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The HTC HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional smartphone which is set to release on March 24th, is already on sale via Walmart in Vancouver Canada, it looks to be a really sleek device, compared to the iPhone 3GS, the display is bigger and better, can't say the same about the Operating System unfortunately. Anyway, some guy called up the Walmart Store in Vancouver and was told he could come down and buy the HTC HD2 which he did, so excited he was that he posted an unboxing video of the phone on Youtube.

As you can tell from the video below, the phone is real, it comes in this black box with HTC HD2 written on the front along with a picture of the phone itself. The phone can be used on any network but if you want access to 3G coverage, you will only be restricted to T-Mobile and not many people would like that very much. One other thing you should evaluate before you buy the HTC HD2, it is not upgradeable to Windows Phone 7 OS, to me, that's a bummer and the biggest reason to stay away from this handset if you have plans to jump on the Windows Phone 7 train come later in the year.

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We've already talked about the first Windows Phone 7 Series handsets and so far we know that Samsung, Asus and LG all have at least one working prototype running Microsoft latest OS.

But today we have for you a totally new LG Windows Phone 7 handset and this one is a beauty. In fact it might just be the best LG phone created so far if only it were real. The device has been conveniently "leaked" only to be removed from Neowin later on. That's certainly more than strange, wouldn't you agree?


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Here's some news for everyone, the Google Nexus One is making its way to Sprint later in the year, not only that but Verizon is poised to be making a similar announcement so everyone has always been perving at Google sex-machine, this is time to pick one up on the cheap along with a 2 or 3yr contract of course.

No here's the thing, you'll still be required to buy the phone from Google themselves, the Nexus One will not be sold in stores just strictly online, I guess we now know why after 74 days Google only sold 135,000 of these bad boys, or it could be because the phone was never available for the likes of Sprint and Verizon which are larger networks compared to T-Mobile.

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Not really surprising here, Google only sold 135,000 Nexus Ones in the first 74 days since the handset went on sale, but don't jump to conclusions now and talk about how much the handset has flopped, far from it. The research done by Mobile search firm Flurry, has shown how pathetic the Google Nexus One sales were in its first 74 days compared to the iPhone and Motorola DROID. The DROID surprisingly came out on top with 1.5 million sales, Apple iPhone played second with 1 million and Google's little baby at the meager number of 135,000.

Now, lets see why the Google Nexus One appears to be a complete flop, first off, the DROID was pushed with a $100 million marketing campaign by Verizon, the Apple iPhone had the Apple branding behind it and at the time, it was the hottest thing on the market, the one phone that changed the whole industry to what it is today. Google's little toy? Really good phone but it didn't get the marketing push it deserves, the phone is only available online at Google's Store and launched out on T-Mobile which is one of the smaller networks in the U.S. Then we have to take into consideration one more thing, how many consumers out there would actually buy a phone without testing it out? One cannot do that with the Nexus One unless you're lucky.

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A strange report comes in all the way from The Wall Street Journal. It would seem that the iPhone has rapidly become a very popular phone among Microsoft employees. In fact no less than 10,000 Microsoft employees using iPhone smartphones have been accessing the Microsoft email system which amounts to roughly 10% of Redmond's active "soldiers."

While company policy can't officially make its employees ditch iPhones in favor of Windows Mobile handsets the report goes to say that some employees go to great lengths to disguise their iPhones. What Microsoft did last year in order to convince more people to switch back to Windows Mobile smartphones was to change its corporate cellphone policy to reimburse service fees for employees using Windows Mobile.


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Windows Phone 7 is a very hot OS but that will not save Microsoft anytime soon. The new OS is expected to arrive by the end of the year and until then Redmond is going to lose even more marketshare to Google, Apple and RIM.

A recent study analyzing the U.S. mobile market from October 2009 to January 2010 clearly shows that Android sales have risen by 4.3% compared to October 2009 stats while Windows Mobile sales dropped as Microsoft lost 4.0% market share. RIM and Apple are reading the charts and they also on the rise with 43.0% and 25.1% market share.


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Here is some good news for the vast amount of Apple Fanboys lurking in the darkness. Apparently iPhone OS 4.0 will feature support for multitasking, for the folks who have no idea what this means, it means iPhone owners in the future will be able to have multiple applications running at the same time, but knowing Apple, they will likely limit how many apps users would be able to run in the background.

Since the iPhone first came on the scene, users have been clamoring about for Apple to add support for multitasking, now it seems Apple has finally answered to the desperate plea from die hard Apple fans. In a sense, the iPhone is capable of multitasking, the only way that is possible is if users go the route of jail-breaking the device, something which Apple does not appreciate you doing, must suck to be an iPhone owner eh? Many alternatives so what you all waiting on? The impending death of Steve Jobs?

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In case you're currently living in the UK and you are interested in Palm Pre handsets then boy do we have good news for you. EA Mobile has decided to offer three free 3D games with every handset. These games are The Sims 3, Monopoly and Need for Speed Undercover.

You must certainly be familiar with at least a couple of them and now EA and Palm are going to make sure you get them free of charge should you be interested in getting a new Pre in the UK.


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It's not the first time we discuss the merger between two UK important carriers, T-Mobile UK and Orange UK, but this time around we can confirm that the merger will finally be able to take place. The EU Commission has cleared it and Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom can close the deal.

In fact it's expected that the merger will take place by Spring so if you happen to be one of T-Mobile UK's customers you'd better start getting used to the idea that you're going to refer to Orange UK as your default carrier in the very near future.


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Android is like a woman, it has mean multitasking skills and one of my favorite things I love to see Android do is, control robots. It's only fitting for a OS called Android to be used to control robots and anything that has to do with robotics or Artificial Intelligence. Today we are going to look at a robot made from cardboard, this little thing was created Tim Health and Ryan Hickman who ate both web engineers.

At the center of the cardboard skeleton is the HTC G1, the first Android powered smartphone to be released 2yrs ago. By setting up the G1 to the cardboard skeleton along with a few wires here and there, Tim and Ryan were able to control the robot via their laptop, all this is possible because they took advantage of the G1s compass which they use for guidance, pretty god damn smart if you ask me. Now you maybe thinking all this cost them a fortune, it actually didn't, apart from the phone itself, the grand total for everything else is a measly $30, thats it.

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