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  • While you’re waiting in line for your iPhone 4, why not help animals you’re killing

    While you’re waiting in line for your iPhone 4, why not help animals you’re killing

    Posted on June 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Thankfully, not much of the iPhone 4 is made of plastic but it still takes a lot of oil to make that fancy touchphone of yours. The guys at SquareSpace and a number of other partners are collecting money to help clean-up efforts in the Gulf and ask for our help, especially on this day of days. What will you be telling your kids happened fifty years from today, provided we're all still alive and not living in some Road-esque fever dream of ecological collapse and cannibalistic blood cults? The beginning of the end of the Great Spill or the launch of a piece of silicon wrapped in metal? That's what I thought.

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  • Windows Phone 7 emulator hacked. Sweet, sweet secrets spill out.

    Windows Phone 7 emulator hacked. Sweet, sweet secrets spill out.

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    As anyone in the history of ever who has ever written a single line of code that might be subject to hacking knows, the only way to keep something “hidden” in an application is to just not include it at all. Sure, you can obfuscate the hell out of it out in the source code, [...]

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  • Pricing details for the T-Mobile HTC HD2, and Motorola CLIQ XT leaked

    Pricing details for the T-Mobile HTC HD2, and Motorola CLIQ XT leaked

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Why hello there, Mr. Inventory Screen! How kind of you to pop by and spill all the pricing details on the T-mobile HTC HD2 and Motorola CLIQ XT. Wait - the HTC HD2 will be how cheap?

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  • iPhone and Vodafone UK set the date: January 14

    iPhone and Vodafone UK set the date: January 14

    Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Vodafone has decided if it can't give us the iPhone for the holidays, it'll do the next best thing and spill details of its launch and pricing of Apple's finest. Available from January 14, the iPhone will be yours for £30 ($48) per month on two-year contracts, though up-front charges will set you back £239 ($386) for the 32GB 3GS variety. A monthly 1GB of 3G data is permitted, alongside unlimited WiFi, but what might be most interesting here is that Vodafone will allow you to use the iPhone as a modem. Such use will not be covered by your allowance of course, and will cost £5 ($8) for each 500MB downloaded, but we're happy to see a carrier offering the option. Furthermore, though Vodafone's agreement to carry the iPhone seemed a rushed defensive move, the company now claims it has been preparing its network for over a year to handle the increased traffic it expects.

    iPhone and Vodafone UK set the date: January 14 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Mossberg and Vodafone spill all the beans on the BlackBerry Storm 2

    Mossberg and Vodafone spill all the beans on the BlackBerry Storm 2

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    The BlackBerry 9520 Storm 2 has probably the best pre-release coverage of any cell phone in history. We've seen previews and videos and pictures and more videos of the upcoming cell phone for months. RIM and Verizon haven't released a thing about the phone yet though so some key details hadn't been revealed. That is, of course, until Walt Mossberg posted his Storm 2 review last night alongside the Motorola CLIQ review and Vodafone went live with its Storm 2 launch details this morning that happened to include all the phone's specs for good measure. God bless the Internet.

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  • Google provides peek at Android marketplace, doesn’t spill release date

    Google provides peek at Android marketplace, doesn’t spill release date

    Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Google trickled out some screenshots from the upcoming refresh to the Android marketplace today. They are responding to complaints that the experience is unwieldy to users, and adding subcategories and regional options. While we know that this will be version 1.6 of the marketplace, there's no word on exactly when it's going to be released. See the video after the jump.

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  • Swinxs now shipping, kids everywhere told what to do by strange man in a box

    Swinxs now shipping, kids everywhere told what to do by strange man in a box

    Posted on August 28, 2009 | No Comments
    So this is a weird thing. It's kind of like an electronic camp counselor and it's called Swinxs. Kids wear RFID bracelets and then the box tells you to do stuff like run around and play hide and seek. You check in with the box by moving your RFID band near the box. There are 25 games so far, most of which involve running around and then coming back to the box for further instructions. Parents can also make their own games including, presumably, my Dad's old favorites, Go to the Store and Get Me Some Beer and This Is What You Get When You Spill Paint in the Garage.

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  • The Logitech Wireless Desktop treats your fingers to a new key design

    The Logitech Wireless Desktop treats your fingers to a new key design

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    If the Logitech blog post about the new Logitech Wireless Desktop MK 700 is to be believed, the company has came up with a new type of key design. The Logitech Incurve keys apparently "cradle your fingers for greater comfort." I'm all for keyboard innovation, but I think my standard white, full-size Apple keyboard also has concave keys.

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  • Getac announces the lightest and smallest rugged notebook, 9213

    Getac announces the lightest and smallest rugged notebook, 9213

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Are rugged notebooks becoming a trend? Can anyone stand up to Panasonic and their Toughbook line? Getac thinks it can. Well, they've been doing this 'rugged' thing since 1989, so there's that. Announced earlier today is the 9213, which Getac claim is the smallest and lightest business-rugged notebook. Encased in a full magnesium alloy chassis and case, the 9213 comes with a shock mounted HDD and LCD. Other ‘rugged’ essentials include a spill-resistant keyboard, touchpad and “surrounding surface.” Under the hood, a 45nm Intel C2D Penryn runs the show and 9213 boasts up to eight hours of battery life. Up to 12 hours without the optical drive, says Getac.

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  • Secret Passage Hides Shame of Messy Office

    Secret Passage Hides Shame of Messy Office

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Problem: You have a messy room in your house, a home office in which, even when the rest of the house is neatly squared-away, the clutter nags at the edge of your mind, taunting you. The solution? For normal people, a few minutes of tidying would do the trick. For Alpha Nerd Agmak, the answer was [...]

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  • Olympus E-450 compact DSLR gets reviewed: entry-level through and through

    Olympus E-450 compact DSLR gets reviewed: entry-level through and through

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments

    Momma always said you couldn't have your cake and eat it to, and we suppose it's just about time we stop resisting and just believed. Olympus' decidedly compact E-450 was recently reviewed over at PhotographyBLOG, and while image quality was satisfactory for a camera of its stature, it was indubitably missing a few key ingredients. Most notably, the inexplicable lack of image stabilization and the inability to handle video were lamented, and the rudimentary 3-point AutoFocus was called "frankly obsolete for a 2009 model." Indeed, critics pointed out that the E-620 would likely be a far superior choice for those who didn't mind the additional weight and cost, but even if the E-450 was at the top of your budget, we didn't really get the impression that it was a surefire winner. Check the read link for the full spill.

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    Olympus E-450 compact DSLR gets reviewed: entry-level through and through originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 May 2009 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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