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Samsung Omnia Review

The Gadget: Samsung Omnia for Verizon, a touchscreen Windows Mobile 6.1 phone that’s been slicked up with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI and a five-megapixel camera, plus it’s that rare Verizon beast that also packs Wi-Fi. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-announces-omnia-cellphone-on-the-worst-day-ev-5014478 Price: $250 after two-year contract and $70 mail-in rebate. The Verdict: The Omnia is a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone, so…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Porsche P’9522 Cellphone Lacks 3G, Has GPS For Navigating Your Porsche

Porsche has kicked out cellphones before: but none so capable as the upcoming P’9522. It’s a butch but sweetly-minimal design flip phone, with a rotating screen, and it’s just got its FCC pass so it should be on the way here soon. Among its many features, it sadly lacks 3G connectivity, but the rest—including on-board…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

T-Mobile G1 Now Out In White

In case black just isn’t your gadget spirit color, T-Mobile has now released a white version of its Googlephone, the G1. The white G1 will cost the same $180 with a two-year contract as its black (and bronze) counterpart(s), and is available both online and in stores. I might be in a minority opinion here,…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Use Your Cellphone To Control Your Box With TiVo Mobile Website

Adding to an ever expanding list of new features like pizza ordering and Netflix streaming, TiVo’s now bringing you the option of SlingBox-esque control of your box on your cellphone. Their new mobile site, m.tivo.com, allows both subscribers and non-subscribers to browse television shows, schedule recordings to their TiVo box and possibly find new shows…

Tech News Elaine Chow

It’s a Cellphone Strap AND a Hand Warmer

Japan’s just upped their arsenal in the cellphone strap cold war with the addition of a hand warmer pocket. The strap—which comes in egg, fish and baked potato flavors—holds one of those breakable 15-minute hand warmers for easy usage. Fifteen minutes isn’t a whole damn lot, but fifteen minutes in heaven is better than zero…

Tech News Jason Chen

Cellphone Gun Delivers Hot, Sneaky Death, Can’t Send Text Messages

Italian police officers recently seized a tiny gun that’s disguised as a cellphone. It can hold four bullets and is powerful enough to kill somebody. It looks pretty good, phone-wise, if pretty outdated. It’s stuff like this that makes me having to pour my water out at airport security seem even more idiotic. If I…

Tech News Adam Frucci

T-Mobile Samsung Behold Lightning Review

The Gadget: Samsung’s Behold, T-Mobile’s slice of touchscreen feature phone pie with a Korea-style five-megapixel camera and Sammy’s “innovative” TouchWiz UI. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-behold-with-5mp-camera-widgety-touchwiz-ui-fir-5082154 The Price: $150 after the standard rebate and two-year contract The Verdict: The Behold fills the hole in T-Mobile’s lineup for a not-quite-smart feature phone: It does a lot of the stuff a…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Motorola QA30 Leaked: Moto’s First QWERTY Slider

It appears that Motorola is getting ready to add the QA30 to their Q-Series lineup complete with a sliding QWERTY keypad. It isn’t a smartphone and the specs (CDMA, 1x-EVDO connectivity, 2.5 inch TFT, Full HTML browser, 2 MP camera, Bluetooth, MicroSD / MicroSDHC card support, up to 32GB) aren’t going to wow anyone, but…

Tech News Sean Fallon

BlackBerry Storm Torn Down To Reveal Secrets Of Its Click Screen: A Big Button

The guys over at PhoneWreck couldn’t contain themselves: they’ve already taken the BlackBerry Storm apart into a pile of little tiny pieces. And they discovered the secret behind it’s “click” touchscreen—the whole screen’s backplate presses on a single microswitch, so it’s one big button. They also found the Qualcomm MSM7600 processor in there somewhere, and…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

HTC Touch Pro Priced on Verizon: $350 With Contract

Verizon Wireless customers are going to have to drop an extra $50 than their AT&T brethren to get the qwerty-sliding HTC Touch Pro. It popped up on VZW’s web shop for $420 minus a $70 mail-in rebate (hopefully not administered by Rebatestatus.com). [Verizon]

Tech News John Mahoney

Simple Hack Enables Roughly One Gazillion Japanese Emoticons On Any iPhone

Emoji: if you’ve never heard of it, that’s because you’re probably not living in Japan, 12 years old, and a highly social schoolgirl. An emoticon standard that is widely used in the country, it was included in the iPhone 2.2 firmware on the SoftBank network, but not for anyone else. Apparently fed up with his…

Tech News John Herrman

Meizu’s M8 iPhoneclone UI Demoed, Looks Cloned Indeed

Meizu’s fabled M8 iPhoneclone may indeed be soon on sale, but until now we’ve only seen bits and bobs of its user interface: Now Meizu is demonstrating this with a neat little animation site. And guess what? Go on, you’ll never guess! …It’s a pretty similar beast to the iPhone. There’re some tweaks and differences…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Apple’s Approval of BdEmailer Proves App Approval Process is a Crapshoot

At first it seemed that the rules behind the approval process for new apps for the iPhone App Store were pretty cut and dry. You know, they can’t duplicate the functionality of the on-board apps like Mail and iPod, they can’t use too much bandwidth and they can’t cause a security hazard. That first rule…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Sagem Orga Crams AGPS System Aboard SIM Card For Non-GPS Phones

Sagem Orga, in partnership with BlueSky is targeting the array of cellphones (and presumably mobile-internet enabled PCs and such) that currently don’t have GPS with this new invention: a SIM card with AGPS aboard. Clever stuff indeed, packing all the chips for a “highly accurate GPS receiver”, wiring and antenna into a thumbnail-sized space. We’ve…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

iPod Touch Denied Street View, Other Google Maps Upgrades in Firmware 2.2

Our testing has confirmed that iPod Touch users do not get updates to their Google Maps app with firmware 2.2, which, at least on the iPhone, includes the addition of Street View as well as public transit and walking directions. The updated browser interface, podcast downloading and assorted other tweaks are all there, as was…

Tech News John Herrman

iPhone 2.2 Update Available Now

That was fast. It’s barely Nov. 21 and the iPhone 2.2 update is here, all 246MB of it, as promised. Included in the update, according to the release notes and as we’d heard, are all the new Google Maps features we’ve been waiting for like Street View (which is so far butter smooth and delicious…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sprint Asking Employees to Please Resign, Pretty Please

Some companies, like Dell, are encouraging employees to take a day or two off—unpaid, natch—to help the company save money. Then there’s Sprint. Oh, Sprint. Bleeding cash and customers way before the new great depression took root, its most recent quarter was spectacularly disastrous, so we’re not surprised to hear that they asking employees to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Cellphone Concept Has a Sweet Looking Glass

This isn’t the first cellphone concept to incorporate glass, but I’ll be dammed if it isn’t one of the prettiest. There aren’t any details on functionality, but it is clear that designer Mac Funamizu’s “Glassy Glassy” concept takes minimalist design about as far as it can go without ditching the physical phone altogether and implanting…

Tech News Sean Fallon

A Look at the Nokia Damage Test Labs

I’ve long suspected that the best job ever would be to work in product stress testing-because you basically get paid to break shit all day. Nokia sent over a bunch of info detailing how their test centers operate, leaving me fully convinced this would indeed be my dream gig. Not only do they run over…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Samsung Omnia Review

Porsche P’9522 Cellphone Lacks 3G, Has GPS For Navigating Your Porsche

More Nokia E75 QWERTY Slider Cellphone Stuff Leaks Out

T-Mobile G1 Now Out In White

Use Your Cellphone To Control Your Box With TiVo Mobile Website

It’s a Cellphone Strap AND a Hand Warmer

Cellphone Gun Delivers Hot, Sneaky Death, Can’t Send Text Messages

T-Mobile Samsung Behold Lightning Review

Motorola QA30 Leaked: Moto’s First QWERTY Slider

BlackBerry Storm Torn Down To Reveal Secrets Of Its Click Screen: A Big Button

HTC Touch Pro Priced on Verizon: $350 With Contract

Simple Hack Enables Roughly One Gazillion Japanese Emoticons On Any iPhone

Meizu’s M8 iPhoneclone UI Demoed, Looks Cloned Indeed

Apple’s Approval of BdEmailer Proves App Approval Process is a Crapshoot

Sagem Orga Crams AGPS System Aboard SIM Card For Non-GPS Phones

iPod Touch Denied Street View, Other Google Maps Upgrades in Firmware 2.2

iPhone 2.2 Update Available Now

Sprint Asking Employees to Please Resign, Pretty Please

Cellphone Concept Has a Sweet Looking Glass

A Look at the Nokia Damage Test Labs

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