Speaking of bricking, we should probably give you our initial word on the topic. Unfortunately, our official word for now is that we have no official word. We’re hearing mixed reports from the wild that unlocked iPhones might be getting bricked, but nothing that we feel confident in repeating just yet. The moral for now? If you unlocked your iPhone, don’t upgrade your firmware yet. If you simply must download it, iTunes will give you the option to download but not install, so keep the line drawn there for the time being.

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There’s a question here, of if we liked the stock iPhone before, why not now? First off, the verdict was based on the future value of the iPhone once Apple had fixed a lot of the quirks that resulted our "wait" verdict. Right now, it seems like Apple isn’t going to innovate that much, since much of our list of what needed to be patched is still unfulfilled. And even worse, they’re not allowing others to help.

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The set includes 5,000 pieces, and apparently a 4 pound manual.

Hopefully the Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon set comes down in price some so a few more of us can try it out!

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Nokia has announced some slick new phones, the N81, and the N82 (pretty boring names…). I really like the look. I’m usually not a fan of Nokia too.

The slider-style N81 looks it’ll be the successor to their N91 musicphone (except less, uh, busted-looking) and sport a full 8GB of memory, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, quad-band EDGE and 2100MHz HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The N82 has a more traditional candybar form-factor and’ll have a five megapixel camera with Xenon flash and auto-focus Carl Zeiss lens, quad-band GSM (doesn’t say whether it’ll be GRPS or EDGE, but we’re guessing EDGE), 2100MHz HSDPA, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, integrated GPS, FM tuner, and a microSD memory card slot.

The N81 sounds good, with the 8GB of memory, Bluetooth 2.0, and WiFi (!). The N82 looks like it’s getting everything but the kitchen sink. Wonder how the battery life is on it…

Now if we could only have a phone that has good battery life, sounds good, and does basic phone functions well.

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According to this story at joystiq.com:

“The Wii version comes bundled with a microphone, it’s a USB microphone and it’s probably going to be the first mic for the Wii,” he said in a video interview with IGN. Does this mean we will have to sit in a close proximity of the Wii or will there simply be a wireless dongle that attaches to the back? We’re betting on the latter, as being connected to a console while jumping around like a buffoon is a surefire way to destroy your system.

That sounds pretty cool to me!

The M700 is the latest Pocket PC from E-TEN, the Taiwanese electronics mkaer. It’s style is very nice; with the slide-out QWERTY keyboard. There really isn’t too much information but it will be ready for the holidays.

This is what we do have though:

Unfortunately, there’s no 3G to be enjoyed, but if you happen to find yourself in a WiFi hotspot, you can get your high-speed data fix that way. Other key specs include WinMo 5, GPS, Bluetooth, Push email, quad-band GSM, FM radio, and a camera.

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Fossil has announced they will be selling a new watch that has caller ID build in. It will currently sync up with Sony Ericsson mobile phones through the Bluetooth interface.

The watch will include a 96-by-16 pixel OLED screen.

Too bad the watches only work with Sony Ericsson phones.

The watch is expected to sell at $199.

Check out the article here.

Vodafone has announced the new 710 clamshell phone. This is the first 3G mobile phone from Vodafone that will use their own brand name. The phone is being manufactured in China by Huawei Technologies.

“The idea is to bring affordability into the mainstream 3G space, where we really can extend the addressable market for 3G devices,” Jens Schulte-Bockum, Vodafone’s Global Director of Terminals, told reporters in Hong Kong.

“We are very confident we can deliver against that in the next couple of months, especially for the Christmas season in Europe which is the peak season of our sales.”

It will be interesting to see how feature rich the Vodafone 710 clamshell phone will be.

It looks like it would cost about $150.

Check out the Vodafone 710 here.

As if most of these technology names weren’t difficult enough to spell and capitalize correctly we now get to work with the hTc MTeoR. It is annoyingly a pain to type, but it is not annoying to look at.

It is a very stylish piece of technology, much sexier than the Treo, or the Blackberry.

The MTeoR runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone, singleband 2100 MHz UMTS, triband 900, 1800 100 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Bluetooth 2.0 without EDR support as well as IrDA while it is sporting 128 MB of ROM and 64 MB of RAM which can be extended through microSD memory cards.

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