Smartphones

HTC Touch Diamond Comes to Verizon Tomorrow; More HTC Phones On the Way to T-Mobile?

Two tidbits for HTC fans: first, the Touch Diamond will be hitting Verizon Wireless tomorrow, but at cost: $300 with a two-year contract. Yikes. T-Mobile, though, could be getting even more HTC love soon. On the subject of the $300 Touch Diamond, that seems like quite a hefty price for a phone that’s been around…

Tech News John Mahoney

Virgin Mobile Offering Pink Slip Protection

A slew of car manufacturers are offering delayed/canceled payments for those who lose their jobs. Now Virgin Mobile will be the first cellphone service provider to follow suit. UPDATE Starting today, all of Virgin Mobile’s subscription plans have automatically been enrolled in “Pink Slip Protection.” UPDATE: Actually, existing subscribers need to GO HERE to enroll.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Fisheye iPhone Lens Balances Its Ridiculousness with Equal Parts Charm

This fisheye lens from Japanese company Digital King is absurdly bulky and not at all practical. So we sort of love it. Attaching to the iPhone through a magnetic metal mount system (you’ll need to mod your iPhone with a metal sticker, it seems), this $100 “extremely high quality lens” stretches your iPhone’s field of…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Openmoko Cancels FreeRunner GTA03

Openmoko’s FreeRunner, the original open source (hardware and software) Linux phone, made us oh so excited back in the day, before Android and the iPhone. And now it’s dead. UPDATED. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-the-anti-iphone-openmokos-neo1973-236841 Update: OpenMoko is actually only canceling their next phone. The current model, GTA02 will stay in production. Their next project is still going to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Samsung Omnia OLED Screen Is At Least Good for Something

One nice thing I stumbled upon during this year’s mostly underwhelming CTIA cellphone show was Samsung’s wall of 300 OLED displays, the same screen used in their Omnia. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-omnia-hd-hands-on-video-amazing-screen-still-5154843 Samsung had a good thing going, but then they blew it by sticking the following slogan on the placard beside it: “meaningful innovation, wow experience.” Seriously?…

Gadgets Adrian Covert

AT&T Says Horrible Terms of Service Update Was All a Big Mistake

Millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and AT&T swiftly backtracked on the draconian updates to their terms of the service that effectively ban Skype, Sling and other goodness: It’s all a big mistake! https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-lame-new-terms-of-service-hate-mobile-video-from-5197222 The language added on March 30 to AT&T’s wireless data service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

New WinMo and iPhone Apps Give You Palm Pre-Like Social Media Synergy

Yahoo’s new mobile apps, HTC’s updated WinMo UI and a new multi-platform app called 3deep are all chasing after the Palm Pre’s Synergy functionality, gathering all social media/location aware services in one place. The Synergy functionality on the Palm Pre really kick-started this craze back in January, when Palm debuted the system of integrating all…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Peek Pronto Lightning Review: Simple Email Faster

Peek Pronto is the faster version of the original Peek, an incredibly stripped down slab of screen and keyboard that does one thing—email—but aims to do it simpler than anyone else. Hardware It’s boxy, whimsical minimalism done right. Its unfussy shape and the front’s bubbly keys are friendly and inviting. But its chrome back, and…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Privus’s BlackBerry Caller ID App Is $60

Sixty dollars! For caller ID! Whaaa? Sure, you see people’s numbers, but not their name, when they call you. What if it’s a telemarketer? That’s Privus’s pitch. Also, they claim their app actually delivers the caller name “nearly twice as often” as the lame one you have on your landline. You have to leave it…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

BlackBerry App World Tour and Impressions

Apple’s App Store concept has essentially colonized the idea of mobile app distribution, with every major smartphone platform rushing to open their own. RIM’s takeoff, BlackBerry App World, launched yesterday. How is it? https://gizmodo.com/put-me-on-your-blackberry-tele-phones-with-my-cousin-ap-5193266 The Scope In a single metaphor, if the iPhone App Store is Whole Foods, RIM’s App World is more like the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Palm Pre’s First Apps Hands On: Seriously Good-Looking Programs

We’re nearing the still unknown release date for the Palm Pre, and new details are slowly surfacing. Sprint demoed the Pre’s WebOS apps at CTIA, including PalmOS Emulator, Google Maps and Pandora. These look fantastic. Like the iPhone, Palm gives developers a set of recommended UI design elements in the SDK, to promote a cohesive…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Samsung Propel Pro Has the Looks, Needs a Better Keyboard

The Samsung Propel Pro is the enterprise-targeted followup to last year’s Propel, and now has a redesigned keyboard, Windows Mobile 6.1 and wi-fi, to go along with a (literally) shiny new body. https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-spring-phones-nokia-e71x-only-99-samsung-impre-5189781 Among other things, the Propel Pro also has GPS, stereo bluetooth, 3-megapixel camera and a 2.5-inch screen with 320×320 resolution. WinMo 6.1…

Gadgets Adrian Covert

Despite Being an April 1 Gag, TXT’N’WALK Mobile App is Sweet

Curse you April Fools, because I want this: TXT’N’WALK pipes in the forward-looking view of your phone’s camera in a little PIP window while you type out a message. Good idea! Somebody call Pocket Lint’s bluff and develop this—it’s on par with the Tauntaun sleeping bag for yesterday’s prank products that should be produced immediately.…

Tech News John Mahoney

New Palm Pre Promo Vid Shows Fandango, Pandora Apps; Multitasking Galore

Palm has released another demo video of the Pre in action, and this time, some pretty nice-looking third-party apps are the focus in planning a (dirty?) weekend for three friends. I’m liking this. Within, we see our favorite husky-voiced, perhaps opium-addicted voice actress fly through the Web OS‘s sweet Cards multitasking system, as well as…

Tech News John Mahoney

Palm Pre Mojo SDK Application Now Open

Feel like developing crazy $1 programs for the Palm Pre, and one day starring in Gizmodo’s weekly Pre app roundup? Start early by applying for the Mojo SDK at the Palm dev site NOW.

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Lose Weight with HTC Snap Hands-On Next to Beautiful Black berry BOLD

I win few minutes to tinker with HTC Snap with JOG BALLS and beauty of Black berry BOLD. Two things: it’s really fast and it eats lots of those weight loss pills (100 pcs.@$7.00/pill!!!) https://gizmodo.com/htc-snap-looks-like-beautiful-black-berry-bold-5192944 HTC says this phone will have a VERY consumer friendly pricepoint, and though it may not look quite as slick…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Hands-On HTC Touch Pro 2: HOT ITEM! BUY NOW! NICE SCREENS and BIG KEYBOARDS!!! (UPDATE GALLERY UPDATE)

The HTC Touch Pro 2 will quite possibly be the nicest WinMo phone available on the US market when it comes out later this year. THATS WHY YOU WANT TO NOW BUY WITH VALTREX. https://gizmodo.com/htc-confirms-touch-pro2-coming-to-the-us-5158910 Last year’s Touch Pro was a nice—if a bit utilitarian—WinMo 6.1 offering from HTC, bringing design together with business functionality.…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Mail Delivery Failed: “QuickOffice Brings First Complete Office Suite To The iPhone”

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: Return-path: Received: hel=gizmodo.com (envelope-from ) id 1LfOE4-000 for [email protected]; Thu, 1 Apr 2009 16:47:51 -0800 To: [email protected] Subject: QuickOfice Brings Microsoft…

Tech News Sean Fallon

HTC Snap Looks Like Beautiful Black berry BOLD

Save for two extra button around JOG BALL and WinMo 6.1, HTC Snap is pretty much same as beautiful and the Black berry BOLD. Don’t you want? Anyways, HTC’s new smartphone offering sits under a half-inch thick and is surprisingly normal looking, compared to some of their other handsets. Still, it packs in a 2.4-inch…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Put me on your blackberry tele phones with my cousin App World

Hello have you seen my cousin App World please download put on your BlackBARRY! You download now, I come soon. See YOU tomorrow. IS free for 4.2 phone hello goodbye. [SFGate, App World via Engadget]

Tech News Jason Chen

HTC Touch Diamond Comes to Verizon Tomorrow; More HTC Phones On the Way to T-Mobile?

Virgin Mobile Offering Pink Slip Protection

Fisheye iPhone Lens Balances Its Ridiculousness with Equal Parts Charm

Openmoko Cancels FreeRunner GTA03

Samsung Omnia OLED Screen Is At Least Good for Something

AT&T Says Horrible Terms of Service Update Was All a Big Mistake

New WinMo and iPhone Apps Give You Palm Pre-Like Social Media Synergy

Peek Pronto Lightning Review: Simple Email Faster

Privus’s BlackBerry Caller ID App Is $60

BlackBerry App World Tour and Impressions

Palm Pre’s First Apps Hands On: Seriously Good-Looking Programs

Samsung Propel Pro Has the Looks, Needs a Better Keyboard

Despite Being an April 1 Gag, TXT’N’WALK Mobile App is Sweet

New Palm Pre Promo Vid Shows Fandango, Pandora Apps; Multitasking Galore

Palm Pre Mojo SDK Application Now Open

Lose Weight with HTC Snap Hands-On Next to Beautiful Black berry BOLD

Hands-On HTC Touch Pro 2: HOT ITEM! BUY NOW! NICE SCREENS and BIG KEYBOARDS!!! (UPDATE GALLERY UPDATE)

Mail Delivery Failed: “QuickOffice Brings First Complete Office Suite To The iPhone”

HTC Snap Looks Like Beautiful Black berry BOLD

Put me on your blackberry tele phones with my cousin App World

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

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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Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

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Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

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

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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