You didn’t seriously think the Mac Mini would be spared , did you? The maniacal customizers over at Colorware have added Apple’s latest bit of desktop furniture to their stable of “have it your way” electronics, with a $250 price tag for the paintjob by itself and a $1,000 levy if you want them to procure the hardware as well. Hey, we know that’s expensive, but somebody’s got to be buying all these crazy-hued gadgets for the company to keep going, right?

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Mac Mini suffers chromatic maltreatment at hands of Colorware

Speech recognition is being used in a range of gadgets - but does it actually work?

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RIM and Nokia aren’t the only ones saying “WTF Steve!?” after last Friday’s press conference attempted to draw the competition into the Antennagate saga. Samsung has issued its own choice reaction about supposed problems with the Omnia 2 , though this one is somewhat less sternly worded than the others: The antenna is located at the bottom of the Omnia 2 phone, while iPhone’s antenna is on the lower left side of the device. Our design keeps the distance between a hand and an antenna.

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If you’ve been following the ongoing saga of Dell’s Streak , you’ve probably already read our review of O2 UK’s version — thing is, the British perspective can be very different from the Yankee one (we didn’t see eye-to-eye during the War of 1812, for instance). To that end, we wanted to circle back now that the gargantuan Android beast is finally coming close to a US release and get another quick take. As a refresher, this thing matches or exceeds the specs you’d expect to find on any modern high-end smartphone in most respects, starting with a 1GHz Snapdragon core, a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, 850 / 1900MHz 3G for use on AT&T, Rogers, Bell, and Telus, and 2GB of internal storage coupled with a bundled and pre-installed 16GB microSDHC card

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Lithium-ion battery technology keeps improving by (theoretical) leaps and bounds , but what good’s that to you when you’re faced with a dead TV remote? Brother Industries has a plan, and it doesn’t involve ink for once — the Japanese printer company’s developed a set of prototype batteries you simply shake to charge AA and AAA models are already in the works, though you shouldn’t expect to slot them into cameras or R/C cars, as the miniature electromagnetic induction generators inside are designed for infrequently used gadgets and provide as little as 10mW (or as much as 180mW) when shook.

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Brother shakes up expectations with vibration-charged low-power batteries

If you think the proximity sensor on your iPhone 4 has been acting wacky , don’t worry, turns out you’re not crazy: Apple has just committed to fixing weirdness in the next software update at its press conference today . Problems have mainly revolved around the sensor failing to detect your face when you’re on a call, leading to accidentally hang-ups, mutes, and so on as your ear makes contact with the screen — not too cool. Then again, if you’ve been staying off your phone lately for fear of dropping a call, well…

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In today’s iPhone 4 press conference out in Cupertino, Apple has revealed that they’ve pushed 3 million phones so far since launch a little under a month ago. For the record, that’s about twice the number Apple sold in the first weekend — 1.7 million — so the pace has clearly slowed down a bit, though that would appear to be due almost exclusively to supply constraints. As for how many of those sold phones are staying out in the field, Jobs has revealed return rates, too: 1.7 percent, which works out to about 51,000 phones, compared to 6 percent for the 3GS

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iPhone 4 sales: 3 million and counting, 1.7 percent returned

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