From the daily archives:

Sunday, February 7, 2010

HTC HD2 gets battery-equipped kickstand

7 February 2010

Apple’s iPad has a kickstand lined up for it already, so HTC probably figured out why not take advantage of its HD2’s beautiful screen and has decided to make a battery-kickstand combination for it.

The extended battery adds some extra juice, as well as some bulk to the gorgeously slim HD2,

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Olympus PEN E-PL1 enters third generation goodness

7 February 2010

The Olympus PEN E-PL1 is the third generation device of its kind, where Olympus claims that it offers technology which normally delivers great looking photos in bigger, bulkier and heavier professional Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras as well as High-Definition (HD) camcorders, albeit with the PEN

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Hutchison Austria to give iPad discount with 2-year 3G modem contract

7 February 2010

The iPad still not cheap enough for you? For our Austrian-based readers, Hutchison has plans to offer a discount on the Apple tablet wireless version, if they don’t mind the commitment to a 2-year, €29.90/month 5GB data contract. How much will they take off? €333, or roughly a hefty $445 discount.

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PowerColor completes a series of Go! Green five graphics cards based on Radeon HD 5450

7 February 2010

Company TUL Corporation, which owns the brand PowerColor, announced a quintet of new graphics cards in the original series of Go! Green, includes energy-efficient solutions. All five new accelerators are based on the recently announced graphics card AMD Radeon HD 5450, relating to the entry-level product.

All new cards Go! Green HD5450

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Sony Ericsson Aspen captured on video, running WinMo 6.5.3 Video

7 February 2010

A video of the recently-mentioned Sony Ericsson Aspen has just surfaced on Youtube, in a not-so-English foreign tongue. My Russian is unfortunately limited to “hello”, so I can’t interpret the specifics of this Aspen-toting Sergey Kuzmin, but we can pretty much guess that he’s expounding on how great the Sony Ericsson is.

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Core i7 MacBook Pro benchmark tips incoming Apple refresh?

7 February 2010

Benchmarking results for unannounced MacBook Pro models apparently running Intel Core i7 processors have reignited rumors that Apple intend to imminently update their flagship notebook range. The Geekbench results were apparently recorded on February 4th 2010, and clearly indicate that the MacBook Pro (listed as a MacBookPro6,1) has a 2.66GHz Core i7-620M processor

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Windows Phone 7 details leak: No multitasking, UI lock-down & Zune/Xbox integration?

7 February 2010

Microsoft have already confirmed that Windows Mobile 7 is going to make at least a partial debut at Mobile World Congress 2010 in a little over a week’s time, but so far all we’ve had is rumors as to what exactly they’ll be showing off. Now, according to PPCGeeks’ sources, more details are

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