We have been hearing a number of rumors that the iPhone 5 will launch
at end of September or the start of October, earlier today we heard
that Pegatron who is rumored to be producing the iPhone 5 for Apple, along with Foxconn would start shipping the device to Apple in September.
Now according to the Guardian’s Charles Arthur, Apple has sent out
the iPhone 5 to mobile carriers for testing, and apparently the iPhone 5
units are being tested under a fair amount of secrecy at the mobile
carriers.
The next iPhones go for their testing inside locked and sealed
boxes so that the carriers can carry out checks on their network
compatibility in their labs. It’s very high security, as you could
guess; my understanding
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Earlier today RIM announced its new BlackBerry smartphones which will all come with the new BlackBerry 7 OS, one of the new handsets was the new BlackBerry Torch 9860.
The video below was put together by Vodafone and it gives us our
first look at the new BlackBerry Torch 9860, which is due to go on sale
in the US and the UK later this month.
Both Microsoft and Apple have been going after Google’s Android OS,
with Microsoft signing patents deals with a number of Android smartphone
manufacturers and Apple suing the popular Android device makers like
Samsung and HTC.
Google has been pretty quiet on the whole situation , until now,
Google’s David Drummond who is the companies Senior Vice President and
Chief Legal Officer, has posted a blog post attacking, Apple, Microsoft
and Oracle.
The article has the title ‘When patents’ attack Android’, and it
makes for interesting reading, and David Drummond mentions the recent
Nortel Patents which were acquired by the companies recently.
But Android’s success has yielded something else: a hostile,
organized campaign again
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So for $24.95 you get a plate whose bottom is magnetized thereby
allowing the owner to stick trinkets on it. That, boys and girls, is the
sum and totality of this particular semi-gadget. If it had blinky
lights we’d honor it as a ‘whole’ gadget, but it’s just a metal plate.
If you’re wondering about the genius who ‘invented’ this, why, ’twas an industrial design student named Jake Frey. Bravo, Mr. Fray. You now have a commercially distributed product to your credit.
Its being reported that the Xbox Live service is currently
experiencing intermittent service outages, so if you have been kicked
from Halo Reach or Black Ops don’t work its not your kit and your not
alone.
The outages started to be report last night and have been shown on
Microsoft’s status service board. The issues experienced seem to include
creating, managing, and recovering accounts, and creating, maintaining,
or joining matches in Halo Reach or Black Ops.
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If you like creating and building your own gizmos and gadgets,
you might be interested to know that SparkFun has launched a new range
of kits called Protosnap. Designed to help the novice electronics
enthusiast easily move into the world of Arduino programming,
prototyping and design.
Each product in the new ProtoSnap line are equipped with various
input and output boards linked together, complete with traces, to form a
multi-use prototyping platform. The new boards have been designed to
allow users to experiment with embedded electronics without having to
soldering, wires or other typical prototyping limitations.
Watch the video after the jump to see a run through of the new ProtoSnap
Kits.
Last year, Google made it possible for U.S residents to call any mobile phone
or landline directly from their Gmail accounts. Google has now rolled
out a new update to the service making this available to 150 locations
worldwide in 38 languages.
You can now buy calling credit in your choice of four currencies :
Euros, British pounds, Canadian dollars or U.S. dollars and there are no
connection fees, so you only pay for the time you talk. Watch the
promotional video created by Google explaining the new update.
Google has also lowered their call rates:
"For example, it’s now only $0.10 (or €0.08) per minute to call
mobile phones in the U.K., F
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Huawei has added another Android smartphone to their range with the launch of the Huawei Vision, which features a uni-body design and will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
The Huawei Vision features a 3.7 inch capacitive multi-touch display,
plus a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8255 processor, it also comes with
512MB of RAM and 2GB of built in storage, plus a microSD card slot that
can take up to 32GB cards.
Other features on the Huawei Vision include Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP,
plus a 5 megapixel camera on the back with built in auto focus and an
LED flash, the camera is capable of recording HD video in 720p.
On top of that there is also a 1400 mAh battery and a micro USB port,
plus A-GPS, an
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HTC has been producing some great Android smartphones, and their
latest flagship model is the HTC Sensation, which comes with a range of
impressive specifications, we recently showed you some hands on photos
of the new HTC Sensation, and have been testing it out over the last 10
days, so its time to let you guys know what we thought about the HTC
Sensation.
The first thing you notice about the HTC Sensation is the size of the
device, it features a large 4.3 inch qHD display. so the handset has a
similar size to the Samsung Galaxy S II we reviewed recently and also features very similar specifications.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is Sony’s latest Android smartphone in
their Xperia range, it comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and it
features a 4.2 inch touchscreen LED backlit LCD display.
Processing is provided by a 1GHz processor and there is also an 8
megapixel camera and 512MB of RAM, it quite light for a smartphone of
this sizes, weighing in at 117g, making it just 1 gram heavier than the
new Samsung Galaxy S II.
Hardware Specifications
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc comes with Android 2.3.2 Gingerbread out
of the box, not the latest version which is 2.3.3, although we are
expecting Sony Ericsson to release an update in the not too distant
future, the handsets measure 125mm by 63mm by 8.7
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