Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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QWERTY-packing HTC 7 Pro Windows Phone 7 now available from 02 Germany

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 05:16 AM PST

O2 Germany is now offering the HTC 7 Pro, a Windows Phone 7 smartphone that offers a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 5 megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The device is available unlocked for 599 EUR ($802), and is available for less with a contract.
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Samsung S5260 Star II touchscreen phone announced

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 05:02 AM PST

Today Samsung officially announced the Star II, a touchscreen feature phone with a 3-inch display that will launch in Germany in February. It will also be available in other parts of Europe, CIS, South America, India, and the Middle East.
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Steve Jobs takes medical leave from Apple

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 04:32 PM PST

In an email sent to Apple employees, Steve Jobs said that he asked the Apple board of directors for a medical leave of absence, to which it agreed. "At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health," Jobs said. Apple COO Tim Cook, who was present at Verizon's Apple iPhone 4 launch event last week, will take over the day to day operations of the company, though Jobs will continue to serve as company CEO and will be involved with "major strategic decisions." Jobs received a liver transplant the last time he went on medical leave, in 2009.
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Apple App Store downloads to soon eclipse iTunes music downloads

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 09:54 AM PST

The number of Apple iOS applications downloaded from Apple's App Store is soon going to eclipse the number of downloads from Apple's own iTunes music store, even though the iTunes music store had a 3.5 year head start. Apple's iTunes stort hit 10 billion downloads after 67 months, while it seems quite possible that Apple's App Store will hit 10 billion this month - only 31 months after its launch (see Apple's countdown here). According to analysis site Asymco, more than 60 applications have been downloaded from the App Store for each Apple iOS device that has been sold, on average. You'll find more detailed information on the App Store's growth in the full Asymco post, linked below.
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Apple asks feds to clamp down on iPhone jailbreaking

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 07:14 AM PST

According to NBC, Apple is asking the federal government to crack down on the jailbreaking of Apple's iOS products, such as the iPhone. According to NBC, Apple told the U.S. Copyright Office that jailbreak techniques modify Apple's copyrighted OS and bootloader are an "infringement of the copyrights in those programs." It is worth noting that the NBC story seems to confuse unlocking a phone for use on another carrier as being part of jailbreaking, which is the separate process of allowing unapproved applications to run on the device.
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Nokia closes Ovi Music Unlimited in most countries

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 06:50 AM PST

Reuters is reporting that Nokia is shuttering its bundled "Ovi Music Unlimited" product in 27 countries. Originally known as "Comes With Music," Ovi Music Unlimited phones came bundled with a year long subscription for unlimited music, but the service has failed to attract much attention since its UK launch. Reuters reports that the service will continue in China, India, and Indonesia and that limited 6-month bundles will still be available in Brazil, Turkey, and South Africa. Comes With Music was announced in December of 2007 and was first available in October of 2008.
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First NFC apps appear in the Nexus S Android Market

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 06:25 AM PST

Some of the first NFC capable appliations for Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system are appearing on the market. The Android Market on the Google Nexus S now offers two: Enable Table NFC and Taglet NFC. Taglet is a Japanese language application for transferring data, while the English language Enable Table can be used to earn "welcome back" coupons at the end of a meal by tapping the phone onto the check holder's NFC tag. You can find these two apps by searching on "NFC" in the Android Market on compatible devices.
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Android-powered Huawei IDEOS X6 U9000 smartphone gets FCC approval

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 05:59 AM PST

The Huawei IDEOS X6 (aka U9000), an unannounced smartphone, has popped up in some documents on the FCC's website. The documents detail a new smartphone with a large touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, a 5mp camera with flash, HDMI out support, and a microSD card slot. The device could possibly launch on T-Mobile USA's network as it supports the company's AWS spectrum as well as quad-band GSM/EDGE.
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T-Mobile USA launches LG G-Slate tablet teaser and sign up page

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 05:51 AM PST

T-Mobile has put up a teaser page that allows interested consumers to sign up for news regarding the launch of the upcoming LG G-Slate tablet computer. The G-Slate is powered by Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system and supports T-Mobile's 4G capable data network. Not much else is known of the new tablet from LG.
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Skype acquisition of Qik complete

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 05:40 AM PST

Skype recently announced it was purchasing video chat company Qik, and now, only a short time later, the deal is complete. The VoIP provider was looking to gobble up companies so it could expand its services for video chat for mobile devices and felt Qik was a perfect fit.
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