I was never a large fan of the LG Prada, mainly because I think slapping fashion brands onto phones is a stupid way to add a few hundred (or thousand) bucks to the price tag.
That stated, I’m liking the look of the Prada-esque LG Dare. They’ve rounded out the rough edges, and overhauled the UI. Under the Dare’s 240×400 touchscreen, LG will be packin’ in a 3.5mm headphone jack (Whoo! No adapters!), a 3.2MP autofocus camera, microSDHC support, and an accelerometer.
It’s looking pretty good so far, like the offspring of the LG Prada and the LG Viewty. Anticipate this sleek tiny lovechild to hit sometime in July.
More live shots at PhoneArena.
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What do you get when you take a fairly solid product, strip it down, and sell it for an outlandish price? Fired, typically. At Motorola, you’ve just come up with their new on the internet store item: the Motorola Q9e.
The Q9e is just a Q9h, stripped off the good stuff. Same Windows Mobile 6.0, same 2 megapixel camera, without the 3G.
If you’ve been wanting a Q9 but just can’t vibe with all this 3G non-sense, you can grab one from the Motorola Online Store for 500 bucks. Or you could just get a Q9h in all of its 3g splendor from eBay for around 300.
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We first mentioned the upcoming LG Dare, also known as the VX9700, back in March. But now over on Phone Arena more pics of the candybar touchscreen cellphone have emerged. They show it carrying the Verizon brand, a tiny more of the phone’s UI, and confirm that the 3.2-megapixel autofocus cam will have a flash. The Dare will also sport a 240 x 400 pixel screen, browser, Bluetooth 2.0, 3.5 mm headset socket and supports microSDHC cards up to 8GB. Its release date has been pushed back to July—until then, cast your eyes over the photos. [Phone Arena]
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That’s right, I’m starting the rumor here. Why not? Why not 8? If such an one-of-a-kind game and story can survive a trilogy, why not an octilogy? Seriously, though, Bioshock 3 was confirmed yesterday by Take-Two as being in the works. Wasn’t so long ago we heard that number two was coming out, not to mention […]
That’s right, I’m starting the rumor here. Why not? Why not 8? If such an unique game and story can survive a trilogy, why not an octilogy?
Seriously, though, Bioshock 3 was confirmed yesterday by Take-Two as being in the works. Wasn’t so long ago we heard that number two was coming out, not to mention the movie and iPhone versions.
Ah, the birth of a franchise — and the slow death of originality.
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Don’t be too surprised
At airport security
When you miss your flight
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Oh, whatever could be in this box that Apple resellers in Australia began receiving this morning? All signs indicate that it does not contain a Vegemite sandwich.
It looks like Apple is nipping potential global shipping delays in the bud by sending the goods internationally a bit early. The seal on top is pretty clear: open this before June 10th (June 9th in the US, otherwise known as “OMG Steve Jobs Keynote Day!!!!”) and our lawyers will eat your face.
The box is a bit on the small side - it certainly doesn’t seem like a launch day sized 3G iPhone inventory could fit in there. Speculators are guessing that it’s a demo unit, with the first stock shipments expected to come the week after WWDC.
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As the Google I/O conference came to an end last week, the Android development team got up on stage and fielded questions from developers in the audience. It’s taken a few days for the full transcript to show up on the internet, but ZDNet’s got it.
Some of the highlights:
Q. What if my app uses location api, and service provider shuts that off, can they?
A. They can do that… it’s not a perfect world. Rather than having us dictate what carriers and OEMs support, we let developers develop killer apps that’ll require it.
Q. Java is more than a language. Google implemented its own VM. Could we use the Sun JVM? Explain the reasoning behind having your own.
A. We have the ability to have a more efficient interpreter and less memory pressure (by having Dalvik). You’ve to consider the holistic system performance. We had no choice but to run multiple VMs and processes. Share read-only memory across processes was important. Dalvik does that.
Q. Does Android have USB support? External keyboard, etc.?
A. The hardware should support it but it’s not enabled in the software. Maybe in a point release.
Q. If a small device manufufacturer wants to run Android, can they just download it and go?
A. Once it’s open source, anyone can download and port Android without joining OHA. Android will be open source before the end of the year.
Q. What is Android’s business model?
A. Somebody could rip out the Google stuff and put in Yahoo stuff. That’s ok. Our job is to continue to create killer apps that people will want to use. Google search, GMail, maps, etc.. If we ever fail to delight users our core business will go away. That’s why we felt comfortable using the Apache license.
Q. Any details on next round of the Android developer’s challenge?
A. For part 2… we don’t have a lot of details. It will be the other half of the $10 million, and will be after devices are on the market. Probably early next year.
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I’m really hoping that this is one of those patents where the inventor thought “Wow. This is the worst idea ever - I’m going to patent it and never use it, so nobody will ever have to deal with this.” Inventors do that all the time, right? Right?
Microsoft has applied to patent something they’re calling “Device Manners Policy”, or DMP. Business owners can establish these policies, emitting them to your device. Don’t want anybody taking pictures in your museum? Place a “No Photos” RFID in the exhibit. Don’t want any bleeps and bloops going off in your motion picture theater? Set the “No Noise” policy on the DMP server.
Now, I get annoyed as anybody when some jerk’s Chris Brown ringtone keeps going off in the middle of Mission Impossible III. However, wirelessly nerfing handsets is not the way to mend this. Would you grant someone to reach into your pocket and silence your phone? I sure as hell wouldn’t.
The potential for nastiness with this is just mind boggling. Envision missing the call that your expected son is being delivered early, because the coffee shop you stopped in felt it was necessary to turn off your ringer. Imagine missing that once-in-a-life-time shot just because the company next door disabled photography.
Business owners have a right to request patrons follow reasonable guidelines, but this is a giant leap outside of that realm of authority. It’d be like a business owner duct taping a patron’s mouth. First thing I’d do with a DMP enabled device is attempt to disable the receiver; if all else fails, I’d fix it with a hammer.
Fortunately, this is about as feasible as declaring that all future devices must be made of deli meats. Microsoft would have to convince each device manufacturer to implement it, or face users seeing DMP-enabled devices as something to avoid. I’d certainly like my fancy new phone a whole lot less if it blocked a call as Joe Otherbrand walked by chattin’ away.
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