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Palm Pre hacked for Verizon network [Video]

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 10th 2009 1 Comment

Squint and you can see the Verizon logo One enterprising Palm Pre owner has hacked his smartphone to run on Verizon’s network, rather than Sprint’s. “cleanser” of the PreCentral forums has managed to get both voice and text messaging to work as expected, but so far data access is presenting a problem.

The hack involved attempting to persuade a Verizon Wireless customer services’ rep to add the MEID – the electronic serial number and unique identifier of the handset – to cleanser’s account with them. Once that had been done, the network accepted the Pre as just another CDMA phone.

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RAmos T11 720p PMP gets Android hack

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 10th 2009 No Comments

RAmos PMPs have been quietly collecting plaudits for their excellent screen quality, and it seems the company might also have a future with Android, albeit unofficially. One RAmos T11 owner decided to give his WVGA touchscreen PMP a shot of Google’s open-source platform, finding the Texas Instruments 202.5MHz DaVinci CPU played quite nicely with the OS.

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Wiimote-controlled 15 tonne grapple [Video]

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jul 8th 2009 No Comments

Not, perhaps, the sort of thing most SlashGear readers will be able to try at home, but if you’ve ever wanted to see a 15 tonne hydraulic grapple controlled by a humble Wiimote then here’s the video for you. Simon Wittber of Australian firm Transmin is lucky enough to have not one but two remote-controlled grapple arms, each toting a vicious looking six-claw pincer, and so he and his team decided to link up Nintendo’s controller for some afternoon entertainment.

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Ultrasn0w carrier unlock for iPhone 3GS released

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jul 8th 2009 No Comments

The iPhone Dev Team have updated their redsn0w jailbreak and ultrasn0w carrier unlock tools to work with the iPhone 3GS, citing the release of rival app purplera1n as forcing their hand. The Team had originally intended to wait until iPhone 3GS adoption was more widespread before distributing their tools, in the hope that it would give Apple less time to close the security hole on which the unlock depends.

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Eee PC LED message indicator mod

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 7th 2009 No Comments

We’re used to our mobile devices flashing at us to let us know when there’s a missed call to be addressed, new SMS message or battery problem, but it’s less common for a notebook or netbook to blink for attention. JustBlair decided to change that, adding a three-color LED to his Eee PC 901 that flashes whenever a new Twitter, email or IM message comes in.

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iPhone 3GS jailbreak “purplera1n” tool released

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 3rd 2009 No Comments

The iPhone Dev Team may have held off on releasing their ultrasn0w iPhone 3GS jailbreaking and unlocking tool, but that hasn’t stopped long-time Apple hacker George Hotz. He’s released a tool called purplera1n which, while not unlocking the iPhone 3GS, does at least jailbreak it so that unofficial third-party apps can be installed.

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Mighty Mouse donates ball to Eee PC 901 [Video]

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 3rd 2009 No Comments

More and more notebooks and netbooks are getting multitouch-capable touchpads, but if you’re chugging away with your existing machine and you want some straightforward multi-directional scrolling then you may need to take things into your own hands. As you can see from the newly-acquired nubbin in the right palm-rest on this Eee PC 901, modder Dave Astolfo decided to extract the trackball from an Apple Mighty Mouse and implant it into his netbook.

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HTC Hero ROM hacks put Sense UI on G1 and Magic [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 30th 2009 No Comments

Over at our Google-obsessed sibling site Android Community we’ve been keeping track of the latest efforts to put HTC Sense onto existing Android smartphones. After HTC’s confirmation last week that “with Google” branded devices wouldn’t be getting an upgrade to Sense, the company’s latest enhanced UI, efforts to persuade leaked Hero ROMs to run on the HTC Magic and T-Mobile G1 redoubled; happily there are demo videos which show just how well these efforts have been going.

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Sharp Mebius NJ70A netbook gets second touchscreen mod [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 29th 2009 No Comments

We can’t say we looked at the Sharp Mebius NJ70A netbook – with its nifty touchscreen trackpad – and thought “what this needs is a second touchscreen”, but then we’re not SKY at UMPC Fever. After unboxing the N270-based netbook, he loaded up Windows 7 and then installed a touchscreen layer so as to use handwriting recognition direct onto the 10-inch display.

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Edelweiss PC casemod makes Thermaltake look dull

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 29th 2009 No Comments

Reminding us of Thermaltake’s monster Level 10 PC case, this is actually the Edelweiss PC, the handiwork of Pius Geiger and in fact initially constructed all the way back in 2006. Updated this year with a crisp new white color-scheme, the water-cooled Edelweiss separates out drives, graphics and power-supply, and then illuminates them with a discrete but effective lighting system.

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