Sprint has finally announced the date when the Motorola i1, the world’s first Android iDEN smartphone, will be available to its subscribers: July 25. Only direct ship sales channels will offer the push-to-talk handset on this date, though, with the rest of the channels to offer it starting August 8. The Moto i1 will be yours for $149.99 with a 2-yr Sprint contract (after a $50 mail-in rebate)
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Motorola i1 officially coming to Sprint on July 25 for $149.99 on contract
You know the way family members will finish your sentences for you and know what you’re about to say before the words have even left your lips? It’s kind of annoying, kind of cute. Well, Google isn’t a member…
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Google’s new bright idea: knowing what you want before you’ve searched for it, & why this is going to be embarrassing
If there’s anything that I love as much as getting my hands on a shiny new gadget, it’s taking old gadgets and repurposing them to accomplish something completely awesome. I recently combined a low-end Eye-Fi card, a 2008 Mac Mini, and a little elbow grease to turn my home theater system into a slideshow displaying photos of a party at my home — live, as I was taking them . Here’s how I did it, and how you can too. … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: Articles , Digital Cameras and Gear , Do-It-Yourself Tagged: DIY , HTPC , Photos Geek Up Your Party With a Live-Updating Slideshow originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 19, 2010 at 10:00 am.
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Geek Up Your Party With a Live-Updating Slideshow
Motorola’s slow decline was halted, briefly, by the launch of the Droid line of phones. Now, however, it looks like the company’s money-making switching subsidiary is no longer going to be making money as it’s just been sold to Nokia Siemens for $1.2 billion. While the company still owns its own handset and set-top box operation, the switching side was Motorola’s bread and butter and now it may be going hungry. With the unit, Nokia Siemens gets 50 large customers like China Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon. Motorola will still own the iDEN “push-to-talk” system but has sold off their manufacturing systems for GSM, WiMax, and LTE switches.
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Nokia Siemens buys Motorola’s switching business for $1.2 billion
When it comes to BlackBerry Twitter clients , there certainly is no shortage of options for you to choose from. Unfortunately, however, the BlackBerry Twitter client considered by many to be the best, Social Scope , has been in closed beta for what seems like the past couple of years and a production release, or, even an open beta available to whomever wishes to download it is no where in sight.
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Will The BlackBerry Twitter Client Social Scope Ever Come Out Of Beta?
Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola have just announced they’ve entered into an agreement for Nokia Siemens to buy “the majority of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure assets” (i.e. Moto’s Networks business) for $1.2 billion in cash
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Nokia Siemens buys Motorola’s Networks business for $1.2 billion
Sprint has announced that the Motorola i1 will be available for purchase on July 25 through direct ship sales channels, and will hit retail outlets in early August. As you may recall, the i1 is the first Android-powered smartphone to include Nextel Direct Connect technology and sports a hardened body that meets military specs for shock, dust, and rain. $149 (after $50 rebate) for new customers and eligible upgrades with the standard two year contract. Here’s the complete press release .
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We’ve featured Nintendo systems with wooden components before, but this NES is entirely made out of wood, with the exception of the strings used for the cables: It seems that the console – along with a wooden TV – was made for an exhibit. The sculpture is said to be so well made, “it appears to be a functional Nintendo at first glance.” I’m inclined to disagree since, well, it looks like a wooden sculpture at first glance
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nes wooden sculpture: video game console as art
Proporta, case makers to the stars, is offering 20% off some of its iPhone 4 cases if you return your free bumper case to them. Why would you do this? I’m not quite sure. Proporta founder Guy Monson writes: As a mobile device accessories company with over 3,000 cases, power solutions and screen protectors, we realise that a free case is a free case and that a lot of customers will still want fully surrounded protection. So we’d like to offer customers 20% off any Proporta Case or Screen Protector for the iPhone 4, if they return their bumper case to us, with the promotion code CASEFREE at www.proporta.com We generally like Proporta, but this move is baffling
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Orange UK has announced that it will soon offer the Sony Ericsson Zylo Walkman phone to its customers. The Zylo offers the Walkman music player and is among the first devices to feature FLAC audio playback support. The player also offers TrackID, and the PlayNow music store.
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Sony Ericsson Zylo Walkman phone coming to Orange UK
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
Last week, after sitting in Madison Square Garden for three hours while watching Iron Maiden and Dream Theater, I got a call from a good friend. I had just seen him that past weekend, which made the call seem odd. Did he forget to tell me something? Were we in some kind of trouble
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Auto lock your BlackBerry for convenience and battery life
The first update to the spankin’ new Droid X was actually pushed to a small number of handsets before the device was even released, but whispers abound the webz today are saying the update could be making its way onto everyone else’s handsets as early as right freakin’ now . Droid Life ’s sources have said that version 1.13.604.en.US of the Droid X software may just start popping up on handsets today. But what changes does it bring?
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Droid X update coming today (maybe)
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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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.
AirTel will be launching the iPhone 4 in India officially in the month of September/October 2010. The phone, which is the 4th generation iPhone was launched by Apple this June and was one of the most anticipated gadgets of 2010 or should I saw now it has become most controversial due to the reception issues of the iPhone OS 4.0. Anyway, AirTel officials have confirmed that they will be launching this pricey gadget in India around September/October, which is in-sync with the rumors that were going around earlier.There is no word from Vodafone on the launch. There are no details about the pricing too. But I am sure by now we know that iPhone’s official cost in India are way ahead than normal mid-range laptops.
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Confirmed: iPhone 4Coming to India in September/October