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LG enV Touch (Voyager 2) Will Contain Many Ubiquitous Cellphone Features

We got a quick, blurry look at LG’s upcoming enV Touch (aka Voyager 2) in April, and now we have the specs for this ho-hum handset: https://gizmodo.com/lg-env3-and-voyager-2-leaked-5197380 – dual WVGA touchscreen displays – full-QWERTY keypad – stereo speakers – Bluetooth – microSDHC support – 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus, flash and Schneider-Kreuznach lens Don’t get…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Mysterious ‘Project Charlie’ Delivering Three New Phones To Best Buy

What could these strange new Best Buy bound phones be? No one knows for sure, but since this is the Internet, when all else fails, just say “iPhone” and watch the chatter begin. That’s what Phonearena’s Best Buy tipster is saying anyway. The evidence? Wishful thinking and another infamous Best Buy inventory screen. That the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Are You This Douchebag?

Suburbanites need not venture further, since your torpid bodies have grown into your automobiles. City dwellers, this is how you probably look to everyone else, stumbling around with your iPhone. What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve done while walking and Twittering about how that stupid barista yelled at you for using your phone at the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Intel’s Medfield Project May, May Not Go Into Smartphones

It’s all very wink wink, nudge nudge, hush hush, but the odor that Intel is giving off in this Fortune article about the Medfield project is that Intel’s trying to shrink x86 down to smartphones. Intel’s roadmap looks like this: Now they have Atom, which powers many of the netbooks on the market today. Next…

Tech News Jason Chen

When Does A Text Message Cost You $9.6 Million?

As one of our T drivers found out this week in Boston, it costs that much when you send it while driving the Green Line and plow into the back of a stopped train. The errant text message also sent dozens of passengers to the hospital and closed down one of the busier sections of…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Samsung i7500 Android Smartphone Surfaces Again In Singapore Video

If you have seven minutes to spare this fine Sunday afternoon (at least here in Beantown anyway), there’s another Samsung i7500 hands-on video making the rounds today. The first video from April is here. [YouTube via DailyMobile via BGR]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Best Buy Internals List Palm Pre Touchstone Price ($70!), Dubious Stock Date

So what do you think? Is the upcoming Palm Pre Touchstone inductive charging station kit worth $70? Because that’s the rumored price this morning, delivered blurrycam style by some mole at Best Buy with access to the inventory system. There’s a host of other lesser Palm Pre accessories listed there too, along with a dubious…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Rumor: No-Contract Palm Pre Could Cost $1,000 During June 7 Best Buy Trial Run

This is wild speculation at best, but the price point was simply too high to ignore: $1,000 for a no-contract Palm Pre when Best Buys get them for a trial run on June 7. Unbelievable? Probably, yes, but the other rumored price points are more in line with what we’d expect them to be. Those…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Rumor: Blackberry 8900 Jumps To AT&T This June

The image and accompanying speculation purportedly confirms that the Blackberry 8900, long since comfortable on T-Mobile’s network, is heading to AT&T this June. (Which we figured, since we’ve held one that looks just like this.) https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-curve-8900-first-impressions-kills-the-orig-5071533 And June is basically all the news has to say about this phone right now. Early indications hint that…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Heresy! Apple Rejects Trent Reznor’s NIN iPhone App Update For ‘Objectionable Content’

I Do Not Want This news to be true, but it is: Apple rejected the NIN app update for “objectionable content.” I have never felt Closer to Trent Reznor than I do today, Piggy. Updated. And just what was the bad, potty-mouthed content? Why, it was a reference to The Downward Spiral, hence the ridiculous…

Tech News Jack Loftus

T-Mobile’s HTC Magic Shall Be Known Henceforth In U.S. As ‘MyTouch’

Someone more adept at navigating the T-Mobile inventory screens than I am has discovered that the carrier’s version of the Android-packing HTC Magic might have a more official U.S. name in “MyTouch.” Hrmm. Now, to be frank (you can be Shirley), thinking about the name doesn’t exactly make me want to MyTouch myself, but it…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Verified: Modded NES Controller Phone Plays Sanford and Son Theme

Modder Taylor Merrill managed to get his Samsung Eternity phone into an old NES controller for a very slick little nerd-cred package. Bonus points for the ringtone, too. [YouTube via Nowhere Else, thanks Steve!] https://gizmodo.com/samsung-a867-eternity-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out-99-5084084

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz

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

Wacky Telephone Car Guy Causes Tussle in My Backyard

The Telephone Car guy, who I didn’t know existed until today, was busy this weekend one town over from where I live pissing off curious tourists and comparing this thing of his to a Corvette. Created by business owner Howard Davis as a way to promote his telephone company, he parked the car outside of…

Tech News Jack Loftus

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

KDDI (au) Targets Accident-Prone Sunbathers With Water-Resistant, Solar-Powered Handset

Manufactured for KDDI (au) by Sharp, this outdoorsy phone should show up in Japan by June. Unlike the unrealistic claims made by other solar phone dabblers like Samsung, KDDI’s ambitions here are modest, but practical. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-blue-earth-phone-solar-powered-and-made-from-w-5152585 KDDI has taken a pragmatic approach to the solar phone, integrating a waterproof panel onto what sounds like a…

Tech News John Herrman

Dilbert Takes on Cellphone Rebates In Epic Battle With Rebaterus

Once again, Dilbert takes on and lampoons infamous gadget demons and memes so you don’t have to. Man, do I hate rebates. [Dilbert] https://gizmodo.com/cellphones-vs-women-or-men-5167428

Tech News Jack Loftus

Kyocera’s Folding OLED Phone With Shape Shifting Buttons Definitely Does Not Exist

Kyocera’s EOS phone concept is chock full of outlandish features. From its tri-fold OLED design to its unique method of using kinetic energy, the EOS is just what we like to see in a concept. That is, insane features we’re not likely to ever see. Here’s a short list: – Tri-fold OLED screen (like a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

LG enV Touch (Voyager 2) Will Contain Many Ubiquitous Cellphone Features

Mysterious ‘Project Charlie’ Delivering Three New Phones To Best Buy

Are You This Douchebag?

Intel’s Medfield Project May, May Not Go Into Smartphones

When Does A Text Message Cost You $9.6 Million?

Samsung i7500 Android Smartphone Surfaces Again In Singapore Video

Best Buy Internals List Palm Pre Touchstone Price ($70!), Dubious Stock Date

Rumor: No-Contract Palm Pre Could Cost $1,000 During June 7 Best Buy Trial Run

Rumor: Blackberry 8900 Jumps To AT&T This June

Heresy! Apple Rejects Trent Reznor’s NIN iPhone App Update For ‘Objectionable Content’

T-Mobile’s HTC Magic Shall Be Known Henceforth In U.S. As ‘MyTouch’

Verified: Modded NES Controller Phone Plays Sanford and Son Theme

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

Wacky Telephone Car Guy Causes Tussle in My Backyard

India Adds 15.6 Million Cellphone Users in a Single Month

KDDI (au) Targets Accident-Prone Sunbathers With Water-Resistant, Solar-Powered Handset

Dilbert Takes on Cellphone Rebates In Epic Battle With Rebaterus

Kyocera’s Folding OLED Phone With Shape Shifting Buttons Definitely Does Not Exist

Startup Successfully Ignites World’s First Fusion Rocket

Shokz OpenDots One Earbuds Hit Their Lowest Price Yet Across All Color Options, Including the New Ones

INIU Portable Power Bank Is Small in Size and Smaller in Price for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (45W, 10,000mAh)

Humans Were Already Dog People 16,000 Years Ago, DNA Suggests

California Regulator Says Tesla’s ‘Robotaxis’ Are More Like a Limo in the Eyes of the Law

Dyson Airwrap Falls to an All-Time Low in Amazon’s Spring Sale, Lowering the Barrier for This Premium Multi-Styler

The ‘Tales from ’85’ Trailer Wants You Back in ‘Stranger Things’ Already

Forget Ray-Ban Meta, XREAL 1S AR/XR Virtual Screen Smart Glasses Drop to Record Low on Amazon

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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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