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Sprint Dumps Needy Customers

Did you ever have a boyfriend/girlfriend who seem really cool until they start calling all the time, forcing you to dump them even though they were super hot? No? Well Sprint has, except they call these crazy boyfriends/girlfriends their customers. In a “Dear John” letter for the record books, Sprint dumped their most high-maintenance customers.…

AIM on iPhone Woes? Try eBuddy

All the AT&T calling plans on the iPhone include 200 SMS messages, but if you’re pushing that limit where you’ll have to start paying per message, eBuddy gives you access to regular old AIM on your iPhone. Go to this URL and you can use AIM without paying a per-message charge. It’s not perfect, though.…

Vertu Sort of Announces 3G Ascent Ti Phone

The Ascent Ti, the next phone in Vertu’s overly flashy line, received the dullest unveiling: an FCC filing. Good thing it had enough newness to make up for it. Looks like the Ti is going 3G with UMTS 2100, which means it won’t work on our 3G in the States. It’ll also have a 3…

Toshiba Portege High-Resolution Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Unboxed

We’ve seen the Toshiba G900 Windows Mobile 6 smartphone work its way past the FCC already, but Matt from Tracy and Matt have an unboxing of the 800×400-enabled touchscreen phone up now. They compare it to similar HTC phones and Samsung WM phones and pretty much come out with the conclusion that this is gigantic.…

Sex advice from iPhone line waiters. Choice Quote: ” I would guess that the closer you get to the front of the line, the lower the skill set you’re going to find.” [Nerve]

InflightPower’s Chargers Turns Airplane Headphone Jacks into iPhone/iPod USB Power

Inflight Power’s Airline chargers could be just the thing to save you from total boredom the next time you’re on a transoceanic flight. How? By taking the audio jack in your seat’s armrest and turning that into actual power to charge up your iPhone or iPod (or any device) via USB. The standard USB-capable version…

“iWhatever” is the title of private memo by Verizon Wireless COO Jack Plating—of which Valleywag got a copy. [Valleywag]

iLife ’07 went golden master (final), which means it will probably ship soon. [MacScoop]

Nokia is rumored to be working on an N95 smartphone with 8GB instead of 160MB. All I gotta say is, Why not 12GB? [Electronista]

iPhone Adobe Flash Support Coming

Critics have bashed Apple for omitting Adobe Flash support from the iPhone’s “real life” Safari browser, and with good reason: a quick spin around the Web on an iPhone reveals sites that don’t work, or don’t work well without the plug-in. Now, it’s rumored to be coming, via a quote from Mossberg himself. The question…

Proporta Laptop Battery Gives You Extra Laptop, USB Juice

If carrying around an extra laptop battery isn’t enough, take a look at this Proporta Portable Laptop Battery. It’s an external battery which has multiple types of connectors to fit all sorts of laptops, but also has the capability to charge USB gadgets as well. With the somewhat generous 6000mAh charge, you can make sure…

Is the iPhone Worthy of Pantsing?

Lam and I are both holed up doing a review that will both move the iPhone conversation forward and cut through all the other half-assed review bullshit we’ve seen so far. No fluff here; this is the review you’ve been waiting for. You’ll soon find out whether the iPhone is worthy of a pantsing.

Very unconfirmed reports say AT&T’s activated over 1 million iPhones already. To put this into perspective, this is the same site that claimed there was an internal AT&T memo telling reps to force accessory purchases. [Waiting for iPhone via MacRumors]

Video Proof of Geek Squad Stealing Porn

Click to viewThe Geek Squad, Best Buy’s tie-wearing, Beetle-driving, and now porn-stealing tech group, was caught transferring pornographic images from a customer’s machine. The sting was orchestrated by The Consumerist, who give a play-by-play of how they set it up. Check it out, it’s work safe. Be sure to give it a Digg while you’re…

Online orders from store.apple.com that were given the 2-4 week shipping date are actually shipping now, direct from China.

Japanese Yakuza Cellphone Strap

Want a little grimacing Asian man attached to your phone? Sure, we all do. Now with this Yakuza cellphone strap, your little Asian man fetish can be satisfied at home, at work or even on the go. And if his pants are loose enough to stick an even smaller cellphone into, you can pretend it’s…

Velcro Wall Socket is Kinda Useless

This concept Velcro wall socket seems like it would be a good idea on paper, seeing as it attaches Velcro to both the socket and AC adapters so you can keep them close when not in use. But in practice, the fact that you can keep a plug attached close to the wall, instead of…

Travelers Phrasebook T-Shirt Lets Your Chest Do the Talking

If you’re a world traveler heading out to exotic destinations this summer, this Traveler’s Phrasebook T-Shirt might be just for you. It uses the same pictograms you see on international signs across the globe, bringing world communication down to its most basic level. Designed by Artemy Lebedev of Optimus Maximus keyboard fame, it covers the…

Gamer Buys Banned Refurbished Xbox 360

Label this as unconfirmed for the moment (we’ve since written Microsoft for comment), but one tipster told us about a refurbished Xbox 360 that couldn’t connect to Live. When he called Microsoft, they said that his box had been “banned” from the service by the previous owner and nothing could be done one the matter.…

Hard Drives Could Write 100x Faster

Using a laser flash of only 40 billionths of a millionth of a second, scientists have learned how to alter the magnetism of one bit of hard drive disc 100x faster than technologies on the market today do—meaning hard drive writing speeds would increase proportionally. This technological leap is due to heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)…