Archive for the ‘Mobile Phones’ Category

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Motorola just released a new Android-powered phone that you don’t have to treat like a princess. Tagged as the Defy, this new smartie fits the Droid 2’s 3.7-inch, 854 x 480 touchscreen into a shell that’s built to be dustproof as well as water and scratch-resistant.

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Monday, August 30th, 2010

Moto just put out the word that if you use the leaked Android 2.2 upgrade on your Droid X, you could get stuck with the unofficial release, and you’re on your own. Meaning, there won’t be an upgrade path, so you won’t be able to get the official 2.2 patches. Not necessarily something new, although HTC did go unconventional earlier this month when they put out a special Android 2.2 update patch for those who used a leaked Android 2.2 on their EVO 4Gs.

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Monday, August 30th, 2010

First off, this phone is not the Nokia C6 (technically, also known as the “C6-00”), which was introduced back in April. Thanks to a premature posting by Nokia’s Dutch site, we got an early look at what could be a cheaper, but better-specced version called the C6-01.

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Thursday, August 26th, 2010

So here’s the story: a 27 year-old woman from the UK held the Guinness World Record for text messaging speed using a Samsung Galaxy S (aided by the Galaxy’s SWYPE keyboard) to type out a two-sentence message in under 26 seconds. Apparently, that record was still very beatable. 19 year-old Brian just posted video proof of himself beating it, typing the same sentence in under 22 seconds using an iPhone (with auto-correct off, of course), with a couple of split seconds used to both start and stop the timer himself.

The video’s after the cut, and really, you have to see it. Brian didn’t even use the iPhone’s bigger landscape keyboard. That ain’t easy. (Or maybe it’s just us. Typing “Guinness World Record” alone on the iPhone’s virtual keyboard already takes us around 15 seconds.)

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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

The Nokia N9 has been a mystery ever since photos of its aluminum-clad, MacBook-looking mug leaked out from China, but a new leak gives us a better picture of what the MeeGo phone’s going to pack under the hood.

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