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Gizmodo Frankenreview: T-Mobile Dash

The new T-Mobile Dash is yet another fine competitor in the bloody arena of smartphones (just ask resident fanboy Jason Chen). Featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, EDGE, WiFi, and enhanced multimedia through Windows Media 10—all on top of a sleek design—the Dash couldn’t wait to give the Motorola Q a good push…email. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-dash-hands-on-review-verdict-windows-mobile-206702 Behold our…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Asono Freebit H1 Bluetooth Headset: Be Like Lt. Uhura

Now you can be like Lt. Uhura and stick that Bluetooth headset in your ear with this Asono Freebit-H1, giving you nine hours of talk time and 200 hours of standby. Its Norwegian makers at Asono have somehow shoehorned all those electronics into its tiny form factor, making it quite a bit smaller than the…

Tech News Charlie White

HTC Hermes/TyTN/DoPod 838Pro Reviewed (Verdict: With Great Power Comes Great Functionality)

We’ve covered the TyTN before (pretty extensively), so this is more of a reminder that there is an option besides the Sprint PPC-6700/Verizon XV6700/Cingular 8125/T-Mobile MDA if you want a smartphone with a keyboard. The sucessor to the HTC Wizard, which is the design all the above phones are based on, the Hermes has a…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple to Bring Two (!) Cellphones to the Market Early Next Year?

Rumors of Apple bringing a cellphone to the market are about as old as Stonehenge, but a juicy tidbit is starting to make the rounds. That is, reports (well, Think Secret sources) indicate that Apple will bring not one, but two (2!) cellphones to the market in the next few months. This second, “new” phone…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian OS Coming: Tiny-Screen TV Everywhere

If you care about watching TV shows on a screen the size of a large postage stamp, Sling Media officially announced today it will bring Slingbox to those 82 million cellphones that use the Symbian operating system. The SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian OS will launch first in the fourth quarter in Europe and Asia, with…

Tech News Charlie White

Palm Treo 750v Heads To US, Kinda

U.S. Treo addicts can breathe a little easier knowing that it’s now slightly easier to obtain a Treo 750v thanks to the importers at CTI Miami. Granted, you’ll have to part with some $765, but at least it’ll come completely unlocked. Just insert your GSM SIM card and let the fun begin… if your definition…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Picture Surfaces of Motorola Q Pro in the Wild

Somewhere down the line in the old blogosphere, a picture of the Motorola Q Pro in the wild has surfaced. We told you about the upcoming release of this more-powerful version of Motorola’s Smartphone, due in Q1 2007, but we didn’t show you a picture of the upcoming handset in all of its mysterious blackness.…

Tech News Charlie White

T-Mobile Dash Q&A: We Answer Your Questions

We asked, and you…er…asked back! Here are the answers to all your questions (that we felt like answering) about the T-Mobile Dash, the slim smartphone from T-Mobile. Our review is back here, in case you wanted to read that first. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-dash-gallery-and-q-a-207202 Q: How does IMing work with the built-in OZ messenger? Does it use data…

Tech News Jason Chen

Slam – Microsoft’s Mobile Social Networking For Smartphones

Designed by Microsoft’s Photo and Imaging Experience team (PIX), Slam is an app that lets you “social network” on the go. Built for Windows Mobile, the concept of “slam” is a group of people that you exchange messages and photos with. Whenever there’s a new message or photo for the group, the phone users will…

Tech News Jason Chen

Palm Announces Low-End Treo 680

As expected, Palm has just announced the low-end Treo 680 for GSM markets sold unlocked in four colors: crimson, copper, arctic and graphite. In non-marketing speak, that’s red, orange, white and silver. Each of these phones come with a 320×320 color screen, 64MB of internal storage, 312MHz Intel PXA270 processor, quad-band GSM, EDGE class 10,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sizemodo: T-Mobile Dash vs. Motorola Q vs. Palm Treo 700w

How does the newest slim smartphone on the block stack up to the reigning Windows Mobile champs, the Motorola Q and the Palm Treo 700w? Pretty well, actually. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-dash-hands-on-review-verdict-windows-mobile-206702 The T-Mobile Dash is tied for shortest with the Treo 700w, tied for widest with the Motorola Q, and just 0.06 inches thicker than the first…

Tech News Jason Chen

Samsung SGH-i760: Smartphone Has Brains, Beauty

Samsung takes another potshot at the Motorola Q with its upcoming SGH-i760, a Windows Mobile 5 for Pocket PC Smartphone with an Intel 520MHz CPU inside. This one looks like it has it all, with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 2.0, a 240×320 touchscreen, WiFi, and even has a forward-facing video calling camera. On the…

Gadgets Charlie White

T-Mobile Dash Hands-On Review! (Verdict: Windows Mobile and QWERTY Arrive in a Thin Body)

You knew it was coming, you knew what it could do, and now the T-Mobile Dash is finally here. Considered as a GSM alternative to the popular Motorola Q, the phone marries a QWERTY keyboard with the Windows Mobile Smartphone edition that previously only adorned candybar-style phones. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobiles-upcoming-phones-t-mobile-dash-and-motorola-r-205259 Does this Q-killer really kill the Q?…

Tech News Jason Chen

Cingular 8525 Pricing Rumor: $474.95 With Two-Year Contract

The upcoming Cingular 8525, a phone you may know better from by its maiden name, the HTC TyTN, is supposedly being released some time in the next 30 days. https://gizmodo.com/cingular-8525-pictures-surfaced-to-mixed-reactions-195520 Cody writes: I dropped by a Cingular store this evening and inquired about when the Cingular 8525 was going to be released. They smiled and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Windows Mobile Crossbow: More Next-Gen Screenshots

Now that the secret is out, what’s that creeping out of the woodwork? Why, it’s a few more screenshots of Crossbow, the next-generation Windows Mobile OS. We showed you one shot yesterday, and now here are two more, sporting a decidedly Vista-like veneer. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-screens-for-next-generation-windows-mobile-os-206278 Crossbow beta testers are disappointed, however. Unfortunately, most of its updates…

Tech News Charlie White

Sharp’s WS003SH Windows Mobile Phone Barely Fits in Patrick Ewing’s Pocket

With a keyboard reminiscent of Sharp’s W-ZERO3, the Sharp WS003SH looks more like a small UMPC than a smart phone. The device has a 3.7-inch display with VGA resolution, Windows Mobile 5.0 as the OS, 64MB of internal storage, 416MHz Xscale processor, a miniSD slot, 802.11b, and a 1.33-megapixel camera. https://gizmodo.com/sharp-willcom-w-zero3-gets-release-date-june-22-179078 The slide-out keyboard is…

Tech News Jason Chen

Leaked Screens for Next Generation Windows Mobile OS

Crossbow, the next generation Windows Mobile OS, looks to be shaping up quite nicely. We covered some potential features before, but this is the first screenshot we’ve seen of the new front page. To us, it looks a lot like Vista, except greener and smaller. It’s much more “unified” in terms of icons and screens,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Holux GPSlim 240: Little, Doesn’t Eat Much Power

The Holux GPSlim 240 is a GPS receiver that can interface with a PDA, smartphone or notebook via Bluetooth or USB. It’s very small – about the height of a key – and runs off a rechargeable 8-hour lithium-ion battery (or car charger, etc). And the GPSlim 240 uses SiRF Star III architecture, which is…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

T-Mobile Dash Product and User Guide

Catwoman broke into the T-Mobile servers and dropped a whole load of internal documents down our chimneys for all to see. The notable ones are the product guide (posted below), sales guides (to help them sell the product), a comparison to the Motorola Q on Verizon (posted below), and a FAQ to answer customer’s questions.…

Tech News Jason Chen

HTC Herald is the HTC Hermes/TyTN’s Successor

The latest HTC phone with a slide-out keyboard is the HTC Herald, the successor to the HTC Hermes. The Herald is thinner, at 18mm versus the Hermes’ 22mm, but vomits a camera and some processor power to do so. Luckily for us, everything else is the same. The phone still has a 2-megapixel camera, QVGA…

Tech News Jason Chen

Gizmodo Frankenreview: T-Mobile Dash

Asono Freebit H1 Bluetooth Headset: Be Like Lt. Uhura

HTC Hermes/TyTN/DoPod 838Pro Reviewed (Verdict: With Great Power Comes Great Functionality)

Apple to Bring Two (!) Cellphones to the Market Early Next Year?

SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian OS Coming: Tiny-Screen TV Everywhere

Palm Treo 750v Heads To US, Kinda

Picture Surfaces of Motorola Q Pro in the Wild

T-Mobile Dash Q&A: We Answer Your Questions

Slam – Microsoft’s Mobile Social Networking For Smartphones

Palm Announces Low-End Treo 680

Sizemodo: T-Mobile Dash vs. Motorola Q vs. Palm Treo 700w

Samsung SGH-i760: Smartphone Has Brains, Beauty

T-Mobile Dash Hands-On Review! (Verdict: Windows Mobile and QWERTY Arrive in a Thin Body)

Cingular 8525 Pricing Rumor: $474.95 With Two-Year Contract

Windows Mobile Crossbow: More Next-Gen Screenshots

Sharp’s WS003SH Windows Mobile Phone Barely Fits in Patrick Ewing’s Pocket

Leaked Screens for Next Generation Windows Mobile OS

Holux GPSlim 240: Little, Doesn’t Eat Much Power

T-Mobile Dash Product and User Guide

HTC Herald is the HTC Hermes/TyTN’s Successor

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