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  • Land lines becoming extinct? 25% of Americans think so

    Land lines becoming extinct? 25% of Americans think so

    File this one under "well, duh!". Researchers working for the NCHS "discovered" something that has been covered for years: more and more people are canceling their land lines, and just using cell phones.

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  • Google postpones phone launch in China amid recent quarrel

    Google postpones phone launch in China amid recent quarrel

    Looks like there won't be a "Google phone" in China, not for a while at least. Well, an official phone; I'm pretty sure the gray market will take care of that. And yes, it has to do with the ongoing Google-China troubles.

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  • LG’s pico projector-packing WinMo eXpo outed for AT&T

    LG’s pico projector-packing WinMo eXpo outed for AT&T

    Hey -- what's that? Oh right, it's the LG eXpo, the slider with a pico projector jammed inside. Among other things, the full QWERTY slider's packing a 1GHz CPU, a 3.2-inch touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera, a microSD slot, and of course that removable Texas Instruments projector. The just-announced handset bears quite a strong resemblance to the Monaco we heard about way back in May -- though from the looks of it, its lost all of the brassiness we were so fond of. The eXpo runs Windows Mobile 6.5, and it will hit AT&T on December 7th for $199 after a mail in rebate with a two year contract -- plus an additional $179 should you choose to opt in on that projector.

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  • The island of misfit phones

    The island of misfit phones

    So AT&T has a problem: even after early and vociferous defections by bloggers, they’ve been getting creamed for sub-par service everywhere, especially left and right coast cities that rhyme with Blue Pork and Fan Fanfisco. Verizon is stepping into that breech by releasing these clever commercials touting its network over AT&Ts. But, as Mr. Fireball [...]

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  • CrunchDeals: AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8900 for a penny (or upgrade for $50)

    CrunchDeals: AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8900 for a penny (or upgrade for $50)

    New AT&T customers can grab the BlackBerry Curve 8900 from Amazon for just a penny when signing up for a two-year contract. Existing customers can get it for just $50 with a contract renewal. The same phone is going for $150 directly at AT&T’s site.

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  • CrunchDeals: All AT&T phones for a penny

    CrunchDeals: All AT&T phones for a penny

    We'll start this deal off with a gigantic asterisk. This deal does NOT work for a) existing AT&T customers looking to renew or b) anyone who wants an iPhone.

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  • CrunchDeals: Unlocked Nokia 5800 for $240

    CrunchDeals: Unlocked Nokia 5800 for $240

    Dell’s got a handsome deal on an unlocked Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone at just $240 with free shipping. The offer is good for two days only, from today until Saturday the 12th at 5:59 AM Central Time.

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  • Do all your phreaking before you turn 18, kids

    Do all your phreaking before you turn 18, kids

    Please turn your attention to Rolling Stone, where an article about a blind, lonely phreaker is currently tearing up the charts. That is to say, it's an article worth your time, certainly better than refreshing drudgereport.com for the thousandth time in a day.

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  • Mobile phone sales down, smartphone sales up

    Mobile phone sales down, smartphone sales up

    no cellphones!According to Gartner, worldwide mobile phone sales are down about 6% from the same time last year; yet the volume of smartphone sales has increased almost 30% in the same time frame. No doubt the uptick in smartphone sales is due to the release of cool new devices like the iPhone 3GS, the Palm Pre, and the various Android phones coming to market. As expected, Nokia remains king of the hill in terms of both regular and smart phones, though sales of their fancy new N97 have been extremely weak. Compare that with sales of Apple's iPhone which enjoyed 500% growth in shipments! RIM is number two, yadda yadda yadda.

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  • Red Phone Box Cellphone Puts the ‘Heresy’ in Heritage

    Red Phone Box Cellphone Puts the ‘Heresy’ in Heritage

    When British Telecom started tearing down the Great British Red Telephone boxes and replacing them with more efficient but characterless steel and glass booths, there was an outcry. But, being England, it was a peculiarly quiet outcry, consisting of much tutting and shaking of heads. Nobody did much to save these expensive-to-maintain public toilets, and [...]

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  • AT&T Offers Netbooks With Small Subsidy And Fat Contract

    AT&T Offers Netbooks With Small Subsidy And Fat Contract

    Netbooks with low sticker prices and cellphone-like contracts are here and they don’t look pretty. AT&T has announced it will offer three new netbooks from Acer, Dell and Lenovo. The netbooks will be available on a two-year contract at prices lower than the devices’ retail value and will come with a monthly data plan that allows [...]

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  • School-Shooting iPhone Game Removed From App Store

    School-Shooting iPhone Game Removed From App Store

    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/School_Shooting_iPhone_Game_Removed_From_App_Store'; Update 3 p.m. PDT: Developer Retarded Arts posted a statement regarding the removal of Zombie School: “Zombie School is not promoting school shooting; it’s rather promoting elimination of zombies to protect the humans.” Apple appears to have banned Zombie School, an iPhone game that involved shooting zombie students on an infected campus. This morning, Zombie [...]

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