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  • iPhone 4 gets its first unboxing [Gallery] (Update: More pics!) (Update #2: And video!)

    iPhone 4 gets its first unboxing [Gallery] (Update: More pics!) (Update #2: And video!)

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    As handfuls of iPhone 4s begin to slip through the cracks and into the grabby hands of hungry phone fans everywhere, the first batches of unboxing pictures are starting to go live as we type this. (You mean these people aren't waiting to open up their phones with the rest of us chumps on Thursday mornings? Jerks! You guys probably peeked at your Christmas presents as a kid, too. [Just kidding, of course -- tear those things apart.]) We're keeping an eye out for galleries as they go up; if you're amongst the many hundreds of thousands waiting on the edge of the seat, join as after the jump for these last minute teases.

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  • iPhone 4 pre-orders begin shipping

    iPhone 4 pre-orders begin shipping

    Posted on June 20, 2010 | No Comments
    EVERYBODY PANIC! Wait. No. What’s that other thing we use to open posts sometimes? Good news, everyone! Yeah. That’s the one. Good news, everyone! According to roughly 67 billion tips in our inbox, Pre-ordered iPhone 4s have just started hitting delivery trucks around the country! If you pre-ordered, go ahead — go check if your status has [...]

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  • HTC Legend with North American 3G now available unlocked

    HTC Legend with North American 3G now available unlocked

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Sure, the Desire's coming to a handful of regional American carriers later this year, but what if you want the smaller, sleeker, more aluminum-clad Legend? Well, there aren't any carrier-branded options in the States -- but it seems that a number of unlocked units with US 3G bands are starting to ooze out of the cracks. Negri Electronics has an 850 / 1900MHz 3G Legend in its store for a shade under $500, which means you're not getting much of a discount over the more powerful 850 / 1900MHz version of the Nexus One -- but you are getting a pretty sweet unibody shell and an optical d-pad. Any takers?

    HTC Legend with North American 3G now available unlocked originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • New bicycle helmet wafts stinky cheese smell from your head when you fall

    New bicycle helmet wafts stinky cheese smell from your head when you fall

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    As if falling off your bike weren’t embarrassing enough, now some German scientists have created a helmet that starts to stink when its cracked, thereby alerting you – and your loved ones – of potential danger. It’s actually a great idea. When you fall, you put stress on the helmet. The resulting cracks could lead to [...]

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  • iCitizen 2010: Hallelujah! Gaming Is Good For You (but you already knew that, it’s just that your parents didn’t)

    iCitizen 2010: Hallelujah! Gaming Is Good For You (but you already knew that, it’s just that your parents didn’t)

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    OK, so shortly after I got the invite to attend iCitizen, I received a book in the mail written by Bob Johansen (one of the iCitizen keynote speakers) with a note that said “please read this before the conference.” I really wanted to read it but I confess the title made me think it was [...]

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  • Uh-oh: Looks like the Nexus One kind of sucks at multi-touch (Video)

    Uh-oh: Looks like the Nexus One kind of sucks at multi-touch (Video)

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Uh oh. On at least a few occasions, Android developers have mentioned to me that the multi-touch sensors on certain Android handsets — especially the Nexus One — seemed a bit.. flaky. I’d had nothing but solid experiences while dabbling with multi-touch in all of the apps I could find that support it, so I chalked [...]

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  • Finally, a dishwasher safe carbon fiber wallet

    Finally, a dishwasher safe carbon fiber wallet

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Geez, not to sound ungrateful but it’s like hey wallet industry, what took you guys so long? I’ve been sitting on this dirty wallet of mine for years with no obvious way to clean it. Thanks to the miracle of carbon fiber (it’s seriously a cool material, I’d wear a carbon fiber sweatsuit if I could), this $50 wallet from Hammacher Schlemmer “will never stretch, fade, or develop cracks like a leather billfold.”

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  • The App Store Forgets It’s Not The Android Market, Temporarily Sells NES Emulator

    The App Store Forgets It’s Not The Android Market, Temporarily Sells NES Emulator

    Posted on December 22, 2009 | No Comments
    As stringent (and arguably overzealous) as Apple’s App review policy is, things still slip through the cracks from time to time. I mean, who can forget the infamous baby shaking simulator slip-up? The latest bit of contraband to hit the App Store isn’t nearly as offensive – that is, unless you’re Nintendo. Earlier today, an application [...]

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  • Oops! Verizon’s update for the Samsung Trance allegedly breaks things

    Oops! Verizon’s update for the Samsung Trance allegedly breaks things

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    After we found out about the Samsung Trance's then-impending software update a little early, I honestly didn't expect to hear about it again. If things had gone smoothly, I probably wouldn't have.

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  • Chinese pirates are making a pretty penny installing hacked Win7

    Chinese pirates are making a pretty penny installing hacked Win7

    Posted on November 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Arr… Vendors in Beijing's Zhongguancun market are charging customers $7 to install Windows 7 onto any computer. The hilarious part? The copies of Windows are pirated. The service takes about 40 minutes and includes a full install as well as a quick crack. Win7 Family Edition costs $11.

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  • Canceled Motorola RAZR3 reemerges as KLASSIC in South Korea

    Canceled Motorola RAZR3 reemerges as KLASSIC in South Korea

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments

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    When the bulk of your business suddenly shifts virtually all of its marketing and engineering resources to Android, certain thinks are bound to fall through the cracks -- take the "Ruby," for example, once said to be the fallen would-be successor to the RAZR 2. We guess Moto got far enough along on engineering with this one that they figured they'd toss it over to one of its lower-volume markets rather than canning it altogether, though, because the higher-end flip has reemerged in South Korea as the KLASSIC. For anyone who keeps track of these sorts of stats, that's exactly three more letters than the typical Moto model name has, but the phone breaks all sorts of rules -- after all, it combines an old-school 2G radio (which in operator SKT's case, means CDMA) with a relatively fresh 5 megapixel cam, not unlike the ZN5. There's no word on a release outside South Korea at this point, but frankly, we're pretty sure the DROID would eat it anyhow.

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    Canceled Motorola RAZR3 reemerges as KLASSIC in South Korea originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Weekend Rewind: August 17th to August 23rd

    Weekend Rewind: August 17th to August 23rd

    Posted on August 23, 2009 | No Comments
    The mobile industry moves forward incredibly fast. While we here at MobileCrunch try our damnedest to cover the important news exhaustively, we only have so many hands. To make sure you don’t miss any stories that may have slipped through the cracks, we’ve accumulated a handful of stories from the past week that we didn’t [...]

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  • Taiwan Cracks Down on Fake Cellphone Handsets

    Taiwan Cracks Down on Fake Cellphone Handsets

    Posted on July 16, 2009 | No Comments
    An iPhone look-alike in a nano-sized package with a FM transmitter and Windows Media Player may make for a great gag but the device is for real and available in China and Taiwan. So are fake Blackberry phones and knockoffs of other popular smartphones. Now Taiwan’s National Communications Commission has reportedly begun a campaign to crack [...]

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  • The official Kindle 2 case is cracking the Kindle 2, $5 million lawsuit filed

    The official Kindle 2 case is cracking the Kindle 2, $5 million lawsuit filed

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems that the Kindle 2 has an issue when used with the official protective case: it cracks. Obviously everyone that spent $30 on the case that’s suppose to protect the Kindle from such damage isn’t too happy right now. Amazon previously stated that owners were kind of out of luck and had to spend [...]

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