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Plantronics goes chrometastic with Explorer 395 Bluetooth headset
Who says Bluetooth headsets aren't cool any more? Not Plantronics . Today, the California-based company released the Explorer 395 earpiece -- a $49.95 earpiece in both black and bronze flavors, and aimed at first-time Bluetooth users. How so? You get dedicated buttons for volume, power and phone call, which puts the confusing single-button-operated headsets to ...
You expect me to talk? No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to wear this horrible watch phone
There’s some Canadian company called Neutrano making something called a WristFone inside a steel case. It’s similar to the Kempler & Strauss W Phone and, if history is any guide,it will suck. Anyway, it’s on the FCC site right now. BFD. ...
Navoto urges you to wait, buy a Skype GSM adapter instead of paying roaming fees
The Qool SkyQube ² was apparently an idea ahead of its time. Four years ago , the small, rounded box promised to bridge the worlds of cheap VoIP telephony and pricy GSM roaming by automatically routing international calls through Skype, but after CES 2007, we never saw the device again. Until now, of course. Skype Journal reports that SkyQube ...
Pair of mysterious Motorola Android handsets espied in the wild
What can we say about these two Motorola-borne Android devices? Not much, really, except from some brief and poorly machine-translated text from a Chinese forum that claims these are engineering prototypes and one might go by the code name ZN4... and that's about it. If you fancy what you see here, though, keep an eye out to the future, ...
Ford’s Sync AppLink bringing in-car voice control to Android, BlackBerry apps
Look, there's a better-than-average chance you're buying a 2011 Ford Fiesta simply because it's the rebirth of the Fiesta, but if you need a little encouragement, look no further. The aforesaid automaker has just confirmed that Sync AppLink will be coming first to next year's Fiesta, enabling drivers to access and control select Android and BlackBerry apps via in-car ...
PSA: we’re broadcasting our feed on Twitter now!
Over the past few weeks, we've had a number of folks reach out and implore us to broadcast our standard RSS feed over our Twitter account the same way our colleagues at Engadget and Engadget HD do. Well, ask and ye shall receive: beginning today, we're doing exactly that -- so if you've been holding out on following @engadgetmobile ...
Microsoft planning low-cost Windows Phone 7 devices for developing markets
Suppose that in addition to excluding a decade of apps and development, leaving out certain features, and starting out from scratch with a whole new visual theme, your phone is just plain expensive. So expensive, in fact, due to the restrictions you’ve placed on its hardware in order that it might run well, that you’ve priced yourself right out ...
Microsoft shopping around ‘low-cost version’ of Windows Phone 7 for emerging markets
Microsoft has apparently revealed at a developer event in India that it intends to produce a "low-cost version" of Windows Phone 7 primarily targeting emerging markets that would come after the initial volley of higher-end devices schedule to launch at the tail end of this year. Little else is known at this point, but Sudeep Bharati -- director of ...
Radio Shack nixing sales of Sprint’s Pre and Pixi, but what does it mean?
So it looks like Barron's and The Wall Street Journal have talked to enough store clerks and Sprint reps today to confirm that Radio Shack is definitely dropping the original Palm Pre and Pixi from its in-store lineup. For what it's worth, Sprint says that "this is in line with Radio Shack's normal product planning process -- there is ...
With Twitter’s Official App Looming, Seesmic Revamps Android App
In the wake of Twitter ’s Chirp conference for third-party app developers last week, popular multi-platform client Seesmic is announcing upgrades to its Android application. Changes include a widget, geotagging and native retweet support. However, Twitter execs announced at the conference that the company would be rolling out its own native application for the Android Android platform. In a ...
