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Question of the Day: What’s Your Ringtone?

The noise your phone emits when someone’s trying to get a hold of you is a deeply personal thing. Our intern Dan likes to be shamed into answering his phone as quickly as possible—when his phone shrieked “EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!” at the office, everyone laughed and he ran into the corner to take his call,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Motorola Alexander Cellphone Spy Shot: It Doesn’t Look Like a Savior

It has been a few months since we first heard about the upcoming “Alexander” phone from Motorola-a release that was considered a do-or-die for the company. BGR has managed to snag a spy shot of the phone that clearly shows a Windows Mobile platform running (listed at 6.1 but may be 7) as opposed to…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Brando Joins iPhone 3G Chip-Unlocker Game, Still Needs You to Cut Up SIMs

In similar style to the SIMable product Wilson showed you back in May, Brando now has its own SIM-hacking device available, and says it works to unlock, unchain, free, liberate—whatever—Apple iPhone 3Gs from being tied to one operator. The slim chip-and-circuit gizmo hugs the rear of your SIM and messes with the signals that go…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Verizon Visual Voicemail to Be Free For Supported Phones?

Eagle-eyed spotters recently took note of a few visual voicemail tidbits inadvertently pushed live on Verizon’s site (now removed), most notably that the service will potentially be free. The site is down now so this remains in the rumor department (where are the screenshots, guys?), but if true, the reports go against what we all…

Tech News John Mahoney

Motorola Cannot Possibly Stop Sucking Until After Mid-2009

Motorola’s mobile devices division has a new CEO, Sanjay Jha, from Qualcomm. Huzzah! With some new direction, maybe they’ll stop doing that massive sucking thing they’ve been doing for the last couple years, right? Sure, but not anytime soon. In a conference call shortly after his official coronation, he admits that “between here and the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Zeemote JS1 Nunchuk Gaming Controller Bundles With Sony Ericsson W760

The Zeemote analog joystick controller for Bluetooth phones is now starting to see the light of day, at least for lucky Dutch W760 buyers, who will get it free as a promo package. This isn’t the Wii-like motion-control version the company has been promising, and still no word on U.S. pricing or availability, but it…

Tech News John Mahoney

BlackBerry Curve 8320 Sunset Rises on T-Mobile Today

BlackBerry’s Curve gets a “sunset” rust-color treatment, in the 8320 version available from T-Mobile from today. It’s the standard 2-megapixel cam, Wi-Fi and quad-band phone, but in this case it’s enabled for unlimited HotSpot Calling from T-Mobile hot-spots and Wi-Fi networks, including seamless hand-off to GSM if you leave the Wi-Fi signal area. It’s at…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

James Bond’s Sony Ericsson C902 Cybershot to go Public

Sometimes the strangest part of writing for Giz is decoding press releases: like this morning’s Sony Ericsson one. Did they leave out an image of the upcoming special limited-edition C902 Cybershot James Bond phone to add to the mystery? Is it supposed to be kinda secret, à la Bond himself? Who knows: luckily T3 snagged…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

How to Get Out of a Cell Contract Without Paying an ETF in Many Not-So-Easy Steps

If you try to get out of your cellphone contract without paying one of those blasted (and newly illegal in California) early termination fees, you’re going to need a meticulously planned and researched counterargument for everything they throw at you. It’s not a small undertaking, and you’ll meet hostile resistance every step of the way.…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Test Skyfire Mobile Browser for Symbian S60 Phones

Skyfire is one of the best Windows Mobile browsers around-it’s fast since Skyfire’s servers pre-churn everything and spit it out as an image, and it handles Flash videos. It just officially hit beta for S60 phones, and we’ve got an access code for 100 readers to check it out. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-windows-mobile-skyfire-browser-beta-0-6-387686 US readers only (sorry), click…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Windows Mobile And Symbian S60 Get Google Maps Upgrade With Transit Info

Windows Mobile and S60 users get an update to Google Maps this week that includes public transit stops as well as user star ratings for local businesses. The free upgrade shows not just where stops are for particular transit lines but also allows you to incorporate them into building your route. Blackberry users have had…

Tech News Matt Hickey

iPhone Arm Frees Hand for Debauchery (or Douchery)

Click to view The iPhone Arm keeps one hand free while using you’re the iPhone, or any other mobile device, really. It’s compatible with Jason’s favorite iPhone web app, and complements it perfectly. It also supports Apple’s recently announced iPhone 3G videoconferencing kit, which it should be launching soon after. [Break via digg] https://gizmodo.com/nsfw-hands-on-with-iroticnet-coms-all-you-can-eat-ipho-5026874

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Duracell’s PowerSource Mini For Pocket-Sized Mobile Charging

It appears that Duracell has developed an more portable and less expensive version of last year’s PowerSource charger with the new PowerSource Mini. This device features a lithium-ion battery pack and a mini USB pivot arm that allows you to juice up your MP3 players, cellphones and other portable devices on the go. It also…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Congress Takes First Steps in Banning In-Flight Calling Permanently

Like a gaggle of schoolgirls, Congress traded stories about how they too were annoyed by people using their phones before and after takeoff on flights. Well, I never! One House member relayed the story of how his delicate sensibilities were stomped all over by some woman who talked about her sex life on the phone,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Plica Concept Phone Answers Question Of ‘What Is Better Than One Touchscreen’

Although quite wide and thick, the Plica concept out-iPhones the iPhone by having two screens where there was only one. What’s better about two screens? You can use one of the screens as a keyboard, leaving the other free for viewing things. Or, you can just look at something at twice the resolution as before.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Nokia Slashes Cellphone Prices as Much as 10%

Trying to put pressure on their competition, or feeling the pressure from increasing Samsung and LG market share, Nokia has reduced many handset prices by 10%-mostly music and media phones-but also making discounts across the whole portfolio. Analyst and Sean Connery-fan David Hallden calls the move a Crazy Ivan: This is basically a way to…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Apple Now Telling Developers How Many People Download Their App

We reported in our massive feature on the SDK and App Store’s shortcomings that Apple didn’t even tell devs how many times their app is downloaded. I guess they realized devs might wanna know, ’cause now they’re offering daily download statistics to registered devs. One brick at a time. [Mac Rumors] https://gizmodo.com/why-we-still-need-the-iphone-app-black-market-5027790

Tech News Matt Buchanan

10 Things We Want to See in the iPhone 2.1 Update

The iPhone 2.0 software is pretty good. We like the App Store a lot; it adds a boatload of new functionality to the iPhone. But it’s certainly not perfect. Having used it for a few weeks, we’ve discovered a number of little quirks that we really hope are addressed in the upcoming update. From bugs…

Tech News Adam Frucci

18 Super Small Projectors

We have been hearing about mini /pico projectors for a long time now but so far, nothing has made it to store shelves. However, there is no doubt that this technology will be an important part of many of our mobile devices in the near future-which is why there is no shortage of concepts out…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Sprint Instinct Firmware Update Fixes Bugs, Paves Path for Feature Updates

Sprint’s best phone, the Instinct got a little bit better today with a firmware update that patches some sniggles. No new features, but this update apparently lubes it up for a big one next month that’ll drop in changes to the browser (dear god, make it better), Sprint Nav, TV, Picture Mail-and pretty much everything…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Question of the Day: What’s Your Ringtone?

Motorola Alexander Cellphone Spy Shot: It Doesn’t Look Like a Savior

Brando Joins iPhone 3G Chip-Unlocker Game, Still Needs You to Cut Up SIMs

Verizon Visual Voicemail to Be Free For Supported Phones?

Motorola Cannot Possibly Stop Sucking Until After Mid-2009

Zeemote JS1 Nunchuk Gaming Controller Bundles With Sony Ericsson W760

BlackBerry Curve 8320 Sunset Rises on T-Mobile Today

James Bond’s Sony Ericsson C902 Cybershot to go Public

How to Get Out of a Cell Contract Without Paying an ETF in Many Not-So-Easy Steps

Test Skyfire Mobile Browser for Symbian S60 Phones

Windows Mobile And Symbian S60 Get Google Maps Upgrade With Transit Info

iPhone Arm Frees Hand for Debauchery (or Douchery)

Duracell’s PowerSource Mini For Pocket-Sized Mobile Charging

Congress Takes First Steps in Banning In-Flight Calling Permanently

Plica Concept Phone Answers Question Of ‘What Is Better Than One Touchscreen’

Nokia Slashes Cellphone Prices as Much as 10%

Apple Now Telling Developers How Many People Download Their App

10 Things We Want to See in the iPhone 2.1 Update

18 Super Small Projectors

Sprint Instinct Firmware Update Fixes Bugs, Paves Path for Feature Updates

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