Notice the Market icon…possibly a shortcut to the Application Store?
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According to Android project leader, Andy Rubin, Google might offer an application store–similar to one for the iPhone–for its Android mobile operating system sometime in the near future.

The Register reports that Rubin …

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Only the most passionate cell phone geeks know that the Federal Communications Commission holds a treasure trove of information on upcoming handsets. Because the FCC has to certify every phone sold in the United States, not to mention test its SAR rating, the agency’s …

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Last week we told you that the highly-anticipated Samsung Instinct would goes on sale on Friday, June 20. Though the exact price of the Instinct is still unknown–Sprint is promising that it will cost less than $300–today …

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Google Maps could give you a much more accurate fix on your location with GPS.
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It’s pretty much a given that the next-generation iPhone will be faster, but it might be able to find its way home as well.
GigaOm is reporting that Broadcom is Apple’s …

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It may make some sense for Ducati to try its hand at co-branding a mobile phone the way car companies have, but it would have been well advised to wait for a better opportunity.

There’s nothing wrong with the choice of Sony Ericsson’s Z770 handset, but …

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Cellity Communicator (download) is an e-mail, SMS, and calling client and service for Java cell phones that’s better than it looks. That may not sound terribly heartening, but it’s no derisive knock. Designing an app that crams phone calls, conference calls, various tiers of texting, and e-mail into …

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As weird as this may seem–and make no mistake, it is weird–it will probably be appreciated by anyone whose pockets have been weighed down, or worn through, by too many gadgets. The “FreeHand” is a pouch that can be worn like a fingerless glove, a “flexible mesh pocket” …

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Good things happen to software publishers that listen to their users.
Fring, an aggressively growing company that builds a chat and cheap calling application for Symbian, iPhone, and Windows Mobile platforms, heeded a swell of feedback from iPod Touch users who had been using the pre-release iPhone version for jailbroken …

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Good things happen to software publishers that listen to their users.
Fring, an aggressively growing company that builds a chat and cheap calling application for Symbian, iPhone, and Windows Mobile platforms, heeded a swell of feedback from iPod Touch users who had been using the pre-release iPhone version for jailbroken …

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It’s often been unclear to us why anyone would want a standalone dictionary device, which seems like a lot of hardware to carry around just for text. Apparently Maxian agrees, because it recently
released an upgraded version of its E900 media player with 60GB of storage to …

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Introducing the latest appliance for today’s digital household: the wireless speakerphone.

No longer associated only with office conferences, the speakerphone is finding its way into kitchens and family rooms as well. Granted, there are many other variations built into answer machines or the handsets themselves, but they’…

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Ah, the elusive video phone. We’ve been hearing about that miraculous invention since we were kids, seeing prototypes displayed at Disneyland’s house of the future. But despite an occasional product on the market, visual telephony has yet to take off for the masses.

So the closest …

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