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What Mystery Product Is Sony Ericsson Announcing Today? (UPDATED)

We’re usually excited to get clued in on new product launches, but this vague tease from Sony Ericsson doesn’t help us out much. Is it the Rachael? The Kiki? Release dates for some boring old feature phones? Something else entirely? https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericssons-android-rachael-ui-makes-me-want-to-ditc-5310236 All we’ve got to go on is this teeny tweet from Sony Ericsson North…

Tech News John Herrman

T-Mobile’s Samsung Highlight: Cute, Toy-Like Touchscreen Dumbphone

Presumably aimed at tweens who want one of those cool all-touch devices without paining their parents with a data plan, the Samsung Highlight features an admittedly cute design and a teeny touchscreen. The touchscreen is an oddly-sized 1.61- x 2.64-inch capacitive display, though the handset does have a few hardware buttons on the bottom and…

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz

No Surprise: Hollywood Doesn’t Understand Where Pirated Movies Come From

Cory Doctorow has a piece in The Guardian explaining why it’s awfully dumb for a theater to confiscate cellphones at a preview screening: Nobody’s pirating movies with a cellphone, and real leaks come from inside the industry. The piece goes more in depth about the security risks in having a cellphone confiscated by anonymous theater…

Movies Dan Nosowitz

Windows Marketplace for Mobile Will App-ify All 6.x Handsets, Not Just 6.5

Fantastic news for current Windows Mobile users: Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft’s forthcoming app store, will work on 6.0 and 6.1 handsets as well. When? Still a cryptic “Fall,” unfortunately. Developers will be able to submit applications to get started on the vetting process as soon as July 27th, giving Microsoft a little lead time…

Tech News John Herrman

Verizon Phones Will Have Verizon’s App Store, No One Else’s

Talking up Verizon’s July 28 developer event, GigaOM drops the bit that Verizon’s “app store will be the sole marketplace on devices sold by the company meaning stores such as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry App World or Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Marketplace won’t get placement on Verizon handsets.” Granted, multiple app stores on one phone is…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Worms For iPhone: Same Game, Worse Controls

You’re probably familiar with Worms by now. About 20 versions of the game have been released for every platform under the sun, so it was inevitable that it would show up for the iPhone. Unfortunately, the iPhone is a terrible platform for it. Worms is a game that’s all about precision; you’ve gotta be able…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Cellphone Strap Allows You To Pinch Butts With Impunity

Generally speaking, the nervous guy sitting next to you on the subway frantically pinching a sexy-thonged butt charm is someone you want to steer clear of. On the other hand, if you are that creepy guy on the subway, you will surely get hours of entertainment out of these Strapya Sexy Squishy Peach Butt charms.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Nokia Surge Not Quite As Tasty As the Delicious Soft Drink

One of the weirder lookin’ phones Nokia’s pooped out, the Surge is a standard Symbian S60 dealio, with a browser that whips out Flash Lite (aka suck it, everybody else) and JuiceCaster social networking-ma-jig. BG wasn’t thrilled with it. $80. AT&T and Nokia Ride a Social Wave into Summer with the Nokia Surge New Symbian…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

New LG Chocolate Shown on Video, Crazy-Long Design Confirmed

Well, there goes the rest of LG’s annoyingly gradual tease campaign: the next generation LG Chocolate BL40, with a 4-inch, 800×344 (21:9!), multitouch screen has been revealed in full in a leaked promotional video. https://gizmodo.com/new-lg-chocolate-looks-good-enough-to-lick-bite-5309071 On top of the display, we can see a few more of the rumored specs confirmed: LG’s in-house Active Flash…

Tech News John Herrman

They’d Have Been Better Off Stealing Two Cans and a String

What is it with idiots and electronics today? First, some bone-headed German bargain hunters got swindled shopping for discount iPods. And now, down in Mexico, thieves are stealing hollow replica display case cell phones. https://gizmodo.com/german-bargain-hunters-conned-into-buying-bag-of-potat-5312889 Reports HuffPo: Employees at a Telefonica Movistar cell-phone store in Morelia, Mexico say they arrived Tuesday morning to find that…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: AIM, Skype, Crayons and Compasses

Step up your messaging, have fun with physics, watch some weird TV, find your car, call your friends, later incriminate said friends—it’s all in a day’s month’s work for Windows Mobile. Searchme: Searchme apps have been available for other mobile platforms—iPhone, Symbian and Android—for quite a while now, only now coming to Windows Mobile in…

Tech News John Herrman

Rumor: Modu Phone and Its Many Jackets Finally Headed to Production

Modu, the modular cellphone jacket system we fondled in 2008 and whose release date we heard about briefly in February, is apparently ready for production. https://gizmodo.com/modu-transforming-cellphone-system-first-video-hands-on-355348 Word came to us today via a tipster, via Israel, via Google Translate, so proceed with much skepticism. That said, we do have an article citing Modu CEO Dov…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Specs Re-Imply Blackberry Storm 2 Will Probably Forgo Clicky Touchscreen

Additional BlackBerry Storm 2 specs out this morning would appear to all but re-confirm our earlier news that the soon-to-be-released smartphone is ditching the problematic click touchscreen, and will add some much-desired wi-fi goodness. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-storm-2-screen-wont-be-clicky-verizon-to-un-5256389 The info also indicates the Storm 2 is officially the BlackBerry 9550, complete with this: – CDMA 1xRTT/EVDO Rev. A…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Sony Ericsson’s More-Camera-Than-Phone C905 AT&T’s First 8MP Cameraphone

A whole year after it was announced, it looks like Sony Ericsson’s C905 is coming stateside by way of AT&T July 19, making it AT&T’s first 8-megapixel cameraphone. I’m sure Jesus would hate it. [BGR] https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-c905-8-1-megapixel-cybershot-phone-gets-o-5017168

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Beginner’s Guide to Google Voice

Confused by all the number-changing, grouping, re-routing, and transcribing going on in Google Voice? Head over to Lifehacker to check out their excellent guide to all things Google Voice. [Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/how-to-ease-your-transition-to-google-voice-5311254

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Amazon Wireless Aims To Make Cellphone Shopping Easier

For many of us, cellphone shopping really means choosing between the major smartphone brands—but for those of us looking at a broader range of devices and plans, Amazon has developed a new site to help make the process easier. Amazon Wireless offers services like: •Easy shopping for cell phones and service wireless plans without rebate…

Commerce Sean Fallon

HTC Handsets Will Have Regular, Non-Stupid Headphone Jacks From Now On

For years, HTC has been waging a senseless war against the 3.5mm headphone jack, dispatching wave after wave of Mini-USB-dependent handsets onto the public. But their newest, the Hero, has a proper plug. Was that… a concession? Yes, actually. https://gizmodo.com/htc-hero-android-phone-hands-on-with-video-5301955 HTC brokered their surrender through MobileCrunch: The vast majority of devices we launch after Hero…

Tech News John Herrman

The 3720 Classic Is Nokia’s Most Rugged Handset To Date

As it turns out, the mysterious rugged Nokia that was able to withstand a chip shot and a rugby kick is the 3720 classic—a tri-band GSM phone with a 2.2-inch screen, Bluetooth and a 1GB microSD card. https://gizmodo.com/upcoming-rugged-nokia-versus-a-golf-club-5308436 The 3720 is certainly not Nokia’s savior, but if you are clumsy, European and in need of…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Two More Android Updates This Year

In addition to the one minor and one major (Cupcake) update Google rolled out, there’s going to be two more updates for the 2009 year. One’s minor and one’s major (Donut). [Mobile Crunch] https://gizmodo.com/google-android-2-0-donut-has-universal-search-and-text-5271590

Tech News Jason Chen

Nokia: iPhone 3GS Has a Crappy Camera, N97 Rocks Faces

Need more evidence that Nokia just doesn’t get it? Here’s what UK General Manager for Nokia Mike Loughran says about the N97 versus the iPhone 3GS: https://gizmodo.com/analysts-say-nokia-really-is-doomed-by-2013-apple-to-p-5309470 “The new iPhone is an evolution rather than a revolution and for people trying to decide whether to get a Nokia N97 or an iPhone, it comes down…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

What Mystery Product Is Sony Ericsson Announcing Today? (UPDATED)

T-Mobile’s Samsung Highlight: Cute, Toy-Like Touchscreen Dumbphone

No Surprise: Hollywood Doesn’t Understand Where Pirated Movies Come From

Windows Marketplace for Mobile Will App-ify All 6.x Handsets, Not Just 6.5

Verizon Phones Will Have Verizon’s App Store, No One Else’s

Worms For iPhone: Same Game, Worse Controls

Cellphone Strap Allows You To Pinch Butts With Impunity

Nokia Surge Not Quite As Tasty As the Delicious Soft Drink

New LG Chocolate Shown on Video, Crazy-Long Design Confirmed

They’d Have Been Better Off Stealing Two Cans and a String

The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: AIM, Skype, Crayons and Compasses

Rumor: Modu Phone and Its Many Jackets Finally Headed to Production

Specs Re-Imply Blackberry Storm 2 Will Probably Forgo Clicky Touchscreen

Sony Ericsson’s More-Camera-Than-Phone C905 AT&T’s First 8MP Cameraphone

The Beginner’s Guide to Google Voice

Amazon Wireless Aims To Make Cellphone Shopping Easier

HTC Handsets Will Have Regular, Non-Stupid Headphone Jacks From Now On

The 3720 Classic Is Nokia’s Most Rugged Handset To Date

Two More Android Updates This Year

Nokia: iPhone 3GS Has a Crappy Camera, N97 Rocks Faces

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