When it comes to leaks in the gadget world, when it rains, it pours. In just shy of 20 days, the HTC Supersonic — an absolute beast of a phone — went from non-existent to deeply detailed and fully photographed. Whether you’ve missed a screenshot or two or just had no idea the Supersonic existed, don’t sweat it – we’ve got your back.
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Leak Roundup: HTC Supersonic for Sprint, a WiMax-fueled Android beast
Oh, who am I kidding. I’m downright giddy about Apple’s announcement tomorrow. Yes, it’s possible that we’ll just see a new iPhone operating system or an upgrade to the Apple TV but with all of the buzz this time around that would be rather surprising
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Four Years Later Will I Finally Get My Ideal UMPC?
The same day when images of Sprint’s HTC Supersonic popped up on the Web, a new photo of the HTC Bravo has appeared, too – a hands-on photo, to be precise. As previously reported, the HTC Bravo kind of resembles the Google Nexus One , although it has more hardware buttons and the trackball has been replaced with an optical trackpad. Apparently, the features of HTC Bravo include a 3.7 inch AMOLED WVGA multi-touch display, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, 512MB of RAM, 5MP camera with HD video recording , Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 1GHz processor, and Android 2.1. HTC Bravo should be available starting March, and T-Mobile UK might be among the first carriers to sell it. Komorkomania says that the new Bravo photo was sent by a reader alongside some info about the HTC Legend (nothing we didn’t know already, save for the fact that the Legend seems to have an aluminum case and a camera lens cover) – so both devices will probably be announced pretty soon.
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HTC Bravo shows its Android UI in new hands-on photo
The LogicBUY deal of the day is for a Nokia E72 Unlocked Phone (Zodium Black) [U.S. warranty] for $469.99 – $140 off coupon code (expires Jan 30 or after first 1,000 uses) = $329.99 plus FREE shipping. An improvement to the popular E71, the E72 features full-QWERTY keyboard, enhanced email and instant messaging experience, 3G, Wi-Fi, 5-megapixel camera, up to 10.2Mbps over HSDPA, 3.5 mm jack and … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: News Tagged: Deal of the Day Deal of the Day – Save $140 on a Nokia E72 Smartphone originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on January 26, 2010 at 1:34 pm
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Deal of the Day – Save $140 on a Nokia E72 Smartphone
In other news, Google has managed to bypass the App Store (and its approval process) and release its much-lauded Google Voice app to the iPhone and webOS devices via an HTML5-based web app. Per Engadget , the app should work with any HTML5-compliant device, although the formatting at this point has been tailored to Apple and Palm’s platforms. The app, which can be found at http://m.google.com/voice , caches your contacts list in a browser page and allows users to write SMS messages, check their your inbox, and, in future versions, listen to voicemails
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Google Voice (Sort of) Arrives for the iPhone
Man, these HTC Bravos are floating around everywhere. A semi-decent shot of this oh-so-Nexus-One-esque Android handset leaked just yesterday , and today another (markedly better) shot has found its way to the interwebs. Not only that, but it brought a friend! According to the whisper train, HTC was showing off the Bravo at a gathering of some sort in Poland
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HTC Bravo caught on camera (again), HTC Legend caught in words
Being in my mid to late thirties, I can remember life before mobile phones . So it never fails to amuse me when I hear from people, who are of a similar age to me, who have to be parted from their phones for a few days. It amuses me, not because I enjoy seeing people upset, but it invokes in me the thought of how we used to cope before mobile came into being
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Can you live without your mobile phone?
Regardless of how annoying he might be, David Blaine’s TEDMED talk on how he set the world record for holding his breath underwater for 17 minutes is pretty phenomenal. Definitely interesting to see the different ways he thought of to do it as an illusion, using various technological methods and DIY gadgets, before finally deciding that he would do it for real. This one is definitely worth watching, and also worth not trying at home. It’s kind of ridiculous.
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David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 minutes
Found under: iphone , apple , palm , webos , google voice , html5 , Google has launched a new HTML5 powered Google Voice Application for iPhone and Palm Smartphones. It will provide a richer faster web-based experience to users having devices that are running iPhone 3.0 software and above or Palm webOS. HTML5 is a new web technology that provides more flexibility and interoperability and enables more interactive and exciting websites and applications.The new Google Voice App.
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HTML5 powered Google Voice App. available for iPhone & Palm Smartphones
Remember the HTC A9292 , rumored to hit Sprint as one of its first WiMAX phones? The A9292 might be the HTC Supersonic, recently appeared in two images – a live photo and a rendering. Reportedly, the HTC Supersonic is an Android 2.1 smartphone that has features similar to the ones of the Windows Mobile-based HTC HD2: 4.3 inch WVGA touchscreen display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 1GB of internal memory (like T-Mobile’s HD2 ), and a 5MP autofocus camera. A notable difference (besides the different OS) is that the Supersonic has an OLED display, instead of a TFT one. Here’s what the HTC Supersonic looks like: It’s said that Sprint will launch the HTC Supersonic in March this year
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Sprint’s HTC Supersonic WiMAX Android phone in clear photos
Inspired by the most useless machine , Karel decided to make a clone using Lego and some switches. Also, this hadn’t occurred to me until now, but this kind of machine could actually be used as a time delay, in the same manner as a monostable multivibrator . Maybe it could be used to debounce a giant switch? Read more | Permalink | Comments | Digg this!
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Most useless Lego machine
This dude is Hans Christian Ørsted, whose 1820 discovery that electric current produced magnetic fields was, supposedly, entirely accidental: He was preparing a voltaic pile for a lecture demonstration and there happened to be a compass lying nearby. He has become a sort of mascot for the Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results (JSUR) , a new open-access journal initiative that hopes to provide a forum for life and computer scientists to publish results they lucked into and maybe can’t fully explain. From their website: Can you demonstrate that: * Technique X fails on problem Y. * Hypothesis X can’t be proven using method Y. * Protocol X performs poorly for task Y.
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Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results
UWB’s fate is pretty much tied to that of Certified Wireless USB , which is only communication protocol that still depends on the said radio technology. While there are already several WUSB devices, from video / audio adapters to hard drives and docking stations , on the market, the adoption rate is a far cry from that of other USB standards. The performance of these wireless peripherals is quite discouraging with real-world transfer rate averaging at just around 15MB/s. Native WUSB hosts can remove some overhead, and likely provide some speed boost, but significant improvement will only come with new specs, just like USB 3.0 . WiMedia Alliance , believed to be in the process of disbanding, has released version 1.5 of the common radio platform specs, which in a nutshell defines the foundation for Wireless USB.
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UWB Now Becomes a Gigabit Specs, Benefits only WUSB
Here’s one for my fellow tea enthusiasts. It’s the TeaSub submarine shaped tea infuser. It’s made of dishwasher safe silicone and looks cute as a button. I can’t find it for sale on any sites though. If you find one, let me know and I’ll update this post
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Dive Dive! Submarine Tea Infuser
Google wanted to launch a Google Voice app for iPhone since last year , but Apple didn’t approve the application. Well, Goolge has found a way around the problem and today announced that Google Voice is available for iPhone (OS 3.0 or higher) and Palm WebOS, as a web-based (HTML5) application.
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Google Voice web app launched for iPhone, WebOS (video)
Pageonce has quietly built a solid business by aggregating its user’s various online accounts into one place. They’ve got over 1.3 million registered users and recently raised a $6.5 million Series B round . And though Pageonce hardly gets neither the fame nor the fortune of its competitor (Mint) , it is still a very solid way to manage your online accounts. Unlike Mint, which focuses on personal finances, Pageonce’s goal is to provide you with a one-stop view of all of your online accounts, including financial, travel, e-mail and social networking. Though a single web interface for all of those accounts may be unnecessary, it is a perfect service for mobile devices.
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Frequent Flyers Rejoice: TripTracker Automagically Brings Your Travel Details to Your iPhone
Today, Google is rolling out a new version of their Google Voice web app, leveraging HTML5, which enables Palm Pre and Apple iPhone users to have a more rich user experience. We know, we know, it isn’t a native app… but the interface looks pretty darn good. The new web app facilitates all the functions you would expect out of Google Voice, you can: place calls, send text messages, read or listen to voicemails, and adjust your account settings.
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Google Voice web app updated for Pre and iPhone
Although we still don’t know what the Microsoft Zune phone looks like (or when exactly it will be finally announced), it seems that the device has been (sort of) confirmed by Microsoft itself. A new Zune software update (v. 4.2.202.0) was recently released by Microsoft, alongside a Zune.inf file that’s “responsible for associating devices with the Zune driver.” According to I started something , said .inf file contains references to what look to be Zune phones – and there are actually three different hardware IDs listed (apart from hardware IDs for the latest-generation Zune media players). So Microsoft might launch not one, but three Zune phones, most likely based on Windows Mobile 7
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“Zune phone” references coming straight from Microsoft
The Microsoft Zune is undergoing scheduled maintenance that started early this morning at 1:00 a.m. EST. This isn’t terribly big news unless you are a Zune user. 3 phone profiles being found in the Zune.inf file of the maintenance release, is, however, kind of big… Especially since Microsoft has repeatedly stated that they had no plans to add mobile phone to the Zune since before the original Zune came out
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Is Microsoft Soon To Release A Zune “Phone”?
Its eyes blink with data transfer . Spotted first on my Sunday scroll through the CRAFT Flickr pool . Image/video after the jump to protect delicate sensibilities. As Mark Frauenfelder, Editor-in-chief of MAKE, wrote in 2006 about a similar project: Taxidermy is an ancient craft but contemporary concerns about using animals to make things are worthy of discussion
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Taxidermied mouse flash drive
Apple’s event in San Francisco tomorrow could ultimately prove to be more than just a routine product launch or the exciting update of a familiar mobile device. Tomorrow’s event at the Yerba Buena center could be a game changer for the mobile marketing industry. Is that an exaggeration?
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Will Apple’s Tablet Change The Future of Mobile Marketing?