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Maingear's Newest Gaming Laptop

Maingear Introduces eX-L 17 Gaming Laptop With GTX 480M
By on Thursday, 24. June 2010

The folks at Maingear have taken the covers off of their newest gaming laptop. The Maingear ex-L 17, like the other models in the eX-L line are beefy and big laptops that probably could be used a desktop replacement notebooks. Maingear boasts that the eX-L is the “most powerful components [...]

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Android Phone Sales Ramp Up: 160,000 Android Phones Selling Per Day

Android Phone Sales Up From May by 60K Per Day As Up To 4.8 Million Android Handsets Go Online Per Month
By on Thursday, 24. June 2010

Whilst the official unveiling of the Android Motorola Droid X has very much dominated today’s new on TFTS it’s interesting to note that, according to Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt Google are activating 160,000 Android phones per day, which sees a whopping 4.8 million Android handsets going online per month.

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Nokia E72 Coming To Telus Soon

Nokia Handheld Making Its Canadian Landing On July 11th
By on Thursday, 24. June 2010

The Nokia E72 has been a popular phone over in Europe, and soon, it’ll be making it’s Canadian arrival. The fact that the Nokia E72 is coming to Canada via Telus is no secret, but the date was unknown until now. Canadian phone blog MobileSyrup is reporting that the Nokia [...]

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First Droid Will Get Froyo Update Before Droid X

Leaked Internal Verizon Memo Shows Original Droid Getting Android 2.2 Before Droid X
By on Thursday, 24. June 2010

Today, everybody was mouth watering over the new Droid X – the phone we’ve known about forever but just first saw officially unveiled today. The Droid X will ship with Android 2.1, and according to Motorola and Verizon – it’ll get the OTA update to Android 2.2 in August. But, [...]

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iPhone iOS 4 Twitter App Available via App Store

Updated Twitter App Gets iOS 4 Multitasking Functionality
By on Thursday, 24. June 2010

With the release this week of iOS 4 (aka iPhone OS 4.0) we’ve seen the release of a swathe of iOS 4 App updates from such as Pandora whilst others, such as Skype, have confirmed that an iOS 4 update to their Skype for iPhone App is on the way, [...]

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Verizon Getting iPhone Next Year, Says Lombard Street Firm

Barclays Predicts CMDA iPhone Coming To Big Red In 2011
By on Wednesday, 23. June 2010

Barclays, the financial firm, predicts that Verizon Wireless will begin selling the iPhone sometime in the year 2011. To recap, while most countries have more than one iPhone carrier, in its native United States, the iPhone is only out through carrier AT&T. As I’m sure you’re aware, rumors of the [...]

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Some iPhone 4s Suffering From Yellow Display Syndrome?

User Reports of Yellow/Brown Dots on iPhone 4 Displays Surface
By on Wednesday, 23. June 2010

When a popular product launches, it’s almost a given that something is going to go wrong. And, when a product as popular as say, the iPhone 4 launches, it seems like it’s almost required for something to go wrong. If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know that when the iPhone [...]

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BlackBerry Bold 9700 For Free With Three-Year Deal?

Canadians To Get Bold 9700 For Free On Three-Year Tariff From Rogers
By on Wednesday, 23. June 2010

If you’re Canadian and you’ve had your eyes on getting the BlackBerry Bold 9700, you may be in for the deal of a lifetime. According to some leaked photos, Canadian carrier Rogers will soon be offering Bold 9700s for free with a three-year contract. Yes, it’s definitely a long contract, [...]

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Sears/Kmart Gearing Up to Launch Streaming Movie Service

Sears and Kmart to Launch a Competing Streaming Movie Service to Take On Best Buy, WalMart
By on Wednesday, 23. June 2010

If you’re planning on watching a movie in today’s day and age, how do you go about doing it? Perhaps you head to Blockbuster or another video rental store and rent a physical copy, perhaps you head right to Best Buy and buy a physical copy, or perhaps you go [...]

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Nikon Coolpix S300 for People on a Budget

The Nikon Coolpix S300 is a Reasonable Point and Shoot Camera Made for the Reasonable Consumer
By on Wednesday, 23. June 2010

As far as getting affordable point and shoot cameras in the market today, you normally get what you pay for. And as far as the Nikon Coolpix S300 is concerned, this slim and compact camera should be sufficient as long as you don’t end up demanding better photo quality.

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