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iRex DR800SG touchscreen 3G ebook reader coming today

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 23rd 2009 No Comments

irex logo From one ebook reader to another, only this time we’re looking at something with much more grunt to take on Amazon’s Kindle. According to the New York Times, iRex will announce later on today that they’re launching an 8.1-inch touchscreen ebook reader in the US, the iRex DR800SG, priced at $399 and packing a 3G Gobi radio from Qualcomm. The sticker price of the iRex DR800SG will include unlimited wireless access through Verizon’s network, with users able to wirelessly download ebooks from Barnes & Noble.

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Acer F1, HTC Leo coming Q4; more Snapdragon phones from ASUS & Inventec

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 21st 2009 No Comments

The latest DigiTimes rumors are in, and this time they don’t seem all that unlikely. According to industry sources in Taiwan, Acer’s F1 and HTC’s Leo – both using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz chipset – will each drop in Q4 this year, complete with Windows Mobile 6.5. They also finger ASUS and Inventec as developing Snapdragon-based smartphones, though those are unlikely to hit full-scale production until the first half of 2010.

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Palm Pixi CPU specs revealed: dual ARM cores, both EVDO and HSPA

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 15th 2009 1 Comment

Full specifications for Palm’s second webOS smartphone, the Palm Pixi, have emerged, this time courtesy of Qualcomm. The Pixi is based on Qualcomm’s MSM7627 chipset, and there are more than a few interesting details among the new chip’s capabilities, not least its dual ARM cores and ability to deliver both CDMA and GSM connectivity.

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Sprint adopt Qualcomm Brew; entry-level HTC incoming?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 11th 2009 No Comments

Sprint have obviously decided that it helps to have fingers in as many developer pies as possible, with the announcement that they will now be launching Qualcomm’s Brew mobile platform. No specific devices are mentioned by the carrier, only that they will run both native Brew apps together with “high-performance mobile Java” software.

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HTC Touch HD 2 Shuns Windows Mobile and Embraces Android

By Evan Selleck on Friday, Sep 4th 2009 No Comments

The Touch HD released last year, and while it held its own within its fifteen minutes of fame, like many other HTC/Windows Mobile devices out there, it quickly faded into the throes of the past. Well, it’s time for HTC to release a sequel, and yes, you can guess what it’s called: the Touch HD 2. But we’re not getting a simple rehash this time around, or even an upgraded Windows Mobile 6.5. No, we get to see more Android.

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Qualcomm in legal hotspot in Germany over “Smartbook”

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 1st 2009 No Comments

Qualcomm ran into some legal trouble today when Smartbook AG filed a restraining order against them in Germany. Apparently, Qualcomm does not have the right to use the “Smartbook” moniker in that country.

If the company doesn’t quit it pronto, they will be fined $358,000 or even arrested for contempt. Qualcomm is currently in the works of creating smartbooks, which will be combination of netbook and smartphone.

Smartbook AG says they have the copyright to the name, so that might present problems for Qualcomm. But we’ll just have to see how this plays out. Either Qualcomm goes with a different name in Germany or face heavy fines.

HTC Hero200 Gets Pictured and Looks Nothing Like the HTC Hero

By Evan Selleck on Tuesday, Sep 1st 2009 1 Comment

It’s only been a few days, but the Hero cleared the FCC with a number attached to it, promising some kind of change was in store for the previously European-only device, once it launched here in the States. And if these images we’re seeing, brought over from Chinese website 080.net are to be believed, there’s quite a change in store for HTC’s (and more so Android’s) Hero.

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Qualcomm FLO TV Personal TV hoping to push digital broadcasts?

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 26th 2009 No Comments

Details of a Qualcomm mobile digital TV device have leaked, courtesy of gdgt, complete with a conceptual render of what the iPhone-sized handheld may look like. The Qualcomm FLO TV PTV (Personal Television) uses the company’s terrestrial digital TV service, a broadcast system rather than streaming over 3G.

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ASUS freeze Smartbook development over lack of “clear market”

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 25th 2009 No Comments

ASUS may have leant their weight to the Smartbook movement back at Computex, bringing along a couple of slender Eee PCs based on the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, but that doesn’t mean they’ve current plans to bring them to market. Indeed, according to ASUS CEO Jerry Shen this week, the lack of a “clear market” for Smartbooks has seen the project put on ice.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 33 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Sunday, Aug 16th 2009 No Comments

The end of the week is here again and here we go with a rundown of some of the coolest stories we have seen this week. Monday marked the day the Asus Eee PC 1101HA went on sale in America. The rig is a netbook in name only; the beastie is expensive at about $430. The same day Gigabyte quietly unveiled the T1028X convertible touchscreen netbook. The device has a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 and other than the screen, the rest of the machine is typical netbook fare.

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