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Click to viewSprint’s Instinct is so special the carrier is holding its own super special event. Unfortunately, it hasn’t quite finished baking, so the full feature set wasn’t entirely ready to go—we had to visit different “stations” to check out each feature individually to keep us from diving too deep. The iPhone-challenging visual voicemail, for…
The suckas at Kohler wanted me to try out their new VibrAcoustic tub today, but I already took a bath this morning. I sent that one bathtubbin’ fool in my place, and while I may go Clubber Lang on him for trying to impersonate the T, this tub looks pretty sweet. https://gizmodo.com/i-aint-gettin-in-no-rubber-tub-fool-oh-alright-if-y-374516 The bath brings…
This week at T-Hugger: The environment is destroyed thanks to fools who turn up the heat and open the windows at the same time. Mr. T has no pity for those fools. Get a brain, suckas. Protect yo environment. Buy hybrid cars! Recycle! Drink your milk. Do your homework. Stay away from drugs. Uuuuuuugggh. This…
Mr. T‘s favorite laptop maker rolled out slick, useful and budget-minded updates to its Satellite line today. First up, the 13.3″ U400, 14.1″ M300, 15.4″ A300 and 17″ P300 have a new look called “Fusion,” a shiny finish with pinstripes and smoothed edges, not unlike that sucka HP’s successful smooth-n-shiny-n-pinstripey look. The eight shots in…
Remember Daniel_K, the good guy who took it upon himself to fix Creative’s craptastic Vista drivers and ended up getting threatened with legal action as thanks for his work? Well, he’s spoken out, and he’s not happy about Creative’s dickish treatment of him. https://gizmodo.com/creative-presents-cease-and-desist-note-to-developer-he-373748 Daniel justifies the fact that he asked for donations by saying…
Does the world need yet another company making Windows Mobile phones? Maybe, maybe not, but Velocity Mobile is doing it anyway with their Velocity 103 (left) and 111 (right) smartphones. Both are running Windows Mobile 6.1 and will launch in Q2 and Q3 respectively. What’s this have to do with Mr. T? You can’t spell…
Who you callin’ a momma’s boy? Me? That’s right. T’s proud to love my momma! You should too. Here’s some scientist explainin’ why being a momma’s boy is natural. I don’t need no science to explain that punk. Mr. Scientist, I got three words for you. Respect yo momma! [Sciencentral]
Click to viewThe AT&T LG Vu is the latest multimedia touchscreen phone on the floor at CTIA, offering haptic touchscreen feedback, Mobile TV and a pretty intuitive user interface. While the presentation of the hardware and software is beautiful, and the AT&T’s MediaFlo-powered Mobile TV service is pretty slick, the lack of power in the…
Mr. T says I’m crazy and he may be right. I’m a bird! I’m a plane! I’m a choo-choo train! But Mr.T-Mobile is the only crazy one: they requested Engadget Mobile to stop using their shade of magenta in his logo because it may lead to “confusion in the marketplace.” Their shade of magenta? I’ve…
Nokia took the shroud off its WiMAX-capable N810 Tablet today, which promises 4g mobile broadband speeds for the handheld internet tablet. The updated N810 will use Sprint’s Xohm service, and adds a new mobile dimension to the device, which was previously Wi-Fi only. https://gizmodo.com/wimax-enabled-nokia-n810-internet-tablet-launching-soon-367565 Aside from 4g internet, the N810 WiMAX Edition now allows firmware…
Who knew my son would grow up to not only be an international superstar, but the president of a cellular company? And what a nice company it is, getting this fancy Blackberry 8120 with Wi-Fi. It’s already been on AT&T, but AT&T don’t have no Hotspot@Home calling support for Voice over IP. Makes a momma…
If you’re like me, you worry about your momma, even if you’re just runnin’ out to the grocery store. I used to like the Jitterbug, but ClarityLife phone might be what I should get her. It’s got a big screen cuz her eyes aren’t so good anymore, and it’s got an amplifier that brings incoming…
Yo! You may not know it but I’m a caring kinda guy. I worry about the environment: my fist’s gonna see you later if you don’t too. So you guys should check out the Sola Unagi generator, made by Fuji Technologies. Weighs just 22 pounds, and even you weaklings could carry that. It’s got two…
iPhone killers, product spam and Windows Mobile 6.1 oh my! It’s CTIA 2008, and we’re here, so there’s lots more mobile (and hot hands on) action where that came from. [Giz at CTIA 2008] https://gizmodo.com/sprints-samsung-instinct-at-last-a-decent-iphone-comp-374454
It looks like writing “John Mayer here” really works to get Apple’s attention when you report a problem. According to Steve Jobs’ fab guitarist, they got back to him directly only four days after he sent the bug report ramblings: https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-music-poster-boy-reports-itunes-problem-won-371671 …four days later, I received an e-mail from my manager saying that Apple was…
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them maybe you can hire…the A Team…to strip down Windows to the Bare Essentials. I ain’t tweakin no registry, fool! [Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/trim-down-windows-to-the-bare-essentials-374376
All you business fools who’ve been waiting for Windows Mobile 6.1 can all relax. It’s here. And it’s supporting all kinds of jibba jabba technologies like a new Internet Explorer Mobile with IE6 tech and h.264, Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support. There’s also even more stuff for your I.T. crew (I put the T…
Mr. T likes his multi touch gestures, but doesn’t like the lack of gold. Aside from the leather back in this new model, Mr. T needs to know why the screen isn’t golden even if he does enjoy catching his reflection from time to time in the iPhone’s mirror-like finish. Hey Mr. Goldstriker International! Give…
Samsung’s Instinct may be the best stab at the coveted title of iPhone killah this CTIA. The 3.1-inch touchscreen phone has localized haptic feedback, plus three hard navigation keys. If it sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve seen versions of it before, but only in Korea. Mind you, this is not the LG Prada-ripoff Samsung F480,…
Being a soldier of fortune, the words “early termination” mean sumthin’ different to me. Like death, maybe. Now then, if my buddies and me were still fixin’ problems with bad jivin’ people, mobile carriers such as at&t might be high up on our list. But now those money-grabbin’ overlords at what you’ve been callin’ the…