The $200 W PhoneWatch from Kempler and Strauss is not new. It debuted a little over a year ago and went on sale earlier this year. But if someone asks you if you want to review a watch that’s also a cell phone, you say yes. That’s a good rule for life in general. Once you’ve reviewed a watch that’s also a cell phone, you can pass on …
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Sprint Now Offers Good Deals on ‘Certified’ Refurbished Phones
I don’t need to know what happened to your phone. All I know is that you went into the bathroom with it and now it’s all wet. And you’re crying. Maybe it’s the thought of having to shell out hundreds of dollars to replace that off-contract BlackBerry. Maybe it’s knowing you just stuck your hand in the toilet.
Maybe it’s both.
The good
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Windows Phone 7 Predictions (Spoiler: It Won’t Fail)
Microsoft officially unveiled its initial lineup of Windows Phone 7 devices today, with the Samsung Focus looking to be the first US handset available—it’ll start selling on November 8th for $200 with a two-year AT&T contract.
While the first crop of handsets and the shiny, new operating system running atop them certainly look …
EA Mobile Onboard to Publish Windows Phone 7 Games
Electronic Arts will make Windows Phone 7 games after all. Microsoft’s recent press release indicates that these four titles will be available this fall: Need for Speed: Undercover, Tetris, The Sims 3, and Monopoly.
The games support Windows Phone 7’s Xbox Live integration, "featuring the unique ability to track and share scores with
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T-Mobile’s First Windows Phone 7 Phone Comes With a Kickstand
Both AT&T and T-Mobile are announcing their respective Windows Phone 7 devices today at the WP7 event in NYC but T-Mobile is first out of the gate with the HTC HD7. (More: Complete List of Windows Phone 7 Devices Available at Launch)
The 4.3-inch touch-screen makes the HD7 the largest available WP7 device in the U.S. Under …
Complete List of Windows Phone 7 Devices Available at Launch
Today is Windows Phone 7 launch day. Here’s a list of all the handsets that have been announced by the various carriers. The first phones will be available November 8th here in the US.
AT&T
Three handsets went live on AT&T’s site and will be available in November. The Samsung Focus will be first out of the gate on November 8th, …
NYT Confirms Verizon iPhone
Dreams do come true.
The New York Times is confirming the rumors of a Verizon iPhone based on an anonymous source directly connected to Apple.
Rumors of a Verizon-Apple collaboration have circulated for years, with the most recent a report by the Wall Street Journal, however, this latest story by the NYT should be the last nail on …
T-Mobile Responds to G2 Rooting Issue
Earlier in the week, we picked up on a trending topic over at the XDA forums that caused quite a stir in the Android community – the G2 was unrootable. According to the New America Foundation, the G2 has an embedded chip that resets the G2’s software back to “stock” once the device has been rebooted.
T-Mobile has responded to …
Apple in a ‘Quiet Panic’ Over iPhone 4 Cases Cracking Glass?
As part of the iPhone 4‘s design aesthetic, Apple decided to make the backside of the phone out of the same glass used on the front. Cool idea, right? You don’t see too many phones with the backside made of glass.
The problem with glass, believe it or not, is that it’s prone to cracking. It’s true! So with both sides of the phone made …
Sprint Outs Three New Android Phones and Preset App Packs
Sprint is hoping to make installing apps on new Android phones a more streamlined experience with Sprint ID. The basic premise is pretty simple: the company has created several "packs" of similar applications—Entertainment, Socially Connected, Health and Fitness, Business Productivity, Sports, etc.—which users can download in one
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WSJ Reports Verizon iPhone in 2011, Again
This is getting redundant and completely obnoxious.
The WSJ is yet again reporting that Apple and Verizon will release a CDMA version of the iPhone in early 2011 and that production will begin later this year. But this coming from the same reporter who wrote back in March that Verizon would be getting the iPhone this fall. Following …
HP: Phones with Palm’s webOS Interface Due ‘Early Next Year’
In the realm of mobile phones, Hewlett-Packard will be making use of the $1.2 billion it recently paid to acquire Palm by launching new phones with Palm’s "webOS" interface "early next year," according to HP’s Eric Cador.
And wouldn’t you know it, those webOS phones will probably go quite nicely with the webOS tablet that HP’s Todd
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