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John Walton

John Walton is a student and writer who spends most of his free time fingerpicking an acoustic guitar and authoring biographical snippets in the third-person. He lives with his wife and their cat, who are, like him, compulsive movers/travelers. He is passionate about open source software, learning to speak Thai, and watching poker tournaments on television (WPT).

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LG's "FameUS" contest: vote on music videos

Tied in to the marketing for the September 25th release of Fame - a movie based on the early 80s television series and long-standing Broadway musical - LG has launched a website where you can upload...

Get Hero, skip the mail-in rebate

EDIT: This rumor has been confirmed. ______________________________ If you are a hard-core PhoneDogger, or have stumbled onto a few select posts, you know that I'm fond of whining about mail-in...

Check out the new Android Market

It looks like the carousel functions differently, but at least there's Top Paid, Top Free, and Just in. According to the Android Devloper's website, there are some new categories as well. But here's...

Video of Sprint's Hero

David Owens of Sprint introduces Sprint's distinctive Hero with some video footage.  "Really open, new operating system."

Sprint announces Hero to devs

No more guessing - at least on the network. The chin is another story, but someone who *really* knows what they're talking about mentioned that the leaked Hero images purported to depict a modified...

How to save with T-Mobile

I'm always looking for a discount on my cell phone service. It's a big part of my life, and represents a pretty large chunk of my monthly pie. So when I heard about a couple of opportunities for...

Kindling the Jaunty Jackalope

I'm not savvy enough to attend O'Reilly Media's annual hacker event, Foo Camp, but I'm geeky enough to appreciate some of what goes on there. And while I understand the terms used in the quote under...

A truckload of Android news

Am I ever glad we're getting an Android sub-site together. There's just no other way to properly deal with days like today, when there's enough juicy dirt to cover the front page if each item were...

Uffda! Odd and Even pack your pages

Odd and Even Johansen, that is. The Norweigian brothers are hard at work compressing data so that Opera 10 goes super fast. Server-side compression, resizable tab bar, thumbnail previews of tab...

Nokia's next conquest

While T-Mobile is making commercials with celebrities like Catherine Zeta-Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Phil Jackson and Jesse James in a quest for their own PR makeover, Nokia is hiring stars and creative...

Motorola Sholes coming to VZW, and soon

You'll have to excuse the delay in my posting this, Android lovers. I've been tied up with other, somewhat related, work. Better late than never though, right? On the 23rd, BGR published some...

Tracking a phantom pulse

Yesterday I posted on the FCC's approval of a Huawei device refered to in the application materials as "Model Number:T-Mobile Pulse/Pulse/U8220." The phone, which has a flat edge on top and bottom (...

Android app: BFF Photo for Facebook

Carmen Delessio of Talking Android is back. Hot on the heels of his Amazon SimpleDB work comes BFF Photo: an Android app for viewing and uploading Facebook photos and videos. I don't have a phone to...

Glass: the ultra-smart phone for your desktop

Do you use your cell phone to look up numbers you want to dial on the office phone? Do you prepare for a call by bringing up account information, a client's purchase history, or case data on your...

Does QVGA spell "faceplant" for Android phones?

Let me take you back to January 16th, 2009. People around the world were disappointed when it was announced that their pre-orders for the affordable, GSM-unlocked, Kogan Agora cell phone could not be...

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