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GSM Touchscreen BlackBerry Storm Specs Leaked, Thunder Name Ditched

Although Verizon definitely has dibs on the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm when it launches in the US, AT&T and T-Mo customers are watching the European rollout of the GSM version to see what’s up for their future. Today BlackBerry News published a leaked spec sheet that confirms iPhone-elbowing performance: 3.2MP camera, video recording, 1GB internal memory…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

T-Mobile Android Event Live Coverage Starts Now

We’re here underneath the picturesque Queensboro bridge at T-Mobile’s official G1 launch event. We’re the first ones on the scene, and the liveblog’s kicking off over at live.gizmodo.com. Be sure to pop over there—it’ll do all of the auto-refresh clicky-clicky for you, so sit back, we’ve got everything covered. Hit us up with all of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Amazon MP3 Store is Preloaded On HTC G1, 6 Million DRM Free Songs

Amazon’s just officially announced that the Amazon MP3 Store will come pre-loaded on the HTC G1 Android phone. It’s a special optimized version of the store which lets T-Mobile G1 users “search, download, buy and play music from Amazon MP3.” That means six million DRM free songs from major and independent labels will be at…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Android Rumors Rounded-Up Before Launch

Over at TmoNews they’ve gathered together as much leaked info as they know about the Android-powered HTC G1/Dream in one place, and it makes for interesting reading ahead of the launch event. The phone’s apparently due on sale “in all stores within 3G boundary area, regardless of whether or not store is in a 3G…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Sound Wave-Driven Liquid Lenses Good For Lightweight Future Phones, UAVs

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have come up with this freaky adaptive liquid-lens that can capture 250 in-focus images per second. It’s essentially droplets of water in a pair, trapped in chamber and driven by a high-frequency sound wave to oscillate.As the drops wiggle back and forth, surface tension changes the droplet’s shapes, and thus…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

HTC’s Magic Labs

The NYTimes’s profile on HTC’s billionaire founder and Chairwoman Cher Wang reveals some interesting facts about the company. The most fun being HTC’s R&D think tank is called Magic Labs, where engineers have titles like Mechanical Wizard and Chief Innovation Wizard. They’ve also got a writer and jeweler among their 50 lucky staff, but probably…

Tech News Brian Lam

Android’s 10 Most Exciting Apps

Amid the iPhone 3G launch hysteria, we made a pronouncement that, looking back now long after the dust has settled, pretty well nailed it: forget hardware, it’s code that counts. Code via the juggernaut that is the App Store, which allowed the iPhone to truly came into its own as a mobile platform. Now, our…

Tech News John Mahoney

Verizon Confirms Contract-Free Service

Verizon has confirmed rumors that it would join other carriers by offering a contract-free service for customers who prefer not to be tied down by the man. As expected, you must pay full, unsubsidized prices for phones in order to be eligible (or bring your own CDMA devices), but the press release does not mention…

Tech News Sean Fallon

iPhone Home Activation Is Coming, Needs Store Visit, And No 32GB iPhone Says Rumor

Over at BoyGeniusReport they’ve got more info on the iPhone 3G home activation story: it turns out it is true-ish. A source has apparently confirmed to BGR that home activation is indeed coming…but it’s only the pre-activation billing and credit part. In other words you’ll still have to turn up at an Apple store (presumably…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Samsung’s Armani 2 Night Effect Cellphone Forgets to Include Stylishness

Samsung’s original Armani phone was a tiny, touchscreen, haptic-feedback gizmo, and actually not bad looking at all: so I’m confused about the upcoming Armani 2 Night Effect. It’s a plain candybar cellphone, emblazoned with large Emporio Armani emblems and it seems to have totally forgone attempts at simple stylishness. Get this—around the edge of the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

iPhone Users with Non-iPhone Plans Get Friendly Warning Notes from AT&T

I’m not sure how far to read into this, but a Boy Genius reader who uses an iPhone with a non-iPhone data plan sent in a note he or she received from AT&T. It was friendly and definitely not a threat, but it does border on stalkery, with a hint of forboding: Subject: Important information…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

How Android Will Help Google Profile You

The first Android phone is dropping next week, and the people who pick it up will be toting around mobile Google software in their pocket wherever they go. They’ll be using mobile Google apps, probably in concert with using Gmail, Gcal and Google Maps on their normal computer. We know that Google is tossing out…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Palm Treo Pro Finds A US Carrier, Is It AT&T?

Palm announced in their quarterly call that it had found an unnamed carrier to sell their new Treo Pro, but declined to mention who, specifically, would peddle the $550 phone (at a potentially subsidized cost). WM Experts seem to think the carrier will be AT&T, which makes enough sense, since AT&T tends to get the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

HTC G1 (Dream) Shows Up on T-Mobile’s Website

We know it is going to be officially announced on Tuesday, but it appears that T-Mobile couldn’t wait to get their brand new G1/Dream/Whatever Android-powered baby up on their website. The screenshot above highlights a pre-registration link (not working) inside the my.t-mobile.com portal. [T-Mobile]

Tech News Sean Fallon

LTE Downloads Cute Animal Pictures at 170Mbps While Driving 40MPH

The next thing in fast mobile internet is the 4G standard LTE. While we’ve seen an LTE demo before, it wasn’t quite as ridiculous as the LTE demo T-Mobile and Nortel just wrapped up: While driving 67kph on a highway in Bonn, Germany, they were able to hit download speeds 170Mbps and upload at 50Mbps.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

LA Train Victim Makes 35 Phone Calls From Beyond the Grave

If you haven’t been creeped out yet today, this crazy morbid story from the scene of the recent Metrolink train disaster should do the trick. Apparently, family members of passenger Chuck Peck received 35 calls from his cellphone throughout the night of the crash. There was nothing but static on the other end of the…

Tech News Sean Fallon

First Images of Helio Ocean 2

Not so long ago, the FCC leaked the Helio Ocean 2. But those pictures were black and white technical drafts, not featuring nearly enough colors and blinky lights to captivate our stimuli-needing attention spans. But a new FCC filing includes real shots of the new Helio Ocean. And from what we can tell, it’s got…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Bad News: Cellphones Make Your Sperm Stupid

Bad news, dudes and ladies who hope to someday be impregnated by said dudes! According to some researches from the Cleveland Clinic, cellphones wreck your sperms up, making them too stupid to knock ladies up. Basically, because we keep phones in our pockets within a few inches of our hanging brains, there’s a decent chance…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Nokia E72 and E75 Leak Out, QWERTY Goodness in Slider and Candybar Shape

Over at Symbianfreaks there’re a bunch of photos and this video which seem to be leaked data on two upcoming Nokia cellphones: the E72 and E75. Both have QWERTY keypads, with the E72 seeming to combine the S60 platform with a side-sliding keypad and the E75 looking pretty business-like in a BlackBerry-esque with its large…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Control Cellphones With Your Brain Using the NeuroSky Sensor

In case you’ve ever wanted to dabble in telepathy, NeuroSky Inc. has prototyped a new sensor that lets you control your cellphone with brainwaves. Based on similar medical technology, the system can roughly measure brain relaxation and concentration to pass on appropriate commands to a cellphone. Though the system is made up of several parts…

Tech News Elaine Chow

GSM Touchscreen BlackBerry Storm Specs Leaked, Thunder Name Ditched

T-Mobile Android Event Live Coverage Starts Now

Amazon MP3 Store is Preloaded On HTC G1, 6 Million DRM Free Songs

Android Rumors Rounded-Up Before Launch

Sound Wave-Driven Liquid Lenses Good For Lightweight Future Phones, UAVs

HTC’s Magic Labs

Android’s 10 Most Exciting Apps

Verizon Confirms Contract-Free Service

iPhone Home Activation Is Coming, Needs Store Visit, And No 32GB iPhone Says Rumor

Samsung’s Armani 2 Night Effect Cellphone Forgets to Include Stylishness

iPhone Users with Non-iPhone Plans Get Friendly Warning Notes from AT&T

How Android Will Help Google Profile You

Palm Treo Pro Finds A US Carrier, Is It AT&T?

HTC G1 (Dream) Shows Up on T-Mobile’s Website

LTE Downloads Cute Animal Pictures at 170Mbps While Driving 40MPH

LA Train Victim Makes 35 Phone Calls From Beyond the Grave

First Images of Helio Ocean 2

Bad News: Cellphones Make Your Sperm Stupid

Nokia E72 and E75 Leak Out, QWERTY Goodness in Slider and Candybar Shape

Control Cellphones With Your Brain Using the NeuroSky Sensor

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