Eavesdropping On GSM

Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a method of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM calls and text messages by using a few cheap pay-as-you-go cellphones and a variety of open source software. The ability to listen in on cellphone calls has been available to law enforcement agencies for a [...]

Solar Powered Cellphone

Ever been caught with a dead cellphone and no source of juice anywhere to power that puppy up? Come on now, you know you have. Well, Sharp is ready to settle that problem once and for all. By dropping your conventional backlit LCD and using a passive matrix LCD screen the SH6230C will use a [...]

A Cell Phone For Grama

With the massive amount of multi-function “smart” phones out there people tend to loose the focus of what cell phones actually are; phones. My mother couldn’t care less if her phone plays mp3′s or if it’s got a twitter client. All she wants is a phone and a super easy one to boot. As she [...]

iPhone Coming To Telus, A CDMA Carrier

Looks like Apple and Telus will break the exclusivity bond here in Canada as Telus is now reporting that they will be offering the iPhone 3G S here in Canada in November. Funny thing about all of this is that Telus is a CDMA carrier. Could this signal the end to the GSM only iPhone? [...]

T-Mobile G1 – First Official Android Phone

It’s official and it’s here (okay, not in Canada just yet). The first official smart phone running the most anticipated OS since the iPhone, Google’s Android. With a beautiful screen and full QWERTY keyboard, what more can you ask for. Read on for all the details and watch the video for an in-depth look at [...]

Chinavision’s Projector Cellphone

3M just announced that their MPro110 tiny projector would hit the market in late September. This was awesome news for people who are on the road a lot and have to lug around projectors to do presentations. But did you know that Chinavision is already selling a tiny projector? Built into a cell phone no-less. [...]

Meet The Peek

Meet the Peek, a $100 device that will deliver you your email anywhere you can get cell coverage for $20/month. Think of it as a poorman’s Blackberry. This looks like the perfect device to pick up for some fun hacking projects. OS – Peekux CPU – CPU is an embedded 104Mhz ARM7 that is part [...]

Portable Cell Phone Jammer

Nothing drives me more insane that people who wonder around in public places yapping on the cell phones at sound levels that could make you deaf. This little device will easily quite your immediate area from those idiots who think their phone conversations should be broadcasted to the whole world. I would like to mention [...]

HP iPaq 900 Set To Ship

The HP iPAQ 900 will ship starting on Jun 30th. The long over due “Blackberry Looking” unit will be powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, have a tri-band UMTS/HSDPA and quad-band GSM/EDGE radios. In addition, GPS navigation, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and a 3 megapixel camera. This unit sure looks like a Blackberry, but will it function like [...]

3G, GPS, MobileMe, Oh My

After all of the rumours (what else is new) the 3G iPhone is finally here. Hits the shelves on July 11th (in Canada too!) $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB Black, with a white 16GB model GPS In a clear action of trying to play catch up to Google, Apple also announced a suite of [...]

Super Tiny Listening Device

A few weeks ago we reported on the super robot that claimed to be undetectable except it was like 2 feet long, you’d have to be blind not to notice that elephant in the room. Now this little gizmo is the smallest GSM listening device known to man. If works off of quad band GSM [...]

HTC Kaiser releases 10.26.07 in US

The HTC TyTN II P4550 (HTC Kaiser 120) (AT&T 8925) is a king among phones. And, instead of exclaiming about how sweet this phone is, I’ll let it speak for itself: Processor: 400 MHz RAM: 128 MB RAM Storage: 145 MB Expansion Slot: microSD, microSDHC, Transflash, SDIO Cellular Networks Supported: GSM, CSD, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, [...]

GSM Phone Line Interceptor

This tri-band phone and room interceptor is capable of monitoring just about any landline call, regardless of whether they are incoming or outgoing and transmitting conversations to your location via GSM. It is smart enough to detect voices in a room automatically, using its extremely sensitive microphone to transmit the ongoing conversation. The internal li-ion [...]

PS3 to receive tuner, DVR capabilities before March 2008

It’s been rumored before, now Sony’s marketing manager for Computer Entertainment in New Zealand has apparently, and likely pre-emptively, unveiled Sony’s intentions to turn the PS3 into a digital video recorder. Sony’s Warwick Light is quoted in an interview with New Zealand’s The Press as saying, “We’re also hoping next year – about the same [...]

AppleTV USB Hack

Two days after Apple TV Hacks published the much sought-after USB hard drive hack for the Apple TV, the site is making a call for help to polish the modification. For now, the hack isn’t for the faint of heart – it requires some mucking around at the command line, not to mention an Intel [...]

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