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Sony is jumping into the LTE race with a gorgeous new, slim Xperia Ion introduced here at CES 2012. The Ion features a 4.6 inch display, HDMI output, 12MP camera and a 1.5Ghz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and 1GB of RAM. [click to continue…]
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Monday night the Sony press conference was pretty spectacular. Once the new products and services was talked up, Sony played the MIB3 trailer in 3D and then Will Smith came on stage briefly (cool stuff) and I was on the front row. A few moments later Kelly Clarkson made a appearance and sang.
Back to the tech after the jump… [click to continue…]
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CES 2012 officially kicked off Sunday evening. Speck Products was showing off some new products like their new gaming cover and cover with built in stand for the iPhone 4S. Check out the video below to check it all out.
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At Nokia World 2011, the Finnish giant-turned-underdog has announced the long-awaited (by geeks anyway) smart phones featuring Windows Phone 7 by Microsoft. These phones represent the first products from the new Nokia – Microsoft partnership, where Nokia replaced Symbian and Meego operating systems with WP7 for its top of the line smart phones. New Symbian “Belle” phones are still being released, as well as feature phones running S40. These newer, entry-mid level phones were also announced at Nokia World, dubbed “Asha” 200, 201, 300 and 303. Videos of these phones are also included.
So, will the two tech giants’ new litter of puppies have a fighting chance against the smartphone leaders from Apple and Android? We’ll just have to wait and see how well these phones are marketed worldwide, and especially if any major U.S. carriers will subsidize them with a low price + 2 year contracts.
Sit back, get some popcorn, and enjoy the videos after the break.
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In the wake of Apple’s iPhone 4S debut, Research In Motion (RIM) scrambles to fix a global service outage, frustrating BlackBerry users, in some cases for days. The email, BBM and internet service outage that originated in Europe on Monday quickly spread to North and South America, along with other parts of the world. [click to continue…]
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It just demolished the prior model’s record pre-orders. Rumors of a the iPhone 4S “only” packing 512MB RAM won’t open the door for Windows Phone to steal any market share. Most consumers don’t even understand what that means. The rest won’t care.
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Apple today announced pre-orders of its iPhone 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4.
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Now that we’ve seen the new iPhone 4S, which was not an earth shattering reveal, perhaps it’s time for Samsung to wow us finicky folks in the smart phone geekdom. The next super Droid phone, dubbed the “Nexus Prime,” is rumored to be announced at the Samsung event on October 11th, and the potential wow factors will be it’s curved screen, and the latest Android OS, “Ice Cream Sandwich.” Enjoy the sneak peek video, and click below for a brief story by CNET, while I go get an ice cream sandwich. Damn that power of suggestion!
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Apple’s Tim Cook made the long awaited (every Apple debut is ‘long awaited,’ right?) new iPhone announcement, and it’s not the iPhone 5, but the iPhone 4S. It’s the same iPhone 4 form factor, on steroids. New, faster chip, camera (8MP, 1080p video), and “Siri,” a voice recognition system assistant.
So, did the 4S underwhelm, meet, or exceed, your expectations?
More details after the break, like release dates, pricing structure, etc.
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Good news for consumers: T-Mobile (aka “We ain’t AT&T yet”) is offering a $30 “unlimited” text and data (their words, not mine, since data is not truly unlimited) prepaid plan through Walmart stores and online. The plan includes 100 voice minutes, above which will be $.10 /min, which is fairly high. Definitely targeted towards the heavy texters who don’t talk much. ;-) The plan will be available beginning Oct. 16th, and six prepaid phone models will be offered through T-mobile.
The U.S. market sorely needs more prepaid SIM options on the GSM networks, and this is a good addition. On the downside, as you’ll see from T-mobile’s press release (after the break), only the first 5GB will be available at 4G speeds, but it does not specify the speed after you’ve used up the 5GB. Will it be 3G, or Edge? Definitely a question you should ask your T-mobile rep in the store.
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