Blackberry x Monocole

Posted on January 7, 2010 Under Gadgetry

My favorite phone (currently) and one of my favorite brand/magazines have teamed up! Monocle x Blackberry just produced 100 unique Blackberry 9700 handsets with custom backs, each preloaded with their special 25/25 travel guides. Also included is a 16GB card,…

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Nexus One Hands On Review

Posted on January 7, 2010 Under Gadgetry

By now you're probably inundated by news of the Nexus One, an HTC built phone that many dubbed the Google Phone. The Mountain View company stayed true to their word and while they did not manufacture the phone, it is…

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Google Nexus One

Posted on January 5, 2010 Under Gadgetry

As you read this, Google is holding a press conference at their Mountain View headquarters to announce the Nexus One, a phone that many feel is the first true arrival of what the Android OS was meant to be. The…

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Nokia Viral: N900

Posted on November 10, 2009 Under Gadgetry

Kind of spooky, very bizare yet interesting video for the Nokia N900 phone that comes out today.

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HTC HD2 Sense

Posted on October 8, 2009 Under Gadgetry

My friend Eric from HTC popped by my office the other day with a demo unit of the new HD2– I have to say it was pretty impressive. I'm not a huge fan of Windows Mobile but they did a…

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Hulger's PAPPA*PHONE

Posted on September 12, 2008 Under Gadgetry

New technology can often be scary. The liberal use of space age polymers and fancy LCD's can frighten consumers into thinking they may have accidentally slipped into the future with no way back to the world they know and love.…

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UseeIsee Picture Phone

Posted on August 6, 2008 Under Gadgetry

Remember how we were all supposed to be talking on video phones in the mid-90s? Most wouldn't call a tiny 3-inch x 3-inch screen that produced a stuttering two-frame-a-minute picture "video." Then a decade later anyone with a laptop and…

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Aliph Jawbone 2

Posted on May 15, 2008 Under Gadgetry

Frequent JoshSpear.com readers know that we're big fans of the Jawbone since way back in '04. It's hard to imagine how Aliph could improve on an already solid product, but the Jawbone 2 sports a new design, a footprint about…

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iPhone Ads

Posted on June 3, 2007 Under Gadgetry

The Apple website was just updated with three new iPhone commercials. The insanely delicious (love the music) ads show off the iPod functionality, Email, iPhoto and most interesting to me, the mapping and web browsing, which just look unreal. I'm…

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All Free Calls. Seriously.

Posted on January 12, 2007 Under Life

When Josh passed this little nugget of goodness on to me this morning, I thought it was too good to be true. For the cost of a call to Iowa, you can make phone calls to a bunch of countries…

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