My So-Called Mobile

My So-Called Cellphone is part of a series of retrospectives where the editors of Engadget detail their first brushes with technology. Join them, won't you? The first laptop was a major life change for the nerds among us, but the first cellphone has become a milestone in life that nearly all of humanity can share. It seems like every year kids are getting phones at a younger age, racking up bigger SMS bills than ever, and generally just getting up to no good with this awesome, ubiquitous

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Arcade Fire Announce whole American Spring Tour

Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News Jon Furniss, WireImage Fresh off their unexpected, if well-deserved, awards week victories, Arcade Fire have just confirmed what they claim will be all the remaining dates of their upcoming U.S. tour. Special guest openers for the run will vary by city and include Local Natives, the National, Okkervil River and Explosions in the Sky, respectively. Joining a previously announced and long sold-out three-night stand in Chicago, Arcade Fire will kick off

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Growing backlash? Over Microsoft deal a problem f? Nokia

By Ed Oswald, Betanews Nokia is coming under increasing criticism for its partnership with Microsoft, with shareholders looking for the removal of CEO Stephen Elop, and a Finnish union looking for severance pay for workers laid off as a result of the deal. It seems to point to a coming showdown that may rear its ugly head at its annual meeting in July in Helsinki.The shareholder group calls itself Plan B, and is comprised of nine anonymous "small" shareholders of the company that were also

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Samsung I8510: The Best gadget with advanced features

Samsung, one of leading and best mobile manufacturers in the world of mobile phones, is known for its high-quality electronic products. This renowned electronic company, a few years ago, extended its services to the mobile segment to serve good and reliable quality phones with smart looks and advanced technology features to the users. As the modern mobile users are demanding for the most innovative and high-end features mobile phones, like most of the mobile manufacturers Samsung is

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Nokia says it can customize the heck out of Windows Phone, won't do anything that would delay updates

In an interview with Nokia VP Niklas Savander at Mobile World Congress, Phone Scoop probed a bit more on the company's plans to rework the Windows Phone user experience -- a user experience that's been essentially closed to OEMs thus far apart from the occasional tile here or added menu item there. Turns out (or at least Savander claims) that Nokia's essentially being granted carte blanche for deep customization of the platform, though it's likely only to do that by pushing changes back to

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News@8pm: Quad-core phones, Android Ice Cream

Home News News@8pm: Quad-core Phones, Android Ice Cream Posted by Richard Wordsworth on Wed 16 Feb 2011 Welcome to your nightly round-up of the day's news and goings on courtesy of T3.com. Just a two days after its announcement at MWC and the HTC Flyer tablet had its launch price revealed by the good people over at Amazon.de, and would you know, it's actually pretty reasonably priced,

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Sony Ericsson launches Xperia PLAY, the first PlayStation Phone

By Tim Conneally, Betanews At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Sony Ericsson officially unveiled Xperia PLAY, the first "PlayStation Phone."Xperia PLAY is a 4" touchscreen slider, but instead of sliding to reveal a keyboard like most slider phones, it reveals PlayStation-style controls and buttons like Sony Computer Entertainment's PSP Go. It's powered by Qualcomm's 1 GHz Snapdragon processor with the embedded Adreno GPU capable of 60fps playback 3D gaming. It also features 400MB

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Molloy: Another pol guilty by reason of stupidity – New York Daily News

Joanna Molloy Friday, February 11th 2011, 4:00 AM ‘Fit fun classy guy’ Do you think Rep. Lee was fishing for an extramarital affair? It’s a good thing shirtless Congressman Christopher Lee quit. Otherwise, he would have been impeached for Extreme Stupidity. C’mon, what’s sexy about a shirtless 46-year-old guy in a hotel bathroom photographing his own flexed bicep in the mirror? Not much, judging by the screams of laughter from all the women

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Adam Young of Owl City Sings Valentine's Day Message to Taylor Swift

Filed under: News, Pop Culture Larry Marano, Getty Images While it might take more than mere chocolates and roses on Valentine's Day to make Taylor Swift swoon, Owl City's Adam Young is hoping to do it through the magic of music. On Monday, Young released a love song on Owl City's blog that was dedicated to Swift and, admittedly, intentionally timed for Valentine's Day. The ball may now be in Swift's court, but she was the one to throw the first pitch: Young's song is actually an

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Captaincy on backburner for Brendon McCullum

Taylor stresses spin point accuracy CHARLES ANDERSON IN CHENNAI LATEST: Make no mistake, Brendon McCullum wants to be New Zealand cricket captain. But right now he is focussed on scoring big runs on the biggest stage in world cricket at his preferred spot - opening the New Zealand innings. The Black Caps play India tomorrow in a warm up game that is expected to sell out Chennai's 50,000 capacity M A Chidambaram

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