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Nexus One Coming to Verizon March 23?

Yesterday we heard that a CDMA version of the Nexus One was approved by the FCC, and now Neowin has word from an anonymous Google employee that the Google phone will land on Verizon on March 23. That’s the day the CTIA wireless convention kicks off and it’s less than a month away; Perhaps a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Windows Phone Starter: Windows Mobile Sucks-Slightly-More-Than-6.5 (Sorry, Classic)

Microsoft’s not being real forthcoming about what exactly Windows Phone Starter is. But! It seems to be a very mildly stripped version of Windows Mobile 6.5 (officially aka “Windows Phone Classic”) for developing countries, much like Windows Starter. https://gizmodo.com/windows-mobile-6-5-to-be-renamed-windows-phone-classic-5474268 Microsoft wouldn’t specifically elaborate on what’s missing from 6.5 in Starter 6—just saying it comes in…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

In this week’s conservative, undersexed app roundup: Guitarists, assisted! Camera and video apps, replaced! Final Fantasy yearning, sated! Science, wielded like a sword! Birds, projectilized! Beautiful puzzles, conquered! And more… https://gizmodo.com/when-its-okay-to-pay-for-an-app-5477704 The Apps If you’d like to view the following gallery as a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/app-roundup-5481281 This Week’s iPhone News • Winter Weather…

Tech News John Herrman

Motorola CLIQ Firmware 1.3.18 Update Looks Like Trouble

If you have a CLIQ, it’s probably a good idea to hold off on any updates, as a multitude of issues have cropped up. And most importantly, a T-Mobile forum mod recommends you “not to Master Reset your phone if your OTA update did not download or if you are experiencing issues at this time.”…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Details On RIM’s New BlackBerry Slider?

This isn’t confirmed, but with RIM rumored to be exploring sliding-QWERTY devices for a pretty long time, one of our BlackBerry connects dropped some info on us and we wanted it to share it. Here’s what we know: • It’s a portrait-oriented slider. While most people assume a device with slideout keyboard would end up…

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Why Most Current Android Phones Will Never Get Flash 10.1

Flash is coming to Android phones, and for this, some of you are grateful. So when is it due? For some new handsets, the “first half of this year.” But the rest? Probably never. https://gizmodo.com/name-your-top-sites-using-flash-5478573 There are two factors that’ll determine whether or not your phone is ready and able to run Flash, whenever it…

Tech News John Herrman

The Indie Phone Maker’s Last Stand

The Palm Pre unveiling stands in my memory as one of the most refreshing moments in modern history. Palm had done it—they had created a great phone Nokia would’ve killed for. But today, that’s just not enough. https://gizmodo.com/live-palm-keynote-5126468 As Palm teeters on the brink of either ruin or acquisition, let’s take stock of what they…

Tech News John Herrman

What Windows Phone 7 Could Have Been

From what we’ve heard about the development process of Windows Phone 7, rumors about the OS predated its earliest seeds. How? The secret lies deep underground in Redmond, buried with a little project called Photon. We were posting about Windows Mobile 7 (and 8!) in great detail back in 2008, and we weren’t the only…

Tech News John Herrman

Quake III Runs Fragtastically On a Droid

Ten years ago, Quake III required a PC tower with some gaming cred. Today, all you need is a smartphone running Android 1.6 or later. And it’s even a free download. The hobby project of thunderbird2k, this video shows Quake III running pretty well on a the Motorola Droid—between 20 and 30fps—while allowing perks like…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Motorola Devour Review: What Have You Done To My Droid?

You can’t talk about the Devour, Motorola’s new slide-out QWERTY Android phone, without talking about the Droid, Motorola’s favored child. And it’s precisely when pitted against the Droid that the Devour stops making sense. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-review-5396168 The Price The Devour runs $150, with a two-year Verizon contract. But not really. (More on that later.) What It’s…

Reviews John Herrman

The Three Kinds of Windows Phone 7 Phones

During the Frankly Speaking podcast, the hosts, who are Microsoft Australia Developer Evangelists spilled some details on how limited the hardware for Windows Phone 7…phones are going to be. There are precisely three chassis variants. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-and-the-end-of-hardware-choice-5475916 Chassis 1 is the phone we all saw on launch day—a huge touchscreen with a minimum 1GHz processor (read:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nokia and Symbian Still on Top in Gartner’s Annual Worldwide Sales List, Android Creeping Up Slowly

The iPhone 3G may be the most popular phone in the US, but Gartner’s annual phone sales tally still puts Symbian as being the most-used smartphone OS worldwide. Snapping at its heels, BlackBerry’s OS has less than half the sales. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-meet-razr-the-ten-most-popular-phones-in-the-c-5432284 And the iPhone? They may have 14.4 per cent market share worldwide (a nice…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Exploding Batteries to Make Them Safer

How do you build a safer battery? By doing horrible things to it. At Sandia National Laboratories, lithium-ion batteries—the kind that are inside your laptop and cars—are pulverized, overcharged and just plain exploded. The idea’s to find faults in the batteries so battery makers can fix them. What’s depressing is that the lab’s underfunded and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Windows Phone 7 and the End of Hardware Choice

Windows Phone 7 is a new beginning for Microsoft, and at the same time, an ending. The epoch of the “slap our software on any old hardware” open platform is dead. https://gizmodo.com/the-12-best-new-phones-you-cant-buy-5475748/?skyline=true&s=i There’s a spectrum of hardware and software integration. At one end, you have the likes of Apple, RIM and Nintendo who create software…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Google Earth Hits the Android Market, For a Lucky Few

Google Earth is available on Android! (Isn’t is weird that this didn’t happen earlier? It’s been on the iPhone for a year! Anyway.) The catch? For now, it only works on the Nexus One, which basically nobody owns. Don’t worry, Droiders: Soon. https://gizmodo.com/nexus-one-sales-continue-to-lag-just-80-000-in-first-m-5465326 For now, Google Earth will only work on handsets with Android 2.1,…

Tech News John Herrman

Manufacturing Complicated Chips for Phones Is Real Expensive-Like

That’s the moral of this NYT story about the bubbling war in mobile chips. They’re expensive to make. And, no one’s better at making them than Intel, whose manufacturing tech is years ahead of anybody else. Until recently, foundries which manufactured chips on contract stuck to simpler chip designs because that’s what their tech was…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Nexus One’s Dirty Display Secret (Updated)

If Nexus One reviewers could agree on one thing, it was that the phone has a stunning screen. But for those inky blacks and vivid colors, you’re apparently paying a hefty price: I mean, look at that. https://gizmodo.com/nexus-one-review-5443835 DisplayMate ran a battery of comparative tests on the Nexus One’s AMOLED screen, and came away with…

Tech News John Herrman

HTC Desire ROM Puts Flash On Your Nexus One

If you’re a Nexus One owner and you have a sense of adventure—or are black-out drunk—you can now flash an alpha version of the leaked HTC Desire ROM on your phone. Speaking of Flash, this ROM has it. Have you secretly harbored Desire-envy ever since its unveiling at MWC? This is your chance to close…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Motorola Doesn’t Love Android That Much After All

Talking to the WSJ about the new Motorola, CEO Sanjay Jha had some interesting stuff to say. Like, if Motorola wasn’t poor, they’d develop their own OS. And now that Windows Phone doesn’t suck, they’re open to using it again. Motorola has been balls-out Android since its resurrection—when Windows Mobile ran into delays, Jha killed…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The 12 Best New Phones You Can’t Buy

Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress came and went, and didn’t amount to much in the way of US cellphones. The rest of the world got some seriously nice gear, though. Here’s the best of the best of the out of reach. HTC Legend https://gizmodo.com/the-htc-legend-traps-android-2-1-in-unibody-aluminum-5472640 Why You Want It: It’s like an HTC Hero, except with Android…

Tech News John Herrman

Nexus One Coming to Verizon March 23?

Windows Phone Starter: Windows Mobile Sucks-Slightly-More-Than-6.5 (Sorry, Classic)

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Motorola CLIQ Firmware 1.3.18 Update Looks Like Trouble

Details On RIM’s New BlackBerry Slider?

Why Most Current Android Phones Will Never Get Flash 10.1

The Indie Phone Maker’s Last Stand

What Windows Phone 7 Could Have Been

Quake III Runs Fragtastically On a Droid

Motorola Devour Review: What Have You Done To My Droid?

The Three Kinds of Windows Phone 7 Phones

Nokia and Symbian Still on Top in Gartner’s Annual Worldwide Sales List, Android Creeping Up Slowly

Exploding Batteries to Make Them Safer

Windows Phone 7 and the End of Hardware Choice

Google Earth Hits the Android Market, For a Lucky Few

Manufacturing Complicated Chips for Phones Is Real Expensive-Like

The Nexus One’s Dirty Display Secret (Updated)

HTC Desire ROM Puts Flash On Your Nexus One

Motorola Doesn’t Love Android That Much After All

The 12 Best New Phones You Can’t Buy

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