Friday, August 20, 2010

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RIM intros HS-700 BlackBerry Wireless Headset

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:53 AM PDT

RIM has announced a new Bluetooth 2.1 wireless headset dubbed the HS-700. The HS-700 offers a range of features including voice commands, voice prompts, and advanced noise-cancellation technology. It will be on Best Buy store shelves beginning on August 22nd.
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Facebook Places now available on HTML5 devices

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:50 PM PDT

Last night Facebook announced its new Places client, which lets Facebook users share their current location with their friends. While the functionality isn't available everywhere just yet on the iPhone application, users with HTML5 capable web browsers can check out the new feature by visiting touch.facebook.com, where it was just activated.
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Apple App Store director sells urination simulator, animal fart apps

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:36 AM PDT

Even though Apple's employees are generally prohibited from publishing apps without special approval, Apple's App Store director, Philip Shoemaker, has published a number of applications under a company named "Gray Noodle." The catch? The apps involve animal farts and urination simulators.
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HTC Desire Z, Desire HD Android smartphones revealed by British mobile distributor

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:11 AM PDT

A British smartphone retailer has posted "coming soon" links for two unannounced HTC smartphones dubbed the HTC Desire HD and the HTC Desire Z. The website lacks pictures of the phones, whose existence remains purely a rumor, for now.
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Motorola DROID 2 for Verizon review - faster, but much the same

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:23 AM PDT

The Motorola DROID 2 is the replacement for the wildly popular original DROID. The D2 features the same basic form factor and specs, except for a faster 1GHz processor and a build of Android 2.2 Froyo that features some DROID X style widgets. Learn more in Michael's full review.
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Google updates Gmail client for Apple iPad, adds new "stacked card" interface

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:20 AM PDT

Google has updated the Gmail user interface for Apple iPad users. The new UI adds a "stacked cards" feature that makes it easy to manage and view multiple conversations at once. The update is only available to U.S. English iPad owners.
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Facebook Places for Apple iPhone available, not working everywhere yet

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 08:42 AM PDT

Facebook users have reported that Facebook Places for iPhone, the social network's new check-in service, is now available. The Facebook app requires an update before the Places feature appears, but the service isn't working everywhere just yet. We tested it out in Philadelphia and received the message "This feature will be available in your region soon. Thank you for your patience." Facebook's HTML5 Places client, located at http://touch.facebook.com is also not currently live.
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MySpace intros Apple iPad application for music video service

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 08:10 AM PDT

Today MySpace unveiled a new music video service that will run on both its website and on Apple's iPad. MySpace Music Romeo, as the new service is called, lets users search the MySpace music catalog to find a music video via genre or mood and then download songs or videos directly from Apple's iTunes. MySpace has not said when the new application will be available for other mobile platforms or for the iPhone.
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Patent for sending mobile photos, videos to 9-1-1 granted

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 07:45 AM PDT

PowerPhone Inc. has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for "Integrated Call Handler and E-Mail Systems and Methods." The patent is embodied in the company's new product, Incident Linked Multimedia, which allows callers to send multimedia images to 9-1-1 emergency call centers from their mobile phones.
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Mozilla Fennec 2 beta browser for Android, MeeGo coming this Fall

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 07:02 AM PDT

One of Mozilla's programmers, Matt Brucbeck, has posted some information on the upcoming Fennec 2 mobile browser. The browser, which has been available for Maemo devices, will launch in beta form for Android and Meego devices this fall. Fennec 2 sports Firefox Sync, find-in-page commands, link sharing, and multi-touch gestures. Mozilla is currently working out kinks with support for the Android Swype keyboard. More information is available on Matt Brubeck's blog.
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Next Android version possibly being dubbed "Honeycomb"

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 06:42 AM PDT

The version of Android to follow Android 3.0 Gingerbread is supposedly going to be named "Honeycomb," according to sources speaking to Techradar. There's currently little known about the iteration of the mobile OS other than its name, if even that much is true.
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Verizon Wireless outs ZTE Salute slider feature phone

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 06:32 AM PDT

Today Verizon Wireless launched the Salute, the carrier's first phone from ZTE USA. The device is a feature phone with a slider form factor, and sports a relatively basic feature set at an affordable price point.
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Samsung Epic 4G for Sprint photos and video tour

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:46 AM PDT

Yesterday we received the new Samsung Galaxy S based Epic 4G smartphone for Sprint. Since the review is not ready, and we're not willing to rush it, we're offering you a couple of new videos and some photos of the device to keep you going while you wait for the in-depth review.
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RIAA and radio broadcasters push Congress for mandatory FM radios in mobile phones

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:43 AM PDT

The RIAA and the National Association of Broadcasters are pushing Congress to pass a bill, the Performance Rights Act, that would force manufacturers to place FM radios inside all mobile devices, such as phones. The Consumer Electronics Association has called the move "backward-looking," and is fighting the bill.
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LG to include dual-core NVIDIA processor in Optimus smartphones

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:36 AM PDT

Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, LG confirmed that it will use NVIDIA dual-core processors in its Optimus smartphone family, due out later this year. The first U.S. phones to use NVIDIA Tegra processors were Microsoft's failed KIN devices. Most of the popular Android smartphones today use single core Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, although on Monday Qualcomm said that it plans to launch dual-core Snapdragon processors with a 1.5GHz clockspeed during the fourth quarter.
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