Super Cellphone Deals & News: Jul 13, 2010

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Windows Phone 7 Moves Closer To Release

Developer tools hit beta as Microsoft execs say company's new smartphone will ship by 2010 holiday season at latest.
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Arlington teen seeks touch-screen typing record

ARLINGTON â€" An Arlington teen is hoping to text her way to glory. On Monday, Kendall Joplin attempted to break the Guinness Book of World Records mark for fast texting on a touch screen device. This paragraph has to be typed faster than 35.54 seconds to break the mark' â€œThe razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In ...
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Cooker makes bread out of rice

Backed by the recent revival of rice consumption, Sanyo Electric Co. debuted a machine Tuesday that can bake bread out of rice. The Gopan looks similar to a rice cooker. Just add 220 grams of rice, 210 grams of water, sugar, salt and shortening in the bread pan, and gluten and dry yeast in the unit's automatic dispenser, and the machine grinds the grain, and kneads and bakes the dough in about ...
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HTC EVO 4G Screen Protector (type D/E)m

T-Mobile To Launch Mac-Friendly 3G Modem?

The webConnect Rocket line is about to get a major face-lift. T-Mo News has come across some leaked images of a T-Mobile Sales guide that reveals the existence of webConnect Rocket 2.0. ...
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LG Jumps Into the 3D Ring with 3D HDTVs, Glasses, and Blu-ray Players

LG already has a pair of 3D active shutter glasses out there in the world, but up until just recently they were pretty much nowhere else to be found in the 3D market. But it looks like theyâ€™re changing their strategies, as theyâ€™re about to strengthen the market with their own products here in the near future. Bolstering what theyâ€™ve already released. Not too long ago, LG launched the LX6500 and ...
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Sprint CEO talks option of LTE-based 4G, but mum on mergers

Sprint Chief Executive Dan Hesse revealed in a recent interview that the wireless provider may launch a next-generation LTE data network for its handsets. According to the FT report, Sprint, which also partners with Clearwire on the 4G WiMAX network, has enough spectrum for LTE as well. Sprint is also seeking hardware partners to build the infrastructure for the LTE network.... Clearwire ...
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LG Electronics and Toshiba Join ZigBee Alliance RF4CE Steering Committee

SAN RAMON, Calif., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBeeÂ® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions supporting energy management in residential, commercial and consumer electronics applications, today announced LG Electronics, a leading global mobile communications and information company, and Toshiba, a global leader in consumer electronics and computing, have joined ...
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Motorola updates DROID X firmware

Motorola has begun pushing out firmware version 1.13.604 to the Motorola DROID X ahead of the device's public launch. It's not known what's included in the 8MB file, but it's likely some final code adjustments before the phone lands on Verizon Wireless shelves. Read the full story here.
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Phone App Lets You Get Your Coupon On

Saving money in and around Houston is about to get a whole lot easier, that is, if you own the right kind of cell phone.
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Samsung N220 Plus Premium Unveiled, Adds Bigger Hard Drive and More RAM

The Samsung N220 may not be the highest or fastest selling netbook out there, but it is still a pretty capable machine. Especially if youâ€™re in the market for a netbook. And while weâ€™re sure that Samsung is more than please with it, thatâ€™s not stopping them from creating an upgraded model. Keeping a lot of the same features, and yet improving in areas that matter most to some folks out there ...
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Nokia sells another business

Nokia has sold off yet another business unit â€" this time a company itâ€™s barely owned for three months.
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Arlington teen seeks touch-screen typing record

Canedy Knowles featured in current Red Lobster ads

Good friends, good food, good times. That's the message conveyed in the new American Seafood Celebration television commercial for Red Lobster restaurants. Mouthwatering shots of butter-smothered lobster tails and grilled shrimp are inserted between video of a group of laughing young adults around the restaurant table, obviously enjoying each other's company.
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Google: Jobs' Android accusations are "rewriting history"

Study: UK interest in Nokia falling fast vs. Android, iPhone

Demand for Nokia smartphones has reached a new low in the UK, YouGov discovered in a new study. The number of those who fully expect to get a Nokia phone has almost been cut in half, from 19 percent in December to just 10 percent in June. Potential buyers dropped at the same time as only 34 percent of those asked were even considering Nokia where 46 percent would have said the same at the end of ...
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Technology aids baseball scorekeeping

Mobile scorekeeping applications are challenging the traditional scorebooks that have long been used by local baseball coaches to log games, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Baseball - Sport - Wall Street Journal - Shopping - History
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Mochi Media Announces Mobile Games Contest

Developer Contest to Create Games for Flash Player 10.1 on Android Mobile Platform
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HTC EVO 4G Screen Protector (type D/E)m

Merging mobile with augmented reality

Merging mobile surroundings with layers and layers of data, augmented reality comes to life at a conference in Silicon Valley.
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Motorola Droid X Review

TestFreaks published a Motorola Droid X Review. Quote from the review: "For review today Ive got the Motorola Droid X for Verizon Wireless. So Ive had my time with the Droid X, about a week and a half to play with it, and Ive come away with se...
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Android to hit 100,000 apps in July

Android Market is about to hit a milestone symbolic of Google closing the gap with Apple, raw stats indicate. At the current rate, the Android store should reach 100,000 total apps before the end of July, and as of now is already over 90,000. The rate of growth is now high enough that AndroLib estimates over 15,000 apps were added in June alone.... Google - AndroLib - AndroidMarket - Apple ...
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T-Mobile webConnect Rocket 2.0 leaks out, brings along Mac support and microSDHC slot

T-Mobile's webConnect Rocket has only been delivering "4G speeds" to users in search of mobile internet for a handful of months now, but already the company looks to have a successor on deck. If a pair of leaked slides are to be believed, the webConnect Rocket 2.0 is mildly overhauled version of the original USB WWAN modem, capable of delivering HSPA+ speeds on both PC and Mac platforms. There's ...
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CEO of kiosk business is former Red Hat executive

The new CEO of a Moore County company that makes touch-screen kiosks is a former top executive at Linux software company Red Hat.
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Google: Jobs' Android accusations are "rewriting history"

Sprint CEO talks option of LTE-based 4G, but mum on mergers

Nokia N900 (Unlocked) unlocked

Canedy Knowles featured in current Red Lobster ads

Nokia N900 (Unlocked) unlocked

HTC Ace: A GSM Evo

The HTC Ace is expected to launch in October. Until recently, that was all we knew about this mystery-phone. Now AndroidSpin reports that the Ace could be a GSM version of the HTC Evo. Two sources have informed them that the Ace will have a 4.3" disp...
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Man Raises Money to Send Android Phone to Space

A total of 66 backers have pledged over $2,000 to help send the first Android phone to space. The Astdroid project hails from Danny Pier , a 25 year-old self-described computer nerd who turned to Kickstarter â€¦
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Nokia sells MetaCarta Inc, holds on to geographic intelligence tech

Today Nokia announced that it has sold MetaCarta Inc. to Qbase Holdings LLC. Nokia bought MetaCarta, a 30 person firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 9th, 2010 for an undisclosed sum. Nokia said it will retain MetaCarta's geographic intelligence technology, which it plans to incorporate in its local search and other services. "MetaCarta serves primarily government as well as oil and ...
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Canedy Knowles featured in current Red Lobster ads

BlackBerry Protect brings enterprise security to consumers

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) today took the wraps off its latest offering for consumers, BlackBerry Protect, a free service meant to help non-corporate BlackBerry users secure and manage their smartphones.
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LG Finally Makes Its 3D Push

LG is now ready to make its mark in the 3D market, offering its very first Blu-ray 3D players and 3D TVs, and putting everything together in 3D bundles....
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Symbian to remain key to Nokia

Symbian will continue to be a key component of Nokia's mobile strategy, with the potential to help the Finnish handset maker drive the growing smartphone segment of its mobile portfolio, according to an analyst.
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Nokia accused of âa witch huntâ against Murtazin

The Nokia/mobile-review controversy continues, with Russian journalist Eldar Murtazin making an official statement on what he describes as â€œa witch huntâ€ designed to discredit him. After finding last week that Nokia had called in the Russian authorities to retrieve any prototype devices from Murtazin, something which Nokia then claimed was in response to ignored official requests for their ...
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Sprint 4G WiMAX network now live in 7 new markets

Today Sprint announced that its 4G WiMAX network is now live in seven new markets. The network is now available in Rochester and Syracuse in New York, Merced and Visalia in California, Tri-Cities and Yakima in Washington, and Eugene in Oregon. The new areas bring Sprint's 4G offering up to a total of 43 markets, and the carrier still expects to launch in Los Angeles, New York, and Miami by the ...
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini / Mini Pro review

In a smartphone market saturated with 3.5-inch and larger displays, Sony Ericsson reckons there's still a little place for petite packages. Enter the Xperia X10 Mini (E10i) and Mini Pro (U20i) -- both direct descendants of the beastly X10 Android 1.6 handset. Apart from the Pro's slide-out keyboard, removable battery, and positioning of various features, the two Minis are otherwise internally ...
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