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To make a short story shorter: for the last three days, I’ve been one of but a handful of people carrying around a handset running Microsoft’s unreleased Windows Phone 7 operating system. This specific handset isn’t one that’s ever intended for release, and, while it’s looking pretty close to done, the build running on the handset is by no means finalized. With these bits in mind along with my new personal policy of not reviewing big-ticket items until I’ve really lived with them (even if that means not being first out of the gate with a review; for logic, see here ), I present our pre -review of Windows Phone 7 in its nascent state

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Pre-Review Preview: Windows Phone 7

The OtterBox Defender Series Case for iPad offers serious protection for your iPad.  There’s a silicone cover that protects the body of your iPad at all times.  The cover has grip pad areas at the top and bottom that improve your hold and prevent the iPad from sliding around when it’s flat on a table top.  Silicone plugs cover all ports and buttons.  There’s a polycarbonate plate that snaps over the front for screen protection; simply snap it on the back while you’re using the iPad.  The polycarbonate cover also has a built-in stand for watching videos hands-free.  You can even remove a portion of the case so the iPad will still fit into the Apple docking stations.  The case isn’t waterproof, but Otterbox says it is drop, bump, shock, and dust intrusion protection.  It’s $89.95 from

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OtterBox Defender Series Case for iPad

The world’s leading cell phone and smartphone manufacturers took little time in putting out official responses to the video presentation shown by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the Apple “Antennagate” event this past Friday. Read the full story here.

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RIM, Motorola, Nokia, others respond to Apple’s "death grip" presentation on Friday

Today Apple announced that the iPad will launch in 9 new countries on Friday, July 23rd, including Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore. The Apple iPad will be available in Apple’s retail stores as well as Apple Authorized Resellers.

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Apple iPad landing in 9 new countries this Friday, July 23rd

Renesas Electronics, as the single largest USB 3.0 host controller manufacturer, is beginning to face fierce competition from ASMedia to Texas Instrument and VIA. A price war has broken out that continues to drive price down to $3 range. Despite of that, the massive increase in demand for USB 3.0 chips will make up for the loss in profit per unit.

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Renesas Outs Low-power USB 3.0 Host Controller for Notebooks

Epidsode #28 of the Simple Mobile Review Podcast is up.  Regular subscribers may have noticed that we’ve changed the day that the show is recorded and aired.  At least for the rest of the summer, the SMR Podcast will be recorded on Sunday nights as compared to Wednesday. In this episode, as you can imagine, we talk a lot about Apple’s press event last Friday , Antenna Gate , as Steve Jobs referred to it.  Let’s just say that Mr. Jobs threw out quite a few statistics without context.  Research in Motion had a big week as well… Hosts: Rod Simmons, Chris Ashley, Brent Harman, Robb Dunewood Recorded: July 18th, 2010 Published: July 19th, 2010 Duration: 1hr 30Min 41Sec SUBSCRIBE FOR AUTOMATIC DOWNLOADS Standard RSS BlackBerry Users:  Simple Mobile Review Podcast App Powered by PodTrapper SHOW TOPICS Apple’s press conference for the iPhone 4 issue Rod says that Steve Jobs had a very condescending tone during the conference Robb goes on the offensive and puts some perspective on Steve’s Blackberry thoughts Brent really dissects Steve’s statistics Chris thinks that Steve BlackBerry was supposed to have the news this week RIM, Nokia, Apple, and Google all bid for Palm Robb says that RIM really dropped the ball here Rod says he likes some of the features he saw in OS6 Chris is wondering if RIM is doing too little too late Brent mentions that some of his friends didn’t know there was an app store for their BlackBerries Verizon sold Out of Droid X online Rod says that he is no longer considering getting this phone Brent explains what the eFuse chip does to the phone Robb says that he wouldn’t be surprised if Verizon put the chip on all of their phones Microsoft slips some news in this week too Chris mentions that the ‘”Hubs” on windows phone 7 has more functionality than we first thought Rod says that he really likes what he is seeing Mentioned Links Demo of coding on iPhone vs.

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Simple Mobile Review Podcast #28: Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics

Today Microsoft announced that its Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS has reached the technical preview stage, which means that prototype handsets with the latest build of the OS can now be sent out to developers. Microsoft claims that thousands of these prototype ASUS, LG, and Samsung devices will be heading out to developers over the next few weeks. Read the full story here.

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Windows Phone 7 reaches "technical preview"; WP7 phones being released to developers

The Telecom equipment vendor, Nokia Siemens is a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens AG. Today NSN announced that they will be acquiring certain wireless network infrastructure assets from Motorola for a sum of 1.2 BILLION US Dollars. CASH. Last year, Nokia tried to build a position in North America with the acquisition of Nortel, but was outbid and bought by Ericsson for 1.13 Billion USD (another Nortel asset bought by Cienna for 769 Million) Deal expected to complete end of 2010 Nokia Siemens Networks expects to gain incumbent relationships with more than 50 operators and to strengthen its position with China Mobile, Clearwire, KDDI, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. Transaction expected to significantly strengthen Nokia Siemens Networks’ presence globally, particularly in the United States and Japan

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For 1.2 Billion USD Cash – Nokia Siemens Networks to acquire Motorola wireless network infrastructure assets.

Following on from the Apple press conference on Friday, it seems that Apple have ruffled the feathers of rival manufacturers, by trying to implement them in the issue of reception problems. You may recall, that during the conference, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs came out to defend the iPhone 4 , amongst growing criticism of the iPhone Death Grip, where holding the iPhone 4 in a particular way can lead to signal going from full bars to no bars in a matter of seconds. One response from Apple to this problem is to admit to a flaw in the software algorithm that calculates signal strength, which has been dealt with by a software update that was rolled out via iTunes last week. Despite going on to say that less than 1% of all calls to Apple Care regarding the iPhone 4 related to signal problems, Apple acknowledge that where problems exist, encasing the handset in a case, or Bumper can help, so promise to be giving out free cases and Bumpers for the iPhone 4 up until 30th September. What happens then remains to be seen.

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RIM has released a statement in response to Apple’s demonstration of the death grip using the BlackBerry Bold 9700 . Below is the official statement of RIM CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie as posted over at CrackBerry : Apple’s attempt to draw RIM into Apple’s self-made debacle is unacceptable. Apple’s claims about RIM products appear to be deliberate attempts to distort the public’s understanding of an antenna design issue and to deflect attention from Apple’s difficult situation. RIM is a global leader in antenna design and has been successfully designing industry-leading wireless data products with efficient and effective radio performance for over 20 years.

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RIM hits back at Apple, BGR demos ‘Death Grip’ on the Verizon BlackBerry Bold 9650

Stock up on these accessories before the Great War comes. Trust me, your descendants will appreciate it. If their ears have not been melted off by rads and rads of radiation that is. Start off with a pair of Nuka Cola Quantum Asymmetrical Earrings for $12 (USD). You can also get a single Nuka Cola Quantum Earring ($8), if you’re a cheap bastard

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nuka-cola accessories: post-apocalyptic fashion

The BlackBerry WebKit Browser isn’t available to us just yet, but with any luck RIM will be launching along side of BlackBerry 6 (OS 6.0), within the coming months. Our buddy Salomondrin has just posted a great preview of the upcoming WebKit Browser running on the BlackBerry Slider 9800.

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BlackBerry Webkit Browser vs. iPhone and Android Browsers

The BlackBerry Storm2 is starting to reach end-of-life status with a couple different carriers in North America, but that hasn’t stopped Manitobia’s own MTS from finally launching it. The BlackBerry Storm2 is a CDMA smartphone, with world roaming abilities. As of now you can grab the BlackBerry Storm2 for $199 with three year term and voice and data plan. For more details visit MTS

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BlackBerry Storm2 9550 Now Available from MTS

Verizon has yet to officially announce or confirm the Motorola Droid 2 , but the smartphone is surely coming soon to the largest US carrier to make a great pair with the Droid X , and to replace the original Droid . Two new images of the Droid 2 have appeared over at Engadget , and although they unveil nothing new, they’re proof that the new QWERTY Droid is out there . Reportedly, it will be released in August. If you want a new smartphone from Verizon, but not on Android, it seems that the carrier is also getting ready to launch the BlackBerry Storm 3 and BlackBerry Curve 3 (sometime before the holidays). The Storm 3 might be a different version of the AT&T-bound 9800 slider , while the Curve 3 could be the 9300 , or something alike.

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BlackBerry Storm 3 and Curve 3 to join the Droid 2 on Verizon?

PHNOM PEHN-Leading mobile application developer Golden Gekko has been at the forefront of mobile marketing since 2005 and, building on its success, is now planning further expansion. Golden Gekko is currently expanding operations in Cambodia, Spain, Sweden and UK with an announcement on entry in new markets soon to be announced, says the company. With 65 employees and plans to reach 100 by the end of 2010, Asia already represents a key development hub for Golden Gekko. Since 2009, Golden Gekko has been adding new solutions to its product portfolio, key amongst which is the Mobile Directory Solution, designed to put Yellow Page and other Business Directory sites onto mobile.

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Golden Gekko’s expands Asian operations-adds app developers

I’ve certainly seen our share of low-cost computers , but I can honestly say that this is the least expensive computer system I’ve seen yet. The Humane Reader is designed to provide computer technology to homes or schools without internet access or the budget for traditional PCs or Macs. The 8-bit computer can turn any television into an e-Book/Wikipedia reader. As a matter of fact, its makers say you could store 5,000 books or more on a single 2GB SD card (included in the $20 cost). The creators of the Humane Reader state their value proposition simply: “The Humane Reader can provide a virtual library to any developing world school or individual with electrical power for less than the cost of a single textbook.” Based on the Atmega328p microcontroller (there are actually three of them in there), the open source Humane Reader can be loaded up with educational content via USB, and it can display output on any video display with composite input.

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humane reader: the $20 computer

Although Samsung is not too keen to update its Symbian-powered i8910 HD smartphone, the hacking community owning the powerful multimedia device is eager to improve it like all the time. Yap, the new unofficial firmware has been released, marked as HX7 aka “Black Pearl.” Here’s what’s new: Interface settings are improved – kinetic scrolling, included Camera now saves images and videos in DATE format “yyyy.mm.dd” Wlan power back to normal (you can change it if you want in Settings) Threaded SMS still there Pocket data back to normal Added “wow” effect to 3D-taskswitcher Widget-homescreen gadget.swf now on e: Music player only searches on e:music and f:music New battery-management – battery-life will increase for about 20% And you can get the full change log from this page .

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Samsung i8910 HD unofficially updated… again!

Nokia has released the first screenshots of the upcoming Symbian^4 platform, and we’ll admit, it does look a lot more up-to-date compared with the Symbian OS that’s currently used on the most of the Finnish company’s touchscreen phone offerings. Actually, it sort of reminds us of Android with its use of a large clock on its homescreen, but hey, that’s just our opinion. This new and improved version of Symbian also features pop-up menus, widget support, and what many are wishing for, a generally more touch-friendly user interface. This is still continuously being tweaked and developed so don’t surprised if there will be some more changes prior to its final version

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First Symbian^4 screenshots hits the web

iPhone 4 is into news since the day it was launched, first people went crazy about the kind of features this new Apple hardware was bringing on the table and later when Apple made the iPhone 4 available to people, they went crazy dsicussing about the antennae issues and reception issues they were facing.

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Four New iPhone 4 Ads Focusing on FaceTime Feature

The Swiftpoint Mouse puts a novel tilt on the laptop mouse concept with its new and ridiculously small portable mouse. It’s is tiny, about the size of a golf ball and has grooves for 3 fingers. The mouse is wireless and extremely energy efficient and is able to run for 4 weeks off of a full charge

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Since narrowly avoiding destruction due to the Y2K end-times, we must now set our sights on the coming robot uprising. As predicted by Nostradamus, Skylink will achieve self-awareness in approximately 2 years and launch a full scale assault on mankind. LaCie has released the XtremeKey flash drive that will be John Conner approved as soon as he takes command of the rebellion. This drive bests the current tough champion, the Corsair Flash Survivor , by being able to withstand being run over by a 10 ton truck. As well as being hardened enough to withstand water pressure at a depth of up to 300 feet

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LaCie XtremeKey is Apocalypse-proof (Video Proof Inside)