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I’m pretty sure this is not a wind up but the aptly named spanish phone company called “Geek-Phone” are launching their own handset called the Geek 1. Check out the details here
The app is priced at £22.60 for a single country eg UK or £52.16 for the whole of Europe which is not far off the cost of a map update for a TomTom go. Although not confirmed for the UK the software also supports live services such as traffic. For full details see the developer’s site
Until recently, applications on Android ran on Google’s Java virtual machine. However, last week the Android Native Development Kit version 1.0 was released, which lets apps run natively in Android. Story via Pocket-lint
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Amazon are taking emails for notification for when orders can be taken & presumably others including Microsoft themselves will be taking orders. If you would rather have Windows 7 along with a new PC most manufacturers have announced their by a Vista PC now get a free (or almost free) upgrade in November. Good if you absolutely gotta have that new PC now. Windows 7 is due to ship in October this year.
However this kind of flaw, & it is a flaw is just as easy to exploit in a bad way as it is good (Pre drive by virus anyone?) Story Via Gizmodo
So thanks to this directive we could be carrying less chargers & cables around in future. Nokia, Motorola, , Sony Ericsson, LG, NEC, RIM, Samsung and Apple are among those will be adopting the connector although I’m sure that Apple will need to keep it’s own connector in additon for compatibility. Presumably this was chosen over the slightly larger but popular Mini USB to cater for the smallest of handset available.
If you’re mid contract so can’t upgrade or if you hate T-Mobile & are just plain rich then you may be interested that Amazon UK have the HTC Hero available unlocked with an available date of July 15th and price tag of £429.99 Story via phandroid
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The Co-Pilot turn by turn navigation app has been launched for Android phones & is available for download now on Android market. What is interesting is that unlike the recently launched equivalents launched for iPhone which followed the monthly subsciption model this one is priced as a one off cost (though I’m sure updated maps would need to be purchased later if required).
Shortly after announcing the release of Firefox 3.5, Mozilla’s also talking about an Android port for its mobile browser – codenamed Fennec.
As an Xbox playing Notebook owner & ex-pc gamer this Gizmodo article might just be true stating that traditional desktops & towers are in decline. If they’d stayed beige then all this could have been different, anyone agree?
While the offer has come & gone in some other territories (well Japan anyway) due to limited availability , the cut price Windows 7 upgrade offer will begin on July 15th. Although the £50 Premium & £99 Pro offer is officially available until 14th August stock is somehow “limited” so presumably could be withdrawn earlier.
With the SDK not offically available yet some were excited that albeit via an email security hole Gizmodo reported last week that it was possible to install homebrew apps without “rooting” via a specially 
This little connector may notbe much t0 look at but those crazy Europeans Union types have stopped picking on browsers for long enough to get mobile manufacturers to agree on something sensible, which is to adopt the Micro USB socket as the standard connector for charging & syncing mobiles future mobile phones.
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