Helio Drift: It's a Party in Your Pocket

Posted Nov 10th 2006 6:30PM by Celly

Helio threw down the gaunlet this week with the introduction of the Drift. Sure, you can get a ton of work done with the Treo and Motorola Q, but you can't work all the time, and the folks at Helio know it.

Thanks to the new Drift, gone are the days of standing in front of a random bar, trying to coordinate your friends coming to meet you from different directions. Using the Buddy Beacon program built into the device, satellites will pinpoint your Helio Drift-toting friends on a Google map and display their position right on your phone.

The GPS-enabled Google map software isn't just for playing a sweet game of drunken hide and seek, it can also be used for real-time traffic reports, step-by-step directions to the location of your choice, and satellite imagery for a bird's eye view of a desired location.

The Drift is rounded out with high speed 3G network support, Bluetooth, 2.0 megapixel camera, mp3 player and mpeg support for VOD and videos you made of yourself during your last pub crawl. Combine all that with Helio's MySpace support and you have yourself the best party mobile device money can buy.

Filed under: Celebritoyz

Tags: 3g, beacon buddies, BeaconBuddies, camera, cell, drift, google maps, GoogleMaps, gps, helio, mobile, mp3, phone, tracking

Foreigners Think Your Cell is Whack

Posted Oct 26th 2006 5:36PM by TMZ Staff

Your cell phone's pretty cool, isn't it? Takes pictures, videos, sends messages, browses the web, blah, blah, blah. Guess what? The rest of the world -- especially Europe and Asia -- thinks your super-cool phone is about as rad as two tin cans and a string.

It turns out that the slow-moving Federal Communications Commission and fickle consumers keep the United States cell phone market pretty backwards compared to the rest of the world. For instance, in Japan, the Sharp 905SH phone allows users to watch TV -- and record their favorite shows as well to watch on its swivel screen, just like portable TiVo. In fact, Japan has a digital broadcast standard in place just for cell phones.

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Tags: asia, cell phone, CellPhone, digital broadcast tv, DigitalBroadcastTv, europe, keypad, mp3, samsung b600, SamsungB600, sharp 903sh, Sharp903sh, smart phone, SmartPhone, stylus, technology, telephone, television, tivo, vodaphone, xun chi 138, XunChi138

TMZ Music: Axe in Hand MySpace Takes a Swing

Posted Sep 5th 2006 8:57PM by TMZ Staff

As the signs of dismemberment of the music industry begin to surface with greater frequency in mainstream media, MySpace today announced what could prove to be the pivotal blow to current music business model and welcome mat to 'The Rebirth of Music' (headline of the September Wired).


MySpace, along with Snocap, the legal peer-to-peer network created by Napster founder Shawn Fanning, said today it had penned a deal with the site that will allow artists to sell music directly to fans through their own MySpace music pages.

MySpace will now be able to provide tools to allow artists, as well as the record labels, to set prices, create stores, and sell music in MP3 format. This is without a question the natural progression for the News Corp owned MySpace in trying to establish other platforms of revenue with their still newlywed marriage with the world's leading social networking site.

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Filed under: Music

Tags: download, mp3, music, myspace, tom anderson, TomAnderson, wired