Thursday Morning News (Almost Friday!)

Samsung going to release a cell phone w/ 7mp camera

Good news for cell phone camera users today as Samsung is showing off a 7mp camera at Cebit 2005. The bad news is that it looks more like a camera than a phone.

“The dual-face bar-type SCH-V770 boasts 16-million-color liquid crystal display (LCD), 32-megabyte external memory card, auto focus & optical zoom functions, and digital power amplifier that produces high quality sound and video recording function.”

Is that a camera or a phone? Vote in the forums!

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Cell Phone Virus #2 Hits North America

‘Commwarrior.A’ is a virus designed to spread through multimedia messages and drain phone batteries. No “real big deal” yet, but this is starting to happen more often as this is the second cell phone virus to reach the US in a matter of months.

“A new mobile phone software virus started spreading this week via messages containing photos and sounds, the first of its kind and a threat to cellphones globally, data security firms said Tuesday. The Commwarrior.A virus tries to replicate itself by sending multimedia messages to people on the phone’s contacts list, and also tries to do the same via Bluetooth wireless connections with other devices, eventually draining the battery.”