2011
iPhone 5 Launches November 21st, Says UK Phone Retailer
Conventional wisdom has held that the next iPhone won’t ship until September, at Apple’s annual iPod event. That’s three months later than Apple’s historic iPhone release cycles would suggest.
Tablets, Dual-Core Phones and 3-D Cameras: 2011’s Hottest Gadget Trends
(via)ey, Rocky! Watch me pull a 3-D TV out of my hat!
That trick never works, you’ll groan, and the consumer electronics industry will respond: “This time for sure!”
2010
Lookout Mobile Security is a great free antivirus for Android
(via)An Android device is a sensitive thing; it’s hooked up to your Google account, and there are tons of apps out there. While Android does let you know what an app will be able to access (“SD Card” etc.), it has no built-in mechanism for telling the genuinely useful applications from the ones that are out to get you.
Mozilla Labs dreams of projected keyboard phone
(via)Mozilla Labs is touting a phone-of-the-future that would project a keyboard onto tabletops and read keystrokes with infrared sensors.
HTC unveils HTC Desire HD
(via)HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today unveiled a new HTC Sense experience with the new HTC Desire HDTM and HTC Desire ZTM Android-based smartphones.
Lessons from Nokia’s fall
(via)What was the most successful European company of the 1990s? Easy. The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia. And the most disappointing one of the 2000s? Easy again. Nokia.
Delete Your Browser History
(via)Everywhere you turn these days, there’s a PC or mobile phone that you can use to access the web. But devices that aren’t yours — whether at a friend’s house or a public place like a library, hotel or a cafe — are a privacy risk, because anyone can see what you’ve done online just by checking out the web browser’s history.
Legal spying via the cell phone system
(via)Two researchers say they have found a way to exploit weaknesses in the mobile telecom system to legally spy on people by figuring out the private cell phone number of anyone they want, tracking their whereabouts, and listening to their voice mail.
2009
Moto Bling With Motorola Aura
(via)If your idea of luxury is a fine, handcrafted timepiece, then we’ve got the mobile phone for you. The Motorola Aura was inspired by luxury watches
Digital Masterpiece Nikon D3X
(via)This top of the range SLR has the X factor, by which we don’t mean that it breaks down in tears every five bloddy minutes.
Set to be huge Nokia N97
(via)What do you get if you take the touchscreen from a 5800 Xpress and slap it on a Nokia N Series mobile?
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