Cell Phone Battery Blog

Three dead in mid-rise Houston fire
Houston Chronicle - He said he did not hear any fire alarms, but just a chirping, like a smoke detector with a low battery. Doctor heard fire McDonald, the mother of two boys, said she grabbed her new laptop and cell phone, then ran with her clients into the stairwell
Source: www.chron.com

Ringing phone locates suspect in burglary
Suwannee Democrat - calling the number Deputy Barrs was able to locate Coats from the ringing of his cell phone. Coats was arrested and transported to the Suwannee County Jail on the stated charges. Bond was set at $11,000. Live Oak man charged with aggravated battery
Source: www.suwanneedemocrat.com

Verizon Wireless VCast Mobile TV
USA Today - Con: Coverage can be spotty (and is still available only in limited number of cities). Battery is fair. Antenna on test Samsung phone is a little More recently in Manhattan, I tested cell TV service from a company called Modeo. That service is based
Source: www.usatoday.com

Samsung SGH-a707 (Sync)
Washington Post - In our lab tests, the phone’s battery lasted 3 hours, 42 minutes–near the vendor’s claimed talk time but among the shortest of any standard cell phone we’ve tested. If you’re looking for a phone that lives up to the “music phone” hype, you’ll be
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Cell Phone Show Haunted by iPhone Specter
NewsFactor Network - It says something about the state of the cell phone industry that the product looming largest over the annual wireless show to run the media player, an efficiency Helio claims will allow 15 hours of music listening on a single battery charge.
Source: www.newsfactor.com

Fly Life
Village Voice - I think the phenomenon is real, but I am not sure nu-rave is a good word to describe us,” says De Rosnay, who was getting off a bus in Paris when we talked. (His cell phone battery was on the wane, and it was hard to understand his thick French accent
Source: www.villagevoice.com

Daily Roundup
Columbian - New cell phone can run on AAA battery as backup Philips Electronics is introducing a mobile phone with a built-in compartment for an ordinary AAA battery to power the device when the main battery runs low. The Xenium NRG handset was developed in
Source: www.columbian.com

Badge of dishonor
Chicago Sun-Times - the nation Wednesday as Abbate, 38, dressed in an orange Bears sweat shirt, appeared in court on an aggravated battery her on the floor and punched her repeatedly as she tried to get up, the videotape shows. One man appeared to make a cell phone
Source: www.suntimes.com

Police Say Online Predator Met NH Girl Through Video Game
WCSH - Hampshire hooked up with a convicted felon. They say the man, Daniel Lenz, was convicted back in 1999 of sexual battery Once police realized who the girl was with, they called Lenz’s cell phone and told him to stop the car and wait for
Source: www.wcsh6.com

Child obesity shocks Commons committee
Globe and Mail - Buit I don’t understand the ‘blindness’ to it - the NOT seeing that a child is hugely overweight and a battery of health issues waiting to happen. Naturally, any initiative to address this issue will be assaulted as ‘picking on fat folks’. Well, fat
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

Fly Life
Village Voice - I think the phenomenon is real, but I am not sure nu-rave is a good word to describe us,” says De Rosnay, who was getting off a bus in Paris when we talked. (His cell phone battery was on the wane, and it was hard to understand his thick French accent
Source: www.villagevoice.com

MIDDAY BUSINESS REPORT: KC s economic growth lagging nation s at
Kansas City Star - New cell phone can run on regular AAA battery for backup power Philips Electronics is introducing a mobile phone with a built-in compartment for an ordinary AAA battery to power the device when the main battery runs low. The Xenium NRG handset was
Source: www.kansascity.com

New cell phone uses AAA battery backup
TheState.com - ORLANDO, Fla. Philips Electronics is introducing a mobile phone with a built-in compartment for an ordinary AAA battery to power the device when the main battery runs low. The Xenium NRG handset was developed in collaboration with battery maker
Source: www.thestate.com

UK Regulators Order Cell Phone Companies to Cut Connection Fees
CNBC - Britain’s telecommunications watchdog (Ofcom) ordered mobile phone companies to cut their connection fees to rival services, a long-expected move leading to lower bills for landline users. Ofcom expects a cap on the tariffs charged by companies to
Source: www.cnbc.com

Get e-mail alerts: Cell phones
CNET News - ZenZui turns a cell phone screen into multiple tiles, hoping to solve usability issues and find revenue in the process. In an attempt to attract customers to its cell phone services, Sprint offers GPS for free to those with data plans starting at $20
Source: news.com.com

No Clear Winners In Wireless Web Searching
Forbes - Google and Yahoo! scrambled this week to demonstrate that deals are in the works positioning each of them as the leader in cell phone searching. But despite these efforts, neither Internet giant is clearly ahead. Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people
Source: www.forbes.com

House Endorses Phone Tax Legislation
Forbes - Many cell phone providers have refused to pay the taxes, arguing they don’t apply because their service really is a radio transmission or because their devices are mobile. Dozens of cities have sued to try to collect the taxes. More recently, wireless
Source: www.forbes.com

Beijing threatens to jail mobile phone users who send porn
Herald Tribune - BEIJING: Beijing police are threatening jail and fines for people who transmit pornography via cell phones after merchants were caught selling blue movies on phone memory chips, a report said Wednesday. Sending pornographic video, photos or messages
Source: www.iht.com

New cell phones you can use as a computer
MSNBC - feel constrained to manufacture only little cellular handsets. So, even before this week s Cellular Telecommunications & Internet expo begins here in the land of orange groves and Disney World, HTC was busy making some interesting non-cell phone
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Cell phone interference derails Adobe CS3 launch
CNET News - In what’s must rank high on the list of a demo guy’s worst nightmare, Adobe Systems’ Tuesday announcement of its Creative Suite 3 software was derailed for more than 20 minutes by a technology glitch. The display showing the company’s demonstrations
Source: news.com.com

Video: Road testing two Bluetooth-based speakerphones the VR3 and
ZDNet Blogs - be used as a desktop speakerphone as long as your computer supports the hands-free profile of Bluetooth (many don’t) and the VR3’s battery is fully charged (although in our tests, it did accept a charge from a AC-power-based Motorola cell phone
Source: blogs.zdnet.com

Philips, Energizer and Techtium Announce First Ever Mobile Phone with
MSN MoneyCentral - Techtium’s BackuPower(TM) is a unique hybrid battery management technology that solves the most frustrating cell phone problem: a dead battery. Techtium’s BackuPower(TM) is a mixed-signal IC with patented charging and battery type detection
Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com

BlueAnt Wireless Supertooth Light Stacked with Sophisticated Bluetooth
CNW Group - noise & echo cancellation — Up to 15 hrs talk-time or 800 hrs standby — Rechargeable lithium-ion battery devices — Supports voice dial activation, redial and call reject — Includes vent mounted cell phone holder
Source: www.newswire.ca

Sony Ericsson Demonstrates MSA-Compliant Java Platform 8
MobileMag - As our phones become more powerful and as the public demands more functionality out of them, cell phone makers have to Super-thin flexible ‘organic radical’ battery - posted on Friday March 23, 2007 6:50 AM PDT Panasonic Unloads Sixteen Stereo
Source: www.mobilemag.com

Portable ECG machine uses cell technology
San Francisco Gate - Patients attach 12 electrodes to their chest and upper body and strap the battery-powered unit on the front of their chest The unit is automatically connected via digital cell phone to a dedicated medical control center. The company has also
Source: www.sfgate.com

How Sweet: Sugar-charged Laptop Batteries 
The power sources in our laptops, cellphones, iPods, and other electronic devices may have a sweet future: rechargeable batteries that run on sugar
Source: www.macobserver.com

Samsung Sync SGH-A707 (red) 
The Samsung Sync is a great choice for music-mad cell phone users, but its call quality could be better.
Source: reviews.cnet.com

Smartest Mobile Users? It Ain’t Us 
Wireless phone study finds one common complaint worldwide: “Too many features I did not use.”
Source: feeds.feedburner.com

Sprint cuts music download fee to 99 cents 
Mobile phone service provider aims to match iTunes prices for downloading digital music.
Source: money.cnn.com

Grape Networks Turns Wi-Fi Into Wine 
Grape Networks , a Northern California-based company founded in 2002, is using wireless mesh to improve both the yield and quality of grapes for vineyards, while also decreasing costs and reducing the use of pesticides.
Source: itmanagement.earthweb.com

Apple prototype wows wireless show 
A core theme of new products is how to make devices less confusing as they get crammed with capabilities.
Source: www.statesman.com

POLICE REPORT 
Kyren Donyel Stinson, 25, of East Chicago is charged in Lake Superior Court with intimidation and two misdemeanor counts of pointing a firearm. Stinson is accused of pointing a gun at a man and woman on Tuesday in East Chicago.
Source: www.post-trib.com

Convincing collector it has wrong number
San Francisco Gate - When they became more insistent, I would suggest they come to my address with a cell phone, look at my driver’s license and call my phone number to verify it is indeed the one they have been attempting to collect from. “Not one has taken me up on
Source: sfgate.com

W-S board looks for cell towers
Delaware County Daily Times - NETHER PROVIDENCE - A member of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board says two - and possibly three or four - 10-story-tall cellular phone towers are being considered for George L. King Stadium, located behind Strath Haven Middle School. Jennifer
Source: www.delcotimes.com

Saved by the Cell Phone
Saudi Gazette - A SAUDI family was saved by their mobile phone after being stranded in the desert for several hours. When the family car broke down in the middle of the desert, the family found that their location was too remote for their mobile phone to work. They
Source: www.saudigazette.com.sa

Hot Stocks of the Week: Motorola
CNBC - NEW YORK - Amid a rocky trading week with several sharp winners and losers, Motorola Corp. stood out after a profit warning from the cell phone maker sent ripples across the market. Monday’s hot stock, Atherogenics Inc., gave up 61 percent of its
Source: www.cnbc.com

Men’s NCAA Report
Detroit News - Before the Midwest Regional, he gave his cell phone to his secretary to avoid distractions. “I do this all the time: The minute I get on the road I don’t even look at my cell phone,” Donovan said. “I give it to my secretary and tell her she’s in
Source: www.detnews.com

Sedalia woman solicits meth from detective: Woman dialed officer’s
Sedalia Democrat - From the Saturday, March 24, 2007 issue: Sedalia woman solicits meth from detective: Woman dialed officer’s cell phone in error By Sarah Nail The Sedalia Democrat A Sedalia woman was arrested after she accidentally called a wrong number and asked a
Source: www.sedaliademocrat.com

Cell phones changing the lives of the poor
Daily Times - ISLAMABAD: Like a bureaucrat sitting snugly in his official car, Muhammad Aslam, a young mason from Islamabad s outskirts, sits in his wheelbarrow talking to his younger brother on his cell phone. The poor man s Corolla on just one wheel is
Source: www.dailytimes.com.pk

Phila. Community College, union reach pact
Philadelphia Daily News - Brady is a candidate for mayor. “The cell phone bills are going to be very high,” Kirsch said. The average salary for a full-time teacher at the college is a little more than $55,000, according to faculty co-president Karen R. Schermerhorn, an English
Source: www.philly.com

In-flight phone use falls flat
Detroit Free Press - The once-high-flying idea of letting passengers use their wireless phones on airplanes is about to be grounded. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is recommending the FCC drop its tentative plan to lift its ban on in-flight cell
Source: www.freep.com

Samsung Sync SGH-A707 (red) 
The Samsung Sync is a great choice for music-mad cell phone users, but its call quality could be better.
Source: reviews.cnet.com

Life in Iraq goes on all around the war … it has to 
ALI AL SALEM, Kuwait I am out of Iraq. That is a process in and of itself enough to make someone decide to skip their leave and just remain in the war zone. Travel in Iraq is very difficult. It has taken me two days just to get here.
Source: www.enidnews.com

Man stabbed in fight about cell phone 
A 21-year-old man is in serious condition at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed in a fight about a lost cell phone.
Source: www.tallahassee.com

Chopper dream comes true 
NORWICH — At the start of American Chopper, one of Discovery Networks’ highest-rated series ever, Paul Teutul Jr. rides a custom-built chopper so cool that it has the power to make grown men slobber and drool.
Source: www.pressconnects.com

Klitzner has a creative mind 
BYRAM One idea hit him when he was on a train trying to conduct business over his cell phone. As the battery ran down, Orrin Klitzner tried a couple of tricks to extend the battery’s life.
Source: www.njherald.com

Motorola slashes outlook, replaces CFO 
Motorola replaced its chief financial officer Wednesday in a shake up of top management as it slashed its first-quarter sales forecast, blaming weaker-than-expected revenue from its cell-phone unit.
Source: www.usatoday.com

Plansky is cell phone star 
MANITOWOC Twenty-two-year-old singer Jessica Plansky of Marinette, winner of the first Lakeshores Rising Stars singing competition held in Manitowoc, was recently named winner of Cell Phone Superstar.
Source: www.htrnews.com

Samsung Sync SGH-A707 (blue) 
The Samsung Sync is a great choice for music-mad cell phone users, but its call quality could be better.
Source: www.cbsnews.com

Cell Phone Ban 
One school district is proposing a ban on cell phones for students throughout the school day.
Source: www.fox6.com

Cell phone’s GPS leads police to abductee 
A Global Positioning System chip in a Newark woman’s cell phone enabled police in two states to zero in on her and her five children as her ex-boyfriend drove them through Indiana on his way to California.
Source: www.delawareonline.com

Will Google Launch a Cell Phone? 
Rumors Suggest That the Search Engine Giant Will Launch Its Own Device, but Google Is Keeping Quiet — at Least for Now
Source: abcnews.go.com

Cell Phone Predators 
Parents have been warned to monitor their kids computer use to protect them from predators, but now law enforcement says predators are going to a whole new level, stalking kids on their cell phones.
Source: www.cwarkansas.com

What’s that flapping sound? Just cash-hungry candidates flying west
San Francisco Gate - Bill Richardson will be the featured guest at a fundraising lunch hosted at the Battery Street law office of Lieff The Mustang’s driver made a call on his cell phone, and moments later a white car full of men came blazing up in the opposite
Source: www.sfgate.com

LifeLite plan example of area s talent
Tribune Chronicle - As part of the Tribune s Make A Difference Day in October, donated cell phones will be converted into emergency The plan is to distribute bags that contain the special light sockets, a reprogrammed phone with a charged battery, an extra battery and
Source: www.tribune-chronicle.com

News to use: Out and about
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - notebook PC, cell phone to be sold at cell-phone stores, wirelessly transmits location information to the device of your choice, which displays color maps and announces directions. It can plug into a cigarette lighter or run off its 20-hour battery.
Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

A cell phone with ‘talking’ e-mails
AZCentral.com - This week, I tested the H-P iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger from Hewlett-Packard, H-P’s first real cell phone and a big name for a And H-P boasts that its battery will last for 61/2 hours of talk time, about an hour longer than the closest competitor’s
Source: www.azcentral.com

Opposable Thumbs
Ars Technica - It’s like a cell phone! Really! But the game’s wireless abilities are what will have everyone talking - literally. Using a peel animated decal from front of T-Shirt Unplug ribbon connector behind decal and remove decal Unplug battery pack and
Source: arstechnica.com

Governor unveils $29.2 billion budget
New Orleans Times-Picayune - Police were able to have Rankins’ cell phone company “ping” his phone to pinpoint his location, finding out that his phone was He was transported to New Orleans and charged with one count of second degree battery, one count of purse snatching and one
Source: www.nola.com

Two hours I’ll never get back
Nevada Appeal - Called Gina in Arizona, Frannie in Virginia, Karey in Idaho (on my cell phone); discussed the war, people’s stupidity My phone battery went dead. Never got the address. Guess Citibank didn’t need this check. Two hours of my life I’ll never get
Source: www.nevadaappeal.com

The trouble with gee-whiz gadgets
CNN Money - It’s the size of a sheet of paper, light as a shoe, and the battery lasts for 700 jabbing our arthritic fingers at the giant buttons on the $147 Jitterbug Dial phone seniors (or for the 11-and-under market, who are also getting simple little cell
Source: money.cnn.com

Review: Tom Bihn Smart Alec Backpack
MacNN - The other three can be use for a cell phone, pens, or other small devices. There is another pocket closer to the bottom that’s Mac OS X 10.4.9 Mailplane enters beta Refurb Mac minis for $649 ModBook on display Mac-to-mobile sync Post-recall battery fire
Source: www.macnn.com

Safety of lithium-ion batteries still uncertain
Daily Yomiuri On-Line - 7 volts they produce is about three times that of a nickel-hydride battery. overheating of Sanyo-made batteries installed in Mitsubishi Electric cell phones was caused by short-circuiting triggered by contact between an insulating sheet and the phone
Source: www.yomiuri.co.jp

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Source: www.prweb.com