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So Nokia has a 40-odd percent stake in the world’s handset market. You know where that insanely high number isn’t coming from? Japan, where the Finnish giant holds less than a 1-percent share of phone sales as it competes against domestic models from Sharp, NEC, Fujitsu, and others who’ve traditionally ruled over FOMA with an [...]

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So you’ve read our extensive BlackBerry Storm review and, despite feeling disappointment about it not living up to the hype, can’t help but wonder just what makes the thing tick click. While we were a bit too squeamish to rip one of ours apart and find out, phoneWreck felt no qualms about turning this week’s [...]

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Dell’s Studio XPS had “winner” written all over it from the get-go. With practically every other Core i7 rig on the market catering specifically to gamers who were willing to pay a premium for an equally cutting edge GPU, this machine directed itself to everyone who just wanted to do everything but game (and do [...]

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If you’re one of the many, many BlackBerry Storm buyers who cleaned out inventories at Verizon stores on Friday, all that time spent waiting in the cold just became a bit more worthwhile. Online orders are being subject to shipping delays and, while you might think this is just another case of holiday supply versus [...]

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We can only imagine that at least a few staffers over at Art Lebedev Studios get paid to do nothing but conjure up ideas, because this one is just marvelous. And marvelously simple, but that’s beside the point. The Luxofor traffic light concept improves upon a nearly archaic design that still relies on spherical fixtures [...]

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Although the third-generation Classmate PC looked completely unprepared for the real world comin’ out of IFA, Intel has clearly hit the books during the fall term. Now, the convertible Classmate has graduated to the FCC, where we’re shown a user’s manual, label ID and a smattering of pathetic images. If you’re thinking this bugger’s just [...]

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There’s been a serious dearth of Hello Kitty-branded products these days, but the dry-spell is thankfully at an end, with the arrival of the Hello Kitty C1. The crazy cat’s apparently first-ever netbook is (as you can see in the photo) quite a looker, and it’s packing a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU with 1GB [...]

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Are you one of those thrifty-types who’s always looking for an angle, always trying to stretch every last penny? You know who we’re talking about: Montel Williams bases whole episodes around you, the kind of person who reuses tea bags and separates sheets of triple-ply paper towels. Unfortunately, it now looks like you now have [...]

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It sounds like your camera phone’s video capabilities may get exponentially more awesome in the near future. Aptina — a division of Micron that manufactures one out of every three sensors for mobile phone cameras — has announced the high resolution 5 megapixel MT9P013. There are better sensors out there already, but this one will [...]

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Recently we were sent a PR email about an iPhone app called BdEmailer. No big deal, press releases about new iPhone applications show up in our box in large bundles every day — but this one was different. According to the release, the program is the “the first wide email iPhone app [...]

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