Like watching dogs on skateboards on your phone? Of course you do. And now it’s even quicker to get your comedy canine fix, thanks to a new mobile YouTube website that’s been prettied up to work more like the desktop version and be easier to use on touchscreen phones. It’s already up and running in the US, and …
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Early adopters of Motorola Android smart phones may be feeling listless and abandoned right now, as it was revealed that the Dext and Backflip won’t be upgraded to Android 2.1. Motorola can’t blame the limitations of the hardware, as its software upgrade screen also revealed that the Backflip and the Cliq (the US name for the Dext) will be getting …
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Apple has filed a patent for technology that could enable it to ‘kill’ or shut down jailbroken iPhones, our sister site CNET.com reports. The patent covers tech that would allow Apple to detect whether somebody was doing anything it didn’t approve of with one of its haloed gadgets, such as hacking, removing a SIM card, or texting nasty jokes about …
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The new BlackBerry Torch 9800 has been listed by a retail site with a UK release date of 1 October, together with a bank-busting price-tag that makes it more expensive than the 16GB iPhone 4. Expansys is offering the long-awaited smart phone SIM-free for £570. It replaces the BlackBerry Bold as RIM’s flagship consumer phone. The first BlackBerry to offer …
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In a move that will bring high-quality — and almost certainly high-priced — sound to mobile phones, Bang & Olufsen will link up with fellow Danish firm Lumigon, whose T1 phone we had a gander at last week. “We are pleased to announce our partnership with Bang & Olufsen which will bring ICEpower audio into our products for optimal sound …
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A light-fingered lady from Manchester has broken the world record for the world’s fastest text message, typing using the touschreen text system Swype on a Samsung Galaxy S. Melissa Thompson wrote, “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human,” in a spectacular 25.94 …
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We still have some time to sit, drumming our fingers, before the N8 arrives in the UK, but we may have already had a glimpse of Nokia’s next super phone — the N9. Pictures were leaked from the Chinese website Baidu and picked up by Engadget which showed what looks like a prototype of the new Qwerty-keyboard sliding N9. The …
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HTC is reportedly working on a Chrome OS tablet, which will offer the iPad some much-needed competition before the end of the year. Before you get too excited, this information is based the words of an unnamed source who spoke to the AOL blog downloadsquad. If the rumour is true, the tablet will be built in conjunction with Verizon and …
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Carphone Warhouse appeared to have let the cat out of the bag after it put details of a mystery Qwerty phone called the HTC Desire Z — as well as the heavily leaked HTC Desire HD — on its Mobiles.co.uk website. That was until it admitted to our sister site ZDNet UK that it had culled the specs from online …
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LG will launch ten new smart phones by the end of the year, with new additions to the Optimus range chipped by Nvidia, as well as the Android tablet it previously confirmed. LG confirmed it would be using Nvidia dual-core processors for its high-end Android phones, the Wall Street Journal reports. This might be a win for both companies: Nvidia …
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