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AMD have outed their latest video card, the ATI Radeon HD 5450, and while it’s packing DirectX 11 support it’s not really intended for the gamers.  Instead the fanless half-height card offers DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA connections, support for Eyefinity multi-monitor output and more for just $50. That means support for up to three displays simultaneously, as well as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio bitstreaming.  In fact the HD 5450 seems almost tailor-made for an HTPC setup, even down to the frugal 20W power requirements. Over at Tom’s Hardware they’ve been putting the HD 5450 through its paces and, as expected, it’s “the least awe-inspiring Radeon HD 5000-series card”.

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AMD ATI Radeon HD 5450: DirectX 11 for HTPCs, not gamers

Either romantic or schmaltzy depending on your current relationship status and attitude to romance, the ifallinlove app syncs to your lover’s iPhone and depending on how near you are to the object of your affections, the heart on the screen…

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Heart app syncs with your lover’s iPhone: an app for Valentine’s Day

Motorola has been suing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion over a patent relegated to an email gateway; however, a high court judge has ruled that Research In Motion doesn’t infringe Motorola’s patent reports an article over on the Calgary Herald . Apparently the high court judge in London invalidated a Motorola patent saying that even if it had been valid, two RIM communications systems didn’t infringe said patent. From 2003 to 2007 Motorola and Research In Motion had a licence agreement in place and since then have been suing each other over patents when they both failed to reach a new agreement. The most recent action was Motorola asking the US International Trade Commission to halt Research In Motion products importing smartphones which they claim infringes five of their patents but as yet the ITC has not investigated.

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Motorola Patent Not Infringed by BlackBerry

A new experimental app has now made its debut via Nokia Beta Labs and is called Nokia Diagnostics, which apparently aids S60 5th Edition users diagnose, configure and troubleshoot with ease. According to Nokia Beta Labs the user of Nokia Diagnostics on their mobile phone you can perform real time internet connectivity tests, identify settings so you can gain seamless internet access. You can gain all network related info and direct offline status and SIM card presence

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Video: Nokia Diagnostics Gets Introduced

When Apple announced the iPad at their Apple Event, maybe people misunderstood what the product was all about. A week later, it’s evident that the iPad is going to sell like hotcakes. For what it was created to do, it’s going perform extremely well.

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Get 20% OFF iPad ZAGG invisibleSHIELD Pre-Order!

There has been a strange countdown timer running and apparently the reason for said time has now been discovered by the guys over at wired and said reason is the Symbian Foundation plans to make the Symbian operating system completely open source as of today the 4th of Feb 2010. This is apparently 4 months ahead of schedule and the Symbian source code will now be available to anyone for absolutely free, although it hasn’t been announced just yet but should happen sometime today. Presumably the Symbian source code will become available to anyone who wants it through the Symbian Foundation website, and the exec director of the Symbian Foundation has said “the dominating operating system out there is Symbian.” Williams also states that although it may sound similar to Android’s promise, there are major differences as only roughly a third of the Android code base is open, nothing more. Middleware is open while everything else is closed or propriety.

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Today Symbian OS Becomes Fully Open Source

Although O2 UK recently lost their exclusivity over the iPhone they have still managed to notch up some 2 million iPhone sales announced the chief exec of O2 UK Ronan Dunne and Telefonica Europe chief exec Matthew Key reports Reuters . O2 was the first to offer the iPhone in the United Kingdom in November 07 and thus benefited from early sales, while Orange and Vodafone have only recently begun offering the iPhone in the UK.

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2 Million iPhone Handsets Sold Says O2 UK

As we wait and wait for Sony Ericsson to get round to putting out the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 packing Android, it appears the guys over at XDA have got fed up with waiting and have done a bit of hacking themselves. Apparently they decided to hack Android onto an earlier version of Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA range, namely the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 which usually runs Windows Mobile, but as you will see in the video, can now dual boot with Windows Mobile and Android 2.0.1.

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Video: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 Running Android 2.0.1

Garmin is well-known as a market leader in the satellite navigation solutions, and let us see how far it succeeds in the mobile phone market, through this review of one of its latest addition, Garmin nuvifone G60 Mobile Phone. This is a quad-band GSM mobile phone, with EDGE, GPRS and UMTS/HSDPA support. Design-wise, it pronounces

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Garmin Nuvifone G60 Mobile Phone

If you are a fan of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone from Research In Motion on the T-Mobile network and haven’t yet got one the chances of actually going to T-Mobile and getting one have just been greatly reduced. The reason being, according to an article over on engadget , T-Mobile has now officially confirmed they are discontinuing the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone and will no longer offer it. T-Mobile’s answer as to why the discontinuation is that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 has “reached the end of its life cycle,” and well you can get straighter than that can you. Still, even though T-Mobile has decided to ditch the BlackBerry Curve 8900 there are still a few good alternative BlackBerry smartphones to be had such as the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and BlackBerry Curve 8520.

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BlackBerry Curve 8900 Ditched by T-Mobile

Now that Google has relented over multitouch on the US version of the Nexus One we are seeing a few video demonstrations hit the next waves and today we have one such video from the guys over at intomobile . In this one we have Will Park taking a look at the Nexus One pinch to zoom and apposed to the iPhone 3GS pinch to zoom feature in a sort of multitouch comparison, and Will says now the Nexus One just might take over the iPhone throne. Although multitouch on the Nexus One only works at the moment in the browser, image gallery and Google Maps apps while the iPhone 3GS multitouch works in numerous applications, so my guess even thought the Nexus One now has multitouch it still won’t grab that throne

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Video: Nexus One Multitouch vs. iPhone 3GS Multitouch

It’s rare to see a rumor — hell, even a roadmap — pinpoint the timing of new releases quite so accurately, but our earlier report of ATI refreshing the middle and lower parts of its lineup turned out to be bang on. Following in the footsteps of the HD 5670 , we have the Radeon HD 5450, which drags the entry price for DirectX 11 and Eyefinity multi-monitor support all the way down to $50.

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ATI Radeon HD 5450 focuses on multimedia features, neglects gaming

Did you get the memo about the T&A reports? It’s just that we are putting a boob note or an ass note on all of our T&A reports now. A boob note if it’s a T report and a butt note if it’s an A. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that’d be great

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Did You Get The Memo About The T&A Reports? (NSFW)

Strap yourself in and feel the G’s that come from playing video games, eating and channel surfing in  Alexander Christoff’s Formula One chair. The seat is made from molded fiberglass and features chrome legs and an upholstered adjustable headrest to create the ultimate F1 /seat hybrid. However, at this point the chair is only a concept, so for the time being you’ll have to put your dreams of racing the Grand Prix to obesity on hold. Project Page: (via Autoblog )

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Formula One Chair For Living Room Speed

Samsung, give them credit, loves to push that old industrial design envelope by making strange new control designs for their products.  It’s only too bad that, most of the time, these industrial design features often wind up being little more than lipstick on a pig.  And today’s polished turd will be the Samsung Alias 2. The Samsung Alias 2 is a convertible flip style cell phone that offers call timer, conference call ability, voice recorder, caller ID, Bluetooth connectivity, TTY compatibility, VZ Navigator, Chaperone parent/child, a sixteen gig microSD card slot, V CAST Music, Rhapsody, GPS, speakerphone, a phone book with capacity for a thousand names and numbers, mobile email, internet browser, a two megapixel digital camera, and a battery capable of generating five hours of talk time on one charge. The first thing you’ll notice about this phone is its bizarre and thoroughly outlandish controls.  It will take quite a bit of getting used to to get this thing to work properly.  And the worst part is that, though the controls are spectacularly unique, there’s not a whole lot here for the keypad to actually control in the first place. The Samsung Alias 2 is short on tools and long on weird.  The end result is a phone much less than you actually could get elsewhere. The Good Gutsy and highly original design The Bad Short on features Huge learning curve Score 4/10 Related Posts Samsung Alias Cell Phone Along with the BlackBerry Curve 8330 and the LG enV2, Verizon is also releasing the new Samsung Alia..

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Samsung Alias 2 Cell Phone Review–Strange and Lacking

The Nexus One in my pocket has just been blessed with Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )’s software update , which enables multi-touch pinch zooming in the web browser, photo gallery, and Google Maps apps. The lack of multi-touch support on the Nexus One’s Android 2.1 OS is considered by many to be the biggest drawback that’s keeping the N1 from truly challenging the iPhone 3GS. But, now that Google is rolling out the N1 software update over the air, the multi-touch argument no longer holds water. Which is the better smartphone? Well, here’s a little video demonstration of me multi-touching the N1 like it’s going out of style.

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Video: Nexus One multi-touch pinch zooming demo

The world’s most populous smartphone platform (330,000,000 shipped), Symbian, is now fully open source. Members of the foundation include Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. In 2008, Nokia bought the rest of Symbian for $410 million…. and then gave it away. In February 2009, Nokia received $630 million 5-year loan from the European Investment Bank to drive and support Symbian’s R&D

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World’s number one mobile OS, Symbian becomes fully Open Source [#symbiancountdown]

Quickie is a well-designed to-do application for your iPhone.  It features a great interface and some nice functionality that the standard Apple notes app doesn’t provide.  It was designed for those that have a difficult time keeping track of the variety of tasks in their lives. If that sounds a lot like you, you may want to keep reading. (…) Read the rest of Review: Quickie for the iPhone [iPhone App Reviews] © Brandon for Just Another iPhone Blog , 2010.

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Review: Quickie for the iPhone [iPhone App Reviews]

I still love the Dexim P-Flip (review from two months ago – here ): I’ve been using it over the past couple of days as my dock and portable charger as I write.

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Review update: Dexim P-Flip portable charger and dock [iPhone Accessory Reviews]

Anyone that regularly reads IntoMobile will know that I think the Groovemaker range of Apps are awesome – sitting in a perfect niche between recreational music, and professional music production – they are kinda like the guitar hero of mobile music production, but there’s real productivity in here too – it’s no game! Recently, IK Multimedia, the creators of Groovemaker, released ‘Groovemaker Reggae’ – I’m now writing down my thoughts on the App, having used it quite extensively! More after the jump… Download, loading, and opening tracks Groovemaker isn’t the smallest of apps, but then again it’s got an fair amount of file-weight since it includes lots of really high-quality apps. I used iTunes on the Mac and then synced the iPhone as the fastest route to getting Apps installed. The App loads quickly once installed, and then the first time you open any of the included tracks, the App needs to unpack them

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Usage review: Groovemaker Reggae for iPhone/iPod Touch

Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Cseries and Xseries rang of devices was discovered by Aleksi Moisio, writing for Finnish news site Digitoday, way back in July of last year . We all know about the Xseries, such as the X6, the first Nokia smartphone with a capactivie touch screen, and the Nokia X3, a lesser known, but highly important music phone for emerging economies.

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Photos: Nokia C5 leaks [2.2 inch screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, Symbian powered]