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Samsung's F300 is the first of it's kind, it is a candy bar phone with a screen on both sides. The idea is you use the keypad side for calling, and the other larger screen for viewing media.

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It appears that Motorola's next Linux phone, the A910 has been presented before the good folks at the FCC for their approval, meaning it is close to market. The A910 runs a special Linux-Java operating system, 1.3mb cam, microSD slot, and a USB headset port. MOst interesting about the A910 is the inclusion of UMA, or Unlicensed Mobile Access, a new-ish wireless technology that'll let you seamlessly pass a call from a cellular network to a WiFi network without interrupting the call (if you swing that way, UMA will also work with Bluetooth, too).

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Mobile Burn has a review of the new Motorola ROKR E2, and from the sounds of it, this is the phone that should have been the music phone, not the watered down "itunes" V3i.

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Well it finally happened, Apple went and dropped the bomb of all bombs, the iPhone. All of the speculation, rumors, hints, wishes, and shots in the dark came to an end today at 10am when Steve Jobs announced the Apple iPhone. It seems that the name will in fact be the iPhone, apparently there is some sort of licensing deal in place with Cisco to use the name.

The specs look pretty impressive, specs are as follows:

The full specs:
Screen size: 3.5 inches
Screen resolution: 320 by 480 at 160 ppi
Input method: Multi-touch
Operating system: OS X
Storage: 4GB or 8GB
GSM: Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera: 2.0 megapixels
Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing, Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches
Weight: 4.8 ounces / 135 grams


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Man that is one sexy phone, and if it performs anything like the demo, they are going to sell a gazillion of these things! I was all prepared to sign whatever I had to to get my hands on one until they dropped the worst news of the day, available exclusively through Cingular... and last time I checked there is no Cingular in Canada. I have hopes that Ted Rogers is on the phone with Steve right now working out a deal, but I am not holding my breath. I wonder if they will be easy to unlock? If they are truly based on OS X then they should be pretty hackable, maybe some enterprising fella will bring the iPhone goodness to us unfortunate fools.


Link to the official iPhone site

First hands-on coverage from the fine folks over at Gizmodo:

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Full coverage of all the Apple related hysteria below at Engadget.

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Althought the details a bit sparse, it seems that HTC is going to release an updated version of their "Star Trek" phone sometime this year. From the looks of it, it is silver, and has a camera, and is a phone... ya... I need a nap now...

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Samsung has released their newest slider, and their thinest yet, the Z720 Ultra Edition 13.8. The 13.8 referring to the thickness, and the ultra referring to... something... that is ultra. The virtually paper thin slider features a 2.1" display, 3mp camera, 2nd camera for video calls, and HSDPA (for the lucky few) up to 1.8mb. Now will someone explain how that phone in the middle took a picture of itself?

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There seems to be a bunch of these type of devices running around these days, as the release of Windows Vista approaches, hardware vendors are showing off their devices that will take advantage of Vista's "sideshow" feature. The MSI Mega Player 529 is one such device, not only acting as an auxiliary display for Vista, but as a removable media player that you can take with you to listen to music or watch videos. The Mega Player features 1GB of internal memory, and a 320x240 screen.

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Who doesn't love a good rumor? They are all around these days, who is releasing what, when, how, and how big!! It seems that a presentation put on by Samsung for the release for their new 60GB version of their 1.8" hard drive had an interesting slide in it, a picture of a person with a device that is very similar to a PSP. Now it does seem to say "PMP" on the back of that device, but the shape and lines are hard to mistake for anything but the the Sony gaming machine. It would so rock if the next generation PSP has a 60GB hard drive, but I somehow doubt it.

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Well, my plans for taking over the world have come that much closer with the Go-Robo software from Q4 Technologies. The Software allows you to program up to six robots using a building block type interface, or for those programmers int he crowd, a programing language called GRIDscript. The software is currently in beta, with release expected next spring. Now all I need is 550 meters of bungee cord and a small furry marsupial...

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