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Phone + bestiality = good design?
Somehow, at the 2008 Good Design Expo, Japanese company Willcom showcased a concept phone to what Forever Geek refers to as “the adoring public”. The phone is not only oversized, but in the shape of a teddy bear, and requires the user to talk into the bear’s crotch as though to give it fellatio. Fortunately, [...]
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Why Installer.app may not be dead. Yet.
The iPhone 3G has been out for one week now, and with it came the App Store, which allows iPhone users sporting the new 2.0 firmware to download a variety of applications that Apple has deemed worthy. Some of these applications cost money, others are totally free. Many of these applications happen to be duplicates [...]
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iPhone 3G sports a poor GPS.
It’s iPhone 3G release day, and the havoc out there makes it pretty clear that the activation process for new phones was far from smooth. In fact, it was so unsmooth that owners of the “old” iPhone had trouble upgrading to the iPhone 2.0 firmware because the iTunes store took a big hit and fell [...]
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Why the Motorola H700 sucks.
We bought our first Motorola bluetooth earpiece around five years ago, and after it died, we bought an H700. Selection for bluetooth earpieces wasn’t great, and everyone who used bluetooth earpieces stood behind Motorola’s quality, so we assumed that our first device dying after only a year or so of use was a fluke.
Admittedly, the [...]
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Getting an iPhone 3G sans contract: the costs.
In what should be illegal, AT&T is charging $700 for a 16GB iPhone that’s not contracted to them. Dieter Bohn pointed out at The iPhone Blog that buying a subsidized iPhone 3G at $300, then canceling service, is actually cheaper than dropping $700 outright, with the only disadvantage being a credit check and some time [...]
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