Meet Peter Ash. Back in 2005 his sister had a hamster called Elvis. He was quite an energetic little chap. In fact, Peter’s sister used to complain that Elvis kept her awake at night because he wouldn’t stop playing in his wheel. That got Peter thinking about ways to put Elvis’ energy to good use. So, with a few gears and a turbine, he built a hamster-powered phone charger. And the more Elvis happily played on his wheel, the more talk time Peter got on his Nokia.

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Justin Long shows off his jailbroken iPhone and a conversation he had with some “tween”. Its pretty funny so check it out!

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IT engineers from Bangalore’s IISc and four IITs have come up with a laptop at the cost of 35 dollars.

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Heres the July stats for Daily Mobile, Daily Mobile Forum and the Daily iPhone Blog Stats! I must admit that im really impressed with how much the Daily iPhone Blog has come since the start 7 months ago. Thx for visiting us guys!

Oh btw, the blog post comments –> forum works now again after 3 days downtime!

This is a quick look at the Telstra’s wireless lab and its anechoic chamber. We find out how Telstra tests its products before they go to market.

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Hitachi demoes a “Minority Report” like interface. Imagine having this interface on your mobile device.  Its really impressive so check it out!

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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the GENIVI Alliance has chosen MeeGo as the basis of its next reference release for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI).

MeeGo is an open source platform hosted by The Linux Foundation that brings together Intel Corporation and Nokia’s previous projects and is designed for computing device types including smartphones, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and IVI systems. Adoption by this major automotive alliance is a testament to the cross-device, cross-architecture advantages of the MeeGo platform. GENIVI is a nonprofit industry alliance with founding members BMW Group, Delphi, GM, Intel, Magneti-Marelli, PSA, Visteon and Wind River.

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One of the Nokia Blog readers spotted this ad in the UK (London) of the Nokia X6 and 5230 running on Android OS. As we all should know by now, Nokia do not have any plans at all to add Android to their devices. Someone is going to get fired for this, or what do you say?

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