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  • Please take our reader survey

    Please take our reader survey

    Two things. First of all: No, the image has absolutely nothing to do with the post. It was between “Stock photo of a bunch of survey check boxes” and this picture of a cat with a human smile – which would you have chosen? Second: Please take this reader survey. We’re working on some awesome new [...]

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  • Video: Nokia N900 + SNES Emulator + PS3 Controller = Portable geek bliss

    Video: Nokia N900 + SNES Emulator + PS3 Controller = Portable geek bliss

    I’ll admit it: When the oh-so-damned-clever coding community managed to get an SNES emulator running on the N900 at fullspeed with features like TV-out, I got all kinds of excited. Hell, even Nokia was excited about it until they got smacked by the Mighty Hand of the Law for showing it. Well, it just got even [...]

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  • Encrypting your iPhone backups? Time to choose a better password

    Encrypting your iPhone backups? Time to choose a better password

    If you’re using the backup encryption method introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 and your password is something like “cat”, “sex”, or “tetherball”, you should probably change it to something a bit more complicated. There be hackers wantin’ your goods! Password recovery software company ElcomSoft has just released an iPhone backup cracking tool called iPhone Password Breaker. [...]

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  • Farewell, T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900; it was nice knowing you

    Farewell, T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900; it was nice knowing you

    It seems like only yesterday that T-Mobile BlackBerry users were being treated to the Curve 8900 when they were feeling Bold 9000 envy. But alas, the glory would be short lived as it has reached the end of its life cycle. We’re sad to see it go, but we won’t miss it too much. After [...]

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  • HTC Trophy details leaked in full [Updated]

    HTC Trophy details leaked in full [Updated]

    When the HTC Trophy made its first appearance on that leaked 2010 roadmap back in early December, we said that it looked like a T-Mobile HTC Dash with a touchscreen. Now that we've got a clearer picture and a bunch more specs on it, however, it looks more like a... well, a T-Mobile HTC Dash with a touchscreen.

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  • Vinyl Android figurines are the coolest things since sliced ice

    Vinyl Android figurines are the coolest things since sliced ice

    Okay, look. I wasn’t going to post about these, because every bit of attention these things get will make it that much harder for me to acquire them before they sell out. But then this little nagging voice in my head (which sounds like a freakish cross between CrunchGear editor John Biggs and my mother) [...]

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  • Verizon: You know who should buy a Pre Plus? Your mother.

    Verizon: You know who should buy a Pre Plus? Your mother.

    Two new TV spots for the Pre Plus have just made their way out, and it looks like Verizon has taken a decidedly.. different approach to marketing Palm’s handset than they did with the Motorola Droid. Lets compare, shall we? Exhibit A – Droid commercial: Stealth planes! Missiles! Dudes with beards, explosions, and guys on horses – oh [...]

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  • Sony Ericsson’s Aspen revealed, brings WinMo 6.5.3 with it

    Sony Ericsson’s Aspen revealed, brings WinMo 6.5.3 with it

    Today’s looking to be a pretty big day for both Sony Ericsson and Microsoft: with the official announcement of SE’s new Aspen handset, both companies are ready to show off what they should have done in the first place. Sony Ericsson has never had much luck with their portrait-QWERTY portfolio, with their last attempt being the [...]

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  • Nexus One slated to arrive in AT&T 3G flavor

    Nexus One slated to arrive in AT&T 3G flavor

    When the Google Nexus One was announced early last month, Android fans went giddy with excitement, especially since there is an option to buy it unlocked. The only downside was that if you wanted 3G service, you were limited to T-Mobile’s decent, but smaller network. AT&T users are still out of luck and limited to [...]

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  • Google’s Nexus One manual has sense of humor

    Google’s Nexus One manual has sense of humor

    Sharp eyed reader Mike noticed a little humor in the Nexus One manual screen shots. It looks like the the writers weren’t content with the name “Jane Doe” for a change. Hubris –noun excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance. (thanks to Mike for the tip) Crunch Network: TechCrunch obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies

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  • Holy wow! AT&T admits NYC/San Fran 3G service sucked

    Holy wow! AT&T admits NYC/San Fran 3G service sucked

    A recent AT&T earnings call consisted of a lot of talk talk talk but one slide stands out: it essentially admits that 3G in San Francisco and New York sucked ween AKA were both far below their official performance objective. Although I can’t figure out what the actual “Performance Objective” truly is based on this slide, [...]

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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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  • Nokia announces a 16GB X6, “Comes With Music” not included

    Nokia announces a 16GB X6, “Comes With Music” not included

    We knew Nokia was preppin’ something for launch today, thanks to some loose lipped execs – but what would it be? Announcing something just one day before a much hyped Apple announcement is always risky; either Nokia thought the product was a big enough deal to overshadow Apple’s goods, or it was small enough that [...]

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  • Google to Developers: “Have an Android phone, please make games”

    Google to Developers: “Have an Android phone, please make games”

    The iPhone is indisputably on top of the mobile gaming heap, and even relative small fries like Palm are getting serious about it, but Google’s plan for this year’s Game Developers Conference marks one of their first steps towards making Android the next big platform for games on the go. Sure, they’ve committed to [...]

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  • Need to call Haiti? Its free for Verizon Wireless customers until January 31st

    Need to call Haiti? Its free for Verizon Wireless customers until January 31st

    Earlier this week, Skype offered up a few bucks of SkypeOut credit to anybody in Haiti; shortly thereafter, Google announced that any calls made to Haiti via Google Voice would be free of charge. Now, Verizon Wireless has joined the effort to connect people with their Haitian cohorts, without charging a dime. Verizon Wireless has just [...]

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