HTC is trying to go head-to-head with the iPhone with their HTC Touch 3G, and honestly, they look to be putting forth a good effort. HTC even uses a tagline very similar to Apple’s iPhone: “This isn’t the web compromised for mobile… it’s the web as you always wanted it be on a mobile.” 2.8-inch touch [...]

We all love to see new gadgets unboxed. We just wished that it was our new gadget.

Just a thought… …if you are having a difficult time keeping your teen off the cell phone during bedtime hours, and services like AT&T’s Smart Limits don’t work for you, then you might try mounting a 12-meter radius cell phone jammer above the ceiling in your teen’s room and plug it into a lamp timer. Now [...]

I used to think the OpenMoko phone looked like a cool open-source phone, but after watching this video by Dave Fayram with the Neo FreeRunner, I’m no longer convinced. Check it out. Very slow interface, unresponsive touchscreen, unusable keyboard…

Nokia announced that they will buy the rest of Symbian for €264 million ($410 million), and they will also make the Symbian code open source. Nokia expects the acquisition to be completed during the fourth quarter of 2008. [via InfoWorld]

ChinaKing has built the world’s first cellphone with a built-in projector capable of projecting a 30-inch 640×480 picture for up to 2 hours. I think I would rather have my proctor separate from my phone. Not to mention that I would rather have a real iPhone than a chunk of electronics with an iPhone-like interface. [via [...]

My wife and I added AT&T’s Smart Limits for Wireless to our daughter’s phone last night. After reading about it, and watching the demo, I thought it sounded like a useful feature for my daughter’s phone. Her mom and I were mostly interested in the “Time of day” restrictions for school time and bedtime. We [...]

Samsung’s new L870 Smartphone will feature Apple’s Safari web browser (or possibly just Apple’s WebKit). This will be the first non-Apple phone to use Apple’s own browser. The L870 is scheduled to arrive in Europe in August of this year.