Not to be announced so soon, the Motorola MOTOSPLIT is leaked with 2-way sliding design to form a QWERTY keyboard at 2 side. According to source at Android Community, the MOTOSPLIT is planned for Q3 released for At&T and comes with a similar specifications as the Motorola Backflip.The keyboard keys are inset and probably have […]
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The verdict’s still out on whether or not it’ll live up to its namesake, but the HTC Incredible is now officially out in the wild and surfing on Verizon’s frequencies. Pocketnow managed to obtain a few details along with a batch of leaked photos and video, so here’s what we’re being told: Snapdragon processor, Android 2.1 with Sense UI, 256MB of RAM, optical mouse pointer, and dual LED flash for the camera. The screen’s about 3.5 or 3.7 inches, WVGA resolution and possibly AMOLED. Traditionally shaky video reveal after the break.
[Thanks, Ray]
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A Power Point marketing slide, purportedly showing a number of T-Mobile phones with March release dates, has leaked to the web. Notables include the HTC HD2 (3/24), Moto Cliq XT (3/10). and the Nokia Nuron (3/17).
While the slide deals in unconfirmed data, the release dates and phones mentioned are completely within reason. Case in point, sites like TMO News, from whence this slide came, have been getting rumors and tips abound in recent months that hinted the Nuron and XT, at least, were due out in March.
Well, there’s that, and the fact that I very much doubt there’s some troll out there who’s purposefully leaking false release dates about Motorola and Nokia phones on the T-Mobile network. I could be wrong. [PPC Geeks via TMO News]
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The first installment of Google’s fancy Nexus One design series focused on the sound quality of the device, and on the overall design. Well, part two is here now, and this time, we get to watch while HTC project manager Tomasz Hasinki and Android software engineer Romain Guy give us the goods on the Nexus One’s OLED display and the interactive, 3D framework. We’re expecting a couple more videos in the series, so grab a very tiny bowl of popcorn (it’s pretty short) and check out the video, which is after the break.
Continue reading Nexus One video series, part two: Google schools us on OLED displays
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This might be the best entry yet in Google’s Nexus One video series. Today’s double feature is marked by the testing and manufacturing of the device, and while the all-white facilities and assembly lines can be interesting in their own right, we love nothing more than seeing just how Google and HTC stress test its labor of love. Watch it dropped, slammed, bent, poked, and detonated — okay, maybe not detonated, and we unfortunately don’t get to see any phones crack, but it’s still good fun. The big game’s not on yet, so give yourself a few minutes and hit up the two short videos after the break.
Continue reading Watch Nexus One get built, then beaten mercilessly
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Self-described cellphone cynic and “father of Linux” Linus Torvalds decided to get a Google Nexus One the other day. And while the customer service lines may be clogged over the phone’s performance, Daddy Linux is positively pleased as punch.
Unsurprisingly, the man who invented the most popular open source operating system in the world is a “happy camper” over the fact that this cellphone runs Linux. But Linux alone wasn’t enough to get Linus on board with the rest of the smartphone crazy 21rst century, no sir. His previous phones, in fact—the ones he mostly used to “play Galaga” on long flights—also had various versions of Linux, but lacked that certain spark.
Pinch to zoom touch capability and GPS were what finally got Torvalds to commit, and commit he has. The Nexus One “is a winner” he wrote yesterday, adding that it no longer feels as though he’s forced to drag along a cellphone for “just in case” emergencies.
So, Google, as you frantically work the phones in that customer support center and stare longingly at other company’s smartphone sales, take some solace in the fact that the Father of Linux is out there, somewhere, playing games on your Linux phone. [Linus Torvalds via Laughing Squid]
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Did you blink during the Super Bowl commercial breaks? Too bad if you did, because it means you may have missed the anemic number of gadget or tech-related commercials worth talking about tomorrow at the water cooler. But! Megan Fox!
Megan Fox is an obvious choice, for obvious reasons (if she’s your thing): She had a Motoblur, and we’re a gadget blog! See? Obvious. Anyway, tweeting from a tub on her new phone, she pondered what would happen if she sent a picture of her bathing out to the world. Hijinks ensued, people were hurt, and even a gay couple somehow got distracted by the fox that is Megan Fox:
And such is the power of Fox that there were scenes that didn’t make the final cut.
Then there was Beyonce, fresh off her Grammy performance, performing again for Vizio. Surrounded by Internet memes and celebrities, Twitter and what appeared to be an army of automobile assembly line robots (hopefully not ones from Toyota), she sang and sold that company’s Via/Internet Apps technology. Think Internet on your HDTV, not because I say so or because that’s exactly what it is, but because that’s the message Vizio assaulted viewers with during the 60-second clip:
Tough love was the story for Intel’s Jeffrey the Robot. The commercial was supposedly for Intel’s Core processor line, but I know the truth: Robot uprising. It 20 years’ time we can all look back at this commercial, when poor Jeffrey was snubbed For The Last Time by his human overlords:
Lastly, there’s one we actually covered yesterday. Google. Its poignant ad about a search-happy boy in love with a French girl aired yesterday, on the Internet, which is probably fitting. We’ll revisit it again here if you missed it tonight:
Sigh.
Personally, for me the ads were a bit stale this year. Even the Bud Light beer ads, which have made me laugh out loud on occasion in years past, felt a little tired. Betty White was a standout though, and there were back-to-back ads depicting grown men in their underwear. Possibly a first there. Also a first: Seeing a two-timing baby talk about eTrade while his “milk-a-holic” girl on the side blew up his shit over a webcam.
The one Bud Light ad I will give props to, however, was their Autotune bit. It’s a stretch including here on Gizmodo, but we have a history with that app (iPhone, anyone?), and we’ll take an opportunity here to thank Budweiser for hopefully killing the tech off for good with this Super Bowl ad:
OK, I admit it, I smiled a bit watching that a second time. Guilty.
The entire crop is over at YouTube in one convenient package (Fox’s is notably absent at the moment, although they appear to be updating throughout the night).
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It looks like HTC is launching its HTC Touch HD2 similarly in Android world, comes with Android 2.1, Sense UI and 1GHz Snapdragon cpu. The leaked photos on pocketnow are also revealing a dual LED flash camera module at its back. According to pocketnow, the display screen could be AMOLED for better battery performance and […]
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Leaked as Nokia Mystic last month, the Palm-like QWERTY smartphone from Nokia is said to be Nokia C6 according to allaboutphones.nl.The Nokia C6 should be one of the model in the new Nokia C-Series line up. We should see it pretty soon on Mobile World Congress this month.
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The HTC Incredible, a leaked cellphone code name that first made the rounds back in December, is the real deal, as seen in these sneak peak pics from Pocket Now. Can you say brown? You’ll see: Updated.
Very original Zune coloring, no? Lots of contours and wacky shapes going on in the rear too (and probably a prototype placeholder, we hope).
There are some specs to go along with the leak, those being an Android 2.1 OS with HTC Sense, running on a Snapdragon CPU. A rumored 256MB of RAM accompanies a roughly 3.5-3.7″ WVGA screen (possibly AMOLED? That’s unconfirmed).
Dual LED flashes adorn the brownish backplate, and an optical mouse pointer resides down near the bottom. Thoughts?
Update: Now with video:
Now it looks red… [Pocket Now]
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Sigh.
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