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  • Motorola announces EU-bound keyboardless Droid/Milestone: the XT720

    Motorola announces EU-bound keyboardless Droid/Milestone: the XT720

    Motorola today announced their latest Android offering, the Milestone XT270, which is basically a Milestone/Droid with an updated camera, HDMI out, and no QWERTY keyboard. The removal of the keyboard makes the device a perfectly pocketable 10.9mm thick (down from 13.7mm on the original Milestone). Sound good? Follow the read link for more details and a hands-on video courtesy of SlashGear.

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  • Microsoft Germany goes live with Kin 1 and Kin 2 specs

    Microsoft Germany goes live with Kin 1 and Kin 2 specs

    We got our first good look at Microsoft's upcoming smart feature phones -- the Kin 1 and Kin 2 -- a week back. While the company let us man-handle the phones, Microsoft was quiet about the actual specs. But Microsoft Germany apparently thought that was silly and just released all the technical info on the two phones via its Facebook Fan Page. How nice.

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  • China Mobile starts selling Dell Mini 3i

    China Mobile starts selling Dell Mini 3i

    Dost thou desire an Android phone in Red Passion or Oiled Bronze? Begin thy journey, brave Sir Knight, to China where you will be able to purchase the Dell Mini 3i with 3.5-inch touchscreen for a few coins of the realm. The Mini 3i, as you’ll recall, is Dell’s first smartphone in almost half a decade [...]

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  • The Moto Droid’s Ability To Autofocus Varies From Day To Day – No, really.

    The Moto Droid’s Ability To Autofocus Varies From Day To Day – No, really.

    Here’s a weird one for you: A few hours ago, Motorola DROID users began reporting that the cameras on their handsets were suddenly.. better. The camera’s ability to auto-focus, which I’d railed in our review of the product, seemed to drastically improve overnight. And it did! Most assumed that Verizon and Motorola had managed to sneak [...]

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  • SoftBank’s complete 17 cell phone winter line-up (photo gallery)

    SoftBank’s complete 17 cell phone winter line-up (photo gallery)

    KDDI did it as early as last month, and today it was NTT Docomo's and SoftBank's turn to unveil their line-ups of new cell phones for the Japanese market. Here are all of SoftBank's 17 future models [JP], which will be sold in Japan from this fall through spring 2010.

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  • Review: Nikon D300s DSLR

    Review: Nikon D300s DSLR

    Short version: If you are familiar with the Nikon D300, then you can just expect more of the same. The D300s doesn’t do anything ground breaking, but what it does is add some nice features to an already excellent DSLR — most importantly, HD video and SD card support. The D300s is the latest version of [...]

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  • Rumor: BlackBerry Onyx to be announced October 21?

    Rumor: BlackBerry Onyx to be announced October 21?

    Well, well. What do we have here? Apparently, Engadget has it on “good authority” that the BlackBerry Bold successor, aka Bold 2 / Onyx (it’s not clear which name will hit the streets, but either way it’s the 9700), will be announced on October 21…for AT&T and T-Mobile. We were already pretty sure that the Onyx [...]

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  • Samsung announces new Moment Android phone

    Samsung announces new Moment Android phone

    Hot off the presses! Samsung has announced a new Android-powered phone: the Moment. The new Android-powered Samsung Moment is the first Sprint phone to use Samsung’s new 3.2″ AMOLED touchscreen display and will feature a landscape sliding QWERTY keyboard. It also includes Wi-Fi, integrated GPS, a 3.2MP camera/camcorder, and stereo Bluetooth. Customers can order the Moment beginning [...]

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  • Don’t show your parents: HTC Tattoo spotted on video

    Don’t show your parents: HTC Tattoo spotted on video

    HTC’s first foray into a cheap budget-friendly Android smartphone comes in the form of the previously revealed Tattoo (what are you trying to say, HTC, all us poor folks have tattoos?). And just like a real tattoo, HTC wants your Tat to be personal and unique, so the phone comes with removable/swappable front and back [...]

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  • First Look: Nikon D300s

    First Look: Nikon D300s

    We just got our Nikon D300s, and it's looking good. I've taken a few beauty shots for you, and shot some video with the camera as well. First impressions are good, but that's to be expected as it's based on the the excellent D300 body. We'll be comparing the D300s to a D300 in our full review to help you decide if you want to upgrade or not. Sample video and pictures inside.

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  • WinMo 6.5 powered HTC Imagio coming to Verizon Oct. 6?

    WinMo 6.5 powered HTC Imagio coming to Verizon Oct. 6?

    Nothing like a hot rumor to get your Friday going. Word on the street is that a new WinMo 6.5 packin’, HTC smartie named Imagio is coming to Verizon on October 6. As this is the very same day WinMo 6.5 is officially hitting the mobilesphere, the speculation seems all that much more legitimate. According to [...]

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  • RIP: Nikon D300 officially discontinued

    RIP: Nikon D300 officially discontinued

    Nikon announced today that they are officially discontinuing the D300 DSLR. That should really not be a surprise as the D300s has been announced, effectively replacing a camera that came out in August of 2007 (that's the equivalent of 25 years in digital photography time).

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  • New micro four-thirds Panasonic causes drool, consternation

    New micro four-thirds Panasonic causes drool, consternation

    We saw this thing a little while ago and now it is real. The Panasonic DMC-GF1 is a micro four-thirds camera with 12-megapixel sensor, 1080p video recording, and nice image quality. After seeing the lackluster EP1 I am worried the M4/3 world might be too hard to handle, even for DSLR lovers. However, I'm willing to give this old girl a try.

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  • Sprint makes their Touch Pro 2 official, shipping September 8th

    Sprint makes their Touch Pro 2 official, shipping September 8th

    picture-191 Rumors had the launch of the Sprint-branded Touch Pro 2 pinned all over the calendar, but all signs as of late have pointed at a September 8th release. Sure enough, Sprint just sealed the deal: the Sprint Touch Pro 2 will be shipping in just over a week. And just as we'd predicted, Sprint's price matching T-Mobile here penny-for-penny: after contracts and rebates are said and done, your wallet will be $350 lighter. Full specs and a bonus FUN FACT!© after the jump.

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  • Rumor: Dell’s smartphone gets rendered, specs revealed?

    Rumor: Dell’s smartphone gets rendered, specs revealed?

    We probably won’t be seeing Dell’s smartphone hit our shores anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t piqued our interest. I mean, come on: It’s Dell, who brings a fresh face to this whole crazy (and stagnating) world of cell phones, and it’s Android. Along with the absurdly blurry render you see up above, [...]

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