AT&T on Wednesday quietly updated its cellphone terms of service to again potentially ban devices like the Slingbox on its network. Having initially pulled earlier changes in what was described as “an error,” the carrier has again modified the terms to specifically prevent “redirecting television signals for viewing on Personal Computers.” It’s not evident whether [...]

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Samsung and MetroPCS today announced the Tint R420, a basic clamshell phone with user-changeable front and back covers. Other features include ChatLINK push-to-talk, Bluetooth, camera, color outer display, and GPS navigation. With tri-band CDMA, the Tint supports the AWS CDMA networks in MetroPCS’ newest covered cities. The Tint is available now in select locations for [...]

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Strategy Analytics, a strategic consulting firm, released a study today that sheds some interesting light on buying trends and preferences among mobile-phone using gamers. The study interviewed 30 gamers over five different types of mobile phone games, and asked for their preferences. It also studied their preferred methods of purchasing mobile games.

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The N97 will soon be upon us and many people are itching to find out all they can about it. Well the good news is that details of the processor have become available, the bad news is that it may disappoint some. For the N97 Nokia have decided to use a single ARM 11 processor [...]

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The Motorola A4500 for Verizon has been revealed in documents on the FCC web site. This slab-style smartphone is similar to the Q9m/Q9c, but with numerous upgrades, including quad-band GSM world roaming, Wi-Fi, fingerprint scanner, and a 2-megapixel camera. Features in common with the Q9m/Q9c include EVDO data, stereo Bluetooth, memory card slot, voice command, [...]

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Zillow iPhone app allows you to view real estate information on every home around you — as you move.
Walk or drive through a neighborhood and see estimated home values, homes for sale, recently sold homes.
GPS technology pinpoints your location and then displays real-time real estate information and data as you go. You can also search [...]

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An apparently reliable source at Palm has told TechCrunch that Palm is “very far along” on a second, smaller Pre-like device to be marketed as soon as this fall, 2009. Pre nano, anybody?
Details are scarce, but the device is rumored to be both smaller and thinner than the Pre, which may mean we’re looking at [...]

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Apple “is conducting high-level discussions with Verizon Wireless to sell a version of the iPhone that would work on Verizon’s network,” according to the New York Times. Talks heated up two weeks ago. The phone could be available next year. It is not clear if the first model would be CDMA or LTE, although sources [...]

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The latest edition of Nokia Messaging, for Symbian S60 5th Edition, is due to be released next month, but it seems the developers have pre-released the client to get feedback. The release version, according to Nokia Beta Labs, won’t see any radical changes from the pre-release version, this is primarly to get feedback rather than [...]

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Today Samsung announced the i7500, its first phone running Google’s Android platform. The i7500 will have a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, and 8GB of built-in memory. It also has a microSD clot for additional storage (up to 32GB). The i7500 is quad-band GSM/EDGE, tri-band 900/1700/2100MHz HSDPA 7.2Mbps [...]

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Remember that game Simon? Well this could very well be the updated version, but this time the lights that play are controlled by your own music. The Jive Pod lets you plug in your MP3 player to make this little electronic device come to life. Watch as the light-up skill game follows the beat [...]

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Vodafone UK have launched a a new version of their homepage specially customised for the iPhone. On the ace of it it’s something of an odd move for the network since they don’t sell the iPhone themselves and have been in competition with the iPhone and it’s official network in the UK, O2, with devices [...]

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Less than two weeks after the early-look Android 1.5 SDK was launched, the Android Dev Team has now unleashed the Android 1.5 SDK, release 1.
Also known as Cupcake, the Android 1.5 SDK can be downloaded from here.
Of course, since the SDK is targeted at developers, simple Android users are still not able to upgrade their smartphones [...]

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Are you feeling kind of depressed lately or know someone who does? Here is a nifty little iPhone app that could be useful in your situation. The Sad Scale iPhone app from the Deep Pocket Series is a handy tool in assessing your present emotional state and is now available at the App Store. By [...]

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Today Alltel announced that it will soon sell the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230. This is a CDMA variant of the Flip, which was first introduced as a GSM phone in 2008. Basic features include a 2 megapixel camera, trackball with SureType keypad, 16GB microSD support, Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth. It will cost $80 after rebate [...]

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