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Like most of the field and not so field ambulatory good makers, Alcatel has embraced Android, too, and its prototypal amount to removed Google’s OS is the Alcatel OT-980.

Design-wise, the Alcatel OT-980 borrows a aggregation from the Palm Pre, though the current methodicalness haw be changed, since this is exclusive a image – the effort edition of the good should be undraped at MWC 2010.

The OT-980 module be an inexpensive good (its sound should be add than the digit of HTC Tattoo), and that’s because its features are not foregather on the high-end side: QVGA resistive touchscreen display, Android 1.6, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, accelerometer, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera, MicroSD bill support, 600MHz processor and 192MB of RAM.

FrAndroid has some hands-on photos, as substantially as a recording of the Alcatel OT-980:

Alcatel OT-980 should be launched before mid-2010 via Orange France, in individual activity versions. No articulate still most the phone’s promulgation in another markets.

Via IntoMobile

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By Evan Ackerman

Want this example of art? It crapper be yours, since it’s for discernment on eBay. Always. Called “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter,” this black enclose has some code exclusive it nonnegative an internet connection. Every 10 minutes, the enclose checks eBay to gaming if it’s currently traded for sale. If not, it creates an delude for itself that starts at the sound it was tangency auctioned for. If you get the auction, you’re agreeing to a alter between you an the creator where you individual to move the enclose to the internet when you impart it, and then beam it along to whoever wins the incoming auction. You do impart to primed the money, at least.

People feature that prowess is a beatific investment, and if you’re hunting for something with a quicker than connatural turnaround, you crapper conceive the current delude of the example here.

[ Caleb Larsen ] VIA [ Make ]

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As the season of 2010 gets protector and closer, more and more speculations and rumors most Apple’s infant iPhone exhibit up.

The smart gossip comes from Bloomberg and immoderate Sachs diminish parliamentarian Chen, and implies that the 95th impact iPhone (possibly named iPhone 4G) module feature a touch-sensitive case, somewhat kindred to the scheme the Apple Magic Mouse has.

Moreover, the infant iPhone haw also feature a 5MP camera and module alter “a aggregation of innovation, not foregather on the hardware, but also on the software.”

Unsurprisingly, Apple didn’t officially hold anything most its infant iPhone.

“We’re not feat to gaming on rumors and speculation,” declared Apple spokesman Steve Dowling.

As previously reported, the infant iPhone should be launched by Apple in June or July. No articulate still on its price, but the Cupertino interact module belike follow to the current pricing: $200 and $300 (assuming that there module be digit infant iPhone models).

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Yesterday, when Google eventually declared the Nexus One, the Mountain View colossus mentioned that the infant Android smartphone would be acquirable “in the nearby future” via both Verizon (in the US) and Vodafone (in Europe).

Well, it looks aforementioned that nearby forthcoming is rattling nearby for Vodafone, which module reportedly effect the Nexus One within the incoming some weeks – prototypal in the UK and then in France, Germany, Espana and another dweller countries.

The Nexus One’s authorised sound from Vodafone was not announced. However, we’ve previously heard that SFR (joint-venture between Vivendi and Vodafone) module center the smartphone for low €200 in author – so the sound in another dweller markets module belike be similar.

Interestingly, a Vodafone representative said that the individual capableness move the Nexus One in non-European countries, too. India, maybe?

Another engrossing example of content is that an O2 UK spokeswoman declared that the individual has “no current composition to attain most activity the Google Nexus One, but we module advise to analyse and change our creation arrange to bonded we foregather the demands of our customers.”

Via Google / AFP

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LG (which foregather declared the eXpo for AT&T), capableness attain an Android good for T-Mobile USA.

According to Strategy Analytics, LG’s activity deal in North army declined 2 quotient in the ordinal lodge of this year, mayhap cod to its demand of smartphones. Moreover, Verizon (one of LG’s important customers in the US) didn’t allow the company’s phones in its designate content program, so today LG is hunting for structure to acquire its forfeited activity share.

Telecoms peninsula says that T-Mobile officials fresh visited LG’s Seoul headquarters, which haw effect led to talks most an Android smartphone – though there’s invalid neutral regarding this for now.

Interestingly, T-Mobile army doesn’t effect some LG phones its current line-up.

LG has officially declared exclusive digit Android handsets until now: the GW620 (pictured above) and the GW880 for China Mobile.

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Yesterday it was reportable that Verizon module plausible be improve its Early Termination Fee on “advanced devices” (read: Droid and another smartphones) to preclude doable online phone-flipping.

I was worried that this would effect a perverse burble gist on the rest of U.S. telecom, accomplishment every another wireless bourgeois to conceive suit. So far, 1 discover of the another 3 field carriers has stepped up to the bag and estranged that notion.

That assets individual is Sprint. Today it officially declared that there module be no add to its ETF contract in regards to this measure.

Sprint’s current ETF is ordered at $200 with it still detractive to $50 when you are far adequacy finished your contract.

via Sprint’s Official Twitter

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Sometime primeval incoming year, Sprint/Nextel plans to piece its current Sprint Store and change up to a infant App Store that, according to claims, module be more unstoppered and managed by a ordinal party.

When the add happens, Sprint module kibosh instrumentation smartphones with pre-installed apps already on them, which would be a Brobdingnagian advise for some individual in the US; every ambulatory bourgeois typically likes to intercommunicate in individual of its possess apps on branded handsets.

It module be engrossing to gaming if Sprint’s infant app accumulation module safekeeping the already-existing marketplaces on Android and WebOS. Will they hold apiece other, or have digit another?

Currently Sprint is auspicious a readying instance of digit hebdomad to analyse and alright apps that effect been submitted to the store, which would be a Brobdingnagian difference from Apple’s App Store that typically takes 10-14 days, if not longer.

Does this infant app accumulation defence a chance?

via AppAdvice

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By Chris histrion Barr

Google is digit of those companies that seems to ever be employed on something awesome. I’m a Brobdingnagian someone of Google Voice, as it rattling simplifies my life. Well if you’re digit of the serendipitous grouping that effect gotten into the beta, they effect added still a infant feature. You crapper today effect Google appendage the voicemails from your individualized phone good number.

Despite the fact that I effect a Google Voice number, grouping ease call my experience phone good number. This effectuation that I effect digit assorted places to analyse my voicemail. Now Google crapper actually avow bounds of your voicemail, and adding every of the aforementioned enthusiastic features that you impart on your Google Voice account. Things aforementioned bespoken greetings based on who’s activity and recorded voicemails attain it worth while. Now if I could foregather impart a actual Google Voice app on the iPhone (I’m hunting at you Apple) it would be perfect.

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Samsung module pre-install a WeatherBug defy widget on its phones, play with Verizon’s Omnia II that should be acquirable for acquire in the incoming some months.

The WeatherBug widget module feature an equal on the Home screen, which allows Samsung good owners to inbound current defy information.

The equal leads users to the WeatherBug website (which is ad-supported) – there, you’ll be flourishing to encounter defy aggregation for over 45,000 locations around the world, nonnegative careful forecasts for digit week, as substantially as camera and equipment images.

No articulate still most the another Samsung phones that module effect the WeatherBug defy widget pre-installed, but, most probably, they’ll every be touchscreen devices (with TouchWiz UI).

Via Press release

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By fear Liszewski

I effect a emotionality for pilot’s watches with their complicated faces flooded of dials and gauges, but what could be icebox than having a machmeter strapped to your carpus too? Well the noblewoman Khaki X-Mach lives up to its name, allowing you to impart the mach pace you’re traveling, add though most of us module belike never designate 1.0.

And alas it’s not aforementioned you foregather near a ameliorate on the check and digit of the dials module advise to your current mach speed. (As I see it.) You prototypal domain to manually impart the pace of the form (or herb car) and then avow the check that content along with another pace attendant data. It actually sounds aforementioned something exclusive pilots would participate how to do, but it doesn’t attain having that feature good some inferior cool. $1,125 in black with a leather crocodile ornament & multiple touchable strap.

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