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  • Combining the Power of Android with Sprint Value, Samsung Intercept™ Packs in the Features for Just $99.99

    Posted on July 7, 2010 | 2 Comments
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  • Spiffy new version of Opera hits Mac (both Intel and PPC)

    Spiffy new version of Opera hits Mac (both Intel and PPC)

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Heads up to you Mac folk. Opera has released a new version of its eponymous browser, version 10.52, that brings a number of improvements to the game. Might be we worth a look if you're tired of Safari and Firefox, or don't want to subject yourself to the Google borg with Chrome.

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  • Google updates mobile services for the iPad

    Google updates mobile services for the iPad

    Posted on April 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Don't worry. The long national nightmare of iPad mania will soon be over. That said, Google just announced complete compatibility and a new layout for their Services on the iPad. Gmail, for example, now appears in a two column layout and uses all HTML5 rendering, thereby ensuring a seamless, clean display. Other services include YouTube - which works with iPad sans issues - and the Google Mobile App. The Google Mobile App, for example, has been made bigger to fit the iPad's larger screen.

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  • Comcast to begin 100 mbps residential broadband this year

    Comcast to begin 100 mbps residential broadband this year

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Kudos to Comcast for embracing the year 2009. The nation's largest—and quite possibly worst—ISP has finally committed itself to deploying 100 mbps broadband beginning this year. That will make the FCC happy, what with the loft goals it set with its National Broadband Plan. It's also good news for people who know their way around things like Usenet—taps nose like a spy. Will it be affordable, though?

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  • What type of phone should a George Costanza buy?

    What type of phone should a George Costanza buy?

    Posted on March 13, 2010 | No Comments
    As luck would have it, I'll be in the market for a brand-new phone in the coming weeks. Terribly exciting, yes. But there's a bit of a problem: the two "biggest" phones out there, the iPhone and all those Android-based ones, rub me the wrong way. Longtime readers will know that I'm fairly neurotic, sorta like George Costanza from Seinfeld. Does the phrase Jerkstore mean anything to you? That's 100 percent me. So what's a person to do when, for reasons I'll describe, he wants nothing to do with Apple or Google phones?

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  • Iran bans Gmail, tells citizens to use homegrown e-mail service

    Iran bans Gmail, tells citizens to use homegrown e-mail service

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Today may look like February 11 to you and I, but to Iranians it's 22 Bahman, the anniversary of the declaration of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It's sorta analagous to the 4th of July here in the U.S., in that it commemorates the "birth," so to speak, of the country. As such, there's massive pro- and anti-government demonstrations going on in Tehran. Fun stuff to observe from a safe distance away. The country's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who's really more of a figurehead than anything else, declared, among other things, that the country is now a "nuclear state," and that it will treble its production of enriched uranium. The country's telecommunication agency has also used the event to announce the banning of Gmail, while simultaneously encouraging citizens to move to its officially supported e-mail service, mail.ir.

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  • The world is all a buzz over Google’s new social networking service

    The world is all a buzz over Google’s new social networking service

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Over-sharing the minutiae of your life is already difficult, so why complicate things with Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare when you only need one service to rule them all? That’s where Google Buzz comes in and makes annoying your friends with news about your snacking habits that much easier. Google Buzz is rolling out today, and over [...]

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  • If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present

    If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they’ve never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social. Yes, they have Orkut and OpenSocial, but no one actually uses them. Okay, some people use them, but not in the meaningful social ways that people use Facebook or even Twitter. Today, Google may have just solved their social problem. Google Buzz is easily the company’s boldest attempt yet to build a social network. Imagine taking elements of Twitter, Yammer, Foursquare, Yelp, and other social services, and shoving them together into one package. Now imagine covering that package in a layer that looks a lot like FriendFeed. Now imagine shoving that package inside of Gmail. That’s Buzz. If Google Wave is the future, Google Buzz is the present.

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  • Motorola Backflip / Enzo bringing Android contortions to AT&T

    Motorola Backflip / Enzo bringing Android contortions to AT&T

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Just when we though this decade had run short on phone form factors, Motorola comes along to blow our minds with this new Backflip / Enzo / Motus device. Amazingly, the most interesting part of this device might not even be the reverse hinge design, which flips the keyboard back behind the screen and faces out when not in use, but the fact that there's a clear-as-day AT&T logo on it -- something we'd heard rumored, but dared not believe until we saw it with our own eyes. The rest of the leaked photos go on to corroborate earlier rumors: there's a touchpad on the back of the keyboard to aid in no-look scrolling, it's running Blur on top of Android 1.5 (with a few AT&T apps, Yahoo search and no Gmail), and it runs the same 528MHz processor as the CLIQ. Hard to believe this very same company builds the Droid.

    [Thanks, Jeff B.]

    Motorola Backflip / Enzo bringing Android contortions to AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Daily Crunch: Wrapped In Sound Edition

    Daily Crunch: Wrapped In Sound Edition

    Posted on December 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Here are some interesting stories from yesterday: “A Parallel Image”: a novel way of transmitting a video signal Review: Gunnar ‘MLG Legend’ Glasses Review: The GBoard keyboard for GMail

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  • XPERIA X10 hands-on: lukewarm edition (now with video!)

    XPERIA X10 hands-on: lukewarm edition (now with video!)

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    We've seen the new Android-based XPERIA X10 from Sony Ericsson at a fast pace and a snail's pace, but have we ever seen it so stunningly middle of the road? We just got a chance to play with the phone in person for the second time, and from our random sampling of three or four different handsets, it seems that performance is very contingent upon how much content is loaded into the device and what particular thing it's trying to perform. Sometimes we'd fly through the stacks of faces, while other times we'd sit there waiting for the simplest thumbnails to load up. The good news is that we have until next year to see this thing really come together, and the word is that the software is improving and a rapid pace. The big change about this phone is the "Nexus" UX platform, which actually all takes place in two "apps" at the moment, Timescape and Mediascape. Timescape is an integrated view for social networking and messaging, with an "infinite view" to see all types of communications for a particular person, while Mediascape is a more tame media app with a modicum of internet and social integration. It all seems very logically placed, and we like the fact that SE hasn't really sacrificed the Android experience -- you can still do Gmail and the Android Market and so forth, with very familiar UIs -- but it's going to have to be a lot more bulletproof before it hits the market if Sony Ericsson really expects us to use this day to day. Oh, also: the soft keyboard is terrible. We hear they're working on it, but boy does it need work.

    Update: We've added the video below, go check it out!

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    XPERIA X10 hands-on: lukewarm edition (now with video!) originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Android 2.0 gets torn apart, screenshot by screenshot

    Android 2.0 gets torn apart, screenshot by screenshot

    Posted on October 16, 2009 | No Comments
    With Google having placed a canoe-sized Eclair on their lawn a few days ago, we know that the next update for Android (codenamed "Eclair", version number 2.0) can't be too far off. Google has kept their code surprisingly close to their chest, this time around; where as bits and pieces of each update generally show up in their code repositories to be explored months ahead of release, Eclair has gone mostly unseen. Whether that's because they wanted to keep things mum until the launch of the first 2.0 phone or for some other mystery reason, we'll never know - but either way, the cat is out of the bag now.

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  • Update: Sprint comes clean with the HTC Hero launch info

    Update: Sprint comes clean with the HTC Hero launch info

    Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
    That was quick. Forget about the rumor, the redesigned HTC Hero will launch on October 11 at $180 after a $50 mail-in rebate. And yes, that's $20 under Sprint's guided missile, the Palm Pre. So let's recap, Sprint will soon be the only carrier with three of the hottest cellphones: the BlackBerry Tour, the Palm Pre, and the HTC Hero. And the carrier has some of the most reasonably priced plans. Nice.

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  • Rock Band is coming to the iPhone

    Rock Band is coming to the iPhone

    Posted on September 1, 2009 | No Comments
    We’ve got good news, and we’ve got bad news. The Good news: We just got an email from Harmonix confirming that Rock Band is coming to the iPhone. The Bad News: Right as we got the email, Gmail (and every domain it powers, including CrunchGear’s and MobileCrunch’s) went down, meaning we’re lacking details and screenshots. We’ll update [...]

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  • Why we need to chill about ChromeOS

    Why we need to chill about ChromeOS

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    We’ve been sitting things out today as our brothers at TC pant over ChromeOS, the latest OS based on Linux to impress, however lightly, upon the synapses of our country’s journalistic elite. ChromeOS can’t beat anything. In fact suggesting that ChromeOS will beat Windows or even OS X is like expecting Coby to come up [...]

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