Mobiles

Available in second half of 2008, the first TAG Heuer mobile phone, the Meridiist has just got FCC approved. TAG Heuer is working together with ModeLabs Group to design, produce and market mobile phones under the TAG Heuer label. The two companies has assigned its teams of designers and watch developers to this project for a full three years, thereby creating a full range of entirely “tailor-made” mobile phones and related accessories.

Other than a standard 1.9-inch QVGA display screen in front, the Tag Heuer Meridiist also has an unique OLED display on top of the phone body. The OLED display screen will provide different useful information for easy access of phone status.

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E Ink announced that Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications in Japan has selected E Ink Vizplex Imaging Film based displays for its newest family of mobile phones. CH-Mobile is planning on several product releases. These are the world’s first clamshell style mobile phones to use E Ink’s electronic paper technology on the outside.

“We wanted features such as outdoor sunlight readability, 180 degree viewing angle, extremely thin, rugged, flexible display that consumed very little power,” said Satoshi Shirasawa, Marketing Manager for CHMC. “E Ink’s electrophoretic display technology provided all that and more, something we could not get from other display technologies.”

The Hitachi W61H phone was the first of these product releases, featuring a secondary display utilizing E Ink Vizplex display on the external surface of the phone. Famous Japanese designer SeKiYuRiO created the Hitachi W61H to resemble a perfume bottle. The 2.7″ diagonal E Ink display scrolls through 96 different images in a stylish animation and is activated when a call or message is received, or when the clamshell phone is opened for use. The W61H comes in several colors and display styles and is serviced by KDDI (au).

The Casio Model G’zOne will be launched this summer and is also serviced by KDDI (au). It will also feature E Ink’s Vizplex display as a secondary “Silhouette display”. Design details will be unveiled by Casio on their website.

Hundreds of millions of mobile phone owners can now take advantage of email on-the-move as emoze launches the world’s first push mobile email solution for Java handsets. Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Samsung users will be able to get emoze push mail on their handsets. The deployment will be in stages; Nokia Series40 handsets will be the first to be added, followed shortly after by the rest.

Using new, state-of-the-art SUN technology, all the whiz-bangs, swivel screens, colors and graphics offered by the user’s favorite mobile device, are heightened with emoze technology, ensuring a smooth transition from desktop to mobile. emoze’s Java client supports a range of personal and corporate data sources including Microsoft Exchange (Outlook), POP3/IMAP servers, as well as Web mail servers like Gmail.