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Pre-Order the G2 at T-Mobile From Today for October 6th Delivery

Current customers can pre-order a G2 up until October 4th to guarantee an October 6th parcel falling on their doorsteps. According to an email forwarded to us, it’ll cost $250 before a $50 rebate. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-g2-is-designed-with-google-voice-and-hspa-in-5633473 Not a current customer? That’s ok, Best Buy is there to help out, at the same price. [T-Mobile – Thanks,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How T9 Predictive Text Input Changed Mobile Phones

Before smartphones took away keyboards and replaced them with slick touchscreens,T9 was the king of software on mobile devices.The predictive text entry method changed how people composed messages and allowed us to type faster than ever on tiny keyboards. It gave us a glimpse into a world where phones would not just help people talk…

Tech News Priya Ganapati - Wired

If Mozilla Ever Made A Cellphone, This Is How It Might Look

Everyone’s busy gossiping about a Facebook phone which may or may not exist right now, but let’s pause all that and daydream about an incredibly lovely phone that very certainly won’t ever become reality: The Mozilla Seabird. The Seabird is a design created for the Mozilla Labs’ Concept Series by a fellow named Billy May.…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Rumor: Two Facebook Phones Coming Next Year?

After hearing that Facebook’s (non-existent, according to their spokespeople) phone will run on Android, Bloomberg is reporting today that INQ Mobile has been tasked with building hardware for two phones, and AT&T might just carry them exclusively from late-2011. https://gizmodo.com/update-facebook-denies-creating-a-facebook-phone-5642159 It’s rumormongering at best, at this point in time, with Bloomberg claiming they’ve heard from…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

This Is How Much We Text Now

How often do we text? I’ll give you a hint: it’s way more than we did a couple of years ago, and we weren’t exactly SMS slackers back then. Also revealed? The kids still love themselves some sexting. This texting mega-infographic makes me equal parts awed (4.1 billion texts a day!), dismayed (carriers make $70…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Samsung Craft is MetroPCS’ First 4G LTE Phone

What a shame that the first LTE 4G phone is a bog-standard Samsung. It has a tiny AMOLED screen, runs on the TouchWiz OS, and that slide-out QWERTY? I just don’t like the look of those buttons. Still… https://gizmodo.com/first-lte-4g-phone-clears-fcc-5600572 …There’s no disputing that Las Vegas residents are going to get awesome speeds on it, as…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Facebook Phone to Use Android?

Facebook’s spokespeople may’ve already denied they’re working on a Facebook phone, but the rumors keep on rolling—particularly about the two employees at the heart of the story (ex-Firefox man Joe Hewitt, and ex-Chrome OS chappy Matthew Papakipos). https://gizmodo.com/update-facebook-denies-creating-a-facebook-phone-5642159 Silicon Alley Insider mined Joe Hewitt’s Twitter account yesterday, where they discovered someone who really doesn’t like…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Will the Peek 9 Have Apps?

In a promotional email sent to us today, Peek chief Amol Sarva hinted the upcoming Peek 9 platform would support “real-time apps.” Love ’em or hate ’em these devices exist, and they’re apparently about to get a bit more robust. “Peek 9 is a fast, focused, and cost-efficient way to put real-time apps in the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

A Facebook Phone?

According to TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington’s sources, Facebook is creating its own cellphone. As the story goes, they’re building the OS, and have tasked a hardware manufacturer to build everything else. Anyone else think this sounds like a Facebook-flavored Peek? Scared by Google’s impending Nexus One (which was announced back in January of this year), Facebook…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Windows Phone 7 Not Arriving On Sprint and Verizon Until Next Year

Verizon’s already told Bloomberg not to expect WP7 devices until next year, but now CNET has heard from Microsoft that it will only be sold on GSM networks this year—with CDMA expected “in the first half of 2011” according to their senior product manager, Greg Sullivan. [CNET] https://gizmodo.com/verizon-wont-sell-windows-phone-7-this-year-5640176

Tech News Kat Hannaford

LG’s CEO Resigns Due to Poor Phone Sales

Who here owns an LG phone? Is that three people I count? Everyone but those three people are partly to blame for LG’s CEO resigning, after every single one of their smartphones failed to sell over a million units. So reports Reuters, which compares the frustrations of LG’s phone division with Nokia, a company which…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Coming Soon: Mind-Reading Cell Phones

What if cellphones knew what sort of moods we were in? What if they could anticipate to whom we’d crave to talk? What if they knew which calls we’re waiting for? If Intel has its way, they soon will. The cell phones of 10 years ago look like ancient relics compared to the smartphones of…

Tech News Ariel Schwartz - FastCompany

Would You Be Happy With a Phone That Just Calls and Texts?

Once upon a time, cellphones were used for making phone calls. Then text messaging became a thing. Cameras, maps, and multimedia playback followed, and eventually we got apps. But would you be satisfied going back to the bread and butter? It seems like a no brainer—more is always better, right? Well, not for everyone. We’ve…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Nokia Is the McDonald’s of Phones

Didn’t you notice? It was just Nokia World! The celebration of all things Finnish and phones. But with profits plummeting and executives fleeing—both at alarming rates—maybe it should have been a reckoning instead. https://gizmodo.com/another-nokia-exec-bites-the-dust-anssi-vanjoki-5636353 Let’s not confuse things: Nokia still sells more phones than anybody on the planet. One in three mobile devices sold around…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Ten Things Nokia’s New CEO Must Do ASAP

Nokia’s new CEO, former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop, will bring a touch of Silicon Valley to the Finnish cellphone giant. But there’s a lot more Elop is going to have to do to get Nokia back on track. While the company is still the world’s largest cellphone manufacturer, it has lost much of its mindshare…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Why Do Europeans Still Use Nokia Phones?

With 260,000 phones being sold daily, someone out there is still buying Nokia phones. But who? And more importantly, why? Is it familiarity? Affordability? A belief that nothing else available is as good—or as suitable—for them? I was elected to write this post because I live in the UK—the land-mass on the periphery of Nokia’s…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

It’s Large, It’s HD, It’s As Good As Android Gets (In Europe)

The WinMo-running HD2 was one of the first 4.3-inch phones we ever saw, and straight-away I asked HTC if they would create an Android version. Flip forward a year, and we have the Android-running EVO 4G and Desire HD. https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy-5400593 With the EVO 4G being a Sprint (and US) exclusive, the Desire HD is aimed…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

To Hold HTC’s Desire Z Is To Love It

I’ve personally been waiting so long for the Desire Z, I felt like my mind would explode once I held it. Luckily I’m still alive to tell the tale of how beautiful the phone is to hold. UPDATE: video live! https://gizmodo.com/htc-desire-z-is-a-gorgeous-slide-out-qwerty-android-wit-5638424 It’s the thinness which does it for me. With its new “Z hinge” slide-out…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Desire HD: A 720p-Shootin’ Android Behemoth

The follow-up from this year’s Desire, the Desire HD is better-suited to larger-pawed humans. As expected, it has a 4.3-inch display and 8MP camera with dual-flash. Capable of shooting video at 720p resolution, it’s the European version of the EVO. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-htc-desire-hd-video-shows-larger-screen-and-dual-5607979 Running Android 2.2 (Froyo), the Desire HD has a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and runs…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Desire Z Is a Gorgeous Slide-Out QWERTY Android With Brains

Milled from a single piece of aluminum much like their Legend phone (only, with some plastic this time ’round), the Desire Z is as far removed from HTC’s previous slide-out Android, the G1, as you could possibly hope. When its first leaked shot appeared online, many doubted HTC would create a phone with only four…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Pre-Order the G2 at T-Mobile From Today for October 6th Delivery

How T9 Predictive Text Input Changed Mobile Phones

If Mozilla Ever Made A Cellphone, This Is How It Might Look

Rumor: Two Facebook Phones Coming Next Year?

This Is How Much We Text Now

Samsung Craft is MetroPCS’ First 4G LTE Phone

Facebook Phone to Use Android?

Will the Peek 9 Have Apps?

A Facebook Phone?

Windows Phone 7 Not Arriving On Sprint and Verizon Until Next Year

LG’s CEO Resigns Due to Poor Phone Sales

Coming Soon: Mind-Reading Cell Phones

Would You Be Happy With a Phone That Just Calls and Texts?

Nokia Is the McDonald’s of Phones

Ten Things Nokia’s New CEO Must Do ASAP

Why Do Europeans Still Use Nokia Phones?

It’s Large, It’s HD, It’s As Good As Android Gets (In Europe)

To Hold HTC’s Desire Z Is To Love It

HTC Desire HD: A 720p-Shootin’ Android Behemoth

HTC Desire Z Is a Gorgeous Slide-Out QWERTY Android With Brains

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