Internet Products Archive

  • Sony Ericsson Kurara accidentally announced early, now known as “Vivaz”

    Sony Ericsson Kurara accidentally announced early, now known as “Vivaz”

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Don’t you just hate it when some big dumb press release company spills the beans on your top secret product long before you intended? Wait, you’ve never experienced that? Well, neither have we. We were just trying to, you know, connect with our readers or something. Sony Ericsson, on the other hand, has felt that burn. [...]

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  • Video: Ericsson gets fancy with 3D maps on an Xperia X10

    Video: Ericsson gets fancy with 3D maps on an Xperia X10

    Posted on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
    As someone who makes a living babbling about cell phones all day, I can’t complain too much about my job. With that said, the dudes over at the Ericsson Labs don’t have it too bad either. Their job, as I see it: Make something really cool Release the source code for aforementioned really cool thing [...]

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  • The ITG xpPhone gets officially priced

    The ITG xpPhone gets officially priced

    Posted on January 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Screen shot 2010-01-18 at [ January 18 ] 11.16.25 AM Its only been around 8 months since the xpPhone -- a phone which, as the name implies, runs Windows XP -- made its online debut, but its already caused quite the rift between the mega-geeks. One camp seems to think its the coolest thing since air-conditioned underpants; the other seems to think it's a big pile of nonsense. Throughout all of this dweeby disputing, one important item remained a mystery: the price. Mystery solved after the jump.

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  • Point, Shoot, Reserve: OCLC brings library information to RedLaser

    Point, Shoot, Reserve: OCLC brings library information to RedLaser

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    A rainbow of colorsThe Online Computer Library Center is one of those quiet organizations making a huge difference in the world. They don't attract a lot of attention to themselves, normally, and much of what they do is plumbing that helps other organizations. They've recently partnered with Occipital, creators of the iPhone barcode scanning app RedLaser, to bring access to their enormous database of books to your iPhone. Just how big is OCLC's database? It indexes "more than 165,000,000 books at more than 75,000 libraries in 112 countries." That represents "more than 5,000 years of human history in a single, searchable database" -- that's a lot of books! Now you can snap a picture of a book's barcode, and within moments find out whether your local library has that book in stock, and whether it's currently checked out or sitting on the shelf. Yay technology!

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  • Rhapsody for Android Beta goes live

    Rhapsody for Android Beta goes live

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
    If you’re an Android handset owner who happens to double as a Rhapsody customer, you might have spent the last few months feeling like you’ve been left out in the cold; more specifically, you might be a bit chuffed that the iPhone has a Rhapsody application while Android phones don’t. We’d heard tales that Rhapsody was [...]

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  • Nokia N900 gets another software update

    Nokia N900 gets another software update

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Are you rocking a Nokia N900 yet? If you hail from the US, probably not — they do sell’em here, but the carrier-folk (read: T-Mobile) have yet to put it on their shelves. If you plan on buying one in the near future, however, be happy: it just got a wee bit better. In its second [...]

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  • webOS bumped up to 1.3.5.2, but only in Europe

    webOS bumped up to 1.3.5.2, but only in Europe

    Posted on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Just as all of us yanks were riding high on our brand new upgrade to webOS 1.3.5.1 , Palm goes and gives all our Pre-toting brethren over in Europe webOS 1.3.5.2. Considering that it’s a trivial enough upgrade that it only bumps the overall numbering up an earth-shattering zero-point-zero-point-zero-point-one, we’re not all that jealous – [...]

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  • Sprint LG Lotus Elite announced

    Sprint LG Lotus Elite announced

    Posted on January 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember that quirky little square LG phone from last year, the Lotus? Well, they’ve gone and made another one: the Lotus Elite. This ought to sound pretty familiar for anyone who’s been reading MobileCrunch for a while, as we scooped all the details on this handset (sans the name) way back in October. All of the [...]

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  • Our report from Sprint’s bacchanalian Overdrive launch

    Our report from Sprint’s bacchanalian Overdrive launch

    Posted on January 7, 2010 | No Comments
    The era of 4G – WiMAX, basically – is dawning and the Overdrive from Sprint is the first creation in that brave, fast world. Sprint called out all the great ones, from Hesse, the CEO, to Ballmer, the other CEO, as well as a Frank Caliendo, that guy who does voices. The device, which is [...]

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  • Dell’s Mini 3 Android Phone headed to AT&T

    Dell’s Mini 3 Android Phone headed to AT&T

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    No sooner had AT&T announced they were making a massive leap onto the Android bandwagon than Dell went and announced their part in the plan. Just as we’d guessed in our post on the matter earlier, Dell’s contribution to AT&T’s Android endeavour is the Mini 3. We knew this long-available-elsewhere handset would be launching stateside [...]

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  • Netgear announces two 3G/4G/WiMax routers at CES

    Netgear announces two 3G/4G/WiMax routers at CES

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    With the nationwide roll-outs of 4G and WiMax finally on the horizon, it’s just about time to upgrade the ol’ gadget collection. Netgear just announced a couple of new toys that might pique the interests of the road warriors out there: wireless routers that play friendly with 4G/WiMax USB dongles. They’re offering up two models: the [...]

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  • Off To CES We Go!

    Off To CES We Go!

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Another year, another CES. Each year brings bigger, badder gadgets, and each year we put our nose-to-the-grindstone in hopes of bringing you guys the best coverage yet. We’re kicking things up a few notches this year; we’ve got more happy faces from the CrunchGear and MobileCrunch team roaming the halls of the Las Vegas Convention [...]

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  • Final Fantasy creator working on an iPhone game

    Final Fantasy creator working on an iPhone game

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Legendary RPG creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is working on a new game for the iPhone. In case you don't recognize the name, he helped create a few games you might of heard of: Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, Xenogears, and Final Fantasy.

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  • Leaked: Swype For Android Beta Unofficially Available For Motorola Droid

    Leaked: Swype For Android Beta Unofficially Available For Motorola Droid

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    When Swype was nice enough to give us the world’s first hands-on with their ultra-nifty alternative keyboard on the Android platform, I wasn’t about to leak the installation files. It’s just not my style. Now that someone else has gone and leaked them, though, I’m more or less obligated to show you how to get [...]

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  • Tekken 3 on the HTC HD2

    Tekken 3 on the HTC HD2

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    So there's actually two things to tell you about here; for one thing, you can play Tekken 3 on your HTC HD2 phone. That's cool and all, but the big story is the emulator used to play it. The emulator, named FPSECE, not only supports the Playstation 1, but the touchscreen as well.

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