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		<title>T-Mobile myTouch hands on</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/10/27/t-mobile-mytouch-hands-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re at T-Mobile&#8217;s intimate myTouch event right now (we&#8217;re currently snuggling up with all four colors &#8212; white, black, red and purple), and here are our first-hand impressions: It feels good in the hand. The device is pretty slim, has a slight Android chin at the bottom, and all in all seems to be very solidly-built. The screen is beautiful, sharp and bright &#8212; but not as good as an AMOLED in our opinion. It rocks the myTouch UI that first appeared with the myTouch Slide, though it seems a bit more refined now. We&#8217;re currently watching Vincent from SlashGear and Sascha from PC Magazine try to establish a video call. It was unsuccessful at first, but it seems like they&#8217;re]]></description>
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<p>We&#8217;re at T-Mobile&#8217;s intimate myTouch event right now (we&#8217;re currently snuggling up with all four colors &#8212; white, black, red and purple), and here are our first-hand impressions:</p>
<ul>
<li>It feels good in the hand. The device is pretty slim, has a slight Android chin at the bottom, and all in all seems to be very solidly-built.</li>
<li>The screen is beautiful, sharp and bright &#8212; but not as good as an AMOLED in our opinion.</li>
<li>It rocks the myTouch UI that first appeared with the myTouch Slide, though it seems a bit more refined now.</li>
<li>We&#8217;re currently watching Vincent from SlashGear and Sascha from PC Magazine try to establish a video call. It was unsuccessful at first, but it seems like they&#8217;re having way too much fun now that it&#8217;s working. Never mind, Sascha is yelling at the phone now.</li>
<li>Watching a demo of the phone streaming video to a TV set was pretty cool. After some quick initial buffering, movies, photos and YouTube played effortlessly on the HDTV.</li>
</ul>
<p>We&#8217;re pretty excited for the launch of the new myTouch. It&#8217;s packed with features and it nicely compliments T-Mobile&#8217;s stock Android G2 device as a younger-focused counterpart. Hit the jump for our full gallery, ok?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bgr.com/nggallery/page-320/album-1/gallery-68">Click on over to our T-Mobile myTouch hands on gallery!</a></p>
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		<title>BlackBerry Pearl 9100 and BlackBerry Curve 9300 now available on AT&amp;T</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/10/18/blackberry-pearl-9100-and-blackberry-curve-9300-now-available-on-att/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friendly reminder, folks&#8230; RIM&#8217;s latest candybar device and lower cost QWERTY 3G handset are now available for purchase from your friendly AT&#38;T store. If you need a refresh on the products, here we go: BlackBerry Pearl 9100 SureType keyboard 3G Wi-Fi GPS 3.2 megapixel camera 1150mAh battery $149 with 2 year agreement BlackBerry Curve 9300 QWERTY keyboard 3G Wi-Fi b,g,n GPS 2 megapixel camera $99 with 2 year agreement If you&#8217;re in the market for a BlackBerry handset from AT&#38;T which one are you going to go for? Or do you think you&#8217;ll hold out for the BlackBerry Bold 9780? Read]]></description>
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<p>Friendly reminder, folks&#8230; RIM&#8217;s latest candybar device and lower cost QWERTY 3G handset are now available for purchase from your friendly AT&amp;T store. If you need a refresh on the products, here we go:</p>
<h2>BlackBerry Pearl 9100</h2>
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<li>SureType keyboard</li>
<li>3G</li>
<li>Wi-Fi</li>
<li>GPS</li>
<li>3.2 megapixel camera</li>
<li>1150mAh battery</li>
<li>$149 with 2 year agreement</li>
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<h2>BlackBerry Curve 9300</h2>
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<li>QWERTY keyboard</li>
<li>3G</li>
<li>Wi-Fi b,g,n</li>
<li>GPS</li>
<li>2 megapixel camera</li>
<li>$99 with 2 year agreement</li>
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<p>If you&#8217;re in the market for a BlackBerry handset from AT&amp;T which one are you going to go for? Or do you think you&#8217;ll hold out for the BlackBerry Bold 9780?<span id="more-62556"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://wireless.att.com">Read</a></p>
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		<title>T-Mobile G2 hands on</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/10/02/t-mobile-g2-hands-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[T-Mobile just hooked us up with a brand new T-Mobile G2, and we of course wanted to share some first impressions and photos with you. When you pick up the phone for the first time, it feels a bit heavy, but it&#8217;s a quality feeling of heavy and not something that you&#8217;re really going to care much about. The screen looks great, and being a Super LCD, it&#8217;s a little better than a normal LCD and a little worse in some ways than a Super AMOLED display. At 3.7&#8243; we feel it&#8217;s the perfect size for maximum usability. Let&#8217;s flip to the keyboard&#8230; interesting. The hinge mechanism is pretty cool, basically it just springs into action and reveals a pretty]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<center><a href="http://www.bgr.com/nggallery/page-320/album-1/gallery-62/"><img class="size-full wp-image-61545 aligncenter" title="T-Mobile-G2-1" src="http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/T-Mobile-G2-1.jpg" alt="" width="645" height="430" /></a></center>
<p>T-Mobile just hooked us up with a brand new T-Mobile G2, and we of course wanted to share some first impressions and photos with you. When you pick up the phone for the first time, it feels a bit heavy, but it&#8217;s a quality feeling of heavy and not something that you&#8217;re really going to care much about. The screen looks great, and being a Super LCD, it&#8217;s a little better than a normal LCD and a little worse in some ways than a Super AMOLED display. At 3.7&#8243; we feel it&#8217;s the perfect size for maximum usability. Let&#8217;s flip to the keyboard&#8230; interesting. The hinge mechanism is pretty cool, basically it just springs into action and reveals a pretty spacious QWERTY keyboard. It&#8217;s clicky enough, and reminds us a little of the Touch Pro2, for better or worse. The device runs a 800MHz Snapdragon CPU, and while the clock speed is slower than the 1GHz and soon-to-launch 1.2GHz chips powering Android handsets, T-Mobile tells us that the chip is the first off of the new Snapdragon chip line up and it should be able to go head to head with the higher clocked devices. From our limited time using the device, we&#8217;d agree but we will follow up on that in our expansive review. For now, hit the gallery for all the sexy photos, and make sure you drop whatever questions you may have in the comments so we can try and answer them in our review!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bgr.com/nggallery/page-320/album-1/gallery-62/">Click on over to our T-Mobile G2 hands on gallery!</a></p>
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		<title>Unknown RIM device gets green-lighted early this morning, BlackBerry Torch 9800?</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/08/03/unknown-blackberry-gets-green-lighted-early-this-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we saw the mysterious &#8220;Hero Fixture Launch Kits&#8221; that began arriving at AT&#38;T stores, and today &#8212; a day on which RIM and AT&#38;T plan to reveal some new hardware &#8211; the FCC has approved an unidentified, unnamed BlackBerry handset. We&#8217;re only given the customary stenciled outline of the device, but we&#8217;re betting the farm that this is the BlackBerry Torch 9800 slider phone. The phone has a quad-band GSM radio, tri-band UMTS radio with support for the 850 MHz, 1900 MHz and 2100 MHz bands, Bluetooth, and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. One thing is certain, we won&#8217;t have to wait very long to see what this puppy is. Make sure to check back here at 11:00 AM EDT as we&#8217;ll be reporting]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<center><a href="https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&amp;RequestTimeout=500&amp;calledFromFrame=N&amp;application_id=260904&amp;fcc_id='L6ARCY70UW"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-57636" title="9800 Torch FCC Good" src="http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screen-shot-2010-08-03-at-7.27.00-AM1-356x480.jpg" alt="" width="356" height="480" /></a></center>
<p>Yesterday, we saw the mysterious &#8220;<a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/08/02/mystery-att-displays/">Hero Fixture Launch </a><a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/08/02/mystery-att-displays/">Kits</a>&#8221; that began arriving at AT&amp;T stores, and today &#8212; a day on which <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/07/27/rim-and-att-send-out-invite-for-mystery-product-also-called-blackberry-9800/">RIM and AT&amp;T pla</a><a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/07/27/rim-and-att-send-out-invite-for-mystery-product-also-called-blackberry-9800/">n to reveal some new hardware</a> &#8211; the FCC has approved an unidentified, unnamed BlackBerry handset. We&#8217;re only given the customary stenciled outline of the device, but we&#8217;re betting the farm that this is the BlackBerry Torch 9800 slider phone. The phone has a quad-band GSM radio, tri-band UMTS radio with support for the 850 MHz, 1900 MHz and 2100 MHz bands, Bluetooth, and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. One thing is certain, we won&#8217;t have to wait very long to see what this puppy is. Make sure to check back here at 11:00 AM EDT as we&#8217;ll be reporting live from the event.</p>
<p>[Via <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/03/blackberry-9800-slider-for-atandt-slips-though-fcc-ready-for-11-0/">Engadget</a>]<span id="more-57634"></span></p>
<p><a href="https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&amp;RequestTimeout=500&amp;calledFromFrame=N&amp;application_id=260904&amp;fcc_id='L6ARCY70UW">Read</a></p>
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		<title>Amazon announces new lighter and thinner Kindle, $139 for Wi-Fi model</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/07/28/amazon-announces-new-lighter-and-thinner-kindle-139-for-wi-fi-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you got worried when Amazon&#8217;s Kindle went out of stock a bit earlier, you can rest easy as they have just announced a brand new model. The new Kindle (yes, it&#8217;s just called the Kindle) comes in both the classic white and now graphite colors, is thinner and lighter than the predecessor, and starts at a great $139 price point. There are both Wi-Fi and 3G models with the 3G models using AT&#38;T&#8217;s network like the Kindle 2 did. Want raw specs? Well, the device is 21% thinner, has an even better contrast, doubled internal memory at 4GB, and it&#8217;s a bit quicker all around &#8212; faster page turning! It&#8217;s available August 27th in the US and UK. So,]]></description>
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<p>If you got worried when Amazon&#8217;s Kindle <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/07/28/amazon-lets-kindle-inventory-dwindle-to-clear-way-for-new-model/">went out of stock a bit earlier</a>, you can rest easy as they have just announced a brand new model. The new Kindle (yes, it&#8217;s just called the Kindle) comes in both the classic white and now graphite colors, is thinner and lighter than the predecessor, and starts at a great $139 price point. There are both Wi-Fi and 3G models with the 3G models using AT&amp;T&#8217;s network like the Kindle 2 did. Want raw specs? Well, the device is 21% thinner, has an even better contrast, doubled internal memory at 4GB, and it&#8217;s a bit quicker all around &#8212; faster page turning! It&#8217;s available August 27th in the US and UK. So, interested or what? Or do you have iPads to take care of your reading needs?<span id="more-57300"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com">Read</a></p>
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		<title>Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Preview</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/07/19/microsoft-windows-phone-7-preview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once at the top of the smartphone pack, Microsoft&#8217;s current mobile operating system, Windows Mobile, has quickly fallen from grace. Luckily the juggernaut in Redmond, WA decided finally to do something about that. You call it whatever you&#8217;d like &#8212; a restart, a do over &#8212; but Microsoft has entirely changed course with Windows Phone 7, and they have broke most everything in the process. That means old Windows Mobile applications won&#8217;t work, the entire OS has been redone, and practically nothing from the user&#8217;s perspective has been carried over. A good thing when you&#8217;re now playing in a world of Androids and iPhones. We have been testing out a non-final, never ever going to be released to market Samsung prototype]]></description>
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<p>Once at the top of the smartphone pack, Microsoft&#8217;s current mobile operating system, Windows Mobile, has quickly fallen from grace. Luckily the juggernaut in Redmond, WA decided finally to do something about that. You call it whatever you&#8217;d like &#8212; a restart, a do over &#8212; but Microsoft has entirely changed course with Windows Phone 7, and they have broke most everything in the process. That means old Windows Mobile applications won&#8217;t work, the entire OS has been redone, and practically nothing from the user&#8217;s perspective has been carried over. A good thing when you&#8217;re now playing in a world of Androids and iPhones. We have been testing out a non-final, never ever going to be released to market Samsung prototype Windows Phone 7 device for a week, and we&#8217;re excited to let you know what we think of the operating system.<span id="more-55685"></span></p>
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<p><strong>Hardware</strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;re not going to review the actual hardware we received since it will never see the light of day, but we can talk about the hardware requirements and what that means for the platform. Microsoft has a reportedly over 200 page document that details what&#8217;s required of the hardware powering Windows Phone 7. Some of that includes a minimum of a 3.7&#8243; 4-point capacitive multi touch display, 5 megapixel camera, 1GHz CPU, all memory must be built-in (it can be microSD, just not user accessible), dedicated graphics chip, and three hardware buttons on the front. That would be the back, Start, and search buttons.</p>
<p>That baseline is pretty high end, and other chassis specifications will be a little more relaxed. Chassis 2 will apparently support other hardware configurations like slide-out keyboards, and we assume chassis 3 might allow for lower-to-mid specs, but the last part is just our assumption. Having a baseline requirement is a great thing and it&#8217;s nice to see Microsoft taking more a stance with this new platform. We all can remember the mess that Windows Mobile became (we&#8217;re talking hardware).</p>
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<p><strong>User Interface</strong></p>
<p>If you were to call Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Phone 7 OS UI minimalistic, you&#8217;d be right. Even if our sentence wasn&#8217;t. The thing is, sometimes when using Windows Phone, things are so minimalistic, that it actually feels a bit too lonely and open. Don&#8217;t get us wrong, it&#8217;s nice to feel like you&#8217;re not constrained to a certain window or foreground app, but at the same time, we can&#8217;t help but feel that there could have been so much more done.</p>
<p>At the bottom of every application are Microsoft&#8217;s action buttons. These are contextual buttons that offer added actions in almost every application on the phone. The thing is, they&#8217;re pretty standard, and not that user friendly. At least not for us. We&#8217;re not sure why Microsoft decided to implement and design something that actually gets in the way instead of helping. For starters, we found them to be tiny and poorly placed. Unlike Android where you have a menu key and a nice big popup of additional actions, Microsoft&#8217;s approach is to have a tiny, tiny area reserved for these buttons at all times, wasting screen real estate while also cluttering up the view with pointless circles that are almost laughably small. The one saving grace is the ability to expand this action button view, but we can&#8217;t but feel like it would have been better all around to move all the action buttons over, and let the user expand / close it when necessary.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take the homescreen for instance&#8230; Apple&#8217;s homescreen is pretty straightforward. You have app icons and you have folders which contain apps and they are all the same size, and that&#8217;s about it. Android has the same basic logic, except you can add widgets, add shortcuts to different menus or applications, and even add live moving wallpapers among other things. Microsoft basically reinvents the mobile phone homescreen, and we&#8217;re not sure we&#8217;re in love with it.</p>
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<p>Other annoyances with the UI? The scrolling. There&#8217;s a very slight rubber-banding effect, but what happens is, when you get to the bottom or top of a scrollable list, the scrolling stops short and the content then sort of mashes up slightly. It&#8217;s not that elegant, and especially on this not-amazing prototype phone, it looks pretty bad and pixelated.</p>
<p>Something else would be the fact that threaded text message conversations are all the same color. So, your messages and the other party&#8217;s messages are all the same color which makes things a bit difficult to tell apart. We also can&#8217;t stand the fact that the top upper status bar which contains the time, battery level, signal strength and other status icons, is basically hidden from view for the most part. You can have these icons show at will by tapping the always-present time in the upper right corner, but it&#8217;s not that reassuring having this stuff hidden by default for freaks like us.</p>
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<p>One last thing that really bugs us with the UI is that there is no application switcher. At all. On a BlackBerry you can hold the BlackBerry key, on Android devices you can hold the Home key, and on the iPhone you can double tap the home button. Just simply navigating back, back, back, back and back doesn&#8217;t really cut it, and during every day usage, it got tired quick.</p>
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<p><strong>Home Screen / Hubs</strong></p>
<p>Microsoft&#8217;s new Hub interface is decent attempt to centralize different application data in a clean and pretty fluid manner. Apps will be able to create their own hubs, as will OEMs and carriers, but they&#8217;ll have to follow some design guidelines that Microsoft has created. Yes, Microsoft will be limiting the scope of what third parties can do with hubs, and we think that&#8217;s a great idea. Thing&#8217;s like the navigation, and apparently even fonts will look uniform from hub to hub.</p>
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<p>Hubs are a great idea in general, but the homescreen, filled with hubs, just comes off feeling unfinished and unpolished. Microsoft was sure to mention to us how they wanted the OS to just naturally speak for itself with clean, modern fonts and lines, and not be overloaded with fake 3D UI elements like drop shadows and the like. The thing is, it really comes off as feeling a little too plain for us, especially with the all black default color scheme. If you try and remedy that specific problem and you flip it the setting to use white instead of black, the phone is so bright that it&#8217;s basically unusable.</p>
<p>You could argue the homescreen is the most important part of current smartphones, and in our view Microsoft really falls short here. It&#8217;s definitely dynamic at times, but it&#8217;s underwhelming for the most part and it sort of cheapens the other positive areas of Windows Phone 7.</p>
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<p><strong>Zune / Music</strong></p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of the Zune music player, you&#8217;ll no doubt be enthralled with the Zune app on WP7. It&#8217;s clean, functional, and very hip looking. In fact, Windows Phone 7 is basically modeled after the Zune UI (in our view at least, since we didn&#8217;t see WP7 debut until after the Zune). It contains everything you&#8217;d want in a music player nowadays, like video / music video support, podcasts, a built-in radio, and the Zune Marketplace.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve never been huge Zune fans over here, but we do have to say using the music player on WP7 was a really pleasant experience. We&#8217;d absolutely put it second to Apple&#8217;s iPod on their iPhone. It is miles ahead of anything coming out of RIM or Android at this point, and it&#8217;s great to see a phone that is just as focused on multimedia as it is on say, email.</p>
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<p><strong>Phone</strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;re not going to lie, we really have no idea how people actually let the phone app get this far. When you first launch the application, you&#8217;d except to be at the keypad, so you can actually make a call, right? No. You&#8217;re presented with the recent call history list. Just text splattered on the screen. No problem, you&#8217;ll mosey on over to settings and change the default view so the keypad shows up. Ah, problem there. You can&#8217;t make that change because it&#8217;s not an option. So to make a phone call, you have to go into the phone and hit one of the poorly-sized action buttons below to bring up the keypad to make a phone call.</p>
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<p>Another annoyance? Let&#8217;s say you do for some reason want to actually call someone on your recently called list, so you don&#8217;t have to bring up the keypad this time. Just tap the phone number in the list, and off you go. Not quite. Microsoft links the recent calls to &#8220;profiles&#8221; not numbers. It&#8217;s the most insane thing we&#8217;ve ever seen. If you tap on the caller in the list, you don&#8217;t dial the phone number, a profile view slides in and you then have to determine which number to call from there. Ok fine, but if you got a call from just a phone number, and not someone in contacts, it won&#8217;t bring up the profile, it will just dial the phone number. Again, not quite. It will still bring up a profile view, but this time offer default options of calling or texting that number. A simple long press gesture could have solved these problems in our book. Long press to get options to text the number, save it to your contacts, or anything else. It&#8217;s another little missed UI piece of the puzzle that gets really apparent when you use the OS a lot.</p>
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<p>Actual phone calling works fine enough, though it can be a little confusing at times. Unfortunately Microsoft tries to be a little too hip by showing the background as transparent, and we just don&#8217;t know what purpose this solves but a cheap UI effect. In our minds, you&#8217;re either actively in the phone call (foreground), or the phone call is minimized (top status bar). But to have the phone application in the foreground not take up the whole screen and the view below it to be transparent doesn&#8217;t really flow much. Maybe we&#8217;re being picky, but with already frustrating calling experience, we&#8217;d have liked the phone application to just be a phone.</p>
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<p><strong>Email</strong></p>
<p>As huge Microsoft Office fans, using the email app on Windows Phone 7 is nothing short of fantastic. It&#8217;s simple, easy to use, feature-packed (especially if you&#8217;re on an Exchange 2007 or 2010 server), and really enjoyable. It&#8217;s one of the only default apps to use a white color scheme instead of black, and it really looks great. Emails are organized in the hub very cleanly, with all, unread, flagged, and urgent sections that are flickable.</p>
<p>The transitions here work very well for the most part, but it&#8217;s a little overblown at times and kind of wastes time if you&#8217;re really hoping to and from emails in a hurry. Unfortunately, in this non-final version of the OS, PDF attachments were not supported. We&#8217;ve reached out to see if that will change in the first shipping Windows Phone 7 handset. There are little things we&#8217;re not in love with on here, but they are pretty small&#8230; we don&#8217;t like how there is no status bar for attachment downloads, it just says &#8220;Downloading&#8221; with no visualization of how much time or amount of data is left to download, we also don&#8217;t like that by default, emails sent from the handset aren&#8217;t immediately available in the sent folder. You have to manually sync the folder to view emails sent from the phone. Seems a little counter-intuitive. One last annoyance we stumbled across is that even with specific rules set up in Outlook 2010 on an Exchange server wit Outlook open, messages can slip through the cracks. It&#8217;s not every message, and it&#8217;s not the end of the world, but we haven&#8217;t seen this happen on an iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android handset even once.</p>
<p>Something incredibly stupid with the email app, is the inability to remotely search for emails. With Microsoft launching this feature in Windows Mobile 6.1, and basically every other smartphone OS supporting it, it&#8217;s pretty amazing how it isn&#8217;t included. You&#8217;re limited to whatever is locally stored on your device to search through. Microsoft did let us know they were open to revisiting this, so we&#8217;ll have to see if it changes in the near future. For the meantime though, this really takes away from a great email application.</p>
<p><strong>Keyboard</strong></p>
<p>We absolutely love the keyboard on Windows Phone. It&#8217;s so&#8230; clickable yet still virtual. It really flies, the predictions and corrections are awesome, and it&#8217;s almost as good as the iPhone&#8217;s keyboard. The iPhone has a more functional layout, and better access to symbols and corrections, but Windows Phone&#8217;s keyboard is just about there, and easily our favorite second best software input device on a smartphone platform. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no multi-touch capability on it, but it&#8217;s still very solid.</p>
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<p><strong>Browser</strong></p>
<p>The mobile web browser is a tricky one. In our view, Apple still holds the crown, regardless of whether Android has taken over in raw Javascript performance. It&#8217;s a whole package kind of thing, and with RIM currently out of the picture, the only two competitors are the aforementioned. Microsoft&#8217;s browser is fine, but it&#8217;s far from pleasurable to use. It&#8217;s not the most elegant browser (there might just be some software bugs that will be fixed in the first shipping handset) and we at times had some pages that didn&#8217;t render properly, and were a little janky after scrolling through them. The browser supports tabs, and has a simple thumbnail view to hop back to an open page, or close the open tab. There are favorites and a history view, and to be honest, that&#8217;s about it. Bing search is built into the navigation bar, though search results don&#8217;t populate in real-time like on Android and iPhone platforms. All in all, the browser was fine, but didn&#8217;t have anything that was lust-worthy. We still prefer Google&#8217;s and Apple&#8217;s mobile browsers.</p>
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<p><strong>Productivity</strong></p>
<p>Microsoft&#8217;s bread and butter is of course Windows and Office. So, what would a Microsoft mobile product be without a great implementation of Office? Windows phone 7 has its own Office 2010 hub complete with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and SharePoint access. Combine that with the great email app (we can call it Outlook), and you&#8217;ve got a pretty powerful mobile productivity software suite. Easily the best mobile Office experience, and why shouldn&#8217;t it be?</p>
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<p><strong>Social Communication</strong></p>
<p>Windows Phone is pretty social right from the out of box experience. You can link your Windows Live, Facebook, and Exchange accounts as you glide through the first time set up process. Windows Live, Facebook, and Exchange contacts are all integrated together in the main people view. Unfortunately, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a way to control what shows up here, or limit it. For instance, we&#8217;d love Facebook to sync to our existing contacts in our address book and link up, but there is practically no interest in seeing every single Facebook friend listed in the people view. We have no found a way to filter out contacts by services or even groups and that&#8217;s kind of frustrating.</p>
<p>Facebook status updating is built right into the device, but sadly your choices are only that and your Windows Live status. Twitter is nowhere to be found here.</p>
<p>The photos hub is interesting as it&#8217;s an aggregated view of your local and remote photos, and sharing photos is a relatively easy task if you can figure out how. When tapping on an individual photo in a single view, nothing happens. You&#8217;d think there would be some overlay that pops over with action buttons, but you actually have to tap and hold the photo to accomplish this. Once there, however, you are greeted by a lot of sharing options. You can email the picture, upload it right to Facebook, send it in an MMS, or upload it to Windows Live SkyDrive.</p>
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<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>It should be clear to everyone that Windows Phone 7 as a platform is not finished yet. The first handsets aren&#8217;t rumored until September, October, or November depending on what site you&#8217;re reading on which day, and the handset we have been using for a week won&#8217;t ever be released and is meant only for developers to test apps on actual hardware. However, we have been playing around with WP7 for enough time, and the OS is well-enough along that we have got a great feel for it, regardless of any minor improvements before the first handset launches. Microsoft has no doubt broken course and gone in an entirely new direction, something that many people wish RIM would do, and we applaud them for that. They have created a brand new mobile operating system packed full of clean, modern, and sometimes even beautiful design elements.</p>
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<p>We liked using the OS in general, though the experience for us felt a little too much like our time using the Microsoft KIN 2. The tiled homescreen seems a little too constrained and boxed in for us, and the non-frills design approach actually left the handset menus and navigational elements feeling bare and unfinished, rather than pure and unaltered. Not having any sort of menu for hoping back and forth between applications hampers your every day usage, and the animated transitions also start to feel old pretty fast. For a phone that was made from scratch and started on after the first iPhone was introduced, and for a phone that&#8217;s not even in market yet, it unfortunately in our view falls short. There&#8217;s practically no real innovation we can see with Windows Phone 7. It&#8217;s a decent mashup of some already pioneered features like aggregated status updates linked with your contacts, customizable homescreens, and a mobile apps and music marketplace, but we&#8217;re not sure that&#8217;s enough to push WP7 ahead of the three big juggernauts. It&#8217;s a fantastic featurephone, but as a truly competitive smartphone platform, we&#8217;re just not sure at this point in time.</p>
<p>There is no killer application on Windows Phone 7, and we can&#8217;t see an overwhelming reason to use one instead of an iPhone, BlackBerry or Android handset. Whether Microsoft&#8217;s OS updates to the platform will be enough to change our minds in the future is up to them, but for now, they&#8217;ve created a decent mobile operating system from scratch, but it unfortunately still has that Microsoft feel. And that&#8217;s not the best thing sometimes.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We said we&#8217;d be back with a follow up to our hands on post, but to be completely honest, and based on the comments and response you guys gave, there&#8217;s not too much to write about. A lot of you wrote in and wanted more photos, so we&#8217;ve taken some great high resolution photos of the device like we promised. In terms of the phone itself, RIM isn&#8217;t exactly reinventing the wheel. In fact, they aren&#8217;t even reinventing the Curve. With the same features as the original Curve 8520 (plus the addition of 3G), we&#8217;d be shocked to see this device launch with great fanfare. Knowing RIM, however, they&#8217;ll try and milk this for all it&#8217;s worth and so will]]></description>
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<p>We said we&#8217;d be back with a follow up to our hands on post, but to be completely honest, and based on the comments and response you guys gave, there&#8217;s not too much to write about. A lot of you wrote in and wanted more photos, so we&#8217;ve taken some great high resolution photos of the device like we promised.</p>
<p>In terms of the phone itself, RIM isn&#8217;t exactly reinventing the wheel. In fact, they aren&#8217;t even reinventing the Curve. With the same features as the original Curve 8520 (plus the addition of 3G), we&#8217;d be shocked to see this device launch with great fanfare. Knowing RIM, however, they&#8217;ll try and milk this for all it&#8217;s worth and so will T-Mobile, but it will be hard to justify anything more than a model refresh.</p>
<p>We like the BlackBerry Curve 9300 a lot, but it&#8217;s beginning to feel extremely outdated even for a lower-end low cost handset. Yeah, even with 3G. Plus, it hasn&#8217;t even launched yet.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bgr.com/nggallery/page-320/album-1/gallery-48/">Click on over to our BlackBerry Curve 9300 gallery!</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, news on RIM has been quiet as of late. And why wouldn&#8217;t it? RIM has some interesting products coming up, but let&#8217;s not beat around the bush &#8212; they can not really compare to the mind-blowing devices that have just been released. From the simply amazing iPhone 4, to the incredible Incredible, to the super-large super-capable Droid X, it&#8217;s hard being a mid-range player with a mildly dated operating system. With that said, we&#8217;d like to officially welcome the BlackBerry Curve 9300 into the BGR offices. Here are some first hand impressions of the unreleased device: It&#8217;s, uh, just like the BlackBerry 8520. Literally. Same camera, same size (we believe off hand), same feel, same screen, same keyboard, same]]></description>
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<p>Man, news on RIM has been quiet as of late. And why wouldn&#8217;t it? RIM has some interesting products coming up, but let&#8217;s not beat around the bush &#8212; they can not really compare to the mind-blowing devices that have just been released. From the simply amazing iPhone 4, to the incredible Incredible, to the super-large super-capable Droid X, it&#8217;s hard being a mid-range player with a mildly dated operating system. With that said, we&#8217;d like to officially welcome the BlackBerry Curve 9300 into the BGR offices. Here are some first hand impressions of the unreleased device:</p>
<p>It&#8217;s, uh, just like the BlackBerry 8520. Literally. Same camera, same size (we believe off hand), same feel, same screen, same keyboard, same buttons. So what&#8217;s changed? Besides a glossy metallic plastic finish on the case, and the inclusion of a UMTS radio&#8230;not much. As we just mentioned, the BlackBerry 9300 we have features T-Mobile&#8217;s AWS 3G bands, so if that&#8217;s something to push you over the edge to upgrade from your existing 8520, you&#8217;ll be pleased as punch.</p>
<p>We also wanted to get your feedback before we do a full hands on gallery/review. Anything you want to see featured? Maybe size comparison photos to a specific handset, or possibly some network speed tests on the BlackBerry 9300 over 3G? Let us know and we&#8217;ll include as many of your requests as possible!</p>
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		<title>Bell Canada to launch Samsung Galaxy S, will use Vibrant moniker</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/06/30/bell-canada-vibrant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bell Canada has announced that it will be launching the Samsung Galaxy S &#8212; bearing the name Vibrant &#8212; in the coming months. A splash page has been put up at http://galaxys.bell.ca and one of our &#8220;Ninjas from the North&#8221; was kind enough to shoot us an official Bell memo. The memo is a tad light on details (as in it doesn&#8217;t have any), but since the handset carries the same name as T-Mobile&#8217;s Galaxy S flavor (flavour for those of you in Canada) we can assume that the specs are the same; 1GHz Hummingbird processor, 4″ WVGA Super AMOLED display, 5 megapixel camera, and Android 2.1 (soon to be upgraded to 2.2). No word yet on a specific release]]></description>
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<p>Bell Canada has announced that it will be launching the Samsung Galaxy S &#8212; bearing the name <em>Vibrant</em> &#8212; in the coming months. A splash page has been put up at <a href="http://galaxys.bell.ca">http://galaxys.bell.ca</a> and one of our &#8220;Ninjas from the North&#8221; was kind enough to shoot us an official Bell memo. The memo is a tad light on details (as in it doesn&#8217;t have any), but since the handset carries the same name as T-Mobile&#8217;s Galaxy S flavor (flavour for those of you in Canada) we can assume that the <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/06/26/t-mobile-details-the-samsung-vibrant/">specs</a> are the same; 1GHz Hummingbird processor, 4″ WVGA Super AMOLED display, 5 megapixel camera, and Android 2.1 (soon to be <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/06/30/all-galaxy-s-phones-to-get-froyo-and-flash/">upgraded to 2.2</a>). No word yet on a specific release date, but we&#8217;re hearing July from our sources. Hit the jump to check out the memo.</p>
<p>Thanks, Brendan!<span id="more-54417"></span></p>
<center><img class="size-full wp-image-54424   aligncenter" title="Bell Vibrant Memo" src="http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Screen-shot-2010-06-30-at-7.22.19-AM.jpg" alt="Bell Vibrant Memo" width="640" height="534" /></center>
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		<title>Apple sells over two million iPads since launch</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/31/apple-sells-over-two-million-ipads-since-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s not too much to say about this one. Apple fired off a press release a little earlier stating that since the iPad launch on April 3rd, they have sold over 2,000,000 devices. That&#8217;s in only 59 days &#8212; pretty amazing. The sales figures include both Wi-Fi and 3G models as well as the recent international launch of the &#8220;magical&#8221; unit. Full press release is after the break! CUPERTINO, Calif., May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that iPad™ sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine]]></description>
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<p>There&#8217;s not too much to say about this one. Apple fired off a press release a little earlier stating that since the iPad launch on April 3rd, they have sold over 2,000,000 devices. That&#8217;s in only 59 days &#8212; pretty amazing. The sales figures include both Wi-Fi and 3G models as well as the recent international launch of the &#8220;magical&#8221; unit. Full press release is after the break!<span id="more-51039"></span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUPERTINO, Calif., May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that iPad™ sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and additional countries later this year.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">&#8220;Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,&#8221; said Steve Jobs, Apple&#8217;s CEO. &#8220;We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">iPad allows users to connect with their apps, content and the Internet in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad&#8217;s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds-thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook-and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.*</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Developers have created over 5,000 exciting new apps for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch user interface, large screen and high-quality graphics. iPad will run almost all of the more than 200,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.</span></p>
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		<title>LG Fathom gets official on Verizon Wireless</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/24/lg-fathom-gets-official-on-verizon-wireless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We knew it was coming&#8230;and now it is official. Verizon Wireless and LG have just announced the release of their newest Windows Mobile 6 joint venture, the LG Fathom. The Fathom packs a: 3.2&#8243; touchscreen with haptic feedback, full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 1 GHz processor, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.2 megapixel camera, micro SDcard slot, an unspecified GPS unit, and Windows Mobile 6.5.3. The Fathom is a travel-friendly &#8220;world phone,&#8221; as it packs both CDMA/EVDO and GSM/UMTS chipsets. It can be all yours on May 27th for $149 after a $100 mail-in-rebate. Any takers? Read]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<center><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/verizon-wireless-and-lg-mobile-phones-turn-the-world-into-your-corner-office-94730884.html"><img class="size-medium wp-image-50560 aligncenter" title="LG Fathom" src="http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/NY08944-376x480.jpg" alt="LG Fathom" width="376" height="480" /></a></center>
<p>We <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/04/08/blackberry-bold-9650-and-lg-fathom-show-up-in-verizon-wireless-systems/">knew it</a> <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/04/29/lg-aloha-lg-fathom-launching-on-verizon-wireless-in-may/">was coming</a>&#8230;and now it is official. Verizon Wireless and LG have just announced the release of their newest Windows Mobile 6 joint venture, the LG Fathom. The Fathom packs a: 3.2&#8243; touchscreen with haptic feedback, full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 1 GHz processor, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.2 megapixel camera, micro SDcard slot, an unspecified GPS unit, and Windows Mobile 6.5.3. The Fathom is a travel-friendly &#8220;world phone,&#8221; as it packs both CDMA/EVDO and GSM/UMTS chipsets. It can be all yours on May 27th for $149 after a $100 mail-in-rebate. Any takers?<span id="more-50559"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/verizon-wireless-and-lg-mobile-phones-turn-the-world-into-your-corner-office-94730884.html">Read</a></p>
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		<title>Rogers releases the Motorola QUENCH for $50</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/19/rogers-releases-the-motorola-quench-for-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bettiol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it&#8217;s more like the Toyota of Android smartphones as opposed to the Cadillac, Canadians who want to take Google&#8217;s mobile OS for a spin should look no further than the Motorola QUENCH. Available today from Rogers, the QUENCH is simply T-Mobile CLIQ XT with an even more questionable name. Of course this means that all of its specs &#8212; 3.1&#8243; capacitive HVGA display, 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, HSDPA and MOTOBLUR atop of Android 1.5 &#8212; are the same, and can be yours for as little as $49.99 on contract. Anyone biting? Read]]></description>
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<p>While it&#8217;s more like the Toyota of Android smartphones as opposed to the Cadillac, Canadians who want to take Google&#8217;s mobile OS for a spin should look no further than the Motorola QUENCH. Available today from Rogers, the QUENCH is simply T-Mobile CLIQ XT with an even more questionable name. Of course this means that all of its specs &#8212; 3.1&#8243; capacitive HVGA display, 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, HSDPA and MOTOBLUR atop of Android 1.5 &#8212; are the same, and can be yours for as little as $49.99 on contract. Anyone biting?<span id="more-50144"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.rogers.com/web/link/wirelessBuyFlow?forwardTo=PhoneThenPlan&amp;productType=normal&amp;productId_Detailed=QUENCHBLKR">Read</a></p>
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		<title>HTC announces the Wildfire</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/17/htc-announces-the-wildfire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 16:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bettiol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, well, well, look what we have here. No, it&#8217;s not some Chinese knockoff of the Desire &#8212; it&#8217;s the entry-level Wildfire, announced today by HTC. Running Android 2.1 with HTC Sense UI, its key specs include a 3.2&#8243; QVGA display, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, microSD, dual-band (900/2100MHz) 7.2Mbps HSPA, 512MB ROM / 384MB RAM and 528MHz processor. One interesting feature the Wildfire brings to the table is its &#8220;app sharing widget&#8221; which allows users to recommend apps to family, friend and peers via email, SMS and social networking sites. The HTC Wildfire will be available in Europe and Asia starting in Q3. No word yet on potential U.S. availability. Yay or]]></description>
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<p>Well, well, well, look what we have here. No, it&#8217;s not some Chinese knockoff of the Desire &#8212; it&#8217;s the entry-level Wildfire, announced today by HTC. Running Android 2.1 with HTC Sense UI, its key specs include a 3.2&#8243; QVGA display, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, microSD, dual-band (900/2100MHz) 7.2Mbps HSPA, 512MB ROM / 384MB RAM and 528MHz processor. One interesting feature the Wildfire brings to the table is its &#8220;app sharing widget&#8221; which allows users to recommend apps to family, friend and peers via email, SMS and social networking sites. The HTC Wildfire will be available in Europe and Asia starting in Q3. No word yet on potential U.S. availability. Yay or nay?<span id="more-50051"></span></p>
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		<title>Is this the HTC Mondrian?</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/17/is-this-the-htc-mondrian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 11:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bettiol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The render you see above is of the HTC Mondrian &#8212; or at least according to some forum dwellers at xda-developers. Found within a .cab file from a recently leaked Windows Phone 7 ROM, it is said that the Mondrian features a 4.3&#8243; WVGA display, 1.3GHz processor, HD-capable camera in excess of 5 megapixels, and digital compass. Interestingly enough, for a device believed to be headed to AT&#38;T, the Mondrian&#8217;s Qualcomm QSD8650A/B Snapdragon processor supports both GSM and CDMA. Of course this doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean we&#8217;ll see a dual-mode model of the Mondrian or a variant of it launch with another carrier, but it is pretty interesting to know nonetheless. Read]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<center><a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6498623&amp;postcount=177/"><img class="size-full wp-image-50044 aligncenter" style="margin: 4px;" title="htc-mondrian" src="http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/htc-mondrian.jpg" alt="htc-mondrian" width="193" height="347" /></a></center>
<p>The render you see above is of the HTC Mondrian &#8212; or at least according to some forum dwellers at xda-developers. Found within a .cab file from a recently leaked Windows Phone 7 ROM, it is said that the Mondrian features a 4.3&#8243; WVGA display, 1.3GHz processor, HD-capable camera in excess of 5 megapixels, and digital compass. Interestingly enough, for a device believed to be headed to AT&amp;T, the Mondrian&#8217;s Qualcomm QSD8650A/B Snapdragon processor supports both GSM and CDMA. Of course this doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean we&#8217;ll see a dual-mode model of the Mondrian or a variant of it launch with another carrier, but it is pretty interesting to know nonetheless.<span id="more-50043"></span></p>
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		<title>BlackBerry Bold 9650 now available online from Sprint</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 00:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bettiol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sprint customers who have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the BlackBerry Tour Bold 9650 can rejoice today as the device is now available online from Sprint. With a full retail price of $450, new customers and those eligible for upgrades will be able to have a 9650 shipped to their door for as little as $199.99 after $100 MIR with a 2-year commitment. Just make sure you&#8217;re not going to want to put this thing on Craigslist as soon as the EVO 4G drops, okay? Thanks, Nan P.! Read]]></description>
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<p>Sprint customers who have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the BlackBerry <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Tour</span> Bold 9650 can rejoice today as the device is now available online from Sprint. With a full retail price of $450, new customers and those eligible for upgrades will be able to have a 9650 shipped to their door for as little as $199.99 after $100 MIR with a 2-year commitment. Just make sure you&#8217;re not going to want to put this thing on Craigslist as soon as the <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/12/breaking-htc-evo-4g-available-june-4th-for-199-99/">EVO 4G</a> drops, okay?</p>
<p>Thanks, Nan P.!<span id="more-50026"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?phoneSKU=SPRIM9650">Read</a></p>
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