Apple, Verizon mulling iPhone deal for next year?

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Hyperkin’s FC Mobile II plays your old NES carts any way you’d like

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We’ve truly fallen in love. Hyperkin’s FC Mobile II tickles our every retro-gaming fantasy, combining portable cartridge-based NES action on a 2.5-inch screen, complete with TV-out, two “standard” wireless controllers, and a wireless gun just to top off the majestic collection. Even better, the whole kit is going for around $60 on eBay, so we can spend the rest of our suspicious money horde on Joystick Test Cartridges and tasteless cufflinks.

[Via OhGizmo!]

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Video: Blade Runner starring the iPod shuffle and Kindle 2

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You’ve probably heard the text-to-speech capabilities of the Amazon Kindle 2 and iPod shuffle by now. But you probably haven’t heard them act out Leon’s VK test from Blade Runner. Check the newest nerd-legend after the break, then come back and tell us about your mothers.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Samsung I7500 with OLED touchscreen powered by Android, dreams

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Anticipated for months, Samsung’s first Android phone is finally a (paper) reality after being flushed through the rumor mill just hours ago. Launching “in major European countries from June,” the 11.9-mm slim quad-band GSM, tri-band 7.2Mbps HSDPA (900/1700/2100MHz) candybar packs a 3.2-inch, 320 x 480 pixel AMOLED touchscreen, WiFi, GPS, 5 megapixel camera with Power LED, 1,500mAh battery, 8GB of storage (plus MicroSD expansion for up to 32GB more), and a standard 3.5mm heasdset jack. Step aside HTC, you had your chance, let’s all welcome Samsung to the Android party. Another picture and full press release after the break.

P.S. Although no US announcements have been made, that 1700MHz HSPA frequency could make T-Mobile USA customers very happy.

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CCII: meticulous G1 clone forgets the keyboard, a reason for being

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We were already scratching our heads over the SciPhone Dream G2 , which went to all the trouble of ripping off Android for little apparent reason — most of the OS is free for the taking. Well, things just got weirder with the new “G1 Quad band GSM Google Android Style Touch Screen Mobile phone.” The handset not only has a fake version of Android, but also mimics the G1’s looks pretty extensively — ironic for a phone that was a bit long in the design tooth by the time it hit the market, despite its adorability factor. The fake G1 also lacks a slide-out keyboard, and we’re having trouble making out the trackball — it might be fake as well. We suppose a 3.5mm headphone jack would be a bit much to ask for?

[Thanks, Patrick K.]
Gallery: Fake G1

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Hualu UCG501 MID packs everything but a release date

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Well, here’s an interesting little number. While there’s little in terms of actual specifics, this new UCG501 MID from China’s Hualu does make a lot of bold promises, including a purported “high-performance integrated graphics card,” built-in GPS, some mobile TV of some sort, CDMA2000 connectivity, built-in Bluetooth, a “high capacity” 4700 mAh battery, and even a built-in optical mouse (yeah, we’re still trying to figure out how that last one’s supposed to work too). Of course, there’s no word of a price or release date just yet, nor is there any evidence that it is anything more than a prototype at the moment — and, judging from the unit display, one that either lacks an accelerometer or has a not entirely functional one.

[Via Pocketables]

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Ask Engadget: Best mobile note-taking device?

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Viliv S5 unboxed in beautiful, epic video

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We’ve had our eyes and hands all over Viliv’s S5 for quite some time now, but we’ll freely admit that we kind of can’t get enough of the little guy. Well, until now, maybe. jkkmobile’s got an exhaustive video unboxing which shows the device off quite nicely — its 4.8-inch haptic touchscreen looks super responsive — and overall, this UMPC is shaping up to be one decently impressive piece of work. They’re expected to ship around May 8th in the U.S. for $599. Video is after the break — it’s a little long, but be sure to stick with it until the end, when Ilsa takes off in a plane for America, leaving a teary-eyed Rick on the tarmac. You won’t be disappointed.

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Nokia 6216 Classic packs NFC for contactless payments

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It’s 2009 and we’re still waiting for the Near Field Communication revolution. However, due to tough economic times and a lack of consumer devices, planned commercial NFC rollouts will likely be pushed into 2010. Still, we can add one more device to the NFC tally — the Nokia 6216 Classic. The 6216 is Nokia’s first handset with an embedded NFC chipset that communicates with NFC applications stored on the SIM. That little trick keeps the carriers happy while allowing consumers to keep their credit card info and contact-less ticketing and payment applications on the SIM for easy mobility between NFC devices. A good thing too, since this middling 3G candy bar with camera, FM radio, and microSD slot will be of limited appeal to most.

Read — Nokia 6216 Classic
Read — Economy, standards stand in the way of NFC

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Samsung Omnia Pro with landscape QWERTY coming this summer?

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This is totally unsubstantiated, but also totally plausible — likely, even — so we wanted to pass along a hot rumor out of Italian site hdblog.it claiming that there’ll be a QWERTY-equipped Omnia Pro hitting the market in the coming months, and they’ve even crafted a mockup looking like the offspring of an F700 and an original Omnia to illustrate their point. Specifically, the rumor suggests that the Omnia Pro will run Windows Mobile 6.1 upgradeable to 6.5 — which might explain Sammy’s decision to back off the OmniaHD branding for the Symbian-powered i8950 — along with a 5 megapixel cam and sweet 3.5-inch WVGA AMOLED display. Considering that the old Omnia is widely considered to be one of the company’s better (and more successful) smartphones in recent memory, it certainly stands to reason that they’d want to carry on the legacy — and slapping on a sliding landscape keyboard seems like a no-brainer way to do it. To top things off, gossip has this sucker launching this summer for something in the range of €500 ($662), which throws it face-first into this summer’s superphone smackdown alongside the N97, the GSM Pre, and whatever Apple has up its sleeves. Fun time to be alive, isn’t it?

[Via Slashphone]
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