Dryer Box hits Japan, promises to dry out soaked cellphones for $12
Chances are you've probably heard of the rice method for drying out water-logged gadgets -- and possibly been in the unfortunate position of having to try it -- but it looks like folks in Japan now have a considerably more high-tech option at their disposal: the Dryer Box. That's reportedly already found its way into some Yodobashi Camera shops in Tokyo, and promises to dry out your soaked cellphone (or other gadget, presumably) in about 30 minutes for
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: camera, dryer box, jmc, minutes, more-high-tech, other-gadget, position, probably-heard, rice, soaked, their-disposal, tokyo, unfortunate, yodobashi camera
Lenovo talks up LePhone, shows off app store ahead of May launch
Lenovo's Android-based LePhone (not LePhono, sadly) may not be officially launching in China until next month , but the company did just hold a launch event of sorts in the country, in which it revealed a few new details and did a fair bit of boasting. According to The Wall Street Journal , Lenovo says that it's aiming to sell "millions" of the phones in the next five years, and "tens of millions" after that -- although not just involving this particular phone, obviously
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: acquisition, apple, cellphone, country, doubt, engadget, handset, launch, lenovo, lenovo lephone, lephone, position, tweaked
BlackBerry 9650 spotted in the wild again, ‘Bold’ branding confirmed
The Tour branding never made a lot of sense -- RIM's most recently-released high-end portrait QWERTY device for CDMA networks occupies the same market position as the Bold over on GSM networks, so the name difference is kind of arbitrary and more than just a little bit confusing. It's all good, though, because CrackBerry has confirmation here that the Tour's replacement -- the 9650 -- is going to be wearing a Bold badge loud and proud around back by the 3.2 megapixel camera
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: bit, BlackBerry, confirmation, inthewild, over-on-gsm, position, rim, sucker, time, tour
Motorola ‘jumped the gun’ with details of Droid’s Android 2.1 update
Turns out all that excitement and frothing at the mouth was for nothing, as Motorola's surprisingly nippy move to Android 2.1 on the Droid isn't going to be all that rapid after all. The Moto Owners' Forum manager has admitted that a few trigger-happy souls rushed out the details of the Droid's upcoming OS update ahead of time, and the current situation is quite as it was before this news: your Droid will be chomping down on an Eclair , just not as soon as you might have been led to hope
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: belief, engadget, excitement, forum, moto, motorola, motorola-droid, original-source, owners, patience, position, result, situation, virtue