Today started like any other day at CNET Towers: hellish commute, quick pop at Microsoft, fire up Twitter and get to work reporting on the latest technology news. Then we got a load of giffgaff. giffgaff is O2’s crazy crowdsourced pay as you go mobile phone network, which replaces customer support with user forums and …
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Soon we’ll be able to pop a shiny new iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS in our Tesco trolley along with our Christmas turkey. Tesco has announced it will start selling the iPhone in its phone shops and online through Tesco Direct. Tesco Mobile uses the O2 network, so the Tesco iPhone may suffer from the lack of network coverage many …
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Why spend upward of $100 on a navigation app when CoPilot’s on sale for $20? At $34.99, ALK’s CoPilot Live North America is already one of the least-expensive navigation apps in the iTunes App Store. At $19.99, it’s an outright steal. That’s the deal ALK is offering this holiday weekend, and you can grab it starting right now. CoPilot Live …
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Rumors about me are just rumors. Corinne Schulze/CNET Almost as soon as the iPhone debuted on AT&T back in 2007, rumors started swirling that the popular touch-screen handset would head to Verizon Wireless as soon as AT&T’s exclusivity ended. And since then, as AT&T’s network has struggled to keep up with the demands of iPhone users, the rumor has only …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Behold 2 vs. HTC Droid Eris 4:04 With four Android phones in its stable, T-Mobile remains the Google Android leader. Its latest model is the Samsung Behold II, which offers a brilliant display and one of the best media players we’ve seen on an Android phone so far. But just a week earlier, and the …
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Three quarters of mobile Web browsing in the UK is performed on an Apple device, according to new figures. Mobile Web-advertising agency AdMob reckons that the iPhone and iPod touch do 74 per cent of the mobile browsing in the UK, and 60 per cent across the world. What is AdMob? AdMob, recently bought by Google, serves graphical banner and …
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Wireless broadband provider Clearwire said late Tuesday that it is has racked up another $920 million in debt to help it finance the deployment of its nationwide 4G wireless network. The company had already nabbed $1.85 billion of senior secured notes due in 2015 to help it pay off an existing $1.4 billion debt payment. In total, Clearwire has raised …
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On Apple’s iPhone discussion boards, people are complaining about a bug in iPhone OS 3.1.2 that causes the iPhone to search for service at random times. According to the 3.1.2, Searching for Service thread on the forums, people are blaming the problem on the iPhone OS because users are seeing the same problem on AT&T in the U.S. and on …
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Wikkiti wikkiti waaaahhh!!!!!! Move aside DJ Hero, you’re through here. There’s nothing we like better than scratching out some mad beats on our duck-egg blue iPod covers. It’s pretty suhweet. If you’re after something for the music fan in your life this Christmas, then you can’t go past these quaint little iPod cases (and wallets) from QuietDoing. Prices start at …
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This 99-cent app serves up a wealth of free Redbox rental codes. Good news for fans of Redbox movie-rental kiosks: the new Redbox app (free) lets you browse and reserve movies and find the kiosk nearest you. Cool. Better news for Redbox fans: the new Red Box Free Rental Promo Codes app (from third-party developer Neese) means you may never …
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One year after the introduction of the T-Mobile G1, three of the top-four carriers in the United States are offering Google Android handsets. And with each model bringing something new and unique to the market, everything is rosy, right? Not so fast. While differentiation is one of the key benefits behind Android, it’s leading to fragmentation. Thus, one of the …
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For almost ten years, the name TiVo has been synonymous with digitally recording television the United States, and yet Australian TiVo representatives no longer want you to think of their product as a video recorder. With a variety of new TiVo services on the way, they would like you to think of it as a central media hub, thank you …
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Pantech’s kooky Impact is now available at AT&T. The phone was announced last month at the fall CTIA show. The Impact has a unique design that’s quite unlike the Pantech Reveal. On the exterior you’ll see a touch keypad with vibrating feedback and a small display that lets you access a limited number of menu options. Inside is a full …
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Nokia announced two new slider handsets at its Finnish headquarters Tuesday. We don’t know exactly which markers will get the phones first, but models include support for North American cellular networks. The 6700 Slide is a variation of the previously announced Nokia 6700 classic. It comes in six bright colors: aluminum, pink, blue, red, lime, and purple. Its features include …
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HP This post was updated on 11/24, 12:33 p.m., PT with pricing after rebate. Well, here’s a name we haven’t heard in the smartphone space for a while, HP. The company announced on Tuesday the upcoming availability of its latest smartphone, the HP iPaq Glisten, which will arrive in the “coming weeks” for AT&T and cost $179.99 with a two-year …
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