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Smart Battery Will Warn You Before Your Cellphone Explodes

A new “intelligent” lithium-ion battery is supposed to prevent explosions and fire accidents by sending constant updates on its own health. Developed by researchers at NTT DoCoMo, the battery uses a 8-bit microcomputer “brain” to monitor its condition and relay the information to the cellphone user. More »

7:00 PM on Sat Jul 26 2008
By Elaine Chow
455 views, 18 comments

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Smudgy Pictures of Nokia's Tube Show New, Bland Interface

A bunch of new photos and specs for Nokia's Tube, a.k.a. The 5800 XpressMusic, have been leaked to the Internet. The alleged iPhone killer will apparently come with a 16:9 16 million color TFT LCD display with 640 X 360 pixel resolution, haptic feedback, a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Dual LED flash, a built-in GPS and 140MB RAM. Also, lots of grease and fingerprints, it seems. More »

1:30 PM on Sat Jul 26 2008
By Elaine Chow
4,899 views, 22 comments

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AT&T BlackBerry Bold Pushed Back to September(ish)

First it was July, then mid-August, but now BlackBerryNews is pegging the AT&T BB Bold with a launch date around September 1, contingent on how quick they can train personnel on the phone. The Bold was also supposed to release first on Rogers today, but that has been pushed back to July 29. [BlackBerryNews]

8:21 PM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Adrian Covert
5,043 views, 26 comments

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Question of the Day: Do You Feel Naked Without Your Cellphone?

It seems like a distant memory now, but there was a time I could walk out of my house without a cellphone and never give it a second thought. As the years have gone by I have found myself growing increasingly attached to my phone. To be perfectly honest, I would rather not be bothered with phone calls and emails when I'm out—so why the hell do I bring my damn phone with me when I'm riding on a mountain bike trail? Seriously, it's unhealthy. So, I have to ask—are you like me? Do you feel naked without your cellphone? More »

5:20 PM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Sean Fallon
7,662 views, 73 comments

Latest by n/a: Other - I don't have one... SHING! I'm 19 and I don't have a cellphone, in fact I despise the things. I know you can turn them off but I just don't want to be able to be contacted at more »

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LG Seizes Bikini Phone As Opportunity To Put Models in Bikinis

What a brilliant idea by someone at LG to name their KF600—a phone we've covered before—the Bikini. What better way can you think of, besides more money, to convince your models to pose in Bikinis? None. None better. Just when we thought Samsung had the upper hand on shoehorning Korean ladies into product photos, LG goes and takes it to another level. Will we see a subsequent "Samsung Topless" retaliation? Can we, please? More »

3:00 PM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Jason Chen
8,843 views, 31 comments

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iPhone 2.1 Firmware Has Tiny Glimmer of Copy-and-Paste Shining Inside

When Apple said it didn't care about cut and paste on the iPhone, it's possible that it meant "not right now, but soon, possibly." Because over at MacNN they're reporting that the developer firmware 2.1 may have hints of copy-paste within it. "In exploring the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj in the current iPhone WebKit framework, there are entries for several commands the firmware does not currently support, including cutting, copying and pasting," apparently. There's also a reference to a "mobile radio" but whether that pertains to internet radio functionality for the phone is impossible to divine. [MacNN via Macrumors]

1:20 PM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Kit Eaton
7,346 views, 38 comments

Latest by B. Whaler: Screw cut and paste. Screw better GPS. Just make this POS stable and fast. Apple's quality is pathetic nowadays. And if Microsoft, Sony, et al., don't see this as the way to stop the Apple rocketship, they are fools. (And this is written by more »

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Golden Shellback Hands-on: Phones Can Make Calls While Underwater

I just got to play with a phone that had been waterproofed using the Golden Shellback technology, and it was pretty amazing, not to mention legit. In the video above, Golden Shellback inventor Sid Martin took a Golden Shellbacked BB Pearl, started a call, dropped it in a glass of ice water, and it all worked without a hitch.
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10:30 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Adrian Covert
8,043 views, 48 comments

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Samsung's Cellphone Form-Factor Patents Are Weird

Unwired View just dug through several of Samsung's patents to get at what the types of form factors possibly rolling out of their trough in the near future. They're all weird. More »

4:20 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Jason Chen
2,276 views, 7 comments

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Ballmer Hints at Zune Phone in Memo to Microsoft Employees

In a giant memo to Microsoft employees laying out strategy and changes for the next fiscal year, Steve Ballmer spends a paragraph comparing their way of doing things (choice) versus Apple (end-to-end). Unexceptional, except he says that More »

2:40 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By matt buchanan
7,142 views, 60 comments

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He Was Probably Wearing His Seatbelt, Too...

Minneapolis native Grayson Clevenger allegedly robbed an apartment and stole a car. Police pursued him. And when detectives called Clevenger's cellphone to negotiate his arrest, he answered, "Dude, I can't talk, I'm being chased by the police."

And then he hung up. Clevenger eventually escaped on foot around the University of Minnesota campus and remains at large. [MyFoxTwinCities via bbGadgets]

10:15 AM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Mark Wilson
5,874 views, 45 comments

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Mobile Safari vs. Opera Mobile vs. Skyfire: Who's the Fastest?

Three of the best mobile browsers that act like grown up ones are Mobile Safari, Skyfire and Opera Mobile 9.5. Even though the latter two (both for Windows Mobile) are still betas, Laptop Mag decided to toss them all into a race anyway, seeing which could deliver piping hot content the fastest. They ran Opera and Skyfire on an AT&T HTC Tilt, so everyone was surfing on the same 3G network with beefy hardware. Spoiler: Skyfire delivered pages in one third of the time it took Safari or Opera. It's because Skyfire cheats. More »

9:00 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By matt buchanan
15,501 views, 28 comments

Latest by bubuli: OperaMini is the best. more »

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iPhone 3G Selling Twice as Fast as Original

The one major bit out of AT&T's quarterly earnings call is that the iPhone 3G is selling twice as fast as the original iPhone did last summer—in case the unending squiggles of people trailing out of Apple Stores and AT&T shops didn't tip you off. They didn't actually say how many were sold, but we know that worldwide Apple sold a million of them as of nine days ago, just three days after launch. Of course, the hot $199 price—undoubtedly responsible for the phone's brief life on shelves—means AT&T won't actually make money off of it until 2010. You know, when we're on our fourth-gen iPhone. [Alley Insider]

5:40 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By matt buchanan
4,001 views, 31 comments

Latest by n/a: It's only selling twice as fast because it's available worldwide. Last year, it was only available in the US for quite some time. more »

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SlyDial: Avoid Annoying Conversations by Going Directly to Voicemail

If there is one thing I can't stand it is getting into long-winded conversations with people on the phone. This is especially true if that person happens to be annoying. If I am forced to initiate the call, I find myself muttering a silent prayer that they won't pick up, but the fact of the matter is that annoying people are always available. The good news is that SlyDial has come up with a solution to this problem with a service that allows the caller to go directly to voicemail. More »

4:00 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Sean Fallon
12,650 views, 56 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: This is a social problem, it can't be solved with going just to voicemail. Be able to tell someone when to stop calling you, it's a social skill you have to learn and be able to do. Just come out more »

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Dealzmodo: Treo 755p For $100 on Verizon

It's not even a year old, but the Treo 755p is already being axed by Verizon to make way for the Centro. However, it will not die in vain. You can now score the phone from Verizon for $100 with a 2-year contract. [Verizon via Treocentral]

1:50 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Sean Fallon
1,619 views, 11 comments

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Sony Pushes Out Three New Walkman Phones, the W302, W902 and W595

It's the third birthday of Sony Ericsson's Walkman phone label, and to celebrate it's launching three new music-based cellphones. The W302 and W902 (left, center in the image) are both candybar cells, with the 302 having an FM radio, and 2-megapixel cam, and the 902 with a 5-megapixel cam and apparently matching the high audio quality of the W980 phone. The W595 is a slide phone with built-in stereo speakers so users can "share sounds with their friends" (read: annoy passers-by with irritating tunes) but it also has twin jacks so you can share music privately. All four phones are quad-band GSM, have "shake control," come in a selection of colors and will hit the streets at the end of the year. Press release below, which also details some new accessories like wireless portable speakers. More »

5:09 AM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,863 views, 14 comments

Latest by Mike918: Looks like the same motorola strategy to me... more »

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BlackBerry Storm to Get Visual Voicemail on Verizon

We mentioned that there were rumors that Verizon was going to be bringing its own version of visual voicemail out sometime, and now there are further rumblings that this will include visual voicemail on the BlackBerry Storm. This makes the touchscreen, haptic-feedback smartphone sound even more like a real iPhone competitor, wouldn't you say? [Electric Pig]

5:47 AM on Mon Jul 21 2008
By Kit Eaton
7,503 views, 37 comments

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FCC Asked to Get Carriers to Hurry Up Local Number Portability Already

With all the advances in technology we've had over the last couple of decades, you'd think that something as simple as changing your land line number into a cellular one would take hours at most. At least Congress does, and its now urging the FCC to put rules in place that will speed up local number portability processing. More »

5:30 PM on Sat Jul 19 2008
By Elaine Chow
2,549 views, 14 comments

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Question of the Day: Do You Support Hands-Free Laws?

It seems like common sense—if drivers have two hands on the wheel they are less likely to get in an accident on the road. Therefore, all states should adopt a hands-free law when it comes to driving and cellphone use. However, there are studies out there that suggest hands-free driving with a Bluetooth headset is as dangerous as driving under the influence of alcohol. Whether that is true or not, there is still the problem of implementing the law in such a way that it becomes a truly effective deterrent. So, despite these potential shortcomings, do you support hands free laws? More »

5:00 PM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Sean Fallon
7,544 views, 133 comments

Latest by witnessx: Keeping both hands on the wheel really isn't the answer, otherwise they'd ban manual transmissions. more »

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