How many hours in a day do you spend calling, texting and playing games on your cellphone? Can you do without your cellphone for a day? You better watch it before it is too late, for you may be on a path of cellphone addiction.

Two children ages 12 and 13 were admitted to a mental health clinic to help cure them of what has been determined as cellphone addiction.

According to staff members at the clinic, this is the first time that a specific treatment was used to cure mobile phone addiction. Personally I would of just taken the phones away, they’re just kids.

Are you addicted to your cellphone? Cellphones are meant as a tool for personal productivity. Use it well and it will sure serve you well, If you abuse it, you may be endangering your physical and mental health.

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Nokia had just unveiled a trio of mobile devices that balance stunning and sophisticated looks with the latest in mobile functionality. All three devices, the Nokia 6600 fold, the Nokia 6600 slide and the Nokia 3600 slide present a smooth, minimalist design and an appealing array of easy-to-use features. The devices range in price from 175 EUR to 275 EUR before taxes and subsidies and are expected to start shipping during the third quarter of 2008.

“There is a strong consumer demand for mobile handsets that blend elegant looks with modern features,” said Mikkel Drucker, Director, Connect Devices. “Each of the three devices introduced today offers a slightly different take on a core design language. We believe they are both beautiful to use and beautiful to behold - and offer a range of choice.”

Nokia 6600 fold - Smart and sophisticated looks
With one touch of a button, the elegant Nokia 6600 fold smoothly opens to reveal a stunningly bright 2.13′’ OLED screen displaying up to 16 million colors. With its seamless design, the signature “smooth back” of the Nokia 6600 fold creates a comfortable contour when open, and remains subtle and compact when closed. The high-gloss surface of the Nokia 6600 fold comes to life when tapped twice to “wake up” the hidden outer display that reveals time, incoming messages, missed calls and more. A double tap on the Nokia 6600 fold also snoozes alerts and silences or rejects incoming phone calls.

Nokia 6600 Fold

With a set of contemporary mobile features that belie its compact size, the Nokia 6600 fold is proof positive that beauty can be far more than skin deep. 3G technology allows for fast and easy sharing of pictures and videos snapped with the integrated 2 megapixel camera with double LED flash or swift access to Internet services such as Yahoo! Go or Flickr.

The Nokia 6600 fold easily fits into a pocket or a handbag and has an estimated retail price of 275 EUR excluding taxes and subsidies.

Nokia 6600 slide - Compact and balanced
Being one of Nokia’s smallest sliders to date, the Nokia 6600 slide stays true to its name as it smoothly glides open in the hand. The appearance of the Nokia 6600 slide with its glossy, high-quality steel covers and aluminium center key constitute both understated elegance as well as visual simplicity. Its well-balanced feature set is created to be exciting and intuitive. Tapping the Nokia 6600 slide twice conveniently indicates time, snoozes, alerts and silences or rejects incoming phone calls.

Nokia 6600 Slide

The 3.2 megapixel camera takes high quality pictures and videos that can be shared with others via Internet services or multimedia message - directly from the photo menu. The large 2.2″ QVGA display with 16 million colors also makes it easy to find your way around town, thanks to the integrated Nokia Maps application which can be enhanced with an optional Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W and separate navigation license. The slim, lightweight Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W features an innovative design that takes Bluetooth navigation beyond the car and into the hands of urban trekkers and leisure travelers.

The Nokia 6600 slide has an estimated retail price of 250 EUR excluding taxes and subsidies.

Nokia 3600 slide - Contemporary combination
The Nokia 3600 slide aims to win hearts with a blend of tasteful colors, materials and tactile finishes, and minds with a full range of the latest features. Soft ceramic paint and metal combined with high gloss surfaces and gradated colors to make the Nokia 3600 slide beautiful to both touch and see. The Nokia 3600 slide is equally beautiful to hear as it is the first Nokia product to feature background noise cancellation. With a built-in music player the Nokia 3600 slide offers up to 3000 favorite songs on an optional 4 microSD card.

The small, ergonomically shaped Nokia 3600 slide also delivers a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and 2 LED flash and is excellent for taking pictures or videos, even in dim lighting conditions. The TV-out feature, which conveniently connects the Nokia 3600 slide to most television sets, ensures quick and easy sharing of pictures and videos.

Nokia 3600 Slide

While the beauty of the Nokia 3600 slide will tell the world about its owner, the pre-installed Nokia Maps application with an optional Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W will tell the owner a lot about the world they are in. The Nokia Maps application holds more than 15 million points of interests, including restaurants, shops, hotels and more.

The Nokia 3600 slide has an estimated retail price of 175 EUR excluding taxes and subsidies.

This is a case of “more is never too much”. It is great having a phone with dual SIM card slot, meaning you can have two lines in one mobile phone.

Well, the Motorola MING A1800 seems to take it one step further, because it is a CDMA and quad-band GSM device, and it just so happens to have two SIM card slots too. This means 1 CDMA + 2 GSM = 3 lines. With this option, instead of carrying 3 phones, you carry only one. It also features a touchscreen and 3 megapixel camera.

Motorola MING A1800

Ever wants to share a phone with your sibling, but you are worried about mixing up the Contacts in the phone book? Maybe you are a parent and you want to purchase a mobile phone for the use of every member of the family, but will rather prefer a phone that will not mix up the Contacts. I am happy to inform you that the new Nokia 1209 offers the solution.

The Nokia 1209, among other features, offers additional cost management features to make phone sharing easy and convenient. Innovations include the pre-paid tracker, a cost-tracking application, and the multiple phonebook - which allows up to five people to store personal contact lists of up to two hundred numbers on a single phone. Designed for first time buyers, the Nokia 1209 incorporates Nokia’s intuitive user interface, dust resistance, and offers up to 80 languages. The Nokia 1209 also has a one-piece key mat for durability and reliability.

Nokia 1209

The Nokia 1209, together with the Nokia 2600 classic were today unveiled by Nokia, targeting consumers in emerging markets. The Nokia 2600 classic allows consumers to customize their phone with colourful, fully changeable Xpress-on covers and MP3 ring tones. The cheerful Nokia 2600 classic also features a number of entertainment features, including an FM radio and a VGA camera.

The Nokia 2600 classic, which will retail for approximately 65 euros before applicable taxes or subsidies, has begun shipping, ramping up in all key markets during the first quarter of 2008. Nokia 1209 will become available globally during the second quarter of 2008 and will retail for approximately 35 euros before applicable taxes or subsidies.

Nokia 2600 Classic

Bluetooth(R) technology, the global standard for short range wireless communications, is 10-years-old this week. Though the Bluetooth technology was born over a decade ago, the first products didn’t appear commercially until the year 2000. In that short time, a span of eight years, about 1.5 billion Bluetooth enabled devices have been shipped, and the organization behind the technology, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, has grown from a handful of companies to 10,000 members.

The Bluetooth technology has been most deployed in mobile phones, portable computers and audio electronics. It is hard imagining enjoying digital lifestyles nowadays without the use of Bluetooth. Transfers of photos, music and video clips between digital or mobile devices are now easy even to the non-technically inclined individuals. Thanks to Bluetooth.

Since Bluetooth eliminates the use of wires that easily entangled, I cannot see myself using a mobile phone that lacked Bluetooth. Connectivity between my phones and laptops are always done via Bluetooth either for transfer of files or synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook. If a phone lacked Bluetooth, forget it, I am not going for it.

I wish the Bluetooth technology can do much more though; like charging my mobile phone from my laptop using Bluetooth so that I don’t have to worry about a desktop-, USB- or car-charger. That will be a thrill. This seems like an El Dorado now, but then we are in the age of miracles. Any technological breakthrough can happen.

I want to believe that in the next few years, we will see more deployment of the Bluetooth technology in home electronics. It will soon become the standard, where every TV set and stereo equipment will have Bluetooth by default, just as it is currently happening with cell phones. By then, using the ability to pair Bluetooth devices, it is not difficult to imagine the limitless possibilities of what can be done with Bluetooth technology.

Bluetooth Network