Patrick Havens on October 3rd, 2007

In time for the holidays, Verizon Wireless is launching a cell phone that looks a lot like the hottest phone so far this year: Apple Inc.’s iPhone.Like the iPhone, the LG Voyager features a large touch screen, a camera and extensive multimedia, Web browsing and e-mail capabilities.However, it one-ups the iPhone by folding open lengthwise [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 13th, 2007

I finally got my first bill from AT&T in a cardboard box containing 300 pages of it. Apparently, they give you a detail transaction of every text message sent and received. Completely unnecessary.
[Tasty Blog Snack]
What she doesn’t note in that blurb is that every line is for $0.00. They are detailing everything, call text [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 26th, 2007

Samsung SGHP52, what is it. It looks sexy enough to be my next phone, but there is little information. And to make the tease worse, so far the only news stated besides the fact I’ve quoted below is that there is no idea when it will be sold outside of South Korea.
The news is [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 17th, 2007

In late June, the iPhone hit the US market. Apple aficionados queued for days to be first in line to get their greedy little paws on the long awaited gadget. fudder-employee Marc Esslinger is an Apple-fan as well – also because he has a very special relationship to Apple. His father Hartmut Esslinger designed the [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 9th, 2007

Greetings irrational fanboys and Apple haters! Ten days and 12,000 words later, our stone-cold look at what it means to own an iPhone is done. Before we get to the in depth hands-on, here’s the verdict I’d give any good friend: Wait to buy the iPhone.
Wait for What?
Wait until Apple updates the software on this [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 29th, 2007

OK… considering all the news about the release of the iphone today I wasn’t surprised that someone disassembled it. Well I have to say that this is one of the clearest and best disassembly I’ve seen.
As I’ve seen:
(18:27:19) Me: good find
(18:27:22) Me: very detailed
(18:31:41) Him: I would have thought the logic board would be bigger
(18:31:55) [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 28th, 2007

I’ve seen many reviews about the iphone. Notes about people waiting in line for an iphone. And yes I’ve had talks with Apple Employees who are drooling over the iphone and can’t wait to officially get them. But I’ll be one of those people who just nod their head at Letterman’s Comment:
Me? iPhone? [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 29th, 2007

I was sorta peeved that Apple went with Cingular when they announced the iphone.  To have it locked into a service provider that has bleh coverage and who I’ve heard nothing but problems from didn’t seem like an Apple thing.  And then I read this:
Verizon Wireless could have been the first wireless carrier to [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 10th, 2007

Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday it is suing Apple Inc. in federal court over Apple’s use of Cisco’s registered iPhone trademark for its new handheld device.
Cisco has owned the trademark on the name “iPhone” since 2000, when it acquired InfoGear Technology Corp., which originally registered the name.
And three weeks ago, Cisco’s Linksys division put the [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 10th, 2006

Man gets $218 trillion phone bill
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia –A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.
Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father’s phone line in January after he died and settled [...]

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