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How many times have you plunked down your hard earned cash on a new game for your mobile phone, only to find out the game sucked? Now you can try out full (time-limited) versions of many mobile games right in your web browser before you decide to buy.

The guys over at mplayit offer you the chance to play a number of Java-based games from the convenience of your computer’s web browser…

Want to take all of your digital media on the road? VMOD mounts inside your vehicle and lets you easily move all of your music, video, photos and other media to your car via a Wi-Fi connection.

Simply register your VMOD with your home’s wireless network, then drag and drop your media files to the VMOD folder on your desktop…

Ever wonder what to do with your old cell phone when you’re ready to upgrade to the latest and greatest? Why not bury it in the ground? That’s what a group of scientists will have us doing if they have their way.

Researchers in the UK have devised a new mobile phone body which can simply be tossed into the compost heap, and will disintegrate within weeks…

Sculptor Rodger Stevens and designer Mark McKenna created these flowing modern mobiles which embed elegant modern illumination into their design. Originally designed as a large-scale art installation, a smaller version of their Orchadia mobiles are now available for purchase.

Each sculpture is made of varying sizes of metallic teardrops which hang from the ceiling…

While most of us have driven a vehicle while we’re on our cell phone, this is the first time I’ve seen a mobile phone that actually is a car.

From what I can tell, this mobile phone from China is doing its best impression of an Audi A9 concept car.

The phone conceals its battery pack in the “trunk” and has an antenna that pops out of one of the headlights…

If you’re fortunate enough to live in an area that has 3G mobile phone coverage, you can now share your high-speed data access with more than one computer, thanks to this handy device.

Top Global’s pyramid-shaped 3G Phoebus MB6000 takes most EV-DO, UMTS, HSDPA and EDGE/GPRS mobile network cards and lets you share your data connection through a built-in (802.11b/g) Wi-Fi access point…

If solving that old 3×3 Rubik’s Cube is too daunting for you, maybe this version will make things a bit easier.

The miniature 2×2 Cube is just one example of the kind of ridiculous stuff that people attach to their cell phones in Japan. Online mega-mall Rakuten has these mini-cubes for just ¥320 (which is just about $2.50 USD.)
[via TOKYOMANGO]

In a surprising move, Research In Motion today announced that they will start to produce software that will let you run BlackBerry applications on select Windows Mobile 6 devices. The BlackBerry software will run side-by-side with Windows Mobile applications as a dedicated icon on the programs list…

Microsoft today announced a new startup business focused on improving user interfaces for mobile devices called “ZenZui.”

ZenZui’s differentiator is its unique “zooming” user interface which lets you quickly maneuver from one application or website to another…