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Nokia begins Belle roll-out; Updates from Feb 2012
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Nokia has begun shipping updated versions of the N8, C7 and C6-01 with Nokia Belle, aka Symbian Belle with a newly fettled UI, while an upgrade program for existing owners will begin in February 2012. China will be the first to get the updated new phones, the company says, with the rest of the world following suit.
Those who have already bought a Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia E6, Nokia X7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7 or Nokia Oro will have a couple of months at least to wait, however. This isn’t likely to go down well with Nokia fans, who saw similar delays in updates when Symbian Anna was released earlier in the year. Several complained that Nokia was prioritizing availability for new owners and leav...
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Pre 3 owners greeted by webOS 2.2.4 update, eradicates some bugs
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Yes, friends, webOS is still alive and kickin' -- and no matter how uncertain the future may be for the open-source mobile platform, it's still cranking out fresh maintenance releases. This time, the Pre 3 is the beneficiary of an update to webOS 2.2.4. Though it's natural to be on the lookout for crazy new features, you'll find so such luck this time around -- it's just meant to offer some software improvements and bug fixes. Still, we're always happy to see signs of life with the OS.
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Acer 15-inch Ultrabook in the works
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If you like the thin ultrabooks that are starting to hit the market in greater numbers, but want a larger screen keep an eye on Acer. Acer is reportedly set to launch a new ultrabook that packs a 15-inch screen. At the start, Acer was only offering ultrabooks with smaller 11-inch or 13-inch screens. The sales have apparently been good enough that the company is now ready to step into the larger screen market.
The ultrabook with the 15-inch screen is being produced by Pegatron according to a DigiTimes source in the supply chain. Perhaps the best news about the 15-inch ultrabook is that the machine is said to be coming to market for $699 making it a cheaper ultrabook. Many of the ultrabooks ...
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Nexus S Ice Cream Sandwich update halted as battery issues abound
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Google has halted the rollout of the Android 4.0 update for the Nexus S, as users started to report problems with the mobile phone's battery.
The report comes from the Google Mobile Help forum in which a statement has been posted by Google community manager Paul Wilcox, stating that:
"If you received an update notification a little while ago but the update isn't currently available for your phone, this is likely the result of Google pausing the update in your area while we monitor feedback."
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Amazon, Microsoft, and Nokia were all interested in buying RIM
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Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion is in deep trouble. They haven’t had a hit device in their product portfolio since disco was at the top of the charts. The PlayBook, RIM’s response to the iPad, was such an abysmal failure that the company lost almost half a billion dollars to get it off the market. RIM’s next generation operating system, dubbed BBX, had to be renamed to BlackBerry 10 after the company that owns the BBX trademark filed a complaint. And to make matters even worse, RIM recently announced that they’re not going to ship any smartphones running BlackBerry 10 until the end of 2012. Yet despite all that RIM is an acquisition target. According to Reuters, Amazon hired an ...
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Distimo report finds the WP7 Marketplace has passed Blackberry App World
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In their look back over the past year, Distimo has confirmed in their monthly report that Marketplace is now the 3rd largest app platform, after iOS and the Android Marketplace, and the 4th largest app store, after the iPhone app store, iPad app store and Android Marketplace.
Blackberry App world takes up the 5th position followed by the Nokia Ovi store.
Of note is that Marketplace showed the biggest growth of over 400% year on year, and that the Marketplace for Windows Mobile never passed 2500 available apps.
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Verizon Wireless data network down across the country
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If you’re using Verizon Wireless services today you might have noticed the huge data outage reported on both 3G and 4G networks across the country. Users from New York and New Jersey to California are all suffering from the outage, which seems to really be a nationwide one and the carrier itself has confirmed the issue exists. There’s no estimated time on when a fix will come, but hopefully it will be soon.
Sadly, Verizon representatives aren’t authorized to speak about exactly what areas and markets are affected, so this is solely based on user reports.
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Super Talent Unveils Storage POD Mini USB 3.0 External SSD
Like UnlikeWe like solid state drives (SSDs) because of their blazing speeds. We like SuperSpeed USB 3.0, also because of its speed. And we like external form factors for their convenience (and speed, if you happen to be a fast runner). Super Talent wanted to find out what happens when you put the three together and what the company came up with is its new Storage POD Mini, "a portable SSD that will change how you think about external storage."
Looking past the excitable marketing speak, the Storage POD Mini is a fairly fast SSD wrapped in an external USB 3.0 enclosure for a portable storage solution that's smaller, lighter, faster, and more rugged than your average external HDD. A SandForce controlle...
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SOPA vote delayed until January
Like UnlikeTomorrow's scheduled committee vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act has been postponed, with no apparent new date on the books so far. That's the second postponement in committee for SOPA, which would require ISPs and search engines to alter DNS records and search results to keep foreign sites "dedicated" to copyright infringement away from US citizens; the bill was the subject of two marathon hearings last week that ended abruptly after opponents voiced passionate opposition to the bill.
Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who sponsored the bill and chairs the House Judiciary committee, vowed to open hearings again as soon as possible and set tomorrow as the new date, but it ...
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Sony demos paper-powered bio-battery
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The only thing better than Amazon Prime? Being able to power that new camera with the cardboard box it came in. Sony might be able to make that a reality (someday) with its improved bio-battery that uses paper to make energy. The company demoed the battery at the Eco-Products 2011 exhibition in Tokyo last week, and was able to power a small fan. In the demonstration, a mash of paper or cardboard (like those old school papier-mâché projects!) was put into a water mixture, and voilà, there was power. How did this bio-dream come true? Much like how a termite eats wood, enzymes in the water mixture broke down the cellulose in the paper, and then the resulting glucose (sugar) was harvested, givin...
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Mozilla and Google agree to new Firefox search deal for three years
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The panic's over, people, Firefox will continue to have Google as its trusty default search engine. Mozilla has just revealed that it has come to a "mutually beneficial" revenue-sharing agreement with Google that will see the search engine appear on Firefox for at least the next three years.
Some doubts were raised recently when it emerged that the agreement providing Google search to Firefox users was set to run out without renewal, but we suppose it was just a case of negotiations stretching out to the final few hours. 84 percent of Mozilla's total revenue, as detailed in its most recent financial statement, comes from its search deal with Google, so it's very easy to see why the company ...
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Verbatim introduces super-quick card reader
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Electronics accessories manufacturer Verbatim has introduced a new card reader compatible with Mac and Windows which is capable of transfer speeds of up to 5GB/second.
A wide variety of memory card formats are supported, along with all USB ports. Using the card reader, data, photos, music, videos and more can be transferred quickly and are available in USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 formats.
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Archos launches 70b Honeycomb tablet, expected to ship next month for $199
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There's something good waiting in the desert at CES -- and you won't need an interesting vision quest to find it. Archos has announced its 70b Internet Tablet, the company's first Honeycomb-based slate for less than two hundred bucks ($199, to be exact). The 70b IT will be lightweight (though we're not sure exactly how lightweight), and ship with a 1.2 GHz processor, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, 8 gigs of flash storage, 512MB of RAM and WiFi connectivity. There's also Android Market access, unlike with some tablets, along with HDMI output and a microSD slot. Are you sold? You'll need wait only a few more weeks to take one home -- the 70b is expected to hit stores in January, and those ...
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AMD Announces New A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs)
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AMD today updated its A-Series line-up of desktop and notebook Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), further improving its top-performing family of dual- and quad-core APUs. Along with speed and performance improvements, AMD Steady Video update make this unique feature more compelling than ever. For desktop users, AMD extends its overclocking pedigree to the APU; for the first time users can tune both x86 and graphics settings in a single processor for boosted performance.
The updated AMD A-Series APUs combine up to four x86 CPU cores with up to 400 Radeon cores, delivering powerful DirectX 11-capable, discrete-level graphics and dedicated HD video processing on a single chip. These new APUs...
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B&N NOOK Tablet firmware update blocks app sideloading
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Barnes & Noble has slammed shut the loophole allowing NOOK Tablet owners to install third-party apps, pushing out a new firmware update – v1.4.1 – that closes the door on all but the retailer’s own, approved software. Described as making “minor system enhancements” to the Android-based ereader by B&N itself, the software significantly limits the general usefulness of the NOOK Tablet for those wanting to do more than basic reading and browsing.
The Ebook Reader found that existing apps side-loaded onto the NOOK Tablet are still present and functional after the v1.4.1 firmware has been installed. However, attempting to run a package installer for a new app prompts an error message saying onl...
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