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  • Unboxing: The Jawbone Icon

    Unboxing: The Jawbone Icon

    We knew it was coming, and we knew when it came – what we didn’t know, however, was that one was going to show up on our doorstep today. I’ll be giving Aliph’s latest-and-greatest headset Bluetooth headset a runthrough over the next few days, so expect a full review within the week. In the mean time, [...]

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  • Motoroi: Motorola to release another Android phone in March (video)

    Motoroi: Motorola to release another Android phone in March (video)

    Motorola held a press conference in Seoul yesterday to announce a partnership with SK Telecom, a major Korean telecommunications company. The occasion: SK Telecom will be the first company to distribute an Android phone in that country, the so-called Motorola Motoroi. It's not a rebranded Droid, but a completely new phone (in Europe, the Droid was named "Milestone" but remained largely unchanged technically). SK Telecom customers will be able to lay their hands on the Motoroi in early February. But Motorola Korea and SK Telekom representatives are quoted as saying that Motorola is ready to roll out the Motoroi in the US in March, too. And apparently it will be available in a number of other countries as well.

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  • Nokia to hold a press event this Thursday

    Nokia to hold a press event this Thursday

    Surprise! There I was, staring at my inbox, wondering when the invites to Apple’s may-or-may-not-be-happening tablet event would go out, when.. BAM! An invite appeared – but not from Apple. Turns out, Nokia’s announcing something big — or at least big enough to hold a press event — this Thursday in San Francisco. The invite doesn’t [...]

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  • World Record texting speed broken – but can you really call this texting?

    World Record texting speed broken – but can you really call this texting?

    Look, I don’t want to sound like a baby or anything, so a huge congrats to Pedro Matias of Portugal for breakin’ the texting speed World Record. Congrats out to our pair of ladies from the US for their performance as well – walking home with 2nd place $20,000 heavier is nothing to laugh at. What [...]

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  • Nexus One Car Dock and Desktop Dock coming soon, says Google

    Nexus One Car Dock and Desktop Dock coming soon, says Google

    Uh oh, Motorola Droid – you better look out! The Nexus One is going to cut you — Wait, no, that’s not right. The Nexus One is going to snag one of your flagship features. I always get those two mixed up. Google didn’t make any mention of accessories when they were launching the Nexus One, [...]

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  • Most Motorola handsets will have multitouch from here on out

    Most Motorola handsets will have multitouch from here on out

    Deploying multitouch on handsets in the US is.. well.. touchy. Patents and licensing issues scare a number of hardware manufacturers away from deploying it, even when the hardware itself supports it. Take the Motorola Droid for example; the European variant, the Milestone, packed multitouch support out of the box, whilst the US Droid was limited [...]

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  • HTC to sell 8 handsets through T-Mobile alone in 2010?

    HTC to sell 8 handsets through T-Mobile alone in 2010?

    Making 8 different handsets is no big feat — Hell, Samsung will probably launch 4 or 5 by the time I’m done typing this post — but getting 8 handsets onto one carrier in one year? Not too shabby. That’s what HTC will be doing in 2010 with T-Mobile, says one of Boy Genius’ boys. It’s [...]

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  • Why Google will win the smartphone race: Products in the pipeline

    Why Google will win the smartphone race: Products in the pipeline

    In the end, Google and Android will own the smartphone market. It won't happen this year and it may not even happen in 2012 but the day is coming when the de facto standard for smartphones. Multiple manufacturers have reported that Android phones are on the way including up to five from Motorola this quarter and a number from Samsung this year. Google also has a number of handsets in for testing and should be rolling them out after the Nexus One.

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  • Lenovo releases ultra official, ultra gorgeous pictures of Lephone

    Lenovo releases ultra official, ultra gorgeous pictures of Lephone

    Drooling over the Android-powered Lenovo Lephone? Bask in it while it lasts, friends – as far as we know, these brand new press shots (and our fantastic hands-on with the device) are about as close as any of us outside of China are going to get with it any time soon. If you’re not drooling yet, [...]

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  • Tingalin releases Jersey Shore iPhone app before MTV

    Tingalin releases Jersey Shore iPhone app before MTV

    Tingalin, the makers of the world-famous Tingalin app, have outdone themselves. Their new app, based on the magic of the Jersey Shore but not directly affiliated with the MTV show in any way features a number of useful tools for the Situation-in-training. While the upcoming “fake tan” system is not yet in place, the app [...]

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  • Hands on with the Pixi Plus and Pre Plus

    Hands on with the Pixi Plus and Pre Plus

    We just did some live video from the Palm lounge where we saw the Pixi and Pre Plus, two improvements to the current WebOS line-up. Notable points? The 3D gaming was quite impressive and the design has been considerably improved in this iteration. For one, there is no button on either device. Instead, you get a [...]

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  • Fandango comes to Android, Babylon makes its way to BlackBerry

    Fandango comes to Android, Babylon makes its way to BlackBerry

    We're rolling two separate announcements into one post, if you don't mind. Fandango this morning announced the official release of its free app for the Android platform, enabling owners of Google's Nexus One and other devices that run Android to check out movies showtimes and more on the go. The news comes a couple of weeks after the company put out a beta release of the Android app. Translation and dictionary software maker Babylon, on the other hand, has today released its application for BlackBerry.

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  • Confirmed: T-Mobile to launch the HTC HD2

    Confirmed: T-Mobile to launch the HTC HD2

    All the signs were already indicating that T-Mobile was planning on launching the gloriously beautiful HTC HD2, but good ol’ Stevie Ballmer just confirmed it during his CES 2010 keynote. Dates? Nope. Pricing? Nope. The best we’ve got is still HTC head honcho Peter Chou’s confirmation that it’d be launching in the US in “Early [...]

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  • AT&T to launch two webOS devices in the next six months

    AT&T to launch two webOS devices in the next six months

    They’re keepin’ mum on exactly which devices they’ll be getting, but AT&T just announced at their press developer conference that they’ll be offering up not one, but two Palm webOS devices by mid-2010. Sure, it could be the Pre and the Pixi – but at this point, that’d be all kinds of disappointing. Crunch Network: [...]

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  • Rogers Canada to carry the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, first in North America

    Rogers Canada to carry the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, first in North America

    Looking to make sure they're not entirely overshadowed by Google's much hyped Nexus One announcement later today, Rogers Canada has squeaked out a last minute Android-related press release -- fortunately for them, it's a handset we're still pretty excited about.

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