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Tivo Premiere: TV and Internet In One Gadget! Specs Review

You may be a big fan of Tivo or you may not even know the brand, but I guess you somehow know that internet can be access via television, right? This technology is more used by the oldies, I guess because they believe that computers are way too advance and televisions aren’t. What I’m trying to say is based on my experience, I honestly don’t expect my granny to be typing on a keyboard just to watch an old episode of Oprah or Ellen but I guess it will be much more comfortable for her to be holdin...

HTC Legend passes FCC, Sprint expands Buyback program, Samsung i5700 Android 2.1 ROM

If you are a fan of the HTC Legend with its 3.2-inch AMOLED screen and 5MP camera we have some good news. The device has been spied making its way through the FCC with support for GSM carriers. Sprint has expanded its Buyback program that lets customers trade in old phones to get credit on tier account. The expanded program now covers handsets that aren’t on the Sprint network as well. The Samsung Galaxy i5700 is apparently set to get an Android 2.1 update. A new ROM has leaked with 2.1 for th...

BlackBerry Tour2 9650 Hands On

"What could be better than the original BlackBerry Tour? Well, the BlackBerry Tour2 obviously. We’ve just got a hold of one and will be putting it through our normal thorough review processes, but in the meantime, here are some first impressions: Physical size is nearly, if not identical to the original BlackBerry Tour The trackpad works great, just as you’d expect We guessed the original Tour was slightly underpowered, and we were right. Fortunately the Tour2 seems to use the processor found ...

Nexus One, The Google Phone, Captured In The Wild (Picture)

"Apparently, Googlers aren’t supposed to be tweeting the details of the Google Phone, but they have no problem tweeting about how awesome it is. And they also apparently have no problem showing it off. And not surprisingly, pictures of the device are starting to hit the web. Without further ado, this is it.Cory O’Brien, a San Francisco-based blogger, got his hands on one tonight and tweeted out that picture. He also notes that, “Google Phone = iPhone + a little extra screen and a scroll wheel. ...

DROID Android 2.1 update in January, Opus One iDEN Android handset, ZiiLabs Trinity shows off

Rumors are coming in today that have the Verizon Droid and HTC Droid Eris getting the Android 2.1 update on January 22. This is firmly in the rumor category and there is no official word from HTC or Verizon on the updates. The Motorola Opus One may well be the first iDEN handset to run the Android OS. There aren’t many details on the handset to share at this point but the phone looks pretty cool. The ZiiLabs Trinity smartphone platform has turned up on a video demo showing off its 1080p...

Official Google phone in 2010, T-Mobile UK sells user data, and N-series to all use Maemo by 2012

If you are one of the many who has been surprised that Google has offered no Google phone running its popular Android OS you aren’t alone. A new rumor has Google launching an official phone in early 2010 with the Google brand and a Korean firm is rumored to be building the device for Google. T-Mobile customers in the UK have good reason to be mad today. Word has surfaced that customer data was sold by T-Mobile staff to cold callers. The employees that sold the data were unauthorized to do so ...