zzzPhone May Run on Android

Some more information on the customizable zzzPhone has surfaced courtesy of Crunch Gear’s Peter Ha. It’s not a scam, Ha says, though the official OS remains unknown. The zzzPhone could be running on Windows CE or Linux or even Google’s Android. There may be Skype calling on this phone, as well. Drooling yet? What’s interesting is [...]

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zzzPhone More Info

The zzzPhone looks good on paper. The promotional photos don’t look too bad either. The reality, however, is another matter, as Crunch Gear’s John Biggs found out. The customizable phone from a Chinese manufacturer offers the best features at the lowest price starting at $149. It is supposed to run Windows Mobile but John [...]

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Best of MP4 Wholesalers: Keen High Technologies (HK) Ltd, MP783

Keen High Technologies allows you to (somewhat) customize the MP783 with a Bluetooth module and a camera. Something like the zzzPhone, but on a much less grand scale. Anyway, standard for this device is support for AVI videos, MP3, WMA and DRM9-equipped audio files (with ID3 tags), and JPEG and BMP images. The MP783 [...]

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Modu Mobile Phone Brings the Small Revolution

Israeli manufacturer Modu claims their eponymous phone is the smallest in the world. It certainly looks like the smallest with barely room for a regular numeric keypad. Instead, users have a set tic-tac-toe buttons. The screen is tiny as well, so I guess we can forget about watching videos on this 42-gram cell phone. [...]

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Customized zzzPhone Beats N95, to Kill Bug Labs

The zzzPhone is not a concept and the makers do not claim it is revolutionary, unlike some brick-manufacturers we know. What it is is a cheap Windows Mobile Phone that you can order now for a really cheap price. Imagine for $149 you get much of N95’s specs with added touch screen and pre-installed [...]

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Bug Labs Count Down to BUGBase

Anybody care? We’re intrigued by Bug Labs concept of a customizable cell phone, but why does the BUGBase have to be the size of an old radio? The BUGBase Hiro P (photo above) will ship on Monday. Like this CES video said, early adopters will get discounts, e.g WiFi module at cost (no markup from [...]

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Bug Labs Gives You Customizable Cell Phones

Sure the resulting handset is clunkier than Zune original, heck it’s clunkier than this multi-featured PMP, but you haven’t seen anything like it either. Bug Labs is now offering the basic BUGbase, which is a “hackable” Linux computer with 128MB of RAM. Besides that, you get WiFi, a USB an LCD screen [...]

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