Monthly Archives: October 2008

Alltel delves into the touch-screen phone game

The Delve offers a touch-screen phone. (Credit: Samsung) Alltel is the winner of a new touch-screen phone from Samsung. The Samsung Delve, aka the r800, offers a thin candy bar design with an expansive touch screen and few physical keys. … Continue reading

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AT&T starts selling the Pantech Slate

(Credit: Pantech) The Pantech Slate, which AT&T claims is the world’s thinnest QWERTY mobile phone, officially met the public when AT&T started selling the handset Wednesday. No word from AT&T yet how many units it has sold, but when your … Continue reading

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LG VX5500 now on sale on Verizon

LG VX5500 (Credit: Verizon Wireless) Verizon and LG have just released a flip camera phone, dubbed the LG VX5500. The VGA camera isn’t great, but for an entry-level phone, it’s not bad. You get all the basic cell phone features, … Continue reading

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Napster Mobile expands its service

Napster Mobile expands its service (Credit: Napster) Napster and AT&T announced today that Napster Mobile is now available to more than 13 million AT&T customers. As part of AT&T Mobile Music, Napster Mobile is now available on more than 25 … Continue reading

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BlackBerry Storm gets hip LA launch party

Foo Fighters performing at Wednesday's LA launch party for the BlackBerry Storm. (Photo taken with a BlackBerry Curve.) (Credit: Ina Fried/CNET News ) HOLLYWOOD, Calif.–The BlackBerry Storm got its chance to be a child star Wednesday as Research In Motion … Continue reading

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Review: iHome's tiny iHM77 capsule speakers have a magnetic personality but don't sound so good

(Credit: iHome) More companies are making tiny, portable speakers that plug into the headphone jack of your iPod, iPhone, music player, or laptop so you can enjoy your music while you’re on the road. Like Altec Lansing’s Orbit MP3 iM237, … Continue reading

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Memeo photo sharing comes to Mac, iPhone

(Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET Networks) If you didn’t lose all of your photos with the shutdown of Digital Railroad and you still want to share them, it just got easier. Memeo, a company that offers digital media management services, announced Wednesday … Continue reading

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Alltel delves into the touch-screen phone game

The Delve offers a touch-screen phone. (Credit: Samsung) Alltel is the winner of a new touch-screen phone from Samsung. The Samsung Delve, aka the r800, offers a thin candy bar design with an expansive touch screen and few physical keys. … Continue reading

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AT&T starts selling the Pantech Slate

(Credit: Pantech) The Pantech Slate, which AT&T claims is the world’s thinnest QWERTY mobile phone, officially met the public when AT&T started selling the handset Wednesday. No word from AT&T yet how many units it has sold, but when your … Continue reading

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T-Mobile's G1 now unlockable

(Credit: Android Community) So let’s say you want the fancy G1, the T-Mobile phone that runs Android, the Google OS, but you don’t want to use it on T-Mobile. Let’s say you wanted to use it on AT&T. We have … Continue reading

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Bang & Olufsen hangs up on cell phone biz

The last Bang & Olufsen cell phone (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks) Apparently even Bang & Olufsen is feeling the effects of the sour economy. The Danish company, which has a built a reputation as a purveyor of high-end electronics, is … Continue reading

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Seagate Showcase DVR expander certified for Pace boxes

(Credit: Seagate) There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Pace, but back in April, the company–a developer of cable and satellite set-top box digital video recorders–acquired the set-top box and connectivity solutions business of Royal Philips Electronics. That fact … Continue reading

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Red BlackBerry Pearl Flip now available at T-Mobile

(Credit: T-Mobile) A short, but sweet, news bulletin for BlackBerry fans: on Wednesday, T-Mobile announced the immediate availability of the red RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone. It joins the black version, which has been on sale since October 13. … Continue reading

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CMEL shows 25-inch paper-thin OLED display

A Taiwanese display maker just one-upped Sony on the Japanese electronics giant’s home turf. At the FPD International Exhibition in Japan Wednesday, Chi Mei EL, or CMEL, unveiled its OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display that measures less than a millimeter … Continue reading

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