The simplest mobile phone in the world

The phone OwnFone no screen, no possibility to dial or SMS. However it performs the basic function of the phone - calls, but only those numbers that have been pre-installed in the order.

OwnFone only available to UK residents. The site of the manufacturer, consumers can write to the phone from 2 to 12 numbers. Each number will be tied to the shortcut button on the front panel. Besides the buttons contacts in the phone there is a button to end a call, volume control and call button on-off switch. Phone numbers linked to the shortcut button, can be changed by calling the help desk.

The manufacturer also has to choose the color and design of the phone is its ofromleniya.

OwnFone battery lasts for 3 days of active service. To fully charge the phone, it takes only 1.5 hours. OwnFone comparable in size to a credit card, has a thickness of only 7 mm, weight - 40 grams. OwnFone worth 55 pounds.

Labels appear on a mobile phone with a radiation level

Buyers of mobile phones in the U.S. will be able to recognize how harmful your favorite model of mobile devices.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich has proposed a new federal law mandating that phone manufacturers to place on a mobile device warning labels about the level of radiation.

It is believed that the industry would oppose any labels on the phones as well as an indication, for example, the relatively high levels of radiation can deter consumers from purchasing certain models of phones.

In addition, the bill called the Cell Phone Right to Know Act initiated a national research program that will study the impact of mobile phones on human health. Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection will be obliged to update the already outdated rating system parameters SAR (Specific Absorption Rate), determining the level of radiation that the human body receives from the mobile phone. However, there is still no clear evidence of a direct link between high SAR-levels and increased risk of brain cancer.

In the United States appeared to receive the terminals of old gadgets

In the U.S., appeared the first machines for the recycling of portable electronics. The device estimates the cost of a device by several parameters, and then issues his former boss money. It is reported by Tech Week.

New Portable Electronic Waste devaysov resemble ATMs at the same time, automatic reception of bottles and electronic terminals for payment of services of mobile operators.

Vending machines can be found on the inscriptions ecoATM. The word "eco" in the title of waste heat is not accidental. Once the machine "swallows" a particular gadget, it is processed as an environmentally friendly way.
"Eaters" gadgets analyze devices that fall into their mouths, according to several parameters. Among them: the state apparatus, its performance, as well as average market price. Last checked on the Internet, which connects recovery on their own.

This handset has a system of artificial intelligence and machine diagnostics, which almost immediately "punch" device on the basis of data from the 4000 models of mobile phones and MP3-players.

Recovery techniques are not only act as intermediaries between users of a kind gadgets that want to get rid of them, and companies involved in recycling of electronics. The devices can help those who want to immediately sell a particular device, rather than wait for the unit will buy an ad on the web or via online auction. In addition, the "eaters" give money to anyone, even a broken gadget, encouraging people to pass it and not throw in the trash.

At this point, the devices ecoATM take only mobile phones and portable media players, but the end of January will also work with tablet PCs and e-books.

Recovery is now gadgets only in California, but by the end of the year should be available across America.

The Japanese have created a machine for drying wet cell phone

wned cell phone - perhaps one of the most common ills that comprehend phones. It is difficult to find a person of a man who at least once in their lives drowned phone.

In this case, no matter where - in the kitchen sink, the toilet, in the river, in a pool ... but once - that's nonsense. There are people who do it with enviable regularity. Obviously, it is for them to come up with the Japanese device called the Dryer Box.

The device is a device for drying damp, phone (and any other gadgets) that the Japanese offer to put in all the stores with electronics. Wet phone - come and the land. The process will take half an hour and it will have to pay for $ 12.



If the phone after that and will not work, paid the money you will not be returned.

Wash your hands and your mobile to avoid E coli

The recent research showed that there is harboured E. coli (Escherichia coli) in 16% of hands and 16% of mobile phones. The bacteria inhabit the human intentines. In 12 British cities the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Queen Mary, University of London took nearly 400 samples from hands and mobile phones. Apparently Birmingham is the dirtiest city. There is 41% of contaminated hands and phones. In London it’s only 28%. Dr Val Curtis said that there is clear and strange difference between north and south of England.
So, what is the problem? Don’t people know how to wash their hands? It seems so. The correct hands washing technique is made by Professor John Oxford. He says you have to wash your hands while singing two verses of Happy Birthday to you. But while letting your children, or your husband, play in the dirt may well be ok, they still need to wash their hands after the toilet.

India sets limit for sending sms

Indian telecom regulator set a sms limit. Now no-one is able to send more than 100 sms a day from a mobile phone. 

India always had problems with telemarket firms who bombarded mobile phone users with sms. Now they can breathe with relief. All the previous attempts to deal with unwanted phone calls and sms has failed, BBC correspondents say.
Now subscribers can register their number with national “do-not-call” list by sending a message. Also the commercial phone calls will be banned from between9pm and 9am.
A lot of complains have been made from cell phone users. The daily cap of 100 messages per phone is expected to deal with the problem, officials say.
India has the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world, with more than 700 million subscribers.