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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Siri-enabled iTV already being tested by potential partners, report claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Epstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prototypes of Apple&#8217;s upcoming HDTV are already being tested by multiple potential carrier partners Apple is trying to woo, The Globe and Mail reports. The Canadian paper calls the iTV &#8220;a product that has the potential to revolutionize TV viewing by turning conventional televisions into gigantic iPads,&#8221; and claims at least two Canadian carriers are currently testing the Apple television in their labs. Apple&#8217;s forthcoming iTV can be controlled using voice commands or by making gestures in the air, and it supports Web browsing as well according to the report. Apple is said to be in talks with Canadian carriers Rogers and BCE regarding potential broadcast partnerships in Canada, though the content and terms Apple is seeking are unclear. Apple is]]></description>
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<p>Prototypes of Apple&#8217;s upcoming HDTV are already being tested by multiple potential carrier partners Apple is trying to woo, <em>The Globe and Mail</em> reports. The Canadian paper calls the iTV &#8220;a product that has the potential to revolutionize TV viewing by turning conventional televisions into gigantic iPads,&#8221; and claims at least two Canadian carriers are currently testing the Apple television in their labs. Apple&#8217;s forthcoming iTV can be controlled using voice commands or by making gestures in the air, and it supports Web browsing as well according to the report. Apple is said to be in talks with Canadian carriers Rogers and BCE regarding potential broadcast partnerships in Canada, though the content and terms Apple is seeking are unclear. Apple is expected to launch <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/27/apple-will-absolutely-launch-a-tv-siri-to-replace-remote-according-to-report/">an iOS-powered HDTV</a> later this year that will replace the conventional remote control with voice commands interpreted by Siri. The iTV may also offer <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/28/apples-siri-powered-hdtv-could-offer-customized-channel-subscriptions/">a customized channel subscription model</a> and iOS app support according to earlier rumors.<span id="more-125951"></span></p>
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		<title>Apple accused of impersonating police during effort to recover lost iPhone 5 prototype</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Haselton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This whole lost iPhone 5 prototype story just got whole lot more interesting. According to SF Weekly, six investigators claiming to be members of the San Francisco police department descended upon one Bernal Heights, San Francisco man&#8217;s home in search of a lost iPhone 5 prototype that CNET originally reported had been left in a bar. The scary part? The SFPD confirmed the investigators weren&#8217;t police officers at all. Instead, it appears as though they may have actually been members of Apple&#8217;s security team allegedly impersonating police officers. Read on for more. UPDATE: The San Francisco Police Department has now confirmed to SFWeekly that it did in fact assist Apple security with the search. An update can be found here.]]></description>
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<p>This whole lost iPhone 5 prototype story just got <em>whole</em> lot more interesting. According to <em>SF Weekly, </em>six investigators claiming to be members of the San Francisco police department descended upon one Bernal Heights, San Francisco man&#8217;s home in search of a lost iPhone 5 prototype that <em>CNET</em> originally reported <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/31/apple-loses-iphone-prototype-in-a-bar-again/">had been left in a bar</a>. The scary part? The SFPD confirmed the investigators weren&#8217;t police officers at all. Instead, it appears as though they may have actually been members of Apple&#8217;s security team allegedly impersonating police officers. Read on for more.</p>
<p>UPDATE: The San Francisco Police Department has now confirmed to <em>SFWeekly</em> that it did in fact assist Apple security with the search. An update can be found <a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/09/iphone_5_apple_police.php">here</a>.<span id="more-102618"></span></p>
<p>The <em>officers</em> in question claimed that they had traced the iPhone 5 to the man&#8217;s house using the device&#8217;s GPS feature. &#8220;They threatened me,&#8221; Sergio Calderon, the 22 year old man whose house was searched, said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know anything about it, still, to this day,&#8221; he told <em>SF Weekly</em>. &#8220;They made it seem like they were on the phone with the owner of the phone, and they said &#8216;The person&#8217;s not pressing charges, they just want it back. They&#8217;ll give you $300,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Earlier on Friday, we reported that <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/02/san-francisco-police-what-lost-iphone-prototype/">San Francisco&#8217;s police department did not currently have an open investigation</a> into a lost iPhone prototype, despite <em>CNET&#8217;s</em> claims to the contrary. &#8221;This is something that&#8217;s going to need to be investigated now,&#8221; Lieutenant Troy Dangerfield of the San Francisco police department told <em>SF Weekly.</em> &#8220;If this guy is saying that the people said they were SFPD, that&#8217;s a big deal.&#8221; Is Apple running a secret police force? Here&#8217;s where it gets really scary.</p>
<p>Reportedly, the <em>police force</em> that did investigate Calderon offered him a number to call if he found any more information on the device. <em>SF Weekly</em> called the number and Anthony Colon, an Apple employee answered the call. Colon is currently employed by Apple as a &#8220;senior investigator,&#8221; and he once worked for the San Jose police department.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s unclear where the story will turn from here, but it sounds like Apple certainly played a role in the incident. The San Francisco Police Department stated that it would only launch an investigation into the matter if Calderon decides to speak with them directly.</p>
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		<title>San Francisco police: What lost iPhone prototype?</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/02/san-francisco-police-what-lost-iphone-prototype/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Haselton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a recent CNET report that suggested a prototype of a next-generation iPhone had, yet again gone missing in a bar, San Francisco&#8217;s police department says it has no record of an investigation, SF Weekly reported on Friday. &#8220;I talked to CNET,&#8221; Officer Albie Esparza, a spokesperson for the San Francisco police department said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know who [the author's] source is, but we don&#8217;t have any record of any such an investigation going on at this point.&#8221; CNET originally said that police officers spoke to a man in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, but Esparza said records of such a visit aren&#8217;t recorded in the two nearest stations that would have handled the investigation. According to SF]]></description>
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<p>Despite a recent <em>CNET</em> report that suggested a prototype of a next-generation iPhone had, <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/31/apple-loses-iphone-prototype-in-a-bar-again/">yet again gone missing in a bar</a>, San Francisco&#8217;s police department says it has no record of an investigation,<em> SF Weekly</em> reported on Friday. &#8220;I talked to CNET,&#8221; Officer Albie Esparza, a spokesperson for the San Francisco police department said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know who [the author's] source is, but we don&#8217;t have any record of any such an investigation going on at this point.&#8221; <em>CNET</em> originally said that police officers spoke to a man in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, but Esparza said records of such a visit aren&#8217;t recorded in the two nearest stations that would have handled the investigation. According to <em>SF Weekly,</em> Esparza discussed the lack of any such case with <em>CNET </em>but the outlet still ran with the article. There is certainly room for conspiracy theories here, but the whole story is starting to sound fishy to us. <span id="more-102543"></span></p>
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		<title>iPhone &#8216;N94&#8242; front panel leaks, appears to be iPhone 4S</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/29/iphone-n94-front-panel-leaks-appears-to-be-iphone-4s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Haselton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several fresh iPhone &#8220;N94&#8243; photos leaked on Monday are fueling rumors that Apple will reveal a low-cost iPhone 4S when it takes the wraps off of the iPhone 5 in the coming weeks. The new batch of images were provided to Engadget by uBreakiFix and are very similar in size and shape to the leaked iPhone 4S parts we saw last week. This new N94 face panel, which is allegedly from an &#8220;engineering verification test&#8221; build made in March of this year, looks nearly identical to the current iPhone 4. However, there&#8217;s a small circular grill that&#8217;s positioned just above the earpiece speaker and camera. As Engadget points out, it looks very similar to the webcam LED indicator on Apple&#8217;s]]></description>
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<p>Several fresh iPhone &#8220;N94&#8243; photos leaked on Monday are fueling rumors that Apple will reveal a <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/05/13/next-iphone-will-be-iphone-4s-will-feature-sprint-and-t-mobile-compatibility-analyst-claims/">low-cost iPhone 4S</a> when it takes the wraps off of the iPhone 5 in the coming weeks. The new batch of images were provided to <em>Engadget</em> by uBreakiFix and are very similar in size and shape to the leaked <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/26/new-images-of-leaked-parts-reveal-iphone-4s-antenna-iphone-5-case-back/">iPhone 4S parts we saw last week</a>. This new N94 face panel, which is allegedly from an &#8220;engineering verification test&#8221; build made in March of this year, looks nearly identical to the current iPhone 4. However, there&#8217;s a small circular grill that&#8217;s positioned just above the earpiece speaker and camera. As <em>Engadget</em> points out, it looks very similar to the webcam LED indicator on Apple&#8217;s Mac computers, which would be a welcome addition to the iPhone. Reportedly, a different N94 still had not hit the &#8220;design verification stage&#8221; stage in June or July, so it&#8217;s possible this new design has been tweaked or ditched entirely. A separate model, the N97, has reportedly already hit the design verification stage and is rumored to offer a camera lens provided by Sony. Either way, Apple is sure to excite when it takes the wraps off of its <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/19/att-vp-iphone-5-coming-in-early-october-prepare-to-get-really-really-busy/">new devices in October</a>. Read on for a second image. <span id="more-101855"></span></p>
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		<title>LG to unveil prototype MeeGo devices next month</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/29/lg-to-display-meego-prototype-devices-in-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Haselton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LG&#8217;s about to get its MeeGo on. Next month, the Korean phone manufacturer is set to debut a prototype device during the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco from May 23rd to May 25th. Details leaked by MeeGo Experts have revealed that LG has a special session up its sleeves during which it plans to show off &#8220;multiple&#8221; LG branded devices running the OS created by Intel and Nokia. LG will also discuss its future plans for the platform, including its developments for MeeGo powered tablets, smartphones, and in-car entertainment systems. We wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see this leak pan out, given that Nokia has decided to focus its efforts on Windows Phone devices, and that LG, ZTE, and China Mobile]]></description>
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<p>LG&#8217;s about to get its MeeGo on. Next month, the Korean phone manufacturer is set to debut a prototype device during the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco from May 23rd to May 25th. Details leaked by <em>MeeGo Experts</em> have revealed that LG has a special session up its sleeves during which it plans to show off &#8220;multiple&#8221; LG branded devices running the OS created by Intel and Nokia. LG will also discuss its future plans for the platform, including its developments for MeeGo powered tablets, smartphones, and in-car entertainment systems. We wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see this leak pan out, given that Nokia has decided to focus its efforts on Windows Phone devices, and that <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/16/reuters-lg-others-interested-in-meego-as-nokia-bows-out/">LG, ZTE, and China Mobile</a> have all recently decided to work towards creating MeeGo smartphones. <span id="more-87479"></span></p>
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		<title>64GB iPhone &#8216;engineering prototype&#8217; smuggled out of Foxconn [video]</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2011/03/09/64gb-iphone-engineering-prototype-smuggled-out-of-foxconn-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog M.I.C. Gadget has acquired an interesting treasure from China, a 64GB iteration of Apple&#8217;s iPhone. Rumors of the existence of a high-capacity iPhone have been circulating the web for the last few days, but this is the first time we&#8217;ve been treated to crystal clear images and video of the handset. The device, for the most part, looks identical to the current iPhone 4, but bears its closest resemblance to the lost iPhone purchased by Gizmodo last year. The 64GB iPhone, which is being described as an &#8220;engineering prototype,&#8221; lacks the plus and minus engravings on the volume keys and the silver ring which the surrounds the camera lens is also absent &#8212; both omissions on Gizmodo&#8217;s model as well. The device]]></description>
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<p>Blog <em>M.I.C. Gadget</em> has acquired an interesting treasure from China, a 64GB iteration of Apple&#8217;s iPhone. Rumors of the existence of a high-capacity iPhone have been circulating the web for the last few days, but this is the first time we&#8217;ve been treated to crystal clear images and video of the handset. The device, for the most part, looks identical to the current iPhone 4, but bears its closest resemblance to the lost iPhone purchased by <em>Gizmodo</em> last year. The 64GB iPhone, which is being described as an &#8220;engineering prototype,&#8221; lacks the plus and minus engravings on the volume keys and the silver ring which the surrounds the camera lens is also absent &#8212; both omissions on <em>Gizmodo&#8217;s</em> model as well. The device has a model number 995-6049LL, is running iOS 4.1, and is not SIM-locked. The faux model number and FCC ID engraved on the back of M.I.C.&#8217;s device also match those found on the <em>Giz</em> model. The device certainly does seem to be authentic, and if so, our only question is whether this is what we should expect to see announced this spring, or if this is a pre-iPhone 4 release prototype. We&#8217;re hoping for the latter. Hit the jump to check out the video and a few extra images.<span id="more-79380"></span></p>
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		<title>Apple said to be testing three iPhone 5 models, including one with a slide-out keyboard</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2011/02/14/apple-said-to-be-testing-three-iphone-5-models-including-one-with-a-slide-out-keyboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Epstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new rumor from Taiwanese Apple enthusiast blog Apple.pro suggests that Apple is currently testing three different prototypes of what will eventually become the iPhone 5. One such prototype, the report claims, features a slide-out physical keyboard similar to the one seem above (which is an iPhone 4 keyboard accessory by BoxWave called the Keyboard Buddy). A physical keyboard on an iPhone would certainly come as a surprise considering the company&#8217;s prior stance against hardware keypads, though Apple has often been known to reverse its stances where the iPhone is concerned. Apple.pro&#8217;s report states that the other two prototypes are similar in design to the iPhone 4, though at least one features an upgraded 8-megapixel camera and a thinner case]]></description>
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<p>A new rumor from Taiwanese Apple enthusiast blog <em>Apple.pro</em> suggests that Apple is currently testing three different prototypes of what will eventually become the iPhone 5. One such prototype, the report claims, features a slide-out physical keyboard similar to the one seem above (which is an iPhone 4 keyboard accessory by BoxWave called the <a href="http://www.boxwave.com/products/keyboardbuddycase/apple-iphone-4-keyboard-buddy-case_3968.htm">Keyboard Buddy</a>). A physical keyboard on an iPhone would certainly come as a surprise considering the company&#8217;s prior stance against hardware keypads, though Apple has often been known to reverse its stances where the iPhone is concerned. <em>Apple.pro&#8217;s</em> report states that the other two prototypes are similar in design to the iPhone 4, though at least one features an upgraded 8-megapixel camera and a thinner case compared to the current iPhone model.<span id="more-76876"></span></p>
<p>[Via <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/c.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.appleinsider.com%2Farticles%2F11%2F02%2F14%2Fapple_rumored_to_be_evaluating_3_new_iphone_prototypes_one_with_slideout_keyboard.html&amp;t=1297721705">AppleInsider</a>]</p>
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		<title>Images of AT&amp;T branded Nokia X7 surface on the web</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/12/08/images-of-att-branded-nokia-x7-surface-on-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, a video displaying the gaming prowess of an unannounced Nokia handset &#8212; the X7-00 &#8212; surfaced on the web. Now, thanks to the notorious Nokia-slayer Eldar Murtazin, we have two new images of an AT&#38;T branded X7 to dissect. Mr Murtazin &#8212; who reviewed the Nokia N8 months before its official announcement (much to the chagrin of Nokia) &#8212; was a bit sparse with details. All he would say was that he does not like the device and that he is working on a full review. However, from the images we can see the device will have an 8 megapixel camera with a dual-led flash, dedicated camera button, and what appears to be a 4-inch form factor. Combine those bits of intel with]]></description>
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<p>Several weeks ago, a video displaying the gaming prowess of an unannounced Nokia handset &#8212; <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/11/26/nokia-x7-00-with-four-speakers-leaks-on-video/">the X7-00</a> &#8212; surfaced on the web. Now, thanks to the notorious Nokia-slayer Eldar Murtazin, we have two new images of an AT&amp;T branded X7 to dissect. Mr Murtazin &#8212; who <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/04/26/nokia-n8-gets-previewed-slammed/">reviewed the Nokia N8</a> months before its official announcement (much to the <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/07/07/nokia-demands-return-of-n8-from-eldar-murtazin-asks-russian-police-for-assistance/">chagrin of Nokia</a>) &#8212; was a bit sparse with details. All he would say was that he does not like the device and that he is working on a full review. However, from the images we can see the device will have an 8 megapixel camera with a dual-led flash, dedicated camera button, and what appears to be a 4-inch form factor. Combine those bits of intel with previous reports that peg the X7 as having four, high-quality speakers and you pretty much have the full wrap sheet on the handset&#8230; for now. There is another image waiting for you after the break. Enjoy.<span id="more-69015"></span></p>
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		<title>Is this the new MacBook Air? Both 11.6 and 13.3-inch models coming next week?</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/10/17/is-this-the-new-macbook-air-both-11-6-and-13-3-inch-models-coming-next-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Joseph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With only five days until Apple&#8217;s Back to Mac press event, the rumors are flying in thick and fast. Speculation around Apple&#8217;s refreshed MacBook Air is growing daily, and there are some new reports that just surfaced. Earlier in the week, the 11.6-inch display rumor popped up again, but last night, Engadget received some photos on what they believe to be an early prototype for the new MacBook Air. Except&#8230; the unit pictured in the photo seems to house a 13.3&#8243; screen. Additionally, the machine appears to run the same under-powered Core 2 Duo seen in the current generation, though it is possible since the laptop was not in final form, the internals have been upgraded. Earlier in the week,]]></description>
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<p>With only five days until Apple&#8217;s Back to Mac press event, the rumors are flying in thick and fast. Speculation around Apple&#8217;s refreshed MacBook Air is growing daily, and there are some new reports that just surfaced. Earlier in the week, the 11.6-inch display rumor popped up again, but last night, Engadget received some photos on what they believe to be an early prototype for the new MacBook Air. Except&#8230; the unit pictured in the photo seems to house a 13.3&#8243; screen. Additionally, the machine appears to run the same under-powered Core 2 Duo seen in the current generation, though it is possible since the laptop was not in final form, the internals have been upgraded.</p>
<p>Earlier in the week, Apple Insider rumored that the new MacBook Air computer would contain no conventional hard disk drive or solid-state drive. The new Air would supposedly opt for a high capacity &#8220;SSD card&#8221; instead. AppleInsider has also followed up on their original report with some new information, and from what one of their sources is telling them, Apple will actually launch both rumored models &#8212; 11.6&#8243; and 13.3&#8243; display notebooks.</p>
<p>So guys, is this the new MacBook Air we are looking at?<span id="more-62340"></span></p>
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		<title>Dell Thunder prototype detailed</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/08/20/dell-thunder-prototype-detailed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems as though the mobile phone stork delivered a set of twins to Engadget&#8230; smartphone twins that is. The blog was gifted with two Dell Thunder Android smartphone prototypes, and they&#8217;ve done the honor of shedding some light on just what we&#8217;re looking at. The Thunder will pack a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor with Qualcomm Adreno graphics (think Nexus One), 4.1-inch touch-screen display, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, and (possibly) a front-facing VGA camera. The two units were sporting different operating systems and screen resolutions. One unit was running a developer build of Android 1.6 while the other was running Android 2.1. As mentioned above, the screen resolutions on the two units are also not identical, one]]></description>
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<p>It seems as though the mobile phone stork delivered a set of twins to Engadget&#8230; smartphone twins that is. The blog was gifted with two Dell Thunder Android smartphone prototypes, and they&#8217;ve done the honor of shedding some light on just what we&#8217;re looking at. The Thunder will pack a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor with Qualcomm Adreno graphics (think Nexus One), 4.1-inch touch-screen display, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, and (possibly) a front-facing VGA camera. The two units were sporting different operating systems and screen resolutions. One unit was running a developer build of Android 1.6 while the other was running Android 2.1. As mentioned above, the screen resolutions on the two units are also not identical, one has a resolution of 800 x 600 and the other 1,280 x 768. The gang found evidence in the software of a CDMA test suite, indicating the potential for a Verizon or Sprint model, and one unit had AT&amp;T&#8217;s HSPA 3G bands while the other had T-Mobile&#8217;s AWS 3G bands. Furthermore, the device has a 3.5 mm headphone jack, 1,400 mAh battery, and micro-SD card slot. The Thunder&#8217;s glass screen is also slightly beveled, which Engadget described as &#8220;as useless as it is cool.&#8221; So if you like Dell hardware, and the Streak is too much phone for you, what do you think about the Thunder?<span id="more-59086"></span></p>
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		<title>MeeGo In-Vehicle Infotainment system prototype gets videoed</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/08/04/meego-in-ivi-prototype-videoed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, we reported on the GENIVI Alliance&#8217;s decision to use MeeGo as their in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) platform. It seems as though a prototype of a MeeGo IVI system has made its way onto YouTube, and we have to say, it looks&#8230; interesting? The MeeGo powered system videoed is basically a fully functioning Linux system with a scrolling touch-interface built on the Xfce4 environment; complete with a shell terminal and file manager. The system is also seen running Mozilla&#8217;s Fennec browser, displaying navigation maps, and playing media. It obviously has a long way to go, but it is a step in the right direction! We&#8217;ve got the video ready for you after the break. [Via  The Nokia Blog] Read]]></description>
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<p>Several weeks ago, we reported on the <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/07/26/genivi-alliance-selects-meego-as-future-in-vehicle-infotainment-platform/">GENIVI Alliance&#8217;s decision to use MeeGo</a> as their in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) platform. It seems as though a prototype of a MeeGo IVI system has made its way onto YouTube, and we have to say, it looks&#8230; interesting? The MeeGo powered system videoed is basically a fully functioning Linux system with a scrolling touch-interface built on the Xfce4 environment; complete with a shell terminal and file manager. The system is also seen running Mozilla&#8217;s Fennec browser, displaying navigation maps, and playing media. It obviously has a long way to go, but it is a step in the right direction! We&#8217;ve got the video ready for you after the break.</p>
<p>[Via  <a href="http://thenokiablog.com/2010/08/04/meego-ivi-video/">The Nokia Blog</a>]<span id="more-57848"></span></p>
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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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		<title>Nokia demands return of N8 from Eldar Murtazin, asks Russian Police for assistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Hodgkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nokia is on the warpath regarding the leaked N8 prototype handset that was the subject of a scathing review by Eldar Murtazin of Mobile-Review. Nokia publicly announced on its Conversations blog that it sent a written request to Murtazin asking for the return of this unauthorized property. Murtazin reportedly failed to respond to this letter and Nokia has sought the assistance of the Russian police. Nokia claims that this heavy-handed response was not prompted by the negative review from Murtazin but out of a need to protect its intellectual property. The tale gets even more sordid with Murtazin claiming via Twitter that he was never contacted by Nokia and accuses them of lying about the letter. Read]]></description>
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<p>Nokia is on the warpath regarding the leaked N8 prototype handset that was the subject of a scathing review by Eldar Murtazin of Mobile-Review. Nokia publicly announced on its Conversations blog that it sent a written request to Murtazin asking for the return of this unauthorized property. Murtazin reportedly failed to respond to this letter and Nokia has sought the assistance of the Russian police. Nokia claims that this heavy-handed response was not prompted by the negative review from Murtazin but out of a need to protect its intellectual property. The tale gets even more sordid with Murtazin claiming <a href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sl=ru&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http://twitter.com/eldarmurtazin/status/17953106441&amp;prev=_t&amp;rurl=translate.google.com&amp;twu=1&amp;usg=ALkJrhjtddTTKZLA4Wrl5CEBEzOM5S0tOg">via Twitter</a> that he was never contacted by Nokia and accuses them of lying about the letter. <span id="more-55204"></span></p>
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		<title>iPod touch with camera spotted in Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 12:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Hodgkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That Asian Pacific pipeline of prototypes continues to flow with a new iPod Touch now gracing the front pages of blogs across the world. This latest leak showcases an iPod Touch with a rear facing camera and the designation DVT-1 which indicates that it is an early design. Very similar in appearance to the iPod Touch pair that appeared on eBay recently, this latest leaked prototype has a bare bones OS that is chock full of diagnostic utilities. Despite the iPod&#8217;s pristine condition, it is unclear whether this is an older prototype left over from Apple&#8217;s failed attempt at placing a camera in the iPod Touch last year or if it is indeed the next generation model. We may have]]></description>
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<p>That Asian Pacific pipeline of <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/18/another-prototype-iphone-breaks-cover-in-vietnam/">prototypes</a> continues to flow with a new iPod Touch now gracing the front pages of blogs across the world. This latest leak showcases an iPod Touch with a rear facing camera and the designation DVT-1 which indicates that it is an early design. Very similar in appearance to the <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/04/24/two-camera-packing-ipod-touch-prototypes-appear-on-ebay/">iPod Touch pair</a> that appeared on eBay recently, this latest leaked prototype has a bare bones OS that is chock full of diagnostic utilities. Despite the iPod&#8217;s pristine condition, it is unclear whether this is an older prototype left over from Apple&#8217;s failed attempt at placing a camera in the iPod Touch last year or if it is indeed the next generation model. We may have to wait until September to find out whether this is a prototype hot off the presses or if it has been stored safely in someone&#8217;s drawer for a long time. Hit the jump for a another shot of the iPod Touch and a hands on video.<span id="more-50225"></span></p>
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		<title>Another prototype iPhone breaks cover in Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/18/another-prototype-iphone-breaks-cover-in-vietnam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 18:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bettiol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember how much fun we used to have with all of the iPhone rumors in the months leading up to WWDC? Well as you know, this year is special. Proving this point once and for all again, today we present you with images and videos of yet another iPhone prototype strutting its stuff in Vietnam. There&#8217;s really nothing more for us to say since this is all about eye candy, so hit up the jump for a slew of pics and videos! [Via SoftSailor] Read]]></description>
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<p>Remember how much fun we used to have with all of the iPhone rumors in the months leading up to WWDC? Well as you know, this year is <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/04/19/iphone-4-gets-reviewed/">special</a>. Proving this point once <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">and for all</span> again, today we present you with images and videos of yet another iPhone prototype strutting its stuff in <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/12/another-next-gen-iphone-in-the-wild-also-torn-apart/">Vietnam</a>. There&#8217;s really nothing more for us to say since this is all about eye candy, so hit up the jump for a slew of pics and videos!</p>
<p>[Via <a href="http://www.softsailor.com/news/27516-new-iphone-4g-pictures-leaked-in-vietnam-once-again.html">SoftSailor</a>]<span id="more-50149"></span></p>
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