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Samsung Galaxy Player priced on Best Buy mobile app.

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Samsung's Galaxy S device stripped of 3G and the calling functionality or the Galaxy S WiFi as known in some countries or just the Galaxy Player has been priced at $270 which is quite close to the base model iPod touch's price. The Samsung Galaxy Player(this one has) 8GB of memory, a 5 inch touchscreen, two cameras(a VGA front one and a 3.0 megapixel rear one), a microSD card slot and a FM tuner.

Apple brings iWork to iPhone and iPod touch.

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iWork was available for the iPad since the device launched, but now Apple has brought it to the iPhone and iPod touch. Of course it includes Numbers, Pages and Keynote, $9.99 apiece. Current users can upgrade for free.

ASUS Padfone.

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The ASUS Padfone has been announced and well we just love it, as you would expect from the name its a phone that has an accessory of a tablet. The tablet contains a latch which is opened to find an HDMI connector and all those small bits. Although due to be released during the Christmas, ASUS has big plans for it. They plan to release it with the newest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, the slate acts as a display, a set of speakers and an extra battery.

Apple testing the A5 chip in MacBook Air.

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Apple is said to be testing A5 chips in their MacBook Air's, at least that's what   Macotakara, a Japanese website claims. Would Apple really be testing their MacBook Air's with their mobile-minded A5 chips. We do know that it can pack a punch of power, seen in the iPad 2. According to someone who has seen the model with the A5 processor, the performance is better than had been thought.  With the rumour of a refresh of the MacBook Air's featuring Thunderbolt and Intel's Sandy Bridge 17W mobile processors still fresh people will begin to doubt if there really will be an early refresh to the Air's .

Samsung wants to see the iPhone 5 and the iPad 3

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Samsung lawyers recently asked the court to make Apple show them their yet to be announced iPhone 5 and iPad 3, they claim that this is just to avoid any future lawsuits and similarities. Only if it was this easy......

Google's new NFC payment system named "Google Wallet"

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It may not be as big a surprise as Google hoped it would be at this point, but the company has now officially announced its NFC-based Google Wallet mobile payment service, complete with backing from a number of retail and financial partners including Subway, Macy's, Walgreens, Toys 'R Us, First Data, Citibank and MasterCard -- plus Sprint on the carrier side. In the case of MasterCard, that partnership means Google Wallet will be fully compatible with the PayPass contactless payment system that's already widely in place today. Trials are beginning immediately in New York and San Francisco, with a full release planned for this summer. Initially, the Sprint Nexus S 4G will be the only compatible phone, but support for more phones is promised "over time," and Google even suggested that phones without built-in NFC could simply use a NFC sticker( the Google Wallet app itself will work on non-NFC phones as well). You'll also have to use either a Citi MasterCard or

Amazon launches Mac Download Store.

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Yep, you gessed it, it's another store within a store at Amazon but its a Mac Download Store. Although it cannot be compared to Apple's own Mac App Store with just more than 250 titles but as always its a good start. They have offered a free download of Airport Mania and $5 off on your first purchase.

Sony VAIO.

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If you already didn't have trouble keeping up-to date with Sony's slim VAIO S series laptops, they launched another "SA" series which features a slim 13.3 inch ultraportable laptop, it is set to compete against the skinny Lenovo ThinkPad X1. It's got almost the same magnesium-and-alloy chassis as the VAIO SB series which was shown at CES 2011 but the SA is a hair thinner, at 0.95 inches and comes with AMD Radeon HD 6630 graphics and 1GB of video memory, 1600 x 900 resolution, a 500GB hard drive, a fingerprint reader and a Blue-ray drive, which as mentioned I don't like. The SA's starting price is a whopping $1,350 which would effect your wallet or you could just sell one of your hand stating its "ultraportable", you would just need one hand to carry it.....

Nokia.

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Nokia took over the mobile-phone market in its early stages. It completely blasted away all competitors in mostly Asia and Europe but found it hard to clinch American buyers. Nokia's market in Pakistan was and still somewhat is at its peak. around 2007- 2008 90% of the people had Nokia phones, being cheap, useful and well made the Pakistani industry was flooded with Nokia. The end of 2008 saw Pakistani markets being invaded with imported Android and iOS phones. These phones, being imported from the USA attracted every person interest and slowly that 90% of Nokia's market now came down to 50%. Nokia started to have trouble competing with smart-phone manufacturers like HTC, Samsung... now using Android, but their biggest threat was Apple who introduced their first phone in 2007. Nokia tried to compete by bringing out phones in the "N series" but still were unable to attract buyers. The same attack happen to Nokia in Europe where they now had less customers. After a lo

Leaked image of the back cover of the presumable iPhone 5

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The iPhone 5 rumours keep coming in and we have another one for you. This picture straight from China shows a normal iPhone back cover but with a small cut-out on the far corner away from the camera. Predictions are that Apple decided to place the Flash further away from the camera, why? It would maybe capture better pictures. Apple knows! 

Apple Store 2.0

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Apple just "updated" their stores and they decided to get rid of paper! Details, information and specifications are now shown on iPad's. So every item, a MacBook, iPhone, yes, even an iPad is surrounded with iPad's showing details. Users can only use the touch screen and are not able to push the home-button. Waste of money or a great idea? For a tour click the link below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmUSKa5BfNk&feature=feedu

HP Pavilion dv6 3230-us

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Yes I am using Windows, well I currently cant buy a Mac. That aside I am using HP's Pavilion dv6. Specifications: Intel Core i3-370M Processor 2.40GHz, 3MB L3 cache 4GB DDR3 memory 4GB memory gives you the power to handle most power hungry applications and tons of multimedia work 500GB 5400RPM SATA hard drive Store 333,000 photos, 142,000 songs, or 263 hours of HD videos and more 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN; Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n WLAN; Bluetooth with WiDi Connect to a broadband modem or a wired broadband router with wired Ethernet, connect to Bluetooth-enabled devices or wirelessly connect to a Wi-Fi signal or hotspot with the 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth connection built right into your PC 15.6" diagonal High-Definition HP BrightView LED Display (1366 x 768 resolution) Intel HD Graphics with up to 1696MB total graphics memory Why I preferred the 3230-us because it has a fingerprint reader, no Blue-ray which i preferred because well Blue-ray discs are too expensi

HTC Flyer WiFi.

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HTC claims that their new tablet called the Flyer will beat the iPad 2 and will be number 1. The Flyer features a 7 inch touch screen with a resolution 1024 X 600.1.5 GHz processor with support for Adobe Flash and HTML5,stereo speakers. It also has a 5 megapixel back camera with a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera. Internal storage of 32 GB with a memory expansion slot. The "Magic Pen" is an accessory worth reading about that is used like a stylus. Will it beat the iPad 2 or will the tablet that started it all still remain the best? Lets wait and see!

WWDC 2011: Apple

This years World Wide Developers Conference is to be held in the beginning of June and as always we will be focusing on Apple. Apple's event is to be expected to feature their new Mac OSX software "Lion", although featured before, this time they would give an in-depth presentation, demo and announce its availability, now being sold on the Mac App Store. Staying on software iOS 5 will be featured, now every Apple fanboy wants an upgrade in Notifications, already being behind in that department Apple should improve and maybe even copy some of these:  http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/apple/iphone/iphone-5-how-notifications-should-be-handled/ There has been speculation about the iPhone 5(4S what ever they would call it ) if it will actually come out in the usual time-frame of June or July. It is expected that it may have a late release date of September. The iPhone 5 is expected to have a new design but more on that later.