Is the tablet honeymoon over? It seems not everyone is in love with tablets since the Apple iPad just went ahead and turned the whole world upside down with nary a by-your-leave. Dixons has yanked the Toshiba Folio 100 from its shelves — but not before comically tripling the price to discourage anybody from buying …
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Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti Twitter Inc. has released a significant update to its iOS App for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. This update, now version 3.2, adds push notifications for @replies and messages, fixes several bugs, and adds inline media for iPad users. Users can now be notified whenever their name is @mentioned in an account they follow or when …
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AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile are creating a mobile payment network designed to help consumers more easily pay for items at stores using their cell phones, the trio announced today. BusinessWire The three mobile companies are building the network, known as Isis, with the initial goal of setting up a mobile payment system in which people can use cell …
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has shown off a new Gingerbread-running Android phone, which the entire world and its uncle have assumed is the Google Nexus S, the successor to the Nexus One. Google boss Schmidt didn’t reveal many details about the device, which had its brand label covered with a piece of tape, our sister site CNET.com reported from the web …
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Various retailers have started putting prices on the 16GB Samsung Galaxy Tab. It’s bad news if you thought it would be cheap, as, so far, it costs more than a 16GB iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G. UK retailer eXpansys has priced the 16GB Tab at £680, with a release date of 11 October. The German version of Amazon offers it at €799, which converts to …
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The latest in the line of massively successful BlackBerry Bold smart phones is headed to the UK in time for the Christmas rush, according to a report on Electric Pig. T-Mobile has apparently jumped the gun on RIM, stating that the BlackBerry Bold 9780 will arrive here by Christmas, free on £30 monthly contracts. The new Bold 9780 is a …
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Samsung has offered a strong hint there’s a 10-inch version of the Android-powered Galaxy Tab in the pipeline. The 7-inch Tab has attracted loads of attention with its AMOLED touchscreen, built-in high definition camera and ability to make phone calls. When discussing the availability of the Tab in Ireland, Samsung’s local grand poobah Gary Twohig appeared to confirm that there …
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Carphone Warehouse has confirmed it will start selling the HTC Desire HD in the next week or so, with suggestions that it could be available free on a Vodafone package from £35 a month. The HTC Desire HD on Vodafone appeared on Carphone Warehouse systems with a 10 October release, according to an anonymous tip-off reported by coolsmartphone.com. We contacted …
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Dell Streak owners still stuck on Android 1.6 will be able to savour the sweet taste of Android 2.2 Froyo on their 5-inch tablet phones this month. The update is expected to rollout over the air in the next two weeks — before the end of November, according to a post on the Dell UK Facebook page. You should receive …
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Screenshot by Bonnie Cha/CNEt Back in early October, CNET News reporter Maggie Reardon interviewed Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam and when asked about Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft, he said they weren’t at the forefront of his mind–not exactly a ringing endorsement there. However, that doesn’t mean Big Red is going to turn its back on Microsoft’s new mobile operating system. …
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LG Quantum Bonnie Cha/CNEt The LG Quantum, the last of three Windows Phone 7 devices offered by AT&T, is now available for $199.99 with a two-year contract. Out of the current Windows Phone lineup, the Quantum is the only model to offer a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, so heavy e-mailers take note. It also has a 3.5-inch touch screen that you …
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Ever since Rupert Murdoch decided to put some of his News International publications behind an Internet paywall, we’ve suffered terrible withdrawal symptoms. Having no access to The Times and Sunday Times websites has been a complete tragedy. Let’s not even mention the News of the World. It’s just too traumatic for words. Three cheers then to 3, which is giving …
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The handy-dandy chaps with an appetite for destruction at gadget DIY website iFixit have gutted the Samsung Galaxy Tab like a fish. Setting about the Android tablet, which went on sale this week, reveals a processor that gives the market-leading Apple iPad a run for its money. The Tab is at the leading edge of a wave of Android tablets …
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Last week, Engadget posted photos of another Samsung Android handset, and quite a promising one at that. Listed without a codename, the device should be a flagship phone due in February of next year. Although images appear to be mock ups hastily thrown together for the sake of presentation, it’s the rumored hardware that I’ll focus on. The slides show …
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Samsung and Giorgio Armani are making another go at creating a designer cell phone, reports Women’s Wear Daily. Like their original collaboration, the Samsung Armani, the new handset will offer a touch screen and multimedia features, but it will ditch Windows Mobile 6.5, Armani’s operating system of choice on last year’s Samsung smartphone, in favor of Android. Say goodbye also …
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