according to hospital study, preventable errors kill more people than breast cancer, car accidents, or AIDS.

EMI r911 Personal Health Card is retailed for just US$ 79.95. Compared with your life, that’s very very cheap. The unit will be bundled with a USB cable, battery charger, and one year of data access and backup. A yearly subscription fee is required which gives you access to manage health information via EMI’s secure, password-protected web site.

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On its recent press release, Blue Orb announced a very interesting product called Texter. It’s an easy-to-use, plug-and-play accessory that plugs in between the game console and controller. By using Texter, typing the message on the screen or surf the web will be much more convenient, compared to the standard onscreen keyboards. The Texter for the PlayStation 2 is now available, and the Xbox 360 Texter will be available in early December 2006.

Dr. Pete McAlindon, president and CEO of Blue Orb, commented on the new products, “Our message is simple. Every game controller has a keyboard locked inside of it. We unlock it!” McAlindon also observed that “With the Texter, text messaging and voice chat compliment each other perfectly. The gamer has the flexibility to easily communicate with team members and buddies in voice or text, depending on where they are in the game.”

From their website:

The Texter™ is a simple piece of technology that connects between your videogame and controller. Once connected a simple double click of your controller’s left joystick activates the Texter™. Once activated, you can use your controller joysticks to type! Click the left joystick again to get right back to your game.

The two joysticks type everything you’ll find on a regular keyboard. Learning is easy with color and character ring decals that fit right around the joysticks. The Texter™ doesn’t replace the way you currently type but provides an alternative to on-screen keyboards and USB keyboards for in-game messaging and online chatting. With the Texter™, there is nothing in the way, nothing to pick up or put down. Easy to use, fast and accurate typing right from your favorite controller.

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Too lazy to pick up the phone and call the fast food delivery service? Thanks to SK Telecom, now there’s a solution to your laziness. Called U-Fast Food, it’s a mobile phone service that lets you order food directly from the menu simply by scanning the attached RFID tag. Obviously, you must have a RFID-enabled handset. Once the tag scanned, you can check out various information related to the food, including the price and the description. This incredible service is shown off during RFID/USN Korea 2006 event.

Previously, SK Telecom also announced similar phone service, U-Theater. Instead of fast food, this U-Theater allows RFID-phone owners in Korea to reserve movie ticket directly from the movie poster. Cool, huh?

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If you live in Austria then this one is a good news for you — you are now able to make transaction at Coca-Cola Vending Machines by using your mobile phone. Thanks to VeriSign, now nothing can stop you from buying fresh soft drink when you’re thirsty. It was the company which developed the technical interface between Coca-Cola machines, cellular operators and the payment system for the more than 100 beverage vending machines around Austria enabled for mobile payment. And another good news, this solution can also be used for vending machines around the world.

According to Jeff Treuhaft, senior vice president, Digital Content Services, VeriSign, “As consumers are growing increasingly dependent upon mobile devices, mobilkom austria and ONE recognized an opportunity to provide compelling services that make everyday activities like buying a soda from a vending machine even more convenient,“. He continued, “We look forward to extending this cutting-edge mobile service and added functionality to wireless users around the world.”

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Wow, this is cool. SK Telecom, Korea, recently presented “U-Theater” service, a service that allows people to directly movie ticket directly from the poster using only their cell phones. The poster has included a specific RFID tag, and once the RFID-enabled phone scanned and recognized the tag, they can reserve seats at the cinema, as well as view the highlighted video clips of the movie, download movie soundtrack for ringtone, read synopsis, and more. Upon purchasing you’ll receive a confirmation number through SMS.

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Looks like we soon will be able to see PMP device with Full HD capability on the market. Let’s give our big bow to Sanyo Epson Imaging corp as this company has just successfully developed the world’s smallest full HD display at just 7.1-inch width. This low temperature polysilicon TFT LCD screen features advanced video engine AME (Auto-Movie-Enhancement) and fully optimized for mobile devices usage thus keeping the power consumption to minimal. Great, now I can stop saving my money to buy one of those large HD Plasma TVs.

Along with the small-size-big-advantage Full HD LCD display announcement, the company also mentioned another two new products. The first is a 2.6-inch LCD display which supports 1024×768 XGA resolution and features a viewing angle of 180 degrees, a contrast ratio of 500:1, and 262K colors display. The other invention is an interesting LCD display with built-in SRAM for remembering the last image on the screen.

Way to go, Sanyo Epson!

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