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Steve Ballmer must be banging his head against the wall after dismissing the idea of the iPhone as “silly” last year: market research firm Canalys has confirmed the trend announced by Jobs at MacWorld, with the iPhone grabbing 28 percent of the U.S. “converged-device” market (aka smartphones) for the fourth quarter, smashing the combined Windows…
Just like WMWifiRouter did for 3G Windows Mobile phones, JoikuSpot allows 3G S60 Nokia phones to act like a Wi-Fi hotspot for other devices. The principle is the same: a 3G connection comes in, goes through the phone, and out to your iPhone or laptop (through Wi-Fi) so you can access 3G on the go.…
Yelp is great, but what if you could find restaurants and clubs based on where you are right now? Thanks to Helio phones‘ GPS service and the Buzzd software, you can. It works as a built-in app on your Helio phone (the two companies partnered up today) and will allow you to even message your…
When people bitched about the iPhone’s 3G sansness, one counter was that it didn’t matter, since AT&T’s 3G network was far from ubiquitous anyway. AT&T is stepping up on their end this year, planning on smothering another 80 cities in sticky, delicious 3Goodness for a total of 350 markets, and all of the top 100…
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Not only are we smart, charming and pretty here at Gizmodo, we are also fantastically cultured. As the Chinese New Year is upon us, we would like to take this opportunity to wish all those celebrating it a smashing new year. As a Chinese restaurant placemat our research informs us, the Chinese calendar cycles every…
The gang over at Ars Technica got their hands on both an SSD-packed Macbook Air as well as a regular, HDD-equipped model and then put both through their paces to see if the $1,300 difference in price was worth it. So they had two computers, both exactly the same save a 200Mhz bump in processor…
Effective immediately in the US and Canadia, the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive’s MSRP is $129.99, dropkicked a whole 50 bucks. Is this blood in the water or something? [Major Nelson]
Diet Floor is a “smart” talking ceramic floor that will talk to you whenever you spend too much time on top of it at the wrong times. In other words: you go to the kitchen in between meals, stop in front of the the refrigerator to see what you can nib on and it will…
The megapixel race is essentially over (maybe)—besides holding little weight w/ geeks anymore, even the lowliest shooters pack in eight (noisy) ones. So now, it’s all about features: Gravy is the new steak. Canon’s main mouthpiece, Chuck Westfall, says that one of Flickr fiendsters’ and OCD metadata hounds’ wet dreams—built-in GPS for automated geotagging, will…
In this strange maritime epidemic, the number of undersea cables cut in incidents around the Middle East and South Asia now totals five, including Sea-Me-We 4 (in two places) and cables run by Flag Telecom located at Alexandria, the Dubai coast, and Bandar Abbas in Iran. (Insert not-so-funny-anymore Dick Cheney terror joke here.) [Khaleej Times…
I can’t say that I’ve seen too many great innovations in the world of curtains lately, but these Magnetic Curtains actually get me excited about something I previously thought only moms cared about. They’re big ol’ curtains, but they have small magnets embedded throughout, allowing them to be bunched up and stay together. If I…
Turns out, I’m not going deaf. Phones are just still delivering really shitty sound quality, according to a worldwide audit. Analyzing data from 630 million live calls from 16 carriers in 12 countries, Ditech Networks’ voice-quality team determined that nearly 40% of all calls failed to meet set industry standards, and even in developed markets…
A replacement for your car’s rear view mirror, the Camera Recorder Pro automatically records your driving in case of an accident. Featuring a 2.5″ screen for playback, a video camera mounted on the mirror’s back (allowing it to shoot the car’s front) records footage to an SD card as long as the engine is running.…
It’s been our hunch all along that Verizon would take all in the 700MHz spectrum auction, but analysts are now confirming our suspicions from the other day: Verizon is set to win the most hotly desired slice of airwaves in the country, which can be used for anything from an entirely new mobile broadband service…
The Corgi H2GO is a RC card powered by a fuel cell that gets refilled with hydrogen extracted from water. Like the previous model, the H-Racer, it uses solar-powered electrolysis to do it. Unlike the straight-line-only H-Racer, however, the H2GO is a real RC car that can actually turn left and right. Playing Dr. Manhattan…
Not a week after two massive undersea telecom cables were snapped—according to BBC News, most likely due not to Godzilla but a single tanker “dragging its anchor along the sea bed”—and the repairs are well underway. But how in the hell do you repair a nine-layer steel-reinforced cable located deep beneath the surface of the…
The Navisurfer II is a pretty interesting little in-dash PC. Featuring a 7-inch flip-out touchscreen display, you can run Windows or Linux driven by a 1.3 Ghz processor in respectable 800 x 480 resolution. Built-in GPS along with a 2.5-inch hard drive (ranging from 40GB to 120GB) mean that you won’t require an additional stereo…
Anglina Jolie recently revealed to the world that despite portraying both a mega hacker and PC gaming heroine Lara Croft on the big screen, such experience doesn’t help her with technology one bit. She explains quite clearly: …I don’t really know how to turn on a computer. Apparently, my penis is not a computer. [metro…
As an alternative to touchscreen control, Keynetik has designed a prototype motion-interface for portable devices that requires just a single hand to operate. Using multiple accelerometers, it can cleverly distinguish the user’s gestures from mere accidental "interference" motions, and even works whether you’re left- or right-handed. With control buttons resting under your fingertips on its…