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Firefox has finally made its way to the iPhone platform.  While it won’t be in the form of a full HTML rendering engine, the Firefox Home for iPhone brings the heart of the desktop browser into your mobile device:  your URLs.
Since there’s little chance that Firefox will come to the iPhone any time soon, the companion app is designed to let you have your desktop browser history, bookmarks and open tabs while working on your handset.  That means you won’t have to rebuild useful links on your home and office computers (assuming you use Firefox as your primary browser) into your iPhone.  Simply sync the app using the cloud-based Firefox Sync service and you’re good to go.
While Firefox Home is not a full-featured browser, it does incorporate iOS’ built-in WebKit viewer, allowing you to view pages directly on it.  You can also just open the link in Safari, leaving the [...]

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Do you miss Vegas, along the line upon line of slot machines sucking your coins dry?  Bring the one-armed bandit home with Jackpot Slots, an iPhone peripheral that turns your handset into a functional slot machine.  Sans real coins, of course.
Putting Apple’s hardware interface support to good use, the casino-style dock is designed to work hand in hand with its creators’ slot machine app, which is available for free from the App Store.  You launch the app, slip the phone onto the dock and play like you’re on a miniature version of your favorite neighborhood sucker trap…errr..coin-operated gambling machine.
The Jackpot Slots peripheral is a plastic dock, with a knob-topped lever on the right side.  Aside from enabling your slot machine habits at home, it also doubles as a functional sync and charging dock, in case you’re not that interested in spending every waking hour simulating a night at the Strip.
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What do you do when three phones you manufacture for third party companies meet an untimely demise?  Why, release one yourself, of course.  That’s exactly what Sharp did with the Sharp FX, a touchscreen-cum-QWERTY slider, that appears like a direct descendant of the discontinued Sidekick line.
During the past few months, Sharp has seen three of the hardware models it produces – Sidekick, Kin One and Kin Two – go bust.  So seeing them try to get a model in the US market under their own brand is quite an interesting move.
The Sharp FX is a feature phone that liberally takes from the Sidekick’s unmistakable slider design.  Aimed at a messaging crowd, it goes heavy on the functionality, with standard SMS/MMS, full email capabilities, instant messaging and social networking applications  onboard.
Hardware details include a full touchscreen display, a four-row QWERTY keyboard, a 2.0 megapixel camera, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and AT&T mobile [...]

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So, you’ve finally realized that the iPhone 4 may not be the only phone worth your while and you’re thinking of going with the Samsung Galaxy S after all. Well, before you dig deep into your pockets, here’s a side by side comparison of the two leading mobile phones today: the Samsung Galaxy S vs. iPhone 4

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The Samsung Galaxy S is definitely bigger with its massive 4 inch screen compared

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While Apple’s press conference last Friday did address the “Antennagate” issue, Jobs also did something else that got the attention of other phone manufacturers: he claimed that other phones suffer from the same signal problems as the iPhone 4.  As expected, that didn’t sit well with the rest of the pack.
During the presentation, Apple singled out three phones they claim to have similar reception issues, hinting that it’s merely the tip of the iceberg and that all devices do tend to suffer from some form of degradation when held in a specific way.  The three phones mentioned consist of the BlackBerry Bold 9700, the HTC Droid Eris and the Samsung Omnia 2.
Apple’s actions irked RIM’s co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, who released a joint statement, pointing out that “Apple’s attempt to draw RIM into Apple’s self-made debacle is unacceptable. Apple’s claims about RIM products appear to be deliberate attempts [...]

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