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It may not be as big a surprise as Google hoped it would be at this point, but the company has now officially announced its NFC-based Google Wallet mobile payment service, complete with backing from a number of retail and financial partners including Subway, Macy’s, Walgreens, Toys ‘R Us, First Data, Citibank and MasterCard — [...]

You know that iPhone you are holding. The one with the password and encryption. I hate to tell you, but it’s been cracked. Russian security firm Elcomsoft is behind this crack and the team over there is smart. They took a brute-force password cracker and bundled it with a decryption tool that uses established methods [...]

We’ve seen panorama add-ons for the iPhone before, but Kogeto’s offering is quite a bit more pocketable than other crowd-funded solutions. The Kogeto Dot snaps onto an iPhone 4 in your choice of pastel colors, and catches 360-degree video when placed face down. It’s got an accompanying iOS app that will un-distort the video for sharing, [...]

Today, Motorola and Verizon have finally announced the Droid X2. The device comes with a huge 4.3-inch touch screen capable of producing 720p video. The phone also comes equipped with an 8MP camera that allows HD video recording. A powerful NVIDIA Tegra dual-core 1GHz processor will power the phone and allow users to utilize the [...]

Looking for a handset that harkens back to simpler, pre-smartphone era, without losing the Googley luster of Android? We’ve got the perfect phone for you, and all you’ve got to do is move to Japan and get aSoftbank Mobile account. Sharp, one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in its native country, rolled out the retro-future Gingerbread-packing [...]

Could it be a coincidence that LG announces the world’s first Dual-Core Smartphone, the LG Optimus 2X on on the same day that the Nexus S goes on sale at Best Buy. Who can keep up? We believe in having a market with lots of competition and choices, but it’s becoming a bit overwhelming for [...]

PowerMat was one of the first wireless charging pads to hit the market, and we finally got our hands on one! Alas, we can eliminate all of our cords, get rid of the clutter, and free up some slots on our power strip. The PowerMat Home and Office Mat with Powercube has positions to charge [...]