QUANTA WORKING ON 3.5-INCH SMARTBOOK-AS-PHONE, HATES OUR THUMBS

Without cinema or organisation form cause details, it’s tough to discuss it just what Quanta is pushing during here (or who it’s pushing during it for), though the judgment of the “computer in an iPhone form factor,” as Quanta Chairman Barry Lam so tactfully puts it, doesn’t fill us with most goal for usability. At slightest it substantially won’t demeanour as terrifying as this modded Dell netbook graphic above.

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SONY ERICSSON VIVAZ IS OFFICIAL: 8.1 MEGAPIXELS’ WORTH OF SYMBIAN

We get a sense which Sony Ericsson didn’t intend for this recover to go out utterly yet, though for what it’s worth, we’ve right away got central word which a rumored Kurara is a genuine understanding — as well as it’ll be well known as “Vivaz.” Yes, Vivaz.

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VERIZON PATENTS SYSTEM FOR LOCATION-AWARE CLASSIFIEDS

It’s not mostly that we honestly similar to what these large corporations have been doing, so you’d improved compensate tighten courtesy here. We’ve held breeze of the Verizon obvious covering the logistics of environment up as well as using the GPS-based classifieds service, that matches intensity buyers as well as sellers of products upon the basement of their settled interests as well as location. Thus, subsequent time you’re pushing by the home of the carpenter, for example, we competence be alerted of his hit sum should we need a little woodworking done.

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APPLE BUNGING BING SEARCH INTO IPHONE?

Ready to get your Bing on, iPhone owners? That extraordinary small Microsoft poke engine we shrugged off only a couple of months ago could turn a buttress in your every day slight if BusinessWeek ’s sources have been correct. According to a span of persons informed with a matter, Apple as well as Microsoft have been deliberating dropping Google as a default poke engine upon Apple’s rather renouned handset — talks which have been underway for “weeks,” apparently.

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3D MAPS DEMOED ON SONY ERICSSON X10, SNAPDRAGON PAYING OFF

Ericsson Labs is display off an API for navigating by a three-dimensional understand of a universe formed upon genuine imagery powered by Saab spinoff (the invulnerability firm, not a automobile company) C3 Technologies upon Sony Ericsson’s arriving X10 — as well as in a word, it’s seeking impressive. The buttons for determining a movement have been a bit hokey, of course, though do not be concerned as well most about which — this is particularly a explanation of concept, as well as a critical thing is which no make a difference how most panning, tilting, as well as swooping by a cityscape a demo-giver does, video outlay stays on top of thirty frames per second. Thank integrity for Snapdragon , eh

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MOTOROLA MOTOROI DEMOED ON VIDEO IN VERY COZY QUARTERS

You do not typically get this tighten to your phone unless you’re about to put it opposite a side of your face, though hey, we figure a small insinuate time with a device we make use of this most can’t hurt, now, can it? Here we’ve got a single of a initial high-def hands-on practice of Motorola’s ultimate Android set, a MOTOROI , installed with a Korean ROM in credentials for a arriving launch upon SK Telecom. As if upon cue, a really initial thing a user tests is a browser’s multitouch await , divulgence which opening could be an emanate here — even upon a phone’s OMAP3 core — though a great headlines is which a participation of Blur doesn’t appear to means a home shade to stumble similar to we’ve seen upon a CLIQ as well as DEXT .

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2,000 WINTEK WORKERS GO ON STRIKE OVER BONUS PAYMENTS, MAY AFFECT NOKIA AND IPHONE PRODUCTION

As a Year of a Tiger approaches (February 14th this year), Chinese workers demeanour brazen to their week-long legal holiday — a nightmarish time for unfamiliar vendors who’ll onslaught to get reason of any one in a country. Sadly, this wasn’t a box for Wintek — shade retailer for Nokia , Huawei as well as Apple

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ANDROID MARKET HITS 20,000 APPS, OVER 60 PERCENT FREE

Quantity frequency equals quality, of course, though it’s still sincerely important which a Android Market has right away managed to tip 20,000 apps only a small over a year after it non-stop a doors — Apple’s App Store had over 50,000 apps a year in to a existence, for those gripping track. Even some-more interesting, however, is a placement of giveaway as well as paid apps in a Market. According to AndroLib , entirely 62.2% of a apps accessible have been utterly free, compared to only 37.8% which have been paid apps

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ITG XPPHONE SEEN POWERING UP ON VIDEO

ITG has managed to keep a xpPhone in a headlines ever given banishment up a pre-order page behind in September. Just a day after saying a Windows XP-based MID / phone / whatchamacallit in a wild, we’re right away seeking during a initial well known video of it booting up

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SONY NWZ-S745 ON SALE IN CANADA, US GIVEN COLD SHOULDER

We do not know about you, though each time we listen to of the Walkman, we consider of the aged propagandize cassette players , as well as have been left not often unhappy by the slinky complicated variants as well as their tons of storage. The 16GB S745, that has positively zero to do with Mickey Mouse we assure you, has entered North American sell channels, usually it seems to have skipped the US for the some-more brotherly nearby resident up north. Eagle-eyed Canadian shoppers have speckled the some-more modernized chronicle of the S740 upon sale in Sony Style stores (for 200 CAD or 188 in genuine American currency), full with the 2-inch screen, noise-canceling earphones, as well as an unhealthily skinny case.

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