PC World does a first look review of the Samsung Glyde and writes, “The Glyde takes a page from the Apple iphone’s playbook by going for a minimalist look on the front screen. The only button on the front of the phone is a Home button, which not only takes you back to the main screen but also serves to reactivate the phone after the backlight dims.
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FROM GAMERTELL - The PSP Slim has been out for a while now so it may be surprising to learn that Sony is working on a new version. Patents were found lingering on the FCC website show multiple very technical documents about the new PSP-3001 series. Before jumping up with glee you should… MORE » Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → Tags: cameras, AAC, dvr, lcd (Read the full post about ‘Rumor: PSP-3001 on the way’…)
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Like to build things using electronics?
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We already have Battlebots, where Robots take on each other in something resembling wrestling, so why not have them play other sports, like golf? Well, this Putter Bot Remote Controlled Golfer is certainly a good start. It may not be a fully automated robot per se, as it needs a human to command it. Let’s face it, the robot is doing most of the work. It is designed to line up the shot, and then the user can adjust the swing with whatever amount of power he or she requires. As you can see, it moves around on two triangular tracks that it must have borrowed from Number Five from Short Circuit. Much of the information I have on this shows that this is someone’s little home project, but I don’t have a name. (Read the full post about ‘Putter Bot Could Revolutionize Robot Sports’…)
by Chris Ziegler, posted Aug 14th 2008 at 2:35PMSupport forum threads on Apple’s site and a number of ramblings across these great interwebs are starting to complain at great length about the iphone 3G’s headlining new feature — 3G reception, that is — and pretty much every aspect of it: signal strength, call dropping, connecting to EDGE when 3G is present, the list goes on. Some smartypants analyst from financial firm Nomura thinks he has it all figured out, saying that the issues are “typical of an immature chipset and radio protocol stack” and suggesting that a firmware update pushed out to existing handsets is unlikely to ease the pain. (Read the full post about ‘iPhone 3G reception woes unfixable? Maybe, maybe not’…)
I just decided the other day that I would venture forth to a nearby Apple store and buy a 3G iphone. It would be my first non-Windows mobile phone since, hmm, 2002 and requires using AT&T Wireless instead of my current carrier. So, this is not a decision made lightly. As an iPod touch owner who upgraded to the 2.0 firmware, I am all too aware of the frequent crashes on the new iPhone and ipod touch. However, reported complaints about problems with the 3G data radio in the phone are increasing my hesitation to move ahead to buy an iPhone 3G.
AppleInsider reports that Infineon chipset used in the iPhone 3G may be the cause of the problems.
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by Donald Melanson, posted Aug 14th 2008 at 4:44PMT-Mobile may have once been able to bank on J.D. Power’s customer care survey to bolster its bag of bragging rights, but it looks like that’s no longer the case, as Verizon has now finally edged it out, following a similar shift in J.D. Power’s retail sales satisfaction survey last year. Not only that, T-Mobile actually fell to third place, behind Verizon’s merger-mate Alltel. There isn’t much of a spread between the top-ranked companies, however, with Verizon snagging a score of 103, Alltel scoring 102, and T-Mobile garnering a respectable 100. Only Sprint Nextel, which got a lowly 79, scored below the industry average. (Read the full post about ‘Verizon tops T-Mobile in J.D. Power customer care survey’…)
Google may deliver Android on a HTC / T-mobile device as early as October, living up to its promise. The confirmation on the recent buzz comes from the New York Times, reporting from “people briefed on the company’s plans”. According to the NYT, Google, HTC and T-Mobile plan to announce the device, nicknamed the “Dream”, in September; but the exact launch date is still unknown and depends on the FCC approval.
You can check out the video of the HTC dream posted a few days ago on Youtube and the images from the demo at the Google I/O conference.
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Some of you may remember back in 2006 when Microsoft Research and the University of Washington first unveiled Photosynth, a system for creating 3D models formulated from combining hundreds or thousands of images.
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You won’t have to walk into a store or sit down in front of a computer to get your favorite Polo and Ralph Lauren fashions. That’s because Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is opening their own mobile commerce site. What that means is that you’ll be able to shop for luxury goods even if you are on the go.
The new Polo Ralph Lauren mobile website was reported by Reuters who also received a comment from David Lauren, Ralph Lauren’s son and vice president of advertising. Lauren stated that the website was developed to stay ahead of a trend beginning in Asia and making its way to the United States.
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