You may not want to be seen rocking one of these at your next gig, but if you’ve been trying to juggle your phone and guitar while using some of the endless number of apps out there, you might just want to consider this so-called Guitar Sidekick from Castiv. As you can see, there’s not a whole lot to it — just a bracket that attaches to the neck of your guitar, and an adjustable mechanism that will accommodate just about any smartphone (or even a PSP). No word on an iPad version just yet, but you can grab this one right now for $30
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We’ve heard talk of the Gem before, and a new listing for the phone in Best Buy’s September buyer’s guide confirms the existence of Verizon’s new low-end Android piece that’ll likely slot in below the Fascinate in Sammy’s lineup for the carrier. Looks like it’s slated to launch with Android 2.1, not 2.2, and will include both TouchWiz 3.0 and Swype — both Samsung staples at this point — along with a 3.2 megapixel cam and 16GB of microSD expansion (though it’s not clear whether they’re going to do you the favor of throwing a card in the box)
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Samsung Gem for Verizon shows up in Best Buy buyer’s guide
T-Mobile is calling it “the fastest smartphone experience in America,” but as it turns out, its Qualcomm Scorpion CPU is actually relatively slow — the cellular carrier’s insider newsletter T-Mobile Scoop says the phone’s MSM7×30 chip will be clocked at 800MHz, rather than the 1GHz we’d hoped for. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that T-Mobile lying about speed, as anyone who’s upgraded from Droid to Droid 2 very well knows — bloatware can easily clog the pipes even on phones running Froyo , and we’ve heard that this particular HTC device is running a pure vanilla Android build .
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Confirmed: T-Mobile G2 will have Android 2.2, Flash and 800MHz CPU
Interesting side note — we understand that Erick Schmidt, Larry Paige, and Serge Brin all own this phone.
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Fake Nexus One browsing fake Engadget
If you’ve been holding yourself back during these early rounds of the smartphone wars in anticipation of Windows Phone 7 , your wait just got a tiny bit shorter. Today Microsoft is announcing that its fancy new mobile operating system has been released to manufacturing, making the idea of you holding an actual WP7 device in your hands that much closer to reality. The finished product is now rolling out to partners around the world where it will be getting carrier and manufacturer tweaks and additions, and going through the kind of pre-launch testing you would expect for a release of this scale
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Windows Phone 7 goes gold master, begins rolling out to partners for final launch preparations
The RCA Studio II is already a pretty rare sight as is, but rarer still is a detailed look inside what’s been described as one of the worst game consoles of all time. Thankfully, the folks at iFixit have now come through once again, and followed up their dissection of the Magnavox Odyssey 100 with a teardown of the circa-1977 “Home TV Programmer.” In addition to an abundance of beige, the team also discovered a considerable amount of solder that’s characteristic of 70s electronics, and even a few surprises like some white chip packages that are rarely (if ever) used these days
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iFixit goes beige with RCA Studio II teardown
The T-Mobile G2 — which will likely be known as the HTC Desire Z outside the States — is shaping up to be one of the more anticipated Android launches of 2010, and a handful of smaller-than-we’d-like official press shots that have just leaked over on Cell Phone Signal are doing nothing to make us believe otherwise. The site says it believes silver (pictured) will be the only color offered, and considering that we haven’t seen any leaks in any other shades, that seems like a reasonable assumption. Then again, a white, red, or black version of this would be pretty neat, wouldn’t it
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T-Mobile G2 official shots break loose, corroborate rumors of wanton awesomeness
When we talked to Sony Ericsson for the Xperia X10 for AT&T review , reps informed us that the phone is upgradeable but no further information could be provided.
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Xperia X10 family’s Android 2.1 upgrade coming by end of September, says Sony Ericsson UK
We’ve been wondering about this oddly intriguing mini Motorola portrait slider since we saw it back in July , and a new set of leaked photos today hasn’t done anything to diminish our curiosity, since that keyboard looks pretty amazing.
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Motorola XT300 mini portrait slider leaks out in clearer photos
Looking for a good reason to camp out a Sprint store overnight? Then you won’t find a much better one these days than the Samsung Epic 4G , which is launching on the carrier tomorrow for $249.99 on a two-year contract (in case you needed a reminder).
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Reminder: Samsung Epic 4G launching on Sprint tomorrow
