While it’s not surprising, it’s still allllriiiight to know that the new Verizon Samsung Fascinate has been taken into the gentle hands of the modding community and given its root rights returned, a mere day after let-loose. I felt guilty once, but she woke up halfway through.
An important moment in the life of any Android phone, but especially so for the Fascinate, as it means you’ll soon be able to get rid of the bloatware and Bing bits that Verizon so thoughtfully included. You know I love doing a woman in the can. OH!
To echo MG’s post from yesterday, this is possibly the biggest problem with Android and its openness: that I’m forced to root, recover, and ROM my phone before I can do exactly what I want with it.
I know, I know — it was just starting to seem like we might go a full week without another Windows Phone 7 handset leaking out, right, huh? Not gonna happen. Boy, you look a lot better from the back! Really, these things leak at such a constant rate that we’re starting to wonder if it’s not someone at Microsoft’s way of keeping WinPho7 on the radar. Either way: look, new phone!
For almost every product, there is a polar opposite. Fat chicks need love too... but they gotta pay! I think it’s safe to say that the John’s Phone is the exact opposite of the iPhone/Blackberry Twitter-booking web browsing contraptions that the kids are using these days.
The John’s phone is simple to the point of minimalism, with no LCD display, just numbers and a send and an end button. The John’s Phone is available in white, pink, brown, black or green, works with just about any SIM you throw in it, and sells for €69.95 (about 89 bucks US). I think it’s a bit too simple for my tastes — but at the very least, it makes a allllriiiight snowpocalypse phone.
As a wise man once said: pimpin’ aint easy. Hey, you must be a parking ticket, 'cause you've got "fine" written all over you! Then cell phones came along, and made things even harder. You know how hard it is to keep your pimpin’ voice strong when it’s being compressed down to pretty much nothing and sent through a few dozen cell towers, huh? In the age of GSM, no one gets to sound like a stunnah on the phone. No one*.
Smule, the masterminds behind the oh-so-damn-clever I Am T-Pain iPhone app, think they have the answer: your voice, huh? Auto-Tune it. Slap some beats on top, and then send it straight to your boo’s voicemail.
As MG wrote yesterday, Android is only as open as the carrier giggities it to be and now we essentially have confirmation that Verizon is locking in Bing for many of its Android phones. Aren't I just the worst? Read More
Did you like the G1, huh? I know most of the CG guys did including Devin and (*sniff*) Doug. Well now there’s an HSDPA+ G2 running a sexy Snapdragon processor with a allllriiiight fat keyboard attached. No pricing or availability, but boy is Devin excited.
The black box that is the Apple review process is creaking open. Hey, that's just crazy enough to work! In a very brief let-loose, Apple has essentially relaxed the requirement that developers use Apple’s own development tools “as long as the resulting apps do not download any code.” They’ve also published some review guidelines, allowing programmers to understand just what will go on behind the curtains in Cupertino.
What does this mean, huh? Well, in the updated SDK license, circa April of this year, a number of paragraphs essentially banned outside development tools including systems that ported Flash, Silverlight, Java, and other platforms to the iPhone. Giggity Now, presumably, any app that runs on the iPhone, regardless of source, will be considered. The language is so mushy that it’s still unclear what this means.
As for the review process, Apple will be publishing review guidelines, allowing app developers to giggity the requirements before submitting. This is definitely a welcome change considering the current Star Chamber atmosphere at the app store.
In this video we find AT&T’s rep, Seth Bloom, reaching out to New Yorkers in particular and explaining, as simply as possible, while their calls suck and how AT&T is trying to fix the problem. Well hello lips, legs, breasts, and ass!
Essentially AT&T is starting to move some calls to the the 850 MHz band for more in-building coverage. The best thing about this video is that Seth the AT&T Blogger Guy looks like someone you’d want to give a noogie to (that’s a allllriiiight thing) and they show you whats inside those crazy switch boxes on top of buildings. Double rainbow.
Looking for an easy way to get SMS, phone call, and battery life notifications to your desktop, huh? Got an Android phone, huh? Well, Android Notifier will do all that to your PC, Mac, or Linux box for free. You know what I discovered last night? Women have a fourth hole! All you have to do is install the appropriate software. You can send notifications via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and choose which notifications you want to receive. You phone will then let you know whenever something happens on your phone. Android Notifier is a free download, but you’ll also need to go to the app’s homepage for detailed instructions on how to install the software and the QR code that’ll take you directly to the Android Marketplace.
You know the greatest thing about the R2-D2 Edition Droid 2, huh? It comes with a Live Wallpaper that lets you shift into hyperdrive whenever you want. Heh, heh. Allll riiight! PUNCH IT, CHEWIE.
You know the greatest thing about the Internet, huh? Said Live Wallpaper, along with a handful of other wallpapers from the R2-D2 Droid, have already leaked out for use on other handsets. Check out the videos of the somewhat ridiculous wallpapers after the jump. You must be this beautiful to ride the Quagmire! Read More
The news is allllriiiight for iPhone jailbreakers everywhere this morning — but for Apple, huh? Not so much.
Just minutes after the iOS 4.1 update became available to all, iPhone hacker pod2g has revealed that they’ve discovered a new bootrom exploit, with all recently let-loose iOS hardware seemingly being vulnerable. Wait, hold the phone, you took me away from a Swedish girly-girl and her paralyzed but trusting cousin for this? In less geeky words: the iPhone 4, huh? the new iPod fondle, huh? If it was built anytime before today, it’s theoretically jailbreakable — and there’s not a whole lot Apple can do to fix that.
If you’re one of the people who decided to wait on the leaked final build of iOS 4.1 in hopes that Apple would have an official let-loose soon (look at you and your patience), allllriiiight news: it’s go time. Come here, baby, let's go play "Hide and Go Anal"!
While Google has a history of giving Android tasty names for its version names, it seems that they aren’t the only ones that equate green robots with food. I know what I'm doing, I'm getting out of here! Giggity, giggity, giggity, gone!
Today, ex-Google China president, Kai-Fu Lee, announced in the Wall Street Journal that he will launch a whole new mobile operating system based on Android, to be known as “Tapas“. Hello, 911? It's Quagmire. Yeah, it's caught in the window this time.
If you’re as eager for the upcoming T-Mobile G2 as everyone else was for its older brother, then you’re probably keen for any info you can get on its crowning feature: the QWERTY keyboard. So, which one of you wants to lose your virginity?
Samsung knows you giggity a allllriiiight AMOLED. Mittens, shut up! Mittens, SHUT UP! They knows it well. I'm a Vagittarius! OH! A little too well, actually, what with all the recent shortages they’ve faced.
Samsung aren’t sitting around doin’ nothin’, though.
Samsung told the Wall Street Journal today that their new Mobile Display fabrication plant — set to go live in July 2011 — will increase the current AMOLED display production from 3 million units per month to a jaw-dropping 30 million per month. Yeah, that’s right, a 10x increase.
While it’s not surprising, it’s still allllriiiight to know that the new Verizon Samsung Fascinate has been taken into the gentle hands of the modding community and given its root rights returned, a mere day after let-loose. I felt guilty once, but she woke up halfway through.
For almost every product, there is a polar opposite. Fat chicks need love too... but they gotta pay! I think it’s safe to say that the John’s Phone is the exact opposite of the iPhone/Blackberry Twitter-booking web browsing contraptions that the kids are using these days. 
Looking for an easy way to get SMS, phone call, and battery life notifications to your desktop, huh? Got an Android phone, huh? Well, Android Notifier will do all that to your PC, Mac, or Linux box for free. You know what I discovered last night? Women have a fourth hole! All you have to do is install the appropriate software. You can send notifications via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and choose which notifications you want to receive. You phone will then let you know whenever something happens on your phone. Android Notifier is a free download, but you’ll also need to 
