Verizon throws out the HTC Incredible waiting page!

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Verizon throws out the HTC Incredible waiting page!

by Stefan Etienne on 14. Apr, 2010 10:29AM in Android, Breaking, HTC, Mobile, Verizon

Here it is, here it is! The Droid Incredible is coming out on April 29th, and looks needless to say incredible. For those of you who might be wondering, the HTC Incredible site (not the waiting page) will resemble the Motorola Droid’s, and as I predicted with another editor from another blog (Giz), the HTC Incredible is borrowing the Droid branding. Anyone getting sudden shocks of Android madness in their chairs right now?

UPDATE: And now you’ll see that the page is asking for login credentials. Looks like either Verizon was giving all of us some bait to feed on, or it was a slip-up.

Source: Verizon Wireless

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Going Once, Going Twice: Palm Is Now Up For Sale

by Stefan Etienne on 12. Apr, 2010 8:59AM in HTC, Lenovo, News, Palm

It was an unfortunate and inevitable fate for Palm, makers of the Palm Pre and Pixi, as well as the graphically pleasing webOS platform. Bloomberg has reported that Palm has partnered with Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find partners, and interestingly HTC and Lenovo are interested — Dell said “meh”. But if HTC rally does buy Palm, could they nearly jump over the lawsuit they have with patent Apple? Palm was the maker of the “original smartphone”. That is to say they practically made the idea of a “do-everything” phone popular. Because of that, they have more patents than HTC could possibly imagine, or at least important software and hardware-related ones that could allow HTC to slip past by any of Apple’s offensives.

The Bloomberg also says that Lenovo might want to buy Palm, too, however most dibs are on HTC right now. As for the webOS platform, I have several reasons to think that it will not survive this buyout, and many features of it might simply get incorporated into Sense UI Android phones like the EVO 4G. In the meantime, only time can tell who buys Palm, Inc.

Source: Bloomberg

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Twitter Buys Tweetie, Will Be Renamed “Twitter for iPhone” At The App Store

by Stefan Etienne on 09. Apr, 2010 9:49PM in Apps, Breaking, Internet, Web 2.0

Twitter has just announced that they have acquired Tweetie, a Twitter app created by Loren Brichter with the Twitter-savvy’s backing and nearly every iPhone user’s thumbs up for approval. What’s more interesting though is that the app will be renamed “Twitter for iPhone” in the coming weeks as stated by the Twitter blog. Also, Loren will be included in Twitter’s mobile team. Whether or not he’ll have his say on the future of Tweetie is unsure, but it’s an interesting development nonetheless. Also, the app pricing will go down from $2.99 to free, and an iPad version is also planned.
Interestingly, Twitter didn’t mention the Mac desktop app also called Tweetie, which is also developed by Atebits. You can probably expect though that it will get a name change as well soon.

Source: Twitter Blog

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Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus hit AT&T “in the coming months”

by Stefan Etienne on 22. Mar, 2010 3:20PM in AT&T, Mobile, Palm

While me here at LaptopMemo thinks about Palm and sees they could never possibly get out of the hole they’re in to survive unless they come up with some products that people really want to buy this time with a good advertising campaign, Palm is thinking otherwise. “In the coming months” AT&T will also have access to the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, both of which remain unchanged from their Verizon versions. The Pre Plus will retail for $149.99 and the Pixi Plus for a rock-on-bottom $49.99 (with a $100 mail-in rebate and two-year contract of AT&T 3G). As I said earlier the Pre Plus contains the same parts as its Verizon cousin: 16GB storage, GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1. The Pixi gets 8GB storage, WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth 2.1 as well. Having the Pre and Pixi line on 3 different carriers (Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T) should help, if two isn’t enough. One more shot after the break and full press release, cowboys!

Source: AT&T

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Game On: PS3 Issues Are Gone, PSN is Ready To Roll

by Stefan Etienne on 01. Mar, 2010 7:55PM in Breaking, Gaming, Sony

Do you get it yet? All issues affecting the “fat” PlayStation 3 models are gone, including the clock one, and you can game to your heart’s content once again. It’s unknown if Sony actually did something to the PlayStation Network or if PS3s themselves just went past a certain time for them to work again correctly. Either way, a quickie Q/A is at JoyStiq, and you’ll also get some info on how to recover lost trophy data (in theory).

Source: JoyStiq

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Palm webOS 1.4 arrives on Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus on Verizon

by Stefan Etienne on 28. Feb, 2010 8:53AM in Breaking, Mobile, Palm, Verizon

Hey Plus people! Over here! According to a last-minute tweet by Palm, webOS 1.4 is ready to go on your “plus” webOS handsets. That means video recording and editing, Flash 10.1, speed fixes,battery, improved call log — you get the picture. Download the mere 43 megabytes, and don’t say we didn’t suggest it!

Source: Palm Twitter

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OU Professor Smashes Laptop — After Freezing it with Liquid Nitrogen (video)

by Stefan Etienne on 23. Feb, 2010 11:04AM in Editorials, News, WTF

Apparently Professor Mullen of Physics at the University of Oklahoma isn’t a fan of gadgets, nor is he of computers. And yet computers help in the discovery of many things in physics, as well as vice versa. Moving on, our dear professor took a bricked laptop, gave it a bath in liquid nitrogen, and then smashed it against the floor. Yet somehow a student near the front row was allowed to have a camera to tape the comedy. But my reasons for posting this is not because I wanted to show you a lunatic professor. No. My question here is this: Should computers be allowed in the classroom as long as the students actually using them to be productive? Oh, and of course the video that might make your day is after the break. Literally.

Source: The Oklahoma Daily

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Tomorrow at MWC: Samsung I8520 ‘Halo’ Android 2.1 AMOLED Phone

by Stefan Etienne on 14. Feb, 2010 3:52PM in Breaking, Samsung

More Samsung news for you. You like it right? If you’re asking “where’s the Android phones?”, then here’s your treat, courtsey of a leak buried in the MWC 2010 press kit from Sammy. Tomorrow the I8520 ‘Halo’ will debut with a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen, 720p video, 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, DivX/Xvid playback, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, GPS, and 16GB storage with a microSD card slot for adding more space.

It will ship Q3 to Europe and Asia with a possible US release. And from the looks of it, the Halo uses the TouchWiz 3.0 UI debuted on the Wave earlier. But with no word on an official US release, the most exciting Samsung phone of the day in fact could end up a little shady. More on this tomorrow!

[Samsung via Engadget]

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