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A few days ago, we’ve heard a rumor saying that Verizon might launch the BlackBerry Tour 9630 on July 12, for $199.99 on contract.

Well, now the largest North American carrier has confirmed that the new RIM smartphone will indeed be available starting July 12.

Customers can already pre-order the handset, through Verizon’s website.

Interestingly, Verizon will offer two versions of the Tour: a regular one, and a camera-free one – for those who work in institutions where camera phones are banned.

Sprint will launch the BlackBerry Tour for $199 as well, but an exact date for this is currently not known.

Bell Canada will also offer the Tour, sometime after July 15.

Via Press release

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By Andrew Liszewski

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a multi-billion dollar company at my disposal to cook up awesome crime fighting gadgets like Batman (warning! spoiler ahead!) aka Bruce Wayne does. So I have to rely on the tools available at my local Home Depot, which quite frankly, just aren’t as awesome. Take Batman’s grappling hook for example. His version is small, lightweight and easy to carry on his utility belt. But the best solution you’ll find at your local hardware store is the PullzAll from Warn.

It’s no where near as compact and subtle as Batman’s device, but it seems just as capable, if not more so. There are two versions available, an AC powered model and a DC powered model, and I suggest the latter with its rechargeable 24V battery if you’re looking to become a vigilante. At 18lbs you’ll want to make sure you’re wearing a reinforced belt if you intend to carry it that way, but the device is capable of pulling or lifting up to 1,000lbs with its variable speed motor, so you should easily be able to hoist yourself up to the rafters of a warehouse for a dramatic escape.

$479.99 from the Warn website for the DC model, and $279.99 for the AC model.

[ Warn PullzAll ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a multi-billion dollar company at my disposal to cook up awesome crime fighting gadgets like Batman (warning! spoiler ahead!) aka Bruce Wayne does. So I have to rely on the tools available at my local Home Depot, which quite frankly, just aren’t as awesome. Take Batman’s grappling hook for example. His version is small, lightweight and easy to carry on his utility belt. But the best solution you’ll find at your local hardware store is the PullzAll from Warn.

It’s no where near as compact and subtle as Batman’s device, but it seems just as capable, if not more so. There are two versions available, an AC powered model and a DC powered model, and I suggest the latter with its rechargeable 24V battery if you’re looking to become a vigilante. At 18lbs you’ll want to make sure you’re wearing a reinforced belt if you intend to carry it that way, but the device is capable of pulling or lifting up to 1,000lbs with its variable speed motor, so you should easily be able to hoist yourself up to the rafters of a warehouse for a dramatic escape.

$479.99 from the Warn website for the DC model, and $279.99 for the AC model.

[ Warn PullzAll ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]

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Sony Ericsson has just announced a new slider phone, called T715 and looking quite different from what the company has offered until now.

The new phone will be offered in two versions: Sony Ericsson T715 (with quad-band GSM and 2100 HSPA), and Sony Ericsson T715a for the Americas (with quad-band GSM and 850/1900/2100 HSPA).

The T715 has a metallic appearance, thanks to its “high-class finish”, and comes with a new UI feature, dubbed “smart desktop”. This should enable you to “organize your life in an intuitive way”.

The specs of T715 are on the mid-end side, including:

• 2.2 inch QVGA display with 256K colors
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• Music player
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Google Maps
• 3.2MP camera with Photo light
• 90MB of internal memory
• MicroSD card support
• 91.5 x 48.0 x 14.9 mm (3.6 x 1.9 x 0.6 inches)
• 96.5 grams (3.4 oz)

Sony Ericsson T715 and T715a will be available starting the third quarter of 2009, in two color versions: Galaxy Silver and Rouge Pink. The phone’s price was not announced.

Sony Ericsson has also unveiled a new Bluetooth headset, the VH310 (pictured above), bit it didn’t say when it will be available.

Via Press release

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Since the Excalibur and Cavalier, HTC’s shown an unhealthy aversion for the immensely popular portrait QWERTY format — until now, that is, with the introduction of the rumored 12mm-thick HTC Snap. The Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard smartphone features a 528MHz Qualcomm core, 256MB of ROM, 128MB of RAM, 2 megapixel camera, microSDHC expansion, and the requisite QVGA display, all paired with AGPS, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, WiFi, and HSDPA data. “What kind of HSDPA?” is the next logical question in that progression, and the answer is that you’re looking at two versions of the device: one with 900 / 2100 for Europe and Asia, one with 850 / 1900 for North America (interestingly, the North American version won’t be known as the Snap — instead, it’ll simply be called the S522). The new device also marks the introduction of HTC’s “Inner Circle” feature, which can selectively pull emails from certain contacts to the top of your inbox — the perfect way to ignore Terry from Accounting who’s been on your case for the past three weeks about filing expense reports. Look for the Snap to launch globally this quarter, while the unlocked S522 hits “during the summer.”
Gallery: HTC Snap snaps to life, coming to US as S522
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If you didn’t already have enough electric and plug-in hybrid cars on your shopping list for next year, make sure you add pair of offerings from the reborn Detroit Electric to the running. The company (which, naturally, isn’t based in Detroit) has already announced a partnership with Malaysian automotive group Proton (owner of Lotus, responsible for much of the Tesla Roadster’s underpinnings), and the two are now providing a few details of the offerings set to launch throughout next year in Europe, China, the UK, and the US. Two versions of the e63 model will be available, seemingly distinguished only by how far they can go before stranding you. The so-called “city range” model is rated for 112 miles to a charge and will sell for under $26,000, while the “extended range” version pushes that distance up to 200 miles — and the price up to $33,000. MSRP for that radical ZAP Alias the company has been teasing you with for years? Nowhere to be found, naturally.

[Via Financial Times]
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By Luke Anderson

I’m pretty sure that almost every kid has had that dream to one day design their own video games. After all, when you spend so much time playing those games, surely it wouldn’t be that hard to create your own, right? Of course when you get older you realize just how much time and effort going into the creative process, which can be very overwhelming for even the simplest of games. Some do actually go on to work on their own creations, starting with small games, probably in the older 8-bit format. Sure, it’s cool bring over your creation on a flash drive, but what if you had your own console?

The Fuzebox is a small 8-bit console that has all of the inputs and outputs you need to play your own custom games. The DIY console is based on an AVR 8-bit general purpose microcontroller, while the coding is done is C. There are two versions of the kit, one just has the bare circuit board and parts, while the other includes an enclosure, power adapter and a controller. They will each run you $70 and $100 respectively. My biggest complaint? They have the Player 2 controller port upside down.

[ Adafruit ] VIA [ Technabob ]

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After Google had accidentally dropped the T-Bomb during its offline Gmail demo, we’d half expected (okay, hoped) that the version of the Sapphire passing through the FCC would rock T-Mobile’s 1700MHz AWS goodies for US 3G. Alas, it doesn’t — implying that there’ll be at least two versions of the phone launched around the world, which really doesn’t come as a surprise considering the G1 takes the same route. We figure this particular variant probably does 2100MHz HSDPA in addition to the usual array of GSM / EDGE bands, so rest easy, Vodafone customers, you’ll have a perfectly legal handset should you decide to cross the pond.