Here’s another photo of the LG Watch Phone that surfaced at CES 2008.
This one’s in the wild, from Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona.
While the thing has some nice specs and a good UI, it looks somewhat turgid strapped to that wrist.
…all we can hope for at the moment is the possibility that [...]

Samsung anounced the Soul mobile hand set at Mobile World Congress 2008.
The Soul is not simply a phone, it’s a mobile lifestyle!
Samsung has this new approach called “Mobile for Every Lifestyle“, wherein all the world (well…the mobile phone world, anyway) is divided into 6 market segments, namely: Style, Business, Infotainment, Multimedia, Connected and, that [...]

Here’s a link to a rare video of an exploding notebook, possibly an LG XNote Z1.
Laptop Battery Explosion - nocutnews.co.kr, 2008/02/12

Lenovo has a new super-thin notebook in the pipeline, the ThinkPad X300. Walt Mossberg got a hold of one & found that it’s like Apple’s MacBook Air in that the X300 is quite thin, has a 64 GB solid-state drive and a 13.3 inch LED-backlit.
The X300 includes some of the features that the MBA [...]

LG just announced its new KT610 smartphone at World Mobile Congress 2008. The phone has a 2.4 inch VGA flip screen/clamshell design, with Symbian OS v9.2, S60 rel. 3.1, HSDPA 2100 at 3.6 Mbps, plus an integrated GPS receiver.
The KT610 comes with 64 MB of memory, a microSD card slot, 2MP camera and a 2nd [...]

Spice Telecom launched 3 new mobile phones at Mobile World Congress 2008. The People’s Phone (shown at left) is held out to be the world’s cheapest mobile phone, at under $20. …sort of like the Motorola FONE F3, but with the display removed.
Referring to the market niche & the opportunity for the phone, Spice chairman [...]

OpenPeak has apparently moved on from designing TV remotes to developing land line telephones instead. The company is working on OpenFrame which will bring smartphone capabilities to your home phone (assuming you still have one).
They plan to take your POTS telephone, stretch it to 8 inches, throw in a 800×480 WVGA touch screen, VoIP, Wi-Fi, [...]

Yahoo! launched Tech Ticker a few days ago - it’s a daily video blog focused on technology investing. TT started Feb 7, 2008, will consist of a number of 3 minute segments featuring news, interviews and opinions with Sarah Lacy, Aaron Task, Henry Blodget, Andy Kessler and their guests. Apparently the motivation for the show’s [...]

Nokia announced the new 6210 Navigator at Mobile World Congress 2008 yesterday.
The 6210 Navigator is a GPS phone aimed at pedestrians. The 3.5G device combines aGPS with an integrated compass to point in the direction the person is walking, an accelerometer and Nokia Maps 2.0 to provide turn-by-turn guidance for pedestrains in Walk mode, and [...]

Seoul’s historic Sungnyemun, also known as Namdaemun or South Gate, was destroyed by fire Sunday February 10 2008.
The structure was originally built in 1398 and designated National Treasure no. 1 in 1962.
Fire Destroys Historic Seoul Landmark - Chsun Ilbo, Feb 11 2008