From a classic Pha post on TechCrunch, commenter Chuck Watson alerts us of the following:

Super Secret Insider News –

AT&T has decided to lower their credit score requirements for the first several days of the iPhone 3G sales. They want to get it into the hands of EVERYBODY they can. So if credit has been an issue for you in the past it may be worth the try this time around.

Could it be true? AT&T has had a pretty strict policy for deadbeats with low credit scores. I can definitely see the company looking the other way for a few weeks to reel in new iPhone 3G customers.

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I love how sites are calling this GSM phone the “Anti-iPhone” as the name couldn’t suit the HOP1800 better. Remember the disposable cellphone idea from years back? This is it. Ten bucks gets you a phone from Hop-on that works with over 40 carriers, including all the major players.

As you can see in the picture, there’s no display. You get four hours of talk time, 16 MIDI ringers and Braille markings on the keypad. Reasonably thin and ultimately cheap, the HOP1800 is the perfect phone for a weekend at the beach or Burning Man. Just don’t expect to be Twittering with it anytime soon.

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The social networking site Twitter has more function than meets the eye. Hacknmod.com has shown that with Twitter, connecting your laptop to electrical devices will have you turning them on and off by simply sending a text message to your Twitter account. No need for “clap on, clap off” anymore. Just curtail the text message so you can spam it, turning your apartment into your very own rave. Get everyone in your building in on it and you all could display an illuminated game. The possibilities are endless!

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Imagine the possibilities of having a tiny mobile-projector inside your cellphone. You could hold your own intimate private screenings, showcase the bestiality porn you found on IRC last night or broadcast. Really, the possibilities are endless. Thanks to John Van Scoter over at Texas Instruments, we now know that some cellphones will receive a portable projector by the end of 2008.

According to Van Scoter, he believes that by 2010, projectors will be as popular as built-in cameras. Some may even feature DLP technology to enhance the clarity of the movie being played. It’s really only a matter of time before hackers get a hold of some of these projection-enabled devices and use the projectors in another setting or homebrew device.

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When I was a kid I must have subconsciously wanted to become a businessman or something along those lines. At least I knew I wanted to use the phone a lot. I remember playing with my fake phone for hours, and then when I wasn’t playing with my fake phone, I’d be holding two fingers up to the side of my head, pretending my hand was a phone. Who was I talking to anyway?

The Handphone concept literally takes your hand, throws a few wires and doodads on your fingers, and turns your fingers into a portable cellphone device. The navigation and control of the phone is done using natural gestures, as well as including voice commands. One thing we’ll say is that the LCD display on this device is in desperate need of an upgrade. (more…)

Open your ears, comic book and mobile phone freaks alike. LG is gearing up for the upcoming release of the Iron Man motion picture by releasing an exclusive special edition version of the LG Shine 720, the LG Iron Man Phone.

Decked out with 18k gold, the Iron Man phone can’t be bought in any store. In fact, the phone is only available to 20 lucky contest winners, which will be named on June 16th. To enter for a chance to win the $1500 Iron Man Phone, head over to InsideTheSuit.com. The site also happens to be pretty awesome itself. (more…)

If you own a Ferrari, there’s a good chance you already converse with it anyway. “Yeah, that’s a bad little car!” You make me sick, with your shameless flirtation. You might as well just skip the foreplay and just pick up one of these F1 Phones.

The F1 Phone, designed to resemble the Ferrari, even has some moderately impressive specs for a novelty cellphone. Offering dual-band support (900/1800 MHz), a 2.2-inch touch-sensitive LCD display with 260k colors, a music player with equalizer, a video player, a camera for maximum picture size of 1280 x 1024 pixels and even a video recorder, along with an assortment of other goodies. You can get yours for around $190. (more…)

A little more than a year ago we brought you the Ultimate Smokers’ Phone, a device which was made to look like a Chinese-brand of cigarettes’ pack, and even held real cigarettes. This time around, we’ve found a adaptation of the device which is much more Americana, featuring the design of the well-known Marlboro brand.

The Dual-band Marlboro phone features a 1.8″ LCD which offers a display of 260,000 colors and a 176 x 220 pixel resolution, not to mention a smoke whenever you need one. The form factor remains similar to the original, though now with a cowboy killer flair! You can get your own for ?70.62, or about $140. More images after the jump! (more…)

Woman in the Muslim world are slowly, but surely, developing their own identities within their communities. Sure, they might still get their feminine genitals mangled and destroyed if they so much as breathe in the direction of another man, but heaven forbid that they don’t have proper mobile and technological rights.

Markus Kison’s Bluetooth Burka is a step in the right direction. So, the ladies still need to hide almost every single portion of their skin, but as can be seen from the beautiful (?) model walking the runway above, she is proudly sporting the newest of Burka technology, featuring an outfit donning a Bluetooth antenna, allowing woman to transmit data to mobile devices in their proximity. Classy! — Andrew Dobrow

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Cellphones are getting so small these days that you totally lose your cool factor by having your phone be so inconspicuous. I, for one, want people to know that I have an awesome phone. If you feel the need to draw some attention to your mobile life, YUBZ has created an old-style telephone receiver to add on to your cellphone.

Effectively, making a wireless device partially wireless defeats the purpose of trying to live a mobile life. But we all know fashion causes pain (see: embarrassment) some times. They don’t say “beauty is pain” for nothing. — Andrew Dobrow

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