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The video walkthrough of the new T-Mobile G1, the first Google Android phone, shows all the details you will ever need. It feels smooth and fast, although the interface looks a bit dated and mixed. It kind of reminds me of a 1990s Windows desktop manager, especially next to the glossy, ultra-polished iPhone interface. However,…
Here’s the HTC G1 (a.k.a. Dream) sized up against the iPhone and HTC’s Touch Pro: it’s a kinda half-way house between them both. It’s narrower, but taller and fatter—thanks to the slide-out keyboard—and lacks the deftly curved shape of the iPhone 3G, but it’s a shade skinner than the Touch Pro. Looks it’d fit pretty…
The long-awaited HTC Dream, the first commercial handset running Google’s Android operating system, will be coming to T-Mobile as the G1 for $179 on October 22nd. Featuring a 3-inch touchscreen, internet navigation buttons and a full QWERTY keypad, the smartphone market has finally broken free of Symbian, Windows Mobile and the sweet clutches of fruit…
Nokia’s Point and Find system is similar to the Sekai iPhone app we mentioned: you point your cellphone’s camera at an object (such as a cinema) and it’ll automagically respond with the film times, and connect you to online bookings. It’s basically clever location-based services, like a head-up display for the world, and it obviously…
Although Verizon definitely has dibs on the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm when it launches in the US, AT&T and T-Mo customers are watching the European rollout of the GSM version to see what’s up for their future. Today BlackBerry News published a leaked spec sheet that confirms iPhone-elbowing performance: 3.2MP camera, video recording, 1GB internal memory…
Our Android liveblog is just revving its engines, but it looks like a few shots of the T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone, have leaked a little early on Boy Genius Report. The pictures reveal, not only some fundamentals behind the OS, but small details like MyFaves support and the slew of Google Apps we…
This toy wristwatch is Star Warsishly perfect: it’s a digital blue and white Artoo-themed digital watch with a mini detachable infra-red remote control R2-D2. I’d be sending this trundling down the desks in my office to put a smile on my colleagues faces in a pew-pewing instant! (Well, I would if I worked in an…
We’re here underneath the picturesque Queensboro bridge at T-Mobile’s official G1 launch event. We’re the first ones on the scene, and the liveblog’s kicking off over at live.gizmodo.com. Be sure to pop over there—it’ll do all of the auto-refresh clicky-clicky for you, so sit back, we’ve got everything covered. Hit us up with all of…
Microsoft has informed their investors that Windows Mobile 7, formerly slated for early 2009, would be pushed back for a release sometime in late (second half) 2009. Microsoft did not comment as to any specific reasons for the setback, but it’s hard to see the Android launch timing as a complete coincidence (though maybe it…
Amazon’s just officially announced that the Amazon MP3 Store will come pre-loaded on the HTC G1 Android phone. It’s a special optimized version of the store which lets T-Mobile G1 users “search, download, buy and play music from Amazon MP3.” That means six million DRM free songs from major and independent labels will be at…
You only have to take one look at this spent piece of used trash to know that nothing good can come out of her petrol eyes and twisted gesture. Kaoru Tomiishi is her name, and she has admitted that she killed her 6-year-old son with a cellphone strap, probably the most inane and naff cheapo…
Pretty much everything you read in yesterday’s rumor posts about the Sony Vaio TT is true – the Blu-ray drive, 256 GB SSD, 2.87-pound weight and thickness under an inch. It also has an 11.1-inch, LED-backlit 16:9 LCD panel, Sprint EV-DO mobile broadband, and an HDMI port that outputs at 1080p resolution. https://gizmodo.com/sub-3-lb-sony-vaio-tt-rumored-to-have-blu-ray-burner-5053210 The TT…
Eye-Fi just made a series of announcements that will please existing users. By October 5, their cards, new and old, will receive a firmware update to double photo upload speeds on all models. Also, MobileMe was added to the list of supported services and those interested in advanced functions like geotagging will be able to…
Over at TmoNews they’ve gathered together as much leaked info as they know about the Android-powered HTC G1/Dream in one place, and it makes for interesting reading ahead of the launch event. The phone’s apparently due on sale “in all stores within 3G boundary area, regardless of whether or not store is in a 3G…
That plain old yellowish-green helicopter is the really the first production version of the VH71… the future Presidential Marine One. It’s been a year since the prototype took flight, but apparently PP-1 (the first of five in phase one) performed “exceptionally during its 40-minute flight.”That was yesterday at the AugustaWestland facility in Yeovil, UK. It’ll…
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have come up with this freaky adaptive liquid-lens that can capture 250 in-focus images per second. It’s essentially droplets of water in a pair, trapped in chamber and driven by a high-frequency sound wave to oscillate.As the drops wiggle back and forth, surface tension changes the droplet’s shapes, and thus…
Check out this new variation on Rubik’s Cube: instead of colors and symmetrical cubes, this beast has all-mirrored surfaces and a bizarre asymmetric rectangular block setup. As you twist it, the blocks poke out in different ways, and it’s these cues you’re supposed to use to solve the puzzle. Bloody hell, it looks hard…the box…
You might not get as amazing a deal as the Olevia TVs from the other day, but since Woot is having another Woot off today you’ll see other bargain gadgets: a glow in the dark jumbo universal remote for $5 is tempting me currently. [Woot]
Sigma’s new SD15 and DP2 cameras are incremental developments of the original SD14 and DP1 cameras, but without too much in the way of change. The SD15 and DP2 share the same 3-layer 14-megapixel Foveon X3 sensor as their predecessors, but have a new True (Three-layer Responsive Ultimate Engine) II image processor aboard for improved…
The first weekend here, Lisa’s family gave us their awesome seats to a baseball game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Hanshin Tigers, my first Japanese baseball game ever.The differences I noticed between American baseball and Japanese baseball being that everyone chants a different song for each batter in complete synchronicity, the stadium food includes…
