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  • Apple iPhone Launch Full Of Fail

    Apple iPhone Launch Full Of FailDespite the Apple’s corporation’s best attempts to foist a ghastly US-style, all-whoopin’ and a-clappin’, backslappin’, high-fivin’, luxury goods-spendin’ iPhone ‘event’ on us Brits, initial reports suggest that the great occasion failed miserably to live up to the pre-launch hype. It doesn’t look like the UK sales on Friday are going to be adding to the expected 3m iPhone sales.

    With the clock ticking down to the Apple-decreed hour of 6:02pm on Friday night, stockists Carphone Warehouse, O2 stores and Apple’s own retail chains were ready and waiting to deal with the expected rampaging hordes of credit card wielding punters desperate to shell out £269 for the privilege of owning an iPhone and spending 18 long months in the expensive company of exclusive carriers O2.
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  • Babel TV Launches (Podcast)

    Babel TV LaunchesWe toodled along to the launch of Babel TV, a new TV/ PVR/ Internet/ Computing device, earlier this week.

    Sadly we have to use that long, awkward description because, as yet, no one’s come up with a snappy term to match its wide range of functions.
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  • UK iPhone Launch On Friday: iGussets Moisten

    UK iPhone Launch On Friday: iGussets MoistenExpect much shivering and perhaps a little moistening of the iPants as over-excited fanboys settle down to queue up for the UK launch of the iPhone on Friday.

    For some reason we can’t even be bothered to look up, those crazy marketing cats at Apple have set a launch time of precisely 6:02 p.m., with iPhones being made available at more than 1,300 Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse retail locations across the UK.
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  • Google Unveils Mobile Phone Alliance To Create Open Mobile OS

    Google Unveils Mobile Phone Alliance To Create Open Mobile OS.After a frenzy of speculation, Google has announced a far-reaching alliance with over thirty handset makers, networks and other mobile technology companies to kickstart a new era of low-cost mobile phones utilising open technology standards.

    Known as the Open Handset Alliance, the group includes many of the big names in mobile phone chips manufacture, like Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments plus SiRF Technology Holdings, Marvell Technology Group, Nvidia, Synaptics, eBay (owners of Skype), Nuance Communications, NMS Communications and Wind River Systems.
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  • E-TEN Glofiish X800 3.5G Windows Mobile Smartphone

    E-TEN Glofiish X800 3.5G Windows Mobile SmartphoneJam-packed with the latest mobile innovations for the connected-exec-about-town is the new Glofiish X800 smartphone which is about to start shipping in key markets in about, ooh, two shakes of a lamb’s tale.

    Sporting a two-tone silver and black design that can best be described as ‘industrial’ and ‘functional’, the X800 squeezes in an integrated GPS receiver, HSDPA radio and a large 2.8 inch 640×480 VGA touch screen display.
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  • LG KS20 HSDPA Touchscreen Smartphone Gets European Launch

    LG KS20 HSDPA Touchscreen Smartphone Gets European LaunchTrying to kick over some of the Apple party tables before Friday’s iPhone’s launch is LG’s new business smartphone, the LG-KS20.

    Announced at the IFA 2007 in Berlin, the LG-KS20 HSDPA touchscreen smartphone will initially be released in France and Germany with other countries following hot on its trail.

    Evoking memories of the recent ‘Life On Mars‘ TV programme, a pair of dolly birds were roped in to ‘sex up’ the product, with the 70s-style press photos showing the two glampussies lovingly caressing the new phone.
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  • Ricoh GR Digital II Launch, London

    Ricoh GR Digital II Launch, LondonWhen we first clapped our eyes on the Ricoh GR Digital two years ago, we purred like a cat that had not only found the cream, but had dived whiskers-first into a bottomless pit of the stuff and then been handed the deeds of the cream making factory.

    We’d been looking for a digital equivalent of our favourite ever film compact, the Olympus XA for an eternity, and the GR camera came satisfyingly close.
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  • Sony UX490 (VAIO UX) Micro PC Released

    Sony UX490 (VAIO UX) Micro PC ReleasedMore than a month after Amazon let the cat out of the bag with details of the forthcoming new Sony UX490N Micro PC, the unit is now officially up for grabs for those feeling the pint-sized PC love.

    Like its predecessor the UX390, the UX490 features the same slide-out 4.5″ screen offering SVGA 1024×600 resolution displaying pixie-dwarfing text size, with a full 64-key mini-QWERTY keyboard lurking beneath.
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  • Sharp EL-8145 Calculator – A Step back In Time

    Sharp EL-8145 Calculator - A Step back In TimeFollowing on from our look back at the Toshiba Libretto 50 – a miniaturised blast from the past – we thought we’d pay homage to what is probably our oldest still working (just) portable electronics device, the Sharp EL-8145 calculator.
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  • Skype HQ Video: The Logitech Cameras

    Skype HQ Video: The Logitech CamerasThere are three Logitech cameras to choose from to get Skype HQ video running, each equipped with Carl Zeiss Optics and RightLight – which makes the most of the light available to create the best image – but with different strengths.

    The Quickcam Pro 9000 is primarily targeted at desktop machines with the benefit of autofocus and the ability to take 8Mpx photos.

    Retail cost £70.

    QuickCam Pro for Notebooks also has autofocus, comes with a 2Mpx resolution, not surprisingly is aimed at mobile users and comes with a travel pouch.
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