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HTC Droid Eris drops to $30 at Walmart
Walmart helped spur Black Friday sales today by selling the HTC Droid Eris on discount. The Android smartphone has dropped from its original $100 to $30 on the same two-year contract as at Verizon. It doesn't require a rebate but is currently backordered....
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Sony Aino faces touchscreen problems
Users of the Sony Aino smartphone in the UK are finding some problems when using the device's touchscreen interface, according to a Thursday report. Only a small numbers of the devices in Britain are affected, says Sony Ericsson spokesperson Mattias Holm, and the company is working on resolving ...
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ViewSonic shows Windows XP-powered MID
ViewSonic shows Windows XP-powered MID
electronista.com — About two weeks after revealing a Windows XP-powered... (more) ViewSonic shows Windows XP-powered MID
FedEx intros Senseaware sensor for tracking packages
FedEx will be using a new Senseaware sensor in packages sent out to 50 of its medical clients this spring, which will allow the customers to get real-time updates on a package's status. This will not only include an exact location, but also temperature, whether or not the package has been ...
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Dell puts out USB-bootable Chromium OS image
PC maker Dell announced this week that it is making an experimental version of the open source Chromium OS for the company's Mini Inspiron 10v netbook. The OS is available as a USB key image file, but Dell technology strategist Doug Anson warns the file should be used with an assumed risk, as ...
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Carphone credits upturn to iPhone, smartphones
Carphone Warehouse today raised its profit estimates for its fiscal year based on the surprise success of its smartphone business (subscription required). Its earnings for its first fiscal half-year before tax and other factors jumped sharply from £65 million ($107.2 million) a year ago to £103 ...
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LG Arena Max spotted at Wi-Fi Alliance
LG Arena Max spotted at Wi-Fi Alliance
electronista.com — What is believed to be the successor to the touchscreen-equipped LG Arena has been spotted (PDF) passing... testing at the Wi-Fi Alliance. Little is known about the LG Arena Max LU9400, other than that it will have Wi-Fi capability. It will also ... (more) LG Arena Max spotted at Wi-Fi Alliance
Zemno intros notebook dock tailored to MacBook Pros
Earlier this week, Mac and PC peripheral maker Zemno introduced what it calls the first portable docking station that supports the internal connection of hard drives, batteries and peripherals. The DeskBook Pro Docking Station uses the company's ModBay technology that lets users plug in either ...
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Sony Walkman X gets much improved web browser
Sony finished up its week with a major firmware upgrade for the Walkman X1000. The 1.1 update significantly ramps up the accuracy and speed of the NetFront web browser, whose performance was a liability in our review and has compared poorly against those in rival devices like the iPod touch and ...
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Kohjinsha ships dual-screen DZ notebook
Japanese PC maker Kohjinsha has taken its dual screen notebook concept it showed off at last month's CEATEC show and made it into a production PC. The DZ6HKE16E is the first of the DZ-series of notebooks, and comes with a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU, 1GB of RAM. There is also an integrated ...
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Samsung bada to be unveiled Dec. 8
Samsung's bada has received a definitive public debut date through an invitation sent to the press. The phone platform and its development kit should be given their first public airing at an event in London on December 8th. Besides showing the software, the gathering will also have Samsung ...
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Win Mobile 6.5 update to get capacitive touch, new keyboard
Microsoft's interim Windows Mobile update could have significant updates designed explicitly for touch, a pair of leaks show. A Microsoft representative seeking anonymity has claimed that previous shots of "6.5.1" are accurate but that it's not necessarily a straight patch. Instead, the larger, ...
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Intel roadmap leak shows desktop plans
Intel roadmap leak shows desktop plans
electronista.com — Intel's plans to overhaul its desktop processors early next year have been detailed almost entirely in a... roadmap published today. The lineup is now believed to be headlined by low-powered S versions of the Core i5-750 and i7-860 that will run all ... (more) Intel roadmap leak shows desktop plans
China Unicom to mirror Ophone strategy with Uphone
Chinese wireless provider China Unicom said on Friday it will bring out the Uphone, which will closely resemble competitor China Mobile's Ophone Android phone. The Uphone will get its own version of the Android OS, called UniPlus, as well as its own Uphone app store. The app store will likely ...
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Acer to shy further away from Win Mobile
Acer's mobile head Aymar de Lencquesaing said in an interview late Thursday that the company plans to shift its attention more towards Android and reduce its Windows Mobile effort. Although all of the company's 10 smartphones this year save for the Liquid A1 were running Windows Mobile, the ...
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Lenovo buys back its own mobile business
Lenovo today said it would buy back Lenovo Mobile, its previously separate cellphone business. The deal, worth $200 million in cash and shares, brings back a division that the company had sold off just last year in a bid to save money. In justifying the reversal, the computer maker said that ...
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Lenovo smartbook may run Android
A demo of a smartbook prototype from Qualcomm may have provided more details of Lenovo's smartbook for AT&T;, including its choice of OS. The design, which cosmetically resembles the publicly displayed Lenovo system, runs on a comparatively fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and has been ...
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NVIDIA quietly adds first GeForce 300 series chip
NVIDIA quietly adds first GeForce 300 series chip
electronista.com — In a low-key move during Thanksgiving, NVIDIA has added the first graphics chipset to its GeForce 300... series. The GeForce 310 is a direct replacement for the earlier 210 and, like its predecessor, is meant as a basic GPU to upgrade the performance of ... (more) NVIDIA quietly adds first GeForce 300 series chip
Acer: Windows 7 a small boost to sales
Acer chief Gianfranco Lanci told the press on Thursday that Windows 7 has had a noticeable but small impact on sales. The executive estimates that holiday PC sales should jump about 25 percent versus last year, when the economic crash hurt sales, but that they should only be flat compared to ...
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Nokia ships X6 Comes with Music edition
Nokia ships X6 Comes with Music edition
electronista.com — Nokia today said that the X6 Comes with Music edition is now shipping. The media phone is... Nokia's most advanced to support the unlimited subscription service and, with 32GB of internal storage, could theoretically download and keep about 7,000 songs ... (more) Nokia ships X6 Comes with Music edition
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