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Monday
Aug092010
Jason TsayHTC Desire HD/Ace Shows Up on Youtube
HTC Desire HD/Ace Shows Up on Youtube
Well, well. After getting the first leaked shots of the Desire HD, we have a video of the 4.3” beast! Specs haven’t been revised but we finally know what the whole exterior of the device looks like. Dual LEDs border the 8 megapixel camera and a bunch of soft-touch areas coat the back of the phone. Though this isn’t necessarily final hardware, I certainly hope HTC makes the back cleaner for the production model. Check out the video for the full walkthrough!
Monday
Aug092010
DROID 2 $199 at Best Buy, Original DROID Out of Stock
DROID 2 $199 at Best Buy, Original DROID Out of Stock
Yeah, this DROID 2 stuff has been getting a bit old. The latest in leaks of Motorola’s new slider brings us a $199 price tag with your typical 2 year contract and a $599 cost for one without. Oh, and guess what? the original DROID is marked as “out of stock.” Sounds a lot like Verizon is about to launch the phone reeaaal soon. The pricing shouldn’t be too much of a shocker anyways. What other top-tier smartphone isn’t 200 bucks on contract?
Monday
Aug092010
Sony Xperia X10 Coming to the US in a Couple of Hours
According to this countdown teaser found on Sony’s website, a black rectangular object is coming in just a couple of hours. Need we really speculate on what this object will be? It is obviously the Xperia X10! Just take a look at the general design of the device! But the biggest giveaway is probably the reflection of the screen: a clear Xperia Android skin. To further support this, expert Photoshoppers have messed around with the brightness and gotten an exact image of the Xperia X10.
Sunday
Aug082010
HTC Desire HD and 1.2 GHz CDMA+GSM Slider Spotted In the Wild?
We knew HTC had quite a bit of stuff hidden up their sleeves just waiting to be released. Let’s start off with the Desire HD. With the EVO 4G being quite a success in the US CDMA market, it’s a bit of a no-brainer to launch a GSM version of the device. What many people are calling the Desire HD boasts a 4.3 inch touchscreen, 8 megapixel camera, 1 GHz Snapdragon, and Android 2.2 (basically your typical high-end Android device). But a couple of things stand out: an “integrated aluminum body” and “face tracking.” The aluminum body we’ve heard about before might be something similar to the casing found on the HTC Legend but there doesn’t appear to be any aluminum on the face of the device at all so it might actually be closer to the iPad’s enclosure. Now face tracking is the weird part. There is definitely no front-facing camera on this unit so maybe they just mean face detection for the 720p video recording.
Saturday
Aug072010
Apple Retail Stores Now Blocking Jailbreakme.com
Apple Retail Stores Now Blocking Jailbreakme.com
It seems people have been doing a bit too much jailbreaking in Apple Stores since the launch of jailbreakme.com. Allowing users to jailbreak their iDevices straight from mobile Safari, this little site has spread the unlocking craze to many Apple Stores. So the Cupertino based company decided to take a stand and just block the site in all of its official retail locations. In this video, clever user IT Geek quenches his thirst for jailbroken iPads by using his Nexus One as a hotspot. My question is, How did he even get a Nexus One into one of Apple’s sanctuaries anyways?
Friday
Aug062010
Video - Blackberry Torch Gets Torn Down
Video - Blackberry Torch Gets Torn Down
Kudos to Crackberry for being the first to take apart RIM’s new slider. Upon disassembly, the team discovered an interesting magnesium slider mechanism that should supposedly last upwards of 150,000 cycles. Watch Crackberry’s video of the disassembly or hit up the source link for more pictures!
Thursday
Aug052010
AT&T HTC Paradise and Fiesta Leaked via Craigslist?
This is one of the strangest leaks we’ve seen in quite a while. Both where the leak came from and the device itself that is. Apparently, some dude picked up two “AT&T samples” off of Craigslist. The so-called HTC Paradise appears to be a mashup of the rumored HTC Vision/G1 Blaze and an HTC Aria while the Fiesta, if I’m not mistaken, is a lower end version of the Desire. All we know about that device is that it has a 3.2 megapixel camera. Not too shocking for a low-end Android device. In conclusion, it’s nice to see some cool looking low-end Android devices hit the scene. It foreshadows the death of dumbphones as we see them.
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