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Rumor Round-Up: Everything I can think of regarding upcoming phone releases

Rumor Round-Up: Everything I can think of regarding upcoming phone releases

We should probably start a sticky page to keep track of all of the rumored new phones floating around the Internet.  You know, one page we'd refresh whenever there's new news, and one link you could...
Cookie Monster: LG releases KP500

Cookie Monster: LG releases KP500 "Cookie" touchscreen phone

C is for Cookie, and that's good enough for me!  Remember that song from Sesame Street?  Anyway ... Cookie Monster might not be so interested in LG's new Cookie, but I'm guessing you are, since it's...
SitOrSquat gives you a mobile directory of public restrooms

SitOrSquat gives you a mobile directory of public restrooms

How many times have you been stuck in that uncomfortable situation in an area where every storefront bears a sign declaring that the restrooms within are for patrons only? Unfortunately, this dilemma...
iPhone to be open for all carriers in France

iPhone to be open for all carriers in France

Residents will be able to buy an iPhone from anyone they want. A French competition authority has ruled that an exclusivity agreement between Apple and a cell carrier called Orange would do harm to a...
Mobion fits in your pocket, charges cell 10 times

Mobion fits in your pocket, charges cell 10 times

MTI MicroFuel Cells has a nifty little slab called Mobion, which uses methanol to store up lots of juice. You can charge your phone ten times from one Mobion charge. They project shipping very soon,...
What is the deal with mail-in rebates?

What is the deal with mail-in rebates?

I don't even know what the ostensible justification is for a multinational corporation borrowing my cash for eight to twelve weeks. Are they earning interest on it? Are they building an impenetrable...
My take on the Pantech Slate (AT&T)

My take on the Pantech Slate (AT&T)

My first thought after hearing about the Slate was that I would feel comfortable giving it to my mom or a friend's ten-year-old kid for texting and talking. But characterizing the Slate in that way...
MOTO '09: Leaked photos look like new Motorolas for Verizon

MOTO '09: Leaked photos look like new Motorolas for Verizon

I'm always a little weary of these renderings-cum-photos of new cell phones, especially when the devices are just kind of floating off in space in the photos, and not actually laying on a table or...
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Samsung to attempt world record for fastest texting while skydiving

Samsung to attempt world record for fastest texting while skydiving

It seems Samsung Mobile will do anything to get your business. To promote a new lineup of text messaging phones, the company will attempt to set the Guinness World Record for "Fastest Text Messaging...
Procrastinating shoppers: Check out Free Shipping Day (12/18)

Procrastinating shoppers: Check out Free Shipping Day (12/18)

Just wanted to mention the first-ever national Free Shipping Day on December 18 as a follow-up to the free shipping deadlines I blogged about earlier. The promise is that gifts purchased TOMORROW...
iPhone Watch: Dev-Team announces 3G unlock, AT&T selling 3G refurbs

iPhone Watch: Dev-Team announces 3G unlock, AT&T selling 3G refurbs

The iPhone Dev-Team, makers of PwnageTool and QuickPwn (unlocking/jailbreaking software for the first-gen iPhone and iPod Touch) have, at long last, announced a solution for unlocking the Apple...
New app, Apple-tested, Pope-approved

New app, Apple-tested, Pope-approved

Bible study goes hi-tech? Not exactly, but here's a step in an interesting direction: For the first time ever, The Vatican approved an iPhone application. With iBreviary, on-the-go Catholics can have...
Cell Culture Dish: Most people will access Web via mobile phone in 2020, says study

Cell Culture Dish: Most people will access Web via mobile phone in 2020, says study

I remember my first internet-capable cell phone like it was yesterday -- the sheer WAPpiness of it, the text-based pages, the minutes it would take to load on my teeny weeny display. No wonder there'...
Follow-up: T-Mobile @Home

Follow-up: T-Mobile @Home

Two months ago, I wrote a post about T-Mobile's VoIP service, @Home. I said I'd follow-up and let you all know how I felt about the product after a month or two of use. Well, I like it a lot. But not...
Rumors: New Palm at CES, iPhone nano kinda maybe sorta coming to MWSF

Rumors: New Palm at CES, iPhone nano kinda maybe sorta coming to MWSF

CES and MacWorld are just three weeks off now, with both shows taking place the week of January 5, 2009.  It looks like I'll be staying home in the Bay Area to cover MacWorld, since we may have a...
Want a swiveling T-phone? Nokia bets you do

Want a swiveling T-phone? Nokia bets you do

So not everyone loved the image used in the post about the Palm "New-ness," which showed some unidentifiable doo-hickey from abroad. Sure, it IS a little goofy-looking. And was it supposed to be a...
Sprint Launches BlackBerry Curve 8350i (finally)

Sprint Launches BlackBerry Curve 8350i (finally)

It's been a long 3 months for BlackBerry fanatics wanting Sprint/Nextel's push-to-talk functionality. Now the carrier, which unveiled the BlackBerry Curve 8350i back in September, has finally made...
Free holiday shipping deadlines

Free holiday shipping deadlines

Christmas is fast approaching, but if you haven't gotten all your holiday shopping done yet, take heart -- there's still time to order and receive a new phone by the 25th with at least a few major...
Win a FUZE: HTC (and PhoneDog) is giving away smartphones

Win a FUZE: HTC (and PhoneDog) is giving away smartphones

Been drooling over that sexy new HTC Fuze - AT&T's version of theTouch Pro - and wishing you could get one ... for free?  Well, now youcan! HTC is giving away 120 brand new Fuze's, and a bunch of...
 The first country to allow cellular voting (hint: It's not us)

The first country to allow cellular voting (hint: It's not us)

On Thursday, a new law was passed allowing citizens to vote by cell phone. Cool, huh? Too bad it wasn't by the U.S. To know who the bold, forward-thinking country is, you have to look further east....
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