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V-Moda Vamp Lightning Review: Glorious Overkill for iPhone Audio

“Do you really like music, man? Then why are you listening on your iPhone? You’re not even listening to music—you’re listening to static.” Sound like you? The V-Moda Vamp is the iPhone accessory you’ve been waiting for. What Is It? A $650 iPhone case with a built-in digital-to-analog converter and a 150mW x2 headphone amp.…

Reviews Mario Aguilar

Nokia’s Crazy 808 PureView Phone Finally Available in the US

Nokia’s 808 PureView is a strange little phone with it’s cooky 41MP camera. But if you love a little crazy, then good news: after much delay the PureView is now available on America’s shores via Amazon. It should have been available mid-June, but Amazon has finally got off-contract 808 PureViews in stock. The handset will…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Smartphone That Could Save Your Life

Like a hospital room in your pocket, the LifeWatch V is an Android-based smartphone that incorporates a series of sensors letting you perform various medical tests in between checking Facebook and your email. It’s the perfect all-in-one device if you’re managing a medical condition, or just a hypochondriac. By holding the device in a certain…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Facetime’s Great Great Grandfather Worked Just Fine Without Wi-Fi

When iOS 6 is released in a few months, iPhone Facetime users will finally be able to place video calls without the need for a Wi-Fi connection. It’s an improvement that was a long time coming, particularly when you consider that AT&T/Bell had offered a picturephone service over 40 years earlier. Believe it or not,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Future-Predicting Phones Will Speed Up App Launches

Even with a fancy A5 processor or who-knows-how-many-core Snapdragon chip, smart phones sometimes can’t quite keep up and apps take far longer to load than we’d really like. A team of engineers, however, is building software that predicts the future in order to speed things up. For the record, we’re not talking crystal ball gazing…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

LTE Is Coming to T-Mobile Via Verizon

T-Mobile’s HSPA+ data network is, y’know, okay. But it doesn’t compare to LTE. Now, when T-Mo will finally arrives at the LTE party next year, it’ll get a big boost with spectrum from Verizon. The agreement, announced this morning, will include a bunch of spectrum swaps. Both companies will have a larger footprint, which should…

Tech News Brent Rose

What Is an App Launcher?

You wouldn’t initially think it, but your phone’s home screen is itself an app. It’s an app that launches other apps—an app launcher, if you will. But if the app launcher native to your mobile isn’t up to snuff, you can always replace it. An Application Launcher is a third-party UI program… Aftermarket app launchers…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A Complete Guide to Sexting

We all want to have sex with each other all the time, but we can’t. So we transfer our screw-and-fondle energy into our smartphones—often with disastrous, humiliating results. It doesn’t have to be this way. Here’s how to sex-text like a champion. As stated when we groped this topic last summer, the pure, true definition…

Tech News Sam Biddle

All the Windows Phone 8 Rumors Fit to Print

Unwilling to give up the spotlight just yet, Microsoft has planned another Big Announcement for tomorrow, June 20. The Redmond, Washington-based company is flying out to San Francisco, for what will be a two-day developers summit full of surprises. One such surprise, which is generating a lot of eleventh-hour excitement, is the anticipated Windows Phone…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

You Can Get Nokia’s Mega-Major 41MP 808 PureView Phone in the US After All

Nokia’s 808 PureView may be more of a oddity than anything you’d actually want to buy, but at least now it’s our oddity, too. The 41MP camera with a phone attached to it will finally wash up on America’s shores at the end of this week, although like all good curios it comes at a…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Was AT&T Trying To Educate or Terrify Kids About Phones In the 1950s?

By 1950 only about 60 percent of the homes in the United States had a telephone. And since one of the best ways to sell a product is by appealing to kids, AT&T created this 18-minute film called Adventure in Telezonia that somehow manages to teach, terrify, and sell, all at the same time. The…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Intel’s Going to Make Your Laptop Charge Your Phone Wirelessly

Charging your phone sucks. But if all you had to do was set it down next to your laptop, which you probably do anyway, well, that wouldn’t be so bad. That’s Intel’s idea for inductive charging, which it’s showing off at Computex. The setup would stick a charging attachment to your phone—though eventually it would…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

HTC One X Available Online Now and in Stores June 10 for $200

It’s been a long strange trip, with a delay at the docks over a patent scuffle with Apple, but the HTC One X is finally up for sale. It’s $200 on contract from AT&T, and available online now, and will be in stores on Sunday June 10, well before the June 21 date set for…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Samsung Galaxy S III Will Be Out This Month for $200 (Updated)

The Samsung Galaxy S III, third of its name and new king of Android phones, will be out in the US this month on all four major carriers (plus US Cellular). It’ll start at $200 for the 16GB version, and scale up from there. The 4.8-inch Galaxy S III arrives a bit after the HTC…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Nine Most Secure Phones on Earth

Before you could just install your own NSA-level security suite on your smartphone, securing lines demanded hardware. From cabinet-sized cipher machines to the eavesdrop-evading combat radios, our friends at Oobject have assembled nine of the coolest secured handsets in American history. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-secure-your-android-phone-like-the-nsa-5877014 Be sure to also check out these vintage spy radios, these brick-phones, and…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com

AT&T’s Hilarious Vintage How Not To Be a Raging Dick Telephone Commercials

Way back in the 20th century, when people talked on phones, the old AT&T Corporation produced instructional movies with a mission: to show telephone newbies how not to be assholes. The strategy? Show a lot of footage of male assholes. The films—1946’s “Telephone Courtesy” and 1972’s “How to Lose Your Best Customer”—center around one theme:…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Is This Finally a Toughphone Worth Buying?

Sony has just announced that it’s launching a new toughphone, called the Xperia Advance. Unlike previous examples of hardy handsets, though, this one actually looks normal—and its specs aren’t too shabby either. Most phones designed to take knocks look like something you’d give a child to play with. But the Xperia Advance actually looks… kinda…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

You Can Pre-Order an Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III for $800—But Should You?

By all accounts the Samsung Galaxy S III looks like a monster of a smartphone—the next king of Android mountain. And now there are unlocked versions of the 4.8-inch, quad-core beasts for sale on Amazon—for the whopping sum of $800. What, for serious? It gets worse. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-meet-the-new-android-emperor-5907416 Here’s the other problem with the “liberated” phones…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

This Is (Probably) Your Next SIM Card

Over the past few months, Apple, Nokia, RIM and Motorola have all been getting very worked up over something rather boring: SIM cards. After Apple’s attempt to capture the market, there’s finally a new proposed design—which might actually find its way into your next phone. https://gizmodo.com/apples-nano-sim-comes-under-fire-from-nokia-motorola-a-5895118 The new nano-SIM design, put together by RIM and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Worst Phones You Can Buy

You might find this hard to believe: not everyone owns an iPhone or one of the several thousand decent Androids for sale or even a Windows phone. Crazy! But what’s even more insane is the number of shockingly horrible dumbphones major US carriers are still selling like it’s 2006. Here are the worst of the…

Gadgets Sam Biddle

V-Moda Vamp Lightning Review: Glorious Overkill for iPhone Audio

Nokia’s Crazy 808 PureView Phone Finally Available in the US

The Smartphone That Could Save Your Life

Facetime’s Great Great Grandfather Worked Just Fine Without Wi-Fi

Future-Predicting Phones Will Speed Up App Launches

LTE Is Coming to T-Mobile Via Verizon

What Is an App Launcher?

A Complete Guide to Sexting

All the Windows Phone 8 Rumors Fit to Print

You Can Get Nokia’s Mega-Major 41MP 808 PureView Phone in the US After All

Was AT&T Trying To Educate or Terrify Kids About Phones In the 1950s?

Intel’s Going to Make Your Laptop Charge Your Phone Wirelessly

HTC One X Available Online Now and in Stores June 10 for $200

Samsung Galaxy S III Will Be Out This Month for $200 (Updated)

The Nine Most Secure Phones on Earth

AT&T’s Hilarious Vintage How Not To Be a Raging Dick Telephone Commercials

Is This Finally a Toughphone Worth Buying?

You Can Pre-Order an Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III for $800—But Should You?

This Is (Probably) Your Next SIM Card

The Worst Phones You Can Buy

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

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INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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