Orange has announced a prototype mobile phone charger called the Orange 'Sound Charge'. It's a t-shirt that contains piezoelectric film, which converts sound waves into electrical charge. This is stored by a rechargeable battery within the t-shirt.
An interchangeable lead allows a variety of mobile phones to be connected and charged.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Sometimes it seems that everyone and everything is out to get you. Recently, Nokia's been in that position – but this week it looks as though RIM is taking over as the mobile industry's whipping-boy.
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Three UK has been talking about High Definition voice calls, which were launched on the network a couple of weeks ago.
As with the Orange HD Voice service, which was rolled out last year, the service is only available between compatible phones in 3G coverage on the same network.
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The LG Optimus 3D, which was unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, has been officially launched today.
It'll arrive in Europe first, with availability in more than 60 markets around the world to follow over the next several weeks. The Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy will have exclusive rights for the UK launch.
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Research In Motion has published its quarterly results for the three months ended 28th May 2011; the first quarter of its 2012 financial year.
It says revenue was up 16% year-on-year to $4.9 billion (but down 12% on the previous quarter). RIM shipped approximately 13.2 million BlackBerry handheld devices and approximately 500,000 BlackBerry Playbook tablets in the quarter.
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