Archive for December, 2008
Sony Ericsson W595 headed to Europe in Sandy Gold hue
Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson, GSM, EV-DO, HSDPA
If you’re looking to sprinkle just a pinch of Mr. T into your life, there’s hardly a better way than to pick up Sony Ericsson’s forthcoming Sandy Gold W595. Reportedly, the only thing changing is the color, and Europeans enamored by that can ge…
Motorola hastens layoff plans, axes 400 earlier than anticipated
Filed under: Culture, Motorola, MiscThe words “job security” and “Motorola” haven’t coexisted in a non-sarcasic manner for quite some time, and things just seem to be deteriorating by the day. Not even two full months after the flagging company announced that 3,000 employees would be sent packing, a…
Refreshed T-Mobile Dash looks more real than ever
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE
That new (well, “new” might be a stretch) Dash for T-Mobile has itself this unflattering official shot now, and we’ve got to say: the silver front worked just fine for us. If anything, the freshly-blackened handset just looks like it’s …
FLATMII streams games to your Wii, via USB
Nintendo has gone to some lengths to keep one step ahead of the modding community, but to little avail. We’ve recently seen a product that enables DVD playback on the Wii, and now we’ve been hepped to FLATMII, a device that plugs into the Wii’s drive ribbon, letting you stream ISO backups of your g…
Paid apps still coming to Android Market in Q1 ‘09, US and UK rollout first
Filed under: Software, HTC, T-Mobile, AndroidDespite a decent selection, we get the feeling Android developers have really been holding back until they can make a little money for their hard labor. Google exec Eric Chu is telling registered Android Market members via email that the rollout of paid a…
D+caf caffeine test strips makes sure your decaf is decaf
Ever wondered if that 93 octane you’re paying two arms and a leg for is really 93 octane? Pondered the legitimacy of that “homogenized and pasteurized” claim on your most recent milk purchase? If so, congratulations. You’re the target market for the D+caf caffeine test strip. Reportedly, these stri…
‘Curse of Silence’ exploit squelches inbound SMS/MMS to Nokia S60 devices
Here’s an odd one for you. Tobias Engel of the Chaos Communication Congress has discovered a rather nasty exploit that’ll cause any Nokia S60 devices running versions 2.6, 2.8, 3.0 or 3.1 to stop receiving SMS and MMS messages. The “Curse of Silence,” which has been independently verified by F-Secu…