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BlackBerry PlayBook Now On Sprint, If You Care
The good old (I meant new) PlayBook is on Sprint now for $499 and is the 16GB Wi-Fi version with the following specs: 7-inch 1024 x 600 WSVGA display, a 1GHz dual-core processor, support for 1080p HDMI-out, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chat, 1GB of RAM, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR support. If you’re into a 4G WiMAX PlayBook, Sprint promises to release one by summer. PR after the jump.
It’s an amazing game console. Fully capable of playing the latest Nintendo titles in full 1080p HD, the Wii U uses a controller with a 6.2-inch screen, two analog sticks, front-facing camera, full set of custom controllers for Wii U, and a full gamepad. The controller allows you to play Wii U on your TV, but can also be played on the Wii U controller. Some games can even use the controller”s screen to add more interactive elements to the game/overall, it’s perhaps the most amazing game console of the decade, right along the original innovation that the original Wii created when it was announced. The Wii U is planned to be releaed next year in 2012.
Publishers also are very keen on developing for Wii U, as the DIRT franchise, Electronic Arts (including EA Sports and Battlefield), Super Smash Bros., Assassin’s Creed, Tom Clancy’s: Ghost Recon, Tekken, and more will all come to Wii U in 2012. Press release after the invisible line.
Hey, more news from WWDC 2011, if you can take it! Something that was very much expected was iTunes in the cloud. You can sync your songs to the cloud and have them mirrored to your all your iOS devices (up to 10) at 256kbps quality. Previous songs that you did not purchase from iTunes can be accessed for $25 a year via iTunes Match, which will have the DRM overlords happy. The special thing about iTunes Match i that it matches your songs with the ones seen in the iTunes music store, which means nothing is uploaded, just copied in a few minutes. It’s a smart move, even though it’s DRM-focused.
If today’s tech news cycle could get any better, than it would be about the next iPhone. iCloud is a universal hub for iOS devices to sync apps, documents, mail, and more across all iOS devices in Macs. You can store just about everything on Windows PCs, iOS devices, and Macs. It’s the fully-integrated system that desperately wants to kill the traditional file system, and has a good chance at it. Your email, calendars, apps ad contacts can also be resubmitted to any new iOS device you have just with a few clicks to keep everything tightly packed and watched. While all forms of documents are stored on the iCloud, photos, due to them consuming large amounts of space, are stored on the iCloud for only 30 days for devices to access the while they permanently stay on your Mac or PC. Oh and it’s completely free. By default, there’s 5GB of storage for mail — apps, books, and Photo Stream (which allows you to take a picture on your iPhone and have it instantly show up on an iPad) don’t count. Via: 
It’s hot and happening at WWDC 2011, and iOS 5 is mainly part of it. New features include a new notification system dubbed Notification Center, Twitter integration, Reading List (exactly like Instapaper), a new Camera app (which also can be activated from the lockscreen, include auto-correction, red eye reduction, and cropping), location-based reminders, a split keyboard for people who type with their thumbs (on iPad), wireless syncing and updating (which are Delta updates, and only updates what has changed, rather than the whole OS), the new Mail app which supports rich text formatting, flagging, indenting, more enterprise support along with inbox management, an improved Game Center with photo-sharing, game recommendations and comparisons among friends and such, and finally tabbed browsing in Safari, along with Safari Reader, which is essentially RSS. That was rather long, wasn’t it? Well, there’s more.