Word: handset
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...price will probably turn off consumers unless mobile operators subsidize it. IDC analyst Paolo Pescatore wonders if the show was a "last gasp" effort to regain hipness. Nokia lost market share a year ago, but although it's been scratching back lately, growth in the handset sector is skidding. Ollila predicted Nokia will sell 40 million music phones this year, but for Nokia to win the music mantle, it's got to out-cool and underprice Apple. - By Mark Halper...
...telemedicine trial with real nurse visits by the end of the year. "This is ideal for every type of visual diagnosis in medicine," he explains. A British hospital is already trialing picture phones for the instant diagnosis of broken bones, and German tech firm Siemens is developing a "sniffing" handset that can measure bad breath and read alcohol levels. Who said mobile phones were harmful to your health...
...world, phone bills can seem irrational. If it costs nothing to e-mail colleagues overseas, why should talking to them be costly? Two very different new products offer potential remedies to international-calling issues. Vonage, the Internet phone service provider, is rolling its services into a little wi-fi handset. Designed by UTStarcom, it can hop onto any wi-fi network you have access to, including the networks for hire found at many airports and hotels...
This sleek handset features a swiveling 2-in. screen. It produced the sharpest, most detailed images of all the phones we tested, and has enough memory to store as many as 300 shots...
Confusing menus make this small slide-open handset tough to navigate, but images are crisp and vibrant, even as 4-by-6 glossies. It stores up to 500 photos and has a USB cable for quick transfers to your...