AT & T has sent its employees an internal email with the request not to get out of the holiday period that vai of June 15 until July 12. Baotou this email to the gossip that recomeçassem across the network. The subject of gossip when he is the iPhone 3G, which has already been announced by some telephone operators.

In the first launch of the iPhone AT & T had already asked its officials not to take holidays in the period from June 15 to July 15, this to ensure sales. This déjà vu suggests that history is repeating, and most likely hypothesis is that the official launch day will after June 15, but with the formal announcement scheduled for 9 June, the same month during the WWDC.

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In line with the theme of order in mobileblog (the announcement on Windows Mobile 7 and programme of visual search for the iPhone), by proposing a “reason to xxx” of pocketpcmag that confronts these two platforms, asserting the superiority of the “Windows portatile” .

For the full list (in English) have made the link the original article, while here we see the top of the 10 reasons why many people prefer mobile phones based on Microsoft’s operating system.

1. It does not perform operations such as writing texts, leaves for calculations, database management and viewing of PowerPoint presentations (very useful tools for a business phone)
2. Unable to use Mp3 for suonorias
3. Lack of GPS
4. You can not send MMS (even if it is possible with a third-party software)
5. Do not have slot for memory cards
6. Do not have flash
7. No records video (another problem solved with external software)
8.Falta a second fotocamera for video and conferences and self-portraits
9. Lack of physical keyboard (QWERTY keypad). The system of writing on the screen is slow and adapto the small fingers, while the correction of errors is very time consuming.
10. Unable to highlight, copy and make copies of operations and glue.
Below is a nice sticker of the “iPhone vs Windows Mobile.”

Continue reading: The 30 reasons why Windows Mobile is better than the iPhone

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In order to counteract the rumours that instead of going out there to circulate, many of them due to collaborations with Asus and HTC, the TomTom said it is not, for now, the plan entering the market for mobile phones.

The Dutch firm confirmed that it intends to focus on the production and sale of GPS products and do not want to follow in the footsteps of some direct competitors, such as Garmin, which have already announced their own phones.

Actually I believe that a company of this kind has everything to gain by concentrating on what it does and try to further improve their products. What do you think about this?

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Continuing a little in the world of external hard drives, Toshiba announced the SecuRed. This is a disk of 200Gb which includes a sensor to fall and biometric security.

And to serving the fall of sensors you ask? These sensors can detect when the disk is falling and automatically stop the rotation of heads of the disk so that data are not damaged due to shock.

Technically speaking, the SecuRed includes a hard disk of 2.5 “that operates at 7,200 rpm and has USB 2.0 interface. In addition to the sensors, Toshiba also built a box (of 130 × 85×19mm) resistant to shock to almost nothing in this world that can happen to your data.

Source: Journal du Geek

Topics: Computer, Hardware, PC, USB, USB 2.0, USB drives, biometric security, external disk, hard disk | Give Your Two Cents »

PSPJ-15010: is this reference with more than difficult to decorate that Sony named their new headset with microphone for your console games, portable, the PSP.

These headphones incorporate, in addition to the aforementioned microphone - which allows it to communicate with other users in vocalmente games online and on Skype (if you have the new PSP Slim & Lite) - the PSPJ-15010 also includes a remote control. It can control the sound volume and the reproduction of music if you use the PSP as a multimedia player.

The Sony PSPJ-15010 are at the venda (for now only in Japan) by something like 3,800 yen, or $ 60.

Source: scei

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Many of us, they need a lot of storage space, must already have recourse to the famous boxes that allow transform any IDE or SATA disk externally. The problem is that these boxes often we need a tool to be able to put the disk.

To facilitate the lives of Brando presented a new box of disks to 3.5 “which has the peculiarity of not having screws. This small detail allows exchange of disc much more quickly and without having to resort to any key to cracking. Regarding the links, this box shows eSATA and USB 2.0 connectivity. The price, that, is $ 84 ($ 140) where you can purchase the box here.

Source: Brando

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The problem of readers and multimedia phones is that autonomy is sometimes too short. To remedy this problem by Kensington presented its new external batteries for the iPhone and the Apple iPod.

With two models available, the Kensington proposes to increase the autonomy of 100 hours of music (for the largest model) and 30 hours of music for the second model. With regard to time of conversation in iPhone, an increase of autonomy sets up within 6 hours and 3 hours ahead.

As for prices, the largest model of autonomy is on the venda for $ 69.99 ($ 116) while smaller model has a price of venda of $ 49.99 ($ 83).

Source: Engadget

Topics: Apple, Bluetooth, Camera, Cell phones, Designer Gadgets, MP3 Player, Music Player, autonomy ipod, iphone autonomy, kensington | Give Your Two Cents »

It was in England that the Parrot, known manufacturer of digital frames, presented its latest proposal for this growing market. Designed to look like Andrew Putman, author of, among others, drawing the garafa of perfume Coco Chanel.

Based on a design that can comment with certainty, this new framework provides an LCD screen, 7 “and supports both the Bluetooth and WiFi so you can access the photos and content that is stored on your computer. With door to an SD card, the Parrot included however enough internal memory to store up to 400 fotofrafias what, say, of truth, not anything bad.

With a price announced at £ 250 ($ 810), this framework should be available (for now) only in the shop Few And Far from London. However the Parrot already announced that the version available retrieval the general public should reach atéao end of this year.

Source: Pocket Lint

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In Austria, one of the players calling for the press today announced the upcoming launch of the new version of the iPhone. The Der Standard reported that the T-Mobile announced the intention of bringing the smartphone soon from Apple for the country Austria. The carrier also announced that the policy of prices will be even more flexible than the present.

In Italy, two telephone operators (TIM and Vodafone) announced the launch soon of the new iPhone with 3G technology, this confirms that the gossip to the new version, there will be no more blocking of carrier.

If became obvious, with these ads, the launch of the iPhone 2.0 during the WWDC or in a parallel event to launch between May and final half of June.

Topics: 2.0 iPhon, Bluetooth, Camera, Cell phones, Digital music, Luxury, MP3 Player, Multipurpose gadgets, Music Players, iPhone 3G, iphones, mobile gps, new model of iPhone | Give Your Two Cents »

The Dell presented its new computer desk, the XPS 730. This new model is aimed at those who want a high-end machine that allows running the games today (and that they will arrive in the near future) so fluid and with all the details.

To achieve this the XPS 730 is equipped with a processor from Intel that can be chosen by the buyer: a Core 2 Duo or a Core 2 Extreme, the new iron launches of Intel in terms of performance. Furthermore we can still find two of nVidia graphics in SLI, to 8Gb of RAM and a cooling system that can be H2C or liquid.

With all this to Dell says the Crysis to run, with all the options and a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, some very acceptable 30fps. Nothing bad. The only drawback is it really the price of this machine: $ 3,999 (about U.S. $ 6,640)…

Source: Gizmodo

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