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  • ABI Research: MNOs Need Partnerships and NFC Handsets or Will Miss Out on $100 Billion Mobile Payments Opportunity

    Posted on September 30, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Dell Streak car and AV docks now on sale, HDMI may or may not be included

    Dell Streak car and AV docks now on sale, HDMI may or may not be included

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Hey England, in need of some retail therapy after an unsatisfying sporting weekend? Dell's got the goods for you with a rich new selection of cables, plugs, adapters, and cases for your new Streak. It looks like the HDMI dock we've been jonesing for has probably become a retail reality, but there's no way to be sure right now -- Dell's only listing an AV dock without going into the TV connectivity options. The fresh offerings also include the kickstand-equipped wallet case that we found intriguing, spare battery and sync cables, and an international travel kit. Of course, every silver lining has a cloud, which in this case is the pricing: nothing here costs less than £24 ($35) and the car- and TV-enabling docks will set you back a cool £55 ($80) each. Jumbo smartphone, jumbo accessory prices.

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  • What’s cheaper than buying an anti-RFID wallet?

    What’s cheaper than buying an anti-RFID wallet?

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    The following is in the interest of saving you money, which is probably my number one goal here at CG: preventing you from spending money when you don't have to. I've seen ads on Drudge recently pimping RFID-blocking wallets produced by a company called Identity Stronghold. The idea behind the wallet is to block the RFID chip found in your credit card from being surreptitiously scanned. Now, I'm sure it's a fine product and one that works as advertised; I have no "issue" with said wallet. But that's partially why you can get away with not buying one: it's fairly easy to disable the RFID chip in your credit card. What do you need? Nothing more than a hammer!

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  • New market study shows iPhone continues to be big in Japan

    New market study shows iPhone continues to be big in Japan

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    A lot has been written on how the iPhone performs in Japan, the world's most advanced mobile nation, but the general consensus in this country now is that it sells very well (even though both Apple and provider SoftBank Mobile refuse to break down Japan-specific sales numbers). It's rumored that the number of iPhones sold in Japan has passed 3 million. There are reasons for this success (super-low pricing, aggressive marketing, Apple's pre-iPhone brand popularity in Japan, clever product positioning by SoftBank, etc. etc.), but we're talking about a country in which basically every cell phone is a smartphone, a country where you'd be hard-pressed to find a handset without a digital TV tuner or e-wallet function, for example.

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  • We’ve got a truckload of these Walkmans: Back when CE advertising was real, man

    We’ve got a truckload of these Walkmans: Back when CE advertising was real, man

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember back when consumer electronics weren't sexy? It's hard to imagine a world where the Sony Walkman was state-of-the-art and, at best, was popular with a small subset of the world's population. Back in the old days electronics were expensive, even in a relative sense, and this video harkens back to those dark days when men with long hair and creepy voices hawked cheap electronics on TV.

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  • Toshiba Canvio portable hard drives

    Toshiba Canvio portable hard drives

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    According to research sponsored by Toshiba, more Americans are afraid of losing digital data -- photos, documents, etc -- than they are about losing their wallet or an audit by the IRS. This is probably because more people have suffered a digital loss than have been audited by the IRS -- we all say "It can't happen to me!" until it actually does happen, and only then do we change our behaviors. But the reality is, backing up data has historically been tedious, if not actually challenging. And restores are so rarely done as to require the user to search for the long discarded product manual so they can figure out how to do it...

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  • Review: Nooka Asset Organizer

    Review: Nooka Asset Organizer

    Posted on March 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Welcome to future world, first stop: wallets. Nooka makes some of our favorite watches an now they’re making what amounts to a wallet for space explorers. Made of soft silicone, it is wear and water resistant and infinitely expandable. It comes in five colors and costs $35. Before you say $35 is too much to pay [...]

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  • PANIC! Study finds that students are addicted to their iPhones!!

    PANIC! Study finds that students are addicted to their iPhones!!

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be "addicted" to their iPhones. "When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged full addiction to the device, 34 percent ranked themselves as a four on the scale, and only 6 percent said they weren't addicted at all."

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  • You don’t fall for the wallet inspector gimmick, so why fall for its online equivalent?

    You don’t fall for the wallet inspector gimmick, so why fall for its online equivalent?

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    I think I'm getting to the point that, instead of feeling bad for people who fall victim to phishing scheme, or any other online nonsense, I'm actually like, “You know what? Serves you right.” There's a new scam going around that exploits Internet Explorer (in Windows XP, mostly), and it works by tricking users into pressing the F1 key at a certain time. Once the key is pressed, any ol' code a hackers wants to execute can be executed. Right now, the only work-around is to not press F1 when prompted by any ol' site. Cool.

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  • Nikon’s lens rebate program starting on the 28th

    Nikon’s lens rebate program starting on the 28th

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Get that wallet ready, Nikon's annual instant rebate program is starting on the 28th. Pretty much always a good deal, Nikon loves to tempt the weak with their instant rebate offers on lenses and gear that they roll out on a yearly basis. Case in point - I bought my D300 back in 2008 (with the oh so popular 18-200 VR) and justified it to my wife as a "really great deal" because of the rebate. Luckily she's a patient woman, and we're still married.

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  • AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon break down ETFs for the FCC

    AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon break down ETFs for the FCC

    Posted on February 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Early termination fees. No one likes them but they can sometimes be a necessary evil. If you become unhappy with your service provider or you are overwhelmed with lust for a new gadget on a different carrier, you pay the price. Carriers say that these termination fees, or ETFs, allow them to subsidize handsets and recover those costs over the course of a contract. Should a contract be broken, a carrier recovers those subsidies with an ETF. The FCC recently decided something was amiss with ETFs and probed carriers into explaining the rhyme and reason behind the fees. The carriers have finally spoken, albeit a little unconvincingly. Most of you are already familiar with why ETFs exist, but it is interesting to see the canned and obvious responses from the carriers.

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  • Final Fantasy I and II for iPhone get release dates

    Final Fantasy I and II for iPhone get release dates

    Posted on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Since we’ve spent two posts covering Street Fighter IV, a game that will presumably be terrible to play on the iPhone, I thought it was only fair to give a bit more love to a game that should be awesome on the iPhone. Actually, two games: Final Fantasy I and II. We knew they were coming [...]

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  • Nooka “Asset Organizer” seems like a bad wallet

    Nooka “Asset Organizer” seems like a bad wallet

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Sorry Nooka, you're probably not going to like me much. Taking a look at this wallet, I see several issues. First off, it's made from silicone rubber. Two words: butt sweat. Also, rubber isn't exactly known for being easy to pull out of your pocket when you need to get at your ATM card, or ID.

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  • Cell phone has built in cigarette lighter. In other news, I have officially seen it all.

    Cell phone has built in cigarette lighter. In other news, I have officially seen it all.

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Straight out of China comes “The Machismo!” – billed as “the world’s hottest cigarette lighter mobile phone.” Does that mean there’s more than one? Like, are there other, lesser, not-as-hot cell phones with built-in cigarette lighters? Nothing would surprise me after seeing this.

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