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UK firm Radiopaq is launching a standalone internet radio device, the Rp5. It connects to Radiopaq’s website via Wi-Fi, and allows listeners to stream thousands of net radio stations from around the world, as well as including traditional FM and DAB radio tuners. Radiopaq is describing the product, which costs £250, as (more…)

There’s been a fair amount in the press recently about music being used as a weapon or even as part of torture routines - which sounds like a joke, but isn’t if you’re an alleged terrorist cooped up in a cell with Slayer blasted at you regularly. Anyway, Listening Post has an article on a Magnetic Audio Device, (more…)

How did Apple make a 3G iPhone with GPS, yet also reduce its price? One explanation is clearly letting operators subsidise it - witness O2 UK’’s free iPhone on a £45 contract - but a report from trade site EETimes suggests Apple is also making up the shortfall with efficiencies in its touchscreen assembly (more…)

Apple is apparently set to roll out the iPhone in Asia - where it’s been slower to sign deals with operators than in North America or Europe. Fortune is reporting that SingTel will sell the iPhone in Singapore, Bharti Airtel in India, Globe Telecom in the Philippines, and Optus in Australia. Those last three are all SingTel (more…)

HTC has launched its latest handset, the Touch Diamond, which is aiming to take on the iPhone. It’s a Windows Mobile phone with a 2.8-inch display, a 3.2-megapixel camera, 4GB of storage, and one-touch access to music, photos and mobile internet. The phone’s just 11.5mm thick, has a diamond-influenced exterior to (more…)

Apple has contracted current manufacturing partner, Foxconn, to begin production of the next-generation 3G iPhone in May, with a view to ship three million of them in June. Digitimes reports Apple has ordered 25 million of the new devices across the life of the product, (usually one year) suggesting aggressive sales (more…)

In theory, a 3G mobile network is capable of data speeds of up to 384Kbps. However, UK operator O2 has been outed as capping many of its 3G customers to a third of that - 128Kbps - based on mysterious `customer profiles’. The Register exposed the practice, which isn’t good news for any music companies (more…)

It’s taken a while, but Nokia is preparing to unveil its wannabe iPhone-killer, a touchscreen mobile handset codenamed `Tube’. It was shown in a slide at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in the US, and is apparently, well, a lot like the iPhone. Expect the Tube to tie in as many of Nokia’s new Ovi services as (more…)