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  • HTC patent shows a new, spring-loaded clamshell design

    HTC patent shows a new, spring-loaded clamshell design

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    HTC’s no stranger to stuffing ridiculous mechanisms into smartphones. I mean, have you seen the HTC Tilt — or better yet, the HTC Universal? Looks like they’re at it again, if this just unearthed patent is any indication. The graphic above may be a bit confusing, so here’s how it works: Imagine a clamshell phone, like the [...]

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  • AT&T may have fibbed regarding Sling player for iPhone

    AT&T may have fibbed regarding Sling player for iPhone

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Just the other day, AT&T announced that it was able to work with Sling Media in order to optimize Sling player for AT&T’s 3G network. That’s good news for consumers and all, but it appears as though AT&T might have been doing a little posturing to make itself look like the good guy. After all, [...]

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  • Symbian goes open source, releases code to developers

    Symbian goes open source, releases code to developers

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    After so many years of hoping and wishing, developers can start getting excited about coding for the Symbian platform. Sure, it’s taken a while and some might be looking forward to Maemo 6 later this year far more than a newer version of Symbian, but opening up the source code to the world’s largest operating [...]

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  • Samsung S8500 becomes first Bluetooth 3.0 approved handset

    Samsung S8500 becomes first Bluetooth 3.0 approved handset

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    There is nothing more satisfying than claiming to be the first at anything, and so far this week, Samsung must be pretty happy with itself. After announcing its plans to mass produce AMOLED touchscreens, the first to include built-in touch functions, Samsung’s S8500 will be the first consumer handset to feature Bluetooth 3.0. The Bluetooth [...]

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  • Samsung to show a bada phone at Mobile World Congress?

    Samsung to show a bada phone at Mobile World Congress?

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Fun Fact: if you were to run a Google Image Search for "bada" at the time I published this post, you wouldn't find a single image relevant to Samsung's bada operating system until the third page, otherwise known as "that page that no one goes to because they've given up hope." Maybe that'll change once Samsung shows off a smartphone running the operating system - which, if this statement from ol' Sammie themselves is any indication, might be as soon as two weeks from now.

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  • One part Android, One part Pre: Alcatel’s upcoming Android slider caught on video

    One part Android, One part Pre: Alcatel’s upcoming Android slider caught on video

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Take the Palm Pre. Smash Android on to it, add a few buttons, and maybe tone things down in the “Good looks” department a bit. Know what you’d get? Probably not – because this is the first time we’ve seen it. We’re not sure where they were lurking when they found it, but the gents over [...]

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  • Hands-on video of the possibly-dead BlackBerry Magnum

    Hands-on video of the possibly-dead BlackBerry Magnum

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember the BlackBerry Magnum? That half touchscreen, half physical keyboard handset that supposedly got nixed in lieu of something better? Good news! Well, sort of good news. Neither this handset or its potential replacement have gotten any more official, nor do we have any idea where this project has gone, but the guys at CellularGuru who [...]

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  • What is this mysterious Motorola Android device?

    What is this mysterious Motorola Android device?

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Hello, gorgeous. Big ups to whoever convinced Mr. Blurrycam to take a leave of absence so the gadget loving world could get a decent spy shot of this unannounced Motorola Android device.

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  • Listen to FM radio on your CLIQ

    Listen to FM radio on your CLIQ

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    The Motorola CLIQ is a nice phone. That's point one. Point two is that it can actually play radio. Using a non-standard ROM, a user named Eugene found an FM radio binary and tried to run it on the CLIQ. After a little futzing, he was able to fire up the radio and listen to it right on the CLIQ. Who knew? Rest assured it's not available to the public right now. Watch AndroidGuys for further instruction.

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  • HTC Bravo caught on camera (again), HTC Legend caught in words

    HTC Bravo caught on camera (again), HTC Legend caught in words

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Man, these HTC Bravos are floating around everywhere. A semi-decent shot of this oh-so-Nexus-One-esque handset leaked just yesterday, and today another (markedly better) shot has found its way to the interwebs. Not only that, but it brought a friend!

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  • Reminder: Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus now available from Verizon

    Reminder: Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus now available from Verizon

    Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Hey! Guess what? The Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus are now available for Verizon! You sure as hell wouldn’t know that from looking at Verizon Wireless’ front page today, where there’s no mention of either handset in sight. This “Eh, whatever” launch approach is the same one Verizon took with the BlackBerry Storm [...]

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  • George Clooney’s Haiti telethon gets a webOS app

    George Clooney’s Haiti telethon gets a webOS app

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    As successful as some may be, single-purpose apps (like fart machines, flashlights, and tip calculators) tend to be the butt of a lot of jokes – but here’s one with a pretty righteous purpose. With a bit of elbow grease and a downright impressive amount of haste, the folks over at Mediafly have thrown together an [...]

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  • BlackBerry Cufflinks – Perfect for that someone who wants to look good, but still be kind of weird

    BlackBerry Cufflinks – Perfect for that someone who wants to look good, but still be kind of weird

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh no! The fundraiser is in 2 hours, and you’re not even dressed yet! What are you going to do? Sure, you want to look sharp; that’s why you rented the suit. But you still want people to know that you’re a geek, man. You’ve spent too many years fixing other peoples computers and being [...]

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  • Motorola’s next Verizon Android phone pops up in inventory

    Motorola’s next Verizon Android phone pops up in inventory

    Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
    For the average person, a bunch of seemingly meaningless text on a 2-color screen is by no means the definition of excitement. But you.. you.. you’re no average person. You’re a gadget lover – and tucked away behind the glare spot on that screen is a gem to be held close to the chest until [...]

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  • RIM’s official Twitter for Blackberry client spotted?

    RIM’s official Twitter for Blackberry client spotted?

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    There's no shortage of Twitter clients for BlackBerry. Lets see; there's Seesmic, SocialScope, UberTwitter, TweetGenius.. hell, there's not even a shortage of good Twitter clients for BlackBerry. That hasn't stopped RIM from building one of their own, though. It's not available yet - nor is it even officially official - but the above shot of it leaked out today on Mexican blogger Javier Matuk's Twitter feed. According to Javier, the client was floating around at a recent BlackBerry launch event south of the border, where the shot was snapped.

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