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T-Mobile holding launch event on April 21st

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Apr 9th 2009 No Comments

Wow. April 21st is going to be a busy day! First, we have the official announcement from Bluetooth SIG about Bluetooth 3.0 schedule for that day and now T-Mobile is holding a private launch event, too. Interesting. Very interesting, indeed.

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Energizer to reveal Zinc Air Prismatic batteries at CES

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Dec 8th 2008 No Comments

When thinking about tech announcements, we often forget about the things that make our gadgets go. Like batteries. But Energizer is not one to be left out and at CES 2009, they will be showing off their latest in battery technology called the Zinc Air Prismatic.

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T-Mobile G1 Q&A brings further insight to device

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 23rd 2008 2 Comments

g1 watermarked1 359x480 After the demo video finished and the execs announced the pricing and availability, the T-Mobile G1 event turned to the audience with plenty of questions about the device, the platform and everything in between.

Let’s touch on a few of the questions and their respective answers:

The G1 will not tether. You will have to purchase a voice plan as well and it can read Word and Excel files and GMail push will be supported. There won’t be desktop sync, but there will be a back-end one.

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T-Mobile G1 pricing and availability announced

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 23rd 2008 2 Comments

All of the anticipation hasn’t been for nought. In fact, today at the T-Mobile G1 event, we learned that the device will be available from selected T-Mobile stores and dealers starting on October 27th for $179.

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T-Mobile G1, first Android-powered handset announced; platform to be flexible

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 23rd 2008 1 Comment

When Cole Brodeman, the chief technology officer for T-Mobile took the stage today at the T-Mobile G1 event, he said that today’s announcement would be a game changer to how mobile phones and the Internet “bring us together.” He was right.

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T-Mobile G1 event about to begin; we’re live blogging, contest and more

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 23rd 2008 No Comments

The T-Mobile G1 event will start in just a few minutes at 10:30 a.m. EDT, but we wanted to give you one last notice that we will be live blogging the whole thing. In just a few moments, the first Android-powered handset will be officially announced and Vincent is there to catch every detail.

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18.4-inch Sony VAIO AW Series Notebook announced

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Sep 10th 2008 No Comments

The Sony VAIO AW Series Notebook was announced tonight and it’s not only huge at 18.4-inches. It’s also massive in other ways, like the the huge hard drive and 3LED backlighting.

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iPhone 2.1 and iPod touch 2.1 firmware on the way

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 9th 2008 4 Comments

Shortly after announcing the iPod nano and iPod touch upgrades and updates today at Apple’s Let’s Rock event, Steve Jobs told us that two new firmware updates were coming to the iPhone and the iPod touch, respectively.

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Apple iPod touch gets a makeover

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 9th 2008 6 Comments

This morning has pretty much been “suspicions confirmed” so far when it comes to Apple’s Let’s Rock event in San Francisco. We first heard the iPod nano was coming out in fourth gen and all the little details that leaked over the past few weeks turned out to be true. Now, the iPod touch is in the spotlight, and while it didn’t get a total refresh, it got a few tweaks and updates.

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iPod nano refresh confirmed

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 9th 2008 No Comments

Much of our speculation was confirmed today at Apple’s Let’s Rock event, especially regarding the iPod nano refresh. Steve even joked about the rumors because of the leaked iPod accessories. But after that, it was all business.

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