Archive for June 5th, 2008
Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM
Due to exceptionally poor machine translation from the Finnish language (what gives, Google?), we really don’t know a whole heck of a lot about Wearfone’s admittedly stylish watch phone. Reportedly, similar devices have been around the concept block, but a trio of investors are hoping to actually get this one on store shelves by the year’s end. Thanks to our super-scientific methods of deciphering, we’ve determined that it will boast a touchscreen display, GSM connectivity and the ability to send / receive calls and text messages. Early reports pin the price at anywhere between €500 ($776) and €1,000 ($1,553), but that’s the price you pay for having a technologically advanced timepiece that won’t get you tarred and feathered in public.
[Thanks, Petteri]
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Filed under: Handsets, Apple
We’re just four days away from WWDC, so the rumor mill is churning at a fever pitch — and the latest context-less bits of info to emerge from the churn are these purported photos of the 3G iPhone’s touchscreens over at iLounge. Yeah, that’s touchscreens, plural — if these are to believed, Apple’s got two sizes of iPhone in store for us on Monday: a 3.2-inch model, and a smaller 2.8-inch model. Note that both of those sizes are smaller than the current iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen, which seems slightly implausible — but kinda-sorta matches up with other rumors we’ve heard, including those persistent “iPhone nano” whispers from last year. We still really doubt that Apple will shrink the iPhone’s screen size, however, and there are literally hundreds of touchscreen iPhone KIRFs these panels could have come from, so we’d say there’s a better chance this is just more hype — but we know y’all have your own ideas. Let us know in comments!
[Thanks, Sleuth]
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If Indiana Jones can come back, why not the first real handheld console? It’s a Game Boy, on a train to Philly, but it’s not one of the Game Boy Advances or even one of the ones that came after that, it’s just a Game Boy. Green screen, janky volume knob, and two hour, AA-battery-eating life. You […]
If Indiana Jones can come back, why not the first real handheld console?
It’s a Game Boy, on a train to Philly, but it’s not one of the Game Boy Advances or even one of the ones that came after that, it’s just a Game Boy. Green screen, janky volume knob, and two hour, AA-battery-eating life.
You can have your Guitar Hero for DS, or even your iPhone as a game platform. In ten years time, I highly doubt you’ll see people using those in the wild.
What’s better, the Game Boy was being played by a girl. If anyone knows who she’s, please give her my email address. I’m single, after all, and she seems to be just my type.
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Sony’s new HDTVs have another feature you’re not going to find on many other models: YouTube. Using the optional Internet Video Link, users can browse and view almost all of the content on YouTube with their remote. YouTube isn’t the only vieo content available, with other providers like AOL, Sports Illustrated, Comcast’s FEARnet and many others […]
Sony’s new HDTVs have another feature you’re not going to find on many other models: YouTube. Using the optional World wide web Video Link, users can browse and view nearly all of the content on YouTube with their remote.
YouTube isn’t the only vieo content available, with other providers like AOL, Sports Illustrated, Comcast’s FEARnet and many others contributing.
Another channel available is a custom version of Crackle, an internet video blogging portal Devin and I covered at CES, where we interviewed its number one charmer Penn from Penn and Teller.
Even if your cable gets turned off, if you’ve Internet access, at least there’s always something on.
Still want more info?
YOUTUBE™ CONTENT NOW AVAILABLE ON SONY BRAVIA® INTERNET VIDEO LINK
Wired.com and Crackle’s C-Spot Channels Also Added
NEW YORK, June 5, 2008 – Sony announced today that YouTube is the latest on the web video provider to join the company’s BRAVIA Internet Video Link service. The service went live this day providing BRAVIA World wide web Video Link users access to millions of videos on YouTube at no additional charge.
Joining YouTube are Wired.com and C-Spot, which offers original episodic short comedy series.
“Sony was one of the first to bring streaming Internet video to the television in the United States without a Computer, and now you can access one of the most popular on the internet video destinations, YouTube, on your BRAVIA Television,” stated Randy Waynick, senior vice president of Sony Electronics’ Home Products Division. “There are literally millions of videos to select from on the BRAVIA Internet Video Link service and we’ll continue to add the most compelling content available on the web.”
The BRAVIA World wide web Video Link is a small module that attaches to the back of a selection of the the company’s 2007 and 2008 BRAVIA LCD flat-panel television models. The service seamlessly streams on-demand entertainment including movies, Television programs, your favorite YouTube videos and a variety of other free content as well as news, weather and traffic informaiton via an existing Ethernet connection without the use of a computer. A broadband connection of at least 2.5 Mbps is suggested. Content is easily navigated with Sony’s Technical Emmy® award-winning Xross Media Bar™ (XMB™) user interface.
Once the Television and BRAVIA World wide web Video Link module have been purchased, videos are available at no charge, bringing content to Sony TVs not found on network or cable/satellite TV stations.
The new content adds to existing channels including Yahoo!, AOL, Sports Illustrated, blip.tv, CondéNet’s Style.com, Men.Style.com, Epicurious and Concierge.com channels, Sony Pictures’ Crackle, The Minisode Network and Inside Sony Pictures channels, FEARnet, Ford Models, SingingFool, and VideoDetective.
Sony will continue to add new content partners and increase the growing list of on-demand video content.
“The partnership with Sony helps us achieve our goal of making YouTube accessible on any screen,” said Chris Maxcy, YouTube’s partner development director. “The integration of YouTube into the TV enhances the living room entertainment experience by offering a huge number of channels for people to choose from, enabling them to watch what they want, when they want it.”
The Wired.com channel delivers exclusive, original reporting at the point where technology intersects with business, entertainment, politics, culture, science and art. Content will include Game|Life, Wired.com’s weekly web video covering the world of gaming, and AltText, a satirical commentary on technology, business, entertainment, communications and culture.
Crackle’s C-spot offers original character and story-driven episodic series.. The channel will offer series including “Hot Hot Los Angeles,” The Writer’s Room,” “Penn States,” and The Roadents.”
Sony’s BRAVIA World wide web Video Link module is currently available for about $300. It can be bought on the internet at sonystyle.com, at Sony Style® retail stores and at Sony authorized dealers across the country. The module used with a consumer’s existing broadband Internet connection is compatible with a majority of the latest 2007 BRAVIA TV models, as well many new 2008 models.
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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, O2, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
Given the carrier’s history this really comes as no surprise, but the::unwired is reporting that O2 Germany will definitely be adding the just-announced HTC Touch Pro to its lineup later this year as part of its long-running Xda line of Windows Mobile devices. Typically, Xdas have diverged from HTC’s standard designs for a given model, but it appears that O2 has stuck with the Touch Pro formula here — wisely, might we add — only swapping out the stylized rear for a more subdued soft-touch one. That already puts the carrier count for the Touch Pro in Germany at two, while most of the world’s fine nations are still at zero. Seriously uncool, guys!
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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA
 We just got our hands on Nokia’s sexy new N78, which it’s bringing to us previously Nokia-starved North Americans in full-fledged, unlocked 3.5G. The phone boasts Nokia’s new maps 2.0 app, along with pic geotagging, and of course all those N-series trimmings like WiFi and dual cameras. There’s no N-Gage support yet, but a firmware update is forthcoming. Unfortunately for us, we’d trouble getting geotagging or even online photo uploads in general to work at all — we didn’t stoop so low as to look at the manual, but Nokia certainly has some interface kinks to work out here. Maps 2.0 is all it’s cracked up to be, and the phone tracked our walk down the block with accuracy bordering on creepiness. The keypad is a bit of a departure for Nokia, with ridges instead of full keys, but it didn’t take us long to get comfortable with. We’re less impressed with the touch sensitive “Navi wheel” on the d-pad, given Nokia’s sporadic software support and its generally janky nature. The overall build of the device is classic Nokia, light but not too light, certainly not too thin but quite comfortable to use and pocket. We had no problem reading the screen in direct sunlight, and it’s bright indoors as well. Though we can’t recommend this unit without reservation, it’s certainly one of the hottest phones for its form factor going, and once Nokia spruces up the new software a bit — S60 3.2’s new transitions are nice but aren’t quite enough to make up for the shortcomings — our gripes will be pretty much non-existant.
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Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM, HSDPA, UMTS
MOMODESIGN (of all random companies) has released a new pivoting clamshell equipped with a spec sheet that actually seems to be plenty competitive with some of the world’s ideal fashion phones. At the top of the list has to be the integrated DVB-H tuner, but we’ve also got 3.6Mbps HSDPA, triband GSM (850 left out, of course), a 2 megapixel camera, and a QVGA internal display. If you want to sit back, rest, and enjoy a tiny boob tube, that internal display happily twists 180 degrees to become the external display, tucking away the 96 x 64 OLED external screen for another time. Not bad, but we’ll get over the fact that we’ll never see it in North America, we think.
[Via oled-display.net]
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Filed under: Handsets, ATT, Apple, OS X
 As we inch towards the towering precipice of WWDC 2008, rumors swirling around Apple’s next iteration of the iPhone are being deposited onto the interblogs at an alarming rate. The latest set comes in three distinct flavors, the first of which recalls an earlier story that telcos would be offering subsidies for long-term contract signers. According to separate sources, Spain’s Telefonica and the UK’s O2 would offer the 3G iPhone at discounted rates (as low as €100) for those willing to put pen to paper, while some are claiming that O2 might also offer a “free” upgrade to the new phone for existing users. In other pot-stirring news, iDealsChina is reporting that the phone will suddenly be 2.0mm shorter and 0.5mm thinner than previously spec’d by Griffin in its new casing molds, thus causing all kinds of trouble for the accessory-maker… and people with big hands. Finally, we have the ability to safely report that AT&T has run out of stock of the device on the web (finally joining Apple). The site claims it’s a “temporary” situation — one which we suspect will be rectified by the appearance of a new model. Time to get in that line?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Read - Telefonica to be sole distributor of 3G iPhone in Spain for 100 euro
Read - Rumour: O2 plans free iPhone 3G upgrade and pay-as-you-go
Read - iPhone 3G last minute size change!
Read - AT&T iPhone page
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Filed under: Handsets, ATT, Apple, OS X
As we inch towards the towering precipice of WWDC 2008, rumors swirling around Apple’s next iteration of the iPhone are being deposited onto the interblogs at an alarming rate. The latest set comes in three distinct flavors, the first of which recalls an earlier story that telcos would be offering subsidies for long-term contract signers. According to separate sources, Spain’s Telefonica and the UK’s O2 would offer the 3G iPhone at discounted rates (as low as €100) for those willing to put pen to paper, while some are claiming that O2 might also offer a “free” upgrade to the new phone for existing users. In other pot-stirring news, iDealsChina is reporting that the phone will suddenly be 2.0mm shorter and 0.5mm thinner than previously spec’d by Griffin in its new casing molds, thus causing all kinds of trouble for the accessory-maker… and people with large hands. Finally, we have the ability to safely report that AT&T has run out of stock of the device on the internet (finally joining Apple). The site claims it’s a “temporary” situation — one which we suspect will be rectified by the appearance of a new model. Time to get in that line?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Read - Telefonica to be sole distributor of 3G iPhone in Spain for 100 euro
Read - Rumour: O2 plans free iPhone 3G upgrade and pay-as-you-go
Read - iPhone 3G last minute size change!
Read - AT&T iPhone page
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