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Available for acquire as of Jan 5 (only in the US, UK, island and Hong Kong at the moment), Google’s Android superphone, the Nexus One, seems to effect some problems with 3G reception.

There’s a daylong arrange over at the Google hold forums, where some of the infant Nexus One owners are news 3G connectivity issues in the US.

It looks aforementioned the HTC-made smartphone gets a anaemic 3G communication from instance to time, and add switches to EDGE, patch another T-Mobile phones effect beatific reception.

Here’s what the prototypal Nexus One users to inform the difficulty has to say:

“I switched from a Moto Cliq, where I had 3-4 exerciser of 3G in my concern constantly, to a Nexus One. I today either impart 1 or no exerciser of 3G. I prefabricated trusty that ever ingest 2G was disabled, and I can’t seem to amount discover what the difficulty is.”

Another (ex-BlackBerry) individual continues:

“I upgraded from a Blackberry Pearl to the Nexus One. I cannot impart some 3G assist as of yet. Don’t participate what the difficulty is. T-mobile and HTC hold weren’t flourishing to help.”

And added users says:

“I’m having this aforementioned problem. My G1 has 3G with flooded strength, but movement correct incoming to it my Nexus has 1 oppose of 3G and keeps change to Edge. If I accept it set for a patch it haw go up to 3 exerciser of communication capableness but as presently as I move disagreeable to ingest it the communication capableness drops backwards downbound to digit bar. I named T-mobile to attain trusty that I didn’t domain to add the good or something to impart 3G service. They said my evidence looked dustlike and that they couldn’t remuneration me some more hold since I had a Nexus One, that I had to call HTC. So I named HTC and they said that your 3G assist is a T-mobile cater and they couldn’t hold me. The fact that my G1 entireness dead movement correct incoming to the Nexus though makes me conceive it rattling is a difficulty with the phone.”

Ok, so it capableness be a difficulty attendant foregather to T-Mobile’s 3G (the individual uses the not-so-common 1700MHz frequency). Until now, no digit from the UK, island or Hong Kong reportable some issues with Nexus One’s 3G performance. But if someone will, then there’s trusty something not correct with Google’s prototypal phone. Let’s desire HTC and the bounteous G module countenance into the concern and gaming what foregather is feat on.

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At prototypal this keyboard seems aforementioned some other, until you actualise that the keys are in alphabetical order. This is to attain it easier for those that never ashamed to gaming the QWERTY layout. You crapper advise a ameliorate and it switches to the accepted layout, so that some connatural mortal crapper actually identify with some actual speed. To add boost insult, you crapper ingest the F-keys for hurried abreviations aforementioned LOL, IMO and ASAP. If you’re intellection most acquire this for someone, avow that $30 and go encounter a multiple of Mario Teaches Typing or something. It did wonders for me backwards in the 6th grade.

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We originally brought you the Phantom Keystroker back in March of 2008, and at that time it was a rather homebrew-looking device that even my grandmother would find suspicious if she found it attached to the back of a computer. Well ThinkGeek’s now selling the Phantom Keystroker V2, and while the latest model actually looks like a professional product, it’s still far from what I’d consider ‘phantom.’

Like the original, the Keystroker V2 will emulate a keyboard and mouse attached to the victim’s computer, and will periodically make random mouse movements, toggle the caps-lock and throw out random bits of text. The new version’s also got a set of switches on the side allowing you to choose what events will actually plague the PC it’s attached to, as well as how often they occur. Convenient, but once again they make the device look rather suspicious were someone to discover it. $12.99 from ThinkGeek.

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[Via The Gadget Site]