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You know how we'll know when we're living in the future? When user manuals for gadgets start leaking out before that gadget even officially exists . Oh, that's now. Welcome to the future! If you're just itchin' to know all the right places to touch the Droid 2, you're in luck: the user manual has just leaked out.

Earlier this week we called on industrial designers to bring consumer electronics back to an age of handsome, dignified character. Designer Sylvain Gerber seems to disagree , unveiling an enormous wacky iPhone dock shaped like a snowflake and covered in lights. More »

Those large quantities of nighttime data transfer that appear on your AT&T cellphone bill? It's not new, and it's nothing to worry about—even though somehow it's getting more attention now. It's just routine updates for billing. More »

Something weird is going on at night with your iPhone: Large quantities of data are being transferred without any authorization. It's not just a few bytes. It's dozens of megabytes , and nobody knows what's happening, but it's a problem. More »

Motorola has just announced its financial results for Q2 2010, reporting total sales of $5.4 billion, which is slightly below what it recorded in the same period last year. Earnings came in at $162 million or $0.07 per share, compared to GAAP earnings of $26 million or $0.01 per share in Q2 2009. Zooming in on its Mobile Devices unit, Motorola reported sales of $1.7 billion, down 6 percent compared...

Motorola's Android smartphone business is growing, but not as quickly as some analysts had projected. The company said today that it shipped 2.7 million smartphones in Q2, up from 2.3 million in the first quarter. But that was below recently raised expectations of 3.2 million from Morgan Stanley's Ehud Geldblum, and 3.1 million from Citi's Jim Suva. The Reuters consensus was 2.7 million smartphone...

If you're still a loyal iPhone 3G owner and upgraded to iOS 4, you've probably noticed one major new thing: slowness. You can downgrade to 3.1.3 , but more than one Gizmodo commenters suggest a fix that's worked for them. More »

Apple fans still rocking the iPhone 3G and 3GS who were fast to grab up the new iOS 4 operating system when it was made available for the smartphones were also the first to realize the new OS has some issues on older handsets. The WSJ reports that Apple is currently probing reported issues with iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G. We haven’t heard as much about the iPhone 3G and 3GS issues with the OS update...

It seems that the 250GB Xbox 360 S hard drive can be purchased as a separate accessory, according to this box shot of the 4GB Xbox 360, where it states under the accessories section that the new hard drive is 'sold separately'. Too bad what is printed isn't reality just yet, although we can more or less look forward to that happening when the 4GB Xbox 360 hits the market sometime next month. After...