June, 2011

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Top 5 reasons the Google Chromebook should fear the 2011 MacBook AirWith the Acer and Samsung Google Chomebooks now readily available in North America, Chrome OS is showing signs of significant growth since its Cr-48 prototypes. Unfortunately during that time Apple has been hard at work on its MacBook Air refresh.

1. OS X Lion
Chrome OS boots in 8 seconds and resumes instantly. The MacBook Air, by way of solid state memory, shares these same features (though more like 16 seconds). Once you’ve turned on the Chromebook you are greeted with a fullscreen Chrome browser. Apple’s upcoming OS refresh also offers fullscreen apps and even boots from Safari.

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Nokia Connection 2011 goes down in Singapore on Tuesday, and we’re expecting big things from the stumbling phone giant. No fewer than four vice presidents will be speaking at the summit, along with CEO Stephen Elop, who we’re promised “will set the stage for a number of exciting Nokia product and service launches.”

But what? Here are five things we’re hoping to see next week…

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BlackBerry PlayBook sales top 500,000 units, doubles Motorola Xoom’s first quarterAmidst the Wall Street hoopla surrounding Research in Motion, yesterday’s Q1 fiscal 2012 results actually revealed several impressive findings. Namely, the company shipped 500,000 BlackBerry Playbooks during its first quarter of availability. That’s twice the number of Motorola Xooms shipped in its first quarter.

Even more impressive than the number of PlayBooks is that RIM managed to reach these figures despite delays and limited availability. If RIM had kicked off with a worldwide launch instead of a North America-only affair, who knows how many 7-inch slates would have been shipped.

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LG Optimus 3D finally launches, promises flicker-free 3D playbackWe’ve handled the Optimus 3D and even compared the device to our favorite Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S 2. Today, after considerable delay, the LG Optimus 3D finally launched.

Ever since Mobile World Congress we’ve been itching to get another spin with the LG Optimus 3D. Touting a ‘tri-dual’ configuration consisting of dual cores, dual-channel and dual memory, the Optimus 3D claims it maximizes efficiency leading to noticeably smoother, faster and longer multi-tasking.

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Motorola Xoom 2 spotted in Verizon Wireless video ad?A video released by Verizon Wireless yesterday shows off what looks to be the successor to the Motorola Xoom, the Xoom 2. The tablet in question lacks the trademark Motorola M branding and uses a different camera than the current Xoom. Is this the quadcore Kal-el (Tegra 3) Xoom 2 currently in development?

There’s nothing like a tablet mystery to close out the work week. Moments after releasing the video on YouTube, Verizon quickly turned the video private, only adding fuel to the speculation that this is the Motorola Xoom 2.

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Motorola Milestone 3 becomes official, heads to China with CDMA supportRemember that Motorola Milestone 3 drama from earlier this week? Well apparently, the Milestone 3 is real, it’s just not intended to make a GSM debut like the two previous generations. Dubbed the XT883 and destined for a launch in China, the smartphone will launch on China Telecom this year. Officially China Telecom says by the third quarter, though we know all too well how release date promises turn out.

As the rumors suggested, the Motorola Milestone 3 features a dual-core processor and a 4.0-inch qHD resolution display. A five-row QWERTY keyboard, 8-megapixel camera with LED flash 1080p video-capable, front-facing camera, 16GB of internal storage and Android 2.3 Gingerbread round out the specs.

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Last month at Google I/O, Google unveiled the new Chromebooks from Acer and Samsung – the first of a totally new kind of connected computer. The first devices will ship on 24 June, but play your cards right and you can win one before then.

We’ve teamed up with the folks at Google to give you the chance to win one of three Chromebooks. All you have to do is crack an exclusive conundrum before anyone else. Get your thinking cap on, and read on to find out how you can be in with a chance of winning.

UPDATE: Not solved it yet? We’ve updated the post with a few clues for you.

UPDATE 2: The third and final clue is now published below.

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It’s easy to round on RIM right now. The BlackBerry PlayBook arrived to lukewarm reviews, O2 canned it yesterday, and overnight it’s earnings call revealed a drastic drop in profits from $934m in the previous quarter to $695m. The company has announced a new round of layoffs and the number of people excited about new BlackBerry releases would probably fit into a small pub function room.

But BlackBerry is far from dead and there’s plenty it can do to arrest the decline and put itself back in the fight with Android and the iPhone. As strange as it sounds given low sales (it’s shipped 500,000 but it’s not clear how many are sat on the shelves) and the lacklustre response, the BlackBerry PlayBook was a good start. RIM just needs to go further and faster…

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