Phones

motorola

Motorola's New Phones Are Nice Things in Ugly Packages

Motorola is rolling out three new handsets that'll be available in the next few months. While the concepts are relatively up-to-date (eco-friendliness, military ruggedness, touchscreens), why did Motorola choose designs from 2002? More »

01/06/09

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By Elaine Chow

watch phones

LG Touchscreen Watch Phone Will Support 3G, Speech Recognition, Little Girl Fingers

Details of a new LG watch phone, likely to be announced at CES, have trickled out through the company's Korean site. And surprise! It looks hard to use. But not—and this is important—unusable. More »

12/29/08

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By John Herrman

iphone

Slightly-On-Sale iPhones Arrive at Wal-Mart Today, Still Not $99

Just a gentle reminder for you folks who buy the lion's share of your electronics at Wal-Mart: The iPhone will be at the big box store chain with a tiny discount, starting... today!

12/28/08

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By Jack Loftus

rumor

Leaked 2009 Blackberry Roadmap Hints at Touchscreen Bold, Storm Slider

A supposed 2009 Blackberry Roadmap posted on TmoNews Forums suggests that we'll not only be seeing the Curve 8900 next year, but also a touchscreen Bold and a Storm with a slide-out keyboard. More »

12/24/08

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By Adrian Covert

slingplayer mobile

SlingPlayer For Windows Mobile Comes to Loads More Phones

The aging SlingPlayer for Windows Mobile has been updated, and almost exclusively for compatibility. The app will now run on most modern phones, including (finally) 640x480, 800x480, 400x240 and 320x320 handsets. More »

12/24/08

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By John Herrman

Comment by Canoehead: How about the promised iPhone version ?... 2 Responses | Other threads

novelty items

The Soda Cup Phone: Because Hamburgers are SO 2007

Unlike its spoiled brat sibling, the Hamburger Phone, the Soda Cup Phone doesn't have a major motion picture to serve as its marketing machine. So it turned to us, the blogs, to spread the word. More »

12/23/08

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By Adrian Covert

Comment by Alex McKenzie: I got this on dealextreme.com for like 3 dollars last year. and it actually had a coca-cola label. they might 1 Responses | Other threads

android

Video of Next Android OS Shows On-Screen Keyboard

Anticipating a selection of QWERTY-less handsets to run the platform in the near future, the next version of Android will have an onscreen keyboard, among other things. Here's what it'll look like. More »

12/22/08

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By John Herrman

nokia

Unlocked Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Pops Up Briefly at Amazon for $590

12/21/08

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android

'Cupcake' Roadmap Hints at What'll Be In the Next Android Update

Hidden among a slew of bugfixes and refinements announced in a posting on the Android project site are a few serious feature upgrades, which could make their way to your G1 fairly soon. More »

12/18/08

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By John Herrman

unconfirmed

First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets

Yesterday's purported renders of Motorola's 2009 smartphone line seemed plausible, but these less adventurous feature phone renders are almost too safe to be fake. Behold, the Son of Razr! More »

12/18/08

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By John Herrman

sling

SlingPlayer For BlackBerry Launching in Public Beta Before Next Year, Just

SlingPlayer for BlackBerry, which was previewed in a usable state nearly a year ago, is finally coming to BlackBerry in a public beta. More »

12/18/08

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By John Herrman

hotline

Emergency Pizza-Ordering Phone

Man, I'm dying for a pizza right now. I have my favorite pizza joint on speed dial, but that wastes too much time. This is a fat guy emergency! Bring me the Pizzaphone! More »

12/16/08

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By Sean Fallon

Comment by baltwade: Wouldn't a Pizza Emergency Button be better. A big red button mounded on the wall and when you hit 9 Responses | Other threads

smartphones

Samsung Pixon May Be First 8MP US Camera Phone

Compliments of the FCC, we have some confirmation of rumors that Samsung will be releasing the 8MP Pixon M8800L smartphone to the US market.

12/15/08

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By Mark Wilson

Cellphone radiation

E-Wave Chip Protects Against Scary, If Not Scientifically Proven, Threat of Cellphone Radiation

Cellphone radiation is spawning worries that it can do everything from making sperm stupid to popping popcorn... which means it's prime time to start selling "cures" like this "radiation reducing" E-wave phone chip. More »

12/10/08

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By Elaine Chow

concepts

The Natural Year Phone Refuses to Be Out-Greened

OK OK, we know this grass phone is totally nuts, but hear us out.

12/08/08

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By Mark Wilson

iphone

Confirmed: iPhone Coming to Walmart By the End of December, Regularly Priced

Inconsistent rumors that Walmart would soon start selling the iPhone soon have been pinging around for a few days now, but Bloomberg has finally come up with a solid answer: It's happening, and probably by Christmas. More »

12/08/08

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By John Herrman

android

Chinese QIGI Android Phone Gets the Video Treatment

12/08/08

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cellphones

Tiny, Adorable Walkman Phone Is Hard To Use Unless You're Also Tiny and Adorable

By the numbers, the KDDI Walkman Xmini phone is nothing special. Well, except for a few of the numbers: at 44mm wide and 18mm thick, the 1.8in screen phone is absolutely minuscule. More »

12/08/08

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By John Herrman

retromodo

Old American Telephone and Telegraph Report Shows What Keypads Could Have Been

You probably don't think about it much, but there was an intensive selection process that went into the telephone push button keypad. Ironically, the one we use today featured a fairly high error rate.

12/07/08

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By Jack Loftus

Comment by duckylam: Someone tell me why the telephone keypad is different than a computer keyboard numberpad. Most annoying thing ever.... 13 Responses | Other threads

services

Cogi Writes Down Your Conversations So You Don't Have To

As a lazy writer who is occasionally forced to interview an actual person, I still haven't found the perfect solution to transcribing phone interviews without doing it myself. But a service called Cogi looks promising.

12/04/08

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By Mark Wilson

clips

Katie Couric Explains How Texting Works in Relationships

12/02/08

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android

QIGI i6-Goal Looks to Be the First 'Next' Android Phone to Actually Come Out

Compared to the ZzzPhone—a modern marvel of engineering and/or MSPaint—the i6-Goal is sort of boring: it's got no QWERTY, 3G, two-week battery, male enhancement powers, etc. It does, however, appear to be real. More »

12/02/08

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By John Herrman