If you happen to own one of five kinds of Nokia phone–an E72, E71x, 5800, N97, and N97 mini phones–and you’re fond of Netflix, then I’ve got some great news for you.

Netflix, just two days ago, launched a new kind of app exclusively for those five phones, that will allow you to remotely modify your queue, browse their library for possible additions to that queue, and even watch previews of upcoming releases.

It’s available on the Ovi Store, under entertainment.

About the only people saddened by this news is everybody at Blockbuster Online, who doesn’t have anything even remotely like this and is still jumping for joy over their new “download movies to SD card” system.  This would admittedly be awesome except the downloaded movies will only play on a television, but that’s beside the point.

If you’ve got Netflix and Nokia, folks, you might as well get the app.

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First responders, pay attention, because you might be able to save some MORE lives with what I’m about to hit you with next.  Some engineer managed to take ten dollars worth of electronic parts–available off the shelf pretty much anywhere–and modify his mobile phone into a cell phone that does double duty as a microscope.

This is no ordinary engineer; he’s an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, and he’s actually started up his own company to market the cell phone microscopes.

Not that this is just great for the medical and scientific communities–now any putz can check a blood sample for signs of tuberculosis, malaria, or anemia!

It’s conceivable that, from here, the phone would then be able to remotely send the images back to actual medical professionals for diagnosis before the patient was even put on an ambulance.

No idea when they’ll be available, but they really should do a whole lot of good when they’re done.

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In an interesting move, now retailer Orange is getting into the cash for old gadgets game with its Recycle and Reward program. While they don’t have the awesome automated kiosks of other vendors, Orange will give you a quote and a check within a week when you take whatever it is you’d like to get rid of–old mobile phones, laptops, and music players (bigger stuff that the automated kiosks can’t handle) and offers up cash for them.

It IS somewhat limited–no bringing in your old furnace, water heater or what have you; it’s pretty much exclusively a consumer electronics setup–but hey, free cash for stuff you weren’t using anyway?  That’s no small treat.

Also, Orange is also launching its Copy and Keep program, where they’ll charge you a whopping twelve bucks or so to transfer all your media, addresses and contacts from your old mobile phone to your new one.  Pretty useful if you’ve forgotten how or just plain old can’t be bothered.

So if you’re needing a new phone, and want to get rid of the old one, then it’s a great time to think Orange.

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It’s…um…about ten thirty AM.  Do you know where your children are?

If you can’t answer yes to that, and even if you can, you may still want to get your hands on a Little Buddy Child Tracker from Insignia.

The Little Buddy Child Tracker does pretty much what it says on the box, and it tracks your children.  Relentlessly.  Like non stop.  You can get the location of the unit at pretty much any time from your cell phone.

Yes, it’s a homing device.  For children.  Now, you may want to start getting cranked up about how children aren’t branded cattle to be tracked relentlessly, though you’d probably love to have this on hand if something happened to Junior.  My concern, however, comes into play in the “misuse” category.  Like instead of, say, tracking Junior someone decides to track Tammy Stalkerbait down the street by slipping it in her car.

Are we as a society ready for tracking devices?  I’m not sure.  But we’ll find out if you can shell out a hundred bucks for your very own Little Buddy Child Tracker.

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Just in time for Halloween comes this funny BananaPhone BlueTooth Headset that will allow people around you to view you as you’ve always wanted to be viewed.  Absolutely crazy.  With an undisclosed amount of awesome scenarios you could use this in, it’s actually cheap enough ($18) to warrant a purchase.  Now all you need is a headband to keep it stuck to your head.  Just imagine the possibilities.

[via NerdApproved]

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Well folks, a new bit of data has emerged about the idea of cell phones and brain tumors.

Seems that Environmental Working Group released data just recently that detailed just how much radiation you’re sucking up when you’re on the phone.  And then the Los Angeles Times followed that up with a strange study.  Check this out:  when the data from 23 studies was pooled together, there was no conclusive link between brain tumors and cell phone use.  This by itself would be interesting if not necessarily newsworthy, but when the Times jiggered the evidence a bit, comparing data from the “eight strongest studies”, they found out that cell phone users had between a 10 and 30 percent higher chance of getting tumors, with the more time spent on the phone being higher risk than those who spent less.

And then, here’s the weirdest point: seven out of eight of those “strongest studies” were all conducted by the SAME GUY IN SWEDEN.

So it’s not really time to freak out yet, but it’s probably a good idea to get that hands-free gear out, just in case.

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve got an old cell phone or two laying around the house and you’re about dying to get rid of it.  But you’ve got no idea where or how to dump it.  We all know there are loads of hazardous material laws to grapple with, and those collection drives expect you to pay to dump your hardware.

Enter the EcoATM, a device the size of an actual ATM that’ll let you dump your hardware quick, easy, and sometimes, profitably.  Simply drop your old phone or other device into the EcoATM’s slot, and the machine will determine if it has any value.  The machine will then make you an offer for the device, which it will pay off from a separate slot, usually in the form of a gift card.

What if your device is worthless, you say?  Not a problem–there’s no such thing as a worthless device to the EcoATM.  Even if it has no residual value, you’ll still be able to leave the device with the EcoATM, but you’ll also get a “freebie item”, plus EcoATM will arrange for a tree to be planted in your honor somewhere, which still beats having to pay off the collection people all hollow.

EcoATM is actually doing pretty well so far–its first day in operation netted 23 phones and passed out a full hundred bucks in gift cards.  Word is it got a BlackBerry Curve in prime condition.  So chances are, this prototype will likely be coming to an electronics store near you.

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All right, folks, if you’ve been waiting anxiously to get your hands on the Motorola Cliq, you should be happy to know that they’re looking to start taking orders October 19th.

Seems the company actually released this date in a brochure, which was then photographed and began making the rounds.  This handset will feature a touchscreen, and assures connectivity with your devices by both GPS and WiFi radio, and rumors suggest that Android 2.0 will come with the Cliq, so if you weren’t interested before, you might be now.

T-Mobile further threw some confirmation in by saying that they would start delivering product to their stores starting November 2nd.  Add this all up and it means, chances are, you’ll be able to get a Cliq right soon.

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Considering that NASA’s been whining about not having enough budget for the last couple years, it really makes them look bad to discover what a couple kids from MIT did the other day.

While NASA’s assembling teams have needed millions of dollars to launch one satellite, two guys from MIT put together a satellite of their own and launched it into low Earth orbit.  Here’s how they did it:

First, they took a styrofoam beer cooler and filled it with chemical hand warmers (to keep the thing from freezing in space), a cheap camera, and a prepaid phone with GPS so they could find the thing when it was all over.  They then inflated a weather balloon with helium and launched their “satellite”.  It got so far up that it managed to take a picture of the curvature of the earth.

Talk about your fantastic homemade gadgets–kudos to two schmoes from MIT for making NASA look like a bunch of whiny embezzlers.

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You’ve got to hand it to Elijah Wood for just plain old dramatic tension, folks–the man’s convinced that, someday, our gadgets will destroy humanity.

Here’s what he had to say about the Blackberry Uprising:

‘It’s madness. If it gets out of control and if it’s used for the wrong reasons or if it takes us away from our own humanity, then maybe that will be our downfall.”

Okay, so you’d think that a guy who genuinely believed this might well choose to set an example for the rest of us and toss out his own hardware first, right?  Well, sadly, you’d be very muchly wrong.  The hobbit’s got a cell phone and a Blackberry, which he keeps on him at all times.  He even cites his iPod as the reason he got into DJing.  Though give him credit, he does keep them out of sight and out of use during restaurant meals and at movie theatres.

So maybe it’s not quite as dire as he predicted.  But I guess if your iPod ever announces it wants to take over the world, maybe you’d better take it seriously…

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The cell phone charger and accessory market has literally exploded in the past several years and shows no signs of slowing down.  With that said,  BeamBox MiLi has announced a new line of universal chargers for everyday world use.  The small charger comes with US, UK, AU, and Euro style adapters as well as a cigarette lighter adapter and two USB inputs with charge level indicating LED’s.  Each USB input serves 5V/500mA power styles and the universal charger itself has over-current and short-circuit protection and easily accepts 12-24V DC power or 100-240V AC currents.  Sounds well thought out and robust.  Available now for pre-order for $37.

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While we’ve all heard of tennis and fisting elbow, CNN just issued a report in regards to what they’ve called Cell Phone Elbow.  Officially recognized as “cubital tunnel syndrome”, it usually happens to the elderly and truck drivers who spend the vast majority of their time bored off their asses with their elbows bent.  With symptoms that include numbness and tingly feelings of the fingers, the ailment is easily quelled by switching hands.  This is also a great time for BlueTooth Headset makers to go crazy trying to get you to give both elbows a rest.  What else has technology done to our bodies?

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When it comes to mobile phones, some of us are into frills and others are more comfortable without them. If your tastes fall within the latter category, then the Samsung Propel SGH-a767 may be for you (with an emphasis on the word, may).

Samsung’s Propel SGH-a767 is squat and chunky. Its dimensions of 2.33 inches wide, 3.85 inches high, and 0.58 inches deep, actually makes the phone easier to hold. (Hold that thought the next time you want to start a diet.)

The Samsung Propel SGH-a767 screen needs sliding up in order to talk on the phone. The motion serves two purposes: it exposes its keypad underneath and simultaneously lengthens the height of the phone. This places the speaker and microphone more comfortably near your ear and mouth. The Samsung Propel SGH-a767’s vertical keypad is better suited for typing with a single thumb while holding the phone in one hand. The keys are tactile and comfortable to press and allows the user to read and retrieve e-mail from online accounts. Instant messaging is also available.

The Samsung Propel SGH-a767 is adequate, but its speed completely depends on the limitations of the cellular phone network. Web browsing is very slow because of the phone’s tiny screen and low resolution. Streaming music is also not a strong feature and the AT&T Navigator feature is misleading as it offered only for a 30-day free trial only.

Don’t bother with this one.

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Mobile Burn got their hands on Sprint’s soon to be launched HTC Touch Diamond smartphone.  Overall they recommend the touchscreen device and noted a few improvements over the original Touch.  For instance, Sprint has added a larger battery life, by as much as 50%, and upped the anty in the data connectivity department with the addition of an EVDO chip, although they only achieved a 650Kbps download speed at best.  The larger battery resulted in a slightly thicker backing and an increase in weight – 4 grams to be exact – from the original.  Pictures are crisp with the 3.2MP camera, although there’s no flash, and the onboard 4GB of storage will provide ample space for those limited to pics and a small music library.  The interface has been slightly updated on this iteration of the Touch and the Opera browser runs smooth as butter.  The included stylus is pretty much useless since finger control should suffice for most.  Mobile Burn recommends playing with the text input functionality before dropping the cold hard green backs.  Apparently, some may find it a bit too cumbersome for tolerance.

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Lenovo launched their latest mobile computer (aka large handset) to what I’d call little fanfare at this year’s Beijing Olympics.  The Ideapad U8 hasn’t hit US shores yet and no release date is known, but it rocks an 800MHz Intel Atom Z500 processor, 1GB of RAM (up to 2GB supported), 6GB SSD, dual cameras, 5-hour battery life, and support for mobile TV.   Did I mention that it’s got a 4.8-inch touch screen?

I wouldn’t hold your breath on this one, for a state side arrival that is.  Looks a bit too obscure and expensive for the general US population, and those that were socioeconomically applicable have already signed their souls away to AT&T via the iPhone.

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After numerous delays, Sprint finally announced the release date of the Airave signal booster: August 17, 2008.

But what in the heck does it do, you ask?

The little $99.99 device plugs into your broadband and blasts out a CDMA (cell phone) signal into the deepest, dankest part of your dead-zone basement. This is a great concept, other carriers (AT&T hint hint) should take note.Similar Posts:

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iSmashphone did a list of 12 useful iPhone shortcuts.  I knew most of them, but 4 of them really stood out for me, in fact shocked me.  Here’s my 4:

• Take a screen shot on your iPhone and save it to your camera roll.  Just hold the ‘home’ button and then tap the ‘power/lock’ button.  Don’t hold both down otherwise you’ll reset the phone.  You’ll see the screen flash and presto, you’ve got a screen shot. This is the one pictured above.
• Download images in Safari.  Just touch and hold over the image.  The iPhone will prompt you if you want to save the image to your camera’s roll.
• Bring up alternate letters with accents.  When in the keyboard, just hold down the key and a menu will pop  up with different letters of the same ilk.
• Bring up different URL endings, such as .net, .edu.  This one is the same as the above, just hold down the .com and it’ll bring up a menu of alternates.

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Phone Arena some how got their mitts on a leaked Sprint document detailing the HTC Touch’s feature set for each carrier.  At a glance, the Sprint version is looking more robust as it’s sporting a faster processor, 4GB of on board flash memory, and some sort of motion sensor.  Sprint’s version of the phone will be called the HTC Victor.  Verizon on the other hand lacks those things, but has added an SD slot for memory expansion.  These details aren’t official, but they look pretty solid.  Head over to Phone Arena and check out the QWERTY variant.

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If the judgment does stick, it could mean rocky waters to service providers and an increased cost to consumers looking for the latest and coolest hardware – service providers subsidize cell phone hardware via a 1 or 2 year contract.  Hmmm…perhaps it is a good time to grab a 3G iPhone since that thing is subsidized to death.

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Samsung’s newest slider phone is no slouch in the feature set.  It’s sporting not only an 8 megapixel camera with a Xenon flash, but WiFi, 3G, image stabilization, face detection, panoramic photos, and blink detect.  But wait, there’s more! On board are editing tools to add subtitles, trim video and dub audio.  The quad band phone (850/900/1800/1900MHz), which also rocks dual-band WCDMA (900/2100MHz) abilities, will also keep you found with the built-in GPS.  An accelerometer has been thrown in for good measure which will probably auto detect phone orientation for landscape or portrait mode, and enhance the preinstalled Fifa 2008 and Asphalt 4 games.  Not to be overlooked are the 3.5mm headphone jack, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD card slot and a 16GB flash memory.  No touchscreen, but the 2.8-inch QVGA screen won’t be half bad. How fat is it?  Just .6 inches.

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