Despite “ho hum” initial reviews, the recently announced Apple iPhone 4S reportedly set sales records on its first day of availability, selling more than 1 million units and expected to sell 4 million units its first weekend. If those projections are reached, iPhone 4S sales will have more than doubled the iPhone 4, which itself broke records at 600,000 pre sales and 1.7 million total phones sold in its first weekend. The iPhone 4S also helped Sprint and AT&T set sales records for cell phone sales in a day.
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If you live in Chile and are in the market for a touchscreen Android device, then the Motorola MOTOTKEY XT may just be the device that you’re looking for. The device, which has been making it’s way across South America for the last several months, is available today. It sports a 2.4-inch touch- screen with a full QWERTY keyboard underneath. It also comes pre-loaded with Facebook and Twitter, and the Opera Mobile browser. It is very thin, at 10mm, and comes with a 2GB SD card, expandable up to 32 GB. For the full details and specs, check out the press release below.
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The Motorola MOTOKEY EX108, a phone which was recently released in Brazil and Argentina, has finally made it’s way to Peru. This feature phone comes with a 2-inch screen, combined with a full QWERTY keyboard below. It is designed mostly for messaging and email, and closely resembles a standard BlackBerry. The EX108 includes a 2GB SD card, expandable up to 32 GB, and also includes an FM radio tuner. Interestingly, you can also record songs from the radio directly to this device. The phone is available today. For more details and specifications, see the press release below.
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Finally! 2D Boy, the creators behind the incredible and addicting (incredibly addicting?) physics-based puzzle game World of Goo, announced today that they are releasing a version for Android phones and tablets. The premise is to stretch and connect together goo-balls of varying properties in order to let other goo-balls travel across the structure to the supposed safety of a vacuum tube. Simple, right? With increasingly larger chasms to span, riddled with spikes and other hazards, be ready to give your brain a workout.
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Today Apple’s CEO Tim Cook announced the next generation iPhone, sadly the iPhone 4S. Similar the the incremental increase from iPhone 3 to iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4S is a minor update. It looks just like the iPhone 4, but has an A5 Chip which is the same processor running the iPad 2. The device will have dual core processor and dual core graphics. The big announcement is the device is a World Phone which means business users on Verizon can travel with their iPhone.
iOS 5 is packed with many new features that come allows it to better compete with Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone. Things like voice dictation anywhere (Android), Quick Camera access (Windows Phone), iMessage (BlackBerry). Apple has made adjustments to the antenna for switching between the Antenna’s which highlights the issues they originally had with the iPhone.
You can download iOS 5 on October 12th for iPod Touch (3rd and 4th Gen), iPad 1 and 2, and iPhone 3GS/4.
iPhone 4S, 16GB $199, 32GB $299, and 64GB $399 with a 2 year contract. Pre-Order on October 7th, Available on October 14th.
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It seems like not a day goes by without mobile companies trying to one-up each other about how much faster their mobile networks are than everyone else’s. All of the increased download speeds, however, coupled with high-priced data plans, and lower and lower bandwidth caps, combine to make sure that you’ll run out of data earlier and earlier. To combat that, many people are forced to supplement their data with available wireless networks. If you’re unlucky enough to be like me, you may even be required to use a Wi-Fi connection at home, just to be able to make and receive phone calls via a Wi-Fi calling app.
If you are one of the many people who frequently switch between your mobile network and a Wi-Fi hotspot, you know how annoying it can be to remember when you need to be on your data plan, and when you need to switch to a Wi-Fi connection. If you are on AT&T, then today is your lucky day. AT&T has released a free app to help you easily manage switching between your data plan and your preferred Wi-Fi hotspots. It can keep track of how much data you’ve used, and save battery life by remembering when you’re near Wi-Fi hotspots, rather than constantly searching, among other things. Read past the break for the full press release, including where to download the app for yourself. Special thanks to Mobility Digest for the screenshots.
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After weeks of rumors and speculation, Amazon finally officially announced details on their new eReader/tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire, which can be pre-ordered now for $200 and will be available on November 15th. As a bonus, everyone who pre orders the Kindle Fire will receive one month of Amazon Prime for free.
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Amazon held a press conference in NYC today to introduce 4 new Kindles all of which should set the e-reader and tablet markets on fire.
The new wi-fi Kindle will be priced at an ad-supported $79 ($109 without ads) and it is 30% lighter and 18% smaller than the old Kindle.
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It is difficult to look at the iPad and not see the potential to take a Bamboo Stylus, launch Noteshelf and take handwritten notes with digital ink. The iPad, unlike the HTC Flyer, lacks an active digitizer which allows you to rest your hand on the tablet as your write, without confusing the application accepting the input. Leave it to clever developers like the makers of Noteshelf to add a palm detection feature in the software which only accepts input above a certain point, thus ignoring your resting palm. Noteshelf is not the only application to adopt the palm detection feature, but it is one of our favorite apps when taking notes on the iPad.
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