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Alleged Sony Ericsson Nozomi official render leaks
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From the confines of Chinese forums we found this little excerpt from what is claimed to be an official picture of the Sony Ericsson Nozomi. The side render coincides with what we've seen leaked in flesh and blood in the wild before, and confirms the phone is coming in white.
Granted, the image is very small, and the technical specifications are cut out, but you can still see the word "Dual" which would confirm once again that we might be having the first mutlicore Android handset from the company in the face of the Sony Ericsson Nozomi. Another proof is the 1920x1xxx line under the camera section, which would imply 1080p HD video capture that we usually associate with dual-core handsets.
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Samsung Omnia W Now On Sale In Netherlands
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Samsung Omnia W is now available for sale in Netherlands. This budget friendly device from Samsung is slowly entering new markets since it was announced. The device costs € 369 and you can place the order here.
It features a 3.7 inch Super AMOLED display, HSPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5MP rear camera with 720p video recording, VGA front-facing camera, 512MB of RAM, 1.4 GHz processor, and 8GB of internal memory. See the full specs of the Samsung Omnia W here.
The handset competes with the HTC Radar, which has a slower 1 Ghz processor and 3.8 inch SLCD vs a 3.7 inch Super-AMOLED screen and is equally thin, but slightly bigger. See the full specs of the HTC Radar here.
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Carrier IQ tracking scandal escalates: it’s not the manufacturers, blame the carriers
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Carrier IQ is a simple telemetrics company but there’s one thing that makes it stand out from the rest - chances are, it’s on your smartphone and researcher Trevor Eckhart has recently found out that it records your every keystroke, SMS message, phone call and logs a lot of the data you transmit. Scary? Add to that the fact that you can’t remove it, and things start to look very Orwellian.
Apparently, those previously unknown findings weren’t warmly embraced over at Carrier IQ as the company sent an absurd and inimical cease and desist order, a copy of which you can find at the source link at the end of this article. Here’s an extract of Eckhart’s report on Carrier IQ that must have triggere...
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Motorola Milestone 2 Gingerbread update starts rolling out today across Europe
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Motorola has started rolling out Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for its Milestone 2 smartphone in Europe. That, however, doesn’t mean you can get it right away; the new software will be released in stages so even if you can’t download it right now, check back again within few days.
The American handset maker turned to Facebook to spread the good news and we really applaud them for supporting their existing customers. Sure enough, they’re kinda late – but better late than never.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus will get the Adobe goods like Flash and AIR in the next few weeks
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Adobe issued a statement that cleared up the confusion about Flash and AIR landing on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Previously it said that the ICS Flash update will come by year-end, and this stays the case.
The wait won't be long, as the minor updates to Adobe Flash 11.1 and AIR 3.1 that will make them ready to work on Android Ice Cream Sandwich, is coming in December.
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Nokia X2-02 dual-SIM music phone dials in
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Nokia has announced its latest handset. But there's no need to get too excited. It isn't the much rumoured next Windows Phone instalment from the Finnish company, but the latest in a long, long line of Symbian handsets - a platform that is clinging on to life despite attacks from all angles.
The Nokia X2-02 is a Series 40, dual-SIM music featurephone with the Easy Swap SIM system in place, meaning that it can handle five different SIMs without you ever needing to reboot.
For music fans there's MP3 playback, FM radio, speciality music keys a built-in loudspeaker and 32GB of space to store all of your tunes. Your music should sound better than on your average dumbphone too - it packs special a...
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Carrier IQ tracking on Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, and more: the story so far
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Carrier IQ provides telemetry to cellular carriers and manufacturers, and according to the company itself, its software is preinstalled on over 141 million phones. Now, a security researcher claims that the same software is monitoring every single key you press on your smartphone, reading your SMS, and logging much of the personal data you transmit, too — all with an app that you can't remove. We'll continue to update this stream as we find out what's really going on.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus torn down, not the easiest to repair
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The great folks at iFixit have torn down the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and found the world’s first Ice Cream Sandwich phone is packed full of power but it may be a bit tricky to repair.
We know that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus sports a 1.2 GHz TI OMAP processor, a 4.65-inch 720p screen and NFC, so iFixit confirmed that by cracking it apart. The company gave the Galaxy Nexus a 6 on its “repairability scale,” which is an above-average grade, but not by much.
The rear case is very difficult to pry off, iFixit said, and you’d better be mindful not to drop the device because, “the glass is fused to both the display and the display frame. So don’t crack the glass unless you’re good with a heat gun, or you...
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AT&T Reveals First LTE Phones: HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket
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For a few months now AT&T has had an LTE network, but no phones that could take advantage of it. Well, that all changes today — AT&T has just announced that the Android-powered HTC Vivid and the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket will be the first to run on their LTE network, and will hit store shelves on November 6.
The HTC Vivid packs a 1.2GHz dual-core processor under the proverbial hood, and a 4.5-inch qHD display graces its face. A 8-megapixel camera capable of shooting 1080p video occupies the Vivid’s rear end, and 16GB of internal storage (expandable up to 32GB with the right microSD cards) rounds out the package. HTC has kept mum on the specific version of Android the Vivid runs, but it d...
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Dell Venue Pro on AT&T finally getting the Mango update
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Every time we think we have seen the last of the Mango update, another forgotten handset on a slow carrier pops up which still needs to be updated.
In this case Microsoft has announced that the Dell Venue Pro on AT&T is finally getting Windows Phone 7.5.
Of course at this point we have already started moving on to 7740, leaving the handset once again once step behind.
Have any of our DVP owning readers on AT&T received the update prompt yet? Let us know below.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus volume bug fix pushed OTA now
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Samsung is reportedly starting to push an OTA update fixing the software bug users noticed a couple of days ago that would cause the volume on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus to suddenly go down, sometimes to a complete mute, according to UK retailer Clove. The update however isn’t yet pre-loaded on newer Galaxy Nexus devices despite previous rumors about it.
So this will indeed require some action on your part - those of you who were lucky enough to get a hold on the Galaxy Nexus will need to install the update themselves. The update still hasn’t arrived for all of Samsung’s new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices, though, and it will be pushed in batches, so you might need to wait for a while ...
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Acer Liquid Express includes NFC, is free with contract in UK
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Acer's Liquid Express is now shipping, and if there's anything memorable about the phone, it's that it might finally help NFC spread to the mid-range Android market. The 3.5-inch Express is the same size as most of the Liquid line, includes the same 5-megapixel camera, and has the 800MHz processor of the Liquid MT. There's no word yet on internal memory, but it comes bundled with a standard 2GB microSD card. It's also free with even the cheapest two-year contracts on both T-Mobile and Orange. That means the Liquid Express is a cheap way to join the NFC future, although you'll be doing it on a phone with specs that will rapidly be from the past.
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Galaxy Nexus to get Flash Player update in December
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Adobe has announced that Flash Player 11.1 will hit the Galaxy Nexus before the year is out.
A blog post on the company's Adobe AIR and Flash Player team blog announced that the "minor" update will make its way to the handset in December.
"To be clear, the Galaxy Nexus does not initially support Adobe Flash Player 11.1 and AIR 3.1," wrote Greg DeMichillie, senior director of product management for interactive development at Adobe.
"We will provide a minor update to the runtimes to support the Galaxy Nexus in December."
News Flash
There was some net-fuelled uproar last week when it emerged that Google's flagship Ice Cream Sandwich device did not come with the player built in.
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iPhone 4 spontaneously combusts on flight
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Concerns about the safety of some Apple devices have arisen again after a passenger's iPhone 4 spontaneously combusted on a flight in Australia.
According to airline Regional Express the device began to glow red and emit smoke during landing and had to be extinguished when the plane hit the runway.
A statement said: "Regional Express (Rex) flight ZL319 operating from Lismore to Sydney today had an occurrence after landing, when a passenger's mobile phone started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke accompanied by a red glow.
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Your cell phone signal won't be tracked at stores -- for now
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The holidays have been spoiled for two malls that planned to electronically track customers. The Promenade Temecula in California and Short Pump Town Center in Virginia announced plans last week to implement "FootPath" technology, which uses shoppers' cell phone signals to map their traffic throughout the shopping centers. Privacy advocates immediately cried foul and US Senator Charles Schumer questioned the rollout during a press conference this Sunday.
"A shopper's personal cell phone should not be used by a third party as a tracking device by retailers who are seeking to determine holiday shopping patterns," Schumer said. "Personal cell phones are just that -- personal. If retailers want ...
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