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Putting an end to intense speculation, president and CEO of Nintendo Satoru Iwata announced Nintendo's plans to launch a new improved version of the Nintendo DS gaming handheld. Among various new hardware, new games and new services, the Japanese game maker also revealed a new version of Nintendo DS, called the DSi, during a Tokyo press conference on Thursday. The new product, slightly slimmer and lighter, will keep the trademark double-screen, only enhanced to 3.5 inches, a 17 percent increase in size, while the device shrank by 12 percent, or about 2.6mm. However, the major changes...
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Recently,
Nokia has unveiled their first touch-screen phone, the 5800 Xpressmusic,
which due both to its simfree price ($395) and its features is expected to pose a major
threat to Apple’s iPhone.
The $395 selling price, although it does not include subsidies
and taxes, is still approximately half the amount of money smartphone users
have to pay for other top products on the market.
Moreover, customers will be getting the 5800 Xpressmusic
free of charge if they agree to sing a contract with operators, which, as research
head at CCS Insight Ben Wood has stated, would put a lot of...
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As Apple seems to have hit the spot right-on with their shiny, multifunctional iPhone, phone producers around the world are striving to compete. Some create phones similar to the iPhone, thinking that a lower price and similar offerings will entice buyers and convince them to switch to their company. Others offer a variety of phones, realizing that few people truly need all the characteristics and services the iPhone has to offer. It’s obvious that a teenager doesn’t need the same applications as a large company’s CEO, and a doctor’s expectations from a phone differ from those of a street...
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Research In
Motion (RIM) has revealed some much expected information concerning their new
gadget the BlackBerry Storm, which promises to sweep users off their feet and
also make the iPhone lose face with customers.
The device,
with an almost all-touch interface, comes fitted with a big surprise button: its
own screen, which can itself be clicked in order to confirm an action.
The innovative
feature is called Click-Through technology, the phone’s screen being a
fifth button, adding to the BlackBerry’s traditional ones: the red one for
ending calls, the green one for access to the...
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the touch screen fever
has reached to the HP headquarters. The company is developing a new smartphone
based on its widely known iPAQ brand. Apparently the new smartphone will have a
touch screen, a keypad and it will be powered by Microsoft’s mobile OS: Windows
Mobile 6.1.
The novelty is that HP will concentrate on consumers, rather
on corporate clients. The iPAQ brand was acquired by HP in 2002, along with Comapq. The most recent device, iPAQ 910, was launched earlier this year.However, HP has concentrated to sell and promote iPAQ devices...
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Major peripheral-device manufacturer Logitech unveiled today (Thursday) the Squeezebox Boom network...
Nikon officially introduced its newest digital SLR camera,
the D90, which combines 12.3-megapixel...
McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Bueneman alleges that Amazon is working on a new version of the...
The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an Apple television commercial over its...
Nokia Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, announced Tuesday it will...
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Apple’s iPhone 3G has not been doing that well and customers everywhere have been complaining about...
The latest talks on Kindle have been mostly financial
speculations, but it’s time to turn the page...
On Monday, Intuit Inc. announced that its QuickBooks application has been made available for...
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