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Smartphones: the next frontier for branded merchandise?

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Dushyant Shrikhande

Back in the 1990s up until the early 2000s and the dot com bust, the corporate world went through a phase of creating or acquiring websites. Quite a few large corporations wanted their own website- their entry into this new age of the internet and web browsing. Fast forward to 2015 and a similar trend seems to be on the rise, but this time with smartphones. Major corporations, most recently Pepsi, seem to have gained a sudden interest in these pocket computers, and all of them it seems, want a slice of this “mobile ...

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That Commodore smartphone is starting to look like vaporware

Posted on October 8, 2015October 8, 2015 by Michael Fisher

Back in July, we reported almost gleefully on the return of the fabled Commodore computer brand, which was being resurrected by an enterprising UK-based company for the purpose of selling a nostalgia-fueled smartphone to Gen X geeks just like us. Sure, we thought, it was probably just a rebadged version of a generic Android handset, but that Commodore logo on the home key and “PET” on the back was enough to get our attention … and the preloaded 8- and 16-bit emulators for playing ...

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Smartphones just got cool again | Pocketnow Weekly 157

Posted on July 17, 2015July 19, 2015 by Michael Fisher

Update: Warning – peaking audio levels at the beginning and end of this podcast. Enjoy!Yo dudes. This week was gnar, dudes.First we get word from Commodore that they’re (sorta) back and they’ve got a fleshtone phone to prove it. Then we hear that some kind of modern-day Iron Man is building a phone out of a material called “liquidmorphium.” Then we go hands-on with an all-metal, super-stylized ZTE phone, before hearing that Samsung’s new smartwatch is gonna have a digital crown and a rotating bezel control. And that’s not even half of ...

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3 cool smartphones to cure the dull-phone doldrums

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Michael Fisher

Anyone accusing modern smartphones of being dull probably needs his eyes examined. With phones like the extravagant Galaxy S6 edge, the curvaceous LG G4 and the precision-machined HTC One M9 on store shelves, we seem in the midst of a golden age of Android smartphone design.But here’s the thing: all of those are mainstream ...

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Commodore returns with the Commodore PET smartphone

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Anton D. Nagy

Some of you weren’t born (heck, most of us weren’t alive) in 1977 when Commodore International started producing the Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor), a personal/home computer, considered the ancestor of the Commodore 64. Fast forward to today (several PET models and other computer related attempts later) and we meed the Commodore PET smartphone (named after the computer).It runs a custom version of Android 5.0 Lollipop that allows users to play old Commodore 64 and Amiga games thanks to two bundled emulators (VICE C64 and the Uae4All2-SDL Amiga). As far as ...

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