Pantech SKY arrives in Korea
Added on 2007-12-27 05:08:00
by Emily Price
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 The Pantech SKY has hit the Korean market. The IM-S300 slider handset is referred to in Korea as the “Romantic Wave” and has a 1.3 megapixel camera as well as pink accents. You can buy one now (if you happen to be in the Seoul area) for 400,000 won (around $430 US)
[via EngadgetMobile]
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4G Technology With Speeds Touching 3.6Gbps
Added on 2007-10-18 12:13:00
by Tanya Palta
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LG Colorholic Phone Hits Korea
Added on 2007-08-07 03:41:00
by Tanya Palta
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Patents for self-defense phones on the rise
Added on 2007-07-18 10:12:00
by Mark Brezinski
 Have you ever looked at your cell phone and thought, "You know, I really wish I could seriously injure someone with this." If you have, then this blog post is for you. Apparently, in Korea, patent applications for adding personal protection features to phones have more than sextupled in number over the past seven years. This doesn't necessarily mean you'll see a Sanyo M80 or Motorola Tazr V3m any time soon, but developers are certainly trying to preemptively corner the market.
Other than the increase in patents, the article (subscription required) also covers some of the planned defense features. Most of these were rather tame, such as sending emergency texts/videos, locating the user by GPS/LBS, or emitting a high-pitch alert sound. Also mentioned is a dazzling flash, presumably to temporarily blind an assailant, and a "strong electric shock". We're not sure what amplitude or voltage a cell phone could be capable of, but we were intrigued by the use of the word "strong". We were also unsure of what kind of safety features these phones will have. Regardless, we're sure within the week of a personal protection phone release the news will be inundated with its wrath: "Child blinds self with iPhone," "Bank robbed with new self-defense Treo," "Phone user misdials, stuns self, immediately assaulted, robbed".
[via Textually, with apologies to David Cronenberg]
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Sky IM-R200 Available Now
Added on 2007-05-10 03:08:00
by Tanya Palta
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Roam Rage: Angry Customer Rams Car into Cell Phone Company Building
Added on 2007-04-10 23:56:00
by Robert S. Anthony
 A disgruntled cell phone customer in South Korea took his dissatisfaction on the road, across the sidewalk and straight into the front doors of his mobile phone provider.
According to France 24, a 47-year old man who was unhappy with the roaming service on his cell phone drove his Mercedes Benz automobile into the front doors of the Seoul headquarters of SK Telecom, the largest cell phone provider in Korea. No injuries were reported.
[Via France 24]
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