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SIM Card Spy Ear Gets Smaller, Scumbags Get Bigger

Like the earlier, larger version, this SIM Card Spy Ear allows users of questionable character to listen in on other people’s conversations by dialing their own phone number. https://gizmodo.com/sim-card-spy-ear-for-nosy-neighbors-and-private-eyes-304624 Just slip your SIM card into the device, hide it out of sight, and dial your phone number from another phone. It’s that easy—you will hear…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

More Palm Pre Details: Remote Wipe and Online Backup, Requires Sprint Simply Everything Plan

A supposed Sprint rep spills some of the Pre‘s more mundane niceties and details: For one, it creates a “Palm profile” that allows OTA syncing, online data backup and remote wipe. Also not entirely unexpected, it’ll require a Simply Everything or Business Essentials data plan package from Sprint, though it doesn’t support Sprint’s own apps,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Star Trek iPhone Mod Goes Boldly Where Few Would Be Caught Dead

Andy Clement loves Star Trek. He also loves his iPhone. And he knows that Such cool interests can only get cooler by being combined. This mod was created by taking an old Star Trek pin without the pin part and super-gluing it to the back of an iPhone case. Hey, at least he didn’t glue…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Apple In ‘High Level’ iPhone Talks With Verizon Wireless

Will Verizon ever wrest away iPhone exclusivity from AT&T? We don’t know for certain, but tonight we do know that the wireless carrier is working hard to make it so, possibly by 2010. The revelation comes to us by way of USA Today, where we also learned that Steve Jobs was involved in the negotiations…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Rumor: Samsung ‘Omnia Pro’ Could Feature Full QWERTY, AMOLED Display

Hello totally unconfirmed Samsung Omnia Pro phone. Good evening. Let’s say you are real, and more than ethereal rumor, and might actually take up physical space someday. You would probably have features like this: – Windows Mobile 6.1, with upgrade to 6.5 available – Full sliding QWERTY keyboard – 3.5-inch WVGA touch screen – AMOLED…

Gadgets Jack Loftus

Survey: 90% of 15-Year-Olds Have Cellphone, Are Much Cooler Than I Was At Their Age

The Age asks if today’s youth is addicted to cellphones after learning 90% of kids aged 15 have them. That was a rhetorical question, right Age? In other news, tonight’s forecast is darkness. [The Age]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Android Cupcake Live Folders Preview Email, RSS and Playlists Without Opening Apps

Small touch, but maybe the coolest thing I’ve seen in Android’s Cupcake: Live Folders are home screen widgets that let you peek at email, playlists, RSS feeds and more without opening the full app. [Cnet] https://gizmodo.com/android-1-5-early-look-sdk-now-available-adds-soft-k-5210852

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Android Cupake to Hit Next Month, Says T-Mobile Germany

Good news for G1 users: T-Mobile Germany’s says that the Cupcake updates will be released next month. They have stated in their G1 promotional page, heralding the new features which sadly don’t include vanilla frosting. https://gizmodo.com/but-hed-really-prefer-a-red-velvet-cupcake-5221695 • Additional on-screen keyboard – you decide how you enter your messages • Video recording and playback • Pictures…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

iPhone Nano Wannabe Actually Looks Like It Came From Cupertino

This is the HiPhone Nano N3+, a 2.8-inch touchscreen based with swivel screen cellphone. It’s a Chinese clone of an Apple product that never happened, but which actually looks like it could have happened. Sure it’s not perfect and it lacks the finesse of Apple’s designs—and I shiver thinking about the software this thing packs—but…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

“Welcome to the Oval Office, Please Check Your BlackBerry at the Door”

Baskets like this one are scattered throughout the West Wing to collect BlackBerrys, iPhones, RAZRs or any other bleepy-bloopy things visitors to the Oval Office have in their pockets. [Callie Shell/Time]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Obama’s Jack-Bauer-Certified BlackBerry Almost Finished by NSA

I thought Obama had already gotten his top-secret BlackBerry—I mean he’s dropped one—but the Washington Times says that the NSA is almost done developing his bulletproof BlackBerry 8830 (what, no Bold?). https://gizmodo.com/breaking-news-obama-dropped-his-blackberry-5133676 The new BlackBerry is locked down by Genesis Key’s SecureVoice technology that turns any Curve or 8830 into a hack-resistant handheld. When he…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Google Product Search Now Available on iPhone, Android

If you own an iPhone or Android phone and Google Product Search is your comparison engine of choice, good news…you can now enjoy a full-featured shopping experience on the go. Just point your browser to Google, click on “More” and select “Shopping.” [Unwired View]

Tech News Sean Fallon

New SIMs Are the Size of a Pinhead

While you know SIMs as the tiny cards that slide in your phones/mobile devices, T-Mobile has announced an even smaller SIM the size of a pinhead. Not intended for swapping in and out of gadgets, this “embedded SIM” is fashioned from silicon (instead of plastic) so it can be stuck in pretty much any electronic…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Plantronics Voyager Pro Bluetooth Headset Kills the Wind

Do Bluetooth headset makers plant their seeds at the same time every year or something? Following the Jawbone Prime, modeled by sexy ladies, is Plantronics’ Voyager Pro, modeled by business douches. https://gizmodo.com/jawbone-prime-improves-on-everything-5223733 It’s the child of the Voyager 510, and it promises protection against 80dB of noise with AudioIQ2, with three layers of wind protection.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Jawbone Prime Improves on Everything

Aliph’s just gone and improved the second-generation Jawbone Bluetooth headset in both the sound quality and the looks department. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-aliphs-spankin-new-jawbone-verdict-390592 There are four fashion colors—red, yellow, orange and purple—for people who would rather accessorize than try to hide the fact that they’re using a Bluetooth headset. (Their names, “Frankly Scarlet”, “Yello!”, “Drop Me a Lime”…

Tech News Jason Chen

Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton Create First Designer QR Code

Let’s face it, QR Code hasn’t been very exciting. Just dots and squares. But this QR facelift, combining the designs of Louis Vuitton with Takashi Murakami, just made Kanye make a mess in his shoes. Jean Snow says the stylized QR code works like the standard, barcode-like graphics, while Dvice adds that its the first…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Hey Look, It’s the HTC Touch Pro 2 On T-Mobile

We’ve seen it, played with it, and we know it’s coming to T-Mobile in the States this summer. If you need additional proof, the US T-mo livery here is that proof. [Source (crashed) via Pocketnow] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-htc-touch-pro-2-hot-item-buy-now-nice-scree-5194645

Tech News John Mahoney

Leaked AT&T Docs Show Anti-Palm-Pre Talking Points

Wondering how AT&T is going to counter the Palm Pre? Smack-talking retail employees, that’s how. Here are their talking points. Available in black only, oh snap! Limited free Wi-Fi access? Oh no you didn’t, AT&T! Overall, these claims are either lame or obvious, but it’s interesting to see just how the retail drones are being…

Tech News Adam Frucci

India Adds 15.6 Million Cellphone Users in a Single Month

In today’s AT&T earnings call, they boasted on 1.6 million new iPhone activations last quarter. Impressive, kind of, until figures from India came in: 15.6 million new cellphone users in the month of March alone. Kind of puts everything into perspective, doesn’t it? While the US smartphone market is our main stock and trade here…

Tech News John Mahoney

If You Ignore Mr Luddite, He Will Mock You With an Wooden iPhone Clone

This wooden phone tablet is a prop for mocking those who play with their smartphones instead of listening to meatbag blather. Nyah Nyah Nyah! I’d guess that most smartphones get whipped out when the conversation starts to get so stale. In my case, when a conversation takes up less than 10% of my clock cycles.…

Tech News Brian Lam

SIM Card Spy Ear Gets Smaller, Scumbags Get Bigger

More Palm Pre Details: Remote Wipe and Online Backup, Requires Sprint Simply Everything Plan

Star Trek iPhone Mod Goes Boldly Where Few Would Be Caught Dead

Apple In ‘High Level’ iPhone Talks With Verizon Wireless

Rumor: Samsung ‘Omnia Pro’ Could Feature Full QWERTY, AMOLED Display

Survey: 90% of 15-Year-Olds Have Cellphone, Are Much Cooler Than I Was At Their Age

Android Cupcake Live Folders Preview Email, RSS and Playlists Without Opening Apps

Android Cupake to Hit Next Month, Says T-Mobile Germany

iPhone Nano Wannabe Actually Looks Like It Came From Cupertino

“Welcome to the Oval Office, Please Check Your BlackBerry at the Door”

Obama’s Jack-Bauer-Certified BlackBerry Almost Finished by NSA

Google Product Search Now Available on iPhone, Android

New SIMs Are the Size of a Pinhead

Plantronics Voyager Pro Bluetooth Headset Kills the Wind

Jawbone Prime Improves on Everything

Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton Create First Designer QR Code

Hey Look, It’s the HTC Touch Pro 2 On T-Mobile

Leaked AT&T Docs Show Anti-Palm-Pre Talking Points

India Adds 15.6 Million Cellphone Users in a Single Month

If You Ignore Mr Luddite, He Will Mock You With an Wooden iPhone Clone

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