Based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform, Sony-Ericsson’s first phone to use Google’s Android operating system is codenamed “Rachel” and will join the high-end Xperia lineup. According to German mag Mobil, it could have a 1GHz CPU, 7.2 Mbps data, and an 8 megapixel camera. Depicted on the photos are a 3.5mm jack and a mini-USB connector. Exclusive: Sony Ericsson Mobile unveils first Android mobile [Mobil via Unwired View ]

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Rachel, Sony-Ericsson’s first Android Phone

George Hotz put out an iPhone 3GS jailbreak for Windows, with OSX to follow soon. This allows the installation of third-party software not approved for Apple’s appstore, but doesn’t unlock it for use with T-Mobile or other GSM networks. Download it. Make sure you have windows(but not 7), the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with 3.0 firmware. Connect your iPhone normally. Click “make it ra1n”. Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app. Hopefully you’ll figure out what to do from there. Hotz explicitly calls out the iPhone dev-team for waiting until 3.1 to release the crack. Normally I don’t make tools for the general public, and rather wait for the dev team to do it. But guys, whats up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played. We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes. It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the “last” hole in the iPhone. What last hole…this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week. Fantastic. I wonder if this alternative release will provide Apple with an opportunity to quickly jail the 3GS again in 3.1. Preventing just this scenario was ostensibly the reason for Dev-team’s decision to wait. I make it ra1n [iPhonejtag]

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iPhone 3GS jailbreak leaked, Dev Team slammed

Just in from Disney is today’s Mundane Gadget Spam of the Day. Tinker Bell’s unnervingly expressive CGI thighs storm into the 21st century in an exciting cellphone-based game. Explore “Tinker Bell” — the mobile game! To download the game now, text the following: Verizon customers: Text TINK to GAME (4263)* AT&T customers: Text TINK to FUN (386)* TMobile customers: Text TINK to GAMES (42637)* It is some ghastly puzzle app. Remember to get your parents’ permission before texting!

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An amazing story in the New York Times reads like a science fiction pastiche of the last century: Lee Si-kap, a shy farmer living in this central South Korean town, holds a record: He owns more satellite dishes than any other South Korean — 85 of them, receiving 1,500 satellite television channels from more than 100 countries, some as far away as South Africa and Canada. Photo: Choe Sang-Hun/International Herald Tribune

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How to receive thousands of satellite channels

Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Qualcomm, Research in Motion, Samsung, and Texas Instruments have all agreed to accept microUSB as the standard phone charger format starting in 2010. Wonderful, welcome development, and I hope it means we’ll get this by proxy here in North America. Apple playing along has interesting ramifications to not just the iPhone, but to the entire iPod family: Will the long-standing Dock Connector, used by countless third-party accessories, finally be on the way out?

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Europe, meet your new phone charger standard

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Pre takes a bite out of iPhone in new Sprint ad

Coming in 2009 across the globe, the attractive HTC Hero . The whole thing is covered in Teflon, making it perfect for frying. And in a first for an Android phone, it includes a proper 3.5mm headphone jack.

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HTC’s latest Android phone, the Hero

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One of things that long-time Macintosh owners will tell you is that the resell value for Apple computers trends higher than other PC brands. It’s not uncommon for even three- or four-year-old Macs to sell for hundreds of dollars, while PCs of similar vintage go for less. It’s the sort of thing you tell yourself before you drop a couple thousand dollars on Apple hardware to mute the sting a bit, but in my experience it tends to be true. I just sold my iPhone 3G—a well-worn 16GB model that was listed with a nice, big picture of the crack in the plastic up around the headphone jack, and isn’t unlocked—for $300 on eBay. I’m a bit shocked, frankly. You can pick up the same model brand new at AT&T for $99, or $200 for a 3GS, with a two-year contract. But for those that don’t want to sign up with AT&T, it seems like it’s worth paying a few hundred to use an iPhone on another network. That certainly makes the $500 I paid for a new iPhone 3GS feel a lot less painful. It reminds me an awful lot of what it’s like to be a Mac owner who upgrades every 12-18 months. A high initial investment lets me use gear of recent revision, provided I’m willing to keep it in decent shape and resell the old stuff. And in this case there’s an added bonus: I can free an iPhone from the bonds of AT&T service. It’s almost like a good deed.

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Reseller market for iPhone 3G is a lot like used Macs

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