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The Definitive Video On Why the Airplane Cellphone Ban Is Stupid

Air companies and crews insist that using cellphones can interfere with commercial airplane instrumentation. This is complete bullshit. We have talked about this in the past and we even gave you advice about how to avoid their stupidity. This video is the definitive roundup on why this is dumb, dumb, dumb. DUMB. https://gizmodo.com/cell-phones-dont-crash-airplanes-5751290 I wish…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Distracted Girl On Cellphone Plunges Into a Sinkhole

We’ve seen people take some serious spills because they’re all walking and talking or texting and not paying attention, but what happens to this poor girl is just horrible. That had to hurt. https://gizmodo.com/girl-falls-on-her-face-while-texting-during-live-news-5885775 The teenage girl in the video above was walking quickly down the street, enraptured by her conversation. She was so caught…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Greatest Cellphone Accessory Also Has the Greatest Promotional Video

You might not think you need a $15 sleeve accessory designed to slip on your finger preventing you from dropping your phone. But we guarantee the mad rhymes and funky beats in this promo video for the Feinger will have you whipping out your credit card faster than you can say “what the hell did…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Feds Want to Make Your Cell Phone Work Better

Wireless spectrum—the tiny slices of the invisible world that make data through the air possible—is a precious, precious commodity. Everyone wants it. You want it. And the government wants to hand some out—but everyone will hate the plan. Om reports the National Telecommunications and Information Administration is backing a plan to offload a “huge chunk…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Dumbphones Are Not the Answer to Smartphone Addiction

We look at the constantly rising numbers for smartphone adoption and just sort of assume that sooner or later, everyone’s going to get on board with this thing. But there are some people, young people, who are sticking to dumbphones, and cutting ties with their smartphones. And it’s kind of dumb. Here’s the basic thrust…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Why “More Bars in More Places” Means Nothing

Years ago we heard AT&T’s pitch: “more bars in more places”. Their campaign was to let everyone know that they had the best signal around. Sure, that may have mattered then, but the definition of signal is even variable. Just a few years ago, Apple and AT&T changed how the iPhone displayed the signal bars…

Tech News Matt Galligan

The House that Shrooms Built, Christopher Walken Reads a Book, and the Best Graphics 1986 Could Muster

Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for tonight’s Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit on the left, yo. Tonight’s macro view of some Pink Kush deliciousness comes to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A Stupid Holster For Your Stupid Retro Handset

If you’ve already shaken your head in disgust at those retro handsets that turn your modern smartphone into the clunky desk phones of yesteryear, prepare to have an all out fit at this holster designed to let you carry them around. https://gizmodo.com/review-moshi-moshi-retro-handsets-make-your-cellphone-5596918 They’re available in a clear or black finish with a clip for hanging…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Bone Conducting Ski Goggles: Say It With Your Skull

Microphones can’t discriminate what they hear, which can lead to noisy conversations if you’re careening down a snowy hill. But by picking up the vibrations in your skull while you talk, Buhel’s new SpeakGoggle G33s promise to clearly decipher every word. The goggles connect to a cellphone in your pocket over Bluetooth, letting you take…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

HTC Titan II Hands On: The Giantest Windows Phone Now Has a Titanic 16-Megapixel Camera and LTE

The Titan II is the good kind of sequel: It doesn’t screw up anything that made the original a fan favorite—that 4.7-inch screen—but it adds everything they want. Like a crazy 16-megapixel camera, AT&T LTE and a massiver battery. https://gizmodo.com/htc-titan-review-i-want-to-hate-you-giant-phone-but-5865289 Full-sized samples right here. It really is just like the original Titan, but with a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

AT&T CES Live Phone and 4G Insanity Starts Now

Hello! Who’s ready to see some phones, some gees and some fancy charts about how much data ya’ll are eating? Please make your way over here, where I’ll be covering it live and stuff, 2010 style.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Unlimited Data Is Really Dead Now, Like for Real (Update: But Not Really)

AT&T killed it first. Then T-Mobile. Then Verizon. Now Sprint’s quietly stabbed unlimited data in the back, without warning, pomp or circumstance. Update: Haha jokes! Hesse was misquoted by Dow Jones according to TechCrunch. Seems he meant while roaming! Update 2: Sprint’s official statement: Sprint offers smartphone users unlimited data with no throttling Reports that…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

AT&T’s Doomed T-Mobile Bid Is Dead

AT&T’s highly controversial $39 billion bid to become the biggest carrier in the United States by swallowing T-Mobile is over, eight months after it started. Here’s what AT&T says about dropping the deal: The actions by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to block this transaction do not change the realities of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

20 Percent of Wireless 911 Calls Come From Your Ass

Though were kind of, sort of, moving past the era of the butt dialing on our cellphones thanks to the advent of the touchscreen, it’s still happening to a significant degree. The worst is that it’s quite often 911. CBS 2 did some digging around and found that 20 percent of all 911 calls placed…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Shopping Malls To Track Your Mad Dash For Deals Using Your Cellphone

Privacy advocates are raising concerns over a new technology being implemented by a couple of malls that will allow them to track the movements of their guests using the unique ID numbers of their cellphones. The system, called FootPath Technology, uses a series of antennas located throughout a mall to register a shopper’s cellphone, and…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski

LG Sketches Future Prada 3.0 Smartphone

LG’s long-running partnership with fashion people Prada will continue in 2012, with both companies announcing a renewed friendship — and revealing the above sketch of a future Prada branded smartphone. The phone is officially known as the PRADA Phone by LG 3.0, with the concept sketches showing us a pretty standard modern black slab of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Original Googlephone HTC G1 Gets Ice Cream Sandwich Update

There’s a reason old hardware doesn’t get new software upgrades. Like the iPhone 3G’s iOS 4 update, this unofficial Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Android phone that started it all, is, well… crippling. Still, it just goes to show what’s possible when developers put their heads together. Where I couldn’t stand to use anything…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Texas Judge Puts the Kibosh on “Unconstitutional” Cellphone Tracking Law

US District Court judge Lynn N. Hughes has struck down a recently-passed law that would have allowed law enforcement to obtain cell phone records without a warrant. Sorry Feds. In his one page decision brief, Hughes states, “The records would show the date, time, called number, and location of the telephone when the call was…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Nobody Asked for Smaller ‘Nano-SIM’ Cards, but They’re Coming Anyways

Data, reception, battery, screen, CPU, weight, size. These are the cellphone specs I’m concerned. Smaller SIM cards? Not so much. But Giesecke & Devrient, one of the original SIM manufactuers, thinks we need a nano-SIM that’s 30 percent smaller. Great? According to GigaOM, we could see could see this achievement in pointlessness as early as…

Tech News Adrian Covert

HTC’s Impending Big ‘Ol Rezound Leaks

We’re going to see it in the flesh here in New York when it’s announced a little later today, but if you need some leaked shots to tide you over, behold: the HTC Rezound, via PocketNow. That screen’s rather large! Hey look, LTE! That’s excellent, and if these shots are real, so’s that speed. Rumored…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Definitive Video On Why the Airplane Cellphone Ban Is Stupid

Distracted Girl On Cellphone Plunges Into a Sinkhole

The Greatest Cellphone Accessory Also Has the Greatest Promotional Video

The Feds Want to Make Your Cell Phone Work Better

Dumbphones Are Not the Answer to Smartphone Addiction

Why “More Bars in More Places” Means Nothing

The House that Shrooms Built, Christopher Walken Reads a Book, and the Best Graphics 1986 Could Muster

A Stupid Holster For Your Stupid Retro Handset

Bone Conducting Ski Goggles: Say It With Your Skull

HTC Titan II Hands On: The Giantest Windows Phone Now Has a Titanic 16-Megapixel Camera and LTE

AT&T CES Live Phone and 4G Insanity Starts Now

Unlimited Data Is Really Dead Now, Like for Real (Update: But Not Really)

AT&T’s Doomed T-Mobile Bid Is Dead

20 Percent of Wireless 911 Calls Come From Your Ass

Shopping Malls To Track Your Mad Dash For Deals Using Your Cellphone

LG Sketches Future Prada 3.0 Smartphone

Original Googlephone HTC G1 Gets Ice Cream Sandwich Update

Texas Judge Puts the Kibosh on “Unconstitutional” Cellphone Tracking Law

Nobody Asked for Smaller ‘Nano-SIM’ Cards, but They’re Coming Anyways

HTC’s Impending Big ‘Ol Rezound Leaks

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