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HTC Merge gets official: QWERTY Android World Phone due spring

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

HTC has officially announced the HTC Merge, a phone we first heard rumors of so long ago we were beginning to think it had been cancelled. Headed to "multiple North American carriers" in Spring 2011, the Merge has a 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Read The Full Story

Gingerbread for Galaxy S in March confirms Samsung

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [23]

Samsung Germany has apparently confirmed that the Galaxy S will get an Android 2.3 Gingerbread update in March 2011. The news was revealed at a Samsung blogger event in Frankfurt today, and tweeted out by Frank Feil according to SmartDroid. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 in March and AMD Radeon HD 6990 in April as high-end graphics heat up

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 video card is expected to arrive in mid-March 2011, followed a month later by AMD's new Radeon HD 6990, with the staggered launch supposedly an intentional strategy AMD is adopting. According to DigiTimes' sources at graphics card manufacturers, AMD has decided to delay the HD 6990's commercial release so that NVIDIA can't review it and subsequently change its GTX 590 design. Read The Full Story

MobileMe online-only shift detailed by leaky Genius

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

A leaked screenshot purportedly from Apple's internal systems has confirmed that MobileMe is transitioning to be available exclusively online. Rumored earlier this week, as part of broad sweeping changes to the Apple backup and remote access service, the information sent by an Apple Genius to 9 to 5 Mac suggests that once the the remaining MobileMe retail boxes have been sold, customers should be directed to the website instead. Read The Full Story

Sony PSP price slashed to $129.99; new bargain games announced

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Sony has slashed the price of the PSP, with the handheld console going for $129.99 as of Sunday, February 27. Confirmed on the official PlayStation blog, the price cut will also see PSP Entertainment Packs - which bundle the PSP and one or more games - brought down to $159.99. Read The Full Story

Motorola XOOM world modem spotted in teardown

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [3]

It's something of a teardown day, with first the new MacBook Pro getting stripped to basics and now the Motorola XOOM suffering the same. iFixit whipped open the casing - a straightforward process, given Motorola obviously doesn't want to make things too difficult for its technicians adding in 4G modem support - and discovered that the XOOM actually uses the same hybrid CDMA/GSM modem as found in the Verizon iPhone 4. Read The Full Story

Kinect-style motion tracking for smartphones & tablets promises Crunchfish [Video]

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Kinect-style motion recognition on mobile devices like tablets and smartphones could arrive sooner - and cheaper - than expected, with software developers Crunchfish coming up with a system that can track 3D movements with a single front-facing camera. Working even in low-light conditions, the Crunchfish tech can track individual finger movement, together with click, drag and scroll without any contact with the device itself. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

T-Mobile USA losing subscribers: 318,000 contract users jumped in Q4

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [3]

T-Mobile USA may have the biggest 4G network in the US, and data ARPUs rising faster than any US rival, but the carrier is still losing users. The carrier saw 33.73m subscribers in Q4 2010, according to new figures released today, down from 33.76m in Q3 2010 and 33.79m year-on-year. The biggest shift has been in contract customers, down a massive 318,000 - over 5x greater than in the previous three month period - while although pre-pay customers are up compared to Q3, they're still well behind T-Mobile's figures for 2009. Read The Full Story

Nikon D4 Thunderbolt rumor suggests high-speed tethered video

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel name-checked a number of storage and A/V companies on board with Thunderbolt and expecting to release products using the new 10Gbps port found on the early 2011 MacBook Pro, but we're already hearing other rumors about potential adopters currently flying under the radar. According to Nikon Rumors's source, the Nikon D4 will be the first DSLR to offer Thunderbolt as a connection option. Read The Full Story

Sony super-fast CMOS promises 17.7MP 120fps video capture

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Sony has apparently developed a super-fast CMOS sensor for use in digital cameras and cellphones, which can process images five times faster than its predecessors. The unnamed sensor, The Nikkei [registration required] reports, is able to "convert multiple pixels into signals simultaneously," and in the process scythes conversion times by 75-percent. Read The Full Story

ASUS Eee Note sub-$200 when it hits US imminently

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [10]

ASUS has confirmed US pricing for the Eee Note EA800 digital note-taking tablet, and if the active stylus input of the HTC Flyer appealed (but the considerable price tag doesn't) then the Eee Pad could make for a very affordable - albeit monochrome - alternative. Tipped to be "coming soon," the EA800 will be under $200 in the US, despite packing WiFi b/g, a 2-megapixel camera and a battery good for up to 13.5hrs runtime. Read The Full Story

GSLO volt solar charger for iPhone enters mass production

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [2]

We have talked a lot about the GSLO Volt solar charging battery case for the iPhone 4 over the last few months. Earlier this month I mentioned that the company had filed a patent application to protect the technology in the charger as it readied the things for market. Read The Full Story
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