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Wise Oracle Quittner’s iPhone Apocalypse

Tough editor Josh Quittner, Captain of Business 2.0, tells us a fable of the iPhone launch. It’s a little grim…and very biblical. But I agree with how most of it goes down. And on the 29th day of the sixth month, when the sun was at its lowest point in the sky, the Phones appeared,…

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 21

The Case For a Simple iPhone Service Plan

Click to viewHey you: planning on standing in line for an iPhone? What do you think of the calling plans? What about the data service? It’s okay if you don’t know much about them: they haven’t been announced yet. People have been talking about the “hidden cost” of iPhone, that is, the monthly fee that…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 21

Local News Invades Your Verizon Wireless V Cast Phone

As if you didn’t get enough of local anchorpersons Maria Otokoyama Rubenstein-Fratelli and Dirk Handsomeness from the rabbit ears atop your TV set, local news stations are now started trickling into the digital realm. First, they appeared on YouTube. Today, Verizon Wireless announced Local TV Video, news, sport and weather from assorted local affiliates from…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 21

Brace Yourself, Sheila, Playboy Rumored to be Launching Branded Cell Phone

Whispers abound that Playboy is about to launch itself into the mobile phone market, with LG, Motorola and Siemens (well, whaddaya know?) most likely front-runners to carry the iconic bunny badge on their mobiles. Anyone have any questions? I know I do… 1. Is the Playboy phone aimed at anyone else apart from tweenagers and…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Jun 21

Pantech IM-S230 Cellphone’s World Record Thinness Approaches Invisibility

The Samsung U600 isn’t the slimmest slider any more, because this Pantech IM-S230 just out-skinnied it by a whole millimeter. Like a couple of supermodels battling to see who can be the first to be completely invisible when viewed from the side, this Pantech phone is just 9.9mm thick, besting the positively corpulent Samsung U600,…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 21

Handcuff Cellphone Strap

Need a subtle reminder of the kinky bondage session from last night? This miniature handcuff cellphone strap from Strap-Ya comes with two sets of keys that will actually lock your wrists&mdas;I mean, your fingers—together so they can’t get away. Or, if you’re not into that stuff, you could still just use it to hang your…

Tech News Lisa Katayama Jun 20

Levi’s Cellphone Finally Revealed to Worldwide Mehs

That Levi’s cellphone (yes, the jean company) we told you about last October has finally been unveiled. To us it looks like a knockoff of a Sony Ericsson, complete with silver, black and brown trim and “shiny silver” and “shiny sand” editions. https://gizmodo.com/the-levis-cell-phone-coming-to-a-pair-of-jeans-near-yo-209014 Unlike when fashion house Prada joined heads with LG and made the…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 20

iPhone Dock On Apple Site Revealed, Missing Bluetooth Headset Slot

Apple’s put up a gallery of the iPhone on their site, and two of the shots reveal the iPod dock-esque iPhone dock. It looks like the one we saw shown at MacWorld in January, but isn’t the one we saw later in February. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-the-apple-iphone-dock-with-bluetooth-headset-ho-237050 That one had a slot for charging the Bluetooth headphone on…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 20

The RAZR Taught Us That the iPhone is Priced Juuust Right

Click to viewMuch of the press is now predictably engaged in full iPhone counterspin . Which makes now a great time to counter-counterspin, and make some sense of one of it’s biggest perceived weaknesses by critics, consumers and the competition: That $599/$499 price point. It’s what a kid makes in a month, working at McDonald’s,…

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 20

WSJ and Suits Don’t Get the iPhone

Mossy is going to be pissed the junior writers are getting the iPhone all wrong. This WSJ explores how difficult it is to adapt to the corporate environment. Here: The main problem is that the iPhone can’t send and receive email through the company’s corporate BlackBerry email servers. Yes, you can’t file your TPS reports…

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 20

LG Prepping Fusic II Musicphone

LG is prepping a follow-up to their underwhelming Fusic musicphone, the brilliantly named Fusic II. It’s set to have a 220×176 screen, an EV-DO connection and a 1.3-megapixel camera, which are specs eerily similar to the original Fusic. Cool? If it follows in its predecessor’s footsteps, it’ll go to Sprint and connect to their overpriced…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 20

Shaw Wu Predicts Cheaper iPhones Sometime Later

Shaw Wu, an analyst from American Technology Research and Apple fortune teller, is predicting cheaper iPhones in the future. Specifically, he knows: “lower cost iPhone prototypes for release at unspecified future dates.” Obviously. This post isn’t ’bout that. Let’s talk about Shaw. He has a 4/5 rating from Yahoo! Finance, and Macrumors tracks him at…

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 20

Should Cellphones Be Allowed On Airplanes?

Airbus just got permission from the EASA (the Eurotrash FAA) to allow cellphones on European flights. Right now, crew can set the devices to silent mode, which amounts to a data-only mode for EV-DO. But the notion of a plane full of yapping business dudes is terrifying, and this doesn’t restrict people from using VoIP.…

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 19

Samsung Releasing 53 Phones This Week?

The talk of the town down in CommunicAsia in lovely Singapore is the rumor that Samsung is going to release 53 phones this week. Fifty-three. We’ll sift through the rubble and pick out the good ones for you. Samsung to launch 53 new phones ? [New Launches]

Gadgets Jason Chen Jun 19

Apple Reveals iPhone Battery Testing Methods

When Apple’s iPhone made the jump to eight hours of life (Boom!) fans rejoiced, haters moaned and competitors wept. And shoddy journalists reported “It won’t meet claimed battery life!” (Duh.) Other journalists asked How? https://gizmodo.com/apple-gives-iphone-glass-face-and-extends-talk-time-to-269721 Now, Apple’s updated J-Phone spec page answers that question by detailing their rundown from fresh batt to dead phone. •Eight…

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 19

AT&T Unveils Video Sharing Service, Presumably to Help Spy on Us

Videocalling has already been available in Europe and Asia for some time now using high-speed 3G networks, which is why many phones we don’t get over here have cameras both on the front and back of the device. We’ve been waiting a while for the same service to make it over here, and finally AT&T…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 19

Rumor: Nintendo Working on iPhone Games

An eyebrow-raising rumor has it that Nintendo and Apple have teamed up to bring games to the iPhone, with $29 Nintendo games coming to the touchscreen device within a few months of launch. The games are said to use a touchscreen d-pad for control, although what kinds of games the big N will make aren’t…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 19

Opera Takes On iPhone With Mini 4 Beta Browser

There are many reasons that you could call the Opera Mini 4 Beta an assault on the iPhone’s Safari browser. New features include: • Overview mode empowers people to browse their favorite websites • Zooms in and cleanly focuses on the content you want (as seen in Opera’s Wii browser) • Dynamically changes size of…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 19

Joost to be Embedded in TVs, Cellphones, Set-top Boxes, Bagel Toasters

Internet TV software Joost doesn’t want to lose any position in the infinite video wars. They want to move out of the PC box as soon as possible and that’s why they are getting ready to embed their software in TV sets with Internet connections, cellphones, set-top boxes and any other “future device” they could…

Television Jesus Diaz Jun 19

Top 5 Water-resistant Phones

The summer is here and InfoSync has reviewed the Top 5 best water-resistant, ruggerized phones. They tested the Verizon Wireless G’zOne Type-V and Type-S and Nextel’s Motorola i880, ic502 and ic402. They are all good and do their job reasonably well. After reading their report, we know exactly what cell we would like to take…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 19

Wise Oracle Quittner’s iPhone Apocalypse

The Case For a Simple iPhone Service Plan

Local News Invades Your Verizon Wireless V Cast Phone

Brace Yourself, Sheila, Playboy Rumored to be Launching Branded Cell Phone

Pantech IM-S230 Cellphone’s World Record Thinness Approaches Invisibility

Handcuff Cellphone Strap

Levi’s Cellphone Finally Revealed to Worldwide Mehs

iPhone Dock On Apple Site Revealed, Missing Bluetooth Headset Slot

The RAZR Taught Us That the iPhone is Priced Juuust Right

WSJ and Suits Don’t Get the iPhone

LG Prepping Fusic II Musicphone

Shaw Wu Predicts Cheaper iPhones Sometime Later

Should Cellphones Be Allowed On Airplanes?

Samsung Releasing 53 Phones This Week?

Apple Reveals iPhone Battery Testing Methods

AT&T Unveils Video Sharing Service, Presumably to Help Spy on Us

Rumor: Nintendo Working on iPhone Games

Opera Takes On iPhone With Mini 4 Beta Browser

Joost to be Embedded in TVs, Cellphones, Set-top Boxes, Bagel Toasters

Top 5 Water-resistant Phones

‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Marshall Acton III Home Speaker Drops to a Record Low, the Deal Countdown Has Already Started

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

I’m Worried About the Helpless AI Disruptors of the Future

Russia Allegedly Swung at VPNs but Accidentally Hit Its Own Banking Sector Instead

Ryan Coogler Is Shifting ‘Animorphs’ Into a Disney+ Show

No Fooling, ‘Spaceballs 2’ Will Hit Theaters April 2027

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

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AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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