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Looks like the next generation of the Android open mobile platform based G2 cell phone will be coming out soon — maybe in time for the Mobile World Congress. Gizmodo caught a photo of the new G2 mobile phone which supposedly won’t have a physical keyboard which results in a thinner device.

How about putting video capture and full bluetooth support in the mainstream — those would be interesting too.

The Android open mobile platform is bound to be all pumped up this year as more and more mobile phone makers release their Android-based mobile handsets. This time Chinese manufacturer Huawei has announced the availability of an Android based mobile phone this coming third quarter of 2009 — just in time for the Mobile World Congress.

Early users of the Android based mobile phone may be the Australian telecommunications companies according to the Cnet article. Huawei which is popularized in the Philippines by it’s HSDPA USB mobile available from local Philippine telecoms companies’ prepaid broadband services. This may be a chance to have a locally available Android based mobile phone this year in the Philippines.

I read an article at New Scientist about the recent development of a fuel cell that is only 3mm by 3mm by 1mm. Although it’s still being developed heavily, they’ve manage to make a cell that can produce 0.7 volts at 0.1 milliamp for 30 hours. Not yet mainstream for our ordinary gadgets like the mobile phone but once it gets done, we’ll definitely be seeing environment friendly energy sources that also makes our gadgets have longer lasting “juice”.

Sony has release the Sony Vaio P series netbook Lifestyle PC which offers a beautiful and sleek pocketable computer with a full size keyboard. The netbook Lifestyle PC (darn!) has an Intel 1.33Ghz processor under it’s hood. It’s preinstalled with Windows Vista but gives you the option to use an Instant On version of Linux. The instant on Linux allows you to use it without having to wait more than 20 seconds at a touch of a button.

Other great things under it’s hood are 60GB hard disk with the option to order a 128GB solid state disk storage, 2GB RAM memory, Memory Stick Pro slot and also a SD/MMC card slot, audio, webcam, internal microphone, USB ports, wifi 802.11 b/g/n, wireless broadband, bluetooth with A2DP stereo, a full size keyboard and a 1600 x 768 8-inch LED display (great for surfing). And since you’d be using this gadget a lot for surfing, it comes with a 4-hour standard battery with option to put in an 8-hour version. Now do you think you’d need anything else?

All these in a pocketable 1.4 pound 9.65″ x 0.78″ x 4.72″ body priced at about US$ 1,000.

If you’re one cool dude who has a knack in using image editing tools like Adobe’s Photoshop (I know some pretty gifted people in the Philippines). Maybe you should take a shot at joining the contest over at Gizmodo. I just love the Photoshop contest at Gizmodo. Shows a lot of people have real talent. It’s also fun browsing at the contest entries.

This time, the topic is about creating a image showing an iPhone software application that Apple will never ever approve. Here’s one example:

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If you’re one of those Apple iPhone users that doesn’t seem to get enough decibels from your mobile phone, here’s a very elegant solution. It won’t even cost you an arm and a leg to get one.

An smart company called Ten One Design has created the equivalent of having to put your hand over the iPhone speaker just to redirect and concentrate the sound coming out from it. A tuned conical deflection chamber designed to make the audio from your iPhone clearer and also slightly louder. Sound waves are reflected toward you, instead of away, so you feel more involved in your game, movie, or music.

SoundClip is said to amplify the iPhone audio by 10dB between 6kH and 20kHz, resulting in a cleaner, more accurate response. Storaging the SoundClip is easily done by a cord-gripping feature that fastens the object to your charge cable during syncing and charging.

It looks like Qualcomm is positioning itself to become a leader in the growing mobile graphics market with it’s current acquisition of AMD’s handheld business that includes several graphics and multimedia technology assets.

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Looks like USB enabled monitors are slowly becoming mainstream as Samsung announces three LCD monitors (Samsung SyncMaster 2243QW, LD220 and LD190X) that are all equipped to be connected via the USB port of your computer. This makes it very appealing since it allows you to connect several of these monitors to your computer. Studies have shown that having several monitors in the workplace increases productivity. Who cares about the study, I want three monitors attached to my computer, period.

This Apple iTouch becomes a sidekick of a sniper. Equipped with an iPhone application for shooting. A US M110 sniper rifle has been mounted with an Apple iPod Touch. The iPod with the Bullet Flight external ballistics calculator. I guess these days military rifles are now mostly painted “desert” colors instead of “greeny” jungle chromas.

You can check out more photos at Woohome.

FBI has showcased pretty great hi-tech gear in Obama’s inaugural ceremonies as the first black president of the United States of America. Some really advance technologies have been photographed during the event like the FBI Bomb Technicians vehicle with a bomb disposal robot on alert.

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