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• In Brief: T-mobile's pre-paid refill system has gone ...

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:27 pm

  Tags: Cellphone, Cellphones, Dealzmodo, T Mobile

  T-mobile's pre-paid refill system has gone down today, and a T-Mobile representative said all calls are free until 11 p.m. [Engadget]

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• Binaries, source outed for first 3rd party iPhone app

  Published: July 29, 2007, 11:38 pm

  Tags: Apple, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Cellphone, Hack, Iphone, Phone, Software, Third Party, Thirdparty

  under: Cellphones, Handhelds It's still a little way off from meaning anything to the average user, but the enterprising folks over at iPhone Dev Wiki have finally turned out binaries and source code for their very first compiled iPhone app. Of course, all it does is spit out the ubiquitous programmer shout-out "Hello World," but make no

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• Tasty, Magic Or Poison: New Phone for People Who Like Mushrooms, Hate Poisonings

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:49 am

  Tags: Camera, Cellphone, Mushroom, Software, Tasty Magic Or Poison

  Foraging for mushrooms can be fun, but getting poisoned by the wrong species always ruins a nice afternoon. Researchers at the Hagenberg College in Austria have developed software that can identify which mushrooms are safe to eat and which are poisonous, just from a photograph. This means it could easily be run on a mobile phone with a camera, to

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• Watches: Cect Cellphone Watch From China Has Bluetooth, MP3, MP4 and FM Radio

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Cect, Cect Watch, Cellphone Watch, Cellphones, Gsm, Watches

  The M500 GSM Watch from Australia isn't your only cellphone watch option now with the Cect Mobile watch from China. It's got a semi-decently large LCD, six hardware buttons, GSM support, Bluetooth, MP3, MP4, FM radio and a headset jack. No pricing yet, but it does come in all sorts of colors. [Phone Daily via Slashphone]

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• Fitness Gadget: Nokia 514i

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Cellphone, Nokia, Nokia 514i

  The general consensus seems to feel that talking on your phone while working out is unacceptable, but what if your phone actually helped you in your exercising endeavors? The Nokia 514i offers an 'always-on' personal trainer component that encourages users to go the extra mile or finish the last set with the Fitness Coach application. The Fitness

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• First iPhone software update growing near?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 7:56 pm

  Tags: Apple, Cellphone, Iphone, Phone, Update

  under: Cellphones, HandheldsWe're not sure why Apple chooses to reveal such juicy tidbits to dry, uptight market analyst types before... oh, say us for example, but be that as it may, it seems Apple's VP of iPod Product Marketing has spilled some tasty beans in a chat with RBC Capital Markets this week. RBC's research note indicates that an

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• Ciao Ma Bella

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:11 am

  Tags: Cell Phone, Cellphone, Gadget, Phone Calls International, Phonecallsinternational, Rebtel, Technology, Voip Phone, Voipphone

  Filed under: Z-GadgetsTMZ.com: Having international friends is great. You can crash at their pad when you travel abroad. They can teach you bad words in a foreign language. You get enough of them, and you have your own little league of nations. Of course, the worst part is calling... Read more

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• iPhone software: the community hacks, Apple improves

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Apple, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Cellphone, Iphone, Mobile Terminal, Mobileterminal, Phone, Software, Terminal

  under: Cellphones, Handhelds It's been a heckuva few weeks for iPhone devs, has it not? We've gone all the way from the crushing depression of knowing we'd have to play within the web sandbox, to the first hints of compiled goodness, to this -- the first true, native 3rd party app with useful functionality. As the name implies,

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• Enthusiasts bring 3rd party apps to the Helio Ocean, too

  Published: August 4, 2007, 1:33 am

  Tags: 3rd Party, 3rdparty, App, Application, Applications, Apps, Cellphone, Helio, Ocean, Opera, Opera Mini, Operamini, Phone, Software, Third Party, Thirdparty

  under: Cellphones The iPhone isn't the only handset whose software innards are getting lovingly torn apart in the name of science this week. It turns out some intrepid users of the Helio Ocean (a device occasionally compared to the iPhone, coincidentally) have been slaving away on a method for adding extra applications outside of the

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• More blurry pictures of the Palm Gandolf -- the Treo 800 series?

  Published: August 5, 2007, 2:41 pm

  Tags: 800, 800p, Cellphone, Gandolf, Garnet, Palm, Palm Os, Palmos, Phone, Treo, Windows Mobile, Windowsmobile

  under: Cellphones, Handhelds Man, this thing just gets uglier every time we see it. This here is apparently the very latest, piping hot batch of blurry shots of the Palm Gandolf, the multifaceted new platform that Palm appears to be readying in both Garnet and Windows Mobile flavors with the carrier's choice of either GSM or CDMA under the

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• Tryp-Tech: ActFace Concept Cell Has Looks, 3 Touchscreens

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:31 am

  Tags: Actface, Cellphone, Kddi, Touchscreen, Tryp Tech

  This is the ActFace Japanese cell phone concept from au by KDDI. It laughs in the face of the iPhone and it's single touchscreen - with not one, not two, but three, and no visible traditional buttons. There's a video of the two front screens showing some impressive animation after the jump.Although it may seem like an unlikely concept, if it's

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• Nokia makes Prism collection officially official

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:27 pm

  Tags: 7500, 7900, Candybar, Cellphone, Nokia, Phone, Prism, Prism Collection, Prismcollection

  under: Cellphones Despite Asian availability for a few weeks now of the 7500 model, it seems Nokia has just today decided to make its so-called "Prism collection" official. Perhaps a great gift for the mathematics professor or physicist in your life, the two span the spectrum of radio coverage and features; the 7500 is naturally the

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• HTC Advantage now available, $899 at retail

  Published: August 7, 2007, 6:22 pm

  Tags: Advantage, Athena, Cellphone, Htc, Microsoft, Phone, Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6, Windowsmobile, Windowsmobile6, Wm6, X7501

  under: Cellphones, Handhelds HTC today announced official US availability of its mobile monster (and we do mean "monster"), the Advantage. Known alternately as the Athena and X7501, the sucker rocks pretty much every feature one could want in a pocketable device: 256MB of onboard storage, 128MB of RAM, HSDPA 850 / 1900 alongside quadband

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• Palm gets official with Treo 750's WM6 upgrade -- in Australia

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:54 pm

  Tags: Australia, Cellphone, Microsoft, Palm, Phone, Treo, Treo 750, Treo750, Update, Upgrade, Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6, Windowsmobile, Windowsmobile6, Wm6

  under: Cellphones, Handhelds The good news is that the official Windows Mobile 6 Professional update for the Treo 750 is just around the corner; the bad news, though, is that you probably can't have it yet unless you're lucky enough to live in one particular corner of the world. Following countless incognito shots of WM6-sporting 750s in the

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• Cellphone Software: Bastard Cellphones to be Taught a Thing or Two About Manners

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Cellphone Software, Cellphones, Research, Software

  Cellphones are impolite, whiny little bitches lurking in your pocket, lying in wait to interrupt you no matter what you're doing. That's why researchers at Intel Labs Seattle are trying to teach them some manners, creating software that turns the dumbass machines into politenessPhones that can avoid interrupting your real-world conversations with

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