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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, T-Mobile

Hey, we’ve got a joke for you: what do you call a phone with a display that just goes blank without warning? A Nokia 5610! Get it? Okay, so that’s not a joke — it’s totally happening to some T-Mobile customers right at this time, and sales of the XpressMusic silder have been temporarily halted so Nokia can figure out what the heck is continue. It’s important to note in this place that the phones aren’t being recalled, they’re just not being sold anymore; if you currently have a 5610 and you’re not, you know, seeing anything on the display, you’re encouraged to get in touch with customer care to “discuss available options.”

T-Mobile puts the kibosh on Nokia 5610 sales to resolve display problems originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Apple, OS X

We’ve heard that the 3G iPhone would add real, true, honest-to-goodness (no joke) GPS into the mix instead of the fakey guesstimation the current model offers, and Dat. unearthed deep within the annals of the 2.0 firmware emulator lends credence to the scoop. Specifically, users have found references to NMEA data, the raw language used to communicate GPS coordinates between devices; that’d suggest that Apple’s intending to offer official support for GPS add-ons at the very least, but more likely, it foretells the inclusion of a GPS receiver right in the glossy black shell itself. What that means for efforts like locoGPS (pictured) remains to be seen, but it’d be awfully nice of Stevie to let external modules talk to the new firmware features on original iPhones, wouldn’t it?

[Via Navigadget]

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Filed under: Software, Apple

April Fool’s day joke? Could be, but we’re hearing it might be real: the long standing bastions of iPhone hacking, the iPhone Dev Team, posted a note to their site stating that “[today] the DevTeam was approached by an unnamed party to sell all of the intellectual property and related applications. After much consideration [What, hours? -Ed.] the offer was accepted and the [Dev Team] has ceased.” Seems a bit outlandish. For those not in the know, the Dev Team is the same group that posted jailbreaks to 2.0 (before it was out), 1.1.3, 1.1.1, developed the AnySIM unlock, and are thiiiis close to releasing the Pwnage tool (which promised total unsigned firmware control of the iPhone). So yeah, it may well be a prank, we wouldn’t put it past them. Funny thing about the hacker community though, one goes down and 10 more spring up.

[Thanks Andrew, Erica]

Update: Yep, it’s an April Fool’s joke. We’re just plan to go offline until April 2nd, peace.

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