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Sharing from iMore and Engadget:

*Post PC devices make up 76% of their revenue
*315 Million iOS devices
*Siri Japan, Germany and France
*1080p TV and Movies, New Apple TV announced and more of an iOS feel
*Genius for Movies and TV
*March 16th for Apple TV, still at $99
*"That brings us to iPad. We think the iPad is the poster child of the post PC world"
*Retina display - GET OUT! that came out of nowhere
*264ppi resolution

*There is a home button.
*A5X processor confirmed, "quad core graphics"
*iSight camera, new feature, 5MP backlit sensor on the iPad, IR filter, Autofocus and white balance
*5-megapixel backside illuminated sensor on the back, 5-element lens, IR filter, and ISP built into ​the A5X chip
*1080p HD video recording
*Voice Dictation (not Siri)
*Supports US English, British, Australian, French, German and Japanese
*4G LTE

*iPad 2 has 3.1Mbps on EV-DO, 7.2 on HSPA.

*Rogers, Bell, Telus, AT&T and Verizon
*iPad can be a hotspot now
*The most wireless bands of any device that has ever shipped
*Battery life is going to be 10 HOURS, 9 Hours on 4G LTE apparently
*Pricing: 499 / 599 / 699 wifi only
* 629 / 729 / 829 for the 4G
*Launching March 16th US, Canada, UK, Frank Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia

*March 23rd in these other countries:

*Looks like they've implemented some Bezel gestures
*Double tapping a single photo compares all pics that look similar and brings them up.
*Looks like they've built in some native sharing, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook maybe?
*still using 30 pin dock connector (rumor was iPhone would go smaller anyway)
*iPad 2 price drops $100.00

Those were the points I found interesting anyway

What are your thoughts?

Looks like RIM is at it again, but this time it's only for US customers, and only for OS 7 devices. Still pretty good for those of you who can take advantage. Some of the free apps this time around are:
-BeWeather
-Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro
-Fixmo Tools
-Screen Munches

Apparently you have until May 31st to take advantage.

What do you think?

Source: CrackBerry
http://www.crackberry.com/more-free-...nts-blackberry

Gizmodo has an article posted about 512Gbps fibre optic networking with usable speeds of approx 400Gbps.

400 Gbps. That is mind blowing.
It is also not a white coat lab test. They are actually running this over a 500 mile stretch between Berlin to Hanover!

Deutsche Telekom explains that, if they rolled this out using their usual 48-channel optical fibers, they could achieve a throughput of 24.6Tbps on a cable thinner than a human hair. Whoa.

I wonder what this would cost with our "aggressively priced" Canadian carriers

Nokia just lowered the price of entry on their Lumia line with the Lumia 610. While it sports a 3.7" 800x480 TFT LCD display like the 710 and 800 the rest of the specs are a little more humble. Instead of 512MB of RAM you only get 256MB. 800Mhz processor instead of 1.4Ghz. 5MP f/2.2, 28mm autofocus camera (same as the 710) and 8GB storage (Same as the 710). At 1300mAh The battery is also the same as the 710's.


I'm impressed that Nokia kept a 800x480 display but the 256MB of RAM is a little disappointing. The 800Mhz processor sounds slow but first gen Windows Phone run just fine on a 1Ghz so I'm guessing it will run just fine on a processor that's 20% slower.

What do you think? I'm reviewing a 710 right now and it's a great deal so I'm curious how good the 610 will be.