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The Move PS3 motion controller will be released on September 16, 2010 in North America announced Sony at their E3 2010 Press Conference. The new controller system, which consists of the Move Controller (wand-like peripheral), Navigation Controller (previously called the “Sub Controller”, basically like the Wii’s Nunchuck) and PlayStation Eye camera, will also release in Europe on September 15th, Australia on September 16th and Japan on October 21st. Here are Move pricing details: * Move Controller: $50 * Navigation Controller: $30 * PlayStation Eye: Sells separately for $40 * Move Bundle (Includes Move Controller, Navigation, Eye and Sports Champion game): $100 * Move PS3 System Bundle (includes a PS3 250GB Slim console, Sports Champion, Move Controller, and Eye): $400. Yup that’s right, it will cost you $80 to get your hands on this new motion control tech for your PS3 (even more if you don’t own an Eye already). Quite a pretty penny. We’ll see how that goes down . . . Between 15 and

If you are an AT&T customer who just doesn’t need all that a high-end smartphone like the iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 offer you might be interested in the new Pantech Pursuit mobile. The new handset is a messaging phone that is designed for easy use and low price. The Pursuit has a touchscreen with a 2.8-inch display and it features a digital camera, access to social networking, music player, and video playback. A slide-out QWERTY keyboard is also featured and the handset comes in blue or green colors. Pantech adds in some different features for the phone like Drawing Commander that dials contacts and activates apps on the handset by tracing a finger on the touchscreen. The device also has a graffiti mode that lets you draw on images using a finger right on the screen. The handset is also designed for multitasking and connects to the AT&T 3G network. The device is available now and is $49.99 after a new contract and a mail-in $50 rebate.

It’s obviously a week for games developer CEOs to drop hints about the upcoming Nintendo 3DS , the Japanese company’s 3D gaming handheld, with both Capcom’s Haruhiro Tsujimoto and EA’s John Riccitiello talking about the device in recent interviews. Each exec was careful not to overstep Nintendo’s NDAs ahead of E3, with Riccitiello only conceding that “I will tell you, I’ve seen it; it’s cool.” As for Tsujimoto, he wouldn’t say whether he’s been playing with the 3DS, but he did attempt to draw a connection with the success of mobile gaming offerings and App Store style distribution methods. He points to NTT DoCoMo’s iMode platform, and how that was a success because it allowed users to access the content they were interested in while on the move. On the 3DS, he says: “Of course, it allows us to do things that couldn’t be done until now, so the development staff is showing great interest, but what’s important is how much the users themselves want 3D content. What we’re more looking fo

Sony’s second-gen VAIO P ultraportable has finally shown up for preorder on the company’s US SonyStyle webstore, priced from $899.99 and with deliveries expected to kick off from around June 25th 2010. The newly refreshed VAIO P packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor paired with GMA 500 graphics, and comes in five different casing colors. There’s also WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, along with a 128GB SSD, webcam and a battery good for up to 4hrs runtime with the 8-inch 1600 x 768 display at default brightness. RAM is 2GB and OS is Windows 7 Home Premium. Interestingly, while the first-gen VAIO P had integrated WWAN mobile broadband, the new version doesn’t seem to offer it. That could all change before the ultraportable officially begins shipping later this month, however.

Having fallen foul of the NY Times lawyers yesterday and seen their Pulse News Reader app for iPad yanked from the App Store, Alphonso Labs’ software is now back in the marketplace [iTunes link] after being mildly reworked. According to All Things D’s sources, the team submitted a new version which removed the NY Times as a default feed and changed the screenshots used in their App Store listing to remove the paper from view. Meanwhile they’ve also been told that other third-party news readers have provoked the NY Times’ wrath in the past, and it’s merely that Pulse is so topical right now that this has filtered up to make headlines. Interestingly, they also say that Apple “will soon update older versions sold” which implies that the NY Times will be stripped from versions of Pulse News Reader purchased and installed prior to the legal scuffle.

Acer have officially unveiled their latest netbook, the Acer Aspire One D260 , boasting up to 8hrs runtime, Intel’s latest Atom N455 1.66GHz processor (along with the N450 too) and up to 2GB of RAM. The D260 has a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 200-nit display, GMA 3150 graphics and optional quadband 3G/UMTS. Unfortunately, there’s no sign of the rumored Android OS option we heard about back in April, only Windows 7. There’s also WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0+HS and 10/100 ethernet, together with three USB 2.0 ports, VGA, audio in/out and a multiformat memory card reader. Storage is via either a 160GB or 250GB hard-drive, and there are two batteries: a 3-cell pack good for up to 4hrs or a 6-cell for up to 8hrs. So, nothing especially dramatic in terms of specs then, so the real judgement will have to wait until we know the price. Unfortunately Acer aren’t saying until the Aspire One D260 drops on July 1st 2010.

Google have been fleshing out their upcoming Cloud Print service , which is now apparently being tested internally. Similar to what we saw with HP’s ePrint system yesterday, Google Cloud Print allows users to send print jobs from their smartphone to any compatible networked printer; in fact, Google took to the stage with HP to demo the interaction of the two systems, and confirm that any of HP ePrint printers announced will also be fully compatible with Google Cloud Print. In the demo, Google showed how documents on smartphones and netbooks running Google Chrome OS could print instantly and without any drivers being necessary. HP won’t be the only printer company to produce models that are compatible – Google say they’re working with “a number of manufacturers” – but so far they’re the only one to commercially announce them. HP’s Cloud Print compatible models kick off at $99; more details on the four new machines here.

The Sub-Tub is a rather strange product. It’s a concept apparently and as far as the design goes, it’s certainly interesting with a whirlpool tub, sink, and OLED display all rolled into one. The design would also clearly be very expensive if it were produced aiming at rich folk. The weird part is that it’s designed for the rich, with small space. Those two things just don’t go together. I guess it would be great for the mountain cabin or something. At any rate, the device has whirlpool jets and a built in sink and the lid folds down when not in use to hide the tub. The OLED screen strangely has no TV tuner it seems, you can upload pictures to view if you want. I’d rather have the ability to view movies or other video. The whole thing is cool, even if it looks a bit short and shallow for tall folks to stretch out.

already mentioned this morning that iLuv had unveiled its full line of iPhone 4 accessories yesterday. Belkin is now unveiling its full line of iPhone 4 accessories as well and it’s massive. Belkin will offer no less than 20 accessories for the iPhone 4 smartphone. The cases will include multiple units in the Grip family with and without straps and in different colors and patterns at $24.99 to $29.99. The Grip Vue case is the one you see pictured above. Belkin will also have a line of Shield cases with shock and impact resistance with minimal extra bulk ranging from $24.99 to $29.99. The Belkin Verve series includes a case with a kickstand for watching media and a belt clip case as well as a folio case with a flip back front flap all at $29.99. A line of armbands for workouts will be offered as well as screen overlays in privacy, matte and clear options. All of the gear will land in late June.

Apple has been pretty keen to talk up the benefits of their Apple A4 1GHz core , as buried inside the iPad and the new iPhone 4, but they’ve also been quite coy about sharing its technical origins. Now analysts UBM TechInsights reckon they’ve figured it out on their own, and interestingly enough they’re saying the 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 application processor is exactly the same as what’s found in the Samsung Wave S8500. The Wave’s processor is the S5PC110A01, and it seems it’s the handiwork of Samsung and Intrinsity; Apple of course bought Intrinsity back in April. Of course, it’s not just what’s powering your device but how the software uses it, so beyond being frugal and capable using the same core doesn’t really draw any great parallels between the two, but with Samsung tipped to launch three different tablets this year – including the 7-inch Galaxy Tab – we’ll be interested to see if they can leverage the Cortex A8 in the same way that Apple have obviously managed to.

Texas Instruments has announced a pair of new Sitara ARM Cortex A8 MPUs that include the AM3715 and the AM3703. Both of the new parts can run at up to 1GHz speeds and offer better system response time, faster boot times, and increased battery life. TI is aiming the new APUs at portable data terminals, portable medical equipment, home automation, navigation devices, smart displays, and HMI industrial applications. The AM3703 is for applications that don’t need graphics while the AM3715 enables fluid, complex 3D rendering, and GUI capabilities. TI claims that both of the new APUs offer close to a 40% increase in ARM performance and can increase battery life by up to 30% thanks to lowered power consumption compared to other parts in the Sitara family. The graphics capable APU has PowerVR graphics core supporting OpenGL ES 2.0.

What’s that you say? You miss the heady days of Computex and a dozen new tablets a day? We can’t recreate the show for you – all our booth babes are relaxing having spent most of yesterday fanning the iPhone 4 liveblog servers - but we can show you MSI’s official images of their Windows 7 based WindPad U100 . The U100 has an Intel Atom Z530 processor paired with a 10-inch 1024 x 600 screen, together with a webcam, pair of USB 2.0 ports and an HDMI output. It’s slightly less interesting, we have to say, than the MSI WindPad U110, which packs NVIDIA’s Tegra chipset, runs Android and is 1080p-capable. Precise launch dates for the two slates are unknown, but we’re hoping that, if MSI are already busying themselves preparing press shots, the “later this year” window means sooner rather than later. Pricing is expected to be in the region of $499 for the U100 and $399 for the U110.

Sony has announced some new VAIO PC s that will land in Japan this summer starting in June. The machines will fit into the VAIO L, VAIO J, and VAIO F lines. The L-series are AIO machines that come in versions with and without digital TV tuners built-in. The VPCL139FJ/T is what you see pictured below and it has a 24-inch full HD touchscreen AIO machine with dual digital tuners, dual AVC Transcoding, and a Blu-ray drive. It will sell for 245,000 yen and a version lacking the touchscreen is 215,000 yen. The J-series is a line of 21.5-inch AIO machines with dual digital tuners and dual AVC Transcoding in the two high-end models, which also feature Blu-ray drives. The 220,000 yen high-end model has a touchscreen while a 200,000 yen version lacks touch. A cheaper 160,000 yen version uses a DVD drive and dual terrestrial tuners. The F-series notebooks range from 255,000 to 175,000 yen and all have 16.4-inch screens. The high-end version has dual digital tuners, dual AVC, BD drive and more.

AT&T have already confirmed their iPhone 4 pricing for the US, but without a name-check on stage at WWDC yesterday carriers in the other four countries – France, Germany, UK and Japan – that will see the iPhone 4 on June 24th have been left to announce details themselves. In the UK, that means O2, Orange and Vodafone have all thrown their hats into the Apple ring. None of the three are giving anything away when it comes to pricing, though O2 are taking pre-registrations asare Vodafone. Orange simply say they will announce more details closer to the smartphone’s launch. In the US, the iPhone 4 will be priced at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Meanwhile an 8GB iPhone 3GS will be on sale at $99. AT&T have confirmed that anybody with a contract renewal date in the remainder of 2010 will be eligible for an early upgrade to the iPhone 4, though international carriers are yet to announce anything similar themselves.

It might feel that way, but Monday wasn’t entirely about the iPhone 4; Microsoft’s TechEd conference also kicked off, and the company took some time out to focus on Windows Phone 7 ’s business credentials, as well as detailing how some of their developer policies will work. Dry stuff, you may be thinking, but with Microsoft reckoning that more than 90-percent of buyers will use their smartphone for business purposes in some way Of those Microsoft spoke to, over 70-percent want to use their same device for business and pleasure, so the company has been showing off ActiveSync integration, Exchange support and other Office Hub details along with the existing social networking and gaming functionality we’ve seen before. There are also plenty of remote administrator tools, such as the ability to not only lock or wipe a device, but to turn off tethering, memory card access and more. As for the developer policies, the latest batch are detailed here. Microsoft are hoping that they’ll be a l

It’s every young developers’ dream: you create an app for the iPad, get glowing feedback in the press, and then Steve Jobs mentions your software while standing on stage during the WWDC 2010 keynote . Unfortunately for the developers of the Pulse News Reader app which Jobs did indeed namecheck yesterday, the aftermath wasn’t chart-topping sales but a takedown notice from the NY Times and their software being yanked unceremoniously from the App Store. The Pulse News Reader takes up to twenty news feeds and presents them in a slick, easily read manner, complete with both “as online” views and a cut-down version with ads and banners stripped out, similar in fact toSafari 5’s Reader functionality. It seems it’s this slick presentation of other sites’ RSS feeds that the NY Times disagrees with; according to the paper’s lawyer, that infringes on their copyright. Apple responded to the legal request – which you can read over at All Things D – by pulling Pulse from the App Store. It’s uncle

Apple seem to have accidentally let slip their plans for the iWork suite on the iPhone 4 , with a rapidly pulled screenshot of the new smartphone suggesting that users will be able to open presentations in their mobile Keynote app. The shot, from the Features section of the iPhone 4 pages, was soon replaced with another showing “Open in iBooks” functionality instead. Keynote is one of three productivity apps Apple announced alongside the iPad, the others being the word-processor Pages and the spreadsheet app Numbers. All three are available for $9.99 each, though currently only for Apple’s tablet. Jobs made no mention of the iWork compatibility in his presentation yesterday, but then he also made clear that the iPhone 4 has over a 100 new user features and that he’d only be demonstrating a handful of them. Still, we wonder exactly how usable for content creation the suite will be on the iPhone 4, even with its high-resolution Retina Display, and whether it will be used more as a doc

As promised, Dell has updated their Alienware M11x gaming ultraportable with some new Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processor options. The 11.6-inch notebook can still be specified with the same Pentium dual-core as before, but now buyers can also pick either a 1.06GHz Core i5-520UM or 1.06GHz Core i7-640UM. Meanwhile there’s also NVIDIA Optimus graphics thanks to the GeForce GT 335M GPU. Currently the new CPUs aren’t showing up in the US system, though European buyers can choose them. The Core i5 CPU is available in a £849 model ($1,230) while the Core i7 CPU is a £180 ($261) upgrade on top of that. Meanwhile Engadget are claiming that they’ve seen internal Dell documentation pointing to a similar refresh for the US model happening sometime today. All in all, it should add up to an even more successful machine than the one we reviewed a few months back.

Keen to live through the whole iPhone 4 event again, only this time with visuals? If our liveblog wasn’t enough to sate your Apple desires, you’ll be pleased to hear that the full WWDC 2010 keynote video is now available to watch on-demand through the Apple site. Lasting around two hours in all, the demo covers everything from iPad sales stats, the latest features of the newly-christened iOS4, and then of course is dominated by Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone. Steve runs through nine key iPhone 4 features, including Retina Display and the new camera functionality. Of course, if you’re short of time then you can catch up with some of the best features from our own coverage. Check out highlights of Apple’s attempt to popularise mobile video calling in the FaceTime demo, our ownhands-on with the iPhone 4, and then analyst Ben Bajarin’s hands-on report.

Now here’s a surprise. After filling the WWDC 2010 keynote with naught but iPhone 4 goodness, Apple has slipped out Safari 5 , the latest version of their desktop browser. Packing a claimed 30-percent performance boost over Safari 4, the new version is also apparently three percent faster than Chrome 5.0 and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6. Of course, it’s still a free download, and is available both for Mac and Windows machines. There’s no shortage of HTML5 goodness, either, just as we’ve heard in rumors leading up to the new browser’s release. Apple have squeezed in HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource and WebSocket, together with a new, free Safari Developer Program. That uses standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to create new extensions, and there’s a dedicated Extension Builder in which each runs, sandboxed and with a signed digital Apple signature. Mo

Slimmer, brighter, more powerful and apparently the product of 18 months development: the Apple iPhone 4 certainly is something . The WWDC 2010 opening keynote is over, and we’ve just been back to check out the new Apple smartphone. Set to debut on June 24th – and up for preorder from June 15th – the Jobs hyperbole and press shots don’t do the iPhone 4 justice in your hand. Whether you’re an Apple fan or not, you have to give them credit for creating a very slick device. At just only 9.3mm thick, we already know it’s 24-percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS. Still, the squared off edges means it doesn’t feel quite as slender as you might imagine. Happily the incredible IPS screen – using Apple’s new Retina Display 960 x 640 technology – more than makes up for it. Icons are smooth, crisp and clean, and text is incredibly precise. We browsed through a few webpages and were blown away by how amazingly readable they were even at zoomed-out levels. All of a sudden the limitation is yo

Quadband GSM, Steve Jobs said, and you could hear the hiss of excitement as eager T-Mobile USA customers suddenly wondered if they’d be able to take advantage of the iPhone 4 . Unfortunately, a quick glance at thefreshly posted spec sheet confirms their hopes are in vain: the iPhone 4 supports 850, 900, 1900 and 2100 MHz UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, not the 1700/2100 T-Mobile USA requires. What does this mean? Basically, when the first iPhone 4 unlock hack is released – and we don’t expect it to take long after the smartphone hits shelves on June 24th – T-Mobile USA subscribers will still only be able to take advantage of quadband GSM/EDGE, just like on the current, triband iPhone 3GS. For all our iPhone 4 coverage, check out the launch post and summary, then head over to analyst Ben Bajarin’s new column on the smartphone. Let us know what you think of Apple’s latest attempt in the comments!

Apple once again has built and delivered the most advanced mobile device in the market. Steve Jobs, during his interview at the Wall St. Journal conference last week, mentioned that his companies passion was to build the best products around and in this analyst’s opinion they have again set the bar by which other mobile phones will be judged. This doesn’t mean that other competitors won’t catch up or include key innovations of their own, however for the time being the iPhone 4 and the newly named iOS4 is packed with innovation useful for everyday consumers and tech enthusiasts alike. It may be easy for many people within the press – including the Apple naysayers – to look at today’s announcements and complain that there was anything truly innovative announced. Statements like these miss the broader picture of not only what Apple is doing but what Apple is doing for the technology industry at large. That being said, I want to highlight several things that require a deeper look. Battery

Steve Jobs, still standing on the stage at WWDC 2010 on Monday, finally unveiled the pricing for the next member of the iPhone family. Prices, whether you’re surprised or not, aren’t all that different than what we’ve come to expect from Apple, working together with AT&T, and there’s two models to choose from this time around. You can pick up the 16GB model, in either white or black, for a paltry $199. As for the 32GB model, you’ll have to put down $299 to get your hands on it. Of course, those prices are with a new, two-year agreement, so keep that in mind, too. AT&T is changing things around to make sure that current iPhone owners can get their hands on the new model, and if you’re contract is set to end in 2010, some time in that year, then you’re automatically eligible for the new model. The device will be on sale on June 24th, and it will be up for pre-order starting June 15th. As we’ve said in the past, the iPhone 3G is officially retired, and right now the iPhone 3GS, i

There’s a front-facing camera on the iPhone 4 , and pretty much everyone assumed that with a front-facing camera, that means you have to have video calling. Apparently Apple agreed with all of you, because sure enough, it’s coming to the next version of the iPhone. There’s a bit of a snag, though. While everyone would probably love to run around their city, using that AT&T 3G they know and love, to make all those video calls, Steve Jobs announced that the calls will be only made over WiFi for now. You can access a video call, from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 that is, even from a regular on the fly, though, so that’s definitely interesting. It features “amazing video and audio quality,” and that probably goes a long way due to the WiFi connection. It’s apparently WiFi-only in 2010, and the carriers “need to do some work” before it can get anywhere else. We imagine that’s something AT&T would want to work on, pretty quickly, as it’s one of the features that many people out there want,

Harit Nagpal, group marketing director, Vodafone Plc (pictured) is set to join Tata Sky as managing director. He will succeed present Tata Sky MD Vikram Kaushik, who will be retiring in December 2010.   Nagpal, who has worked with the telecom giant for the last nine years, had recently moved to Vodafone UK in a wider role. Prior to his move to the UK, Nagpal was marketing director at Vodafone Essar. Nagpal’s more than two decade long career has spanned stints at companies like Lakmй, Pepsi, Marico and Shoppers Stop before he joined the telecom brand.   Vikram Kaushik began his career at Unilever. He was behind the success of a number of Unilever brands such as Lux and Fair & Lovely. He had a brief stint in advertising as the head of an ad agency before joining Britannia as vice-president, marketing and exports. Kaushik also served Colgate-Palmolive India as marketing director, joining the company’s board as a full-time director. He moved to Tata Sky

This year the Star Parivaar awards would be remembered for dominance of one serial and that is Mann ki Awaaz Pratigya. This serial has got actors and actresses who are either new face on television or those who were not able to get recognition despite of excellent performances of past. Besides Pratigya, other serials who made into the winners list are Sajan Ghar Jana Hai, Ye Rishta Kya Kahlata Hai, Sasural Genda Phool, Sabki Ladli Bebo, Sapna Babul Kaa Bidai . Some other notable winners are Kiran Bedi and Rajiv Khandelwal both of them for non fiction series. The list of winners is given below: Favourite Buzurg Dada Ji (Sudhir Pandey) (Sasural Genda Phool) Favourite Maa Shailaja (Supriya) (Sasural Genda Phool) Favourite Mazedar Sadasya Sajjan Singh (Anupam Shyam) (Mann ki Awaaz Pratigya) Favourite Pita Vishambhar (Sanjeev Sethi) (Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai) Favourite Naya Sadasya (Female) Pratigya (Pooja Gor) (Mann ki Awaaz Pratigya) Favourite Jethani Bhabhi Maa

When iPhone OS 4 (or should we say iOS4) was shown off a few months back, we had a pretty good demonstration of how Apple’s new, revolutionary mobile advertisement platform was going to work. But, it wouldn’t be an Apple keynote if we didn’t get to see it in action again. Of course, there’s a few more pieces of information in there that are worthy of mention, but we all know Steve Jobs just wanted to show it off again. Apple are expecting to take 48% of the whole mobile advertising market, and wants developers to try it out. He apparently thinks that it will be a great success for them, too. And, considering the platform, and how many devices it would be on, that’s probably pretty accurate. Apparently they’ve $60m committed for iAds from advertisers in the second half of the year. As for partners, here’s who you’re looking at (so far): Nissan, Citi, Unileve, AT&T, Chanel, GE, Liberty Mutual, State Farm, Geico, Cambells, Sears, JC Penny, Target, Best Buy, Direct TV, TBS and Disney

iPhone OS must have been too long to say in general conversation, because Apple have gone ahead and changed the name of one of their most defining pieces of technology. iPhone OS will now, and forever be known as iOS, which is definitely a lot easier to say. Of course, that means that with the introduction of iOS 4, the name will be forever official. There are upwards of 1,500 new features being released with iOS 4. Things like Folders, Unified Inbox, and Multitasking (which we’ve seen before) are coming along for the ride. As Steve Jobs put it, they weren’t the first on the market with multitasking, but they took the time to make sure that it is done right. If you don’t, then you kill your battery, and that’s just not a good user experience. The other new features include Retina Integration with all of the applications — developers don’t have to do anything to make it work. The enhanced camera, obviously, as well as plenty more. Stay tuned with the liveblog, because it doesn’t look l

The hits just keep on coming from Apple, as Steve Jobs continues to command the stage at WWDC 2010. While the iPhone 4 was probably the biggest (even if most expected) piece of news announced today, another heavy hitter just hit the stage. The iPHone 4’s camera can take HD video up to 720p, at 30fps, but what good is that if you can’t edit those movies from your phone, right? That’s where iMovie for iPhone comes in, ladies and gentlemen. iMovie for the iPhone is written specifically for the smaller, mobile device. There’s a big preview screen that goes on top of what you’re working on, and a timeline underneath. It looks a lot like iMovie for Mac, which isn’t surprising at all. You can pinch to alter the timeline scale at your will, and you can also record video directly into the iMovie app, or you can simply import recorded videos whenever you want. You can apply themes, toggle music on and off, and use your iPod library as your music selection. You can export video in 360p, 520p, or

Well, that didn’t take long at all. Steve Jobs has come out on stage at this year’s WWDC to blow the socks off everybody out there, and while he believes that the iPhone 4 is, “Beyond a doubt the most precise thing, the most beautiful thing we’ve ever made,” we’ll have to wait and see it in our hands (hopefully today) before we can make a final judgment. But, it’s announced! External controls include volume up/down, mute, there’s a front facing camera, micro-SIM, camera with LED flash, microphone on the bottom with the 30-pin Dock Connector and speaker. On top is the headphone jack and a second microphone for noise cancellation, plus the power button. It’s 9.3mm thick – that’s 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS and the thinnest smartphone on the planet. Glass front and back; stainless steel edging. “Closest kin is an old Leica camera.” “This is the iPhone 4.” And with that, we’ve got the next iteration of the iPhone family of devices. Stay tuned, as more is coming!

As tipped earlier today, HP has announced their HP ePrint web-connected and cloud-aware printer system, which will allow users to store documents remotely and print them from wherever they are in the world. At its most basic, users will be able to email print tasks to their printer from smartphones, iPads and other internet-connected devices; however, HP ePrint will also allow for scheduled prints of online content, such as MSNBC news or Disney activities for children. Compatible content providers include Yahoo! and msnbc.com daily news; Crayola and KoL.com for coloring pages and family ideas; Picasa Web Albums for printing photos; and PBS KIDS literacy, math and science activities featuring characters such as Curious George. There’s also Facebook support, for printing from a user’s photo album or listed events; MapQuest for maps and directions; Artsonia for images from the world’s largest kids art museum; Arrival Guides’ travel guides for hundreds of destinations around the world;

HTC have opened their corporate purse and bought Abaxia, a French firm that specialises in creating customised software for operators and cellphone device manufacturers. The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but the two companies have worked together previously; Abaxia currently offer several homescreen UI packages, which integrate carrier logos, identity and services into device OSes, pull mobile search into the homescreen, and – with their “Open Platform” – can push data, such as adverts, social networking information or live web content, to idle screens. Abaxia also work across all the platforms HTC currently uses, and more, including Android, Windows Mobile and Java (together with iPhone OS and webOS). The two firms are yet to suggest what exactly the new expertise will do to future HTC devices, beyond HTC CEO Peter Chou saying it will allow them to “innovate at an even faster pace.” Back in 2008, HTC acquired design firm One & Co, who went on to shape the br

Back on May 24, the Pandigital Novel eReader was officially unveiled. The eReader has a color 7-inch LCD and generally looks really cool. It runs Android and has WiFi connectivity. The cool part about that WiFi connectivity on the device is that it not only lets users connect to the Barnes & Noble eBook store, it also lets them share titles for up to 14 days. In case you forgot the full specs, the device supports multimedia like MP3, AAC, and WAV files along with JPEG, PNG, and GIF images. It has 1GB of internal storage and can save to SD memory cards as well. The 2.5mm headphone jack lets you listen privately and it measures in at 5.5 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches and weighs a pound. The Novel was slated to launch this month for $199.99 and launch it has. However, the device has landed at Kohl’s for $60 more than the MSRP at $259.99. Figure in another $22.95 for Kohl’s shipping and this thing is the same price as other more established eReaders on the market.

When HP purchased WebOS, I figured at best we would see the OS on things like netbooks, tablets, and new smartphones. When HP started to mention that HP webOS would find its way onto other devices like printers, I wondered what the point was. WebOS on a printer alone was of little value in my mind, but the New York Timesis talking about a new feature for printers that would be very useful. I can certainly see printers connected to the internet being useful if those printers, possibly sporting webOS, could print documents that are received via their own email address. The NYT reports that HP has new web connected printers coming with their own email address, touchscreens and print-by-email functionality. This would be a great feature for users of devices like the iPhone and iPad that lack the ability to print emails or documents received. The new printers will reportedly range in price starting at $99 and going up to $400. With this feature all of those photos you take on your iPhone c

Motorola has confirmed its plans to launch a full twenty Android based smartphones this year, with a range of devices running MOTOBLUR like the FLIPOUT and some packing hardware QWERTY keyboards. According to Tom Satchwell, director of marketing for Motorola’s mobile devices business, not all of the new devices will necessarily arrive in every region or even launch with carrier support. For that, Satchwell blames Motorola’s ramping-up of Android support – something the company basically flipped to late last year – being faster than the general product cycle the carriers like to stick to. If it were up to Satchwell, all of Motorola’s devices would launch worldwide; unfortunately, in the real-world some don’t get the attention they perhaps deserve. A good example of this is the Motorola MILESTONE, the European version of the Motorola DROID, which launched though distributors rather than via carriers, and saw significantly less consumer attention as a result. We’re tentatively concer

Having multiple screens is a great thing for many uses like productivity, gaming, and movie watching. The biggest issue facing the use of multiple screens is the bezels that frequently make for large gaps. These gaps break the image up and often cause lost areas of content. Sharp has announced a new video display called the PN-V601 that has a very thin bezel and is designed to be used in multiple screen video walls. The bezels are claimed to be the world’s thinnest at only 6.5mm thick. The screen is LED backlit for color quality and lower power usage. The 6.5mm thick bezel is between two screens. The right side and bottom bezel is 2.4mm and the left side and top are 4.1mm thick for a total of 6.5mm between screens. That is much better than the half inch or so of bezel on many screens making for about an inch between many multiple screen setups. The PN-V601 will land in Japan to start with on August 31 at an undisclosed price.

It wasn’t just the Motorola XT720 we grabbed some playtime with this morning; we also caught some hands-on time with the company’s diminutive FLIPOUT, announced last week. In some ways the FLIPOUT is more of a surprise than the XT720 proved to be, mainly because it’s actually very usable despite the palm-sized dimensions. The QWERTY keyboard is reasonable to type on, and the rotating screen section may be the spiritual successor to the Sidekick’s spring-loaded display when it comes to absent-mindedly fiddling with your phone. In fact, the main thing holding us back from outright FLIPOUT lust is the display. At 2.8-inches it’s not so much the scale as the QVGA resolution, which is low enough to make webpages a pixelated mush at all but the closest of zoom levels. A slightly higher resolution and this could find its way into a surprising number of professional pockets, we reckon. Motorola FLIPOUT hands-on Otherwise it’s generally swift and the new version of MOTOBLUR – while still

I once owned a Compaq desktop computer that I custom configured back in the day. This was all before HP gobbled them up. Today Compaq is a name we rarely talk about anymore. A new notebook that the company is offering is interesting not for the performance it offers, but for the price of the machine. The notebook is the Compaq Presario CQ62Z and in its most basic configuration the 15.6-inch notebook carries a price tag more like a netbook than a notebook at $379.99. Sure, you can get the price up to nearly twice that mark. However, if a bargain machine with a standard notebook size screen is what you want you can get it here. The base configuration uses an AMD V-Series V120 CPU running at 2.2GHz. Optional CPUs range from Athlon II parts up to 3-core Phenom II parts. RAM runs from 2GB to 4GB with storage options in 5400 and 7200 RPM from 250GB to 500GB. Graphics are from ATI with base machines getting HD 4250. The screen is LED backlit with a 1366 x 768 resolution and power comes from

Notion Ink ’s much-anticipated Adam tablet is unlikely to see a commercial launch until November, with delays currently being blamed on investor preferences. According to an unnamed would-be customer who contacted the company via email, Notion Ink CEO Rohan Shravan confirmed that while investors stumped up the cash for the project “they also brought the step by step procedures and experience on how we should launch.” “I am sad to say that I have to fight every day with them to launch by July end,” Shravan continues, “but they want us to hit markets only near Thanksgiving.” Update: We’ve talked with Rohan Shravan and it seems he was only partially quoted in the original report. More details after the cut. That’s disappointing news for anyone hoping Notion Ink would keep to their original Q3 2010 release window. The Adam is an Android based 10.1-inch slate using Pixel Qi’s 3qi display technology for indoor and outdoor use; based on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset – itself a source of delay rum

As the technology packed into Bluetooth headsets gets more complex, the method by which wearers control them gets similarly confusing. Where once a multifunction button was enough, now manufacturers are experimenting with voice control and intelligent DSP systems. Sound ID has taken a slightly different path, offloading control from their new Sound ID 510 headset onto a dedicated iPhone app. The question is, has Sound ID made things easier or is remote control software one step too far for the average Bluetooth user? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut. The Sound ID 510 headset itself is pretty generic in appearance. Around 2-inches long, it’s finished in gloss black plastic and has a detachable ear-hook. We found the company’s “Real Comfort” earbuds felt secure enough to hold the 510 in place without necessarily requiring the ear-hook, while still being soft enough that it was comfortable for longer periods. It even comes with a handsome carrying case. Physical control