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		<title>Pros and Cons about HTC Touch Pro2 Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HTC Touch Pro 2 here for Sprint users.  The HTC Touch Pro 2 is packed with features that you may like and features that may not appeal to your taste.  Check out this short review and make a better decision about your new gadget.
From the positive side, the HTC Touch Pro2 for Sprint offers [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-127" title="htc-touch-pro2-2" src="http://ohgeeky.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/htc-touch-pro2-21-300x246.jpg" alt="htc-touch-pro2-2" width="300" height="246" />The HTC Touch Pro 2 here for Sprint users.  The HTC Touch Pro 2 is packed with features that you may like and features that may not appeal to your taste.  Check out this short review and make a better decision about your new gadget.</p>
<p><strong>From the positive side,</strong> the HTC Touch Pro2 for Sprint offers a gorgeous touch screen, a spacious keyboard, and a 3.5 millimeter jack. The Windows Mobile device also features world-roaming capabilities, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.<br />
<em>Cool features: </em>support MS office: word, excel, and powerpoint.</p>
<p><strong>Something that you may not like include the following:</strong> the device is bulky in size and also expensive. GPS acquisition was a bit slow in our tests and ideo streaming wasn&#8217;t the smoothest. <strong>$350 is the price</strong>, but only with a two years contract (something that may shy users from picking up this phone)</p>
<p><strong>In conclusion</strong>, although it is not cheap to purchase this toy, the HTC Touch Pro2 is a powerful smartphone that delivers in performance and features to make it one of the best devices for Sprint&#8217;s business customers.  Stylish,convenient, and powerful are the features that HTC is aiming to attract new users.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Here is a great video review about this slick looking smart-phone.<br />
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		<title>Iphone&#8217;s Disadvantage Strategic Plan in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the news about Apple Iphone going to China. Its service provider will be China Unicom Ltd.  Unicom&#8217;s prices range from 4,999 yuan ($730) to 6,999 yuan ($1,025) for the high-end, 32-gigabyte iPhone 3GS. That is 20 percent above the 5,700 yuan ($835) charged by merchants at Chinese street markets for a 3GS with [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-119" title="iphone-contextconsistency" src="http://ohgeeky.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/iphone-contextconsistency-263x300.png" alt="iphone-contextconsistency" width="263" height="300" />Here is the news about Apple Iphone going to China. Its service provider will be China Unicom Ltd.  Unicom&#8217;s prices range from 4,999 yuan ($730) to 6,999 yuan ($1,025) for the high-end, 32-gigabyte iPhone 3GS. That is 20 percent above the 5,700 yuan ($835) charged by merchants at Chinese street markets for a 3GS with WiFi.</p>
<p>The iPhone&#8217;s awkward, delayed entry into China reflects the regulatory and technical hurdles of a fast-changing market where other global technology companies have struggled to establish themselves. China has more than 650 million mobile phone accounts, despite an average annual income of $3,000 per person. Consumers trade in phones as often as several times a year to get the latest models and features. China Unicom has 143 million mobile accounts, which would be an impressive figure in any other market but lags far behind China&#8217;s Mobile&#8217;s 508 million accounts.China Mobile has announced its own smart phone, dubbed the OPhone, and says seven models will be available by next year. <strong>Here is one funny thing about the Iphones that are being shipped to china, NO WIFI, yes you are right, these first batch of Iphones will not have WIFI connection due to some regulations set up by Beijing.</strong> Everything is unpredictable in China.</p>


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		<title>HTC Hero Pros and Cons Features Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechTree reports that HTC Hero will run Android 2.0. According to their statement,
&#8220;Yes, we are working on an Eclair update for the HTC Hero. Because Eclair is a significantly enhanced release, it will require some time to update Sense for this new version of the Android OS. Please be patient while we work to provide [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-81" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="htc-hero" src="http://ohgeeky.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/htc-hero.jpg" alt="htc-hero" width="383" height="353" />TechTree reports that HTC Hero will run Android 2.0. According to their statement,<br />
&#8220;Yes, we are working on an Eclair update for the HTC Hero. Because Eclair is a significantly enhanced release, it will require some time to update Sense for this new version of the Android OS. Please be patient while we work to provide you with a tightly integrated experience like the one you are already enjoying on your Hero.&#8221;</p>
<p>This makes  HTC Hero the second device running Android 2.0. The first one t is the Motorola DROID, which launches next week, on November 6.  HTC Heros will be delighted to hear this wonderful news.</p>
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<td width="616" valign="top" bgcolor="#f2f2f2">Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz</td>
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<td valign="top" bgcolor="#f2f2f2">ROM: 512 MB<br />
RAM: 288 MB</td>
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<td valign="top">112 x 56.2 x 14.35 mm ( 4.41 x 2.21 x 0.57 inches)</td>
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<td valign="top" bgcolor="#f2f2f2">135 grams ( 4.76 ounces) with battery</td>
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<td valign="top">3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320&#215;480 HVGA resolution</td>
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		<title>T-Mobile MyTouch3G Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WEBMASTER</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is here, according to the T-Mobile website, their new MyTouch3G will feature in tech racks all over the country. The MyTouch3G allows you to personalize your desktop by putting shortcuts of your favorite websites on your home screen, adding a music or calendar widget and arranging your favorite apps from the application drawer and [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-41 alignleft" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="t-mobile-mytouch-3g-cell-phone" src="http://ohgeeky.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-cell-phone.jpg" alt="t-mobile-mytouch-3g-cell-phone" width="319" height="336" />It is here, according to the T-Mobile website, their new MyTouch3G will feature in tech racks all over the country. The MyTouch3G allows you to personalize your desktop by putting shortcuts of your favorite websites on your home screen, adding a music or calendar widget and arranging your favorite apps from the application drawer and arrange them on multiple screens.</p>
<p>It also has the Sherpa application that gets to know you better as you use it. It can keep track of your locations via the built-in GPS. Moreover, it has a notification pane (located at the top of your screen), which regularly updates to let you know when a new information has arrived.You can personalize this MyTouch3G by choosing any from the wide range of present designs or use one of your own pictures or designs. Shells, custom case or gel skins are also available for purchase.</p>
<p>Amazingly, there’s also a Search By Voice Option that allows you to speak directly to your GPS-enabled phone and it will automatically give you the closest location of the place you are looking for. Need a burger? Say “Burger” to the MyTouch3G, and it will point you to the right direction. T-Mobile partnered with Google in putting the One-Touch Google Search widget right in your home screens. It immediately lets you access your favorite websites.</p>
<p>The MyTouch3G will come out on the first week of August. T-Mobile present subscribers can get a head on with this device by putting in an order at the T-Mobile website. The MyTouch3G will cost $199.99 in a two-year contract with the telecommunication giant.Among other features of this phone is its super fast 3G, one-touch sharing option, optimized battery life up to six hours of talk time and a 4GB micro SD card. The MyTouch3G is also made for e-mail and music. It supports the Gmail and other POP3 email accounts. You can directly download from Amazon and store it in your phone, PC and music players.</p>
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		<title>The Better Bigger Future of Ipod and Iphone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One particularly intriguing aspect of the current rumor-stream about Apple&#8217;s tablet plans is the suggestion that, if the product exists, it might be offered on a subsidized basis from a phone carrier like verizon or AT&#38;T. Apple&#8217;s upcoming tablet device is a hot topic of rumors.
Apple&#8217;s rumored tablet computer will be like a big iPod [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-147" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="iphone-key" src="http://ohgeeky.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/iphone-key-300x206.jpg" alt="iphone-key" width="300" height="206" />One particularly intriguing aspect of the current rumor-stream about Apple&#8217;s tablet plans is the suggestion that, if the product exists, it might be offered on a subsidized basis from a phone carrier like verizon or AT&amp;T. Apple&#8217;s upcoming tablet device is a hot topic of rumors.</p>
<p>Apple&#8217;s rumored tablet computer will be like a big iPod Touch, cost between $500 and $700, will probably include 3G and be subsidized by a carrier like AT&amp;T or Verizon, and could sell as many as two million units next year.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the scenario painted Friday by Piper Jaffray senior analyst Gene Munster. In a report to clients, he wrote that his company has spoken last week &#8220;with an Asian component supplier that has received orders from Apple for a touch-screen device&#8221; scheduled for delivery in late 2009.</p>
<p>Future of iPod?</p>
<p>The rumor mill, which has also been joined by Barron&#8217;s and other mainstream publications, contends that Apple&#8217;s tablet will feature a 10-inch touchscreen, have WiFi in addition to 3G, and feature a customized ARM processor.</p>
<p>According to Munster&#8217;s numbers, if Apple does sell two million tablets at about $600, that&#8217;s about $1.2 billion in revenue. Although that could mean as much as 3 percent of Apple&#8217;s total revenue, some industry observers are looking at a possible tablet product as a continuation of the iPod product line, not as a new product category.</p>
<p>While possibly not enough to constitute a full product category, there is one other tablet-based product that has also been garnering a lot of online press speculation &#8212; the CrunchPad, a tablet designed primarily for Web surfing and media viewing, from a company founded by Richard Arrington, who runs the influential TechCrunch technology blog.</p>
<p>Unlike Apple&#8217;s rumored product, Arrington has been open about his plans to release the product, possibly this summer.</p>
<p>&#8216;Not a Good Value Proposition&#8217;</p>
<p>One particularly intriguing aspect of the current rumor-stream about Apple&#8217;s tablet plans is the suggestion that, if the product exists, it might be offered on a subsidized basis from a phone carrier.</p>
<p>Michael Gartenberg, a Vice President at industry research firm Interval Research, pointed out that we&#8217;ve been seeing experiments from carriers such as Verizon Wireless, which is offering a subsidized HP netbook &#8212; along with a two-year data plan.</p>
<p>He noted that the long-term costs for a deal such as Verizon&#8217;s &#8220;is not a good value proposition for consumers,&#8221; considering the speed at which hardware Relevant Products/Services progresses and the two-year costs one must incur just to get a price break on a low-cost computing Relevant Products/Services device.</p>
<p>But, he said, we should expect to see more such experiments from carriers, such as Android-based netbooks. &#8220;If they do it right, it could become a good business for the carriers,&#8221; he said, adding that another approach could be allowing a customer Relevant Products/Services to share the data plan among a number of devices, as Verizon is now doing with its MiFi offering.</p>
<p>However, Apple is different, Gartenberg said, since the company &#8220;tends not to issue products just to see what will stick, but they tend to build a product that will appeal beyond a niche to millions of customers.&#8221; In other words, if Apple does release a tablet and does a deal with a carrier, it could be a different model.</p>


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