China’s Secret Satellite Rendezvous ‘Suggestive of a Military Program’
A pair of Chinese satellites have met in orbit.
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China’s Secret Satellite Rendezvous ‘Suggestive of a Military Program’
A pair of Chinese satellites have met in orbit.
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China’s Secret Satellite Rendezvous ‘Suggestive of a Military Program’
Of course the big news wasn’t this week; that’d be ridiculous. No, the big news is next week at Apple’s yearly musical event, held this year on Wednesday, September 1st at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Meanwhile, it wasn’t all crickets around here at the Mac|Life, heck no
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In Case You Missed It: Aug. 22 – Aug. 28
Chinese telecom giant Huawei already has a pretty big (and growing) presence in North America, having previously signed deals with regional carriers like Leap (better known by its Cricket brand) and MetroPCS — but apparently, a bid to supply one of the Big Four with equipment is hitting a little too close to home for some legislators. A group of eight US Senators has filed a letter with the Treasury Department expressing concern over Huawei’s alleged ties with everything from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to present-day Iran to China’s own People’s Liberation Army, saying that such a company “should not be able to do business” in the country.
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US Senators uneasy over possible Huawei equipment deal for Sprint
It’s been awhile , eh Eking ? The elusive handheld maker is storming back onto the scene today with an all new UMPC , despite that fact that UMPCs have been largely left behind and covered up by this new “tablet craze.” All that aside, the E5 is definitely one of the more delightful units that we’ve seen, and we can’t help think of HTC’s Advantage when it’s opened up as shown above.
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Eking E5 UMPC brings tilting, sliding 5-inch display
Blogging, Tweeting and Facebook have changed the world by making it easier than ever for everyday people to publish and distribute their thoughts and media to the world. The resulting tidal wave of data now offers opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs to build entire new products, services and companies based on processing that data and offering recommendations, analytics and other information products to consumers
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China Moves to Dominate the Next Stage of the Web
Well… this is interesting.
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Lenovo side project to launch Xbox 360 / Kinect knockoff in China: hello, eBox
Rumors were buzzing last week that a 7-inch iPad may be forthcoming from Apple to fill that void between the current 9.7-inch iPad and the 3.5-inch iPod Touch. The prediction from iLounge.com inspired reactions ranging from enthused to highly skeptical . But you don’t have to wait until “later this year or early in 2011″ to preview the new snack-size iPad.
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You’d think that the Chinese would be more excited about the iPhone 4 eventually coming to their country than they would about Wi-Fi finally being added to last year’s model, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. AppleInsider is reporting that Apple’s Chinese carrier, China Unicom, has announced that the iPhone 3GS will finally be sold there with Wi-Fi intact starting on Monday, according to company spokesman Wen Baoqiu
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China Unicom Finally Gets Wi-Fi Equipped iPhone 3GS
As one company moves out of the 30-inch display race, another looks set to step back into it. Dell’s unannounced, but seemingly all too real UltraSharp U3011 has been snapped over in China, and we’re being told it’ll offer a formidable 2,560 x 1,600 resolution while maintaining the styling of the smaller U2711 .
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On Monday, the iPad moved one small step closer to the Chinese market when it received the China Compulsory Certification from the China Quality Certification Center.
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Apple has taken an important baby step towards being able to sell the iPad in China, a move bringing much happiness to Chinese Apple fans and a wee tear to the eye of Chinese knock-off tablet manufacturers and gray-market vendors. According to Networkworld , while Apple has yet to make any noise about their tablet’s availability in the massive Asian market, the iPad has been certified as good to go, so far as the China Quality Certification Center is concerned
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Research firm Canalys is today reporting a surge in the worldwide shipments of Android smartphones. Thanks to Android-based products from HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericssion, LG and others, smartphones running the Android operating system grew 886% worldwide in Q2 2010. Also in the U.S., the largest smartphone market in the world, Android devices collectively represented a 34% share of the market during the quarter
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Texting has never been so much fun, thanks to the high-speed magic of the keyboard that could: Swype. But I know there are a lot of sad pandas out there who want to Swype, but just can’t because they own a Nokia. Well, you can turn that from upside down, matey, as Swype is now available for S60 5th Edition through Nokia Beta Labs ! Now, now, before you get too excited, I have to let you know that it is currently only available for the Nokia N97, N97mini, X6, 5800, and 5230, with other devices coming later
All the engineers in the audience will be pleased to hear that Globalfoundries today announced that the very first 28nm ARM Cortex A9 dual-processor qualification vehicle has now been taped out.
T-mobile have now confirmed, via their Scoop page , that the upcoming T-mobile G2 will rock an 800MHz Scorpion processor (as part of the new MSM7x30 Snapdragon chipset), run the Android hotness that is Froyo (sans Sense, as previously thought ), and will also be “ready” for flash 10.1. Now, those in the audience with an insatiable appetite for teh megahurtzes will probably be disappointed to hear that the clock is a full 200MHz slower than the usual 1GHz Snapdragon that most all high-end phones are gifted with.
T-mobile is really going to draw out this whole limited knowledge launch of the G2 . This time, though, we have some confirmation on what you can actually expect. It is well known that this will be the first HSPA+ phone , and T-mobile is telling you to “brace yourself for blazing-fast downloads, browsing and search” on the “fastest smartphone experience in America.” Another note, and I do not get sick of posting this, vanilla Android 2.2 out of the box with one-touch quick keys (for quick access to Google shortcuts and applications) and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 ready (which probably means you will have to download it from the market yourself). T-Mobile is also confirming that that Qualcomm MSM 7230 Scorpion silicone will be clocked at 800 MHz. I know some of you wish it was clocked up to 1 GHz, but you need to remember that GHz isn’t everything. Nothing really new there, but some official confirmation is always good. The rest of the scroll box, from the Scoop page, can be found below. Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments! T-Mobile SCOOP
Unconfirmed reports are coming in via Twitter that T-Mobile is currently out in the Seattle areas. No information is known at this time, stay tuned for details!
According to a post at the Windows Phone 7 blog , Microsoft’s latest operating system is now fully cooked and ready to consume.
In case you aren’t interested in the T-Mobile G2 or the HD7 , perhaps the MyTouch HD aka “Emerald” suits your fancy? A trusted tipster has dropped off word that the release date for the next phone in the myTouch lineup will drop November 3 rd at your local T-Mobile store. That lovely little roadmap we’ve been following so closely I believe if I am reading it correctly states that the Emerald is dropping November 5 th , then again it could be a 3, its blurry as can be in this picture.
A trusted source dropped off a piece of info a few days ago which we’ve been wanting to get up but when we saw an article this morning over at Engadget , it peaked our curiosity even more. This one goes out to all you Windows Phone 7 fans who are looking to see what phone Magenta might be picking up to deliver the brand new Windows Phone goodness
So we’ve seen images , have a great guess at a release date and a pretty decent idea as to what to expect inside the device . How about price, you guys want to know price don’t you
Another day, another rumor. Yesterday we heard about merging with Sprint , but what about surpassing them? Well, it is very possible that that could happen if this particular rumor came true. It’s not the first time we have been on this roller coaster, but yet another analyst says the iPhone is coming to T-Mobile. Tee Examiner’ s source says “There were talks about it, then strong rumors. Then, there were problems with the carrier. But now, the iPhone will definitely be available for T-Mobile.” Is there any reason to believe this iPhone rumor over any other iPhone rumor
iOS 4.1, which has had a few beta releases over the last couple months, has been released. It’s nothing too major, but let’s go down the additions: Updated Game Center HDR photos HD video uploads over WiFi TV show rentals It should be arriving next week.
Just last week, a couple of much-trusted birdies popped into the MobileCrunch office, claiming to have some details on SkyFire (a Flash-friendly mobile browser already available on a number of smartphone platforms) and its impending iPhone release. “They’ve entered the very final round of testing!” they said. “It’s going to get submitted to Apple early next week!” We’re one day past what we’d personally consider “early next week”, but sure enough: SkyFire has just announced that they’ve submitted the browser for Apple’s oh-so-important stamp of approval.
It seems like just yesterday, we were fighting our way through traffic on the way to Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna press conference. Today, we’re joining Apple for something a bit less out-of-the-blue: their annual September product announcement in San Francisco.
Now I know that the Froyo update for the Incredible was released on the 27th of this month, but that was just one of those limited-release roll-outs used to weed out any major faux pas before making it available to the great unwashed. If you weren’t lucky enough to get that joyous notification this past week, well, hold onto your hats, coz word on the web/streets is that the Froyo update is now being pushed out to all users. If this is the first you’ve heard of the Froyo update, and you’re peachy-keen (and you should be) to get it onto your device ASAP, then Android Central have a how-to on manually updating your phone.
T-mobile continues to bring the latest update to their 3G network to more cities today, with the “4G-like” HSPA+ speeds now available in: Boston, Mass. Erie, Penn.
