Stelle Audio’s Pillar speaker features wireless streaming capabilities in a minimalist design

If you’re in the market for a set of speakers that are stylish looking and that might play nice with the interior design of your bedroom or living room, Stelle Audio has recently unveiled the Pillar speaker, which as you can see in the image above, is a speaker designed in a rather minimalist sort of way and has been shaped in the form of a cylinder. One of its key features is the fact that users will be able to stream music via the speakers using their mobile device, and even better is the fact that it will be powered by a battery. This means you will be able to take it with you on the go or move it around the house.

The speakers will feature a battery that promises a 30 hour battery life, and users will be able to keep track of the battery life via the accompanying app. Thanks to its Bluetooth connectivity, users will also be able to use the speakers to listen to their calls. Priced at $300, the Pillar speaker is expected to go on sale in 2013, and if you’ve got enough cash to spare, it seems that you could even buy multiple Pillar speakers and set them up around the house and have them all stream music once you have your mobile device within range, pretty cool huh? We can’t really speak for its audio quality since we have yet to try it for ourselves, but we suspect that these speakers are aimed more towards those who are interested in wireless music streaming and portability, rather than the audiophile.

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Cricket and RadioShack confirm No-Contract Wireless, ship two Huawei phones to celebrate

Cricket and RadioShack confirm NoContract Wireless, ship Huawei Mercury Ice and Pillar to celebrate

RadioShack might have had a difficult time keeping a lid on its partnership with Cricket, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t interested in the official news. Launching under the expected RadioShack No-Contract Wireless banner, the unfettered phone service includes lets shoppers pick either $25 or $35 plans for basic feature phones or, more importantly, some tempting $50 and $60 smartphone plans. On top of unlimited domestic voice and messaging, these last two rates offer a respective 1GB and 2.5GB of data before throttling kicks in, with hotspot support, international text messaging and visual voicemail reserved for the highest-end tier. You’ll find just two Huawei phones if you wander into a RadioShack store for the Wednesday launch: the $40 Pillar, a keyboard-touting basic phone, and a white-tinged, $150 Mercury Ice that iterates on the Android 2.3-toting Mercury only in the change of color. We’re promised two additional, unnamed phones before the end of the month, and smartphones on the No-Contract service will be the only Cricket devices shipping with 8GB microSDHC cards to feed that Muve Music habit. The nitty-gritty of the hardware and plans await after the break.

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