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T-Mobile’s White Pearl is Officially Official

What’s up with phones named The Pearl that are black instead of white? Examples: the BlackBerry Pearl and the Haier Pearl. Good thing RIM and T-Mobile finally got around to correcting this oversight with this still-dripping-wet White Pearl. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-pearl-8100-officially-shot-out-of-a-cannon-198992 Not much has changed—the phone still has a 1.3-megapixel camera, BlackBerry push email, all sorts of…

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Wiin a Wii At Our Expense

If your wife bought your a PlayStation 3 instead of a Wii for Christmas, here’s your chance to save your worthless marriage with our Gizmodo contest. The contest starts today and goes ’til the end of March. What do you do? Easy. All you have to do is answer three trivia questions in the form…

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Hello Kitty Gallery

If there’s one thing we enjoy more than regular household items is regular household items designed by Hello Kitty. Here’s a gallery of all the wacky Hello Kitty stuff we saw at CES. Our favorite: the Hello Kitty Lady Shaver. Who knows Kitties better than The Kitty?

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Longhorn: The Chinese Fullscreen iPod

If Apple wasn’t going to give people a fullscreen iPod, darn it, the Chinese would do it. Longhorn’s M16 and M18 —which kinda makes for a weird Apple/Microsoft mishmash—are flash based video/audio players that look like the iPhone. So how good is it? https://gizmodo.com/longhorn-m16-and-m18-177494 Form what we saw, video was sharp and actually quite detailed.…

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Who Makes the iPhone? Hon Hai/Foxconn?

Digitimes of Taiwan has their own guesses on who’s making the iPhone. Seeing as Digitimes knows just about all the Taiwanese manufacturers, we’ll say their guesses are pretty good. The big list after the jump. Possible contract makers and component suppliers for iPhone Item Company Assembly Foxconn, FIH* PCB Unimicron Technology, Tripod Technology Camera module…

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Modeo/HTC Smartphone TV Hands-On

Still currently being beta-tested, this HTC smartphone is the de-facto phone for Modeo Mobile TV. Instead of designing a client that’s usable on any smartphone, Modeo’s gone and partnered with HTC to design a phone just for watching video. https://gizmodo.com/modeo-releases-uber-smartphone-165885 From what we saw—the stream was coming locally because of the lousy meeting room location…

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MobiBLU Boxon Hands-On

The Skinny: The MobiBLU Boxon is an MP3/WMA/OGG/WMA-DRM player with a built-in OLED display. Not only that, it’s got an FM Tuner, Recorder, Voice Recorder, and built-in Skype. Geared Toward: MP3 fans who love MobiBLU’s small size. The screen was bright and video was smooth on the OLED display. The Spin: Not only does this…

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Who Made the iPhone?

We’re going to figure this out. HTC Foxconn BenQ Hon Hai Precision Winstron Compal Communications Arima

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Walletex Wallet Flash Credit Card MP3 Player

Carry around one less thing when you trade in your standard MP3 player for the Wallet Flash. It’s a credit card-sized player with a double-sided USB adapter (you can plug it in any direction) and built-in playback controls. The storage ranges from 128MB to 2GB, and is encased in a PVC shell which actually feels…

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Rumor: 3G iPhone Coming

According to an engineer who worked on the network/radio for the iPhone, there’s a good reason Apple didn’t have 3G in this iteration of the iPhone. He says less than 1% of Cingular customers have HSDPA capability—it’s only available in a dozen or so markets. Plus, the engineer says the target users wouldn’t know the…

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Sizemodo: The 108-inch TV

If you’re thinking about rounding up your own Ocean’s 13 posse to break into CES and steal the 108-inch TV, you should probably know how big it is. Here’s a Sizemodo so you know just how large of a truck you’ll have to commandeer to fit Sharp’s fattest baby on board. Sharp and the 108-inch…

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Windows Mobile 5 Already Does What the iPhone Does

We were all very excited to hear that the iPhone announcement met all of our wild expectations. Steve Job’s reality distortion field was in full effect. But in the ugly, sober light of day, a day later, what do we have? A phone that isn’t quite a smartphone? A closed system? https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-iphone-hands-on-i-called-my-mommy-227582 We’re going to…

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Exclusive Gizmodo Apple iPhone Movie

The aspect ratio is a little wacked—the iPhone isn’t nearly that wide—but we’ve got footage of the iPhone spinning in its little glass prison. Spinning, spinning, spinning into our hearts. The aspect ratio’s a little disproportional—we’re working on it. Want pictures instead? Here ya go. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-apple-iphone-360-degree-gallery-50-photos-of-227486 iPhone [Gizmodo]

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Apple iPhone: The Specs & Official Press Release

The full specs: Screen size: 3.5 inches Screen resolution: 320 by 480 at 160 ppi Input method: Multi-touch Operating system: OS X Storage: 4GB or 8GB GSM: Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900) Wireless data: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0 Camera: 2.0 megapixels Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing,…

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Sizemodo: Apple iPhone – You Already Know How Big It Is

Put your iPod up to your face. This is how big the iPhone will be. Here’s the iPod compared to the current market. On the smartphone side, it’s got similar functionality, but it’s much thinner than the Cingular 8525, our current favorite smartphone (which incidentally runs Windows Mobile). The iPhone also doesn’t have 3G. On…

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Macworld Keynote 2007: Windup and John Mayer

11:01: Steve’s thanking everyone who worked on the iPhone, and introducing John Mayer. 11:01: John’s about to take the stage, and we’re about to take all of his six-foot three-inch frame and his sexy, sexy guitar playing. 11:07: Want John Mayer’s song Gravity? Click here. 11:07: Want his second song World to Change? Click here.…

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