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Filed under: Handsets , Others One of our favorite intellectual property rips of recent months is without a doubt the SciPhone Dream G2 from China. Having completely missed the point of Google’s open-source OS being, well, open-source and thus free for SciPhone’s use, the company instead chose to hack the G2’s “proprietory” OS to look like Android

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Fluent Mobile has released an innovative news oriented iPhone app that may be a game changer.

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Filed under: iPhone , App Store Skype (iTunes link) has been updated to 1.1, which brings it some new features making it more closely resemble its desktop sibling. So, what’s new

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We’re not sure how much doubt a person could have had before, but in the interest of being crystal clear, Verizon Wireless will make the BlackBerry Tour available online and in stores on July 12th for $199 with a two year agreement. You can preorder the device starting from this moment on.

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Huh, what’s this? Bell has begun shipping out dummy units of the highly anticipated BlackBerry Tour 9630? Yes indeed it has, alongside the typical promotional materials which, as per Bell’s general practice, means the launch is likely just a few weeks away.

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Filed under: Handsets Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute — partnered with project HYPOLED — have created an OLED mini projector prototype for mobile phones. Unlike many previous iterations of similar technologies, this new prototype doesn’t need an additional illumination system, instead relying on a lens system to project images produced by an OLED onto a screen or wall — making it both smaller and more energy efficient.

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Filed under: Cult of Mac , Odds and ends , iPhone Not too long ago we told you about an artist creating a cover for the New Yorker magazine using a paint program on the iPhone . Now an Australian photographer has won an award for a photo he took on his iPhone .

Read more here: iPhone making a splash in the arts

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , Jailbreak/pwnage Looks like Stack for Jailbreak has some new improvements. For those of you unfamiliar with the application, Stack adds a quick-launch menu directly to your iPhone dock, letting you expand your dock space to hold all your favorite apps. With it you can add 16 items (using grid view) or 5 items (in fan view) for easy access in each stack

Read more here: Found Footage: More new Stack features for jailbreak iPhones

Call it a netbook, call it a smartbook or call it whatever else you want — the bottom line is the Mobinnova élan is one of several upcoming miniature notebooks we can’t wait to see reach market. Beyond the sexy styling, intelligent design and integrated 3G connectivity, the élan will likely be the first NVIDIA Tegra-fueled notebook to reach market

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Filed under: Handsets , Samsung , Verizon Wireless , CDMA We’re hearing a couple interesting tidbits of information from the same ultra-reliable tipster with regard to the Samsung Strut — an LG Lotus -esque QWERTY clamshell that would fill a form factor gap in Verizon’s lineup (albeit a form factor that didn’t really exist a few months ago). First off, the tipster tells us that he’s starting to see accessories flow in that specifically list Strut compatibility; this doesn’t ..read more