Quickie: PA and CA Latest to Get T-Mobile 3G

Today T-Mobile revealed that its 3G network is up and running in Pittsburgh, Penn., and in the cities of Fairfield and Santa Rosa, Calif.

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Tweet Reel iPhone App Sends 640 x 480 Video to Twitter

Rejoice, exhibitionists of the world, for TweetReel for iPhone will allow you to record videos at 640 x 480 pixels and tweet them. At last, your drunken thoughts and sexual mishaps available to your 26 followers in full high-res detail. It's pretty easy: Download Tweet Reel to your iPhone 3GS, open it, make a video, write a tweet, and share with the world using TweetReel.com, much like you do know with pictures and services like yfrog. Perpetual 480p personal embarrassment is only $3 away.

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Updated TouchFLO On HTC Leo

We’ve all seen the various leaked pictures of the HTC Leo floating around the Internet, so you shouldn’t be too surprised to hear about it. That being said, some folks have managed to get the TouchFLO 3D 2.5 installed on other HTC devices, and it certainly looks like the updated TouchFLO 3D is pretty and useful. A couple of user customizable shortcuts can be soon on the main page, and there is also an additional screen for Twitter, which should be very popular with the twitter-addicts worldwide.

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TomTom clears up iPhone car kit slip: £99.99 for the hardware alone, app sold separately

Oh, brother. TomTom just hit us up with the real details on its iPhone car kit slip this morning, and we've got a feeling you won't like what it has to say. It confessed that the posting was indeed a mistake, and thus, the pricing was also incorrect. If you'll recall (c'mon, it wasn't that long ago), the Apple store listing explained that the £99.99 car kit included the iPhone app, when in reality, that price definitely does not include the app. Jump on past the break for TomTom's official statement, which now curiously states that the "iPhone 2G" will be compatible with the car kit, yet doesn't mention the iPod touch at all.

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AT&T slips some iPhone MMS rollout details for Friday

We've just heard from AT&T that new carrier settings for the iPhone 3G and 3GS will be available "late morning" Pacific Time (which would be early afternoon Eastern) this Friday, September 25, which will finally enable MMS support. Owners will have to tether up to iTunes to grab those settings, so fish out your cable (as if you don't have it permanently attached to your machine already) and make sure you've got some solid time in front of the computer to check for the update over and over (and over) again, alright?

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Motorola Entice W766 Feature Phone Hits Verizon

An inexpensive flip-phone, the Entice replaces Motorola's W755 in Verizon's line-up. You get one-touch access to its music player, 2-megapixel camera, IM-style texting, Bluetooth and speaker phone, plus microSD card expansion (up to 8GB) and Verizon 3G data access.

The Entice can also run the usual Verizon Wireless Services: VZ Navigator, V Cast, Family Locator, Dashboard, etc. Other key specs: a 2.2-inch (176 by 220-pixel) color display, and a 2.5mm headphone jack.

But for feature phones, it's all about how low they can go. On that level, the Entice fails...it's not free. You still gotta fork out 40 bucks (with $50 rebate and two-year contract).

If you're a smartphone user, this will all sound pretty yawntastic, but we still try to do a few shout outs here and there for those who've not upgraded yet...

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Solar Bluetooth Headset Can Standby Forever

The tiny solar panel on this Bluetooth headset won't recharge the device as quickly as USB power, but the sun's rays can keep the headset waiting for your next call indefinitely.

While solar can't tackle most realtime energy demands, it's plenty to handle a Bluetooth headset in standby—which we must say, seems like a decent use for the tech. You'll never have to worry "is this thing that makes me look like a douchebag even working???" again.

Additionally, should you choose to purchase two headsets and actually wear them at the same time, you'll be able to appreciate A2DP (stereo Bluetooth) through multiple pairing. You know our feelings on that maneuver, so to state them yet again would be unseemly.

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HTC Leo to Be Officially Known as HTC HD 2?

The buzz word in the portable space appears to be HD at the moment, with the latest bandwagon member being HTC and its HD 2 (formerly known as the HTC Leo, maybe). The Leo—sorry, HD 2—if you'll remember, was that big and beautiful handset that was saw earlier this month. The 4.3-inch screen was impressive, but so too was HTC's ability to work around Windows Mobile's lack of support for multitouch capacitive screens

This latest reveal/leak allegedly shows that HTC had second thoughts about a mini-USB connector, as this version, if the real deal, now sports a micro-USB. Battery life was rated at 1200Mha, and the name change for the phone, HD 2, was discovered while snooping around in the Bluetooth settings.

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Palm Confirms No More WinMo Phones

Palm revealed during a press call today that it will no longer make and sell smartphones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating platform. It will only release devices using its own webOS platform from now on. The company also reiterated that it continues to develop and improve webOS, and that it will be able to push out system updates via the Internet. Palm noted that it sold 823,000 phones during its first fiscal quarter, but it wouldn't specify what percentage were represented by the Pre, which has been available from Sprint since June.

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Motorola Cliq Review: Most Customizable Android Phone Yet

T3 got an exclusive review on the Motorola Cliq —in Europe, Dext—and they seem quite impressed. They go as far as saying it's a "new dawn" for Motorola. Here are the basic points:

The good

• Motoblur: Motorola's combination of user interface and social service seems to be the winner. They say the widgets that allow you to customize the home screen are useful and quick, always updating live. For example, there is a messaging widget show the latest mails or texts right on the home screen, as they come in. The news widget collects information from several RSS at the same time.

• "Happenings": It is the most interesting widget-connects to social networking sites and puts all status updates together in one single feed. It's not without problems, though, as it shows the updates from all your Facebook friends. You know, all the 457 you really don't know at all.

• Contact book: Apparently, the address books collects information—addresses, emails, phones, photos, status, birthdays, dates, events—from all your contacts, adding the latest info from the social sites you are connected to. This sounds rather cool, as it seems you won't have to update your contact book ever again.

The bad

• The hardware quality: It doesn't seem very good, according to them. Apart from the boring design, the touchscreen is "occasionally hit-and-miss," and the phone feels cheap. The 320x480 screen quality is good, however.

• QWERTY Keyboard: The physical keyboard isn't good. Bad layout, and not enough spring keep them going back to the virtual one, which is accurate and feels good.

Conclusion

Despite the bad points, Katherine seems happy with the Motorola Cliq, saying it's a "rock-solid" performer, extremely customizable, fast, and great for social networkers. Go read her full review at T3.

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Sony Ericsson to announce a music phone on Sep 21

In a page titled "put your ears in control", Sony Ericsson teases us with an upcoming September 21 Announcement. The company claims that it will change the way we listen to music forever. Keep an eye out for leaks! Oh and it’s 9/21 2am pacific time.

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HTC Leo Bares All: Huge 4.3-Inch Screen, 1GHz Snapdragon

Remember that gloriously powerful, oddly fake-looking HTC Windows Mobile 6.5 phone from a while back? Well, it's real, and it's huge. For reference, the phone pictured next to it has an already impressive 3.6-inch screen—this thing breaks 4. All we've got here are a few images, but they confirm a lot: First of all, this thing does have the 1GHz Qualcomm 8250B processor, 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, and will be running Windows Mobile 6.5, otherwise known as Windows Phone. It's thinner than you might expect for such a powerful handset, apparently fulfilling earlier leaks' promises of 11mm thickness. And hey, that weird, un-HTC-like " Pro.Three" branding, complete with "Lorem Ipsum" filler text, is there too. That's one way to designate a prototype, I guess.

What can't really be confirmed from the pictures are some of the juicier specs, like the fact that the alleged 4.3-inch screen is capacitive glass, unlike most of HTC's larger phones, and that the battery is worryingly low 1230MaH unit—a potential dealbreaker for a phone with such a massively huge display to backlight. In any case, the Toshiba TG01 finally has a competitor in the Windows Mobile hardware porn category, so if that's your thing, there are a few more photos at the source.

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Flip vs iPod Nano: Flip Wins For Now

When you have sold over 100 million iPod Nanos, then as a company you need a new schtick to keep the momentum going. So Apple introduced a really skinny iPod Nano model that has a built in video camera so that you can record videos and share them to YouTube, Facebook, Mobile Me or Email. Since I don’t own a Flip, I thought well maybe this might be a good option. I tried out the device and within a few minutes I realized that this is not for me. Why? The camera is positioned in a really awkward position which makes usage very unintuitive. I guess someone wasn’t quite thinking. Any how does it stack up against Flip? Chris and Lis did a side-by-side comparison of the new iPod Nano with Flip SD and are underwhelmed by the new Nano. You can check out their video overview and reviews here.

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Motorola CLIQ listed for free on contract at T-Mobile, $400 straight-up

We'll caution you -- this could all just be one big misunderstanding (or a case of the fat fingered admin), but Motorola's newly launched CLIQ is currently listed for $0.00 on contract over at T-Mobile (and $399.99 with no strings attached). Available in both Winter White and Midnight Titanium, the outfit's first-ever Android phone can't actually be added to one's cart (trust us, we tried... repeatedly), but if these figures are right, we can surely say that the barrier to entry on higher-end smartphones will soon be demolished. Giddy yet?

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Nokia: Maemo Phones Will Be Ours, Not the Operators'

Nokia has indicated that it will not customize its high-end Maemo Linux handsets to suit carrier needs. With Nokia's S60 and Series 40 phones, it allows carriers to customize the user experience and add carrier-branded software and services. This will not be the case with Maemo phones, such as the recently announced N900. Nokia said that it will follow the footsteps of Apple and Google, which David Rivas, Nokia's vice president for devices R&D, told Reuters, "are a whole lot less about providing customization to the operators and a whole lot more about providing a really cool, compelling value proposition to the end-consumer." Nokia also noted that reducing carrier customization will help it save money and get products to market faster.

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T-Mobile BlackBerry Onyx press image leaks out

The BlackBerry Onyx hasn't exactly kept itself a secret in the past few months, so it's no surprise that we're seeing what looks to be the official press image and release from T-Mobile well before the handset's launch. No big surprises here, really -- it's still a 3G mashup of the Bold and the Curve 8900 with that new optical trackball -- but apparently RIM's preloading it with the Amazon MP3 store, so that's slightly interesting. From what we can tell, it's due in early November, but pricing is still a mystery -- hopefully RIM and T-Mobile have saved the best surprise for last.

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Initial PS3 Slim Sales Smashing Wii and Xbox 360 in UK

Has Sony finally found a sweet spot for its PlayStation 3 gaming console? Maybe so—at least in Europe—according to new sales figures from Chart-Track. According to the market analysis firm, the newly introduced-and-repriced PS3 Slim has seen a massive jump in sales in its first week of availability in the United Kingdom, seeing almost a 1000 percent jump in sales over the previous week. The numbers have the PS3 Slim outselling the Wii and the Xbox 360 by three-to-one during the week…and may indicate Sony is on to something with its new PS3 price tag.

Industry watchers expect the number represent a sales surge, rather than a new sustainable pace for the PS3 Slim. Consumers may have put off purchasing a PS3 system in anticipation of a price drop, an effect that would have dampened PS3 sales in previous weeks. Similarly, while PS3 sales have lagged substantially behind the Xbox 360 in North America, the unit has enjoyed more competitive sales in Europe against both the Wii and Xbox 360.

Nonetheless, Sony may have found a formula that makes the PS3 Slim a sales contender alongside the Xbox 360…and with global sales of the Wii finally starting to fall off, the PS3 might be Sony's first major move to reclaiming dominance of the video game console industry—although it's worth nothing the PlayStation 2 is still on sale and still moving a good number of units.

The first glimpse of the PS3 Slim's sales in the United States will likely come with NPD Group's video game sales figures, expected mid-month.

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Android This Week: Sprint to Offer the Hero as T-Mobile Offers Pre-Pay in the UK

The Android-based Huawei Pulse was made available via a pre-paid plan in the UK this week and the specs on the forthcoming ARCHOS 5 Internet tablet running the Google OS were accidentally leaked online. And a Hero rode into town.

Sprint will make the HTC Hero — the next-generation Android handset that uses the innovative HTC Sense user interface — available starting Sept. 11. It sports a seven-panel-wide home screen that can be customized with widgets to display a myriad of useful information. HTC has apparently also listened to its customers, dropping the proprietary headset jack used on previous Android models in favor of the standard 3.5 mm jack. This makes the Hero compatible with the huge third-party headset market.

Across the pond, T-Mobile UK announced the availability of the Huawei Pulse handset for £179.99 ($295). What sets this offer apart is the ability to use the Pulse with a pre-paid plan, sans contract. The Android OS is very data-centric, so carriers have been reluctant to offer devices running on it with this type of contract. This is probably just the first such offer in the EU; hopefully we’ll see it or something similar in the U.S.

And while ARCHOS isn’t preparing to launch its Android-based Internet tablet until Sept. 15, this week it was mistakenly listed as being for sale on the B&H web site before being quickly taken down. As typically happens in situations like these, the detailed information was noted prior to its removal, including the fact that it will be offered in both hard-disk and solid-state disk configurations ranging from $294-$420. The ARCHOS 5 is shaping up to be the most innovative implementation of the Android system to date.

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The Xperia Pureness Is Just Several Steps from Invisible

Points for being different, I guess. Sony Ericsson's Xperia Pureness spruces up an otherwise ordinary phone with an extraordinary, clear LCD. We have no details other than its "talk, text, time" theme and what we can('t) see: the Xperia is a no-frills candybar with a transparent, monochrome LCD screen.

You'll notice that in the video, the black buttons aren't even labeled with numbers. I actually prefer this absurdly minimal design to the still product render, however impractical, as it takes a phone designed purely to be striking and makes it even more striking. The Pureness will be available in unspecified but select cities this November. And while I can resist the gimmick this time around, the first 100% transparent phone, no matter how crappy it may be, will be rewarded with my highly sought $300 with 2-year contract.

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Nokia X6 confirmed to sport a capacitive display, we can finally exhale

Ladies and gentlemen, our long, global nightmare is over. Alright, that's a significant overstatement -- but Nokia's lack of capacitive adoption has unquestionably hurt opinion of its 5800 and N97 models, the first to use its touch-ready S60 5th Edition platform. Happily, afterdawn.com is reporting -- and we've been able to independently confirm -- that the X6 will indeed be using a capacitive display, something that we suspect will significantly improve usability if you're not interested in using a stylus (or plectrum, as the case may be) to navigate your way through the interface. For the record, Samsung's already proven that S60 5th is totally doable with capacitive tech on its i8910 HD, so we're sure Nokia's going to be able to pull this off with aplomb -- the real question might be whether this signals a wholesale abandonment of resistive across the range. Since resistive's cheaper, we wouldn't be surprised to see it continue to hang around on the low end for some time to come, but at least we've now got the choice. Sadly, it's too late to save the N900's screen -- but now that Maemo's made the bold leap into GSM telephony, maybe we'll see some worthy capacitive action the next time around.

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