ReCellular will recycle your phone and donate all proceeds to Haiti disaster relief

It might’ve been hard to watch pictures of the latest natural disaster striking the island of Haiti recently, but lending a hand in the relief effort shouldn’t be. If you’ve got an older cellphone — functioning or otherwise — batteries, chargers, or other accessories, ReCellular wants to hear from you.

Blinged out Michael Jackson phone is fashionably late

Michael Jackson may never take the stage again, but that doesn’t mean you can’t commemorate him in your pocket, right? This special, “limited edition” mobile phone appears to have been dipped in gold and diamonds , and, if we’re not mistaken… it’s basically a Vertu KIRF that’s dressed like a headless MJ?

Nokia plays musical execs, moves CFO to new Mobile Phones post

There’s nothing quite like a dismal quarterly report to shake things up, and that’s exactly what Nokia’s doing after losing over $800 million in its most recent three-month period. CFO Rick Simonson is being whisked over to a new post as head of the Mobile Phones group — concentrating on Series 30 and Series 40 handsets — within the Devices division, while Timo Ihamuotila, who currently leads up global sales, will take over for the CFO position being vacated by Simonson. For what it’s worth, the move doesn’t seem like a demotion for Simonson; he’ll be in charge of “strategic sourcing” for the entire Devices division and still sit on the executive board, so we’re sure he’ll be doing alright for himself.

Samsung InstinctQ for Sprint passes by the FCC and turns a few heads

It’s been a little piece of time since we saw that photo of the G1-esque Samsung InstinctQ emerge, and we were starting to wonder what had become of our newest QWERTY cutie. Well — the M900, as it’s also known — has just ducked through the old FCC, and though we didn’t really learn anything we didn’t already know, it was just nice to see its face again.

Wales produces exceptionally graphic, educational film about the dangers of texting while driving

Alright, texting while driving ? Obviously stupid — but that doesn’t stop tons and tons of people from doing it.

Sony Ericsson bracelet phone concept unearthed in patent app

Yeah, we can probably safely leave this one in the file we found it in: you know, the one marked “never going to happen.” Regardless, when we spied this little dude on Unwired View, we thought we’d pass along the weirdness.

Maria Sharapova models Bluetooth-enabled Sony Ericsson prototype dress

Sony Ericsson’s official spokesperson, Maria Sharapova , was on hand recently to unveil a student-designed prototype of a Bluetooth -enabled dress. The iridescent scales that run up one side of the dress move and light up when the phone rings, enabling its owner to know about calls even in noisy places (so says the dress’s maker, Georgie Davies). Yes, it’s just a prototype for now, but it’s a pretty cute dress, so hopefully we’ll see these hit the streets at some point in the (nearish) future.

Samsung Blue Earth finally gets a hands-on treatment

We’ve been hearing about the Samsung Blue Earth — an eco-phone, if you will — since way back at MWC . Now CNET ’s finally gotten its hands on one at CommunicAsia in Singapore, and we have to say that we’re pretty intrigued with what we’re seeing. The back of the phone is covered with a solar panel , and Samsung says that one hour of sunning time for the mobile equals about 10 minutes of talk time.

DigiCube unveils newest MID, doubles as a giant cellphone

Jkkmobile’s gotten a hold of DigiCube’s just unveiled MIDPhone-50 at Computex , and we have to say that from the looks of it, it’s quite a wild affair. The MIDPhone-50 is a Windows XP, full QWERTY-boasting, touchscreen mid , and a 3.5G mobile phone to boot

Korean carrier KTF launches mobile phone-controlled vacuum cleaner

South Korean telecom firm KTF has just announced a cleaning robot which can be controlled by a 3G cellphone. The robot — called the CW100 — was built in collaboration with Microbot, and is a “smart” vacuum (much like a Roomba ). The CW100 uses an onboard video camera to send live images of what it’s “seeing” to the mobile phone, and the user can then remotely control it using the keypad.

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