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  • Sharp to bring solar-powered cell phone to China (and possibly elsewhere, too)

    Sharp to bring solar-powered cell phone to China (and possibly elsewhere, too)

    Sharp, the biggest (in terms of market share) of all eight major Japanese cell phone makers, has been talking about internationalizing its phone business for quite some time now. It makes sense, as the domestic market is shrinking and as Sharp only sold 20% of all their cell phones outside Japan (1.6 million units) last fiscal.

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  • Swype gets hacked onto the original Omnia (Update: And more!)

    Swype gets hacked onto the original Omnia (Update: And more!)

    If you're one of the 3 million or so people rocking the original Samsung Omnia, you might be feelin' like you've been left out in the cold now that the Omnia II is on the shelves. At the very least, you're probably a bit envious of the Omnia II's finger-swiping text input method, Swype. Yeah? Don't fret - we've got good news.

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  • GelaSkins now printing custom skins for iPhones, BlackBerry, and more

    GelaSkins now printing custom skins for iPhones, BlackBerry, and more

    Oh hell yes. Custom GelaSkins. This is something I’ve wanted since I was slapping GelaSkins on a Helio Fin two years ago. For those who might be unaware, GelaSkins are fairly durable removable “Skins” (read: stickers) that you can slap onto your device to make them more “you” whilst adding a bit of protection. Up ’till [...]

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  • Bacon and Egg iPhone case: If cute things raised cholesterol, we’d be doomed

    Bacon and Egg iPhone case: If cute things raised cholesterol, we’d be doomed

    If I know our readers, most of you are probably wondering two things: “Why the hell would someone make an iPhone case that looks like bacon and eggs?”, and “Why the hell would MobileCrunch post about this?”. Two questions, one answer: “Because they can.” Actually, the main reason we’re posting about this is because its inching closer [...]

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  • AT&T and Samsung introduce the Solstice

    AT&T and Samsung introduce the Solstice

    Earlier today, AT&T announced the touch-screen Solstice from Samsung. Equipped with a 3-inch touch-screen, an accelerometer, Bluetooth, a 2-megapixel camera and little else, the Solstice is an entry-level touch-screen device. But, the one really cool thing about the Solstice is that it comes with TouchWiz 2.0. The second gen UI from Samsung features live widgets, [...]

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