Archive for the ‘CellPhones’ Category

Palm Pre coming to Spain on Telefonica on October 14

Monday, March 15th, 2010

The European operators are really liking mid-October for their Pre launches, and that trend continues now that Spain's Telefonica has unveiled an October 14 availability date for Spain's very first webOS device. The phone's being offered on plans that will bring the cost of the handset itself down to anywhere ...

Motorola introduces the MOTOBLUR Android skin

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

As expected, Motorola just introduced its Android strategy at the Mobilize conference, and it's based around a skin called Blur -- or MOTOBLUR if you're feeling cute. It's built around social networking, and it features live widgets that integrate Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, MySpace, Yahoo, Last.fm and more. Like Palm's Synergy, ...

Samsung S7550 Blue Earth reviewed, Monkey Wrench Gang unavailable for comment

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

We're not sure if the recent trend for greener gadgets comes from a wish to save the planet, assuage consumer's guilt, cash in on a trend, or some combination of the three, but we'll tell you one thing: it's not going anywhere. Of course, with a product named "Blue Earth" ...

Verizon announces early store openings for DROID launch

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

We'd already heard through the grapevine that select Verizon Wireless stores would be cracking their doors open early to deal with the presumed flood of consumers "Humans" eager to snap up the first-ever Android 2.0 device, and now the carrier has come right out with the official details. We're told ...

OpenBerry DIY messenger heavy on style, won’t replace your smartphone

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Looking for a weekend DIY project? Using a 26-key ButtonShield keyboard module and salvaging parts from his Open Source GameBoy project, Liquidware Antipasto blogger intheblitz has created the OpenBerry, a Arduino-based mobile messenger that's maybe one-half part BlackBerry and seven parts great icebreaker at parties (the kind of parties we ...

Toshiba’s DMFC fuel cell seen ‘powering phones’ at CEATEC (video)

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Toshiba has been promising the world a healthy dose of fuel cell chargers for what feels like ages now, with its most recent swearing happening just two months ago. Here at CEATEC, the company's wares were being trumpeted by KDDI. We witnessed a standard handset have its stock battery removed ...

Palm’s App Catalog getting paid apps on September 24?

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Digital Daily's stumbled across a leaked document apparently addressed to webOS devs that shows a timeline for bringing paid apps to the webOS App Catalog, and one date in particular stands out: September 24 for go-live. The infrastructure's been in beta for a while now, giving everyone some time to ...

Screen Grabs: Palm Pre stumps the experts on Numb3rs

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com.The Palm Pre showed up on a recent episode of Numb3rs, and we can only assume that confused look on Charlie's face is ...

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVI: Nokia N900 rip shows no trademark fear

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

It's pretty typical for serial KIRFers to make minor changes to the names of the brands they're ripping -- take Sany Ericssan, for example -- but we've never really known why. "Go big or go home" is the KIRF mantra we prefer to live by, and if you're going to ...

Ears-on with Sony Ericsson MH907 Motion Activated Headphones

Friday, March 12th, 2010

What we have here today isn't just another pair of ordinary headphones: Sony Ericsson's MH907s are button-free, minimalistic headphones that activate upon the magical touch of your skin. Well, your ears to be precise. You must bear in mind that the MH907s are exclusive to Fast port-equipped Sony Ericsson phones ...