My buddy Scott in Ohio bought a PureDigital Flip. It was in an open box — it had been returned but he figured he could pop by his local Best Buy and return it if there were any problems. He started to use it and found about 40 minutes of it taken up by previously recorded video.

He popped in the recorder and found three videos, all called “Smoking” or something similar. On the recorder he found video of some kids having a super time puffing on some doobage. As Scott’s friend observed, “That should be an anti-drug commercial. ‘Do you really want to be like these douches?’”

For those not in the know, you need to empty the trash can before you eject a USB drive and/or not film yourself recreating “Inside the Actor’s Studio with Chris Farley.” I for one deleted all the video of me drinking Boone’s and smoking Swisher Sweets that I filmed last weekend.

Check out the rest of the films here.

The cat is out of the bag at this point on the device HTC will announce tomorrow in London. The Diamond, which Doug already gave some info on, will begin shipping the 3G device this month. According to a Goldman Sachs report, HTC is expected to ship a total of 4 million units in its life cycle. We’ll find out the exact specifics tomorrow.

I hope you enjoyed your first weekend with Grand Theft Auto IV. I bet you didn’t even touch your Wii.

Yeah, that could be a problem for Nintendo.

The lack of GTA IV for the Wii has been noticed by Forbes, which says such a lack may “threaten” the Wii just as its existence on the PS3 may help revive Sony’s once-ailing console. (Not “ailing” in the sense that it was a failure, but in the sense that the perception was that there were no good games for it.) People may now be “over” the Wii’s quirky little charms after seeing what proper systems can do—good luck create a game with the same scale as GTA IV on the Wii—with proper games.

Now, Forbes clearly says “Wii won’t die,” but the overall suggestion, that Wii could be in for a bit of a rough patch, is certainly enough to upset the many diehard Nintendo fans, the kind who engage in flame wars online like they’re being paid.

BGR didn’t divulge too much information on the Niagara other than the fact that it will be 3G-less, which stinks considering AT&T’s network has been up and running for quite a while and T-Mobile just commenced rolling out of their UMTS network. It appears to be a frumpier version of the 9000 aka Storm.

Nokia plans to release lots more cellphones here in the U.S. in the next “few months.” Seeing as though Nokia makes some fairly decent phones, that’s not bad news at all.

Nokia, which is based in Finland, sells 40 percent of phones globally, but its lack of CDMA love has lead to a smaller numbers here since CDMA is still in use by the likes of Verizon Wireless/A> and Sprint.

Oh, and get ready for wall-to-wall Microsoft-Yahoo! coverage all over the Internet today. Should be a real treat.

Foosball: Just add beer and 21 of your closest friends
CrunchGear NY Meetup Pixtravaganza!
Fine living: The urban security suit
Super Mario 64-Life 2
Bentley gets into the green game with electric roadster concept
Breaking: Microsoft drops bid for Yahoo

We’re a few weeks away from the Prague TC/CG Meet-up and things are heating up. We have four sponsors lined up for the show:

Nelso - Multi-language local search for Europe
GoodData - A data analysis suite by Roman Stanek, founder of NetBeans and Systinet,
Newstin - Global social news
Geewa Multi-player games for mobile and PC

We’re confirmed at Restaurace Zvonařka on Friday, May 23 from 7pm until 10pm. You can RSVP on Facebook or email me with the subject line “PRAHA I’M YOURS” to john @ crunchgear dot com.

If you’re interested in sponsoring the evening, drop me a line at john @ crunchgear.com. See you in Praha!

If you haven’t checked out our review of two Tokyoflash watches yet, go and do so. Because there will be a test! Seriously, there will. For your chance to win a cool watch from Tokyoflash (not necessarily one from the review, but hey), check out the instructions after the link. It’s quite simple, really, and in a few days we’ll have three winners. What are you waiting for? Click already!

Update: Due to a rather long holiday taking over the nation of Japan, you can enter until the 7th, at which point, we’ll choose a winner.

If thou wantest a watch for free,
answer me these questions three. (I know, corny. But there are three questions.)

WHAT
does the martini glass stand for on the Pimp Star Performer watch?
WHAT
time was it approximately when I took the picture of my wrist in the review?
WHAT
is a wakizashi?

The Tokyoflash site might be helpful if you’re stumped. I know, those questions are super hard, right?

Email your answers to crunch@tokyoflash.com (don’t comment them, why would you do that) and in a few days (Let’s say May 4 May 7) three winners will be chosen. Good luck, people!

This isn’t the first I’ve heard about T-Mobile’s parent company Deutsche Telekom possibly looking to acquire Sprint and I still don’t see it happening, but stranger things have happened. Sprint is currently the 3rd largest operator in the US with T-Mobile ranked 4th. If DT were to merge or takeover Sprint, T-Mobile would shoot straight to the top of heap, but that’s easier said than done.

Sprint’s stock is currently hovering around $8/share and that would be an easy acquisition for DT considering the Euro is so strong. But why would a GSM network provider who is currently rolling out their 3G network want a CDMA network? Also, will the German government who still owns a third of the company allow DT to basically become a US company?

That’s right folks, MacGyver might be hitting the big screen. The man behind the original MacGyver series, Lee David Zlotoff, hinted at an upcoming feature-length film. Details are pretty scant at this point, but Zlotoff apparently mentioned that he retains the movie rights and "announced he has a big budget MacGyver movie in the planning stages," according to Gizmodo.

So there you have it. Another movie based off of an old TV show to buy Hollywood some time so they don’t have to think up any new ideas, plotlines, or characters.

via Slashdot