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The HTC Touch with Android

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The HTC Touch is a great phone. Problem is, Windows Mobile can be incredibly frustrating for the average consumer. The Microsoft approach is great for anyone who is a pro user. It provides you with every possible option and lets you choose your experience. It’s the complete opposite of Apple and the iPhone. Mac has always been described to me as “the computer for people who don’t understand or care about computers.” Maybe having Android on the HTC Touch is a good idea. I’d have to try it out myself.

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The iPhone 3G finally unlocked

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The iPhone 3G has been finally unlocked. Previously, we’ve seen stories of iPhone unlocking methods that involve taking apart your iPhone and doing some wild Frankenstein-like soldering. The Dev-Team have announced that they’ve sucessfully unlocked an iPhone 3G and will make it available via PwnageTool and QuickPwn sometime around the New Year. Seriously, these guys are wild. What can’t they do?

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Katamari now available for the iPhone

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I love the idea of console games coming to mobile. Back when QB was first starting out, we were solely about mobile games. The problem was, they all totally sucked. It made for a really cynical blog that pretty much only doled out bad reviews. Most of our hate was concentrated on the RAZR and every game that came with it. I constantly talked about how the day will come when mobile gaming will be fun and we’ll have genuine console ports. It’s incredible that I’m still blogging and that day has come.

Katamari is now available for the iPhone. Heck yeah! The game costs $8 on the App Store and although I haven’t played it yet, it seems to have most of the functionality of the original game.

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Gov. Rod Blagojevich ringtones now available

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The company that brought you Sarah Palintones, is now offering Blago Tones. Essentially, the biggest U.S. political scandal of the month, can now be shared with people around you in ringtone form. If you’re not aware of the scandal, here is what Huffington Post has to say about it:

The governor, accused of seeking cash for the political appointment of Obama’s Senate replacement, is not a close associate of the President-elect. Indeed, in the affidavit, Blagojevich called Obama a “motherfucker” for wanting him to appoint an official that the governor either did not like or wouldn’t receive money from. Local news reports, meanwhile, suggest that it was Obama chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel who blew the whistle on the governor.

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The most innovative mobile games of 2008

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Ah booth girls. I wonder if being surrounded by professionals gives them any incentive to change their career from cute girl with a smile, to cute girl with a smile and a real PR job. I would love to do PR for a company that I actually believed in and loved their product. Actually, it would be even better to do PR for something that was totally intangible. Here are some things I would love to help with public relations, not that they need it:

  • Catching stuff people throw at you.
  • That feeling when you’re full but not stuffed.
  • Being the guy who hooks people up.
  • Getting free stuff because you know someone.


    • 1. Reset Generation (N-Gage)
    2. Spore Origins (Java / iPhone)
    3. Super Boom Boom 2 (Java)
    4. Rally Master Pro (Java)
    5. Chess with Friends (iPhone)
    6. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Java / N-Gage)
    7. TV Show King Online (iPhone)
    8. Scene It? (Java)
    9. Tap Tap Revenge (iPhone)
    10. UEFA Euro 2008 (Java)
    11. Aurora Feint II (iPhone)
    12. Car Jack Streets (Java)
    13. Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes (iPod)
    14. Space Impact: Kappa Base (N-Gage)
    15. Live Poker (iPhone)
    16. Boom Blox (Java)
    17. Party Island (Java / Facebook)
    18. Brothers In Arms: Hour of Heroes (iPhone)
    19. Real Football 2009 (Java)
    20. Toy Bot Diaries: Entry 1 (iPhone)
    21. Guitar Hero III Mobile (BREW)
    22. JOYity (Android)
    23. Soul Trapper: Episode 1 (iPhone)
    24. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (Java)
    25. Wamwam (Java)
    26. Dr Awesome, Microsurgeon MD (iPhone)
    27. Mobile Battles: Reign of Swords (Java / iPhone)
    28. Raging Thunder (iPhone)
    29. Hero of Sparta (iPhone)
    30. Phase (iPod)

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    Zune phone not coming at CES 2009 (rumor squashed)

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    Ina Fried is a senior staff writer for CNET’s News.com     and she recently squashed all the rumors that the Zune phone was coming to CES 2009. Apparently, Ballmer won’t be unveiling the device and will instead be focusing his talk on Windows 7 from a consumer perspective.

    “Microsoft will have a bunch of stuff to show at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, but a rumored Zune Phone won’t be one of them, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. Instead, much of CEO Steve Ballmer’s focus will be on talking about Windows 7 from a consumer perspective. Microsoft is pushing to have Windows 7 done in time for the holiday 2009 shopping season, so that means this CES is Ballmer’s best stage to tout its benefits.”

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    Smule is giving away $10,000 for an Ocarina iPhone app video

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    Oh man. If I hear the word Smule or some derivation of Smule one more time, I’m going to completely lose it. I’m going to go totally Hulk rage and SMASH. Okay, rage aside, you can enter Smule’s contest to win $1,000 for the best Ocarina iPhone song video on YouTube. Post a new video or enter with one you’ve already made. There are a total of 10, $1000 cash prizes and a bunch of t-shirts to boot. The contest runs until 10th January next year. If you want to win, the competition is pretty fierce, people are doing Stairway to Heaven.

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    Mobile video streaming by upstream.tv

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    Ustream.tv are working on a mobile streaming video application and it looks really efficient. The only problem is, does the world need yet another video streaming app? I never really got into the scene, mostly because I didn’t get into the community surrounding it. Many of my friends don’t have phones that are capable of making decent video, so they weren’t in the community either. At that point, I have to start sharing videos with total strangers, which is kind of weird. Also, these sites get completely bombarded by web cam girls who have a tendency to ruin everything they touch. For example, tapatap.com is a good site, but if you start networking with girls with cute avatars, you’ll quickly run into a girl sending you a link to either her porn site, or the porn site that employs her. Happened to me many a times. If these guys can build a community like FaceBook, where it’s all bros and no hos, we’re good.

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    Car key acts as mobile phone blocker and makes roads safe

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    I was recently on a road trip to New York with some friends and the guy driving was a total adrenaline junkie. I spent the entire time freaking out and on several occasions I screamed because I thought we were about to die. The only thing I could do to console myself was to take a list of all of the driver’s bad driving habits in case they found us dead, there would evidence of who to blame. Some of his driving antics included:

    1. Passing in the right lane.
    2. Average speed = 135 km/h
    3. Average speed during the intense blizzard we hit = 135 km/h
    4. Quote: “Pass me my BlackBerry!” (While driving and smoking)
    5. Passenger assumed anyone crazy enough to pass us must be on meth.

    With the above key, we could have avoided at least number 4. The key, once inserted into the ignition, because a mobile device jammer. It’s great for teenagers who drive and talk on the phone and risk everyone’s life in the process. The University of Utah has licensed the technology to a private company in hopes to have it marketed within six months.

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    Zune phone to be revealed at CES 2009 (rumor)

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    Global Equities Research’s Trip Chowdhry is spreading the rumor that Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer will be unveiling the Zune phone at CES in LA on January 7th 2009. Chowdhry claims that the company’s new centerpiece will combine the best features of the Zune media player with the hardware design of Danger’s mobile Sidekick. Think of the iPhone with a slide out QWERTY.

    My major issue with a Zune phone is development. Are we to expect a new OS that everyone will now have to develop separate apps for? Will it just be Windows Mobile apps ported to the Zune phone? Hey Ballmer, hows about getting some more info out to the masses? Thanks.

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