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While the long-awaited 3G iPhone is still nothing moer than
a rumor, other cell phone makers are already updating their “iPhone killers.”
In a move similar to what happened last year, HTC unveiled HTC Touch Diamond,
the new 3G version of its HTC Touch.
Lat year, HTC Touch was unveiled on June 4, a month ahead of
the official launch of the iPhone.
As to technical specs, HTC Touch Diamond offers a 2.8” LCD
touch screen with backlight, a 240 x 320 dots resolution with 65,536 colors and
a 3.2 mega-pixel camera with video calling.
The Touch Diamond measures 102 x 51 x 11.33mm and...
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British operator Vodafone announced today that it will sell
Apple’s iPhone in ten countries. The world’s largest mobile operator will be
responsible for distributing the iPhone in Australia,
the Czech Republic,
Egypt, Greece, Italy,
India, Portugal, New
Zealand, South Africa
and Turkey.
The move could be interpreted as a clear sign that the 3G
iPhone is underway. Last year it was reported that Apple and Vodafone failed to
nail a deal regarding the iPhone distribution in Europe
due to the lack of 3G capabilities.
At the time, Arun Sarin, Vodafone’s CEO, was quoted...
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There are rumors that Apple's upcoming 3G iPhone, which will have other new features or improvements as well, is going to sell for only $199 due to subsidies from AT&T. This means that the carrier will pay for half of the gadget's price in exchange for a two-year commitment from the customer. The rumors were apparently started off by Fortune, which also reports that both AT&T and Apple declined to comment on the matter. The $200 subsidy is not hard to envision. After all, iPhone customers spend around $100 each month for their mobile service. T-Mobile in Germany and O2/Carphone...
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Physics books should get a makeover as HP
announced a remarkable discovery: the fourth fundamental unit of electronic
circuits: the ‘memristor’. The new ‘memory resistor’ will join the capacitors,
inductors and resistors class, but at the same time, it will exceed their
capabilities, by its unique ability to remember what previously happened to it.
This discovery, unveiled by the HP Labs in
Palo Alto, California in the journal Nature, will revolutionize computer world,
making it a whole lot easier to revert to a previous state without having to
boot up the computer. This means the...
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Microsoft has quickly shot down rumors that it plans to embed content filtering in its Zune gadgets. Several Internet news publications, including The New York Times, have said that Microsoft is going to implement a so-called "copyright cop" technology into its Zunes which would prevent playback of unauthorized copies of video files on them. They deduced this from NBC's statements a while back, when they cut off ties with iTunes. NBC was complaining at the time that Apple wanted all TV shows to have an identical wholesale price so that it can sell all of them at $1.99, while the...
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