Posts Tagged ‘switched’

Filed under: Cell Phones , Editor's Picks , Reviews , Holiday Gift Guide Motorola's DROID may be the largest threat to Apple's stranglehold on the smartphone market to date, and for good reason. Available starting tomorrow for $199 (with a minimum $70 voice and data monthly plan), the DROID offers lots to like: a sturdy, angular, all-black design; a crystal clear, high-resolution display (854 ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Editor's Picks , iPhone , Mobile Software , Mobile Phones There's no denying the runaway success of Apple's App Store : to date, iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded some 2 billion applications from its ever-expanding library of 100,000. But there's also no escaping the rumblings of discontent from many consumers and developers who feel that Apple is ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Mobile Phones , Holiday Gift Guide Tag Heuer Meridiist Automobili Phone (Style-o-Phile, Cost No Object) Thinking of springing for the veritable super car of cell phones? Lamborghini has saved you the trouble of searching high and low by releasing a phone of its own. Housed in black titanium and hand-brushed stainless steel, the Tag Heuer Meridiist Automobili Lamborghini (price ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones Fugitives, take note. If you're disgruntled over that unflattering mugshot, follow Matthew Maynard's lead and send in one of your own. Last Monday, the 23-year-old Welshman took cheekiness to the next level by texting The Evening Post a shot of himself, posing in front of a police van and dressed in matching neon yellow trousers. Maynard, wanted in conjunction with ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones T-Mobile is apparently offering a scintillating ('Titillating' would have been far too easy and predictable.) new feature for people with online accounts: pics of naked girls. The Consumerist is reporting that when T&A- T-Mobile subscriber "Andrew" signed in to his account to check a bill payment recently, a picture of an unfamiliar, topless female appeared on his profile page, within ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Visionaries Last year, Martin Cooper , the man credited with inventing the cell phone at Motorola in 1973, made headlines when he complained at a Boston conference that the iPhone was too complex . Further cementing his reputation as a curmudgeon, Cooper told a gathering in Madrid this week pretty much the same thing -- that modern cell phones ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , iPhone When AT&T claimed it was going to take a while to get MMS on the iPhone (partially because it had to be manually enabled for each account), the company wasn't lying, it appears. Many iPhone 3G and 3GS users are reporting that they're now able to send and receive multimedia messages, despite being nearly two weeks ahead of ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , iPod , iPhone Sadly, the Switched crew wasn't able to head to California to cover today's Apple event live, so we're instead forced to live vicariously through our pals at Engadget and TUAW . Fortunately, they've got top-notch crews out there to bring us, and you, all the happenings from the Apple 'It's Only Rock and Roll' event. So ... Full story

Filed under: Handsets , RIM , Sprint , Verizon Wireless By the time Sprint gets around to releasing the 9630 Tour with WiFi, due out sometime early next year, we think most everyone'll have moved on to any one of the numerous BlackBerry devices likely to hit in the interim. What's more important in this FierceWireless report is that Sprint's requiring WiFi "in all ... Full story

Filed under: Software , Palm , webOS If you were hoping for more system sound configurability, better notification control, or an equalizer in the music player (heck, we'll settle for bass and treble), your wait might be nowhere close to over -- but the good news is that it appears there's some sort of update on the way for Pres in the field that's ... Full story

Filed under: Audio/Video , Cell Phones , iPhone Apple's iPhone, with its seemingly infinite apps and functions, has inspired a multitude of innovative ideas and uses. Pre-teen iPhone wunderkinds in Singapore (Doodle Kids) and the United States (Math Time) have developed impressive and popular apps. Now that the iPhone 3GS possesses video capabilities, it shouldn't be a surprise that an enterprising company recently decided ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones Call it a stroke of luck, the hands of fate, or a touch from God. No matter what you call it, there's no denying gadgets have helped saved some lives. So keep that gadget close by, folks. You never know when your time is up. Continue reading 12 Gadgets That Saved People's Lives 12 Gadgets That Saved People's Lives originally ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones Everyday, people drive with their ears stuck to cell phones or their eyes glancing between text messages and the road. Most never even give their DWT ( driving while texting /talking) a second thought. The team behind a new ad campaign hopes to change that. The not-for-profit National Safety Council just launched a Florida billboard campaign called 'Death by Cell ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones We here at the Switched offices have seen a lot of stories about stupid people , including a few about seriously dumb thieves , but this tale about some moronic criminals from Morelia, Mexico is certainly our favorite. Unlike this tale about thieves who left behind perfectly good steal-ables, our friends from Mexico didn't take anything that could possibly be ... Full story