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Cellphone Fishing Game: Catch a Virtual Fish, Get a Real Fish Delivered To Your Door

A new fishing game for cellphone users based in western Japan is mixing the virtual with the actual, as competitors who hook a fish get the chance to have the same kind of fish delivered to their door by a local seafood wholesaler. Ippon Zuri, which means pole-and-line fishing, is available to DoCoMo subscribers in…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Plantronics 370BT Bluetooth Headset Looks Corporate-Suit Boring, is Military Spec Tough

Bluetooth headsets are two-a-penny nowadays, but Plantronics’ new Explorer 370BT is like the ugly one that ran away from home and joined the Army. Designed so it’s rough’n’tough enough to meet military standards, the 370BT is rubber-coated and resistant against water, dust and impacts. Sure, it won’t actually save you if you take a bullet…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

AOL Launching ‘Open Mobile Platform,’ Allows Homebrewed Programs on Any Phone

AOL, the company you haven’t patronized since 1996, has announced that it’s launching an “Open Mobile Platform” to help developers get mobile programs across multiple platforms. Despite the name, it’s not a full mobile OS like Android, rather a protocol for building and distributing applications across multiple mobile OSes. Think of it like Android’s API,…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Buddy Beacon 2.0 Launches Facebook and iPhone Apps, Reaches Multiple Carriers

Buddy Beacon, the friend-finding service so beloved by Helio users, is to widen its circle of friends, as of today. As well as being available on multiple carriers (which means that you and your mates don’t need to share the same mobile provider) version 2.0 includes applications for Facebook and iPhone, which will allow users…

Tech News AddyDugdale

LG First Off the Blocks with Combo 3G Phones That Do CDMA and GSM

LG has produced two 3G handsets, the KM560 and the KP330, that support all three WCDMA bands and GSM bands, too. The cellphones are compatible in 220 countries, meaning that global roaming just got that bit easier. Both the KM560 and KP330 will be available in the second half of 2008 in selected countries, before…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Nokia Recycles Old Stuff With An Eco-Friendly Remade Cellphone

As well as showing high-tech cellphones at MWC 2008, Nokia also demoed their green tech concept, the “Remade.” The clamshell phone has an outer shell made from recycled aluminum cans, a chassis made of plastic from drink bottles and rubber parts made from old car tires. Even its screen and circuit board use techniques like…

Tech News Kit Eaton

T-Mobile Launching Android Handset By Year’s End

Even though T-Mobile has been onboard with the Open Handset Alliance since the start, they’re just now confirming they’re launching an Android phone—by the end of this year. Thankfully, T-Mo’s 3G network is getting flipped on this summer, plenty of time before Android drops—granted, only in four major metro areas. But hey, it’s a start.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

BlackBerry Outage: An Upgrade Was to Blame

It took longer than expected, but it appears that RIM has finally figured out what went wrong with yesterday’s three hour BlackBerry outage. The company is blaming an upgrade failure that was intended to increase capacity. Naturally, RIM was quick to apologize and noted that no email messages were lost during the outage. The question…

Tech News Sean Fallon

How Much Did Microsoft Shell Out for Sidekick Maker Danger?

$500 million. Says Om Malik, who’s about as reliable as they come. A lot for the assimilation, but nothing compared to what they’re throwing at Yahoo. [GigaOM] https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-absorbs-sidekick-maker-danger-inc-354998

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Yesterday’s BlackBerry Outage is Still Unexplained

That three hour outage in your BlackBerry email service yesterday may have just been an inconvenience to you, but it’s a mystery to RIM, who still can’t figure out exactly what went wrong to cause your messages to dribble off into the land of lost dinner invitations instead of shooting off to their proper recipients.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Hands-On the LG KF600: Color Chocolate Touchpad Still Sucks Cocoa

Despite the high sales of the LG Chocolate*, anyone who’s actually used it knows that its touch controller is one of the worst UIs to come out in the last several years. The KF600 is LG’s new 3MP cellie with a slider keypad. It has the same electrostatic chocopad the Chocolate has, but with an…

Tech News Brian Lam

Hands-On LG’s KF700: Their Top Touch Phone Actually Pretty Good

Samsung’s new F480 full faced touchscreen handset meets a good competitor in LG’s KF700, their best phone released at Mobile World Congress. The phone has a 3-inch touchscreen, a slide out alphanumeric pad, and a scrollwheel on the back which pulls up a shortcut menu. Jesús liked the swiping action between widgets, which he shockingly…

Tech News Brian Lam

Valentine’s Day Is Most Popular Texting Holiday

Maybe it was induced by the shorthand we’d read for years off Necco Sweethearts, but according to AT&T, Valentine’s Day is the most popular holiday for text messaging. From February 13th to the 14th, there’s a 33% spike in texting traffic. Yes, you know what that means. The cellphone owning population is trying 33% harder…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Hands-On Samsung’s F480 Prada Phone Knockoff (Verdict: I’ll Pass)

Samsung’s F700 and F300 are joined by the F480, a pretty clear knockoff of the LG Prada (down to the fake leather case). I find its touchscreen implementation rough, even if it’s improved from Samsung’s previous handsets. Overall, I’ll pass, especially at the proposed European price of 350 to 400 Euros (~$500 to $580 USD.)…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Nokia N96 Hands-On: Basically a Video Oriented N95

The N95 smartphone just does fine with its video playback. But the N96’s 16GB of internal memory, slightly bigger 2.8-inch screen, DVB TV tuner, special video browsing UI and kickstand make it better than its pappy. Note: The back of the phone has a new designer texture that we like a lot more than the…

Tech News Brian Lam

Modu Transforming Cellphone System First Video Hands-On

After playing with the new Modu cellphone system, I’m impressed about how well their idea works. The core module integrates very well with the jackets, even if some were not operative. It feels very much like Apple’s philosophy—allegedly one of Modu’s role models. Could this idea work in the consumer electronics jungle? After seeing it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Overheard at MWC 2008: Executive Android Chit Chat

This sort of premature talk will either turn out to be unfounded fear or prescience (or neither!) but we overheard this whispering outside of hall 8: Android is Dead —One nameless, faceless, exec to another

Tech News Brian Lam

Which Mobile Carrier Sucks the Most?

Even the best carriers have their fair share of critics. Whether the problem is dropped calls, poor reception, billing issues or excessive fees—chances are you have been screwed by at least one (if not several) carriers during your lifetime. That having been said, which carrier has given you the most trouble? Feel free to elaborate…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Indian Spice Phone Has Optical Disk Drive For 2.5 Hour Movies

It’s really unlikely that this Movie Phone from the Indian cellphone maker Spice would make it anywhere besides India, but it’s an amazing phone because of what it’s got on the back: an optical drive. This h.264 optical drive loads into the back of the phone much like UMDs into a PSP, and can fit…

Movies Jason Chen

Texas Instruments Chip Turns Cellphones Into Projectors, Pocket Goatse WMDs

It’s like a can of Pringles falling from the sky in Barcelona today. Texas Instruments has a pair of new mobile chips—one gives cellphones enough GFX juice to record HD video, while the other will power integrated pico projectors. Big pics popping out of tiny phones. The suit-and-tie function would be Powerpoints sans bulky computers,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Cellphone Fishing Game: Catch a Virtual Fish, Get a Real Fish Delivered To Your Door

Plantronics 370BT Bluetooth Headset Looks Corporate-Suit Boring, is Military Spec Tough

AOL Launching ‘Open Mobile Platform,’ Allows Homebrewed Programs on Any Phone

Buddy Beacon 2.0 Launches Facebook and iPhone Apps, Reaches Multiple Carriers

LG First Off the Blocks with Combo 3G Phones That Do CDMA and GSM

Nokia Recycles Old Stuff With An Eco-Friendly Remade Cellphone

T-Mobile Launching Android Handset By Year’s End

BlackBerry Outage: An Upgrade Was to Blame

How Much Did Microsoft Shell Out for Sidekick Maker Danger?

Yesterday’s BlackBerry Outage is Still Unexplained

Hands-On the LG KF600: Color Chocolate Touchpad Still Sucks Cocoa

Hands-On LG’s KF700: Their Top Touch Phone Actually Pretty Good

Valentine’s Day Is Most Popular Texting Holiday

Hands-On Samsung’s F480 Prada Phone Knockoff (Verdict: I’ll Pass)

Nokia N96 Hands-On: Basically a Video Oriented N95

Modu Transforming Cellphone System First Video Hands-On

Overheard at MWC 2008: Executive Android Chit Chat

Which Mobile Carrier Sucks the Most?

Indian Spice Phone Has Optical Disk Drive For 2.5 Hour Movies

Texas Instruments Chip Turns Cellphones Into Projectors, Pocket Goatse WMDs

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