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A cell phone case for reducing cell phone radiation

The Pong iPhone 4 case Pong Research Outside of the battle between iPhone fans and Android advocates, few debates in the cell phone world are more divisive than that over whether the radio frequency (RF) energy emitted by cell phones is harmful. Though the industry and some members of the scientific community insist that there …

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Sprint shortens trial period; ends Premier Program

Two small, but significant changes are coming to Sprint. And they’re not changes that we like. First off, Sprint has confirmed to PhoneScoop that it is shortening its return policy from 30 days to a mere 14 days. Of course, that means that new customers will have only two weeks to return new phones and leave service plans without incurring …

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Republicans seek answers from DOJ on AT&T merger suit

Three Republican members of Congress aren’t happy with the recent decision by the Department of Justice to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, Representatives Joe Barton (R-Tex.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and Greg Walden (R-Ore.) asked for briefings describing the specific concerns of both …

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Sprint to launch ‘major device’ by Oct. 15

Could a vacation blackout in early Ocotber mean the iPhone is coming to Sprint? SprintFeed Sprint may be prepping for “a major phone launch” by October 15, according to an internal carrier memo obtained by SprintFeed. The leaked document doesn’t detail much besides informing employees of a vacation blackout from September 30 through October 15 due to the “possibility” of …

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Motorola could offer next Facebook phone

The folks who bring you the specifications for Bluetooth may have just outed the next Facebook phone. Now visible on the Web site for the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the Motorola EX225 doesn’t look like much at first. Yet, if you peer closely at the handset’s boring candy bar design, you’ll see a dedicated Facebook button like we got …

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Why companies test phones in the wild

As CNET reported yesterday, a second unreleased Apple iPhone has gone astray. The secret device was lost at a San Francisco bar in late July, CNET reporters Declan McCullagh and Greg Sandoval wrote, and Apple quickly conducted an aggressive campaign to find it. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Remember that last year, an Apple computer engineer accidentally …

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What DOJ’s decision means for AT&T

Since late March of this year, AT&T’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile has dominated the U.S. wireless industry. Customers, outside interest groups, and government officials were quick to choose sides, but once AT&T filed its initial papers with the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice in April, the deal was put in the hands of federal …

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Samsung reveals Galaxy S LTE and Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE prior to IFA

We knew that Samsung had something up its sleeve for IFA later this week in Berlin, but the company has let the news slip a little early in a press release issued today. As expected, we’ll not only get a version of the Galaxy S II, but also we’ll see the return of the Galaxy Tab 8.9. The Galaxy S …

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iPhone won’t make or break AT&T

There’s a curious line of thinking going around that suggests that if Sprint lands the next iPhone as rumored, the handset would undercut the carrier’s push to stop the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger. As Frost & Sullivan analyst Brent Iadarola puts it in a recent CNN Money post, the win of an iPhone would “weaken Sprint’s core argument that …

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Dialed In 188: Where Bonnie is a fandroid

The lazy days of summer these are not. Just as soon we got past the Googorola news and HP’s unfortunate dismissal of WebOS, we heard the bombshell that Steve Jobs was resigning his post as Apple CEO. Though all that news does make for a few hectic days, it also means that we have a lot to discuss on Dialed …

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