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Android 0.9 SDK Beta Now Available: Includes Major UI Update

The Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta represents the first formal release on the path to Android 1.0 and it is available now for download. Outside of the normal bug fixes, users will notice some major UI updates-including a new widget-enhanced home screen, a tab to pull up apps, a camera and a media player. There…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Official: T-Mobile Confirms First Android Phone

T-Mobile has confirmed that the first Android phone (dubbed HTC Dream) would be released before Christmas. While they did not give an exact date, all signs are pointing to October as the most likely month for a rollout to begin. [Yahoo] https://gizmodo.com/rumor-htc-dream-spotted-in-real-life-leaked-video-5035388

Tech News Sean Fallon

HTC Dream Gets the FCC Stamp of Approval

For those of you keeping score at home, HTC’s Dream, due to hit T-Mobile in October as the first Android phone, just got tapped by the FCC’s rubber stamp. Unfortunately there aren’t any of those h-o-t product shots that the FCC is usually known for to give us a better look at the device, just…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sprint Instinct Application Updates Go Live

If you’re rolling with the Instinct, you might have already noticed your applications prompting you for an update. If they haven’t yet, they will soon. Some of the app improvements include a less sucky browsing experience on Yahoo, Hotmail, Best Buy and YouTube; faster, more responsive Sprint TV/radio; performance improvements for the Music Store; less…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Question of the Day: What Do You Use to Clean Your Screens?

A big, bright, beautiful screen is a great thing-but keeping it smudge and dust free can be annoying to say the least. This is especially true with touchscreen phones and other portable media devices. With that in mind, I came up with a two section poll that involves larger screens like monitors and televisions on…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Week in iPhone Apps: Photography, Geography, and Babies, Babies, Babies!

There are literally thousands of apps in the iPhone App Store, with hundreds being added each week. It’s hard to keep track. In the same vein as our “iPhone Apps We Like” posts, take a look here at what stood out this week-notable for usefulness, novelty, birthing a child, whatever. Let’s spend some iTunes credit.…

Tech News John Mahoney

Rogers BlackBerry Bold Price Does Not Bode Well

Our Canuck neighbors might be getting the BlackBerry Bold before we do, but they’ll be paying through the nose for it-$399.99 on a three-year contract according to a leaked flyer. While Rogers does tend to run higher than the US on smartphones (though they are offering the iPhone 3G for $199), this does seem to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Palm Treo Pro Live Shots

Yesterday’s leaked Treo Pro was definitely not a rendering. We’ve now got a whole gallery of it in the flesh, confirming its good looks, and maybe more importantly, its size. While a little taller and wider than the Centro, it’s mercifully thinner than its pocket-bulging predecessor. The keyboard spacing looks like it’s slightly more generous…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Red Sprint HTC Diamond Spotted?

Maybe it’s real. Maybe it’s a Photoshop. Either way, here’s a red HTC Diamond with a Sprint logo on it. The image goes along with months of rumors about a Sprint-based HTC Diamond—one that will have a more curved case than its GSM counterpart along with a battery boost from 900 mAh to 1340 mAh…

Tech News Mark Wilson

First Android Phone Coming “As Early as October”, Says NYT

While a T-Mobile news blog reported the HTC G1 would debut on September 17, the NYT begs to differ: Their sources point to an “as early as October” release timeframe for this potential bringer of the iPhonecalypse. [NYT] https://gizmodo.com/htc-dream-presales-beginning-september-17th-on-t-mobile-5035952

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Nanotubes Could Make For Bouncy Cellphones: I’m Talkin’ to You Butterfingers

Ah nanotubes. Is there anything you can’t almost possibly do? Well, now you can add bouncy cellphones to the list because a team of Clemson University researchers have developed a way to make beds of tiny, shock-absorbing coiled carbon nanotubes which could be used to cushion objects from damaging impacts. They hope that these coiled…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Question of the Day: Do You Use an Alarm Clock or Your Cellphone to Wake Up?

As my cellphone chimed early this morning, I thought to myself in a groggy haze whether or not the majority of people out there have ditched the trusty alarm clock in favor of the cellphone alarm. After all, we already know that the cellphone has taken a big bite out of the wristwatch market, and…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Simplify Media For iPhone Streams Your iTunes Library (Plus 30 Of Your Friends’) To Your Phone

The previously jailbreak-only Simplify Media has just hit the iTunes App Store, allowing you to stream your entire iTunes music library (plus up to 30 of your friends’) to your iPhone. The official app has all the features of the old version, including album art, lyrics and artist bios, plus works over EDGE, 3G and…

Tech News Jason Chen

BlackBerry Javelin Live Comparison Shot: More Svelte Than the Curve

We’ve seen some nice renders of the BlackBerry Javelin, but it’s hard to get a sense of size from them. So, here’s a shot of it in between the Curve (which it’ll probably be replacing) and the 8800. While it’s just about the same height as the Curve, it’s definitely smaller and thinner—which means it’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Green Samsung E200Eco Cellphone is Made With Bioplastic

Samsung’s E200 candybar cellphone is being relaunched in an environmentally-friendlier version at Samsung’s Olympic sales event. The external case of the phone, in appropriate green color, is made of bioplastic (extracted from plant material like corn) instead of polycarbonate plastic, which reduces the CO2 burden of producing the phone. It’s also packaged in an uncoated…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Palm’s Ordering Up Millions Of Smartphones For 2009

Two Chinese-language news services, the Commercial Times and the China Economic News Service, are both reporting that Palm has placed orders for several million units of smartphones aimed at a 2009 release. Unfortunately for Palm OS fans, all these phones are going to be running Windows Mobile, which leads Treo Central to guess that it…

Tech News Jason Chen

Would You Watch Cellphone Ads if it Got You Free or Cheap Service?

The Direct Marketing Association, a lovely group dedicated to forcing ads down your throat, have done a study that found that while a mere 7% of cellphone users are open to receiving ads on their phone, a much more significant 24% say they’ve responded to such ads on their phone. A whole quarter of the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Yao Ming Sized BlackBerry Bold Comes With Rogers’ Launch Kit

BlackBerry News found this Rogers launch kit of the BlackBerry Bold somewhere up in Canada. So not only is Rogers getting it earlier than AT&T, whose launch is ridiculously mired in delays, but they’re getting a gigantic murder-sized version of the phone as well? We say murder-sized because that’s exactly the tool we see cellphone…

Tech News Jason Chen

International iPhone Carriers Start the Apple Pile-On Over Sub-Par 3G

After news of possible 3G driver/chipset shortcomings, many international iPhone carriers are bringing out the innocent, puppy-dog-eyed shoulder shrug regarding customer gripes with the iPhone’s 3G performance. Both T-Mobile Netherlands and Vodafone Australia are the latest to go public with their passive-aggressiveness, much to Apple’s delight. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3gs-sluggish-3g-could-be-caused-by-lousy-chipset-5036104 Posting on its official blog [translated] , T-Mobile…

Tech News John Mahoney

Blurred Photos Show Latest Motorola RAZR VE20 Coming to Sprint

Over at PhoneArena they’ve got a bunch of pics that show the upcoming new Motorola RAZR phone, the VE20. Through the blur you can see the phone is mirrored, features the classic laser-cut keypad and has a touch-sensitive pad on the outer shell like the V9m. The cell has a 2-megapixel cam, a QVGA main…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Android 0.9 SDK Beta Now Available: Includes Major UI Update

Official: T-Mobile Confirms First Android Phone

HTC Dream Gets the FCC Stamp of Approval

Sprint Instinct Application Updates Go Live

Question of the Day: What Do You Use to Clean Your Screens?

The Week in iPhone Apps: Photography, Geography, and Babies, Babies, Babies!

Rogers BlackBerry Bold Price Does Not Bode Well

Palm Treo Pro Live Shots

Red Sprint HTC Diamond Spotted?

First Android Phone Coming “As Early as October”, Says NYT

Nanotubes Could Make For Bouncy Cellphones: I’m Talkin’ to You Butterfingers

Question of the Day: Do You Use an Alarm Clock or Your Cellphone to Wake Up?

Simplify Media For iPhone Streams Your iTunes Library (Plus 30 Of Your Friends’) To Your Phone

BlackBerry Javelin Live Comparison Shot: More Svelte Than the Curve

Green Samsung E200Eco Cellphone is Made With Bioplastic

Palm’s Ordering Up Millions Of Smartphones For 2009

Would You Watch Cellphone Ads if it Got You Free or Cheap Service?

Yao Ming Sized BlackBerry Bold Comes With Rogers’ Launch Kit

International iPhone Carriers Start the Apple Pile-On Over Sub-Par 3G

Blurred Photos Show Latest Motorola RAZR VE20 Coming to Sprint

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