Archive for May, 2010

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Dell Streak’s Gorilla Glass screen: torture tested for your amusement (video)

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

So we’ve been hearing rumors about the Dell Streak being some kind of a rugged bad boy. Word is, the Gorilla Glass display on this 5-inch slate is good enough to withstand pretty much anything a human would care to throw its way. Them’s fighting words where we come from, so we did the only [...]

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iPhone 4G display put under a microscope, 960 x 640 a lock?

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

You’ve seen it in San Jose, you’ve seen plenty of it in Vietnam, and now, apparently, you’re seeing the iPhone 4G display waving at you from the center of Europe, namely the Czech Republic. We haven’t been able to corroborate that these fellas do indeed have a legitimate next-gen iPhone part in their paws, but [...]

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Motorola Shadow slithers into Verizon’s inventory database as MB810

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

If the whole “smoke -> fire” adage proves true once more, it’s looking like Verizon loyalists can expect to see a Shadow at least a few milliseconds before a CDMA iPhone. Following up on months of leaks and rumors, we’ve got yet another snippet of evidence pointing towards a VZW release of the so-called Motorola [...]

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Qik two-way video calling on the Sprint EVO 4G is free, premium service is not

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

Qik has lived up to its name in clarifying some leaks indicating that future EVO 4G owners on Sprint will be charged $5 a month to make use of its video chat services. As it turns out, that subscription fee will be for a new range of “advanced premium features,” which will be elucidated on [...]

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Coulomb begins worldwide EV domination with ChargePoint expansion to Australia and Poland

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

Look around you. Are you at an electric vehicle charging station? If so, good for you! If not, that’s okay, because the things are still mighty rare. California-based Coulomb is helping to change that, expanding its operations with deals that will see its ChargePoint networked charging stations appear in Poland and in Australia. The Warsaw-based [...]

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Stream sits still for the camera, shows off its camcorder abilities (video)

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

In these halcyon days of impromptu Vietnamese gadget reveals, it should come as no surprise that Acer’s Stream has gone from FCC filing to hands-on honey in a few days flat. Now it’s been the subject of a rather more thorough photo shoot in Ho Chi Minh City, and also was kind enough to share [...]

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Tesla deal with Toyota is ‘not formal,’ $50m investment dependent on IPO

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

Tesla Motors seemed to have scored quite the coup earlier this month when it landed a deal with Toyota, but it now looks like things might be a tad more complicated than first suggested. According to Tesla, there is no formal deal with Toyota on electric car development, only an “intention to cooperate,” and Toyota’s [...]

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How would you change Apple’s Core i7 MacBook Pro?

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

Apple’s secrets have been getting out a bit more than usual over the past couple of months, and few were shocked when Intel’s newest slabs of silicon slithered beneath the unibody shells of the freshest MacBook Pros. The Core i7 rig in particular drew attention, as this was the first MBP to surface with components [...]

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Amazon Kindle slimming down in August?

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

Color might still be out of the question — both now and far into the future — but Amazon seems fit to take out some of the Kindle’s fat. Bloomberg has it on word that the company will debut a thinner version of its e-book reader in August, and the new workout regiment will also [...]

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Microsoft and Apple still in talks for Bing iPhone search option, Google is not on notice

May 30th 2010 | Posted by admin

What turned into a pretty frenzied rumor this afternoon ended up being much ado about nothing, but there is something noteworthy. As the story goes, TechCrunch reported that Microsoft was going to completely replace Google with Bing as the search engine of choice for the iPhone once OS 4 launches next month. Enter All Things [...]

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