Yamaha Mobile Orchestra: Heaven Live in Tokyo (Concept)

Posted on 09/01/2008 00:09 | by kei | 1 | Category PHONE
A couple of weeks ago, we introduced a nice, crazy concept from KDDI Designing Studio and Yamaha: here. As with what I said, there was a live presentation yesterday in Harajuku of the Yamaha Mobile Orchestra. One word: IMPRESSIVE!! OK, our concepts may not provide the…

Steven in San Francisco, CA- 09/01/2008 @ 12h42
This reminds me of a Nintendo DS band playing instruments on their DS…read »

HTCâ��s S740, Just an Average Japanese Willcom PDA Phone

HTC’s S740, Just an Average Japanese Willcom PDA Phone

Yesterday HTC announced the S740 with dual keyboard (qwerty and keypad), another Touch Diamond clone that looks similar to what we've had in Japa…
Posted on 08/27/2008 | by Daimaou | 1 | PHONE Soul_Est- Kinda makes you wonder why HTC…read »

Interview with Microsoft's John Starkweather, Part 2 of 3

Here's the 2nd part of this interview where John shares his thoughts on the Windows Mobile platform. Today we will focus on: the successes, defea…
Posted on 08/22/2008 | by Daimaou | 0 | PHONE

O.T., Palm's Treo Pro... Gold Medal for Ugliness

Our friends over Engadget (thanks for the pics by the way), released more information on Palm's new Windows Mobile Treo Pro. (Palm's Treo Pro g…
Posted on 08/21/2008 | by Daimaou | 2 | PHONE Xandrex_web- it look like the face of Totor…read »
Goufy_Shumi- I actually don't think it is t…read »

Concept: Crazy, Nice Mobile Phones from KDDI's Designing Studio

Here are some other concepts from KDDI's designing studio; very classic, very interesting, and totally crazy. The most interesting is the mobile…
Posted on 08/20/2008 | by kei | 3 | PHONE Alvaro__- Do those devices actually work…read »
Steven- The tissue box concept seems u…read »

Concept: Nice Musical Mobile Phones Born from a YAMAHA - KDDI Collaboration

Yesterday, the AkihabraNews team went to KDDI's designing studio in Harajuku where some nice concepts were on exhibition. Introducing a concep…
Posted on 08/20/2008 | by kei | 0 | PHONE

Interview with Microsoft's John Starkweather, Part 1 of 3

Early in July, our good friend John Starkweather, International Director of Product Management at Microsoft, came to Japan and took the time to v…
Posted on 08/14/2008 | by Daimaou | 5 | PHONE Le_Sage- So the undisclosed device is a…read »
Daimaou- This is not really the device…read »

The HTC MTeor Gets the Gold for Treading Water...

Back in May when I was in Seattle for the Mobius Event, our MC (Master of Ceremonies) John was kind enough to give me an HTC MTeor. It's A two…
Posted on 08/14/2008 | by Daimaou | 6 | CRASH BABY EddieG- I received one of these from m…read »
Daimaou- I am sorry to hear about this,…read »

BenQ's Aries2 Finally Released in Europe!

BenQ announced its Aries2 MID (Mobile Internet Device) will be available in European this quarter. It just won the Bronze Award in the Interactiv…
Posted on 08/05/2008 | by kei | 0 | PC

NetFront Browser Widgets for all NetFront Powered Devices

Mainly used with PocketPC, the Japanese web browser NetFront launched their widgets in early July! Only available for Windows Mobile 5 or 6, once…
Posted on 08/04/2008 | by Daimaou | 0 | MISC

Samsung Announces the US Release of the Q1 Ultra Mobile with HSDPA

Last Monday Samsung Electronics announced the US release of two new UMPCs with HSDPA and Vista Business, the Q1U-CMXP and Q1UP-V. As a reminder,…
Posted on 07/30/2008 | by kei | 0 | PC

Â¿Hola cÃ³mo estÃ¡? Pantech Unleashes Its C810 Duo in Mexico

¿Hola cómo está? Pantech Unleashes Its C810 Duo in Mexico

The Pantech Duo C810 is not stunningly new, but this nice quad band, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA Windows Mobile Phone will hit the Mexican border very s…
Posted on 07/28/2008 | by Daimaou | 4 | PHONE Mochino- Great news! but it should be:…read »
Rod- Hey! Its spelled Hola :p One s…read »

Touch Diamond Quick and Dirty Review... Yes, the Diamond Looks Real Good in Our Aston Martin DBS

The HTC Touch Diamond is now widely available and it became time for us, after a month playing with it, to put our thoughts about it down... Bel…
Posted on 07/23/2008 | by Daimaou | 3 | PHONE Sasutan- How was the battery life. I h…read »
Daimaou- The battery life of the Touch…read »