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AT&T Bumping its 3G to HSPA 7.2 in Six More Cities

AT&T is bringing faster 3G speeds to Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, LA and Miami by years end. Of course, you won’t get speeds anywhere near 7.2Mbps, but you should get a modest boost in performance nonetheless. [AT&T] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-what-at-ts-7-2mbps-network-really-means-5295789

Tech News Adam Frucci

Palm Pixi Hands On: The Smaller Pre With A Better Keyboard and No Wi-Fi

The Palm Pixi is just what you’d get when you ask your engineers to take the Pre, keep as much stuff as possible, but make it smaller. It’s a keyboarded candybar (with webOS), but it loses some vitals like Wi-Fi. The Details The important bits: It still runs webOS, still has a keyboard, still only…

Tech News Jason Chen

Rumor: Palm’s Cheap and Tiny Eos “Pixie” WebOS Phone Due This Week

TechCrunch hears that Palm’s going to reveal Pixie (aka Eos), its second WebOS phone that’s supposedly gonna be small, skinny and cheap, sometime this week, for Fashion Week. https://gizmodo.com/palms-eos-pixie-webos-phone-might-be-delayed-until-20-5339215 Sorta surprising, since the timing feels weird, not to mention there were rumors it was delayed (granted, how can a phone that doesn’t officially exist really…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sprint Retracts $100 Palm Pre Deal After Only Six Hours

Here’s how this went: AllThingsD found two explicit references on Sprint’s website to a deal that gave new Sprint subscribers a Pre for $100. A few hours later, after an almost certainly hilarious “internal review,” they canceled it. Uh, oops? https://gizmodo.com/sprints-palm-pre-drops-to-100-at-least-for-new-recrui-5354759 It’s not especially strange for a company to renege on an unannounced offer or…

Tech News John Herrman

Etch-a-Sketch iPhone Case Is Almost Too Adorable

I don’t know why, but I’m such a sucker for handcrafted iPhone cases that look like other gadgets. First the Playstation case and now an Etch-a-Sketch. It’s just so cute! [Etsy via iPhone Savior via Geeky Gadgets via Nerd Approved] https://gizmodo.com/i-dare-you-to-not-buy-this-playstation-iphone-case-imme-5305602

Tech News Adam Frucci

Verizon Samsung Rogue Has AMOLED Display, Promises to Be Better than Glyde It Replaces

We less than liked Verizon’s Samsung Glyde, but perhaps the Glyde 2 or the Rogue will make us forget. The Rogue looks like a normal slider but its AMOLED display should be bright (much like the Impression’s). https://gizmodo.com/iphone-clone-battlemodo-which-one-is-the-iphoniest-5017957 Samsung went with a 3 inch resistive touchscreen for the Rogue, but it does include some more…

Gadgets Joanna Stern

The Week In iPhone Apps: Dead or Alive, You’re Coming With Me

In this week’s leisurely, labor-friendly app roundup: Watchmen grows up, and grows large; you avoid getting sick; lots of TV gets watched; and Robocop’s got a few things to say to you. Outbreak: An app that aggregates disease outbreak information into either a list or a map overlay, giving you just enough information to be…

Tech News John Herrman

LG Chocolate BL20 Brings Back Traditional Chocolate Styling

Unlike LG’s wacky BL40 ultra-widescreen Chocolate, the newly-spotted BL20 is more obviously from the Chocolate lineage. It’s a non-touchscreen slider with haptic feedback on its touch-sensitive buttons, and actually features an interface not dissimilar to the BL40. https://gizmodo.com/lg-bl40-ultra-wide-touchscreen-phone-launching-ultra-5353050 It’s missing some of the more advanced features the BL40 boasts, notably an accelerometer, but should be…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

LG BL40, Ultra-Wide Touchscreen Phone, Launching Ultra-Soon in Europe and a Month Later in States

Since seeing the promo videos for the LG BL40 candybar, I’ve had a hankering to play around with it. The software is impressive, the 21:9 touchscreen display lickable, and it’ll be out over the next few months. https://gizmodo.com/the-lg-bl40-long-chocolate-looks-kind-of-ridiculous-i-5339963 According to an LG press release, the lucky folks in Europe will see the BL40 mid-September while…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

HTC Hero $100 Rebate Is Mercifully Instant at Best Buy

I had essentially taken this for granted, since Best Buy‘s instant rebate policy is storewide, but hey, just in case: Whittling the HTC Hero‘s price down to the advertised $180 will take the redemption of a $50 “instant savings” (don’t worry about this) as well as a $100 mail-in rebate, which Best Buy has confirmed…

Tech News John Herrman

Nokia N900 U.S. Preorders Are Go: $650 No Contract

The N900 is up for preorder, and Nokia is throwing in its BH-703 Bluetooth headset to sweeten the deal. That’s beats €500 ($710) in Europe. The N900 packs some hot specs, but remember it needs T-Mobile’s network for 3G. [Nokia] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n97-mini-gets-official-450-640-in-october-5350649

Tech News Danny Allen

Buzz Aldrin Double Fists An iPhone And a Blackberry On a Blimp

Airship Ventures’ Zeppelin Tours of San Francisco welcomed a distinguished passenger on board recently—none other than Buzz Aldrin. Apparently, the view did not take precedence over his rigorous work schedule. https://gizmodo.com/zeppelins-return-to-the-us-this-halloween-785-gets-yo-5060794 The dude’s nearly 80 years old by the way. He’s dual-wielding cellphones, flyin’, rappin‘, and punching out lunatics. I want to be like him…

Space & Spaceflight Sean Fallon

Inside AT&T’s Global Network Operations Center: Where Calls Go to Die

Tagged onto the Times’ article on AT&T’s failings with the iPhone is a great gallery of the infrastructure behind the network. Included is this shot of AT&T’s NJ operations center, which looks like the deck of a spaceship. [NYT]

Tech News Adam Frucci

AT&T Launches iPhone MMS September 25

Sweet Jesus, AT&T just told us that MMS for iPhone launches September 25. Which is emphatically not summer. It’ll be coming via software update for iPhone 3G and 3GS (remember, old iPhones are getting left out). AT&T admits they’re late, saying “it was important to give our customers a positive experience from day one” so…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Xperia Pureness Is Just Several Steps from Invisible

Points for being different, I guess. Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Pureness spruces up an otherwise ordinary phone with an extraordinary, clear LCD. We have no details other than its “talk, text, time” theme and what we can(‘t) see: the Xperia is a no-frills candybar with a transparent, monochrome LCD screen. You’ll notice that in the video,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

HTC Hero Hits Sprint Oct. 11 With New Face, $180 Price Tag

That Sprint’s first Android phone’s going to be the HTC Hero is about as unsurprising as news gets, but you know what is surprising? They’ve given it some invasive plastic surgery, and priced it squarely below their own Palm Pre. Sprint’s Hero is a bit blobbier than HTC’s original, but it also looks less chinny—an…

Tech News John Herrman

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Official, Runs Windows Mobile 6.5

Hard to believe Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X2 wasn’t official until this moment—honestly, we care more about the awesome the Android-powered X3 at this point—but Sony just made it real, it running Windows Mobile 6.5. https://gizmodo.com/xperia-x2-steps-up-its-special-effects-for-the-sequel-5323710 The hard specs: 3.2-inch WVGA touchscreen, 8.1MP camera, HSPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, TV-out. And oh yes, the panels custom interface on…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Apple Approves Vonage Mobile VoIP App

Did our ranting and the FCCs investigation have an effect on Apple’s app approval process? First they approved Spotify’s streaming app, now they’ve approved Vonage’s Mobile VoIP app? How about revisiting the Google Voice app while Apple’s feeling nice? https://gizmodo.com/apples-chickenshit-approval-process-has-gone-too-far-5325539 According to CNET, Vonage is currently beta testing the Mobile VoIP app and expects to…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

AT&T Claims Better 3G Service In NYC, Users Rejoice Until They Realize Nothing Has Improved

New York AT&T sufferers rejoice, for the Death Star claims that they have finalized the deployment of 1,600 850MHz 3G cells. What does this jibba jabba mean? “Improved connectivity, performance and enhanced in-building wireless coverage.” Sure. According to AT&T, this upgrade is part of their plans to enhance their 3G network but, quite frankly, I’m…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

BlackBerry Essex: The Tour, Plus Wi-Fi and a Trackpad

Here’s (Update: a mockup of) the BlackBerry Essex—basically a Tour tarted up with Wi-Fi and the Curve 8520’s trackpad that’s gonna creep across the line. So it’s better. How you feel about that, Tour owners? [CrackBerry] https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-curve-8520-lightning-review-cheap-not-just-5331885

Tech News Matt Buchanan

AT&T Bumping its 3G to HSPA 7.2 in Six More Cities

Palm Pixi Hands On: The Smaller Pre With A Better Keyboard and No Wi-Fi

Rumor: Palm’s Cheap and Tiny Eos “Pixie” WebOS Phone Due This Week

Sprint Retracts $100 Palm Pre Deal After Only Six Hours

Etch-a-Sketch iPhone Case Is Almost Too Adorable

Verizon Samsung Rogue Has AMOLED Display, Promises to Be Better than Glyde It Replaces

The Week In iPhone Apps: Dead or Alive, You’re Coming With Me

LG Chocolate BL20 Brings Back Traditional Chocolate Styling

LG BL40, Ultra-Wide Touchscreen Phone, Launching Ultra-Soon in Europe and a Month Later in States

HTC Hero $100 Rebate Is Mercifully Instant at Best Buy

Nokia N900 U.S. Preorders Are Go: $650 No Contract

Buzz Aldrin Double Fists An iPhone And a Blackberry On a Blimp

Inside AT&T’s Global Network Operations Center: Where Calls Go to Die

AT&T Launches iPhone MMS September 25

The Xperia Pureness Is Just Several Steps from Invisible

HTC Hero Hits Sprint Oct. 11 With New Face, $180 Price Tag

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Official, Runs Windows Mobile 6.5

Apple Approves Vonage Mobile VoIP App

AT&T Claims Better 3G Service In NYC, Users Rejoice Until They Realize Nothing Has Improved

BlackBerry Essex: The Tour, Plus Wi-Fi and a Trackpad

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