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Verizon’s Blackberry Curve: May 9 for $270

A little late to the party here, the Blackberry Curve is finally landing on Verizon on May 9 (online, May 12 in store) for $270 after $50 rebate and two-year contract. Yay EV-DO, but was anyone actually waiting for it? [Verizon]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Lightning Review: LG Vu for AT&T

The Gadget: LG’s Vu, a multimedia touchscreen phone that launches AT&T’s mobile TV service, and one of the two biggest phones to debut at CTIA. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-at-ts-lg-vu-multimedia-phone-at-t-mobile-374747 Price: $299.99 w/ two-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate. The Verdict: It’s glossy black, so it will attract fingerprints as bad as Heidi Klum does MILF comments. The screen…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Users Report T-Mobile 3G Network Has Data

T-Mobile says that the 3G service rolling out today is voice-only for now, but New York-based users on HowardForums claim they’re receiving 3G data too. One user says he’s getting speeds over 400k/sec on his Nokia N73, and can receive calls while streaming music, something the old 200k/sec EDGE network isn’t equipped to do. The…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Scent Text Messaging Patented: Get Ready to Smell Farts from 3,000 Miles Away

Uh oh. A couple of companies in Germany have patented technology that enables sending scented text messages between phones. You know what this means: bring on the fart messages. Actually, the way the system will work is by triggering one of 100 pre-defined scents on a chip in the phone, which seems less exciting and…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Benq C36 Cellphone Thinks it’s a Webcam and Radio Recorder Too

Benq’s new C36 cellphone is labelled a “Music Phone” but it also squeezes in a 1.3 megapixel webcam function and has a built-in FM radio with a recording function. This last even has a scheduling function, so you won’t miss your shows. It plays MP3s, WAV, MIDI and AMR, has a 2-inch color LCD, built-in…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Official AT&T Mobile TV Details

Looks the leaked info was pretty much spot on. AT&T’s Mobile TV service is debuting May 4 and it’ll come in three tiers: Limited, Basic and Plus for $13, $15 and $30. It’ll launch in 58 major markets (all the ones you expect). Besides the nine live broadcast channels, there’s a bank of 150 time-shifted…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Kickstart: First Blackberry Flip Phone Needs a Kick in the Design Pants

This fine piece of flip phone is Blackberry’s very first clamshell, codenamed Kickstart. It’s not very attractive—it’s got a smugly RAZR-esque silhouette. The inside is Pearly, with a trackball and SureType keyboard. Boy Genius says that the internal LCD is “decent looking,” but the shot of the external has a weird sheen over it, so…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

“Real” Star Trek Tricorder Invented

If you ever watched an episode of Star Trek and wondered when we were going to finally get our hands on some cool medical gadgets like the tricorder, you will be happy to know that a primitive version already exists. Researchers knew that current medical scanners were too bulky and expensive to reach their full…

Health Sean Fallon

T-Mobile 3G Launch: No 3G Data?!

TmoNews has gotten their hands on a seemingly internal T-Mobile doc discussing their imminent 3G plans. As tipped, it’ll launch in NYC tomorrow and 20+ major markets by the end of the year. One thing to note, in the doc it discusses the “great call quality” and “more network availability” 3G will offer, not hot,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Samsung P960 Heralds the European Arrival of the Mobile TV Cellphone

While mobile TV cellphones are ten-a-penny in the Far East, the West is pretty much virgin territory for them. Samsung’s P960, however, may have got the ball rolling, a mobile TV phone aimed at European consumers. A sleek gray slider, the P960 supports both European mobile TV standards, DVB-CBMS and OMA-BCAST, and its 2.6-inch QVGA…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

LG enV2 for Verizon Available Tomorrow

If you liked what you saw in our lightning review of the enV2 last week, tomorrow you’re in luck—it goes on sale for $129.99. (Yes, w/ 2-year contract and $50 rebate, otherwise it’s $180.) [Verizon] https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-lg-env2-from-verizon-382285

Tech News Matt Buchanan

How to Save The World…One Cellphone at a Time

Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek put together a logical plan of action for bringing cellphone recycling to the U.S. over on his blog. However, it requires the collective effort of all of you to make this happen. The idea is this—if we lobby enough executives in companies responsible for cellphone manufacturing and distribution,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Samsung Glyde (aka U940 née F700) Pops Up in Verizon’s Database

Samsung’s long-linger F700/u940, has been rumored to hit the big V for a while, but Phone Area’s reporting that it’s now locked and cocked in Verizon’s internal InfoManager as the Glyde, though sans date or price. Spec sheet confirms cam’s cut to a paltry 2MP but all the old specs look otherwise intact, but with…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

iPhone Data Plan for Deaf Now Available: $40 a Month

The “near future” for the impending iPhone data plan for the deaf was apparently four months. Dubbed the Text Accessibility Plan for iPhone, it comes with unlimited text messaging, browsing and email. It’s now available for new and current iPhone users for $40 a month, though you’ve gotta clear an eligibility application to get it.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Verizon and AT&T Adding Millions of Cell Customers… But From Where?

Verizon Wireless and AT&T’s quarterly earnings are both out, with Verizon claiming the “highest net adds in the industry,” 1.5 million new subscribers, while AT&T says they’ve pulled in 1.3 million. (They both made out like bandits money-wise, as usual.) Between them, that’s 2.8 million new subscribers. Where are they coming from? As of December,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Blackberry 9000 Specs from Leaked RIM Documents

Fresh off the auction block, Boy Genius has cribbed some internal RIM documents about the Blackberry 9000, or more specifically its OS 4.6 software. Here are the salient bits: The browser is supposed to be a lot better, with AJAX and CSS 2.1 support, not to mention inline video streaming. The picture library is improved…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

HTC Launching Most Important Product of the Year Next Month

The Taipei times quotes HTC’s own financial executive Cheng Hui-ming at an investor’s conference as saying they will launch “the most important product for HTC this year” at an event on May 6. Cheng wasn’t too forthcoming with details, but it seems like it’s going to be a “Touch” phone—as in one of the HTC…

Tech News Jason Chen

SlingPlayer Mobile Gets Updated For Windows Mobile and Symbian

Sling’s just rolled out new versions of their SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile (both versions) and Symbian S60. It’s a free upgrade for current users and adds support for new handsets (Nokia N95, Samsung i760, Treo 500v, etc.) and improves streaming quality (Sprint Mogul) on others. We went to a car wash this weekend and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Blackberry 9000 Already for Sale, Sorta Kinda

The Blackberry 9000 isn’t due out till July or August, but a pair of distributor pre-release models have already hit eBay and been purchased by two anonymous buyers. Remarkable not only for the legit-looking set of new pics confirming HSDPA and the 4.X OS, but also because this powerseller apparently has a time machine at…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Foxconn Building 3G iPhone, Prepping June Launch?

The China-based Commercial Times has reported that Foxconn, the company behind the first iPhone, is prepping a 3G model for late May. With Apple’s anticipated announcement expected at WWDC in early June, Foxconn is preparing for shipments of three million 3G iPhones during that month. And through the product’s lifespan, the manufacturer anticipates shipping 24-25…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Verizon’s Blackberry Curve: May 9 for $270

Lightning Review: LG Vu for AT&T

Users Report T-Mobile 3G Network Has Data

Scent Text Messaging Patented: Get Ready to Smell Farts from 3,000 Miles Away

Benq C36 Cellphone Thinks it’s a Webcam and Radio Recorder Too

Official AT&T Mobile TV Details

Kickstart: First Blackberry Flip Phone Needs a Kick in the Design Pants

“Real” Star Trek Tricorder Invented

T-Mobile 3G Launch: No 3G Data?!

Samsung P960 Heralds the European Arrival of the Mobile TV Cellphone

LG enV2 for Verizon Available Tomorrow

How to Save The World…One Cellphone at a Time

Samsung Glyde (aka U940 née F700) Pops Up in Verizon’s Database

iPhone Data Plan for Deaf Now Available: $40 a Month

Verizon and AT&T Adding Millions of Cell Customers… But From Where?

Blackberry 9000 Specs from Leaked RIM Documents

HTC Launching Most Important Product of the Year Next Month

SlingPlayer Mobile Gets Updated For Windows Mobile and Symbian

Blackberry 9000 Already for Sale, Sorta Kinda

Foxconn Building 3G iPhone, Prepping June Launch?

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