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Filed under: Cellphones
As previously foreseen, the UTStarcom Sidekick knock-off Quickfire, also known as the Knick, is now available online and in AT&T stores. It’s quite a deal for new subscribers — .99 with a 2-year contract, mail-in rebate (ugh) and promotion card — or 9.99 without any of those discounts. In case your memory stinks, [...]

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Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio

We’re digging this classic recording studio look, which is a throwback to Blue’s history with stylized Hi-Fi microphones. These guys started to build a bridge between their old stomping grounds and the new-to-them frontier of consumer electronics with the Snowball microphone and that Icicle USB XLR adapter we saw today, and [...]

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

While the iPhone has an on-again off-again relationship with the Chinese market, seemingly unable to commit to that most populous of nations, unlocked HTC G1s are said to be selling like gangbusters there, a tidbit that surely didn’t escape HTC’s notice. By the sound of it the company is ready to make [...]

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Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming

We’ve seen a few accessories for augmenting the gaming experience on the iPhone which would give the device awesome functions similar to a game controller, such as the elusive and yet-to-materialize iControlPad and the totally fake JoyPod. Well, Marware’s Game Grip is sort of like that — silicone sleeves that your phone [...]

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Filed under: Cellphones, GPS

Man, a lot — a lot — has happened in the mobile space since Garmin went public with its then-mesmerizing nüvifone. Nearly a year later, it’s become but a blip on the radar behind the Touch HD, G1, XPERIA X1 and iPhone 3G. Nevertheless, Garmin has come out and reaffirmed that the [...]

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Filed under: Cellphones

Well, now isn’t this something? Best Buy has its fancy little iPhone 3G, but it’ll be Wally World offering up the G1 outside of official T-Mobile outlets. As we’d heard yesterday, 550 Walmart stores across the country will begin selling the Android-powered handset beginning tomorrow, and folks who opt to pick one up [...]

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Here’s a secret they didn’t tell you when you bought a 3G iPhone: One of its best features—the ability to run new applications found on iTunes—is also possible on the old iPhone with an easy software upgrade. Plus, you can hack your first-gen to run unofficial apps alongside the sanctioned ones (known as “jailbreaking” the [...]

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With tales of iPhone 3G horror abounding on the Web, I figured I was just lucky.

Since Apple dropped an iPhone 3G into my hands just over a month ago, I had experienced none of the problems that have plagued so many other users. I didn’t have dropped calls …
The Rest Of The Story at Popular [...]

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“Not up to Apple’s standards.” Typically those words, when they’re uttered within Apple (AAPL), refer to Microsoft (MSFT) or another of the company’s rivals. But not today. Today, they refer to Apple’s MobileMe service. In an all-hands memo clearly designed to be leaked to the media, Apple CEO Steve Jobs admitted what anyone who has [...]

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Just as important as the advent of a 3G iPhone is the opening of the iPhone Apps Store. Here are our three favorite apps that transform the way these devices work, all for the cool price of on the house.

The Rest Of The Story at Popular Mechanics Magazine [...]

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