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Half the fun of having a cell phone or any gadget is that it looks cool and the Onyx Cell phone by Synaptic defiantly ticks that box big stylee. The Onyx is a concept cell phone design brought to us by Synaptic and design studio Pilotfish and boy are we glad they got together.

The Onyx comes packed with all the applications we demand from a cell phone these days (and we sure do demand a lot) including phone, GPS and entertainment all encased in Synaptic Clearpad technology. This is a super-thin touch screen technology that enables a high resolution picture-perfect screen.

There’s a lot of spiel on the Synaptic website talking about activity based experienced when the truth of it is that only 5% of cell phone users actually use more than 5% of their phone functions. Nevertheless Synaptic assure us that the Onyx is a revolution waiting to happen and from the looks of it, GadgetHeat hopes they are right…

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The buzz around upcoming flexible cell phones has been around for a while now with a few concepts from Motorola even floating about. GadgetHeat was going to wait it out until something more tangible was revealed but once we saw this concept we just had to let our readers in on it. It’s not just flexible, it’s foldable…

The cell phone (named Packet) is a foldable mobile phone designed by Emir Rifat. Whilst not yet in production, seeing as how the big cell phone makers are seriously looking into distinguishing their handsets by design and innovation, it won’t be long before this gets picked up by one of them.

The keypad looks a bit fidgety and will no doubt be refined once it goes into production but the rest of it looks incredible. When folded the Packet is simple an almost flat square shape on which you can see the time and any messages you’ve received.

Once you open it up the keyboard expands to either side of the square and a screen pops up on top. It looks like a gadget James Bond would be proud to hold. Keep your eyes on GadgetHeat and we’ll bring you news when this goes into production.

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The geeks (pot calling kettle..) over at gizmodo have confirmed what we all knew. The Apple 3G iPhone will be formally introduces to the masses at the WWDC keynote on June 9th. It was previously thought that the new iPhone would be available at the years end but it will be available immediately worldwide after the formal launch in June.

I’m personally 50/50 about iPhones. I think their too pricey for what they offer and tying you into a two year contract is not appreciated by the GadgetHeat staff. That being said, there will no doubt be added goodies to go with the 3G functionality that have yet to be revealed by Apple (they love to tease).

After the generally negative response to their sales practice last time round (i.e. tying you to a particular provider in order to get your iPhone, fixed price for handsets etc), Apple have revised their worldwide partnering policies and it looks like the new phone may be available on multiple networks or tariff options at the same time which is good for those of us who want to get one…

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The long awaited Rim BlackBerry Bold phone has just been confirmed. It’s a classy looking phone by any standards and especially by BlackBerry ones as they don’t have a reputation of being the prettiest on the market and it comes with all the usual BlackBerry cell phone goodness you would expect from a smart phone.

It comes with an improved, easier to use QWERTY keyboard with buttons which are large enough even for the klutz’s at GadgetHeat to use. You can also hookup the Rim BlackBerry Bold cell phone to almost anything as it comes with WiFi, Quad Band, HSDPA/UMTS, Bluetooth 2.0 and enhanced, assisted integrated GPS (that’s a pretty big list of connectivity!) Read the full story

Looks like Nokia can’t stop innovating new phones and it’s latest babies the Nokia 5320 and Nokia 5220 are no different. The Handsets only requires the sweet sound of your voice to select a track and begin playback. If you whisper ‘ice Ice baby’ the handset will blast the classic poetic lines of that hip hop legend Vanilla Ice. The dedicated audio chip also means that the sounds will not be the usualy tinny crap that that you hear from 17 year olds on the back of buses up and down the country playing the mobile mp3’s for everyone to hear.

The ’say & play’ feature will work for any of the tracks you loaded onto the Nokia 5320 / 5220 and with 8gb of space, that’s about 2000 tracks at your disposal. This is where it gets tricky, out of 100 tracks asked for, the handset will get it right about 80% of the time. The other 20% it will question your dialect and ask you to enounciate (cheeky b*stard). Read the full story

Nokia is getting to be the big dawg (if it isn’t already) of mobile phones. I know that I personally only ever buy / upgrade to Nokia’s although that is more to do with the ease of navigation of the user interface rather than anything else.

The Nokia N82 Titanium is a departure from the current trend of phones in that it is a ‘candybar’ phone rather than the ubiquitous slider and flip phones and it is fully loaded with all the bells and whistles usually associated with the aforementioned slider and flip phones (without the huge advertising campaigns - N95 anyone?). Read the full story