Tracfone prepaid cards are one way of keeping your cell phone bill under control. Tracfones are a great alternative for someone that would like the convenience of a mobile phone without the hassle of a long standing mobile contract or having their credit checked.

Tracfone Prepaid cards work exclusively with Tracfone mobile phones. These prepaid calling cards are available by minute. They offer prepaid cards for 60 minutes, 120 minutes, 200 minutes and 450 minutes.

Tracfone prepaid cellular calling cards are available at 70,000 retailers. Consumers that want to purchase additional airtime can re-up by calling 1-800-867-7183, contacting via a registered Tracfone
or on the web.

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WalkingHotSpot is a software Wi-Fi enabled smartphone into a hotspot providing access to 3G data networks. The WalkingHotSpot solution provides a platform to deliver new solutions to wireless subscribers around Wi-Fi. The scalable solution allows users to securely retrieve e-mails and browse the internet with no additional software or configuration required on the Wi-Fi client devices (laptops, MP3 players, gaming devices, etc). (more…)

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BeatEd is a simple drum machine software for Symbian S60 3rd mobile phones. It was originally developed in couple of nights to get a drum machine and metronome application for personal guitar playing purposes. (more…)

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Tyler, writing at Tyler’s Toolbox has leaped on the ‘intersection of positivity, creativity and technology’ that is international video-fest Pangea Day and is celebrating with a contest!

Open to all filmmakers, all of the details you need to get involved are handily provided by Tyler in his post, as are detail of the prize on offer: an N82, headphones, tripod, speakers and more… not bad at all I’m sure you’ll agree.

Jump over now for the full details of the prize package and how you can be in the running to win it.

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bery95 from Symbian Web Blog bring news of the Python based Accelerometer remote control app.

Currently only for use with mPlayer under Linux, this app allows an accelerometer enabled device to be turned into a remote, letting the user control movies simply by twisting the device! You hook up your device via a simple programme to the computer, and away you go, with a surprising level of control. A nice idea of course, but bery95 can??™t see PyAcceleREMOTER working with the average user, as the app won??™t communicate with the Windows computers we all use.

What do you think? Are you a Linux user glad of the exclusivity, or are you simply intrigued by the thought of such an app? Jump over and let bery95 know what you think.

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LG recently announced their ‘Rally For Music’ contest. This contest aims to bring together young people to inspire music talent.

“LG Mobile Phones is a leading maker of music handsets and we appreciate the importance of music to our customers’ everyday lives,” said Ehtisham Rabbani, vice president of product strategy and marketing for LG Mobile Phones. “The Rally for Music program is one of the many ways we are
getting involved in music and music education. We look forward to crowning a winner and giving talented musicians an avenue to showcase their work.”

Participants in the contest will be able to create personal profiles and share music with others. Prizes for this contest include LG televisions, MP3 players and mobile phones. The grand prize winner will be chosen in a live competition held in New York City in August 2008. The prize for the winner is $15,000.00.

To find out more or to participate in LG’s Rally For Music contest, please visit their website.

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In the hot seat for this week??™s Driving With the Guru ??“ sitting in for the otherwise engaged Ricky ??“ Dotsisx brings us her take on the new N-gage platform.

She??™s loving the community aspect of N-Gage, adding that it adds a ???new dimension??™ to the gaming experience. There are a few gripes with the downloading process of getting your hands on a game, but she promises some posts on the various aspects of N-Gage later this week. She actually wonders whether everyday consumers would put up with the process of downloading zip files just to get a game in their device.

This episode of ???Driving??¦??™ is filmed on both the N93i and the N95, and whilst Dotsisx talks of liking the way the N93i is held while it records video - reminding her of a camcorder ??“ the difference in quality is noticeable.

Do you share Dotsisx??™s points of view? Jump over and let her know.

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Steve Litchfield from All About Symbian and Teo over at Symbian Freak both bring news of similar hot new apps for S60 devices.

Harnessing the power of drum machines on a mobile device seems a big ask, but both BeatEd and Niime Drums seem to manage quite nicely, thank you very much. Steve has included a video demo of BeatEd, which originally started out as a metronome app for guitar players, but blossomed after some positive feedback.

Niime Drums, an accelerometer-based app, is a different set up and proposition entirely, but nevertheless scratches the same itch. Allowing a user to compose drum sequences by shaking the phone ??“ thus releasing the ???inner artist??™ ??“ Niime Drums is still in development and is due for public release soon.

So which looks best to you? Jump through any of the links above to have your say.

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Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog has come up with an ingenious use for the GPS capacity of his N95 8GB.

We??™ve all done it, gone to the big game, the concert, the mall, and come out with absolutely no idea of where we parked. By saving the location of the parking spot of your vehicle right after you find a place, when you need your transport again, just select ???Walk to??™, and hey presto, no more frantic searching. Imagine the other uses though??¦mark the location of your car keys in your house, the TV remote, the possibilities are endless.

So what have you used your GPS to mark? Jump over and let Mark know.

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Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog brings us news of a discovery when idly thumbing through the multimedia menu on his N95 8GB

By arranging the tiles on your multimedia window so that the Internet option shows first after you press your shortcut key (#5 in Mark??™s case), just pressing the multimedia key will open a fresh tab. Browse through open tabs by scrolling left and right and the top of the page lists how many tabs are open. Great discovery from some idle browsing.

Have you already discovered this? Any other remarkable menu tips? Jump over and let Mark know.

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Someone decided to customize their Nokia N73 with crossbones on the back.

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Francesco Cara is speaking at the 2008 LIFT Conference about how Nokia has grown in terms of how their devices interact with the ecosystems around them. He notes that the iPhone takes a very desktop oriented approach in terms of how to operate the device and most curiously praises Palm for their user centric design efforts. Great way to kill 18 minutes this weekend:

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Related Articles at IntoMobile:

• Nokia Design Contest
• Meet 1 of Nokia's 300 designers, the creator of the 6500 series, Anton Fahlgren
• Nokia to open design centers in Brazil and India
• Nokia Video Converter 1.0 released
• Video: Nokia 6263 tour

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Here are some more pics comparing the black Nokia N82 to it’s white version. I think the black one looks so much better than the white one.

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Sure, you might already be rocking that cool RotateMe hack on your Nokia N95, but there's nothing like a little manufacturer-sanctioned love straight from Espoo to make you fall in love with screen-rotation on your N95. A new firmware (v20.0.016) is available for the Nokia N95 8GB (sorry folks, only the European N95-2 is supported for now) that comes with built-in support for the automatic screen rotation feature that the iPhone made so popular (sorry, I had to get that in there).

You can enable and disable the screen rotation feature at will, so there's basically no reason not to download and install this latest firmware for your Nokia N95 8GB. That is, unless you're rocking the N95 8GB NAM (N95-4), in which case, you'll need to wait it out a bit longer.

Grab the new firmware here.

[Via: AllAboutSymbian]

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Related Articles at IntoMobile:

• Nokia working on 8GB version of N95!
• Nokia goes live with the North American Nokia N95 8GB
• Hands on the Nokia N82!
• Nokia N95 8GB to feature better battery, VGA screen and more RAM?
• Nokia N95 8GB NAM pictures [UPDATED]

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Hop-On recently announced that sales of their low end disposable cell phones are really catching on in Europe. The company just received an order for 150,000 low end GSM mobile phones that don’t have an LCD screen and operate on GSM networks.

“We are getting so many inquiries about the ‘disposable cell phone’ in Europe and the Middle East,
we will be hiring additional support to meet the market demands. We will not have any manufacturing issues in the low cost 900/1800 MHz phone utilizing both Texas Instruments chip sets and Infineon chip sets as they are proven technology.”

“This is our biggest opportunity to actually have Hop-on become a household name in the US and throughout Europe. No one sells a new 10 pounds Sterling GSM cell phone. This is a home run for Hop-on. While we are excited about the interest generated in the European Markets, we don’t currently have the resources to market our new disposable cell phone in the United States. This will come in time. We want to focus on the European and Middle East markets and then hire the
personnel necessary to do it right in America!” said Peter Michaels, President of Hop-on.

Please visit Hop-On.com for more information.

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02, a leading company in prepaid wireless phones recently announced that they’ve added the Alcatel OT-E206a to their lineup of available wireless handsets in the United States. These handsets are widely popular in Europe.

“We are excited to be the first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) in the US to launch the OT-E206a product,” commented Pete Grubb, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Locus Telecommunications. “We believe this product provides an excellent option that is uniquely positioned to support the cost-conscious prepaid cell phone segment. In addition, we are equally happy to be working with a leading manufacturer like TCL Communication Technology Holdings who has extensive experience in the GSM realm. We look forward to working with them to launch additional handset models in the near future.”

To find out more about 02’s prepaid cellular service, please visit 02 Wireless

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Here are tons of good pics comparing the Nokia N95 8GB with the Nokia N96. As much as I love how the N95 8GB looks, I also love how the N96 looks. Enjoy the pics!























Pics from pconline.com.cn

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They??™ve been around for a while ??“ and been promised for much longer ??“ but Apocalypso at Symbian Freak has posted as to why the Nokia Extra Power DC-8 is a potential lifeline for those on the move.

With the ability to charge your device when you??™re in, say, the desert, the North Pole or just plain old Oklahoma (somewhere with few power points), this little beauty will give you juice when you run out. Provided you charge it up before you leave the house ??“ either with your standard charger or AA batteries ??“ you can give your device that extra boost when your usage exhausts it.

Have you used one of these ???in the field??™? Jump over and let Apoc know how it went.

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Here are some unboxing pics of the all black Nokia 6500 slide.

Here are tons of awesome pics of the Sharp 922SH. This is one awesome little device.

Here are some nice unboxing pics of the Nokia 8800 Arte.

Here are some gorgeous pics of the black Nokia N82.


Here and here are tons of pics of the Nokia N810.

Here are lots of nice pics of the tangerine black and magnetic grey Sony Ericsson W380.

Here are some great unboxing pics of the expresso black Sony Ericsson W890.

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