United States Archive

  • HTC launches the HD2 in Europe and Asia, reconfirms stateside availability in early 2010

    HTC launches the HD2 in Europe and Asia, reconfirms stateside availability in early 2010

    Seeing as HTC's CEO Peter Chou sorta slipped up and mentioned this back in October, it's not exactly, you know, news news - but just in case you were a little bit shaky on the dates, HTC has gone ahead and confirmed that the 1 Ghz, WinMo 6.5-powered HTC HD2 will be coming to the United States "with a major US carrier in early 2010. "

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  • Beware the ‘r word’ when reading up on Net Neutrality

    Beware the ‘r word’ when reading up on Net Neutrality

    The beauty of the Drudge Report right now is that Mr. Drudge is working against his very interests. He's got some ridiculous headline right now, JULIUS AT FCC WANTS TO 'REGULATE' INTERNET, that's meant to wile up his easily excitable readership. What's going on is that the FCC has moved one step closer to bringin Net Neutrality to fruition, and has invited the public to weigh in until January 14.

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  • T-Mobile unveils its 2009 Holiday Season lineup

    T-Mobile unveils its 2009 Holiday Season lineup

    T-Mobile wants to help spread more holiday cheer this year. Thus, the the number 4 US mobile carrier announced that it will be offering "the broadest selection of Android-powered phones among national wireless carriers in the United States" to help make the 2009 holiday season the most droidish ever!

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  • HTC HD2! United States! Q1 2010!

    HTC HD2! United States! Q1 2010!

    Bam! There we were complaining that it would likely be a long time before the mind-blowingly gorgeous HTC HD2 showed its face stateside, and SlashGear managed to get a date out of them. According to HTC CEO Peter Chou, we should see this hit the shores sometime in Q1 of 2010. Sure, it’ll still be [...]

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  • MetroPCS wants a CDMA/LTE smartphone in 2010

    MetroPCS wants a CDMA/LTE smartphone in 2010

    The fact that they’re only the 5th largest carrier in the United States hasn’t kept MetroPCS from dreaming big. Far from it – they’re gunning for the big boys today by announcing their vendors for the eventual big switch to LTE. From the looks of it, they’ve got a pretty solid team lined up: Ericsson [...]

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  • Daily Crunch: Pigeon’s Delivery Service Edition

    Daily Crunch: Pigeon’s Delivery Service Edition

    Windows 7 to bring more happy says latest ad South Africa’s data network owned by pigeon with 4GB drive attached FOLD-E! Clothes-folding robot demoed at SIGGRAPH

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  • Nokia N86 coming to America, but does anyone care?

    Nokia N86 coming to America, but does anyone care?

    Remember this guy? Me either. Nokia just announced that the 8-megapixel N86 will be hitting stateside with a $558 price tag. No thanks, Nokia. The award winning Nokia N86 8MP, the most advanced Nokia imaging device, is coming to the United States. With its eight megapixel camera, dual LED flash and Carl Zeiss Optics, [...]

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  • Zombie Solid Snake: Makes about as much sense as the franchise

    Zombie Solid Snake: Makes about as much sense as the franchise

    I stopped playing Metal Gear games when Snake was in the jungle and saw a horse on a bridge and then Revolver Ocelot came and then Big Boss turned out to be Snake's brother, Mark, who worked in sales at Procter and Gamble but instead of being a key to the Metal Gear defense system he was, in fact, a Son of Liberty who, from the founding the United States, was tasked with protecting the National Mesh Sneaking Suit of Power but lost it when Shakalakalaka Island was destroyed by the Russians.

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  • iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Delayed

    iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Delayed

    iPhone 3GS owners (of whom there are already over one million, according to Apple) won’t be able to Jailbreak their smartphones to run unauthorized applications for a little while. The Dev-Team, who regularly issues software to Jailbreak and unlock iPhones, is delaying the hack for iPhone 3GS. Why? Not enough people own the phone yet, the [...]

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  • Giveaway: The Domino A.L.C from CoolIT

    Giveaway: The Domino A.L.C from CoolIT

    Oh man, it’s hot outside. Maybe Al Gore is onto something. Just think that if you’re this hot, your computer must be roasting. We’ve got the solution: the Domino A.L.C. This compact liquid cooling system installs easily into even cramped cases. It’s self-contained, has an external LCD display, audible alerts, and works with both Intel [...]

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  • It begins: Pogue+Pre=love

    It begins: Pogue+Pre=love

    David Pogue’s Pre review leaked early and it seems he’s a fan. He writes: The Pre, which goes on sale first in the United States on Saturday and sometime in the second half of 2009 in Europe, is an elegant, joyous, multitouch smartphone that seems intended to be ‘‘iPhone, remixed.’’ That’s no [...]

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