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Samsung Alias 2 Cell Phone Review–Strange and Lacking

Samsung, give them credit, loves to push that old industrial design envelope by making strange new control designs for their products.  It’s only too bad that, most of the time, these industrial design features often wind up being little more than lipstick on a pig.  And today’s polished turd will be the Samsung Alias 2. The Samsung Alias 2 is a convertible flip style cell phone that offers call timer, conference call ability, voice recorder, caller ID, Bluetooth connectivity, TTY compatibility, VZ Navigator, Chaperone parent/child, a sixteen gig microSD card slot, V CAST Music, Rhapsody, GPS, speakerphone, a phone book with capacity for a thousand names and numbers, mobile email, internet browser, a two megapixel digital camera, and a battery capable of generating five hours of talk time on one charge

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Fujitsu Lifebook T900 available for purchase

Fujitsu presented the Lifebook T900 back in December 2009, and a few days ago it become available for purchase for $2,000. The LifeBook T900 is a convertible notebook and you can pick one of the 3 processors: Intel Core i5-520M processor at 2.4GHz, or an Intel Core i5-540M at 2.53GHz, or lastly a i7-620M at 2.66GHz.

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Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 released in the US

We have mentioned the LifeBook UH900 a few times before, but only today Fujitsu made the product available for purchase. It has a price tag of $850, that is, after the mail-in rebate valued at $150. Specification-wise this Fujitsu UMPC – Ultra Mobile PC – has an Intel Atom Z530 processor at 1.6GHz, and 2GB of RAM.

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MSI announces CX620 and CR620 laptops

CX620 and CR620 are the codenames of the new laptops made by MSI, which go directly into the “Classic Series Laptops”. Both models feature the latest Intel Core i Series processors and can feature up to 4GB of memory RAM. One of the differences is the graphics card: while the CX620 has the ATI Radeon HD5470 with 1GB, the CR620 boasts an Intel GMA HD.

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MSI announces CX620 and CR620 laptops


The Amercian Museum of Natural History App

The American Museum of Natural History has comes up with their own iPhone and iPod Touch app known as DINOSAURS: American Museum of Natural History Collections. It allows users the ability to see 800 images of the Museum’s archives, as well information on the dinosaur digs and the creatures themselves. This app is available for free

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The Amercian Museum of Natural History App


Samsung T139 Mayon

Samsung has decided to make a surprise for everyone and earlier today added a new cellphone to their website, also known as Samsung T139 Mayon. It can be considered a medium-level cellphone that comes with dual displays for conference calls, and an HTML browser for the internet experience. The T139 Mayon supports aGPS, Java applications, and comes with a speakerphone.

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Samsung T139 Mayon


iDrift for iPad racing games, if any

I just finished reporting on Nokia’s Ovi Labs Racing , and if that game were available for the iPad, this would be the peripheral that you need. This iDraft, a concept model from designer Micheal Greenberg, definitely looks like “the” accessory to have for racing games

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iDrift for iPad racing games, if any


LG first to bring 4G to Japan

LG is probably feeling good right now, now that their devices have official 4G certification in Japan. Right now, LG, the South Korean company isn’t releasing a 4G handset just yet, but they will be releasing a 4G compatible modem. In the meantime, NTT Docomo, Japan’s biggest cell phone carrier, will probably have their 4G line through the country by December.

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LG first to bring 4G to Japan


GpsMid – vector based map application for cellphone

GpsMid is a Java J2ME mobile application with use OpenStreetMap Data. it’s free, fully offline, vector based map application for your cellphone. It displays your current position on a zoomable map and can be used to search for and navigate to roads or points of interest of your liking

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GpsMid – vector based map application for cellphone


Michael Hsu: Nokia Taiwan: Symbian 2 is garbage, we’re going straight to Symbian 3

Digitimes doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to rumours, so take this with a grain of salt, but they say that they’ve spoken to Michael Hsu, General Manager of Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) Taiwan, and have learned that Nokia isn’t going to make any Symbian 2 handsets and instead is going to jump straight to Symbian 3. For those unfamiliar with how Symbian development works, there are 5 versions of the operating system being built at the same time

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Michael Hsu: Nokia Taiwan: Symbian 2 is garbage, we’re going straight to Symbian 3


WeatherEye Mobile For BlackBerry

WeatherEye Mobile alllows to view current weather conditions in realtime using your blackberry. Features Detailed Current Conditions, Short Term, Hourly and Long Term Forecasts Severe Weather Alerts (Canada and USA) Multiple city access (travel, cottage or favourite destination) Radar maps that pan and zoom (On iphone , Android and BlackBerry ) Data available in Celsius or Fahrenheit, Metric or Imperial One touch access to mobile.theweathernetwork.com for additional info (Flight times, traffic, golf and ski reports…) WeatherEye works on devices running BlackBerry version 4.3 and above. Download Install the application via OTA link http://blackberry.theweathernetwork.com

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Deal: Nokia E72 available for $314 at Dell; Coupon expires tomorrow!

If you’ve been looking for an ultimate messaging phone that’s also capable to do many other things, look no further – Nokia E72 is probably one of the best such devices. In addition, it also comes with a 5-megapixel camera, HSPA connectivity, GPS, WiFi and a whole lot more.

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HipLogic Live adds “social touch” to Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones

A company called HipLogic has launched an interesting app for Symbian and Windows Mobile. It’s called HipLogic Live and its made to “enhance standard UI” by delivering popular content and services such as Facebook, Twitter, CBS news, CBS sports, weather, and entertainment through a web-connected interface

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HipLogic Live adds “social touch” to Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones


Black Nokia 5230

The Nokia 5230 features a 3.2 inch touchscreen display with support for handwriting recognition and an accelerometer to rotate the screen. The 5230 runs on the Symbian operating system meaning you can download new apps from the Ovi store, customise the home screen with shortcuts and add your favourite contacts to the scrolling contact bar, even adding a photo. The Nokia 5230 features HSDPA technology for high speed downloads and web browsing, a 2.0 Megapixel camera with video recording, Bluetooth and A-GPS with Nokia Maps software pre-installed

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HTC Snap Cell Phone Review–Great Controls!

So I finally got my hands on an HTC Snap cell phone to try out, and it was kind of a surprise to me.  Despite the fact that the thing LOOKED like a Blackberry, it actually offered a much better control scheme, as far as I was concerned.  But that wasn’t all it offered. The HTC Snap comes with a Qualcomm MSM 7225 processor with Windows Mobile 6.1.  It has a hundred and ninety two megs of onboard memory, and a 2.4 inch LCD display.  It comes with a trackball and a full QWERTY keyboard, bluetooth connectivity, Wi-fi, a two megapixel camera, support for a variety of different audio and video formats, and a battery that offers a maximum of five hours of talk time on a single charge

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TripTracker App for the iPhone Released

Here is another useful app for the constant travelers . Pageonce has launched the TripTracker app which enables travelers to keep track of their itinerary when on the go. To get the most out of the app , you forward all of your itineraries to plans@tripit.com and it “ automagically ” fixes your itinerary and populates your flight information

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iHeart Docking Station

The iHeart Docking Station is a timely iPod docking station that comes in time for Valentine’s Day ( although it may not come out in time for Valentine’s ). As you would guess, the iHeart is an iPod Dock that comes in a heart-shaped design, carrying a unique looking iPod add-on that should get the nod of females. The iHeart is not yet available though

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iHeart Docking Station


Poken Plus Social Networking Gadgets

Here are some modern business cards that should take social networking to another level. Called the Poken Plus Social Networking gadgets, they are cute little gadgets designed to make social network sharing easier. All you have to do is hold 2 of them together and you will be connected to the social networks that you use such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

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Poken Plus Social Networking Gadgets


Lenovo eBook Reader: Phaeda iBook

Lenovo has a special product that was only launched in China, it’s their eBook reader named Lenovo Phaeda iBook. In China the Lenovo eBook is also known as Tianji iBook EB-605 and in terms of specifications it has a 6-inch E-Ink screen which is powered by a Samsung ARM 400MHz processor. It is compatible with a lot of different file formats, such as RTF, PDF, TXT, CHM, and many others.

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Lenovo eBook Reader: Phaeda iBook


New Watch: Timex Ironman Global Trainer

Timex will release a new watch on the following months which is named Ironman Global Trainer and has a GPS receiver, so all the sporty people can track their data like speed, distance, and pace. The Ironman Global Trainer is able to record up to 100 waypoints and comes with a case that is water resistance and a limit of 50 meters. One of the cool details is the special USB connection so you can charge it and sync it easily

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New Watch: Timex Ironman Global Trainer


Trapster application for BlackBerry gets updated

The popular Trapster application that many drivers certainly use on their BlackBerry smartphone has received an update. In case you don’t know the application check the intro video on their website.http://trapster.com/presentation.php With the new version 3.6 of Trapster users can now create custom alert filters, and there are also custom sound themes.

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Trapster application for BlackBerry gets updated


Puppy Tweets, for dogs that love Twitter

As if the Rambler Tweeting shoes weren’t bad enough, now Tweet-addicts can give their dog a chance to get on Twitter. With Puppy Tweets, you can purchase a plastic sound and motion sensor that will send out a specific pre-programmed tweet for certain situations. For example, if your dog is barking, it could send out: “YAHOOOOOOO! Somedays you just gotta get your bark on.” Yeah, this isn’t the collar that made the dogs talk in the movie Up .

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Puppy Tweets, for dogs that love Twitter