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Vodafone Comes Up With Facebook Phone Called “555 Blue”

Vodafone has comes up with a device featuring the most popular social network, Facebook. The handset will be known as the VOdefone 555 Blue. It will only cost you under €100 (£88/$145) on a prepaid tariff.

The 555 Blue is a QWERTY candybar handset with a 2.4-inch non-touch display and a dedicated Facebook button. Aside from those, there’s also a 2-megapixel camera with an LED flash, a microUSB port for charging, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a microSD slot that can be extended up to 16GB cards. Unfortunately, there won’t be any 3G, GPS, and WiFi. It will available “soon” in Europe.

[via SlashGear]

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News on Apple

So the latest word on the Apple front is that the iPhone and Apple iPad maker could be looking at acquiring Nook maker and bookseller giant, Barnes & Nobel, which if true could see the huge digital library of B&N coming to Apple iBooks store, meaning that the iOS faithful would have access to huge…

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AT&T Merger: More Heat

Minnesota Sen. Al Franken on Tuesday formally voiced his objection to the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile and urged regulators to reject the deal. “This transaction is not in the public interest,” Sen. Franken said in a statement. “If approved, it would result in greatly reduced competition, the potential loss of thousands of jobs, higher […]
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Vodafone Decided To Ditch HTC EVO 3D

This morning Vodafone has just announced that they will dump the HTC EVO 3D from their line-ups. Mainly because they are scare the device will be delay in GSM’s version and caused damaged in rivalry with other devices. This might be a bad news for some people.

Here what Vodefone spokeperson have to say, “We’ve decided that due to delays to the launch of the device, we no longer plan to include the EVO 3D in our smartphone range. We will be contacting customers who have registered for updates about the device to make them aware of this decision shortly”, he also added, “We realise this will come as a disappointment to some people but we already offer some fantastic phones, like the HTC Sensation and Galaxy S2, with some really exciting handsets in the pipeline.”

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News on iPhone Accessories

If you own the Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS or iPhone 4 and would like stunning 360 degree panoramic viewing, then might we suggest you reading more about the new Pixeet 360 fish-eye lens and app combo. These two products combined will give you the best 360 panoramas via your iPhones camera, the Pixeet 360 fish-eye…

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Art Exhibition: Talk To Me

A new interactive exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called Talk to Me focuses on Design and the Communication between People and Objects. Both the exhibition in the gallery, the catalogue and the website harness the power of QR codes and Twitter hashtags. The SMSlingshot (above) is like paintball for SMS […]
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BlackBerry Torch 9860 Packed With AT&T Brand

BlackBerry Torch 9860 was found with AT&T branding. It seems not only Sprint and Verizon that get a brand new BlackBerry devices. However, there’s also T-Mobile’s AWS bands version so its likely the device will be available in several major carriers.

The device will has a 3.7 inches display with 800 x 480 resolution. It will also features a near-field communication chip, magnetic compass, portable Wi-Fi hotspot function, 1.2 Ghz processor and 768 MB of RAM. It will run on BlackBerry 7 OS.

[via IntoMobile]

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News on Apple iPad 2

Well if you are going to have a holder for your precious Apple iPad 2, especially if you are attending school, then why not carry the iOS tablet in a binder case that well basically can slip nice and easy into a standard binder, and the iPad accessory is called the BinderPad case from ZooGue,…

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Microwave Backhaul: Fat Growth

According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, the point-to-point microwave transmission market is forecast to exceed $6 billion by 2015 as demand for mobile backhaul will drive radio transceiver shipments to reach nearly 3 million units. The largest market for microwave equipment is expected to be the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions, […]
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T-Mobile Is Offering G2X For Free Until The 28th

The LG G2X is now available for free via T-Mobile.com. It’s a web-only special offered for those who are okay with a two-years agreement with T-Mobile. This is a great news for most of us.

The device is now running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The G2X features a dual-core Tegra 2 CPU, 8 MP camera on the back, and HDMI-out. This deal only last until July 28th .

[via AndroidCommunity]

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