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05Jan

CES 2011: HTC Announces Their First 4G Android Phone for AT&T, The Inspire 4G

Surprise! We knew the HTC EVO 4G would be gettin’ a brand new twin on another carrier — we just thought Verizon’s Thunderbolt would be the first out the door. AT&T just went ahead and jumped the gun a bit, using their pre-CES 2011 Developer Summit to announce a 4.3″, HTC-made monster of their very own: the Inspire 4G.

Here’s what we know so far:

4.3″ Super LCD Display
Android 2.2 running the “next-generation” of HTC’s customized Sense UI (complete with a free “Find My Phone”-type feature, which can locate your handset on a map, make it fire off sounds to make it easier to find, or remotely wipe all the data off the device on command)
8 megapixel rear camera
1 Ghz CPU

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04Jan

Amazon Kindle app now available for Windows Phone 7

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If you’re sick of carrying around both your Kindle AND your Windows Phone 7 handset, then you can give your shoulder muscles a break tomorrow, as Amazon have now released their very almost ubiquitous e-book reader app, Kindle, onto the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.

It has all the features you’ve come to know and love, such as access to the Kindle Store’s 750,000 books, syncing of progress and purchased books between your many devices, smooth integration with WP7′s pivot interface, and the ability to choose font size and colour.

All in all, it’s what you’d expect really.

[via Mobile Burn]

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04Jan

Next Windows Phone 7 update called “NoDo”, not to be confused with ManGo

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There’s a man in town saying that Windows Phone 7′s first update will get its RTM (Release to Manufacturers) as early as this week, in time for Ballmer’s CES appearance.

That same mysterious man (actually Paul Thurrott from Windows Phone Secrets), also says that the update is called “NoDo”, which is an abbreviation of an obscure reference to Android’s v1.6 “Donut” update (NoDo stands for “No Donuts”).

Don’t get it? Nor did I. It’s meant to refer to the fact that Donut was a minor update to Android 1.5, and Microsoft will only release major updates, à la Windows (as in the desktop version) Service Packs. I’ll leave it to you guys to argue on whether that’s a good move or not.

The juicier news is that, yes, this update will bring Copy & Paste (which we already knew) CDMA location support (think Sprint and Verizon), support for additional Qualcomm chipsets, and a pile o’ bug fixes.

Further to this, Monsieur Thurrott also says that ManGo (the capitalisation is my own, I just like the look of it alongside NoDo) won’t be the next update, and — while it’s within the 75xx code branch, it identifies itself as v7.2. So, we’ll have to wait and see if it will end up as v7.5 or not when it lands in August/September (maybe).

Interesting tidbit: the 75xx code branch is known internally as the “entertainment” branch, so we can probably expect a few fun features to make it into the update.

Now, all we have to do is wait for Ballmer’s appearance at CES later this week.

[via Engadget]

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03Jan

TF-FN2000, a new series of minimalistic and compact Cordless phone from Pioneer

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Pioneer Japan has introduces, a new series of Cordless phone with the TF-FN2000 Series. Available in Black, White and Red, these phones comes with a Base unit, featuring an LED Display, Answering Machine, Call screening system and an hand free mode in just 192x75x89mm, while the handset, offering a 6h battery life span (continuous talk) comes with a compact cradle and an ultra minimalistic handset.
These digital (2.4GHz) cordless phones will be sold in Japan within January
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29Dec

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hack Demonstrated On Video

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For the developers of any digital distribution store (be it Steam, or the iOS App Store, or what have you), there’s not much worse than waking up to find out that your system’s piracy protection mechanisms have big ol’ gaping security holes. There’s one thing, though, that can take a bit of the sting off: having the bad news broken to you by a white had (read: strictly non-malicious) hacker who has every intention of helping you fix it, rather than telling the world how to do it.

Such is the case for Microsoft this morning, who found out by way of a friendly neighborhood white hat that the DRM setup on Windows Phone 7 apps can be torn apart in a matter of seconds. Not only that, but it seems the paid apps can be pulled directly from the Marketplace prior to being cracked, without a cent being offered up.

The news comes in via WPCentral, who has been working with a hacker named only as “Tobias” to outline the issue. Neither party really could have handled the situation better; they’ve contacted Microsoft to disclose the exact flaws exploited, they refuse to crack any paid applications on video (though they demonstrate the process on a free application, and indicate that it works just as well on paid apps), and they refuse to disclose any details of how the hack works until Microsoft has fixed the problem (in other words: No, you can’t have it.)

Check out the proof-of-concept video below: