Good news for you, HTC Magic owner. Over the weekend at an event held in Taipei, HTC announced that the second generation Android device would be getting a UI overhaul ala Hero. Pretty rad, right? It is if you live outside the US because the T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google ain’t getting it.
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Times newspaper Steve Jobs profile was reported being blocked by Apple. The written article paints the Apple CEO as visionary and also a dictator. How much written is true and what percentage is diatribe? From Times, …Jobs can be a cold, hard boss. In fact, judged simply as an office politician, he can seem pretty hopeless.
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FujiFilm announced the FinePix REAL 3D W1 camera and the REAL 3D V1 3D Digital Viewer. The W1 is a compact 3D digital camera that can capture 3D photo and movie. The REAL 3D W1 features FujiFilm’s FinePix REAL 3D lens system comprising two Fujinon lenses and two CCDs with a total of 10 Megapixel effective pixels.
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With so much fuss over Windows 7, Microsoft has officially signed off the OS, releasing it to manufacturing. After having done with the testings and validation checks required for RTM, Microsoft has officially declared build 7600 as RTM. Microsoft announced that the RTM code will be delivered to select customers and developers beginning on August 6. For general public, it would be available from October 22. To double up the kicks, Microsoft also announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 also reached that RTM phase. With Windows 7 schedules moving at an accelerated pace, it remains to answer, why Microsoft is hurrying down its new OS.
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Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Apple knows how to sell, and sell big. As we tune into the company’s fiscal 2009 third quarter conference call this afternoon, we’re told that it has just recorded its “best non-holiday quarter [in terms of] revenue and earnings” in company history. This, mind you, was recorded during what most say is the worst recession since the Great Depression. All told, Apple netted a quarterly profit of $1.23 billion, and international sales accounted for a staggering 44 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

The outfit continued to steamroll the competition in MP3 sales, moving 10.2 million iPod units in the quarter; of note, that was a seven percent decrease from last year, but given that fact that we’re getting ever-closer to a saturation point with these things, we aren’t too shocked to hear it.

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There were shades of greatness in Navigon’s crippled free MobileNavigator trial, and high expectations for the full version. Now it’s here, and for the first couple weeks, priced at a reasonable (no, really) $70.

Even at the eventual full price of $100 it’s still a solid deal, since most big-name navigation apps charge a monthly fee, which seems to be settling across the App Store at about $10. That’s a lot of upkeep, which would surpass Navigon’s one-off charge well within a year, and keep going, well, forever. But $70 is still a lot, so before you take the plunge, here’s what you get: This is great news to all Geek Gadgets lover.

I first read on Nokia Mobile Talk (thanks Jorge) and then on the Guardian that Nokia will be announcing an Android-based device at Nokia World in September. The Guardian states their sources as “industry insiders” so I am not sure what that means and I have not seen or heard anything official from Nokia yet. Let’s chalk this up as a rumor for now, but an interesting one at that.
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The Verizon branded BlackBerry Tour 9630 found its way to engadget mobile and has now received the traditional unboxing treatment. They say the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is the “best looking” CDMA BlackBerry smartphone to date and they also believe the Tour will be able to stop BlackBerry Bold owner in their tracks.
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Well, well, there it is. The world’s first and only Snapdragon phone available for retail, Toshiba’s TG01, is up and dancing on Orange’s UK site with a “coming soon” badge. Soon meaning the July 9th London press event, presumably, where this 9.9-mm slate running WinMo on a 4.1-inch 800×480 pixel display should get a shove out the retail door. Yes, Windows Mobile 6.1, why do you ask?
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Microsoft might not be launching a Zune phone just yet but its Zune HD player will pack a powerful Nvidia Tegra Chip. That means Zune HD is capable of running Windows Mobile 7 if Microsoft will want to cross that bridge when the time comes.

The Tegra APX chip that’s going to be used in the Zune HD is actually capable of powering future Windows Mobile, Windows CE or Android-based smartphones.
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