Microsoft is happy to announce that they will be opening several Microsoft retail stores near and neighboring Apple retail stores come later this year, and early 2010.
While Microsoft declared its intentions to enter the retail game and counter Apple’s public image months ago, its chief operating officer Kevin Turner on Wednesday revealed just how important [...]

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I’m sure most of you already know the main differences between the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS which was released on June 19th, 2009, however, I still feel the need to share the main differences on Touch Podium, for those of you whom may not know yet.

Price
$199 [16GB]$299 [32GB]
$99 [8GB]

Camera
3MPAutofocusVideo recording
2MP

New features
Improved PerformanceBuilt-in video [...]

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Nokia’s first 8MP camera phone, the N86, will be debuting in London on June 19th, the same day as the iPhone 3G S.This was announced via the Nokia Flagship Store’s Twitter feed, of all things, and it highlights how the phone will be landing at the same time as the flagship N97.
The N86 is Nokia’s [...]

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Sony is ironing out the last of its creases in an “app store” of sorts, due out in August at Gamescom. This “app store” will feature non-gaming applications, and will have set prices between $2 and $6 per application, with a supposed 100MB size limit.
See what apple has done here? Ever since the release of [...]

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TUAW recently uploaded a video to YouTube, providing a sneak peek at several dozen of the ever-too-many farting applications available on the App Store. How many farting apps are there on the App Store exactly? Over 60. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
Have a look at the video via YouTube by clicking here.
It’s safe to say that my [...]

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Amazon.com’s ‘Kindle’ service is (or should I say, was) the leading provider in online book selling, however ‘Stanza’ is taking a stand…
Stanza has been available through the iPhone App Store since July, and has reportedly sold ~400,000 copies of the software to date. The developers of Stanza have also informed that Stanza is selling at [...]

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The comparison will be inevitable. It could be said that aside from the Blackberry Bold and Thunder, the iPhone’s main potential competition is coming directly from Google’s Android, I’ll be the first to admit that Android has heaps of potential. It’s Linux-based, like Mobile OS X, uses Objective C for its SDK, [...]

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The iPhone is one phenomenal piece of hardware. You can do almost anything with this cellphone that you could with a computer. In fact, you could do more, and it’s portable. It’s a darn computer the size of your hand. Apple did a marvelous job with their iPhone, and has made the product even better [...]

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A blog which goes by the name Quickly Bored, has decided to compare three top-of-the-line cellphones which have just recently been released, or are to be released within the next few weeks.
Within the blog post, Kyle of Quickly Bored takes the time to compare the juicy details of the upcoming HTC Dream, BlackBerry’s shiny, new [...]

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Barron’s Eric J. Savitz shares his experience with the iPhone, and explains why he relies more on his BlackBerry 8700c than his iPhone.
Here’s a snippet of what Eric had to say in regards to the iPhone:
Let me say right up front, the iPhone really is in many ways the best mobile device I’ve ever used. [...]

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As most of you already know, Google’s been working on their own cellphone OS for quite some time now, and is just about ready for mass-production and release. Cellphone’s with Google’s Android OS will start selling a bit later on this year.
Android will feature an App Store-like store where all users of Android OS-operated [...]

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Alright, you’re reading an iPhone/iPod Touch blog, so you’re probably interested to know if there is anything better out there, am I right? Yes, I am.
I don’t have the answer to that question, however, I do have the answer to if Samsung’s Instinct is better than Apple’s iPhone 3G.
A recent post made on Sprint Connection [...]

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Sega of American president Simon Jeffery was, as you might expect, present at E308, and thankfully he had time to sit down and be interviewed by Kotaku to talk about the company and its current and future plans.
Bolstered by the roaring success of Super Monkey Ball and an adoration for the platform, Simon stated that [...]

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I suppose it was only a matter of time — we already saw (and unfortunately experienced the problems cause by) McAfee’s preliminary attempts at creating a virus scanner for the iPhone a couple of months back, but nothing official ever came of it. Now it seems Mac developer Intego is having a go at [...]

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