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Not satisfied with putting out a cheaper tablet than Apple, Asus is preparing their Eee branding to stick to three tablet/pads. Jkkmobile managed to find out some of the specs on these more wallet friendly iPad clones. There isn’t a whole host of information on these as yet but read on for what is known at the moment:
If you go to google.co.uk, search for Meet Android and push “I’m feeling lucky” you’ll be treated to the little green dude smashing up your browser and informing you of the Nexus One availablity on Vodafone. Fun stuff.
A Russian man has built a new case for a mobile phone from apple tree wood. He fully disassemble the new device and carves a piece-of-art wooden cases for them, each small part gets its own wooden case – the antenna, the sim-card, the battery.
Canadian network Rogers expects to see the Song Ericsson x10 being updated by Fall. That’s on heck of a long wait for those who have shelled out some big numbers to get the phone. I guess for those taking out a contract on Roger’s now that’ll only be a quarter, or perhaps a sixth of the way into their arrangement.
I’m guessing Android 2.3 will be arriving around about then or at least details of what to expect will be concrete but Sony Ericsson really should have gotten their finger out on this.
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The Droid, Incredible, Evo 4G and Nexus One go head to head. Should be interesting to see however the Nexus One has the unfair advantage of Android 2.2. Hopefully we will be able to see this update once 2.2 starts to roll out to the other devices here as the results are terribly surprising.
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The Samsung Wave has arrive on our shores, finally, and mobiles.co.uk have them in stock. I’m not one for pushing advertising on you but if you are interested in this phone yo may as well get a freebie on top of it. Read on for details.
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Full service to O2’s data network has been restored after an air conditioning failure saw parts of the country without a connection yesterday evening
O2’s data network is again fully functional after an intermittent fault saw parts of the country without a data connection for up to eight hours yesterday. O2’s data network went down yesterday afternoon after an air conditioning failure in one of its London sites caused the technology which carries its network data to overheat and break down.
Data services were restored in London, O2’s biggest area for data consumption, by 9:30pm yesterday evening. O2 said all problems were resolved by 1am this morning. An O2 spokesperson said: "An air conditioning failure in one of our London sites caused two nodes which carry network data to overheat yesterday.
"This resulted in intermittent data access for customers in some parts of the UK. Full service was restored by 1am today. We apologise to our customers for the loss of service."
The Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus have both arrived on O2 but are Palm making the same mistake twice or have O2 promised to make an effort to push the device that than saying “you’d be better off with an iPhone”. Mobile New have offered up an article pointing out why Palm remarried the ex-wife that had given they so many problems since their engagement all that time ago:
Palm defends its choice to launch its Pre Plus and Pixie Plus handsets exclusively through O2 but says it may take longer to establish the brand in the UK
US manufacturer Palm has defended its ‘one network’ strategy in the UK despite admitting it will take longer to establish the company’s brand here than in any other European country.
Palm will launch its Pre Plus and Pixie Plus handsets in the UK in the next few days exclusively with O2.
Palm has been dogged by criticism since the release of the Pre last year that launching it through one network has been an error as sales have struggled.
Palm vice president for sales in EMEA Paul Ghent said: "The Palm brand in the UK is still limited and it’s an incredibly crowded market place here. You just have to look at the plethora of devices out there and the number of Android devices around so for the end user it’s pretty confusing.
That groovey hit from the iPhone, PSP and Android has made it’s way to Windows Mobile. Tower defense at it best with funny animations and extreme challenage is top of the list. Read on for a video.
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