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LG GD910 Touch Watch Phone Unveiled
LG Electronics today unveiled its GD910 Touch Watch Phone, a wearable phone with a full touch screen interface, 3G capabilities and video calling.
Using materials found in top watches such as a curved tempered glass face and high-quality metal casing, the GD910 features 7.2 Mbps 3G HSDPA compatibility for high-speed data transmission and video phone calling using the built-in camera.
SanDisk to Launch 16GB High-Performance Mobile Memory Cards
SanDisk today announced that it will launch 16GB SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) mobile memory cards in January.
The SanDisk Mobile Ultra cards offer fast side-loading speeds. Users will experience faster transfer rates to and from the memory card and computer. Cards are bundled with a MobileMate Micro Reader that plugs directly into a USB 2.0-compatible port.
Craigsphone - A free iPhone app that improves upon the classic goodness of Craigslist
Craigslist truly is like an old friend. It’s always there when you need it, as long as you have access to a web browser, that is. Now it can be there for you anywhere you go if you use Craigsphone, a free iPhone app that not only adds mobility to the online classifieds site, but
Apple Reveals New iTunes Pricing Structure [del.icio.us]
Apple has confirmed the rumors that iTunes will be moving to a variable pricing structure. Top tracks will carry a $1.29 price point, while other, less popular songs will be available at $0.99 and $0.69. Along with the new price points, all tracks on iTunes will be DRM-free by April. So who are these changes good for? For one, the record labels, which stand to make more money on releases from expensive, top 40-type artists. Meanwhile, as I wrote last night, the drop in prices is good for consumers whose musical tastes fall more into the long tail of iTunes’ huge music catalog.
iPhone news a no-show for Expo keynote [del.icio.us]
For a product that seems to dominate most everything Apple does these days, the iPhone was curiously absent from Tuesday’s Macworld Expo keynote by Apple senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller—at least until the end. In unveiling new information about the iTunes Store—variable pricing for music tracks that will now be entirely free of digital-rights management restrictions—Schiller also dropped some intel about the iTunes Wi-Fi Store. Namely, that it’s not the Wi-Fi Store anymore: you can now buy and download music tracks across a 3G network as well.
iTunes Goes DRM Free - But No Social Network Just Yet [del.icio.us]
At the Macworld 2009 keynote today, Apple announced that by the end of this quarter, all 10 million songs available on iTunes will be DRM free [Digital Rights Management]. As of today, 8 million songs will be DRM free, with the other 2 million done by end of Q1 09. This is long overdue, especially considering that Steve Jobs wrote an open letter to the music industry in February 2007 asking them to abolish DRM.
HTC S743 QWERTY Smartphone Announced for the U.S. Market
HTC today unveiled the S743, a Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and high-speed HSDPA (850/1900 MHz) connectivity.
Featuring a 'faceted' ergonomic design and measuring a mere 1.7 inches wide, the HTC S743 fits comfortably into the palm of the hand. It has a large and bright 2.4-inch QVGA display for reading and responding to email and SMS or accessing the Internet.