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HTC TyTN II Smartphone

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HTC TyTN II

We recently featured the HTC Advantage 7501 Smartphone/UMPC, but HTC is hardly a one-trick pony (ahem!), and one of their very latest products is the HTC TyTN II smartphone. Before we get into the slew of features, just take a look at how cool the screen tilts up towards you once you slide the full QWERTY keypad out. That’s wicked.

Now, let’s talk features. As the name suggests, the TyTN II is the sequel to the already cool TyTN. It’s thing is connectivity, and it has it all – HSDPA/UMTS, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. TyTN runs Windows Mobile 6, which I have to admit has gotten better over the years. So anyway, Win Mobile means you get Office Mobile apps like Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and since you’ve got the slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, dealing with those types of productivity apps won’t be such a pain in the neck. It’ll be more about working than just reading on the 240×320 QVGA touch screen.

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Light Charms replace Cell Phone Rings

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Light Charms

Replace your cell phone‘s ringtone or vibration mode with a light charm that flashes when your phone ‘rings‘. Perfect for noisy places or where cell phone rings just aren’t welcome. For only $12, you can get either the mini lightbulb or the mini lava lamp, both or which come in multiple colored lights.

About the only drawback is that they’re only available for 1800/1900MHz GSM phones. Here’s hoping the manufacturer is on track to produce some for phones on CDMA networks.

Gimme!

Price: $11.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Unlocking the iPhone

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There have been a few stories in the news lately about how you can unlock the iPhone to work on something other than the AT&T network. As I’m fond of saying, it was just a matter of time. Now the stories. First up is 17-year George Hotz who spent 2 months with a soldering iron and some niche software to do the job.

A group called iPhoneSimFree claims to be the first to develop a software-based method to unlocking the iPhone.

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The gPhone from Google is a Go

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According to one blogger‘s inside source at Google, the ‘gPhone‘ (not its actual name), or Google smartphone is for real, and could potentially be out in Q1 2008. Here are some of the features that it’s speculated to have: Google Maps with GPS, Google Talk, VoIP, Gmail, Google Productivity Apps, essentially all of the Google Suite. It’s supposed to be based on a modified Linux kernel (sweet!). I wasn’t crazy about the iPhone, although the touchscreen is really nice, and the browser makes surfing the web on a phone painless. However, hand me a Linux-based device that will be hacked to kingdom come, and I’ll jump at that.

There is (has been) a lot of speculation that Google is/isn’t going to jump into the smartphone business, and my take is that they will. Why not? Considering that something like 90% of their income is from online advertising, what happens if that market drops out from under them? They need to diversify, and what better way to get people seeing their ads than having them be connected to their site and apps all of the time?

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Review: nxZEN nX6000 Bluetooth Headset

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nX6000
I recently tested out both the nX6000 (pictured) and the nxZEN 5000 VoIP for use with my Palm Treo 700P. This will primarily be a review of the 6000, as I had too many issues with the nxZEN VoIP. I’ll draw comparisons between both models from time to time. Gennum’s nxZEN line of bluetooth headsets offers noise-cancelling as their primary distinguishing feature, and of course offers many of the typical features as other BT headsets.

Intro: For starters, I was impressed by the packaging of the nX6000, which did not include any blister packaging (something I really look for now). The 6000 came with a USB and a car charger, an adaptor for turning the USB cable into a wall-powered charger, manual, different sized ear hooks and earbuds, and a very useful plastic quick reference card. Every gadget company out there should consider including quick reference cards with their products.

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Chloe Dao Collection by Pacific Design

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Pacific Design iPhone Case Mobile technology case manufacturer, Pacific Design and Fashion Designer, Chloe Dao, announce the launch of the Chloe Dao Collection by Pacific Design. Effortless style that combines classic shape and modern sensibility is the design philosophy of Chloe Dao, winner of “Project Runway” Season 2. Dao has partnered with Pacific Design to create exclusive fashion mobile technology cases for men and women that feature clean lines, bold patterns, and vibrant colors.

The Chloe Dao Collection by Pacific Design includes Apple® iPhone cases, Motorola® RAZR™ cases, universal cell phone cases, laptop portfolios, Apple iPod® cases for nano and Video, DVD cases and a mobile technology handbag. There are three Chloe Dao fashion prints to choose from: Retro, a bright psychedelic floral; Small heels, a houndstooth pattern made up of white stiletto heels which gives this classic a new twist; and Pinstripe, a unisex print that’s strong, colorful and bold.

The Chloe Dao Collection by Pacific Design is available now on www.pacificdesign.com and www.ebags.com.The collection will be available at major retailers including Circuit City in Fall 2007 and will range in price from $19.99 to $29.99.

Get Your iPhone Clone On

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Don’t want to spend $600 on an iPhone, get locked into a 2 year contract and/or get stuck on AT&T’s network? Then how about getting an iPhone clone, like the CECT P168 or the Meizu miniOne? The tech product cloning business in China is alive and well and improving by the day to the point where they are taking popular gadgets and not only making models that look and work like the originals, but add features to them as well. Popular Science writer, Dan Koeppel, did an in-depth article on the subject, even going to China to talk with some of these very companies.

Here is a video of the CECT P168 where the narrator examines some of the features of this good-looking clone. Notice how it has 6 speakers and it looks like it probably has a removable battery and better still, is a tri-band phone.

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HTC Advantage 7501 SmartPhone/UMPC

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HTC Advantage 7501

The HTC Advantage 7501 is the answer for those that want a smartphone that has a larger than average screen with a larger than average QWERTY keyboard. It’s smaller than a UMPC, but considerably larger than your typical handset, even the run of the mill smartphone, like a Blackberry, Treo or typical Win Mobile phone. Take a look at the pic to see what’s cool about the 7501 – the keyboard slides out at an angle to the screen so you can type normally while viewing the screen at a decent angle. Pretty cool.

The HTC Advantage is chock full of features: it sports an Intel PXA270 chip running at 624MHz with a separate ATI Graphics Chip; it runs Windows Mobile 6, and has both IE and Opera installed; 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM, 8GB disk; a relatively large 5″ touchscreen TFT-LCD screen; HSDPA/UMTS/GSM/GPRS/EDGE Quad band capable; Bluetooth 2.0; WiFi 802.11b/g; USB 1.1; 3 megapixel camera with flash; speaker phone; GPS; miniSD slot and more.

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Motorola Going Strong With Linux on Handsets

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Back at CES when I spoke with Motorola about their Linux handsets, the rep assured me that their plans for the future included lots more Linux-based cell phones. Good news: this is turning out to be the case as Motorola has just said at LinuxWorld, no less, that within 2 years, 60% of its handsets will run Linux. Schweet.

The Razr V2, which will be available in the States in a few months, will run Linux. Motorola also has new development options, like WebUI which allows developers to produce Web 2.0 pages with AJAX for their Linux platform, called MOTOMAGX.

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VITO FindMe – Geolocate Your Windows Mobile Friends

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Just 2 days ago, we posted about the Sprint/loopt GPS service to help you find your friends. Just ran across a similar service from an outfit called VITO, called VITO FindMe. It’s a free GPS app that helps you find your friends by sending an SMS. Here’s how it works. You install the FindMe app on your phone, set up a codeword that you give to your friends. When they want to ‘find you’, they send you a special SMS with that codeword, and they’ll get an SMS response with your coordinates. They can punch those coordinates into Google Maps to see where you are.

Definitely a whole lot more involved than the Sprint/loopt service. VITO FindMe only works on Windows Mobile 2003/5.0/6.0 Pocket PC phones with built-in GPS or attached GPS receivers.

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