Nokia Enlists Russian Police To Get Prototype Smartphone Back From Blogger

In April, Moscow-based blogger Eldar Murtazin posted a review of Nokia’s forthcoming N8 smartphone on his site mobile-review.com. Nokia asked for its return for weeks to no avail. Now they’re calling on the Russian police to get their phone back.

Murtazin wrote the post from a working prototype he acquired, and he was not particularly impressed with what he saw, though he did admit that he was was working from an early, pre-production unit. Nokia initially requested the phone’s return in an official blog post titled “one of our children is missing,” which is kind of a weird way to talk about your lost prototype phone.

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Google Music Launching Alongside Android 3.0 This Fall/Winter

According to Android product manager Gaurav Jain, Google Music will be launched concurrently with Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) at the end of this year. Presumably just in time to battle iTunes Live.

Apple and Google’s race to stream content from the cloud has never really been a question of if so much as of when, and today’s report from Israeli financial paper Calcalist gives us the clearest indicator yet of when we’ll actually start being able to take advantage.

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The iPhone Reception Problem: Parsing the Apple Statement

After a week of complaints from iPhone 4 users about reception problems, Apple announced Friday that it would correct an error in the phone’s software. Below, Apple’s press release, along with Digits analysis.

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Dear iPhone 4 Users,

The reception complaints have turned into a big problem for Apple, and worst of all, it’s a problem for people most loyal to the company — early adopters. Apple needs to address these people directly — thus, the open letter format, which isn’t always done in a press release.

The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. It has been j

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Asetek Unveils Water Cooled All-in-One Prototype

The problem with all-in-one (AIO) PCs is that the crammed confines don’t offer the same cooling potential as a typical desktop, and so lower end components end up being used. Well, get ready to change the way you look at AIOs.

Asetek, which provides self-contained liquid cooling solutions to OEMs, has come up with a prototype all-in-one that’s completely water cooled. Measuring no thicker than an iMac at 58mm, the prototype setup

consists of an Intel Core i7 920 processor and GeForce GTX 280M. The two combined consume over 200W.

As showcased in a YouTube video, Asetek hides a high-performance radiator, low noise fans, and a proprietary low-profile pump all within the vertical stand.

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1&1 SmartPad Android Tablet Device


1&1, a German DSL provider recently started shipment of its SmartPad Android Tablet Device. It comes with a 7-inch LCD WVGA touchscreen display and is powered by an ARM 11 500MHz processor with the help of 256MB RAM and 1GB RAM. The device comes with some noteworthy specs which includes Wi-Fi N connectivity, its runs the Android 1.6 OS, however Android marketplace access is not offered so it comes pre-installed with various Android apps have been pre-installed, such as RSS reader, facebook app, twitter app, picture viewer and other apps.

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