Brian Lam

Samsung Ubicell Instant Cell to WiFi Box Coming to Sprint

Samsung’s Ubicell, first seen at CTIA, is finally finding a home on Sprint. It’s a box that you plug into the wall, at which point the box blossoms into a femtocell-powered base station good for 5000 sq feet of fresh reception. Apparently rates would be unlimited, like Tmobile’s @ Home WiFi UMA service. Good. But…

Alongside the more prominent gadget news from Sprint’s Technology Summit today, Sacha Segan is reporting on Sanyo’s First candybar phone. No other details were provided, except that it’s not yet another ugly Sanyo, for a change. [Gearlog]

EVDO Blackberry Pearl coming to Sprint [Gearlog]

HTC Touch Upgraded, Coming to Sprint

WThe HTC Touch, with it’s gesture based UI tweaks on top of a WM6 OS was a cute concept, but flawed. Sprint’s picking it up, giving it CDMA/EVDO superpowers, doubling the processing speed from 200MHz to 400MHz to deal with Bill’s Bloat, and eventual revision A. speed, and assisted GPS, once they software update it.…

Palm Gandolf Officially the Centro, Smallest Treo Ever, For Hobbits and Tweens

The Sprint Tech summit happened today and Palm unveiled the Palm Centro to analysts today. Gearlog has a hands on, saying that it runs on EVDO, is targeted at youngsters, and has a QWERTY and touchscreen, as we could have gathered from the leaked shots and carrier. The price? An unbelievable $99, and supposedly, it’ll…

Giant Homer Head Radio

It’s just an AM/FM radio. It doesn’t go “Doh!” or “WooHoo!” or sing “Spiderpig, Spiderpig!”But somehow, this giant Homer head radio, almost a foot tall, is good enough to make me think about buying it.

Woz and Kathy Griffin Sitting in a Tree

Kay Eye Es Es Eye En Gee. [ContactMusic]

First Helio Fin Review and Full Gallery

The Fin clamshell is Helio’s best looking piece of hardware, bar none. (And pun intended.) Samsung’s Ultra designers made sure of that, giving the phone an 11.4mm thick profile, OLED external screen, and sturdy magnesium shell, making it almost as thin as an iPhone, but not quite as slim as a candybar like the Sony…

Live Helio Ocean Fin Grope [UPDATE: Archive Video Up]

Noah unboxed this baby this morning, but I’m looking forward to tearing the back out of my Fin’s box right now. BTW I haven’t showered, yet, so don’t mind the bedhead. Hit the jump for the live video. UPDATE: Archive video of the hour-long grope is live.

Live Helio Fin Unboxing and Grope by B.Lam in ~20 minutes using Justin.tv’s lifecam. What music would you like in the background, nerds? (Here’s our first gallery, from earlier this morning, btw.) [Justin.tv/Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/helio-fin-unboxing-meet-the-thinnest-clamshell-in-the-290152

Fuze Home Media Server is a Whole House Solution

Fuze Media Systems unveiled their full home media system, which has several advantages over the pretty and fully competent Microsoft Windows Media Center. In a nutshell, it’s designed to be used throughout the entire house, with multiroom streaming. There are extenders called the Fuzemini that have HDMI out, DVD/CD drives, CableCARD. There’s even a touchscreen…

Box Converts XM-Ready Cars to Sirius-Ready Temples of Howard Stern

The honkin’ GM Sirius box, which replaces the XM box currently found in most XM-enabled GM cars 2003 and newer. This new Sirius box is compatible with about 8 million cars on the road. There are boxes from Directed that do the same for Hondas, Toyotas and Lexus autos, too.

First Review of Sony’s XDR-S3HD Tabletop HD Radio (Verdict: Damn You Knob!)

Sony’s embracing HD radio, the digital twin of our existing FM band. And when their first, the cherry-wood XDR-S3HD radio, switches from FM to HD, you can hear the difference in a very positive way through the twin ~3-inch papercone drivers. And the display comes alive with track and artist info. But that knob, oh,…

Digital Fuel Mizer Tells You When You Guzzle Gas Like an A-Hole

So I really think this Fuel Mizer Gadget is cool. When you’re really being heavy with the gas and brake, it blinks yellow, then red, and beeps, detecting your acceleration and deceleration using what I presume is a built-in accelerometer. It’s supposed to coax drivers into driving more gracefully to preserve fuel. But alternatively, those…

Today, Symantec and Intel announced Project Hood, which would result into security systems built natively into processors. No other info was given. [Reuters]

The Helio Fin is a Magnesium-Cased Samsung Ultra Flip Phone!

Holy crap. The Helio Fin is the company’s first clamshell, and is built on Samsung Ultra phone DNA. As such, it’s only 11.4mm thick, and hot damn, it’s the only one made of magnesium. It’s also the only Helio handset to have Garmin turn-by-turn GPS software on it, although you’ll have to rent it to…

First Look at the Bug Labs Open Source Hardware

Phil Torrone went to a NYC event for Bug Labs where they unveiled the first of their component, open-source hardware for DIY gadgets. More photos over at Make. [Make]

Boy Genius Links T-Mobile and the BlackBerry Curve 8320 on Sept 24th

Boy Genius published this leaked T-Mobile document with details of the Blackberry Curve 8320 launch pegged to September 24th—the Curve with Wi-Fi. That makes sense, given TMO’s gung ho attitude toward Wi-Fi, with all those hotspots. And oh yeah—how convenient—that brand new TMO @ home service that swaps handsets between Wi-Fi and cellular calling seamlessly.…

Using Belkin’s Weird Powerstrips

[Cue Fairytale music…]Once upon a time, a geek found that he had way too many gadgets, and too few AC outlets to use them all at once. A simple powerstrip would have been a easy fix, but because he considered himself a serious gearhead, he wanted *special* powerstrip. The first one he tried was called…

Video of “Lights Out” the First Native iPhone Game

The iPhone’s hacked video conferencing app won the Iron Coder challenge at the C-4 Dev conference, but the silver prize is tons more fun. “Lights Out” is the world’s first third part iPhone game to run native on the system. It’s free, but you’ll need to download iActivator to jailbreak and run the app from…