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Samsung P1000 Tab fondled in China, 1024×600 pixels resolution confirmed (sort of)

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The Samsung Tab Android tablet has appeared several times before, but this has to be the most detailed leak yet. The guys over at ifanr.com received the juicy info from a tipster who passed along photos and impressions that confirm a lot of the specs we’ve heard so far…

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Lifting the curtains on Velvet touch UI for tablets, delivers impressive 3D effects

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The Astonishing Tribe has plenty of impressive UI concepts under their belts (including work on Android, FUSE and many others). Now they’re trying their skilled hands at tablet UIs – what they came up with is called Velvet UI…

The Velvet UI demo is running on a MeeGo tablet by Wind River but apparently it can run on Android and “other tablet OSes” just as fine.

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HTC Aria pays us a visit, still trying to tell it apart from the HD mini (Updated!)

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Shhh… The “La donna e mobile” aria is about to start. By which I mean, we just got the HTC Aria and we’re on to unboxing the little fella. We somehow missed how the Aria went from AT&T USA only handset to a worldwide phone, but here it is in our hands – a genuine quad-band Android smartphone with dual-band “Euro” 3G support all in a mini form factor.

But we digress. Here’s what this Android loving HTC HD mini look-alike has to offer…
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Dell Thunder prototypes previewed, liked, still no official announcement

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Remember the Dell Thunder and the other weather-themed droids that leaked in April? The Thunder even starred in a video. No, it’s not official yet but it already has its first preview…

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HP drops hints at a WebOS-powered tablet coming in early 2011

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HP bought Palm and then nothing. Well, unless you count rumors of canceled tablets and leaving the smartphone market as something. But here’s something official – a WebOS powered gadget by HP is coming after all…

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Rumored Samsung Galaxy U cuts screen size down to 3.7 inches, will stay in South Korea for now

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Another day, another Galaxy phone from Samsung. This one is called the Samsung Galaxy U and it should be announced next week in South Korea. Would you be surprised if I told you it runs Android, has a 1GHz processor, an AMOLED screen and a 5MP camera with 720p video capture? Of course, you wouldn’t…

Update: It’s official and the specs check out. It will be available on LG U+ (formerly LG Telecom), though there’s nothing on the price/availability front.

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HTC Desire HD spotted on Amazon UK, could be what’s coming on 15 September

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Blink and you’ll miss it – Amazon UK had HTC Ace/Desire HD listed for sale (actually it was “temporarily out of stock”). It was a slip up, which they quickly corrected, but it does confirm the name and gives us a price point too…

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Asus is working on 4 EEE tablets, with a variety of screen sizes and OSes

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Asus is readying a whole lot of tablets for launch at the end of this year and the beginning of the next. They’ll cover anything from 8 to 12 inches and run Windows 7, Windows Embedded Compact 7, Android and Linux…

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StarCraft II rushes console games, becomes best selling game in July

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People have waited for years for the StarCraft II to come up and now that it’s finally out – it is flying off the shelves. In July, it outsold every console game even if you combine the numbers from across the different platforms…

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HTC will announce something on September 15 in London, is it the Desire Z or Desire HD?

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HTC are prepping a surprise for September 15 in London. It’s probably an announcement for new phone(s), but which one(s) is it?

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iOS 4.0.2 jailbroken already (for iPhone 3G), PDF bug fix for iPhone 2G now in Cydia

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Well, that didn’t last long – iOS 4.0.2 (which came out a couple of days ago) has already been jailbroken. For now, the jailbreak works only with iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G, but it still shows that the latest version is jailbreakable too.

Also, users of the original iPhone and iPod Touch aren’t getting patches from Apple, so they’ll have to live with the PDF security hole. Unless they jailbreak… Read more »

Firefox 4 Beta 3 shows off multitouch powers, if only I had something to use it on

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Firefox 4 Beta 3 came out yesterday and it can do some really cool stuff. Here’s something you probably didn’t expect – it can do multitouch…

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Samsung Epic 4G for Sprint coming August 31, brings QWERTY and WiMAX along

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The Samsung Epic 4G will be available at the end of the month – it’s the first Galaxy S phone with a hardware QWERTY keyboard and WiMAX connectivity. Plus it packs all the goodies characteristic for Galaxy S, 4” SuperAMOLED and all…

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Windows XP is still king of the desktop computers, Windows 7 passes Vista

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Linux may be going strong in the mobile phone world but the desktop is another matter. It’s a Windows world out there and Linux is struggling to break 1%…

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Dell Streak launches on AT&T this Friday, a day early for those who pre-ordered

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The big phone/small tablet Dell Streak finally has a launch date for AT&T. It’s been on pre-order since late July and if you’ve signed up for that you’d be able to snatch it a day early…

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