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Apple iPod touch with camera coming this Spring?

SlashGear  Nov 23 09

The firestorm of speculation earlier this year regarding whether Apple would push a camera-toting iPod touch out of the door at their now-traditional September music event, turned out to be a damp squib; the new iPod touch was faster and more capacious than its predecessor, but had no camera functionality (despite Apple’s engineers leaving space inside for one).  Now, the Examiner are claiming to have heard from “an insider source” that the camera-equipped iPod touch will in fact land this spring.

They’re saying that it was indeed quality control problems which delayed the introduction of the new iPod touch; in September we heard that “technical difficulties” with CMOS components had meant Apple’s timescale for the camera PMP had been set back. Full story...

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Palm Pre and Pixi Face AT&T Launch Delays, Reduced Number of Units

SlashGear  2 hours ago

The launch of a Palm smartphone running webOS on AT&T’s network hasn’t actually been confirmed as of yet, but that’s not stopping the analysts from declaring their assumptions.

Google Nexus One Heading to Sprint

SlashGear  3 hours ago

If you’ll recall, the Google Nexus One launched back in January with T-Mobile USA exclusivity.

Super Vision Chip scans 200 page book in 60 seconds; has Natal-style gaming potential [Video]

SlashGear  3 hours ago

After speculation earlier today about the lag involved in Sony’s PlayStation Move system, how about a really fast camera?  University of Tokyo professor Masatoshi Ishikawa has developed the simply-titled “Super Vision Chip”, capable of scanning an entire 200 page book in a minute (you can see the demo after the cut).

Breaking Windows is a good idea

SlashGear  4 hours ago

I have been reading a lot of critiques of Microsoft’s mobile strategy lately, especially among those who think that breaking compatibility with older versions of Windows Mobile is a bad idea.

Digital Storm DAVINCI workstation gets overclocked Core i7-940X

SlashGear  4 hours ago

Having shown you Digital Storm’s madly-overclocked BlackOPS gaming PC yesterday, now it’s the turn of their updated workstation, the DAVINCI, to get Intel’s latest Core i7-980X Extreme processor.

HTC Supersonic 4G launching at CTIA 2010 next week?

SlashGear  5 hours ago

HTC’s WiMAX-packing Supersonic has been something of a regular when it comes to the rumor-mill over the past few months, and it seems Sprint may be ramping up to an announcement next week.

HTC Hero Android 2.1 update from April 4th?

SlashGear  5 hours ago

It’s looking more and more likely that HTC will miss their self-imposed deadline for the Android 2.

AT&T ZERO Charger promises to kill “vampire draw”

SlashGear  6 hours ago

While most people probably don’t have several review cellphones lying around on their desk at any one time, the trickle of juice soaked up by even just one cellphone charger left unplugged is enough to add an unpleasant bump into your power bill.

HTML5 and Flash can work together insists Adobe evangelist [Video]

SlashGear  7 hours ago

Flash and HTML5 are hot topics in the online world right now.  We’ve heard plenty about how more smartphones will get Flash, how performance might not be what users expect and how mainstream sites are looking to alternatives, and of course there’s Apple’s ongoing reluctance to add Flash functionality to their mobile devices.

PlayStation Move lag measured: speed-games might suffer?

SlashGear  7 hours ago

Sony’s PlayStation Move motion-controller is certainly catching plenty of attention lately, but just how accurate is the system in action?  Sony themselves are claiming “under 1 frame” lag from the hardware, but when combined with a game (that may be tweaked to smooth out jerky user-input), a flatscreen display and the console itself, real-world performance has the potential to be pretty different.



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