Names Archive

  • Do all your phreaking before you turn 18, kids

    Do all your phreaking before you turn 18, kids

    Please turn your attention to Rolling Stone, where an article about a blind, lonely phreaker is currently tearing up the charts. That is to say, it's an article worth your time, certainly better than refreshing drudgereport.com for the thousandth time in a day.

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

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

    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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  • HTC working on a stylus for capacitive screens?

    HTC working on a stylus for capacitive screens?

    Meat digits. Sausage fingers. Call them what you will, but some people’s hands are just a bit larger than others. “Finger friendly” for one person doesn’t necessarily mean “finger friendly” for another. As of late, the trend in handsets has been toward capacitive touchscreens, which is bad news for the big-boned; while the screens [...]

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  • What a surprise: Sale of The Pirate Bay possibly in danger

    What a surprise: Sale of The Pirate Bay possibly in danger

    Not for nothing, but it looks like the sale of The Pirate Bay may well be in jeopardy. You'll recall that the site announced last month that it had found a buyer in Global Gaming Factory. The deal was predicated on the ability of GGF to come up with nearly $7 million, which now doesn't look all that certain.

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  • HTC trademarks five names, get ready for more devices

    HTC trademarks five names, get ready for more devices

    HTC has a long history of naming its devices after a strong noun. There was previously the Excalibur, Cavalier, Blackstone, Apache, Prophet, and more recently, the Hero. Well, get ready for five more devices that follow the same naming scheme after the jump. We’ve got the Vigor, Dawn, Interlude, Imagio and Tattoo coming sometime soon. There [...]

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  • T-Mobile goes bonkers with the myTouch accessories

    T-Mobile goes bonkers with the myTouch accessories

    Ohhhh - so thats why T-Mobile ignored all of the good names, instead opting to call their HTC Magic the "myTouch": because they're working the customizability angle. And boy, are they working it hard. At today's myTouch event, folks were given a USB stick with a little sneak-peek at what T-Mo had up their sleeve in terms of add-on toys.

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  • iPhone big in Japan (Ha!)

    iPhone big in Japan (Ha!)

    According to survey of 2,300 Japanese retail stores, the iPhone was #1 in customer popularity, beating out all of those crazy, wonky phones they sell in Tokyo with names like the WonderFetus 100 Softbank X200-900 and the Brad Pitt Special Edition E900 from Sanyo with built-in TV tuner, can-opener, and fishing lures.

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