Oct 01
Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson
We’ve continuously wondered when we’d see a KIRF that was actually more desirable than the original, and while this ripped T700 isn’t Truly as succulent at SE’s T700, it’s closer than most… on the outside. This touchscreen-based handset supposedly sports a Carl Zeiss lens, a 5x optical zoom (seriously?), 8-megapixel sensor, a microSD slot and easily one of the nastiest user interfaces we’ve ever had the displeasure of laying eyes on. Hit the read link if you’re into that type of sick stuff, but don’t say you weren’t warned.
[Via MobileMentalism]
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Tags: Carl Zeiss Lens, Displeasure, Handset, Handsets, Kirf, Megapixel Sensor, Nbsp, Optical Zoom, Sick Stuff, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Sports, Succulent, T700, User Interfaces, Weren, Zoom
Oct 01
Filed under: Apple
Apple’s insistence on locking down iPhone developers with a restrictive NDA has been controversial from the start, and it seems like the company’s seen the light — it’s just posted up a tersely-worded letter saying that the NDA is being dropped. It’s a strange little note, actually — the first paragraph comes off as a little defensive and whiny, if you ask us — but we’re not plan to complain about anything that makes developing apps easier and faster for devs. at this time let’s work on not capriciously rejecting and deleting apps from the App Store, and maybe we can go back to focusing on the iPhone platform’s actual merits instead of all these paperwork shenanigans — we’ve got some suggestions if you’re having a hard time figuring this out on your own.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Tags: Apple, Developers, Hard Time, Insistence, iphone, Merits, Nbsp, Nda, Paperwork, Paragraph, Shenanigans, Whiny
Oct 01
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, GSM, EDGE
Like most new HTC codenames, the Rose had been a bit of a mystery to us when it first came out of the woodwork in some Bluetooth SIG documentation; it later turned out to be the very well-concealed S740. Unlike the ROSE100 model that we saw with the SIG, though, the FCC latched onto a ROSE110, giving us fleeting hope that there might be some North American 3G buried in this one. Alas, it’s nothing more than EDGE 850 / 1900, Bluetooth, and WiFi — a crying shame, considering what a unique little beast the S740 turned out to be. Maybe we can hold out hope for a ROSE120 down the road?
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Tags: Alias, Bluetooth, Crying Shame, Fcc, Fcc Approval, Fleeting Hope, Gsm Edge, HTC, Little Beast, Mystery, Nbsp, Rose, Sig, Wifi, Woodwork
