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As promised, the Centro is now only $70 on AT&T with a two-year contract and rebate. Plus it comes in snazzy electric blue. [AT&T] https://gizmodo.com/at-t-palm-centro-goes-electric-blue-gets-even-cheaper-5022996
It seems that there is interest amongst the design community to develop a tossable camera, which is why the Flee Digital camera is not the first of its kind. Is it the novelty value of seeing images from a unique perspective? Is it for reconnaissance missions over your neighbor’s yard? I’m not quite sure, to…
At least a few Sprint stores loosed Palm’s Windows Mobile-powered Treo 800w early, for $350 with a two-year contract and rebate. It’s still $600 without. Specs confirmed by field reports: Wi-Fi, EV-DO Rev. A, GPS, 320×320 screen and a 2MP camera. The keyboard is apparently improved, with a lower profile, which goes with the 800w’s…
NetSketch is an $8 drawing app with Bonjour-like sharing abilities—if you’re on the same WiFi network, it will automatically detect drawings and let you jump in to collaborate PictoChat style. Coming to classrooms and lecture halls this fall. [NetSketch]
Click to viewCupertino, California (Agencies). In a surprising move that is set to stun consumers all over the world, Apple has cancelled all orders for the iPhone 3G today. People who already bought the phones will get them replaced by Apple’s new wonderproduct, the iBrick 3G. “We think it’s the best thing we can do…
The aptly titled ‘Big Time’ table from artist Lee J Rowland is, in fact, a giant wristwatch with a programmable LED clock. It has a touch button feature like a normal watch that allows the user to switch between time, seconds and date functions. You can even program it to display an 8 letter message…
Have you tried to activate your iPhone to no avail? Are you holding a $299 brick in your hand? Here’s what you do. When activating your iPhone (or just upgrading to 2.0 software), if you get an error message on your phone, DO NOT UNPLUG IT. That will restart the entire process. https://gizmodo.com/apple-and-at-t-stores-having-difficulty-activating-ipho-5024187 Instead, just…
Click to viewHere’s something you never want to have happen to you: you’re videotaping a storm, when all of the sudden lightning comes down and strikes the camera in your hand. Remarkably, she was fine. As she says: From what i understand, it went through my left hand holding the camera, crossed my back and…
We’re not sure precisely how widespread the issue may be, but multiple reports on the Macrumors forums are bringing to light that some iPhone 3Gs are suffering from a screen with a yellow tint. While on a standard LCD the issue would probably just warrant a settings readjustment (like from Movie mode to Sports), we…
Leave it to Steve Wozniak to put the hysteria in check. “A little faster downloading of webpages, and it has a GPS [Global Positioning System] chip built in. But, you know, these aren’t, like, break-the-bank items…A lot of the people I know just aren’t going to upgrade yet. Then again, the guy was planning to…
Sometimes The Joy of Tech‘s unique adolescent-political humor style nails a topic just right, and this comic is the perfect example. But seriously, I’ve heard that local park districts will begin throwing these meetings quarterly. Contact your neighborhood branch for more details. [joyoftech]
Click to viewWe’ve heard four many accounts now from varying Apple store and AT&T locations that employees are having problems while trying to activate phones through iTunes. From Atlanta, one camper reports: A “teal shirt” Apple representative came out to let us know they are having difficulty accessing accounts on the iTunes system. The line…
AT&T’s 3G footprint does not blanket the entire country-about the top 300 markets, expanding to 350 by the end of the year (and it’s faster in some places than others). But the 3G coverage map that was on AT&T’s site (neatly stitched together at Alley Insider) until this morning was from March (AT&T spokesman says…
The iPod touch 2.0 firmware is now available from Apple for $9.95, officially. In reality, Apple’s having a busy day, so they’re not quite firing on all cylinders yet. It should be up any minute, we expect. [Apple]
Last week we told you that the upcoming LG Chocolate 3 was going to be available July 14th: Verizon have just come up with the news that it’ll be available a day earlier, July 13. They’re pretty proud of the candybar phone’s Verizon Rhapsody interlink, and the “all-in-one” nature of the gizmo as a PMP,…
We’ve got the iPhone 3G. Expect a lot more to come. [Gizmodo iPhone 3G Coverage]
For a day now you’ve been able to manually update your iPhone firmware to version 2.0, by grabbing a download source and doing it yourself. Now you don’t have to: It’s available through iTunes 7.7. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-install-the-iphone-2-0-update-right-now-5023760
Solar power is everywhere at the mo, maybe because it sounds more sci-fi than wind: which is the case with this new technology that turns windows into power sources. Clever bods at MIT have worked out how to use organic dye solar-concentrator coatings to collect light over a whole sheet of glass and “concentrate” it…
So we showed it to you briefly yesterday, but then MobileMe turned around and seemed to bite the Apple that made it, and has been unavailable until just now. Can we assume more technical hitches than its developers had anticipated? Yes, I think we can, particularly given Apple’s “it’s taking longer than expected” error message.…
Over at Pownce an enterprising person has taken it upon themselves to leak the touch 2.0 Firmware unofficially for you. And it’ll let you upgrade your iPod touch to iPhone-like 2.0 goodness. Without Apple. We just tested it, and it works… screenshots below. But the download link has gone 404… that didn’t last long, at…