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Best Wireless April Fool's Jokes 2010!

April 1, 2010 in Featured, Wireless News

So I’ve decided to turn the April fools joke into a Best of April Fools Jokes in Wireless 2010 repository. Comment in this post with a link to your favorite April Fools Jokes in Wireless! (or even posts that you think are April Fools but aren’t sure). And feel free to comment on which you think might be real and which are totally busted! Here are the best so far:

Android 2.5 Froyo Features and Alpha ROM Leaked! – AndroidPolice.com
GSMArena Introduces Their Own Phone – GSMArena.com
iPhone OS Running on HTC Hero – GSMArena.com
Google Translate for Animals – Google.com
Google Maps 3D Googles View – Google.com
Boingo Million Credit Giveaway (Make Sure to Read the Details)

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11 responses to Best Wireless April Fool's Jokes 2010!

  1. Rish said on April 1, 2010

    This is April Fools prank. You can check it from the Readme.txt included in the package :)

  2. Florian Rohrweck said on April 1, 2010

    “New Charging Groundwork” This tells me, that this is a fake… Happy april 1st..

  3. Florian Rohrweck said on April 1, 2010

    If you correct the URL in the ZIP’s readme (remove the last letter) you’ll redirected to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day

  4. PacoBell said on April 1, 2010

    Everything sounded legit except that WiFi charging thing. Totally bogus. Those kinds of signals just don’t have the power to charge a mobile device in a decent amount of time. Maybe this might make sense for things like ZigBee.

  5. Alan Gerow said on April 1, 2010

    Point #1 sounds like a bit of legitimate news to make the rest sound plausible, but …

    #2: if it’s emulation, then it would take a phone significantly more powerful than the iPhone to emulate it. If it’s similar to WINE, then maybe. Cool if true, but very doubtful.

    #3: ok, APRIL FOOL’S! Really. That’s gotta be a total joke, because it doesn’t even really make much sense from a technical point of view. It’s not like WiFi signals are all that powerful, otherwise we’d all be cooking alive in office buildings.

  6. Artem Russakovskii said on April 1, 2010

    Heh, guys, I can’t believe TheUnlockr actually thought it was real when they posted it :D

    Regarding the “I” issue, I think what’s happening is you’re opening it in a Windows editor that doesn’t understand Linux line endings, which ends up putting the I from the next sentence onto the end of the link.

    Also, regarding WiFi charging, that part is actually true – the RCA AirPower is a real product, announced way before April 1st.

    David, not sure why you removed the Source link pointing back to the article – any specific reason?

    • TheUnlockr said on April 1, 2010

      Artem,

      Lol, I posted it too fast (wishful thinking lol).
      I never looked at the ROM (the other things seemed far fetched but sorta believable; I’ve seen the WiFi charging thing before, Nokia is in the process of working on it actually).
      Should have know when you released a “ROM” and wasn’t for a specific phone and just said “go ahead and install”, it was crap lol.
      Got me for a bit, Happy April Fool’s day, ya ass! lol

      PS I DID post at the top that this was posted on April fools and that it could be a prank to be fair lol
      As for the link, I refuse to link to people for April fools day news lol BUT I will link to you, going to change this post into a best of April fools and put yours in there with a link…

  7. Baochi Nguyen said on April 1, 2010

    I like the Google animal translation. My favorite April Fool’s joke (and I am very biased) is the Boingo Wi-Fi buttload of credits giveaway in return for a Boingo tattoo: http://bit.ly/1Z0Xy7.

    Baochi

    • TheUnlockr said on April 2, 2010

      Baochi,

      And this is why our mother’s always tell us to “read the fineprint” lol

  8. Baochi Nguyen said on April 2, 2010

    And I am terrible at reading fine print! ;)