If you’re a BlackBerry user or a prospective user, and also happen to be a Gmail enthusiast, you’re going to be a lot happier than you were yesterday, because Google’s just added over-the-air contact syncing to its Google Sync application. Previously, the app was only able to sync up calendars between the cloud and RIM [...]

Orb, one of my long-time favorite applications for remotely streaming home media has finally come to the iTunes AppStore. Up to now, Orb was only possible on jailbroken phones, but somehow, Apple has approved the application for everyday use. With the $9.99 application, you can access and view various content on a home Windows PC [...]

Google’s new voice recognition search engine for the iPhone has hit a glitch - it is stumped by British accents. The application developed in the U.S cannot recognise regional twangs.Users say the technology mistook the word ‘iPhone’ for ’sex,’ ‘Einstein’ and even ‘kitchen sink’. The Google Mobile App is designed to work just like the [...]

LG KF900, aka LG Prada II, the fashionable phone officially announced more than one month ago, is now ready to be commercialized across Europe. LG has launched a microsite for the Prada II, where users can not only see the accessories the handset comes with, but they can also download a wide range of wallpapers. [...]

After an unexplained three-day delay, Google Inc. late Monday added voice capabilities to its search application for the iPhone. Google Mobile App 0.3.142 hit Apple’s App Store, the only official online mart for iPhone software from third-party developers, on Monday. It can be downloaded free of charge. After launching the application, the user [...]

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ASUS today introduced the ASUS P565, a business PDA phone that boasts an 800 MHz processor—the fastest in the world at the time of this announcement. Featuring ASUS’ latest touch-driven user interface—Glide—the stylish, leather-accented P565 delivers graphics and system performance beyond anything else on the market at present, posting Vsbenchmark scores almost two times that [...]

Although AT&T will eventually offer an iPhone tethering plan so that you can use your iPhone’s data plan on your laptop (yay!), there’s one major catch: They’re also planning to charge your an extra $30/month to do it (boo!). That may be worth it if you plan on doing a lot of tethering (and still [...]

The phone is actually available now at Chinagrabber. Yes, I know it looks just like SE’s Xperia and the matching name is no coincidence either though I think they are guilty of mispelling. It has a 2.9-inch screen (non-touch) and a regular numeric keypad slides out from the side. Curiously there’s an 8 MP camera [...]

Ever experienced a time when you could actually have your cake and eat it too? When you could get a chance to play with two of the awesomest gadgets ever at the same time, without having to put down either one ?WowWee did a great favor to iPhone users with their built-in iPhone control application [...]

Lutron, the company that developed the dimmer switch in the ’60s, now offers a lighting system that can be controlled by your iPhone or iPod Touch. That lamp you see above is screwed into one of Lutron’s wireless modules and, with a simple app, you can control how bright you want it to be from [...]

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Verizon Wireless will start selling the BlackBerry Storm, Research in Motion’s eagerly anticipated touch-based iPhone 3G alternative, on November 21 for $250 with a new two-year contract.A $50 mail-in rebate will bring the customer’s outlay down to $200, on a par with the cost of Apple’s popular handset (which is exclusive to AT&T [...]

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After the disappointing Touch Diamond, HTC has delivered a winner with the Touch Pro smartphone. At first glance the Pro looks identical to the Diamond, but it’s slightly thicker at 18mm. Under the Pro’s 2.8-inch display hides one of the best slideout qwerty keyboards we’ve seen on a smartphone. The slightly raised keys [...]

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iPhone hacker Jay Freeman (aka saurik, author of such iPhone programs as Cydia, Cycorder, and WinterBoard) has successfully managed to get a Debian distro running on the G1. And the best part? It runs in full harmony with Android - you lose no functionality.Why? Seems a lot of people’s first response to jailbreaking [...]