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HTC Brew-based feature-phones delayed until early 2010?

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 17th 2009 No Comments

htc startrk October has come and gone, and rumors that HTC would launch at least one entry-level device based on Qualcomm’s Brew mobile platform during the month have failed to pan out. According to a DigiTimes report, that’s because HTC have delayed the launch of their so-called feature phone range until early 2010, faced with “Brew’s relatively immature application service platform offering for telecom carriers”.

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Dell Streak MID landing 2010 on AT&T claims paper

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 17th 2009 No Comments

Having been spotted in prototype form last month, Dell’s Streak MID has received another shot of intrigue with Chinese rumor-monger Commercial Times claiming knowledge of both a manufacturer and a US carrier partner. According to their report, the Streak will be built by Qisda and released in the US with AT&T data in 2010.

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Apple game engineer job listing tips Tablet focus?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 16th 2009 No Comments

Apple’s gaming intent for the iPhone, iPod touch and – potentially – the upcoming Apple Tablet has been further illustrated with a new job listing on the company’s site. The company is looking for a full-time “Game/Media Software Engineer” with “strong C / C++ / Objective-C / iPhone background” and a “passion” for gaming. While gaming on the iPod touch has been a strong focus in previous events – Apple describe it as “the funnest iPod ever”, in fact – there’s speculation that the timing of this new post might coincide with developing crossover games titles for the PA Semi powered Apple Tablet.

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Tegra 2 confirmed for next-gen Nintendo DS say sources

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 16th 2009 No Comments

It’s almost as much fun speculating about new gaming hardware as it is playing on current-gen consoles, so color us intrigued at DigitalFoundry’s “credible sources” who are saying that the next-gen Nintendo DS will run NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 and that it’s “not unrealistic” that the handheld will out-grunt the current Nintendo Wii. Problem is, Sony’s next-gen PSP2 has also seen a few spilled details, and that’s looking even more impressive: think along the lines of potential GPU power in-between the original Xbox and the Xbox 360.

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ASUS eye Toshiba in bid to make top three notebook ranking

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 16th 2009 No Comments

ASUS aren't messing around when they say they want to crash the top three notebook vendors worldwide, even if that means they need to make some acquisitions rather than rely on their own product line. According to ASUS chairman Jonney Shih, the company is eyeing up Toshiba's notebook division as a potential target for buy-out, the latter company itself having around 5-percent of the worldwide product share.

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Google Chrome OS release in next 7 days?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 13th 2009 No Comments

Google Chrome OS, the search giant's web-centric platform for notebooks, netbooks and Smartbooks, is tipped to be arriving sometime within the next seven days. According to TechCrunch's sources, the release of the new OS - which was announced back in July - is imminent, though there's also talk of patchy driver support.

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LG watch-phone refresh and touchscreen Android coming 2010

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 13th 2009 1 Comment

LG have confirmed that they are planning follow-up versions of their LG GD910 watch phone, though it’s unclear whether an entirely new model is on the cards. Speaking at a launch event for the LG GW620 Android smartphone this week, the company’s UK sales and marketing director, John Barton, revealed that “more styles” of watch phone were in the pipeline, together with a non-keyboard Android handset for 2010.

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Apple pen-input tablet patent app fuels rumors

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 2 Comments

Apple’s ongoing tablet plans may be shrouded in mystery, but we keep getting snippets of potential from various patent applications from the company. Latest to be unearthed documents digital ink recognition using a pen-aware system, which tracks full handwritten phrases rather than merely individual strokes. Apple call it an “ink phrase” engine and it seems to be a sign that the company don’t expect onscreen keyboards and multitouch to serve all of our mobile input scenarios.

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Samsung Bada handset purportedly leaks

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 No Comments

samsung bada phone Samsung’s Bada OS, freshly announced – though far from released – for mobile devices is reasonably interesting on its own, but we always prefer to have an inkling of hardware to go along with our software speculation. Happily that itch has been allegedly scratched this morning, with a render of what’s purported to be the first Samsung Bada device.

Willeke at GSMHelpDesk has been slipped an image of this touchscreen handset, though there are no accompanying specifications to tell us what sort of experience we can expect. That leaves us arguing the aesthetics, and while the device pictured is reasonably inoffensive, it doesn’t exactly distinguish itself from any other touchscreen-centric candybar. Perhaps there’s a slide-out QWERTY keyboard waiting to wow us, but right now hardware controls look to be minimal.

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Lenovo ThinkPad X100e netbook tipped for Jan 5th 2010 launch

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 6th 2009 No Comments

The thought of a ThinkPad netbook is enough to make anyone even vaguely familiar with Lenovo suspicious, but according to ThinkPadToday that’s exactly what the company have up their corporate sleeve. They’re claiming that the rumored ThinkPad X200e will actually drop as the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e on January 5th 2010, with the tagline “Entry level ultra portable, the first ThinkPad of its size”.

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