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RIM’s Mike Lazaridis Crashes And Burns In BBC Interview

Research In Motion’s CEO, Mike Lazaridis had an interview with the BBC recently, which contrary to his usual public personality (that is to say, cool and collected) turned into a quick walk out of the room. The question that ticked him off had to do with the saga between BlackBerry devices and the crisis in India, where the government seeks to have greater control of the tight security systems in each device. The question, which Lazaridis deemed “unfair” (seriously?) is at the ‘via’ link, at the very end of this sentence. Via: BBC

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Sprint’s Kyocera Echo Is A Dual-Screen And Out-Of-Place Android Device

It has two screens, both of which “combine” for 4.7-inches of screen at 960 x 800 pixels! It runs Android 2.2! Has a 5 megapixel camera for 720p HD video recording! And it’s from Kyocera — is that anything special?

It’s made out of cheap looking plastics, only uses 3G, is as thick as a brick, but at least has a second-gen 1GHz Snapdragon powering it. The hinge allows it to be propped up like a laptop, used as a regular single-screen phone, or have both screens laid flat. Look, if you’re going to use a smartphone, how will you perform the fancy “simultasking” that Sprint and Kyocera are spewing out as a “true” way to multitask on a phone? And while the the mail and map apps can use the extra real estate for better viewing, you’re looking at something bigger than an EVO 4G and almost as big as a Dell Streak. And how long will this thing last on a charge, anyway? Turns out it comes with a spare battery pack charger and battery. Heh.

There’s little point in have a dual-screen phone, when the consumer market is already adjusting to bigger phones, which have proved a success. It’s as if Kyocera execs and engineers said in the style of Dilbert, “We can’t beat HTC, Apple, and Samsung, so let’s put two screens together and sell it!”. Like that would work. Via: Sprint

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Archos 5 Internet Tablet Review: I Can’t Recommend It

The Archos 5 tablet is Archos’ first ever stab at an Android tablet (back in mid-late 2009). It has a 4.8-inch (WVGA) resistive touchscreen, ARM Cortex A8 clocked at 800Mhz, 256MB of RAM, has Android 1.6, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and finally 16GB of storage space, sans a microSD card option. Right off the bat though, from the resistive touchscreen to its inability to watch YouTube videos off the mobile site, I can’t recommend it, to anyone. Read on to know why (if you’re even so inclined).

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Acer Stream Poses For The Camera, Shows Its First Iffy Video Shots

Let’s not criticize the Acer Stream, a 1Ghz Snapdragon, 3.7-inch multitouch screen, Android 2.1 “Eclair, Acer-branded version of the Nexus One of sorts. Let’s not say that the video below displays just how awful the camera looks when it’s not recording in 720p HD, which is the best setting found on the phone, and for some brilliant reason wasn’t used. Anyways folks, the sad video is just below for your brief amusement.

UPDATE: I got rid of the previous video, because there’s finally some 720p HD video that was uploaded. Looks better, but you can still tell it’s not perfect.

Source: Zing.vn

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Sprint EVO 4G packaging revealed, looks like dinner in a box

In the world of mobile there’s a lot of mishaps. Including the packaging sector, which in the case of the EVO 4G, literally kills all of the “hey look at me!” and makes it appalling. Presenting the EVO 4G, in its official recycled packaging, which resembles one of those unhealthy dinners in a box. More pics at AndroidCentral. Enjoy your TV commercial EVO 4G in a dinner box, folks. But look on the bright side: there’s a bundled 8GB microSD that is actually in the box and should come with every unit!

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‘WePad’ Tablet Name Changed To ‘WeTab’. Huh?

So that company, what was the name of that company? Let me remember….ah! It was called Neofonie. They are making the WePad, at this point such a hyped tablet that it could possibly rival the iPad straight in the face. But now maybe due to pressure for the word “pad” from a little company named after a fruit in Cupertino, they have changed that mildly-awesome name to the sucky McSuck suck name “WeTab”. So instead of “pad”, like iPad, it’s “tab” like the word tablet. Now let’s figure out why this happened:

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Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition Review

With contenders like Google Maps Navigation, most navigation apps used on smartphones like the iPhone are utterly blown away. Nokia on the other hand, so far is the only manufacturer with a navigation system on par or a little better than Google Maps. The Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition is actually a 5800 XpressMusic, which in turn was pretty much was a music player. The main difference between the two is that this, as according to its name, is a navigation phone that can be used on either T-Mobile or AT&T networks. Check out our thoughts after the cut.

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You can buy iPhones without contract at the Apple Store. But there’s a catch..

You read that right. A catch. Strangely this hasn’t been done for years now, but Apple will now let you walk out with 1 (one) iPhone out of the virtual Apple Store without an AT&T contract, per day. So what’s the catch?

You won’t be able to use it on any network besides AT&T. Oh Apple, how you amaze me at times, good and bad! And here’s the pricing scheme: 3G for 8GB at $499; 3GS 16GB for $599; 3GS for 32GB at $699.

Source: Apple Store

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