Archive for April, 2008
Telstra kills off CDMA, completes migration to GSM
Filed under: Telstra, GSM, UMTS, CDMA
Oh, come on, Qualcomm, show a little emotion; shed a tear or something! After some two years of planning and urging legacy customers to migrate, Australia’s Telstra has flipped a big, red, scary-looking switch somewhere, sending its CDMA network into darkness, n…
Remote-controlled whiteboard hack is as practical as it is pretty
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Sure, there’s plenty of hackery going on with interactive whiteboards these days, but that doesn’t mean plain old marker-based boards have been left out of the fun completely, as evidenced by this latest contraption devised by Sprite_tm. As you can see in the video after t…
Verizon to launch Samsung Glyde on May 9
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, EDGE, CDMA
We’ve learned from a trusted source that one of the jewels in Verizon’s summer 2008 crown, the Samsung Glyde, will finally freaking launch on May 9. Despite a wealth of both in-the-wild and press quality photography of the phone over the p…
Unknown Fujitsu LifeBook tablet spotted in Germany
Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
It looks like Fujitsu has itself a new tablet in the cooker. This here LifeBook Tablet PC was spotted recently in Germany, and is running one of those super-small P-series processors from Intel, the Core 2 Duo P8400. The laptop sports a 13.3-inch passive digitizer di…
Fanatec intros wireless Porsche 911 Turbo Racing Wheel
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Sorry Mario, but your Wii Wheel just got lapped, backed over and left in the dust. Heck, even the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel looks toyish propped up next to this. Then again, neither of the previously mentioned accessories will put a $349.99 hole in your bank acc…
T-Mobile rolling out 3G tomorrow in New York, sorry New Jersey
Filed under: Cellphones
Our best friends at T-Mobile are getting set to roll out 3G in New York soon — real soon, as was previously expected. New York will launch on May 1, to be exact, according to TmoNews.com. That’s, like, tomorrow. The leaked document promises T-Mobile customers the “great call…
HTC Diamond screen shots floating around?
Filed under: Handsets, Software, HTC, Windows Mobile
As we hurl headlong toward HTC’s May 6 date with destiny, the Diamond is looking more and more like the headlining act for the unveiling — but what’s it gonna look like when they turn it on? Screen shots of a purported Diamond have turned up on C…