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  • Motorola expects Android 2.2 update to hit Droid ‘in the near future’

    Motorola expects Android 2.2 update to hit Droid ‘in the near future’

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Hearing Google say that Android 2.2 would be filtering out to the Nexus One in short order was no huge shock -- after all, it's Google's first smartphone. But for those who purchased Motorola's first heavy-hitter since the RAZR, it looks as if they'll be close behind in enjoying the spoils. According to a Motorola spokesperson quoted at Slashgear (full statement is past the break), the company is expecting the original Droid to get Android 2.2 "in the near future," though he / she wouldn't go so far as to provide specifics beyond that. Better still, the same person stated that Motorola is excited about Froyo in general, and it's "looking forward to integrating it on [the firm's] Android-based devices as [the software] is made available." We hate to read too deeply into anything, but "devices" sure gets our digits tingling.

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  • Surprise! The HTC Legend preps for landing on AT&T by way of the FCC

    Surprise! The HTC Legend preps for landing on AT&T by way of the FCC

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    The Legends are coming! The Legends are coming! I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the HTC Legend. Sure, it's not the most powerful piece of kit in HTC's armory - but it's made of friggin' metal. You could give this phone to a bear for a few hours and have it come back mostly functioning. Can you imagine a world where bears have cell phones of their very own? That's a world I'd want to live in. Though I don't believe they'll sell to bears, it looks like AT&T might be selling the Legend before too long.

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  • Digits makes any gloves play nicely with touchscreens

    Digits makes any gloves play nicely with touchscreens

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    The quickest and easiest way to make your gloves touchscreen friendly. Too bad it's spring.

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  • Resistive screens are dead: HTC now selling a stylus for capacitive screens

    Resistive screens are dead: HTC now selling a stylus for capacitive screens

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    When it comes to touchscreens, you just can’t beat the feeling of a nice, high-quality capacitive screen. If you’ve been using an iPhone, Motorola Droid, or any one of many capacitive smartphones made in the past few years, try to hunt down one with a resistive screen; the difference is almost shocking. Touches to a [...]

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  • Nerd Alert: Calculator shaped like a gamepad

    Nerd Alert: Calculator shaped like a gamepad

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Awww, schweeeeeet! This calculator says, “Hey, I need a calculator but I want people to know that I’m down with video games. Please don’t step, mess, or front. I got eight digits to work with, B.”

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  • Two-factor authentication now available for Amazon Web Services

    Two-factor authentication now available for Amazon Web Services

    Posted on September 1, 2009 | No Comments
    gemalto tokenPasswords suck. A good password is hard to remember, and a weak password is easy to guess. There are lots of attempts at finding ways to solve the problems of passwords, like one-time passwords, biometric authentication, and more. One of the most attractive solutions is two-factor authentication, which requires that you know something (a short passphrase, usually), and that you have something. The thing that you have is most often a little token generator: every 30 or 60 seconds a new set of digits is displayed on a screen. To successfully log in, you need to supply the passphrase that you know along with the digits displayed on the token. Big businesses have been using two-factor authentication for some time. Now it's being made available for anyone with an Amazon Web Services account.

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  • HTC working on a stylus for capacitive screens?

    HTC working on a stylus for capacitive screens?

    Posted on August 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Meat digits. Sausage fingers. Call them what you will, but some people’s hands are just a bit larger than others. “Finger friendly” for one person doesn’t necessarily mean “finger friendly” for another. As of late, the trend in handsets has been toward capacitive touchscreens, which is bad news for the big-boned; while the screens [...]

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  • OLED Digital Clock is Nothing But Numbers

    OLED Digital Clock is Nothing But Numbers

    Posted on July 13, 2009 | No Comments
    You know those analog clocks which are nothing but a pair of hands on a spindle, distilling the function of the timekeeper down to its bare, concentrated essentials? The Black & White Clock is like that, only it’s digital. The clock consists of numbers only: no case, no background, no nothing. Four OLED shapes mimic the [...]

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