Mega-famous Gorillaz front man and songwriter Damon Albarn has revealed that he has been recording the next Gorillaz album on his iPad. Remember how the iPad is just a device for consumption? Reported in music magazine NME on November 13, Albarn says, “I’ve made it on an iPad–I hope I’ll be making the first record …
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As Verizon has been known to do, the carrier is ramping up its handset offerings for the holiday shopping season, and the latest smartphone to join the fray is the LG Vortex. Available starting November 18 for $79.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate, the Vortex is designed for first-time smartphone buyers. It will ship running …
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Samsung Galaxy Tab on AT&T. Samsung The Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet will make its way to AT&T November 21, priced at $649. If you’ve been following the Tab’s prolonged multicarrier roll-out this month, you’re probably wondering why AT&T has priced the Tab at a $50 premium over its competitors Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. One answer is that AT&T is …
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I’ll admit it: the App Store is home to so many nifty and inventive news readers (Blogshelf, Early Edition, and TheScore, to name just a few), I never got around to Pulse News Reader. My mistake. It’s not just the coolest blog/feed reader for the iPhone and iPad alike, it’s also one of the coolest iOS apps, period. And where …
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Just as LG brought the touch screen to the LG Rumor line of phones with the LG Rumor Touch, it has introduced the touch screen to the LG Cosmos series with the LG Cosmos Touch. It has a 2.8-inch WQVGA touch screen plus a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Features include three home screens, Bluetooth 2.1, voice commands, GPS with VZ Navigator, …
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Imagine the scene. A brave copper is chasing down a rural high street after a dastardly criminal, who’s jipped a bag from a little old lady. Because he’s eaten a few too many jam doughnuts, PC Plod realises he’s not going to keep up — he needs backup, so he thumbs his radio mic. Then he pauses, thinks for a …
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Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has joined the MeeGo open-source Linux project where it will contribute its expertise to drive the adoption of MeeGo in tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices. Unveiled earlier this year, MeeGo is an open-source operating system created through a merger of Intel’s Moblin OS and Nokia’s Maemo software. The MeeGo OS is designed to run on …
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The latest Android tablet is the, ‘ow you say, Lenovo LePad. It’s an Android tablet set to take on the Apple iPad as one half of an innovative double act with the Lenovo IdeaPad U1. The LePad is a 10.1-inch slate that will run Android and be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The gallic-sounding slate is the screen component …
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A mysterious YouTube video has been uploaded, showing details of what could be the first Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 mobiles, to come out early next year. There’s no information on where it’s from or who it’s by, so it could be anything between a cooked-up fantasy and a genuine leak. We contacted Sony Ericsson, and we’ll let you know …
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The federal government has taken the first step in freeing up more spectrum for wireless broadband services in the United States. On Monday, the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued a report identifying 115MHz of wireless spectrum that can be shared among federal agencies and commercial users. The report proposes that the spectrum be reallocated for commercial wireless broadband …
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Vodafone has started pushing out the Android 2.2 Froyo update to the HTC Legend — and amazingly, it seems to have appeared before HTC has updated unlocked handsets. In a surprising turn of events, the Vodafone and XDA Developers boards have lit up with delighted Vodafone users expressing their surprise at receiving the Legend update, as well as unlocked Legend …
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Vodafone today announced a new range of plans offering unlimited calls and messages to Australian phones for less than half the price of its nearest competition. (Credit: CBSi) Calling its new plans “Infinite”, the just-announced capped plans start from AU$45 per month and offer unlimited calls to landlines and mobiles in Australia, as well as unlimited texts excluding messages to …
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It was announced this week that Tesco Mobile is to sell the iPhone. Reactions ranged from amused disdain to utter joy: is this the end of the MessiahPhone‘s premium cachet, or is it just the start of a price revolution that will put the world’s favourite mobile Web-browsing device in the hands of the masses? The iPhone 3G and 3GS …
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The Palm Pre 2 has been unveiled as HP’s first sortie into the smart phone jungle, and it’ll run the brand-new webOS 2.0 software. The Palm Pre 2 will be released in France this week, unusually. So far HP hasn’t given us any information on UK availability or pricing, but we’ll be a little surprised if the handset doesn’t arrive …
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We now have pictures of the next Android super phone, a successor to the Google Nexus One. It won’t be the Google Nexus Two though — it’s called the Google Nexus S. US retail chain Best Buy has accidently leaked information on the the Samsung-made Gingerbread-running phone. Photos published by Engadget show the Nexus S looking very much like previously …
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