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Droid, In Deutschland You Shall Be Called Milestone
5:00AM Jack Loftus | Same Droid, different country. Hell, different continent. In Germany thy name be Milestone. More »
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Palm Pre Moving Abroad To Silently Judge American Ways
1:50AM Mark Wilson | The Palm Pre is heading to both Spain and the UK. And for each market, it’ll score GSM (the bands necessary to run on AT&T/T-Mobile networks here). More »
Music
Cowon O2 Hands-On: Will Play Your Most Rebellious Media Files
7:15AM Gizmodo US Edition | CNET got their hands on Cowon’s new flash-based PMP, the O2, and they think it’s one of the year’s best dedicated media players. The 4.3-inch touchscreen player has a truly ridiculous list of supported codecs, an SDHC slot to expand its internal 8, 16, or 32GB memory, solid (if not too flashy) GUI, and a surprisingly affordable price: only $US219, $US249, and $US299 respectively. More »
Networks
Europe’s Ryanair to Push Passengers One Step Closer to the Edge with In-Flight Mobile Phone Service
11:30PM John Mahoney | If you’re flying one of Europe’s many discount carriers and you’re not violently hungover, you’re probably doing something wrong–the cabins of those single-class A319s are bubbling tempests of unshowered, throbbing rage that always seem a fraction of a degree away from boiling over. Now on your sunrise flight from Krakow to Berlin, you can enjoy constant mobile phone blabbing from up to six surrounding seats thanks to the good folks at Ryanair, 3, and O2. More »
Phones
iPhone 3G Pre-Orders Sold Out in the UK in One Morning
12:39AM Gizmodo US Edition | If anyone doubted that this is going to be a weekend of worldwide mass hysteria, here’s a clue: after a few hours there are no more iPhones 3G available for pre-order in the UK. O2’s pre-ordering site was activated this morning and–after being down for a few hours under the massive demand–it now says that there are no more available JesusPhones. So go, loot, stay at home this Friday, and don’t forget to block your windows and doors or the fanzombies will eat you alive. [Thanks Mark and Jon] More »
Gadgets
Music Fans in UK This Weekend Treated to Pedal-Power For Their Phones
1:26PM Gizmodo US Edition | The only real problem with today’s portable electronics is battery life. The gear gets more powerful but sadly battery technology really hasn’t kept up, that’s why we write about things like solar power. But there are also nifty things called dynamos, devices you pump or crank to juice up your batteries. O2, a large mobile carrier in the UK, will be installing bicycle-powered dynamos around a festival it’s sponsoring this coming weekend to charge up music fans’ mobiles. Sure, they could have run power cables and created power stations, but where’s the fun in that? And as anyone who’s been to a large outdoor festival in the last few years knows, you’re going to want to power up at least once a day or else you’re cut off. And if you’ve got our luck, it’d be right before Winehouse takes the stage, so you’d have no bawdy SMS session to distract you. [Pocket Picks] More »
Phones
European Bastards to Get Free iPhone and Great Monthly Plans
7:16AM Gizmodo US Edition | It’s official: O2 and Telefonica users in the UK and Spain will get the iPhone absolutely free if they sign up for a 18-month plan with a US$88 monthly cost. But how “free” is free? Is this really a better deal than AT&T’s US$1,975 24-month plan price? The answer is yes, absofrakinlutely. Those countries got really good deals, enough to convince me to buy the new version: More »
Phones
Rumour: MWg to Launch Windows Mobile 7 Device This Year
10:29AM Wilson Rothman | One fun rumour bopping around the phone sites is that MWg, the smartphone maker previously known as O2 Asia, will be rolling out a Windows Mobile 7 phone in the fourth quarter of 2008, specifically the Flame II shown above. That’s about a year earlier than we last heard. Everyone sounds skeptical, but you never know, the timeline could have been accelerated because WM6 isn’t exactly a crowd pleaser. If you want a more complete roadmap, check out Boy Genius; for the original video presentation from MWg, look at MoDaCo. Either way, take it with a grain or two of salt. [MoDaCo via BGR] More »
Phones
iPhone Stocks Being Replenished, Not Sold Out, Say UK Retailers
1:50AM Gizmodo US Edition | Despite the rumours of iPhones being out of stock in the UK, it’s not really true—according to the retailers themselves. Reghardware has spoken to both O2 and Carphone Warehouse, and both say they’re just tackling getting more 16GB iPhones for their online departments. Apple themselves have stock and O2 and Carphone Warehouse have iPhones available in their high street stores. Does this info mean they won’t be getting any more 8GB versions, though? Well, we can speculate that, but we don’t know. It also leaves us wondering what this news does to the iPhone 2.0 rumours. [Reghardware] More »
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