Although we were excited about its launch, we’re not exclusively about the iphone 3G here at Popgadget. We are just (okay,almost) as excited about the sexy new BlackBerry Bold, with its large screen, WiFi, GPS and, um, John Mayer endorsement. So when I saw these fabulous hand-made blackberry earrings on Etsy, I thought they would be the perfect way to declare brand loyalty until the Bold is available next month. But they’re sold out. However, there’s nothing to stop you from buying up some Fimo and making something similar yourself (using the phone or your choice as your inspiration). Nothing but the limits of your craft skills, that is… Via Shiny Shiny. (Read the full post about ‘Blackberry Bold fans wear their heart on their… ears?’…)
Cowon has announced three new portable media players to its line-up, the S9 Curve, O2 and L3. All three portable media player’s sport a touchscreen feature but each have their distinct individual features to distinguish one from another. Here’s a quick rundown of what we can expect from each of these PMP’s. First we have the S9 Curve which is said to be Cowon’s first narrow-format touchscreen player. It also boasts of being the first Cowon PMP that uses the active matrix OLED or AMOLED touchscreen display. The S9 Curve plays both audio and video files and also acts as a T-DMB tuner for live digital TV plus it also comes with an FM Radio tuner. (Read the full post about ‘Cowon intro’s the S9 Curve, O2, L3 touchscreen PMP’s’…)
If you are one of the people who jumped on the hd dvd bandwagon only to watch that wagon plunge over the cliff of technological obscurity, Paramount wants to help you ease your pain. Paramount has teamed up with Dreamworks in order to offer up to a $10 Dollar rebate on a select collection of Blu-ray movies. They way it works is that you send in the rebate certificate along with the proof of purchase of a DVD you already own, whether it is HD DVD or standard format. Then Paramount will send you a rebate when you purchase the Blu-ray upgrade of your movie.
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Along with the notebooks, file binders and pens, Verizon Wireless hopes back-to-schoolers will add its latest phone, Blitz, to their bags. Blitz’s selling point is that it has been designed for heavy texters, says Verizon. The phone has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 2.2-inch screen, mp3 player that can access Verizon’s V Cast music and a 1.3-megapixel camera. The Blitz is no iphone or blackberry, but it allows limited e-mail and web access. Users can get to their Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo e-mail accounts and get customized news, sports and weather, among other things, on their phone. It is also priced within the reach of its target audience. The phone is available in stores now for $69.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year agreement. (Read the full post about ‘Verizon Targets Blitz Phone at Texting Teens’…)
Digg founder Kevin Rose has posted a “leaked” photograph of a new iPod Nano on his blog, along with details of updates across the iPod lineup. It’s kicking up a lot of dust in blog-world, but we’re not so sure. Rose (who we love on DiggNation, by the way), has a history of rumor-mongering before expected Apple updates. The trouble is, he’s usually wrong — remember his prediction that the iphone would have two batteries?
According to Rose’s blog, the new Nano will look like the picture above, a kind of cross between the 2G Nano and a macbook air.
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If you ever wondered just how a lego minifig is made, today is your lucky day. Over at Gizmodo, Jesus Diaz has posted a smartly edited video of his day at the Lego factory, complete with hot’n’steamy close-ups of the machines in action. Above you see part of the full gallery of faces available in the current Lego product range: the printing of faces and bodies is apparently the most expensive part of the process. Our favorite shot, though, is the one of the minifigs rolling down the line on a conveyor belt: it looks like some kind of nightmarish body-recycling machine. Any readers who remember RESYK from the Judge Dredd comics will shiver when they see it. (Read the full post about ‘Video: A Peek Inside the Lego Factory’…)
3G reviews the LG KF750 Secret and writes, “The LG Secret has grabbed headlines for being the world’s slimmest mobile to carry a five-megapixel camera, and the design team really has worked wonders. But there’s no point in breaking records if the camera is no good…To be honest, there’s such a demand for more megapixels that most consumers will be happy just to have the five-megapixel box ticked; however, reassuringly, LG has jemmied in a very decent snapper.” Read more about the LG KF750. Tags: gps, MP3, Gadget, plasma (Read the full post about ‘LG KF750 Secret Review - 3G’…)
Acer has lopped up to $50 off the price of its diminutive Aspire One mini-notebook. The Win XP loaded version (1GB RAM, 120GB HD) drops from $400 to $350, and the Linux model (512MB RAM, 8GB SSD) goes down from $380 to $330. Why? Acer’s press people told Laptop Mag that “Aspire one is the must-have back-to-school supply for students.” Which is a very good point. These mini-notebooks are ideal for school use (unless you’re doing a video editing class): tiny, light and cheap, they make a lot more sense than lugging a 17″ MacBook Pro around. Acer has also announced an all-new Aspire One, with a long awaited six-cell battery, a 160GB hard drive and Windows XP Home. (Read the full post about ‘Acer Drops Aspire One Prices, Adds Bigger Battery’…)
by Thomas Ricker, posted Aug 25th 2008 at 3:37AM Attempts to keep the most hotly anticipated consumer electronics devices under wraps these days are getting more and more futile. It’s hard enough for companies to control disgruntled employees and leaks in the international supply chain, stir in a giant government organization and things quickly unravel. Case in point: T-Mobile’s HTC Dream, widely believed to be the world’s first Android handset. After Engadget loosed the Dream from its FCC constraints on the 18th of August, HTC contacted the agency on the 19th with a request to use a less detailed diagram for the FCC label placement. Fortunately for us they complied, giving us what can only be construed as official measurements in the process. (Read the full post about ‘FCC outs HTC Dream’s dimensions: it’s smaller than the iPhone 3G’…)
Usually a hack will result in data being stolen or hardware being used for malicious reasons, it doesn’t usually leave you with a large phone bill.
In the case of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a hack carried out last week on their voicemail system has left them with a phone bill for US$12,000.
The hack was made possible by a vulnerability in the Private Branch Exchange (PBX) voicemail system installed at the Emmitsburg center. It is doubly embarrassing for FEMA because not only do they have to pay this huge bill, but the vulnerability has been known about and warned of since 2003.
The PBX has only recently been installed and it is thought the hack was possible because it had not been fully configured.
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