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HP Thinks About Putting WebOS on Samsung Phones

Looking to expand the reach of the WebOS platform, HP CEO Leo Apotheker says the company is in talks with multiple companies to put the smartphone OS smartphone platform on third-party handsets. From the Bloomberg report: “We are talking to a number of companies,” Apotheker said in Beijing, declining to elaborate on details. “I can…

Gadgets Adrian Covert

Half of American Adults Under 30 Don’t Even Bother With Landline Phones

The FCC wireless communication report is out and what does it tell us? People under 30 hate landline phones. In fact, 51% of adults between 25-29 pledge complete loyalty to their cellphones. From the report: For adults aged 25-29, more than half (51.3 percent) lived in households with wireless-only telephones, which is the first time…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Ruin Phones and Your Eyesight With a 3D-Converting Black Box

Given the HTC Evo 3D actually hurt our poor reviewer Sam’s eyes, do you really want to put your own eyeballs through similar pain? Would you actually pay for that privilege? If so, the TOYin3D should be added to your sadist-wishlist. https://gizmodo.com/htc-evo-3d-oh-my-god-make-it-stop-hurting-5812185 It sounds simple enough to use, just by slipping your non-3D phone into…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Over 500,000 Android Devices Activated Every Day

Straight from the horse’s mouth, if you can pardon the expression Mr Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, Andy Rubin. Tweeting “there are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w,” Rubin’s team must be happy with that rising figure. [@arubin]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rumor: WP7 Mango Phones Don’t Need No Stoopid Hardware Buttons

So Nokia’s first WP7 phone won’t have any hard buttons under the screen. Fair enough; we knew Microsoft was granting Nokia a few special powers on the design front. But what if buttons aren’t needed…on any WP7 Mango phones? https://gizmodo.com/this-is-nokias-first-windows-phone-5814774 Perpetually in-the-know Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin tweeted that “according to design guideline there no need…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

AT&T’s GoPhone Plan Does Unlimited Texting, Talking and Web-ing For $50/Month

This isn’t a contract, folks—you can sign up to the newly-priced GoPhone plan for as long as you want, and also text Mexico, Canada and 100 other countries for free, as well. [BGR]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

What Color Does a BlackBerry Bleed?

The situation at RIM is pretty ugly right now. They need to finish the PlayBook and launch a bunch of awesome new phones. In the meantime, their financials are reflecting their product situation, which unfortunately means layoffs, starting today apparently. https://gizmodo.com/ten-reasons-why-blackberry-is-screwed-5812832 A suggestion? Keep the hard-working engineers. Maybe start with one of the CEOs. Mike…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Next Windows Phone: It’s Pretty Great

Pleasant. That doesn’t sound like much of an accomplishment, or a benchmark or like, impressive. But the truth is, most technology isn’t pleasant. The new Windows Phone is. Very much so. It feels alive. Everything bounces. Everything swoops. Everything flips. Every single action is lushly animated. It just doesn’t sweat the details—blood was spilled. The…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

I Already Hate Nokia’s Fantastic Looking New Phone

PocketNow has shots of what appears to be the Nokia N9, which kinda looks like an elongated and oversized iPod Nano. Beautiful (and probably well-constructed) as it may be, I don’t give a damn about it. Why? It runs Meego, not Mango. When Microsoft and Nokia announced a partnership at the beginning of the year…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Has RIM Forced Carriers to Rush Buggy BlackBerrys Onto the Shelves?

According to BGR’s sources, RIM’s been playing with fire, “strong-arming several carriers, essentially forcing them to approve devices they normally would not move through the Technical Acceptance phase.” That explains a lot, doesn’t it BlackBerry owners? As you know, manufacturers do their own internal testing on devices and software updates, and once they deem them…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

T-Shirt Uses Sound Waves To Charge Smartphones

As is the trait of Glastonbury Festival-sponsor Orange, the carrier has shown off its annual eco-friendly festival prototype, and would you guess that it’ll match those phone-charging wellington boots from last year? Anna Wintour will be ever so pleased. https://gizmodo.com/these-cellphone-charging-boots-will-never-exist-5557274 Orange proposes that the Sound Charge t-shirt can power a smartphone completely, just by harnessing…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Motorola Doesn’t Think We’ll Notice They Launched the Droid 3 In China

After numerous leaks and hints, the Motorola Droid 3 is official—well, in China anyway, where it’s being called the Milestone 3 (the European and Asian name for the Droid series.) As expected, the Gingerbread phone is faster, thinner and shoots 1080p videos. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-3-leaks-complete-with-an-8mp-camera-and-5808697 Slide the 4-inch screen open and there’s a five-row QWERTY keyboard. It’s…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sony Ericsson’s Adding NFC to Its Android Phones

They’ve actually partnered with NXP, which is the same chip-maker that put the NFC support into the Nexus S phone. Get ready to be disappointed by how few places let you pay via NFC, nerds. [GigaOm]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Will “Cut Select Apps” To Make Room on the Desire For Gingerbread

In order to create enough room for both Gingerbread and the Sense UI on the Desire phone, HTC has again taken to its Facebook page to elaborate further: “to resolve Desire’s memory issue and enable the upgrade to Gingerbread, we will cut select apps from the release. Look for status updates starting next week. We…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Leak: Google Nexus 4G Will Be an Absolute Monster

It may-or-may-not be called the Nexus 4G, but BGR has learnt that Google’s next flagship will be a 4G LTE “beast” with a dual-core processor up to 1.5GHz, and 720p “monster-sized” screen. Intriguingly, there aren’t any buttons on the phone. This means the usual cues—home, menu, back and search—will be done purely in Android, which…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Changes Its Mind, and Decides Gingerbread on Desire Is Possible

In under 24 hours, HTC has done a complete U-turn on their former flagship Desire phone after public pressure (we assume), announcing via its UK Facebook page that “contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire.” Great news for owners of the year-old phone, though we wonder how…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC’s Not Updating the Desire With Gingerbread as Sense UI Is Too Big

Just a year after the former-flagship Desire was released, HTC’s slammed any hopes of owners receiving a Gingerbread upgrade. Writing on the HTC UK Facebook fanpage, they credited it to there not being enough memory for both Gingerbread and the Sense UI. https://gizmodo.com/htc-desire-a-premium-nexus-one-without-the-google-5472642 For anyone who dislikes Android interfaces, this will be further meat for…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Use a White Noise Ringtone to Find Your Lost Cellphone Faster

We’ve featured numerous ways to call your lost phone so you can find it, but reader Java-Princess lets us know that a white noise ringtone on the other end will make it even easier to find. https://lifehacker.com/find-your-lost-cellphone-with-google-voice-5252595 I was recently in England and the fire alarm in the hotel we stayed in was quite different…

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Motorola Photon Hands-On: A 4G Tegra 2 Beast to Take Across the Globe

Sprint’s got a new jewel in their helm, and they’ve got decent reasons to buff it: the Photon is what Android users seem to crave these days. It’s large, powerful, and, unlike its cousins, will work (securely) around the world. The Photon’s an Android with muscle (Tegra 2 guts, 4G connectivity, and gig of RAM),…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The 20 Cell Phones Least Likely To Fry Your Brain Dead

Since the World Health Organization’s report that cell phones may cause cancer in humans, there has been a lot of talk about how to keep yourself safe. The FCC has always used what’s called a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) score to track how much radio frequency (RF) from each phone is absorbed by the human…

Tech News Steve Kovach - Business Insider

HP Thinks About Putting WebOS on Samsung Phones

Half of American Adults Under 30 Don’t Even Bother With Landline Phones

Ruin Phones and Your Eyesight With a 3D-Converting Black Box

Over 500,000 Android Devices Activated Every Day

Rumor: WP7 Mango Phones Don’t Need No Stoopid Hardware Buttons

AT&T’s GoPhone Plan Does Unlimited Texting, Talking and Web-ing For $50/Month

What Color Does a BlackBerry Bleed?

The Next Windows Phone: It’s Pretty Great

I Already Hate Nokia’s Fantastic Looking New Phone

Has RIM Forced Carriers to Rush Buggy BlackBerrys Onto the Shelves?

T-Shirt Uses Sound Waves To Charge Smartphones

Motorola Doesn’t Think We’ll Notice They Launched the Droid 3 In China

Sony Ericsson’s Adding NFC to Its Android Phones

HTC Will “Cut Select Apps” To Make Room on the Desire For Gingerbread

Leak: Google Nexus 4G Will Be an Absolute Monster

HTC Changes Its Mind, and Decides Gingerbread on Desire Is Possible

HTC’s Not Updating the Desire With Gingerbread as Sense UI Is Too Big

Use a White Noise Ringtone to Find Your Lost Cellphone Faster

Motorola Photon Hands-On: A 4G Tegra 2 Beast to Take Across the Globe

The 20 Cell Phones Least Likely To Fry Your Brain Dead

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