Toshiba KDDI W51T - Review

KDDI W51T – a 3-megaixel camera and a rotating display

Here comes another product by the Japanese operator produced by Toshiba. KDDI W51T is a stylish clamshell with the rotating display, which enables you to snap and view photos more comfortably. Besides there is a 3-megapixel camera.


Its internal display has a 2.6” diagonal, QVGA resolution, 262K colors. The external OLED display is a monochrome one, 96x39 pixels, 0.8” diagonal. It is designed to display service info, for example, on the network signal level and incoming SMS. There is an expansion slot for microSD cards.

Measuring 51x103x21 mm it weighs 142 g. Battery life in CDMA 1X networks makes up about 290 hours standby and 220 minutes in the talk mode. The model is available in 3 color solutions

Cell phones 'a health risk' for kids

An international team of researchers has warned parents to limit their children's use of mobile phones, after studying the effects of the devices on health.

The team said 'the electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones should be considered a health risk'.

'What we found was astounding and much more concerning that what we had been led to believe,' the Scotsman quoted Dr David Servan-Schreiber, who led the team, as saying.

During the study, researchers found that significant levels of electromagnetic radiation from the phones did penetrate the human body, and argued that until more research was done the gadgets should be considered dangerous.

In particular, researchers found that children's brains were more susceptible to the radiation than those of adults, and suggested parents to ban younger children from using the phones regularly.

10,000 mobiles sold per hour in India

Every hour as many as 10,000 mobile phones are sold in India, thanks to the ever-increasing mobile services market and availability of entry level handsets that has brought phones well within everyone's reach, an IDC India report said.

India has shipped close to 85 million mobile handsets between April 2007 and March 2008, compared to under 66 million units shipped in the previous fiscal, registering an year-on-year growth of around 29 per cent.

In the last quarter of the financial year FY 2008, country's shipment has touched 22.3 million which amounts to around 10,000 phones every hour, stated IDC which tracks the Indian telecom industry.

It is up 24.4 per cent from 17.9 million units in the corresponding period of the previous year.

IDC India Country Manager Kapil Dev Singh said: "This growth comes on the back of a burgeoning mobile services market and lower entry barriers across various customer categories, as average selling values (ASVs) of handsets continue to fall in the wake of a highly competitive landscape populated by close to 25 vendors."

The year also saw growing number of high-end phones being shipped to india as EDGE and WCDMA-enabled mobile phones contributed 15.4 per cent and 3.1 per cent of the total mobile phone shipments in FY 2008 compared to 7.4 per cent and 1.2 per cent respectively, in 2006-07.

In india, overall, Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia has the largest market share, of 52.8 per cent, followed by LG at 10.2 per cent and Samsung at 8.3 per cent in terms of units shipped during the quarter ended March 31, 2008, IDC said.

Thanks to http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/jun/19mobile.htm