Hasta La Gadget!

You know those red K6 telephone boxes that are such an iconic and unmissable part of any stay in London? Yeah, that’s the inspiration for the mobile you’re peering at above, just in case you couldn’t guess. The so-called London Calling Mobile Phone is a fully-functional handset, packing a color LCD, SMS and MMS functionality, tri-band GSM connectivity and pre-programmed ringtones that include “Rule Britannia” and “God Save the Queen.” We’d continue swooning if we had to, but we’re pretty sure you’re already whipping the plastic out to make this happen. Check the backside after the break, and tap the read link to get your £85.95 ($141) pre-order in.

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London Calling Mobile Phone makes us long to be British originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We aren’t usually so taken in by a KIRF. In fact — we’ve seen so many knockoff iPhones, we had started to consider ourselves steeled against their charms — and then along came Hello Kitty Phone 3G. What is it about HKP3G that we love so much, you ask? Is it the happily tooled pink background scene on the facade of the phone? Is it the hideously realized user interface, complete with typos and a blatant disregard for capitalization standards we’ve all respected since the 19th century? Is it the little kitty on the solo button? Is it the name? Is it the fact that, at $99, it would cost us just as much to own one as a real, actual, iPhone 3G? Answer: it’s all of those things. We’re getting one. There’s another shot of this masterpiece after the break.

[Via Chip Chick]

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXIV: Hello Kitty Phone 3G is our next impulse buy

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXIV: Hello Kitty Phone 3G is our next impulse buy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got a FREETALK Wireless Stereo Headset along with a Skype voucher that’ll net you free calls for three whole months. The World Plan voucher will link you up anywhere in the world that Skype supports, and coming off of a trip to Central America, we can certainly say it comes in handy (and works well, to boot). Read the rules below (no skimming — we’re omniscient and can tell when you’ve skimmed) and get commenting!

Major thanks to Skype for the goods!

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for “fixing” the world economy, that’d be sweet too.
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one FREETALK Wireless Stereo Headset along with a Skype voucher that’ll net you free calls for three whole months.
• If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
• Entries can be submitted until Tuesday, June 23rd, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

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Engadget’s recession antidote: win a FREETALK headset and Skype voucher! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You may be doing your best to plug your ears and pretend that Moblin‘s no big deal, but blissful ignorance is only effective for so long. At a Moblin press event over at Computex, the Inventec handset you see pictured above was demonstrated. Reportedly, the MediaPhone was a working unit based around Intel’s forthcoming Moorestown platform, and the talking head made it clear that we wouldn’t see a “netbook experience” simply shoved in here. We also get the idea that this particular device is just the beginning of a short to medium list of similar products, but there’s obviously no word yet on what other handset / MID / UMPC makers are swallowing the Moblin pill. Live demonstration video is just past the break.

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Video: Inventec’s Moblin-based MediaPhone shown at Computex originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Take it from Garmin-Asus — making a smartphone ain’t exactly easy sauce. Regardless of the facts, ViewSonic has decided it prudent to jump head first into the tumultuous waters known only as “the smartphone industry,” announcing today plans to create its very own offering that’ll undoubtedly compete with the likes of HTC, Samsung, LG, Apple and the rest of the gang. The portfolio addition brings it a major step closer to realizing a “3- to 300-inch product line,” but outside of a launch pattern, no details whatsoever were dished out. We’re told that China will get the phone first, with Europe and the Americas following suit. We’ll go ahead and start the vaporware watch now, just so we aren’t caught off guard when there’s nary a mention of this at CES 2010.

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ViewSonic throws caution to the wind, plans own 3G smartphone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 May 2009 21:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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