Jason Chen, Author at Gizmodo

Sprint’s Samsung Upstage is Two-Face Without the Horrible Disfigurement

Just as we told you last night, the Samsung Ultra Music phone has been rebranded the “Upstage” and is taking its dual-sided music/calling to Sprint. The phone itself (see our grope and gallery of it from CES) has two faces, one with music controls and a larger screen and the back (front?) with a dialpad…

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HTC Shift is the UMPC for UMPC Haters

It surprises even ourselves when we say that HTC’s Shift should be the UMPC device that makes us—who were mild on UMPCs before—a fan of the platform. Instead of using a split keyboard or a *shudder* on-screen circle pad, the Shift makes like the Advantage with its sliding and flipping screen. With the input problem…

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HTC Advantage Heads to the US This Summer

The HTC Advantage—or what you’ve been seeing as the Athena or the Ameo—is finally going to hit US shores. Most of its features will be the same as before: 5-inch VGA, 8GB hard disk, 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM, QWERTY, Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA, Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, miniSD, and a detachable QWERTY keyboard. https://gizmodo.com/htc-athena-on-t-mobile-netherlands-as-the-ameo-230890 Fortunately for…

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MapQuest’s Send to Cell Makes Mobile Mapping Slightly More Convenient

MapQuest’s newest feature in their quest to maintian what’s left of the public mindshare that Yahoo, Microsoft Live, and Google Maps haven’t already eaten away is called “Send to Cell.” You first find map a location or set of driving directions on MapQuest, then click the “Send to Cell” button and type in your phone…

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Apple TV Licked by Olivia Munn

Fans of Attack of the Show will recognize Olivia Munn and her Munness, but those of you unfamiliar with Olivia will undoubtedly have her face (if not tongue) etched into your head after you watch this clip. After all, it worked for Jessica Chobot, PSP Licker. Too bad it did nothing for the PSP, whose…

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Relativity Watch Confuses Everybody

“Modeled” on Einstein’s theory of relativity, this Relativity Watch actually makes the numbers move instead of the hands. This, of course, makes you dizzy if you continuously stare at it for more than 12 hours. If you’re a fan of gimmicky watches and confusing your friends, well, we can’t think of a way to better…

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Samsung Patents Illustrated Mobile IMing

Samsung‘s just filed a patent for a cellphone IM program that illustrates chats with either talking heads or full-bodied figures. Look how saucy that Antonio Banderas is in the middle. “Wherrrre shall we meet on Thurrrrrsday”. We remember playing with something like this on Yahoo chat a few years ago, with comic book characters saying…

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Sprint Faker Hands-On: Pretend You Have a Life

Sprint‘s teamed up with game company Moderati for a mobile Faker application, which essentially lets you use your phone to pretend to have a life. It’s gimmicky, sure, but it does have some neat features. Among the ones that you won’t use very often are pickup lines, rejections, bar dares, and a fake Breathalyzer. Fun…

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Gyration Media Center Remote Hands-On

Jeremy “Kap-in-yo-ass” Kaplan at Gearlog took the Gyration Vista Media Center remote out for a spin, and he loves it. See, it’s the only Microsoft-approved Media Center remote that has a Gyration motion-style mouse built in. So when you’re sitting on your couch you can both click and wave to move the cursor around on…

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Eight Laptop Coolers Reviewed (Verdict: They’re All Pretty Meh)

Dan “Huevos” Ackerman’s very protective of his groin. As such, he needs the best laptop cooler money can buy. He takes out eight (who knew there were that many) laptop coolers and rates them on looks, size, and how they feel on his creamy thighs. The winner in terms of temperature (measuring at the lowest…

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Paradox Trackball PS2 Controller Now Available for Pre-order

Remember that trackball PS2 controller that looked like it had an exploding testicle? It’s available for pre-order at a reduced price. For only $26.99 you’ll be able to have trackball-like aim on your PS2, letting you play the hundreds of FPS and action games that the rest of the world already tried years ago. Here’s…

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KangaRoom Power Strip Organizer Hides Your Shame

The area under our desk is a prime fire zone seeing since the wires and power strips are all tied in the biggest knot this side of Gordium. That’s fine hidden under a desk, but awful in the living room or somewhere that actual people can see. Voila, the Black Box Cord organizer from KangaRooM.…

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Dealzmodo: Woot-off Still Going On

How were the deals yesterday? Were they any good? No? Well, keep using the Woot-off checkers so you won’t have to waste your day refreshing. Refreshing Woot, that is. Keep refreshing Gizmodo. Woot

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Chinese Mouse Tablet Looks Like the X-Men’s Launchpad

Remember the basketball court that opens up and lets out the X-Jet in X-Men? That’s exactly what this mouse looks like—except instead of a jet, a dragon comes out. It’s too bad this dragon doesn’t fly or shoot eye beams or throw exploding cards (we suppose it does have claws). It just acts as a…

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Virgin America Tentatively Approved for Market Penetration

As much fun as it would be to make lame jokes about the name Virgin and how phallic a big steel tube flying through the sky is, we’ll just leave it at saying Virgin America’s just been tentatively approved by the US Department of Transportation. Virgin, for the unfamiliar, has state-of-the-art planes that play Doom…

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Hands-On Impressions: Streaming YouTube and Google Video to the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3

If you’re not familiar with Orb, it’s both a streaming and a broadcasting solution to get audio and video onto your TV. They’ve just introduced a new version of Orb MyCasting that works with the Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3 game consoles. This means you can now play back pictures, music, and movies sitting on…

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Behind the Scenes of Apple’s 1984 Super Bowl Ad

Everyone’s seen the Apple 1984 ad more times than they’d like by now—heck you can say the same about the Hilary version as well—but you’ve probably never seen the behind the scenes video. Gaze as people’s heads are shaven, makeup is painted on, and everyone’s all smiles as they get set to make the most…

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BlackBerry 8320 Sneak Peek

For the millions of hard-working office monkeys who are saddled with BlackBerries whether they want them or not, we present a sneak peek at the BlackBerry 8320. You saw the 8300 earlier this month on video, but this 8320 has something its lesser brother doesn’t: Wi-Fi. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-8300-caught-on-video-242195 Get a good look folks, cause this is…

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Intel Making Even More Efficient Chips for UMPCs

Intel‘s just announced that they’re going to release a processor especially designed for UMPCs. Unlike laptops and tablets, UMPCs really, really emphasize portability (it’s even in the name), so a super-low-powered 45nm processor makes sense. Whether this will be dual-core or single core or how much L2 cache it’ll have is still up in the…

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The Laptop Shade for Outdoor Laptopsmen

File this one under “so obvious, we wish we thought of it.” It’s a fold-up shade from the IT Helper, which essentially installs onto your laptop and folds out to shade the screen when you’re outdoors. Simple and easy—but adds a bit of bulk to your laptop—it’s one of those low-tech gadgets that’s super useful…

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Sprint’s Samsung Upstage is Two-Face Without the Horrible Disfigurement

HTC Shift is the UMPC for UMPC Haters

HTC Advantage Heads to the US This Summer

MapQuest’s Send to Cell Makes Mobile Mapping Slightly More Convenient

Apple TV Licked by Olivia Munn

Relativity Watch Confuses Everybody

Samsung Patents Illustrated Mobile IMing

Sprint Faker Hands-On: Pretend You Have a Life

Gyration Media Center Remote Hands-On

Eight Laptop Coolers Reviewed (Verdict: They’re All Pretty Meh)

Paradox Trackball PS2 Controller Now Available for Pre-order

KangaRoom Power Strip Organizer Hides Your Shame

Dealzmodo: Woot-off Still Going On

Chinese Mouse Tablet Looks Like the X-Men’s Launchpad

Virgin America Tentatively Approved for Market Penetration

Hands-On Impressions: Streaming YouTube and Google Video to the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3

Behind the Scenes of Apple’s 1984 Super Bowl Ad

BlackBerry 8320 Sneak Peek

Intel Making Even More Efficient Chips for UMPCs

The Laptop Shade for Outdoor Laptopsmen

Artemis 2 Crew Become First Humans to Travel Beyond Earth Orbit Since the 1970s

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Labubus Might Be Labu-Bust After Pop Mart Posts Record Share Loss

Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

Nvidia Needs to Remind Itself What PC Gamers Actually Want

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE

‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Doing Right By Debbie

New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang

Marvel Might Have Finally Dealt With One of the Most Hated ‘Spider-Man’ Characters Around

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