Archive for November, 2006
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Almost forgot about this.
You know how much I hate the web/wap browsers packaged with your cellphone. (That means you Openwave.) I hate the carriers even more for their bastardization of features to said browsers too. (That means you Verizon.)
Well Opera Mini is now at version 3.0 and with that comes ...
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
I'm not ashamed to admit I require a refresher course in common sense now and again. Cell phone manufacturers tout each latest model as possessing a month's runtime on a single charge, and I'm dumb enough to believe it. So, here's some forehead-smackingly smart tips to squeeze more juice out ...
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
So today it was announced that VerizonWireless video subscribers will have access to pre-selected YouTube content. This is a temporary exclusive which is sure to leave a bad taste in the mouths of any YouTube fan who hopes for the same experience on their phone.
Can you say "censored"?
Also, Rob ...
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
If you aren't still stuffed from Thanksgiving. (Or dehydrated from dysentary.) These tasty Korean BBQ charms may whet your appetite.
I want one.
Read: Tokyomango (via Gizmodo)
Posted in Funny, Wacky, & Weird | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
This as found by a survey conducted by Japanese Association for Sex Education.
The participants were classified Juicy details:The association split students into an "e-mail group" -- students whose cell phone e-mail usage reached at least 20 e-mails a day -- and "a computer group" of students who spent at least ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
A think tank in Beijing has reported that by the year 2020, approximately 80 percent of China's population, or one billion people, will be cell phone users. And here I thought seeing practically everybody standing in line at Starbucks yakking on a cell phone was excessive.
Lin Yifu, director of the ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
European operators are starting to get it. However US operators still don't want to give up the keys to the "data castle." (They don't want to go to a model where content is free and you only pay for access.) In Europe, T-Mobile has been doing it with Web N ...
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
Where oh where has the roundup been? Between my brother's wedding and overall craziness it disappeared. But now it is back. So after all that time we still have the same (now lame) ringtones on the Billboard, plus one Rockstar and a Crazy Bitch. Virgin Canada has got some ...
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
or YA Napster for mobile content.
Unlike other 3G file sharing communities, this one has all the copyrighted material on their homepage for your consumption.
Personally, it's all fair use until you upload it to a website and don't indicate that it is copyrighted material.
Phonezoo relies on the users to indicate ...
Posted in Mobile Services, Ringtones | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Make your own Razz!
I remember back in the late 80s I got a soundboard for my old analog phone. It had some cheezy 8-bit sounds such as a machine gun, traffic, and bomb drops. I long for the same features on my cell phone. Thanks to RAZZ (and certain Nokia ...
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