tom horsley got rid of his land line but didn’t want to lug his cell everywhere with him when he was in the house. his solution was to hack together a light detection circuit, a wireless doorbell remote, and some paper mache into a giant incoming call noisemaker. if you want to build your own, you should also check out version 2 that he is working on.
somebody over at spark fun decided that those 1980s zach morris cell phones just weren’t retro-cool enough. keith swett sent us the link to this hack which involves retrofitting an old 1950s at&t rotary phone with modern day tri-band cell hardware.
make sure to turn it off when you are in the theatre.
Using the USB cable for your Motorola V300, V400+ etc. phone (via Bluetooth won’t work), the P2Kman seem utility, a hex editor, and this tutorial, you can probably teach your phone to make you coffee in the morning. There’s a master list of hacks here, and a few mods especially for the V551 here. Go nuts, and let us know if you can figure out how to make those cool little designs in the cappuccino.
here are 3 great treo 650 hacks from palminfocenter–bluetooth dial up networking, using wifi and custom roms.
the custom rom tool is my fav, i’m going to see what type of trouble i cause with that.
hey, the treo might be the next ipod for hacks if this keeps up, then people can complain about all the treo hacks.
i cooked up a neat how-to for this month’s popular science magazine, how-to get new apps on your otherwise locked up sidekick. rss readers, other messaging clients, movie time apps. the world is yours mang! well, after you sign up for an unlock key, download the sdk, load the apps…
can’t wait for verizon to get their act together and start carrying the treo 650? right now only sprint is the one that has ’em, but a few people over at treocentral have figured out to hack the firmware on the 650 so it’ll work on verizon’s network.
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man, i am disappointed that i didn’t think of this when i had the n-gage, most likely because i didn’t like the device and tossed it, but now this mod kit ($15) allows you to leave the n-gage on and swap out games really quickly. nicely done guys.
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