Customization Archive

  • Do It Your Way: Uncommon Offers Personalized Cases for the iPhone 4S

    Do It Your Way: Uncommon Offers Personalized Cases for the iPhone 4S

    Posted on October 5, 2011 | No Comments
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  • The parade of StarCraft II accessories begins with customized SteelSeries Zboard keyboard

    The parade of StarCraft II accessories begins with customized SteelSeries Zboard keyboard

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    T-minus one month and counting till the release of StarCraft II, and we're starting to see officially branded peripherals hit the store shelves. Here's one such peripheral: the SteelSeries StarCraft II Limited Edition Zboard. As the name suggests, it's based on the company's Z Board, except, you know, StarCraft-ified.

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  • HTC buys Abaxia, gets cozier with carriers in the process

    HTC buys Abaxia, gets cozier with carriers in the process

    Posted on June 8, 2010 | No Comments
    French software firm Abaxia has made a name for itself create white-label modules that help carriers brand phones -- its two flagship products are search and active home screen apps (pictured) -- so the fact that HTC has shelled out €11 million (about $13.1 million) for the company this week should offer you a solid clue where this is all headed. Naturally, HTC isn't talking about exactly how Abaxia will fit into the big picture, but boss Peter Chou says that the acquisition will "deepen and broaden [their] software development capabilities so that [they] can innovate at an even faster pace." Software value-add is becoming even more important for phone manufacturers these days as hardware all converges on a fairly standard full-touch prototype that doesn't offer much opportunity for differentiation -- even as Microsoft is putting the kibosh on serious customization in Windows Phone 7 -- so it'll be interesting to see how this ultimately affects HTC's products, particularly those with carriers' logos silkscreened around back. Follow the break for HTC's full release.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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    HTC buys Abaxia, gets cozier with carriers in the process originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Review: Creative World of Warcraft headset

    Review: Creative World of Warcraft headset

    Posted on March 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Short Version: Fresh from the box, Creative’s World of Warcraft, is here! They were designed for WoW players and their performance definitely reflects that. While a tad bulky, they don’t feel heavy. Pros • Very Comfortable • Hard to hear outside the headphones • Wireless Mic works well. Does not get in the way. • Driver allows deep customization of audio to serve your needs. Cons • No way to determine battery power. • Volume buttons feel a little flimsy. • Microphone can adjust but not very well. • In order to download drivers, you must register the product. • Reasonable but not impressive range. • Not compatible with consoles (at least the PS3)

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  • Hackers hack goodies from the HTC Desire over to the Nexus One in no time flat

    Hackers hack goodies from the HTC Desire over to the Nexus One in no time flat

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Back when we first got word that the HTC Desire was essentially a slightly upgraded Nexus One with a bit of customization on HTC's part, we knew there wasn't much to worry about for recent Nexus One purchasers; the very vast majority of the Desire's upperhand was all in the software, which was bound to be hacked over eventually. What we didn't know, however, was just how fast it would happen.

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  • Everything you need to know about Windows Mobile 7

    Everything you need to know about Windows Mobile 7

    Posted on January 18, 2010 | No Comments
    MWC is a few weeks away – it starts on February 15 – and we’re expecting to see a new version of Windows Mobile, version 7, to be launched with hardware soon to follow. We’ve heard some rumors about potential improvements over the current 6.x codebase, but a developer has told us that this new [...]

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  • The Cyber Snipa Silencer mouse brings the gaming goods on the cheap

    The Cyber Snipa Silencer mouse brings the gaming goods on the cheap

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Still shopping around for your next gaming mouse? There are so many choices these days with new options from Logitech, Steelseries, Razer, and some companies I probably forgot. But Cyber Snipa has a new gaming mouse too and it looks worth your time.

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  • Windows Mobile looks to be getting new native keyboard in 6.5.3

    Windows Mobile looks to be getting new native keyboard in 6.5.3

    Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
    It's not exactly a wild accusation to say that the current native on-screen keyboard in Windows 6.5 is, well, bad, and it looks like Microsoft has now picked up on what HTC and others have been not-so-subtly hinting at. While's it's obviously still not official subject to change, that fresh new keyboard you see above has been turned up in Windows Mobile 6.5 build 28002 by the folks at XDA, and is likely similar to what should eventually hit the public in Windows Mobile 6.5.3. They also say that since the source is in a DLL file, the keyboard is prime for some customization -- we'll take ours with the "o" and "p" in their proper place, thanks.

    Windows Mobile looks to be getting new native keyboard in 6.5.3 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Behold! The Samsung Behold II with Android

    Behold! The Samsung Behold II with Android

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    What do you get when you add Android to TouchWiz? WizDroid! Samsung's new Behold II is running a nicely modified version of Android with some unique UI improvements. We've known about this old girl for a few weeks now but it's finally been announced on T-Mo. No pricing or availability date.
    Following the success of its predecessor, the Samsung Behold®, the Behold II will be available exclusively from T-Mobile and is currently scheduled to launch before the start of the holidays. The sleek touch-screen phone is the first from T-Mobile USA to feature a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen, which provides crisper colors and wider viewing angles. In addition, the Behold II is equipped with Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz user interface, allowing easy customization with widgets located in a slide out tray on the left side of the home screen and providing one-touch access to a customer’s favorite and most commonly used features and applications. The Behold II offers three different home screens to drag and drop widgets onto the screen and organize the different workspaces with favorite widgets and application shortcuts. Samsung’s intuitive cube menu also provides quick access to six top multimedia features, including music, photos, videos, the Web, YouTube™ and Amazon MP3 for music downloads.

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  • Logitech outs the G500 gaming mouse and G330 gaming headset

    Logitech outs the G500 gaming mouse and G330 gaming headset

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Logitech wants in on the new gaming gear party started by Razer and SteelSeries a few weeks back. This time around, Logitech has updated the G5 gaming mouse with the G500 and is introducing the G330 gaming headset.

    The new mouse seems like a mash-up between the couple year-old G5 gaming mouse and the MX [...]

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  • Print Your Own 3D Styluses

    Print Your Own 3D Styluses

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    As an on-demand 3D printing service, Shapeways is undoubtedly awesome. But the pitch I got today is about as dull as you can get: personalized styluses for touch-screen devices. Talk about a conflict! All the offered styluses are pretty dorky, with end-decorations ranging from shields to barrels, they’re straight out of a Zelda game. And the [...]

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  • HTC introduces Sense, the first customized Android installation on its new Hero

    HTC introduces Sense, the first customized Android installation on its new Hero

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    The era of Android customization has begun with HTC’s Sense UI, a customized overlay for Android that adds HTC’s stunning graphical interface to the sturdy Android OS. The UI will run on the new Hero, a 3.2-inch touchscreen phone running at 528MHz with MicroSD slot. More specs on the phone: With its 3.2-inch HVGA display, the HTC [...]

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  • Android 2.0 “Donut” features demoed at Google I/O

    Android 2.0 “Donut” features demoed at Google I/O

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments
    We're still trying to get used to the overwhelming joy of having Cupcake installed on our G1s, but it's full steam ahead over at Google where engineers are already slaving away on the Donut branch that'll eventually come to be known as Android 2.0. Demoed today at the first I/O keynote were Donut's universal search (known simply as "Android Search"), which will let you search both online and locally on the phone through contacts, calendars, music, and any app with the proper code, and a text-to-speech API, which should allow developers to integrate Google Voice Search-style awesomeness into the apps of their choice. We also got a brief glimpse of handwriting gestures used for searching through list -- the live example was drawing the letter 'e' and going to that specific point in a list of songs. Nothing wildly different interface-wise -- yet -- but we know from the initial 1.0 release that the UI's very much subject to change, not to mention the fact that HTC and others look poised to do some serious customization of their own. Check out the gallery for shots live from the I/O keynote!

    Gallery: Android 2.0 "Donut" features demoed at Google I/O

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    Android 2.0 "Donut" features demoed at Google I/O originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 14:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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