Are you looking for a smartphone or a laptop? What about both? Dell has a hot offer for you right now. The Vostro and the Nokia N97 will be sold together for the special price of $730.  You can get that special price after applying a $399 off coupon to your shopping cart but you have you have to act fast! The offer will be available until July 1 or until supply lasts. If you take advantage right away of this deal and then sell the Vostro for around $400 (retails regularly at $420) then you’ll actually end up paying only around $350 for the unlocked N97. That’s a more than impressive price to pay for Nokia’s current flagship phone. Right now the N97 is not available from any carrier in the USA so anyone interested in it would have to get it for the regular price of $699 from a Nokia store. And if you do decide to keep the laptop for yourself you’re still the winner! You’ll be paying just $730 for a combined value of $1,120.

via logicbuy

Tags: Dell, Laptops, Mobile News, Mobile Software, N97, Nokia, Nokia, Off The Topic, Portable Devices, vostro

This is a nice but unexpected surprise! In case that there still are PlayStation 3 lovers out there, they should know that Sony might finally drop the price. According to rumors such a move will be made at the same time EA Sport will release the next Madden version this fall so you’ll still have to wait a while before getting a cheaper Playstation 3.

Considering that the PS3 has been trailing behind the Wii and the Xbox 360 for a while now, Sony should definitely charge less for it. Or can we go ahead and speculate that a new PlayStation console is going to arrive soon and therefore the price cut is absolutely necessary?
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Tags: consoles, Mobile News, Off The Topic, Playstation 3, Price drop, Sony, wii, Xbox 360

One of the first countries to get the new iPhone 3GS, besides the USA, is Canada. The new Apple smartphone will be available starting with June 19 and you’ll be able to buy it from Rogers or Fido; you choose! As for prices, the Canadian iPhone 3GS will cost as follows: $199 for the 16GB version and $299 for the 32GB version. Just like in the States the old 8GB iPhone 3G will cost $99 on contract. In case you already own one of those 3Gs from Rogers or Fido an you are not qualifying for any hardware upgrade program then you will get the iPhone 3GS with no strings attached.

Did you like all that? Well we have more! Tethering will be available if you have a data plan that offers at least 1GB of traffic per month. And that should be quite easy to obtain since those 6GB for $30 per month data plans will be back in action. Wondering about MMS? Well those will be supported as soon as the new iPhone 3.0 OS gets launched. A new iPhone value pack will tell you more about that whole MMS thing.

Doesn’t all that sound just a little better than what AT&T is currently offering? Which comes to my real question: what has AT&T been doing while Apple cooked up the new iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 3.0 OS? Shouldn’t they have been prepared to launch the iPhone 3GS at full speed?

Tags: 3G, 3gs, Apple, Apple, At&T, At&T, Canada, fido, iPhone, Mobile News, Off The Topic, Other Brands, Portable Devices, Rogers, Samsung, Uncategorized

While public availability will be staggered to May 5, the much-awaited Windows 7 release candidate will be available first to developers on the Microsoft Developers’ Network by the end of this month on April 30.  The news was announced by Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows Team Blog recently and he had this to say:

There certainly has been a lot of discussion about Windows 7 in the last few weeks. A lot of folks want to know when they can get their hands on the official RC, when we are going to RTM, and what I had for breakfast.  I’m pleased to share that the RC is on track for April 30th for  download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Broader, public availability will begin on May 5th.

We will keep you posted when the Windows 7 RC is ready for download, so stay tuned

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It’s official, the Billion App Countdown promotion recently ran by Apple has come to an end. Apple seems very satisfied with the reception of the App Store, proudly announcing that over 1 billion apps have been downloaded in 9 months.

But who cares about that, right? Who won the MacBook Pro, $10,000 iTunes Giftcard, and 32GB iPod touch? No one yet; as you can see above Apple is telling everyone to come back to the announcement page “soon” to find out who won.

Tags: App Store, Apple, apps, billion app countdown, Cell Phones, Contest, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes, MacBook Pro, Mobile News, Off The Topic, Promotion

As of July 2006, it was estimated that there are over 2.4 billion cell phone users worldwide. That’s a big number, right? Well, take this into consideration; In the month of March, there were 15.6 million new cellphone users in India. That’s just one month alone.

Now this isn’t a completely random expansion as Indian service providers have begun expanding their networks to a larger portion of country.

Honestly though, 15.6 million new cellphone users in 1 month? That’s just nuts!

Read (Reuters)

Tags: Business, Cell Phones, Crazy Mobile, india, indian service providers, Mobile News, numbers, Off The Topic

Here’s something that’s sure to spawn an all new safety campaign — It seems that a 25 year old Canadian woman was reported dead on the scene after being in a car accident on the way to work.

Apparently, her car was struck by a tow truck causing her unsecurced laptop in the back seat to fly forward and hit her in the back of the head. Yahoo reports she died as a result of blunt force trauma.

This is terrible news, but let’s see how long it takes for someone to invent a product that prevents this problem.

Tags: Accessories, car-mount, Laptops, mount, Off The Topic, safety, vehicle

If Apple clearing its stocks and this can’t convince you that the company has the next iPhone cooking, we are not sure what else can, unless you would like to hear about it from El Jobso himself.  Similar to what we saw last year before the iPhone 3G debuted, Apple is now amassing a huge number of 8Gb NAND flash chips, and when we say a huge number, think 100 million, which is twice the amount grabbed by Apple last year.  A big part of these 8-gigabit chips (combined to achieve the gigabytes of memory that ultimately make their way to our cell phones) are to come from Samsung, straining the flash chip market almost dry for other vendors.  Does this mean that we will see a 32GB iPhone come June?  If that’s true, we hope that that won’t be the only improvement over the iPhone 3G we are looking for.

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Tags: Apple, Cell Phones, iphone 3g, nand flash, Nokia, Off The Topic

Forget headphones and earphones. How about some nice shoulderphones?  That’s what a Korean company seems to be marketing with a product called Soundwalk, an unsightly contraption that’s supposed to be hung on your shoulders to omit the need of headphones, thereby preventing any accidents that might occur if you are jogging to the tunes on your iPod oblivious to the outside world.  The Soundwalk speaker vest is powered by two AAA batteries and has two speakers tucked into the shoulder pads, an ideal place because of the proximity to the ears providing best quality sound, while leaving the user aware of his/her surroundings.  Also present is a front pocket to house your favorite mp3 player, connecting directly to the shoulder speakers.

The Soundwalk speaker vest is now available in Europe and on some online sites at £39.99 (approx. $55), but beware of the severe drop in style points that you might experience once you take the plunge.

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Tags: Accessories, Accessories, Headphones, ipod, MP3 Player, MP3 Players, Off The Topic, Portable Devices

Security through the use of mobile phones just got better with the announcement that JTrek releasing their much-anticipated personal security Smartphone application.

This innovative technology has opened a new world of mobile security for the millions of Smartphone users. According to Nielsen Mobile research, there are more than 200 million mobile users in the U.S. More than 100 million of these subscribers use GPS and video-capable Smartphones. The JTrek application leverages the video, audio, location and camera features to record and distribute life-saving information in the case of an emergency.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 2,000 child abductions happen each day. Although many are family related abductions, when they are unlawful, they should be stopped. Every hour, 16 women confront a rapist, and one of these women is raped every six minutes, many on college cam

(Source) Press

Tags: camera features, Cell Phones, jtrek, Mobile News, mobile phones, mobile research, mobile security, Mobile Software, mobile users, Off The Topic, smartphones, Uncategorized

Sudoku, that game from Japan that has become a worldwide craze is now available for play in iPhones. Houdah Software has made ACTSudoku available for Free. ACTSudoku is now available to novices and experts alike.

All game boards are symmetrical and guaranteed to be solvable by logic only.

Tags: Cell Phones, game boards, games, iPhone, Japan, Mobile Software, Off The Topic, sudoku

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Opel Ampera Debuts in Geneva
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The out of this world design of the Sony Yakuza 3 Playstation speaks for itself. It is one of the best models of PS3 ever launched by Sony. Yakuza 3’s ceramic white exterior is fashioned with two powerful dragons facing each other. This special edition, however limited to 10,000 units boasts 80GB storage, dualshock controller, and the Yakuza 3 software.

The Sony Yakuza 3 PS3 will hit the Japanese market on February 26. The rest of the world shall have to wait for the company’s official announcement regarding subsequent launches.

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