ViewSonic View Pad coming to the US

ViewSonic a company much known for their LCD TVs and screens are also in the tablet market with their View Pad. ViewSonic have made things official with the coming of the View Pad in US soil with two variants, 7 and 10' tablets.

Sprint fires up 4G in New York City

Sprint has officially started it's 4G operation in New York and in 5 other locales, extending their 4G reach to more and more of it's customers. Sprint has opened up for business with it's WiMax, 4G network in New York City (NY), Hartford (CT), New Brunswick (NJ), Trenton (NJ), and Tampa (FL).

“Sprint has provided customers with 4G service since 2008 and we’re proud to extend our leadership to six more cities today, including New York City,” said Sprint’s president of 4G, Matt Carter. “Sprint is the first national wireless carrier to make 4G a reality for our customers and with the addition of these six new markets we are now in 61 cities, including Chicago, Baltimore and Houston, and are growing. By the end of the year Sprint 4G plans to light up several major new markets including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Denver and Washington DC to name a few.” - BGR

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Samsung Galaxy Tab starts selling in the UK

As reported and announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab have officially started selling in the UK. At the moment Carphone warehouse has stocks of this tablet with a lot of offering starting from £499.99 with a £10 pay per month on Talk Mobile with a 1GB data. Other shops that are expected to sell the tablet are Dixons and T-Mobile. Three is offering the tablet for only £99.99 which requires a £40 monthly pay with a 5GB data plan. The Samsung Galaxy Tab can be bought without any contracts for £529.99 at Carphone Warehouse. Orange is also reported to sell the tablet at the same pricing at £499. O2 on the other hand is selling the tablet for an astounding £599 on all of their plans.

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iPhone Daylight Saving Time bug causing alarms in Europe to fail

This bug concerning the iPhone was already discovered in Australia. It's caused by switching from DST (Daylight Saving Time) to Standard Time. The iPhone's clock correctly change from DST to ST but it's alarm is still set to DST causing it to set off an hour later than expected. Apple has already said that it will be releasing a software fix for this in Australia but has not yet started rolling it out. Now the continent being affected is Europe. 

Nintendo has no plans of cutting prices on the Wii "in the near future"

Nintendo, the Japanese gaming company & the creator of Mario Bros, said that they do not have any plans, at least in the near future, about cutting the Wii's price. With a tough six months for the company's earnings which reported a $24.6 million loss, was due to weak Wii, Nintendo DS, and software sales. 

Twitter grows as fast as Facebook - 15 million per month

We all know Facebook has 500million users, the largest in any social networking site ever in the world, it basically dwarfs everybody else. Twitter on the other hand isn't stopping in chasing the social networking behemoth. When Twitter rolled out their new website, they got more and more new users signing up. That helped them get what they currently have 175million users. 

Verizon to launch Samsung Continuum, Motorola Citrus, and Samsung Zeal on November 11?

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The Samsung Continuum, touted to be a Galaxy S smartphone, heading over at Verizon has again surfaced in another leak. Someone did the job of going into Verizon's internal database and pulled this screencap out. We all ready know the phone's unconfirmed specs. 3.4" Super AMOLED display, 1GHz Humminbird processor, and of course the secondary screen called the "Ticker". It seems that this leak shows that the Continuum will be luanched over at Verizon on Novermber 11 "to all channels".The leak also revealed two other phones. The Motorola Citrus and another Samsung creation, the Zeal.

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Update: Sunday, the day Sony Ericsson said that the Android 2.1 update should start rolling out - From SE's Blog

Today's Sunday and Sony Ericsson should probably start rolling out those long awaited Android 2.1 update for their Xperia line. It's the day all Xperia users are expecting and is waiting, for a long time. The upgrade from Android 1.6 Donut to Android 2.1 Eclair is expected to truly give the Xperia line, except for the Xperia X8, a revamping job that it deserves.