LG's LBA-C300 Bluetooth 'QWERTY Card' is the best calculator look-alike you've seen all week
added on February 6th, 2009 |
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We could just hug LG for this one. The LBA-C300, which just ran by the FCC, is the texting equivalent of a Bluetooth headset -- a Bluetooth device that allows you to operate your phone without actually pulling out your phone, except this time it's for hitting your peeps with... |
Microsoft insists it's not making a phone, rumored to be rebranding WinMo to "Windows Phone"
added on February 6th, 2009 |
| We're just ten days away from whatever Microsoft has to announce at Mobile World Congress, and it looks like the company is trying to put a halt to the endless rumors that it's developing a phone: WinMo director Scott Rockfield told CNET it's not happening, and another Microsoft spokesman just... |
RIM sells 50M BlackBerrys, Symbian says "how very quaint"
added on February 6th, 2009 |
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A little more than ten years since the first BlackBerry hit the market, RIM is celebrating a major milestone: 50 million units sold, with 21 million subscribers (suggesting subscribers have averaged over two BlackBerry purchases) transferring some three petabytes a month. That 50 million figure sounds epic -- and indeed,... |
RIM's co-CEO Balsillie stepping down from board as part of backdating settlement
added on February 6th, 2009 |
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Remember that settlement RIM reached with the Ontario Securities Commission yesterday? Well, details of the arrangement have emerged, and Reuters is reporting that in addition to over $90 million CAD being repaid, the company's co-CEO will be stepping down from its executive board as part of the deal. Jim Balsillie... |
MIT concocts wearable "sixth sense" device, Bruce Willis is like "what?"
added on February 6th, 2009 |
| We've nothing but respect for the researchers, engineers and all around brainacs that call MIT home, but unless our minds are simply too feeble to grasp the connection here, we can't figure how this "sixth sense" device actually relates to one of Bruce Willis' most well known films. At any... |
BlackBerry Blowout: Storm vs. Bold vs. Curve 8900
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We decided to take the most recent 'Berrys -- the Curve 8900, Bold, and Storm -- and toss them into a big pile. What would happen? Do they get along? What kind of bruised egos would we see? Read on for our innermost thoughts.Gallery: BlackBerry Blowout: Storm vs. Bold vs.... |
Optus bringing G1... er, HTC Dream to Australia later this month
added on February 5th, 2009 |
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While Telstra's busy bragging about Android sets from HTC that don't yet exist, Australian rival Optus is making stuff happen. How? Easy: T-Mobile's G1 is being repurposed as the HTC Dream down here -- one of the phone's rumored names prior to its original release, you might recall -- featuring... |
Samsung's Acme i8910 caught on film by Wile E. Coyote
added on February 5th, 2009 |
| Another day closer to the Mobile World Congress, another leaked phone. Today it's the Samsung i8910, aka the Acme, which looks a bit like the Omnia but seems somewhat slimmer and features a little more heft in the chin area. Specs sound Omnia-like as well, including GPS, HDMI output, WiFi,... |
iPhone earrings will get great reception at your next party
added on February 5th, 2009 |
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In many ways modern cellphones are little more than high-tech pieces of jewelry that keep you connected to the world while looking great pressed to your ear. Barb at Etsy's "iPhone G3" earrings eschew all that unnecessary functionality and focus on the aesthetics, shrinking a pair of handsets the same... |
Nine-year old writes iPhone app, hates vegetables
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We've seen plenty of remarkable kids -- the world is just bursting with them -- and Lim Ding Wen, a nine-year-old from Singapore is no exception. Like his father, Wen enjoys writing iPhone apps in his spare time. His application, called Doodle Kids, is a drawing application for children that... |
HTC S743 unboxed on video
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We just recently heard that HTC's S743 was coming to U.S. markets, and now there's video of the device getting unboxed and pawed at. If you've already forgotten, the S740 lookalike's got a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, and runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. No big surprises... |
Video: HTC S743 unboxing and first impressions
added on February 5th, 2009 |
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We just recently heard that HTC's S743 was coming to U.S. markets, and now there's video of the device getting unboxed and pawed at. If you've already forgotten, the S740 lookalike's got a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, and runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. No big surprises... |
First WinMo 6.5 handsets in September '09, 7.0 in April '10?
added on February 5th, 2009 |
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Chatter over Windows Mobile 6.5 has grown into a deafening din the past few weeks, strongly suggesting we'll all be treated to the next WinMo release at MWC in a couple weeks -- but how does that translate a device that we can hold in our own two hands, exactly?... |
Samsung Memoir officially brings 8 megapixels to T-Mobile
added on February 5th, 2009 |
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At some point, T-Mobile decided it wanted to play in the megapixel big leagues by rolling out the Motorola ZN5 and Samsung Behold, but why stop at a measly little 5 megapixels? The long-rumored t929 Memoir from Samsung has now been officially announced for T-Mobile USA's funky 3G bands, featuring... |
RC33 G1 firmware update gets detailed in full
added on February 5th, 2009 |
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We've already heard of one big new feature included in the RC33 firmware update for the G1, but with the update now trickling out into the wild, we've finally got the complete rundown of what's been added and fixed. Leading the list of additions is the ability to check for... |
Phone shipments plunge 12.6 percent year over year in Q4 '08
added on February 5th, 2009 |
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IDC's now assembled a comprehensive look at the phone biz in 2008, and as you might expect, it's not exactly the most amazing year on record. Actually, when you take the year as a whole, shipments totaled a whopping 1.18 billion handsets -- a 3.5 percent boost over 2007 --... |
Meizu M8 gets English-language video review
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The Meizu M8 has been caught on camera plenty of times before, but we can't recall seeing an English-language version until now. One tester at MP4 Nation has managed to get some hands-on time with the unabashed iPhone doppelganger, and calls the audio and video playback quality a disappointment, especially... |
NEC shows off super resolution upconverting for your cell, HDTV and all in between
added on February 5th, 2009 |
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Let's face it, that low res cellphone video of last weekend's party and your Days of Thunder VHS won't be upscaling themselves, hence the sudden explosion of Super Resolution technology including this most recent entry from NEC. Claiming low power and memory requirements, part number uPD9245GJ is ready for duty... |
AT&T reportedly eyeing post-merger Verizon Wireless assets
added on February 5th, 2009 |
| As you may recall, one of the requirements that Verizon had to agree with in order to complete its little acquisition of Alltel was that it must offload some $3 billion in wireless assets to avoid becoming too monolithic, and it looks like there's already a number of bidders angling... |
LG Arena KM900 gets further detailed
added on February 5th, 2009 |
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We've already gotten a pretty good look at LG's curiously familiar Arena KM900 phone, and we're now starting to get some more details as well, although LG is still managing to keep a few things under wraps for the presumably imminent announcement. Apparently, this one will boast GSM/UMTS/HSDPA connectivity, along... |
