The FCC has just posted information about the HTC Touch Pro (aka HTC Raphael). In a report published by the FCC the phone will have Quad-Band GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and Wi-Fi (sadly, 3G wasn’t mentioned). Other than that, everything else about the phone the FCC is keeping confidential at the request of HTC. Still no […]

The FCC has just posted information about the HTC Touch Pro (aka HTC Raphael). In a report published by the FCC the phone will have Quad-Band GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and Wi-Fi (sadly, 3G wasn’t mentioned). Other than that, everything else about the phone the FCC is keeping confidential at the request of HTC.

Still no word on which carrier will get this bugger. A few people are leaning towards T-Mobile since AT&T already has the HTC Tilt. I guess we’ll have to wait for an official press release from either company.

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Tron 2 Bootleg Trailer http://teaser-trailer.comby dragonball-movie Words can’t describe the joy I’m feeling right now. via Film Stalker

Words can’t describe the joy I’m feeling right now.

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Does the act of slicing up a pizza vex you to no end? Do you find yourself with numerous nicks and cuts on your palms because you constantly use the wrong end of a pizza cutter to slice pies? Lucky for you, there’s pizza scissors. The manufacterer claims the $20 shears-and-spatula design won’t damage plates or trays like a pizza wheel or knife would, but we think if that’s the main reason you buy one of these, you probably have larger issues on your plate than a few dinged pieces of china. [SkyMall via Random Good Stuff]

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Since MobileMe’s launch, Apple’s felt the heat over each and each item on the laundry list of nasty issues. They launched a product that simply wasn’t ready, and have been e-lambasted for it. Apple’s accustomed to a bit of name calling from blogs and forums, of course - but when Walt Mossberg calls your product “far too flawed”, it’s time to come out and state something.

Sometime yesterday, a new item popped up on the MobileMe section of Apple.com: Status. Looks like rather than going silent on the issues, Apple’s going to blog - the new Status page promises “new info hot off the presses even if we’ve to post corrections or further updates later.”

The first post, essentially a long-winded “We know - we’re working on it.”, tries to stay on the up-and-up (limited web access for the broken accounts, yay!). It does slip in one nasty little morsel: for those affected by the mail outage, 10% of messages received between July 16th and July 18th were lost. Oops! Oddly, the issues of reliability that have people chattering the most go unmentioned.

It’s also a bit odd that, after the opening line starting with”Steve Jobs has asked me..”, this first post goes unsigned. Who are you, Mystery MobileMe Man?

Regardless of its foibles, the communication from Apple is a nice gesture. To be honest, it’s just nice to see a massive ol’ company talk to their customers in a way that doesn’t involve press releases.

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Is the word “Me” responsible for the problems with MobileMe? Labnol points out that that three major “me” initiatives - Windows Me, .me, and MobileMe all angered folks immediately and almost failed - or did fail. Consider Windows Me - flop - and the .me domain name. Both of these projects essentially withered on the […]

Is the word “Me” responsible for the problems with MobileMe? Labnol points out that that three major “me” initiatives - Windows Me, .me, and MobileMe all angered folks immediately and nearly failed - or did fail.

Think about Windows Me - flop - and the .me domain name. Both of these projects essentially withered on the vine and caused much damage to their respective creators. Is MobileMe next?

You rarely see buggy products from the iPhone inventors but Mobile Me (formerly .mac) is definitely one. Apple customers have lost thousands of important emails in the past few days while some didn’t have access to email for over a week thanks to this new cloud computing platform called Mobile Me.

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Those crazy Japan-addicts from the Pink Tentacle have grabbed the first commercial ever made by a fembot. Actroid DER-2 stars in a 15-second TV ad titled “The Woman Who Doesn’t Rust”, promoting an insect repellent and sunscreen spray. From afar, she looks hey-babe-how-you-doin’ kind of good, but then they’ve to cut to a close-up and nearly gave me a heart attack. Why a fembot needs sunscreen is beyond me. Lube after a few Old Fortrans, on the other side, it’s a absolutely different story. [Pink Tentacle]

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Cuts and cauderizes at the same time with a plasma edge. Warning-Video is a tiny gross-don’t watch while eating.

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Yesterday, analyst firm J. Gold Associates said that they anticipate the Google Android and Nokia Symbian operating systems to merge into a single platform.

“We anticipate that within the next three-six months, Symbian and Android will combine to provide a single open source OS,” said the firm. “Many of the same sponsors are involved in both initiatives.”

Not so, states Nokia. During the Mobile Web Wars roundtable this day, an audience member asked for opinions on the merger rumor. David Rivas, VP of Technology Management for S60 Software at Nokia, just so happened to be on the panel, and he said (twice) that there were no plans to merge the two platforms.

We’ll update with a clip (or at least a direct quote) after the round table is over.

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Here’s the live stream of our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable, which starts at 3PM PT and ends at 5 PM. The Roundtable is a freewheeling discussion about whether the mobile Web is finally here and which platform will win going forward. While the iPhone seems like a slam dunk right now, can older platforms like Nokia’s Symbian or Windows Mobile replicate its success? Does Apple have anything to fear from Google’s Android? To help answer these questions we have an astounding group of mobile startup CEOs, top iPhone app developers, and other technologists on the RoundTable.

Please add your own comment or questions inside the video player or Twitter them to MobileWars. I’ll try to incorporate questions from the Web audience in the discussion.

We are also streaming live via cellphone camera on our Kyte channel (after the break).

The participants on the Roundtable are:

David Rivas, Nokia, Vice President of Technology Management for S60 Software
Walt Doyle, CEO Ulocate
Tom Conrad, CTO Pandora
Greg Yardley, CEO of Pinch Media CEO
Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous
David Hornik, partner, August Capital
Jed Stremel, Director of Mobile at Facebook (replacing Joe Hewitt)
Guy Ben-Artzi, Founder of Real Dice and CEO of Mytopia
Jason Devitt, CEO of Skydeck
Gannon Hall, CMO of Kyte
Sam Altman, CEO of Loopt
Marc Davis, chief scientists of Yahoo’s mobile group
Omar Hamoui, CEO of AdMob
Richard Wong, partner at Accel
Andreas Weigend, people & data (former chief scientist, Amazon)
Tatsuki Tomita, SVP of Consumer Product, Opera
Mike Rowehl, chief architect, SkyFire
Mary Ann Cotter, CEO, Cooking Capsules
John Faith , GM and VP of Mobile for MySpace

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It was only a matter of time before someone turned the Beijing Olympics installations into Lego. Our friends at Brothers Brick discovered the landmarks—like the Nest Sports Ground or the iconic Water Cube—Lego’ized by the Honk Kong Lego Users Group. The attention to detail is particularly impressive in the high resolution images.

The models include cross-sections showing the actual building structure and installations. The effect is particularly impressive in the Water Cube, full of minifigs like the Sport Village and the residence buildings. [KLUG via Brothers Brick]

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