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  • Rumor: Instinct HD in September, Instinct Q in November?

    Rumor: Instinct HD in September, Instinct Q in November?

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Straight from the mouth of a tipster fresh out of a Sprint training session, PhoneArena’s got some new details on the upcoming Samsung Instinct series releases. First up on the rumor train is the Samsung Instinct HD, which has had more names tied to it than Alan Smithee. Samsung Dash, Samsung Instinct S50, Samsung Instinct M850.. [...]

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  • Garmin Nuvifone coming in Q4, just in time for people to still not care

    Garmin Nuvifone coming in Q4, just in time for people to still not care

    Posted on August 5, 2009 | No Comments
    In January of 2008, Garmin announced the Nuvifone. They were a bit light on details at the time (Who would offer it? How much would it cost?) but promised that it would be on the shelves by the third quarter of the same year. Well, that quarter passed. Then the next one. Jump forward a few [...]

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  • The Song of the PowerSquid: The Inside Story of the Life of an Invention Part 6

    The Song of the PowerSquid: The Inside Story of the Life of an Invention Part 6

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Hello, my name is Christopher Hawker. I am a professional inventor, specializing in innovative consumer products. My company is called Trident Design, LLC. I have developed many products in numerous industries and have over 20 products on the market. My most famous invention is the PowerSquid, a cephalopod-inspired power strip with outlets situated at the end of short cords, thereby eliminating the problem of losing outlets to bulky transformer plugs. John Biggs, editor-in-chief of this blog, has asked me to write the story of the birth of the PowerSquid and its development and journey to market. This is the Song of the PowerSquid. This is part 6 of a 6 part series. Read them all here. Part 6: Philips Enters the Picture In the summer of 2006, I got a call from the president of Power Sentry to tell me that they were being bought by Philips, the Netherlands-based consumer electronics giant. My initial instinct was that this would be a mixed bag. They were just too large. He reassured that it would be great for the PowerSquid, with the awesome brand and marketing power of this giant, worldwide corporation suddenly behind our product. What really ended up happening was that the huge corporation barley noticed that it sold PowerSquid, since it had thousands and thousands of other products. The lack of focus quickly became evident as the relationship began to unfold. Most notably in their responsiveness to our needs as Flexity, which usually amounted to, “bad news delivered late.” Nevertheless, we continued to push Flexity. Philips agreed to let us distribute their other power products to our customers, so we became a distributor of the original non-surge PowerSquid, as well as their lower-end (UL Listed) surge protectors. We successfully sold the Calamari into Dell’s and Apple’s online stores, which were two of our major targets all along. Unfortunately, they both sequestered them to the last page of their surge protector sections. We had no “pay-to-play” money to get higher placement. With no special attention drawn to them and backwoods positioning, neither venue proved as successful as our own site.

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  • Battery Tests Confirm iPhone 3GS Improvements, But Complaints Linger

    Battery Tests Confirm iPhone 3GS Improvements, But Complaints Linger

    Posted on July 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Many iPhone 3GS owners are complaining about their handset’s battery life falling short of expectations. Their units are likely defective, because Wired.com was not able to replicate the issue through rigorous battery testing. In response to a query about the iPhone 3GS’ battery life, 25 readers e-mailed Wired.com citing issues with battery life, and 11 expressed [...]

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  • T-Mobile Samsung “Highlight” available on July 15th

    T-Mobile Samsung “Highlight” available on July 15th

    Posted on June 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Poor Samsung. They can never keep any of their secrets. This time, images of the “Highlight” have been leaked to TmoNews. The 3G touch-screen devices looks similar to the Instinct s30 and features a 3.1-megapixel camera and GPS. Look for it to drop on July 15th.

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  • How would you change Samsung’s Instinct s30?

    How would you change Samsung’s Instinct s30?

    Posted on May 30, 2009 | No Comments

    Ah, Samsung's Instinct s30. One step forward, three steps back -- or something like that. Of course, we're not out to remind you of what we thought of the next-gen Instinct, we're here to find out what you think of it. If you plunked down the coin in order to grab yourself the Sprint-locked featurephone, have you been fully satisfied? Is life going alright without EV-DO Rev. A? How's that web browser treating you? Are you wishing you would've held off for the Pre? Feel free to voice your opinion below, and remember, this chance won't ever, ever come around again. Ever.

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