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GSM Hack – How to Make GSM Car Starter!

Posted on January 17, 2010 by max

Here’s a guy who put together a cheap cellphone and GSM-enabled relay to make a GSM car starter, meaning he can start his car by calling a number.  The creater used GSM relay unit which says it cost him $199 but I think if you buy the GSM unit and relay separately, he could have saved even more money.  (I’ve done a similar project here, all you would have to do is add a relay to that and it would be a GSM relay unit btw.  That one you

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Cellular Hack – How to Hack GSM!

Posted on December 31, 2009 by max

Well, it seems like someone has broken the GSM’s deciphering code, specifically A5/1.

According to Wikipedia:

A5/1 is a stream cipher used to provide over-the-air communication privacy in the GSM cellular telephone standard. It was initially kept secret, but became public knowledge through leaks and reverse engineering. A number of serious weaknesses in the cipher have been identified.

Well, I guess that’s no more, it’s

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Mobile Operating Systems Reviewed!

Posted on March 19, 2009 by max

Engadget has a really extensive comparison between different operating systems, I am a little disappointed though that the comparisons didn’t include any speed testing.  However, very informational so check it out.

Basics Android Cupcake BlackBerry OS 4.7 iPhone OS 3.0 S60 5th Edition Palm WebOS Windows Mobile 6.5 Kernel Type Linux Proprietary OS X Symbian Linux Windows CE Platform Adaptability Excellent Good Poor Excellen

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AT&T BlackBerry Bold Review – Don’t Buy It!

Posted on November 30, 2008 by max

As many of you readers know, I only post things that I can backup on this blog and to say the least, don’t buy the AT&T Blackberry Bold because I tried it last night and it’s as slow as your 3G iPhone.

It was my friend’s birthday in downtown San Francisco, (I also did test the 3G iPhone along with the Blackberry Bold) and had the chance to use his new AT&T Blackberry Bold.

Well, the benchmark was of course with my Sprint Blackberry 8830.  Aside from mobile internet speed issues, the Blackberry Bold proved to be bul

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Garmin whops out an actual GPS Phone out of their ass (or arse for our UK readers)!

Posted on January 30, 2008 by max

Garmin just released their new phone. They simply whopped out some phone features into their GPS. Looks like an iPhone almost, maybe I will get one if has a good browser like the iPhone.

Today in a surprise announcement in New York City, Garmin whipped out the nuvifone, a full-fledged GSM HSDPA smartphone built on its own operating system with GPS navigation at its core—but e-mail and web browsing close to its heart, and a camera built in too. No pricing or carrier announcement has been made yet, though its likeliest compatible network is AT&

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