September, 2012

• 10 September

  Windows Phone 7 was doomed by design, Microsoft admits

  

  Microsoft’s consolation prize to anyone who owns a current Windows Phone is a new homescreen landing in an update known as Windows Phone 7.8, pictured above running on the Nokia Lumia 900. It’s best described as a sweetener to coat the bitter truth that anyone who’s shelled out for a Windows Phone in the last …

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• 10 September

  Apple prepping Yerba Center for iPhone 5 event

  

  We’re all getting ready for a certain event this Wednesday, but Apple’s preparations involve more than a pot of coffee and a finger hovering over the Refresh button on CNET UK.  It’s been decorating the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for next week’s iPhone 5 launch, and Mac Stories has a whole set of snaps of how …

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• 10 September

  Nokia Flame incoming: 4

  

  Nokia’s just outed two Windows Phone 8 handsets this week, but now it looks like there’s another incoming. The Lumia 920 is the high-end blower, the 820 is the mid-range, and now the forthcoming ‘Flame’ looks set to cover the low end, The Verge reports. It says sources have tipped it off about the upcoming handset. The Flame (I’d expect …

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• 10 September

  Remember EarthLink? ISP signs 4G deal with Clearwire

  

  EarthLink can now offer its Internet customers a high-speed connection through Clearwire’s 4G broadband network, the companies announced today. The agreement allows EarthLink customers to access the service through Clearwire, which runs its own 4G WiMax network. The deal also opens the door to Clearwire’s planned 4G LTE network, the companies said in a statement. EarthLink was a major player …

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• 10 September

  It’s official: AT&T will offer the LG Escape on Sept. 16

  

  Amid brief speculation this morning, AT&T announced that it will indeed carry the entry-level Android 4.0 smartphone known as the LG Escape. The Escape houses a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, a 4.3-inch qHD IPS touch-screen display, and NFC capabilities. It will also include QuickMemo, LG’s note-taking and drawing feature seen in devices like the LG Optimus Vu and the Optimus 4X …

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• 10 September

  MorphCase turns your iPod Touch into an iPhone

  

  If it looks like an iPhone and walks like an iPhone, it must be an iPhone, right? Yet the iPod Touch isn’t quite there. Sure, you can install a voice-over-IP app like Fring, Line2 (a personal favorite), or Skype and make calls over Wi-Fi, but you still have to plug in a headset or rely on the speakerphone — you …

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• 10 September

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  More details emerged today about T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy Relay 4G Android 4.0 slider phone, specifically that the Relay will be available on September 19 for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate card, and with a new two-year service agreement. The successor to the Galaxy S Blaze 4G will feature Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 4-inch super AMOLED display, a 5-megapixel …

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• 10 September

  AT&T to soon offer entry

  

  AT&T is preparing to offer an “entry-level” Android 4.0 experience in the form of the LG Escape, according to recent internet chatter. Also possibly known as model number of P870, the LG smartphone will run Android Ice Cream Sandwich and feature a 4.3-inch (960×540-pixel) display, a dual-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 processor, a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1.3-megapixel …

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• 10 September

  Apple tipped to ditch iPhone 3GS, redesign iPod touch

  

  Apple is poised to ditch the iPhone 3GS, reports suggest, with the maker of shiny smart phones tipped to make the iPhone 4 its new bargain-basement blower for beginners. The Telegraph cites sources “close to retailers” who reckon Tim Cook and cohorts will soon be calling time on the iPhone 3GS, which went on sale in the summer of 2009. …

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• 10 September

  Alibaba to Google’s Android: Watch out in China

  

  Alibaba, China’s top e-commerce company, has Android firmly in its sights. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal in an interview published yesterday, Alibaba Chief Strategy Officer Zeng Ming said his company hopes to be “as strong as Android in China” with its own mobile operating system, Aliyun. In order to achieve that, however, Zeng needs some help from vendors. Luckily …

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