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First Look At Blackberry’s Essex And Rumours About The Dakota
12:22PM Rosa Golijan | Forget the mockups of the Blackberry Essex, what may be a picture of the real thing has leaked along with news of Dakota, RIM’s first phone with a “touchscreen in a conventional shape” and a “liquid lens“. More »
Science
Did You Know Hedy Lamarr Helped Invent Frequency Hopping?
7:20AM Jason Chen | There’s a longer story you can read elsewhere, but actress Hedy Lamarr invented and patented a system to help prevent torpedoes from being jammed by using frequency hopping. More »
Peripherals
Sprint Dual U300 Modem Will Connect to Both EVDO and WiMax
12:15AM John Herrman | Sprint’s partnership with WiMax provider ClearWire looks to be bearing some hardware fruit, with the release of the first dongle to combine 3G cellular and 4G capabilities. More »
Networks
Verizon Confirms Contract-Free Service
3:48AM Sean Fallon | Verizon has confirmed rumours that it would join other carriers by offering a contract-free service for customers who prefer not to be tied down by the man. As expected, you must pay full, unsubsidised prices for phones in order to be eligible (or bring your own CDMA devices), but the press release does not mention anything about activation fee requirements. The new service is available now on all Nationwide Voice and Data plans for both new and current contract customers. More »
Phones
Sprint’s HTC Touch Diamond Groped Ahead of Release by WSJ
10:30PM Kit Eaton | We’ve been keeping you up to date on the CDMA version of HTC’s Touch Diamond, coming soon to Sprint, but the lucky buggers over at the Wall St Journal got their mitts on one ahead of its launch. It’s fatness turns out to be 15mm in size, partly due to that 1,350 mAh battery good for 4.2 hours of talk time. It comes with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition with a Sprint-customised TouchFLO interface plus a bunch of extras like Dataviz’s Documents to Go Suite, Opera browser, a YouTube app and it works with Sprint TV and the Sprint Music Store. There’s also 4GB of internal memory, a 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth A2DP. The price is now set at US$250, apparently, with 2-year contract, and it’s now due mid-September. [WSJ via CNET] More »
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CDMA HTC Touch Diamond Has Release Date, Price, Fatness-Highlighting Red Rear
12:11AM Kit Eaton | We suggested the CDMA version of the Touch Diamond had eaten all the pies last week: Now word is out on its release and Sprint and HTC have chosen not to disguise it. Oh no… they’ve dolled that large rear-end up in a striking red colour. Bizarre, though I guess its in the “if you can’t hide it, make a feature of it” school of thinking. We can at least partly forgive its 13.9mm depth, though, which is due to a 1350mAh battery. It’s due out August 28th on Sprint, costing US$549 for the bare phone, and US$299 on a two-year contract. [Unwiredview via NewLaunches] More »
Phones
Leaked Shot Of HTC Touch Diamond Shows CDMA Version Ate All the Pies
10:15PM Kit Eaton | Over at BoyGeniusReports is this leaked shot of what’s allegedly the CDMA version of HTC’s fabby Touch Diamond mobile phone. And oh boy, oh boy… that’s one phone that’s not been on a diet: compared to the GSM version sitting on top of it it’s one big ugly fat fellow. Apparently it’s actually “more comfortable to hold,” but you’ve got to wonder about the weight of the gizmo, and the tightness of your pockets. [Howardforums via BGR] More »
Phones
Nokia 8208 Two-way Slider Phone Looks Like N-Series, But Isn’t Quite One
11:10AM Adrian Covert | Inadvertently posted to the Nokia site, the 8208 not only looks similar to the n96, the first non N-Series phone to feature a two-way slider. Part of Nokia’s music phone push, the phone features the 0-9 keys below the screen, and music player controls above the screen. In addition, the CDMA phone has a 3 Megapixel camera and EVDO Rev.A. No word on release date or price. [Electronista] More »
Phones
Motorola’s ‘Napolean’ Q World Phone Gets Leaked: CDMA + GSM Included
9:30AM Matt Hickey | Motorola’s got another Q in the queue in the form of the new Napolean world phone. It’s a CDMA smartphone for Verizon that does double duty with GSM, so you can use it pretty much anywhere. It also includes Wi-Fi if you’re not feeling like using its EV-DO Revision A or EDGE data, runs Windows Mobile 6.1, and includes a fingerprint scanner and a 2-megapixel camera with flash. It sounds like a great phone for world travellers, but probably overkill for anyone else. [BGR] More »
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