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Slacker for iPhone coming as soon as tomorrow
Hungry for some Slacker streaming radio on your iPhone? The BlackBerry app just became availableearlier today, and it looks like theyre already prepped to go live on Apples finest. We ran into a Slacker rep tonight at the ShowStoppers CES event, said some magic words, and were presented with Slacker …
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Hands on with the Palm Pre
Seeing as everyone in the blogging world is scrambling to get up a Hands-on article on the Palm Pre, Ill go ahead and say this now: if anyone claims to have gotten a true hands-on, theyre probably lying. We just got back from a post-announcement, closed doors Palm event where a handful of Pres were …
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Palm announces Palm Pre at CES 2009
At a press announcement today at CES, Palm announced a brand spankin new handset: the Palm Pre. Running the much-gossiped new Palm WebOS (Not known as Nova afterall) and sporting a QWERTY slide-out keyboard below a 3.1 touchscreen, this might just be enough to get Palm out of their slump. Heres what …
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Palm announces Palm Pre at CES
At a press announcement today at CES, Palm announced a brand spankin new handset: the Palm Pre. Running the much-gossiped new Palm WebOS (Not known as Nova afterall) and sporting a QWERTY slide-out keyboard below a 3.1 touchscreen, this might just be enough to get Palm out of their slump. Heres what …
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FlyCast now available for Android
Looks like Slacker isnt the only one using CES to push their mobile radio goods. FlyCast has long been available on the iPhone and BlackBerry platforms, taking a slightly more traditional approach to mobile radio; unlike Pandora and Slacker, FlyCasts radio stations are all preprogrammed streams, tho …
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FlyCast Radio now available for Android
Looks like Slacker isnt the only one using CES to push their mobile radio goods. FlyCast has long been available on the iPhone and BlackBerry platforms, taking a slightly more traditional approach to mobile radio; unlike Pandora and Slacker, FlyCasts radio stations are all preprogrammed streams, tho …
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Nokia bringing QWERTY-equipped E63 stateside
Nokia announced today that its bringing a US optimized version of the E63 smartphone stateside with an estimated retail price of $279. Citing a loud and clear demand for more QWERTY form factor devices in the US, Nokia sees that E63 as a solid entry level compliment to its more expensive E71. The E …
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CES 2009: Slacker for BlackBerry now available
Have you been drooling over the Slacker for BlackBerry app that made its demo-debut all the way back in September of 08? At long last, its available to satisfy your streamin-radio needs, packed with preprogrammed genre stations, custom stations, album art and reviews, song skipping, and the fancypan …
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Move over camera phone its projector phone time!
Logic Wireless (who?) is showing off what its claiming to be the worlds first projector-packing mobile phone - the Logic Bolt - at CES 2009. This quad-band GSM, 3mp shootin candybar handset is supposedly able to project an image up to 64 and is expected to do so for up to 2 hours thanks to its 1800 …
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T-Mobile officially outs the BlackBerry 8900
Rumors have been floating for weeks now and we knew the 8900 would be coming sometime in early 09 and tonight T-Mobile has made it official. However, the 8900 aka Curve II aka Javelin will not be hitting store shelves on the 11th or 18th according to the press release. T-Mobile is being coy and sayi …
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REDFLY goes Android.. sort of
As a CPU-less, OS-less, storage-less extension of Windows Mobile handsets, the REDFLY is a topic of a fair share of debate; is it a useful godsend, or useless bunk? No one really seems to be on the fence about it - you either love the idea immediately, or just dont see the ppoint. As Devin of CG put …
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Apple now allowing iTunes music downloads over 3G
Finally! No more having to find the nearest Starbucks just so you can get that blasted Beyonce song out of your head - now you can download that drivel over 3G! During todays MacWorld Keynote Phil Schiller announced that iPhone iTunes downloads are now enabled over 3G, where as theyd been previously …
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HTC fills a gap we didnt know existed with the S743
Existing somewhere between (and a sidestep or two away from) the full-touch HTC Touch Diamond and the HTC Touch Pro QWERTY slider is the S740, a non-touch, Windows Mobile 6.1 QWERTY slider. While its been floating around Europe for a few months now, HTC is just today announcing its US brethren: the …
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AT&T East Coast data network on the fritz
Early this morning, we woke up to a thicket of tips informing us that a hefty helping of ATTs East Coast data network had gone done. From New York City to Chicago, anybody lookin to do some early morning mobile browsing was out of luck. Fortunately, word is now trickling in that everything is up and …
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CES 2009: Prepare for green lip service
Every year around CES time we get a slew of emails describing the thinnest this or most of that. A few years ago it was GPS devices (The most points-of-interest in Scranton!) and then it was TVs (witness Samsungs recent announcement of a 7mm thick TV). Now its green. Take the Renew for example. Thr …
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Coming Soon From Sling Media: Watch Cable TV From Your iPhone
Sling Media, the company behind the popular (and very cool) settop boxes that allow you to stream cable from your house to your computer, looks like it has outdone itself. At this weeks Macworld the company will be showing off its upcoming iPhone application, which effectively gives iPhone owners i …
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Motorola announces A3100, Renew, and Tundra VA76r
Gettin a head start on CES, Motorola has announced 3 brand spankin new handsets. Heres what we know so far. From left to right: MOTOSURF A3100: Hey everyone, its the Motorola Atila! Weve known the basics about this guy for some time, but now we know the full specs. Behind that 2.8 touchscreen, its …
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Apple moves to patent iPhone gloves
Nothing beats the smooth, silky glide of a capacitive touch screen - but nothings more annoying than trying to use one in the dead of winter. Unless youre ultra-hardcore-extreme (or just too cool for school. or stupid.), youve got gloves on. Your phone rings; by the time you get your nice, snugly gl …
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Say cheese: LG Viewty camera phone hits 5 million sales worldwide
LG announced today that it has sold 5 million Viewty camera phones worldwide after 14 months on the market. The 3 touch screen-equipped, 5mp handset (now available in more colors - black, silver, red, blue, pink, purple, and white) has proven extremely popular abroad thanks to its emphasis on real …
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Pantech Cupid IM-S390 is a phone, has Cupid in the name
Women on Korea, prepare to have your minds blown in 5 days. How so, you ask? What could be so special about the Pantech Cupid IM-S390? It has a built-in DMB TV tuner. WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Wait, a ton of phones have that? Well, this one has support for external memory, an electronic dictionary, an …
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