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Playboy.com and Quattro Wireless now offer users a mobile friendly version of the playboy.com web site.

Visitors will be able to browse non-nude photos of their favorite Playboy models, get their own burning questions answered by the Playboy Advisor, read trusted reviews of music, games, and books, get a quick laugh Playboy's Joke of the Day, and much more.

Over the past 10 years, the mobile phone has evolved in such electronic device, without which it is difficult to imagine modern life today. The phone can take photographs, record video, send e-mail, play music, television and indicate the direction of movement.

 

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AmericanGreetings.com in association with Image Semantics brings a new on-line mobile service for those who like sending e-cards. It is available at no extra charge for all AmericanGreetings.com subscribers in the U.S. Users can send e-cards for free, but receiving may cost one up to 30 cents depending on the messaging plan. So, here's how it works:

Sender sends the e-card

Recipient gets a handset discovery message that detects the model of the phone and askes the permission to deliver the card

If the recipient agrees, the e-card is delivered in the best format available for the current model

It may sound complicated at first, but it actually takes a couple of clicks.

Samsung has recently released their U708 3G mobile phone. Despite that it has a slider form factor, the handset is very slim measuring just 12.1 mm thick and contains a wide range of features and functionalities.

Samsung U708 specs:

•  Quick keys: Call, End, Video Call
•  Networks: GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA
•  Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB
•  Primary display: 2.

Anyone can now monitor air pollution levels in a specific location directly from their mobile phones. The new cell phone add-on, called "Squirrel", measures the level of carbon monoxide and ozone polluting substances in the surrounding air and displays the results on the phone's screen. All the gathered data is also transferred to an Internet database which monitors worldwide pollution.

US Cellular has launched its new service, called Your Navigator, which brings GPS functionality to your cell phone. With Your Navigator you can get turn-by-turn directions whether driving or on foot. It also offers auto-rerouting and nearly 14 million POIs.

The service is based on Networks In Motion LBS platform and is compatible with Kyocera 312 and LG 245 phones.

The world's first book written entirely using a mobile phone has just been published on Lulu.com, a site where anyone can publish their own book for print. Its author, Robert Bernocco, wrote a 384 page science fiction novel in just 17 days using only a Nokia 6630 cell phone, with the help of T9. The novel was entitled "Compagni di Viaggo", or "Fellow Travelers" in English.

Some mobile phone manufacturers are now trying to create phones for blind people. On the picture you can see such a handset, designed by Peter Lau. It lacks a screen and comes with angled keys to ease the usage. Because the blind can not read and type, some kind of text-to-speech software should be loaded on this phone to read the incoming messages and those being typed.

Sprint and Google are working together on a new mobile Internet portal, which uses WiMax wireless technology to offer Web search and social networking. Sprint network bandwidth, location detection and presence capabilities will be matched with Google's popular communications suite - Google Apps - that includes Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Talk services.

AT&T now offers a service, called AT&T Mobile Backup. Costing just $1.99 per month it allows subscribers to keep their contact data on the company's web site, so it can be later backed up to the phone. Customers will also have the ability to sync contacts from their Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo and AOL accounts and remotely erase data in case the phone is lost or stolen.