Archive for the 'Mobile Phone' Category

AT&T Letting Go Of 8GB Refurb iPhone 3Gs For $99 On Contract

Ha, you or someone you love just paid full retail for an iPhone 3G a few days ago, didn’t you? We’ve always heard that the best deals come after Christmas, but people just never learn. All smack talk aside, those who didn’t get a new cellie under the tree, but did acquire a Benjamin or [...]

Leaked Rogers Slides Make Us Want To Move To Canada

We’re not really sure where to begin with this one, because the awesomeness is so thorough and so intense that we’re basically at a loss for words; we’ll see what we can do here, though. In brief, a HoFo poster has thrown up what appear to be slides from a Rogers event detailing the carrier’s [...]

Vertu Signature Dragon Handset Puts The ‘Ugh’ in ‘Luxury’

It looks like Vertu isn’t resting on its laurels — a mere two years after snatching the “world’s ugliest phone title” with its Signature Cobra, the company’s back with the Signature Dragon. What can we say about this one? Not much, seeing as how the thing isn’t even listed on the company’s website. Even so, [...]

Snapture Flash Adds Crappy Flash To Crappy iPhone Camera

The iPhone’s camera may be thoroughly eclipsed by several of its competitors, but the insane popularity of Apple’s baby means that we’ve seen tons of accessories aimed at making that 2.1 megapixel sensor somewhat more useful — like the Snapture Flash here, which tucks a xenon flash with red-eye reduction into a sleeve-type case. Although [...]

iControlPad Gamepad Heads To Production, Warms Hearts

Apple’s claims that the iPhone is a console might carry a bit more weight if the thing had, you know, some physical inputs. Touchscreens and tilt sensors are great, but without at least a couple of buttons and a D-pad it’s kind of a hard sell to your average gamer. Inputs are exactly what the [...]

T-Mobile Dash May Not Be Getting An Overhaul, May Not Be In Stores Now

Did we just blow your mind with this all-black T-Mobile Dash? Besides sporting a new look, this furtively shot handset seems to confirm details we received from a tipster over the weekend. According to the source, the new phones have been seen in a few T-Mob stores across the country, and they’re sporting Windows 6.1 [...]

Nokia Gold Arte 8800 Says Gold is Not Enough

You probably weren’t expecting yet another luxury model of Nokia’s long-lived 8800 fashionphone, right? Well, the company continues to prove its dedication to the crazily expensive slider with its newest model, the Gold Arte. This precious puppy is dipped in 18-carat gold and has white leather on the front and back — just in case [...]

AndNav2 Brings Turn-by-Turn Navigation To The European Android Jet Set

Although G1 users have that sweet compass-based Street View implementation, we haven’t heard much about turn-by-turn nav on Android until now — AndNav2 is a new alpha app that uses OpenStreetMap data to get you where you’re going. It’s currently supported in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy — apparently [...]

IE Mobile 6 Cooked into Custom ROM For HTC Touch HD

While Microsoft won’t be handing it out as an update for your WinMo 6 device, ROM cookers are making Internet Explorer Mobile 6 available now. Paul over at MoDaCo has built a custom ROM for the HTC Touch HD that includes IE Mobile 6 — that’s “6 on 6″ as they say. Unfortunately, it’s only [...]

Samsung’s Android Phone Hitting Sprint And T-Mobile By June

Without a doubt, 2009 is destined to be the year of The Android. Samsung just announced its ticket to the party with a Q2 launch of its Android phones on both Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile in the US. Apparently, the touch-screen device will be an adaptation of the Omnia (Korea’s 800 x 480 pixel version [...]