Apple shares took a 17% tumble today. Everybody else who’s anybody saw their shares dropping valuable points today. No matter what business we are talking about, its shares took a smaller or bigger plunge following the Nasdaq and Dow Jones.

The $700 billion emergency bailout failed to pass the House today creating one of the worst trading days in Wall Street ever since 9/11. The Dow Jones lost 800 points which is its personal worst ever. Read the rest of this entry »

The KC780 is the LG’s 8 megapixel camera phone we’ve spotted last week at the FCC and now we have a better picture of it. This LG could be the slimmest 8 megapixel camera phone so far, although the Samsung Pixon is officially measured at 13.8 mm so far. Read the rest of this entry »

Samsung seems to have been really busy lately. We’ve seen various handsets being released or rumored and it’s now time for the Delve to leak to the public. The Samsung Delve seems to be a bit of a mix between Samsung Instinct and the Samsung F480. While we don’t have all the official specifications, we can tell you a thing or two about the Delve.

The Delve will feauture:

• 3.0 touchscreen display
• Second generation TouchWiz interface
• 2 megapixel camera
• Pre-loaded Toneroom, Facebook, Myspace, and various games
• Threaded email and SMS
• HTML browser
• Navigation software
• Bluetooth A2DP connectivity.

The Delve will probably arrive by the end of November. We should get official specs and features by then.

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While the Bold is yet to arrive from AT&T in the USA, it looks like NTT DoCoMo is ready to offer the BlackBerry 9000 to its subscribers. It looks like Japan should be a logical move from RIM. But the Japanese market has been proven to be a tough market for RIM to crack.

The Bold is a truly unique device which is already being sold in various countries across the globe. If successful in Japan it might lead the way for other great RIM phones. The Pearl, the Curve and particularly the Storm might also be sent out to Japan if all goes well for Japan.

The Bold is going to be sold in Japan in 2009. Hear that AT&T? Even Japan is getting it?

After we’ve seen the iPhone ready for Russia, it’s not such a big surprise the Ukrainian release. The iPhone is rumored to arrive the night between October 2nd and October 3rd with MTS as the carrier selling it.

The Russian neighbors will see the iPhone arriving form MTS, MegaFon and Vimplecom. Apple managed to get a foothold on these markets and we’re likely to see lots of iPhones sold in Russia and the Ukraine in the following months.

We don’t have any details about special pricing and plans for Ukraine but we’ll keep you updated as soon as we have received them.

The Garmin Nuvi 775T was first mentioned in August during the summer, and at that time there was no release date or pricing information, but thanks to Amazon and their wonderful service, we know it will become available this Wednesday - 1st of October - and you can already make a pre-order.

The fresh GPS system has a price tag of $800 and includes everything a normal GPS has, such as a FM traffic receiver so you don’t get stuck in traffic, 3D navigation with lane assist, bluetooth for hands free calls, and an auto-adjust timer.

Maps of North America and Europe come in the nuvi 775T package, as well as the Garmin Connect Photos, which is basically a feature that lets you link up photos/images with locations saved on the map.

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Another day passes, and another notebook is presented by Toshiba. This time the glory goes for the new Dynabook NX series.

The 12.1-inch LCD screen features a black light LED so you can see better, and a WXGA resolution of 1280×800 pixels – not too bad for a small notebook.

In terms of performance it is well equipped, with an Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 processor at 1.20GHz, standard 2GB of RAM memory that can be expanded to 3GB, and a DVD Super Multi Drive.

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All the way from Japan comes a new set of GPS drives made by Pioneer, with the following codenames: HRZ099, HRZ088, HRV022, and HRV011. The four new GPS systems are pretty similar, all of them have a drive that can read DVDs, CDs, MP3s, AAC, and also DivX files.

The difference between each model can be seen in the small details, for example, the HRZ009 and HRZ008 are perfect for the music people, because they come with a built-in amplifier that provides good sound power - 50W x 4. If you like to watch movies, the HRZ009 is also a good choice thanks to the big resolution of 800×480, while all the other models have a smaller 480×234.

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Fujitsu has made a (kind of) official announcement today by presenting the upcoming ST6012 Tablet PC on their website. Unlike other tablets of the same kind, the ST6012 doesn’t have a keyboard or any other keys, and that is one of the points that makes it stylish.

The Tablet PC is included on the Stylistic ST Series, and boasts a good processor – 1.40GHz Intel Core 2 Duo – along with a good touchscreen display measuring 12.1-inches and providing a 1920×1200 resolution. To make it even better, you have the option to put 3G. There is no exact information about the RAM memory, but rumors mention the basic 1GB, and a maximum of 4GB.

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The FCC has just revealed a Dell printer which is going to be released soon. It’s a Bluetooth printer which will print stuff for you without ink. It’s going to use Zink technology for printing but we don’t exactly know more details. We’re probably going to have a similar printing experience to Polaroid-pictures printing.
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SimpleTech has improved their catalog of external hard-drives by introducing two new products: a Pro Drive with 1.5TB, and a Duo Pro Drive with 3TB. Can this big amount of storage capacity be used for personal stuff? Maybe if the person behind the computer makes video collections, maybe not…

Anyway, both drives have 4 possible connection modes: FireWire 800, FireWire 400, the usual USB 2.0, and the fast eSATA that is able make transfers at 3Gb per second. A good add-on to the Pro and Duo Pro Drives is the offer of (free) online storage, with a maximum capacity of 2GB.

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We’re getting closer to the Christmas holiday so you might already be looking out for special gifts for some of your friends. iRiver’s SPINN PMP might be the thing you are looking for. It’s like a great device which will keep its owner occupied for a few hours. Read the rest of this entry »

SanDisk has officially announced plans to make 16GB microSDHC and M2 cards for mobile phones and other devices that accept such mediums.

This makes the company the only manufacturer of such high-capacity memory cards. It can be noted that not even Sony makes such large capacity M2 cards.

These cards can be all yours starting November in Best Buy Mobile and Verizon Wireless stores where they will retail for $99.99 and $129.99 for the microSDHC and M2 cards, respectively.

Marking a blow for the company’s operations, Sony Ericsson has announced that it will lay off 450 workers from its Research Triangle Park location, the headquarters for it sNorth American operations.

It was revealed to the employees in a mandatory all-staff meeting at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham.

The layoffs are part of company-wide changes, Sony Ericsson’s head of global communications and PR, Aldo Ligouri, revealed.

“This is our map of how we see things moving forward,” Ligouri said.

Sony Ericsson has been struggling recently, with low demand for high-end phones and delayed products hurting profits.

Blu-ray players are finally reaching the level of affordability that will allow most consumers to upgrade to the technology.

Making it the first Blu-ray player from Sony to be cheaper than the PS3, the mainstream BDP-S350 Blu-ray player can be yours for a cool $299.99. Adding icing to the cake is the fact that it is one of the few players out there that supports BD-LIVE that allows content downloads from the web.

You’ll, however, have to manually update the firmware on the player, but that will take only a couple of minutes at most.

Note that the price is from Sony’s own Style site, so the player can be had for cheaper from competing webstores.

Sprint has been working for quite a while at it’s WiMAX network but it failed to launch the XOHM in Baltimore in September as the company announced earlier on.

It looks like Sprint has turned the XOHM on in Baltimore downtown area today. We have no clear idea yet
on when the XOHM will spread to the entire city. According to words on Baltimore’s streets, a 24-hour unlimited pass will cost $10 while a whole month will cost $35. Additionally you’ll have to purchase WiMAX cards which will be available from $45.

So Baltimore? Do you WiMAX or not?

Samsung Pixon which is an 8 megapixel camera phone which we might have already seen before as the Bresson. The Pixon’s camera has auto focus, face detection and geotagging. A 3.2 inch touchscreen will help you visualize and manage all those pictures.
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It looks like the whole exclusivity deal Apple had with AT&T concerning the iPhone is going down the drain. According to recent rumors Apple is going to strike a deal with Verizon Wireless. An official announcement is going to be made at Macworkd 2009.
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There’s a new notebook coming out from MSI - the MSI PR211 Notebook. The PR211 is equipped with a 12.1″ display with a resolution of 1280×800, graphics card ATI Radeon HD 3200, processor AMD Turion X2 Dual Core ZM-80 2.1 GHz and 2 GB of RAM, with the possibility of expanding up to 4 GB if necessary.

Data storage is done through a 250 GB SATA hard drive. In addition, there are also built optical drive DL DVD-RW, adapter Wireless LAN 802.11 a / b / g / n, slot ExpressCard, 1.3-megapixel webcam, port HDMI, three USB 2.0 connectors and 3-in-1 card-reader .

PR211 maintain the confidentiality of your information through biometric fingerprint and crawler MSI FileSave. This special software that encrypts all data stored on a hard drive, and without special password, they can not be decoded. FileSave works effectively even when removing the hard drive from the laptop.

MSI PR211 with preloaded operating system Windows Vista Home Premium has already appeared in sales at price of € 799.

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Whenever I say Motorola lately I think about it as a terminally-ill patient which might pass away at any given time. But Motorola refuses to die yet it also refuses to do anything spectacular. You know the kind of move that would make them regain that piece of the pie they keep loosing on a daily basis.
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