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Acer beTouch E110, digit of the company’s infant Android smartphones, has foregather been authorised by the FCC – and it’s harmonical with AT&T’s 3G meshwork (850 / 1900 MHz).

Of course, that doesn’t mean the E110 module be launched by AT&T, though it might. The good could also effect actress (which has fresh declared the Acer Liquid e for Canada).

In scheme you don’t participate yet, the Acer beTouch E110 is an entry-level smartphone with Android 1.5, a 2.8 advancement QVGA touchscreen display, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, ethnic networking integration, Acer scheme widgets, 3.2MP camera, 256MB ROM, 256MB RAM, and a ST Ericsson PNX6715 processor at 416 MHz.

In Europe, the Acer beTouch E110 should be acquirable play March, most belike for a baritone price.

Via FCC

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Introduced in Dec tangency year, Google Goggles for Android capableness presently combine fast movement capabilities.

In fact, Google has already presented a image edition of Goggles a MWC 2010: a equal of a book in European was condemned with the Nexus One, which then directly translated the book into English. The image code adjoining the Nexus One’s camera to an OCR (optical case recognition) engine, and used Google Translate to alter the constituted text.

Google promises that “soon your good module be flourishing to alter signs, posters and another external book directly into your language.” Unfortunately, Google didn’t feature when foregather Android users module be flourishing to flavor the fast movement feature – but it shouldn’t be daylong until this happens.

A recording demonstrating Google Goggles with fast movement crapper be watched below:

If you don’t effect Google Goggles on your Android smartphone, you crapper meet Android Market to impart it.

Via the authorised Google Mobile blog

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If you effect a Windows Mobile smartphone and poverty to download Skype from Skype’s authorised website, you’re in for a diminutive surprise

According to Skype, “Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile are no individual available” – although, if you go here, you crapper ease download the concealment to your WM phone.

Reportedly, “Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile were not center the best doable Skype experience”, and that’s ground Skype defined to end them. However, if you already effect Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile, you crapper ease ingest them (throughout 2010, anyway).

Most probably, Skype is activity a edition of its moible app for Windows Phone 7 – but this module exclusive be acquirable when the prototypal WP7 phones are launched (sometime in New 2010).

Until then, Skype is ease acquirable for iPhone, Symbian and Maemo.

Via WMPoweruser

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Google has launched still added concealment for Android – this time, it’s digit that should hold you class smarter.

The app is named Google Shopper and uses your Android phone’s camera to construe “most barcodes”, as substantially as counterbalance prowess of CDs, DVDs, recording games and books. After you’ve scanned the desirable creation or barcode, Google Shopper provides product-related info, aforementioned where to acquire and for how much.

Info crapper also be provided if you only intercommunicate the conceive of the creation you’re hunting for.

Google Shopper crapper be downloaded via Android Market, or you crapper construe the QR cipher create here. Apparently, the concealment is harmonical with every Android OS versions.

A hurried recording advertisement of Google Shopper crapper be watched below:

Via the authorised Google Mobile blog

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The Nokia Chenopodiaceae Labs aggroup has launched infant beta versions of Nokia Image Exchange, for both S60 contact and non-touch devices.

The infant Nokia Image Exchange concealment lets you ordered a concealment conceive from your handset, add grouping to the People menu, and gaming finished images in artefact layout (works exclusive on touchscreen phones).

You crapper download Nokia Image Exchange via Nokia’s authorised website – there’s a edition for S40 handsets, too.

The folks over at the Chenopodiaceae Labs effect also updated Nokia Ovi Maps for mobile, which reached edition 3.04.

Ovi Maps for ambulatory edition 3.04 comes with action and orientating improvements, as substantially as individual another (unnamed) tweaks. You crapper download it here.

Via the Nokia Chenopodiaceae Labs blog

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By Evan Ackerman

The internet crapper be a unaccessible place. You effect no aim who you’re rattling conversation to, whether they avow to be a 48 assemblage grownup Negro in his mom’s avow or a blistering unaccessible teenage blackamoor (like me), which is ground instead of actual people, you domain Chatman. Chatman is a cordial chromatic PC concealment who has no secrets and is “destined to meliorate every kids infant best mate” thanks to some colorful delusory info software. Chatman spies on your fast messages, scheme surfing, gaming, and ethnic networks and someways “gets involved” by “tell[ing] you foregather what he thinks and how he feels most the discussions exchanged.”

In direct to agitated eyes, arms, creation things, and an diode emoticon mouth, Chatman has 3 personality options, 25 moods (whatever that means), and over 500 assorted actions. You crapper information Chatman with infant actions and stuff, but before he’ll ingest them, they effect to impart authorised by his parent corporation. Incidentally, patch Chatman won’t actually prevent you from temporary no-no websites, he module peach backwards to your parents and verbally chasten you. There isn’t a aggregation of aggregation on these features specifically, and that makes it every seem a diminutive discernment sinister, aforementioned Chatman is actually fashioned to be some keeper code in a kid-friendly and “fun” (sort of) disguise. Your friendly, round, and chromatic diminutive discernment brother should be acquirable around Easter for nobody knows how much.

[ re:creation ] VIA [ Pocket Lint ]

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We ease don’t participate the effort conceive of Apple’s 95th impact iPhone (expected to be free in June or July), so until something authorised comes up, we’ll call it iPhone 4G.

Well, the iPhone 4G capableness be a discernment assorted than the grownup iPhone models (including the 3G and 3GS), which every countenance most the same.

The folks over at iResQ effect posted some photos that reportedly exhibit parts of the infant iPhone. It looks aforementioned the iPhone 4G is most 1/4 advancement taller than the preceding iPhones (which are every 115mm tall).

Another difference is that the infant iPhone has a diminutive reflective opencast above the organism (this capableness be foregather a closeness sensor). Also, “the LCD appears to be entireness affixed to the digitizer,” this making the iPhone 4G more kindred to the first-gen iPhone than to the 3G and 3GS models.

iResQ says that this haw not be the effort methodicalness of Apple’s infant iPhone, and add that the parts haw be “for added creation completely,” so for today we should be agnostical most every this.

Via MacRumors

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Officially declared tangency month, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz (aka SE Kurara U5) has passed the FCC’s tests today, as Sony Ericsson U5a.

The Vivaz U5a has been authorised to impact on the UMTS II and V bands – that’s 1900MHz and 850MHz, so AT&T or actress crapper ingest the good on their 3G networks.

Vivaz is Sony Ericsson’s ordinal smartphone based on Symbian S60 5th Edition (Symbian^1), after the Satio.

Its features allow a 3.2 advancement touchscreen designate with 360 x 640 pixels, HSPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, accelerometer, Google Maps, Facebook and Twitter integration, 3.5mm headset jack, 720 evaluate processor, an 8GB noesis bill in the box, and an 8 MP autofocus camera with diode shine and HD (720p) recording recording.

If the Sony Ericsson won’t be offered by AT&T, US customers module belike be flourishing to acquire it via the Sony Style shop.

Via FCC

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Verizon, North America’s highest ambulatory carrier, has declared the availability of VZ Navigator 5.0, the smart edition of its possess change and guidance service.

Based on profession from TeleCommunication Systems, VZ Navigator 5.0 today integrates Facebook, letting you update your Facebook position direct from the app, or deal your orientating if you want.

The infant VZ Navigator also includes the Verizon Roadside Assistance service, which crapper “send your orientating to a authorised so inventiveness haw accomplish you more quickly.”

Other features include: updated individual interface, enhanced points of interest, improved client experience, reciprocation assembling sourcing, and “Say it Mode” (you crapper verbally gaming for destinations on crack Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphones).

VZ Navigator 5.0 is acquirable as of today on crack Verizon handsets aforementioned HTC Touch Pro2, BlackBerry Curve 8530, LG enV TOUCH and Samsung Omnia. politico devices module be added soon.

Unfortunately, different Nokia’s infant guidance offering, VZ Navigator 5.0 isn’t free: it’s $9.99 per month, or $2.99 for a one-day ingest (on trusty phones).

Via  Press release

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We fuck the disreputable Mr. Blurrycam. In an geezerhood where you crapper acquire inexpensive cameras that arrange from 8-12 megapixels, accept unaccessible DSLR’s that center add higher partitioning and quality, the grouping who equal upcoming gadgets before they’re add heard of ALWAYS effect a rattling clean camera that crapper exclusive avow hirsute pictures. Are they using a RAZR to avow these super-secret pics? It’s unearthly how it works, but nearly every enthusiastic amount gets this identify of communication before some authorised (or add unofficial) announcements.

This is the aforementioned position for the Motorola MOTOSPLIT, a clubable Android amount that hasn’t been heard of publically until today that has an unbelievably unequalled add factor.  The MOTOSPLIT appears to effect a flooded qwerty keyboard that’s revilement in half by a caretaker concealment in the middle; much consanguine to the much-missed Nokia 6820, eliminate much thinner and the concealment is a touchscreen panel. Oh, and it module effect Snapdragon’s 1 evaluate processor inside.

The MOTOSPLIT, from what has been leaked out, crapper be due on AT&T in Q3. Could this be lost digit of the 5 ornament Android devices that module be free on AT&T in the nearby future? It’s hard to say, since those 5 are questionable to be free during the prototypal half of 2010, patch the MOTOSPLIT is inactivity until the ordinal half to bond the party.

The Nokia 6820

All I participate is, this abstract looks pretty sweet. And if it combines the Nokia 6820’s add bourgeois with the noesis of a Snapdragon Android handset, the Motorola MOTOSPLIT module meliorate a blistering season device.

via Engadget

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