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Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXLVII: these Adidas don’t go on your feet

Chris Ziegler on December 22nd, 2009

Nothing says “I occasionally don a $200 jogging suit and plod through prominent areas of Central Park where my Greco-Roman form has the best chance of being noticed by onlookers” like carrying an Adidas-branded phone in your pocket. Bonus points for a metal-look “Sports” badge glued to the inside of the hinge. But ouch… minus 15 points for it being an unlicensed product, my friend — who do you think you’re fooling with this thing? Actually, whether it be the streets of Shenzhen or New York City, we don’t think the average individual would suspect that this was a ripoff from the outside — it’s actually pretty convincing and tasteful — but the multicolored lights on the keypad might give it away when you flip it open. Your years of athletic achievements, poof! Gone just like that in a cloud of illegal branding.

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Dec

Motorola prepping ‘La Jolla’ low-end Android clamshell?

Paul Miller on December 4th, 2009

It’s a source code-palooza these days! Fresh off that huge HTC code name find, someone’s dug into the Motorola CLIQ’s source code and found references to a new Motorola device dubbed “La Jolla.” Meaning “The Jewel” in Spanish, La Jolla apparently means “low-end Android clamshell” in Motorola-ese, with mention of a WQVGA screen, 528MHz processor and what seems to be a QWERTY keyboard. (What such a phone might look like is pictured above. Thanks, LG). In fact, a QWERTY Android clamshell (the clamshell bit was extrapolated from the display driver by the folks at AndroidandMe, but sounds reasonable) seems to be the perfect cure for the recent rash of QWERTY featurephones we’ve been seeing lately, perfect for the SMS / email junky that doesn’t want to bother with high-powered apps or a big price tag or the resistive touchscreen-only typing of the HTC Tattoo. Now, if only could find some device source code that could solve our trigger shyness brought on by this steady stream of Android handsets — not that we’re complaining.

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