Jun 10
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Others, GSM
So Hop-On apparently got tired of showing rendered vaporware after rendered vaporware and finally came to the table with some real products, but there’s a little problem: one of them, the HOP1803, is a dead ringer for Nokia’s XpressMusic 5310. We figure Hop-On probably just went to their friendly local manufacturer in Shenzen and ordered a handful of products to start distributing, which is totally cool, but they either failed to turn on their blatant ripoff radar while they were shopping around or clearly didn’t care. If it’s any consolation, Nokia, the 5310’s specs totally smack around the HOP1803’s, though we’re guessing the “X-Press Music” branding on the side of the doppelganger might still attract some legal wrath — especially since Hop-On allegedly plans to try hawking this thing in the States.
[Via Slashphone]
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Tags: Blatant Ripoff, Branding, Consolation, Dead Ringer, Doppelganger, Handful, Handsets, Nbsp, Nokia, Nokia 5310, Nokia Gsm, Nokia Xpressmusic, Press Music, Radar, Shenzen, Slashphone, Wrath
Jun 10
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA
Last time we saw the i770, it was looking pretty raw — but things move quickly in this crazy industry we’re all following so closely, and it seems like Samsung might be settling on a final production look for its latest WinMo gift to Verizon (with more than just a little input from the latter, no doubt). We’ve been slipped this grainy picture of a device that our contact believes to be a more recent version of the i770, though he’s not positive. It certainly looks the part, and the red shell tells us that Verizon’s probably plan to put at least a half-hearted effort into playing up the personal sales of this one in the same vein as AT&T’s BlackJack II. It’s no VX9700 in the looks department, but outside of the X1 and a couple HTCs, what Windows Mobile device is?
[Thanks, HTCKid]
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Tags: Amp, Blackjack, Crazy Industry, Last Time, Mobile Device, Nbsp, No Doubt, Personal Sales, Samsung, Samsung I770, Samsung Mobile, Samsung Wireless, Shell, Verizon, Verizon Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Wireless Windows, X1
Jun 10
Filed under: Handsets, Apple, OS X
Steve might have finally made with the iPhone 3G yesterday, but as we’ve mentioned before, would-be upgraders have a slightly bigger dilemma than just shaking down the couch cushions for an extra $199: getting their user Dat. securely erased from their old iPhones. clearly hitting “restore” still leaves your Dat. in an accessible state, and while we’ve covered ways to do a three-pass wipe with iTunes playlists, Jonathan Zdziarski has posted up a set of instructions for getting at your flash from the command line and wiping it directly. Sure, you’ll have to jailbreak your phone and it’ll take at least an hour or so — but hey, you’ve got a month to kill anyway, right?
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Tags: 3g, Apple Os X, Couch Cushions, Dilemma, Extra, Flash, iphone, Iphones, Itunes Playlists, Jonathan, Jonathan Zdziarski, Leaves, Nbsp, Os X
