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If the HTC Status- or “Facebook Phone” as it’s more often referred to- caught your interest, you should be happy to hear that a release date and price has been officially confirmed by AT&T.
The phone with integrated facebook features and the first dedicated Facebook button will be coming July 17th, for 50 bucks on contract. It’s got a 2.6 inch 480×320 display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, HTC Sense, 5 mega-pixel camera, and a blackberry-style keyboard. Pre-order starts today.
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Okay, there’s been a lot of talk and some panic over Verizon switching the way they do their data plans. Well, now it’s been officially announced- Verizon no longer has an unlimited data plan, but usage-based pricing starting July 7th. Your three options are $30 for 2 GB, $50 for 5 GB or $80 for 10 GB.
You’ll get a nice 10 dollar fee for going over, also. So, if you were thinking about going for Verizon to maybe grab the HTC Thunderbolt, or Droid Charge, you’ve got like two days to still get the unlimited data plan. Customers who already have the unlimited data plan before the 7th will be grandfathered in and still have it available to them.
Sources for Engadget offered up this image detailing the upgrade to Gingerbread for the Samsung Galaxy Tab on July 7. Also, if we believe this, the Tab will be getting HD Bluetooth.
It says you’re device will recognize the need to update, and will ask you to download or install for the update.
Also, according to the pic above, the Samsung Transformer will have some bug fixes taken care of the same day.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best!
Today, Barnes and Noble’s newsroom released an interesting incentive to think hard about upgrading from your current eReader to the Nook…
“Beginning July 1, bring any eReader into a Barnes & Noble bookstore to compare and upgrade to a NOOK device and receive an instant NOOK Book collection – 30 free digital titles valued at $315. The limited-time NOOK upgrade program is offered with purchase of any popular NOOK device including The All-New NOOK and NOOK Color Reader’s Tablet™.”
Even though you can’t pick the books yourself, and you’ll probably not care for a lot of them, it’s still a cool offer. Personally, i love the concept of free books regardless of whether their books i’d be interested in reading. B&N doesn’t list off all the titles, but wrote the following:
“The 30 digital books represent a variety of genres including Cooking, Kids, Classics, Humor, Lifestyle, Fiction, Sports, History, True Crime and Reference. Some of the free titles include: The Good Housekeeping Cookbook, Cristina Ferrare’s Big Bowl of Love, Creating Your Best Life, Glory in the Fall: The Greatest Moments in World Series History, 21st Century Crossword Puzzle Dictionary, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me and timeless favorites including Secret Garden and Robinson “
Interested? The promotion starts tomorrow, and the Nook is available for $139.
Cisco is introducing AppHQ, an application ecosystem built specifically for their Cius business tablet. According to Cisco’s site, “AppHQ provides developers with tools and resources to create, test and market applications for the Cius tablet.”
What applications can be used on the device can be controlled by IT managers, and companies can create “private, custom-branded application storefronts for their organizations where employees can find, publish and procure applications that complement their business environments.”
The tablet itself should be available on July 31, and the price is currently set at $750, but Cisco says it could go lower. It’s got a 7-inch screen, 720p HD video, 5 megapixel camera, 1 GB RAM and 32 GB of flash memory, removable 5200 mAh battery, Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor, and Android 2.2 Froyo.
It looks like Lenovo will finally be releasing a tablet in the US, or tablets I should say. There will be two 10” Android tablets coming out this summer.
The two tabs will have two separate target audiences: business and consumers. The average consumer’s tablet, named ‘Ideapad’ will most likely arrive this July, and be followed by the business-minded ‘Thinkpad.’
Both tablets will have 10 inch displays and run Android Honeycomb. Price can range between $450 to $900.
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Toshiba’s first tablet for the US will have preorders starting this month and be available in July. The Toshiba Thrive will have the option of 8GB at $429, 16GB at $479, and 32GB for $579.
The Thrive will run Honeycomb 3.1 with a Tegra 2 processor; it’ll sport USB and HDMI ports, 2 megapixel front-facing camera with 5 megapixel rear camera, Swype, Wifi &Bluetooth, Resolution+ software, screen orientation lock, and removable battery that assures is will be recharged back to 90 percent in an hour and a half.
