Today the Motorola VE440 became available for sale from MetroPCS. This monoblock-style phone is billed by Motorola as a music phone and has dedicated music keys, a 3.5mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth, and support for microSD cards up to 8GB. The VE440 is a tri-band 800/1700/1900 CDMA device that is limited to 1x data but [...]

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This Ping app by the guy who made PushGmail is a mix between text messaging and instant messaging. What you need to know is that it’s free and it’s fast.
Ping is designed to look like the SMS app, and behaves much the same way. The messages you send arrive at the recipient’s screen instantly—similar to [...]

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So you haven’t graduated away from those white earbuds yet, but Playboy is hoping that they can at least make them sexier for you. Currently available at the Playboy shop are earbuds for your MP3 Player that comes in the color Black/White, Pink/White, or Pink/black. The buds feature the famous Playboy bunny symbol along with [...]

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The actual iPhone 3G/3GS unlock here at iPhone Unlocking Solutions.
The current generation phone, iPhone, has the features of a PC, an iPod, a digital camera and a mobile phone. It is one of the most preferred phones having features of networking and browsing. But it gets expensive to buy an iPhone because it comes with [...]

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Nokia appear to have seen reason and implemented a much needed change in policy in the Ovi Store regarding re-downloading content. Up until now customers’ purchases were tied to the device they used to purchase the content, not their account. That is if a customer bought content on their N97 they couldn’t just download the [...]

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Orange UK has just rolled out the ROM update for their HTC Hero, where it is touted to offer a boost in system speed, alongside touch-to-focus capability in the Hero’s camera. Orange has also tested the new software to make sure it is fully compatible with the network when released. As for T-Mobile, they claim [...]

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The Garmin-Asus Nuvifone is vaporware no more! Boy Genius has unveiled some information about several upcoming AT&T smartphones, the G60 among them. The nuvifone G60 is a collaboration between the famed GPS manufacturer Garmin and PC-manufacturer Asus. It will cost $299 with a 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.
That’s a bit pricey for even [...]

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Mobile phone giant KDDI has teamed up with Tokyo-based Flower Robotics to develop a new concept mobile phone/robot system designed to monitor and learn the user’s behavior and communicate via a home TV set. Pink Tentacle reports.
“Called “Polaris,” the prototype system consists of a mobile handset that monitors the user’s daily activities and an artificially [...]

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This is a pretty simple construction that actually doesn’t look as ridiculous as it sounds. The dock rotates, taking advantage of the iPhone and iPod Touch’s accelerometer and making use of allowing movie-viewing landscape mode. Not bad!

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Today at the Mobilize Conference, Motorola and T-Mobile announced the Motorola Cliq, a new Android handset. They call it “the first phone with social skills.” It is a touch-based handset that has Motorola’s new MOTOBLUR service on board. The Cliq is a sideways slider that has a full QWERTY keyboard and 3.1-inch HVGA touch-screen display. [...]

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Kwikset’s SmartKey has been lacking in intelligence for quite awhile, but at long last, the outfit has finally added a pivotal feature here at CEDIA: true remote locking and unlocking. The new remote access control solution is being dubbed SmartCode with Home Connect — an unnecessarily lengthy way of explaining how the company’s keyless locks [...]

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HTC has been getting in on the act today with the unveilling of the Touch2, a compact WinMo smartphone that will be one of the first devices to run WinMo 6.5, which will itself be unveiled on 6th October. Other pioneering efforts include support for Windows Marketplace and Microsoft My Phone. HTC’s TouchFlo UI has [...]

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“Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t want some piece of the huge Michael Jackson pie. So it was only a matter of time that more wares kept popping up authorized or not displaying his image.  So without further ado I present the Michael Jackson IMITO A8 Cell Phone Ultimate EDITION. Basically a cheap [...]

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In a potential advance for the forces of paid content, The Economist is introducing a trial program today that lets New Yorkers use their cellphones to order overnight home delivery of the new issue at the regular newsstand price. AdAge reports.
“New Yorkers who have signed up for weekly texts announcing each issue’s topics will also [...]

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The once rumored Nokia Xseries is now official as Nokia has just announced two devices to spearhead this new range of phones: the Nokia X6 and the X3.
The Nokia X6 is their latest full-touchscreen device that features 3.2-inch display, Carl Zeiss equipped 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, TV-out, on-device video editing tools, [...]

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