If you’re like me, your voicemail feature on your cell phone takes forever, and is usually very useless. Personally, I think it would be better if my voicemails were converted into text.

Fortunately, SpinVox now has a feature that allows just that. SpinVox’s big man, Marc Salztman, claims that his SpinVox will allow you to “do more”. Quite frankly, I believe him.

After all, how many times have you got a Voicemail that included a telephone number or email that you had to write down. And then you don’t have a pen or paper at the moment, and you have to listen to the voicemail again? It would be much better if the number was on the screen, ready to be used.

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Clearly, Hop-on is well named, as it allows a user to use networks of Verizon of AT&T together.

This One World phone can operate in both GSM and CDMA modes. Therefore, you do not have to switch your phones around for phone calls or a text message. It advertises that the One World phone can be taken anywhere in the world, and it will always work.

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This is off the hook. PMP Today has a story about a personal media player (PMP) which incorporates a 12 megapixel camera into it’s design. Made Chinese conglom Newman-Hyun , the L1200 PMP has an 8X digital zoom (I guess it was too much to ask for an optical solution) and a “lens” that rotates up to 180 degrees. It has shutter speeds ranging from 1 / 10 to 1 / 2000 second and has presets for “ leaflets,” and multiple sequential shooting. But what is really cool is that according to the translation of the Chinese site, the L1200 can also connect to a TV and actually record directly to the unit.

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I don’t know if everyone is on the XM Satellite radio track yet, but if you want jump on this train, you may want to consider the SKYFi3 + Vehicle Kit from Delphi.

The SKYFi3 has a large, over 2 inch screen that prominently displays the channel and the song that is playing. The XM Radio syncs up with your own FM radio, without any Bluetooth or connectors older radios would not come with.

This is one XM player that really comes with many features. It is advertised as having unlimited MP3s, and the reason why is because it has a miniSD reader. In fact, it makes a claim that is the first satellite receiver to have this feature. Apparently, this SKYFi3 has the ability to record your favorite tunes and keep them for downloading.

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Considering that most cell phone cameras are just tacked onto the cell phone program, you usually get what you pay for, which is nothing. However, Samsung’s Flipshot may prove that the cell phone camera maybe as good as a real camera.

The Samung Flipshot is offered from Verizon, and it has 3 megapixels of camera and camcorder action. As you can see, the display is a nice rotating display for some serious action. The display itself is a 240 x 320 260k color TFT.

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Everything nowadays is all about being unique, having your own personal style when it comes to your personal electronic gadgets. But when you’re in the market for a Bluetooth headset, you’ve had the choice between boring, boring and more boring.

Now, you actually have a choice. Jabra has come out with the Jabra BT160 headset which features not one, not two but thirty-three different cover designs included in with the headset package. If that weren’t enough for you, Jabra has given you the ability to design your own Jabra BT160 headset, even being able to use your own uploaded design. Read the rest of this entry »

Again, the last few days were pretty tumultuous in the mobile world. Google themselves have first thrown the ‘where’s my gPhone’ question, only to reveal the Open Handset Alliance and the Android embedded operating system. Then, there have been reports of companies adopting the OS, of others refusing it. Also, the iPhone’s getting locked up yet again, and rumor has it that they (Apple, that is) are preparing to release a tablet. Last but not least at all, Nokia shows off a new tactile touchscreen technology which claims to realistically emulate the press of a button.

Read on for some more details, and quite a few links

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