Could it be that even the most ardent of Blackberry owners are preparing to turn their backs on their QWERTY machines once the iPhone 4G or iPhone HD is released?

This seems to be the case according to a survey conducted by Crowd Science. It revealed that a staggering 2 out of 5 Blackberry users said that they would to move over to the Appley handset once their contract comes up for renewal.

It appears that the major hang-up that the RIM phone lovers have is the lack of security features on the iPhone – you know, the backdoors that allow people to jailbreak the iPhone OS.

Are you a Blackberry user? Are you tempted to defect over and join us on the Apple side of the street?

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Gresso is perhaps not the first name that springs to mind when asked to name a mobile phone maker.

That’s probably because you don’t own a pad in Monaco, own a Formula 1 racing team or your own island.

Gresso’s expensive handsets can now be custom designed by the customers.

Gresso is bragging that the ‘Boutique’ is the first of its kind to be offered by a mobile manufacturer.

Their unique online option offers 40 options to choose from. These luxury options includes three types of titanium cases, two kinds of key pads and a choice of five exotic leather skins for back panel.

The client’s initials will be engraved to ensure ultimate exclusivity.

A deep breath and equally deep pockets are requires: Prices kick-off at $2200.

Once you’ve designed your phone and hit the button it’s constructed in Switzerland and be delivered to your door in two weeks.

Click here and give it a go ;)

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Soaker is an AK – AK-47 Aqua Fire Water Rifle

March 20, 2010 Click to read more →
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Super Soakers are fun and there has been some ‘cool’ designs but if I’m looking to get into a water fight I’m opting for this AK!
Say hello to my WMD (weapon of mass drenching) of choice: the AK-47 Aqua Fire.
This soggy shooter is equipped with a battery powered motorised trigger capable of firing 4 “bullets” [...]

Xbox 360 Coffin – Great for Goth Gamers or for Your RRoD Bereavement

March 20, 2010 Click to read more →
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Has your Xbox 360 received the cold hand of the Red Ring of Death?
Rather than smashing it into tiny pieces in a red rage why not ceremoniously bury the late console.
The coffin was designed by Alexis Vanamois and has space for an accompanying controller.
If only Alexis added coffin handles and perhaps space for the power [...]

Sexy Asus Designo Monitors get LED Love

March 20, 2010 Click to read more →
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Those Asus Designo monitors looked great when I last wrote about them back in September.
They’re soon gonna look a lot better soon as Asus have decided to lavish some LED backlighting love upon them.
There are four new models that will be sporting the new addition: MS248 (23.6″), MS238 (23″), MS228 (21.5″) and MS208 (20″)
The [...]

Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator Unlocked and Filmed

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If you are one of the many mere mortals that hasn’t been given the chance to grope Microsoft’s new mobile OS then you might find the video below of interest.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series emulator, that allows developers to have a play with the new mobile operating system and is due out later this year, [...]

Masked in Flight by Sruli Recht – Stops Swine-flu as well as Small Talk

March 20, 2010 Click to read more →
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If you want to avoid catching any air-born nastiness on your next long-haul flight and also want to avoid pointless chit-chat with the nosey person next to you then you need to check out Sruli Rect’s mask designs.
Masked in Flight is a collection of updated surgical masks constructed from laser-cut parchment.
These futuristic bug-stoppers feature [...]

22moo Game Bone for iPhone – Looks Great, is a Great idea but Would You?

March 20, 2010 Click to read more →
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The Game Bone may seem familiar – remember the awkward design that we first saw back in June last year?
This revamped version is starting to look pretty good to me and will give iPhone and iPod Touch owners real gaming controls consisting of four buttons and a D-pad.
The accessory features “a 2000mAh battery for additional [...]

Bluetooth Lightsaber Duelling comes to iPhone

March 19, 2010 Click to read more →
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Everyone that I know that owns an iPhone also has the lightsaber app loaded onto it
It goes without saying that the only thing that’s missing is that you can’t really duel amongst your friends.
Well, from next month you will be able to challenge your Sith or Jedi foes to a battle.
Just grab the [...]

Commodore 64 Revived with New Powers and Performance

March 19, 2010 Click to read more →
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Every geek of a certain age will remember the now classic Commodore 64.
It was at the height of 8 bit technology when it appeared in 1982 and over the following 12 years 17 million of the them were sold!
The new C64 will be sporting Intel’s 64-bit quad-core microprocessors and 3D graphics capabilities upto 500GB of [...]

Min-Kyu Choi Wins Design Award with Skinny Plug – Big Genius

March 18, 2010 Click to read more →
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You know the simple things are generally the best.
This redesign of the good ol’ British three-pin plug trounced the competition that included a twin-seat electric aircraft to the late Alexander McQueen’s last fashion collection!
Min-Kyu Choi’s rethinking of the safe yet bulky, fuse packing, plug has won the 2010 Brit Insurance Design of the Year award. [...]

Victorinox Challenges UK Hackers to Win £100,000 and Prove They’re Better Than USA

March 18, 2010 Click to read more →
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Victorinox, makers of the Swiss Army Knife, have a gadgety challenge for all you hackers and programmers.
They are launching a unique gadget specifically designed to keep your valuable and confidential documents private, The Victorinox Secure Pro and they’re boasting that it’s “completely un-hackable”.
Victorinox are so sure of themselves that they’re waving a £100,000 prize in [...]

Windows Phone 7 Can’t Multitask or Cut and Paste – Sound Familiar?

March 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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More news from the Mix10 developer conference – and this may wipe the smugness from the new Microsoft Phone brigade after flashing the gaming possibilities the other day!
Apparently Windows Phone 7 Series won’t support full multi-tasking, copy and paste functionality, microSD cards or Windows Phone apps. Hmmm……..
Before I get a load of angry [...]

UK Shoppers Gadgety Change in Taste

March 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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The Office for National Statistics has refreshed its hypothetical shopping basket again.
Alongside the addition of liquid soap, cereal bars and garlic bread (it’s the future!) comes the arrival of the more gadgety Blu-ray player!
If you’re not sure what all this is about the ONS updates this rather huge ‘basket’ to reflect the average urban consumer’s [...]

Three has Sony Vivaz HD Recording Phone – Spotify Preloaded but no Membership

March 16, 2010 Click to read more →
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The Sony Ericsson Vivaz has landed at the 3 store and with the promised Spotify.
Three has included the Spotify Symbian app all preloaded for you but Premium membership will come out of your own pocketses.
Yup, a bit of a kick in the teeth if you were expecting a similar deal to the HTC Hero 3 [...]

iPhone 4G to Appear as iPhone HD – There’s a Video to Prove it

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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Ok, so I had dubious pics before and now here’s an equally dubious vid that points to the iPhone 4G following the Zune naming method and appearing as the iPhone HD.
According to this ‘leaked commercial’ the next gen iPhone sports a radically new chassis in which to house the higher powered camera and the front [...]

Netflix Movie Streaming and Xbox Live Gaming on Windows Mobile 7 Series

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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Exciting times at MIX 10 where Microsoft took the Las Vegas stage in order to show off a lot of the applications that will soon be hitting the streets with Windows Phone 7 Series.
Because Silverlight 4 and the XNA Framework have been baked into the Windows Phone platform this unleashes quite a bit of power [...]

T3 Push Tablet PC Design Forwards with Medion and The Alloy

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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It can’t have passed you by that Tablet puters seem to becoming de rigueur recently with the likes of iPad, Courier, Streak and even PSP Tablet, etc
Well, those gadgety lovers over at T3 have had a chat with The Alloy and Medion and together have come up with their own rather nice spin on the [...]

XBox 360 Games on iPhone Before Windows Mobile 7

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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Do you get twitchy when you’re away from your Xbox 360 for more than an hour?
Do you happen to own an iPhone?
Well, you could get Xbox 360 games on your iPhone soon – and it may hit the Appley hand-held before landing on Windows Phone 7.
Odd as it may sound but then this isn’t [...]

Fancy Self-Winding Clockwork Phone: CELSIUS X VI II Micro-Mechanical Remontage Papillon Tourbillon Mobile Phone

March 14, 2010 Click to read more →
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I’m not a huge fan of garish, overly expensive mobile phones – I just don’t see the point unless you’re a Z-List ‘celeb’ and lack the imagination as to what to spend your fee for embarrassing yourself on the latest reality TV show.
Thing is, I do love mechanical watches (RADO especially if anyone wants to [...]