HTC HD7 is a HD2 lookalike with Windows Phone 7 and 720p video, exclusive to T-Mobile in US
October 11, 2010 No Comment
Stop us if you’ve heard these specs before: 4.3-inch WVGA (800 x 480) TFT screen, 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8250 system-on-chip, 576MB of RAM, 5 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, and Microsoft’s latest mobile OS on board. Yes, the HTC HD7 is almost a carbon copy of the much-loved HD2 , albeit with a major upgrade to Windows Phone 7 software and an appreciated bump to 720/24p video recording. Beyond those enhancements, American buyers will be greeted with preinstalled Netflix, Slacker, and T-Mobile TV entertainment apps, along with 16GB of built-in storage. T-Mobile gets the honor of being the exclusive US carrier, with exclusives also going out to O2 in the UK and Ireland and Telstra in Australia. O2 Germany will also distribute the phone, along with Movistar in Spain, Bouygues Telecom in France, and a choice of carriers in Italy. Bear in mind that the non-US HD7s are likely to come with a less capacious 8GB of storage. The phone is scheduled for an October 21 retail debut in Europe, to be followed by a mid-November arrival on US shelves. You’ll find the full press release after the break, although you shouldn’t bother if you expect it to explain why the nearly identical HD2 isn’t getting a WP7 upgrade. Gallery: HTC HD7 press images Continue reading HTC HD7 is a HD2 lookalike with Windows Phone 7 and 720p video, exclusive to T-Mobile in US HTC HD7 is a HD2 lookalike with Windows Phone 7 and 720p video, exclusive to T-Mobile in US originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Dell Venue Pro gives WP7 a 4.1-inch QWERTY slider with Lightning heritage and a T-Mobile future
October 11, 2010 No Comment
To say we’ve been eagerly anticipating the Dell Lightning would be an understatement along the lines of suggesting Microsoft’s launching a few Windows Phone 7 devices today. Dell’s AMOLED-equipped WP7 debut has just gone official with a cringe-worthy renaming to the Venue Pro for T-Mobile, who has in turn announced its intention to carry the 4.1-inch portrait QWERTY slider “in time for the holidays.” Notably, you won’t be able to purchase the Venue Pro directly from T-Mo stores, as Dell and its choice of handpicked retailers are set to handle the purchasing experience. Don’t look for any AT&T hookups, either — Dell has acknowledged T-Mobile as its “launch partner” for the device, giving team Magenta a second major exclusive , even if this one doesn’t last much beyond the launch period. Needless to say, we’ll seek to confirm the full spec sheet as soon as we can, though the officially known 1GHz Snapdragon chip and 5 megapixel imager agree with the Lightning’s original leak . For more on the fresher than fresh Dell Venue Pro, check out our hands-on pictures and impressions . Gallery: Dell Venue Pro for T-Mobile press images Continue reading Dell Venue Pro gives WP7 a 4.1-inch QWERTY slider with Lightning heritage and a T-Mobile future Dell Venue Pro gives WP7 a 4.1-inch QWERTY slider with Lightning heritage and a T-Mobile future originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …HTC 7 Mozart and 7 Trophy set out to conquer the WP7 world, 7 Pro coming to Sprint next year
October 11, 2010 No Comment
HTC’s kicking the Windows Phone 7 era off in style today with no less than three new phones scheduled to debut on October 21 in Europe: the HD7 , the 7 Mozart , and the 7 Trophy . Both the Mozart and Trophy offer a WVGA LCD screen, a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8250 chipset, 576MB of RAM, 8GB of built-in storage, and 720p video recording. Where the 7 Mozart sets itself apart is in having an aluminum unibody construction wrapped around its 3.7-inch display, together with a more advanced 8 megapixel imager and a Xenon flash. The 7 Trophy makes do with an LED flash illuminating 5 megapixels’ worth photons, but it does also come with HTC’s promise to be the most aggressively priced WP7 handset from the company. It’ll be a Vodafone exclusive across the big red network’s global footprint, while the Mozart will be exclusive to Orange in the UK, France, Spain, and Switzerland, exclusive to Deutsche Telekom in Germany, and available on a choice of carriers elsewhere. No peep of an American release for either handset, however. For the home crowd, Sprint is set to deliver a HTC 7 Pro with a QWERTY keyboard that slides out and tilts — you can see it pictured in the gallery below — at some point in the first half of 2011. It too goes with the same old 1GHz Snapdragon, 576MB of RAM, 5 megapixel cam plus 720p video, and WVGA display resolution (on a 3.6-inch screen), but it gets a bump in storage to 16GB. Full spec sheets for all three phones, along with HTC’s big Windows Phone 7 announcement, await just past the break. Gallery: HTC 7 Mozart, 7 Trophy and 7 Pro press images Continue reading HTC 7 Mozart and 7 Trophy set out to conquer the WP7 world, 7 Pro coming to Sprint next year HTC 7 Mozart and 7 Trophy set out to conquer the WP7 world, 7 Pro coming to Sprint next year originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Image credit: Farm Aid From strange films about blowing up little climate skeptics to the futility of pessimistic disasterbation , the topic of what constitutes effective communication keeps cropping up here on TreeHugger. I’ve just come across another video that I can’t make my mind up over—and this one takes on farming. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Top Model Laura Bailey Brings Bling to Ethical Fashion with New Jewellery Collection (Video)
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Images via: www.made.uk.com For some time now there’s been a clamouring in the ethical fashion world for more high profile names in fashion to get with the ethical programme and start banging the sustainability drum. We know it’s superficial, but it’s an undeniable truth that big names get big press and without them it’s hard to convey important messages in engaging and aspirational ways. Especially in an industry like fashion that’s all about glitz and glamour. So we’re delighted that ethical fashion in the UK is now getting some much needed star quality from the likes of
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Ace described this photo of Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), the congressman who called for a boycott of his own state because of the illegal immigration bill, this way : ”He kind of looks like his parents were a tarantula and a deflated basketball.” Grijalva is in a running battle with this Republican, Ruth McClung, who is an actual honest-to-goodness rocket scientist: Game, set and match to the rocket scientist.
Continue reading …Samsung Focus, HTC Surround, and LG Quantum all outed a bit early on AT&T’s Windows Phone 7 site
October 11, 2010 No Comment
These details aren’t supposed to be live yet, we presume, but AT&T’s just posted full information on its Windows Phone 7 lineup over on its site. We’ve got the Surround from HTC, the Samsung Focus, and the LG Quantum — and as expected, they’re a slider (sorta), a slate, and a full QWERTY slider, respectively. [Thanks, Shane C.] Samsung Focus, HTC Surround, and LG Quantum all outed a bit early on AT&T’s Windows Phone 7 site originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …7 Major Ways We’re Digitizing Our World, And 3 Reasons We Still Want Hardcopies
October 11, 2010 No Comment
Photo via AMagill The digitization of our world has been a forward march for years now; still, it might be surprising to step back and look at how physical copies of our stuff have changed into something else entirely. And even more surprising might be to go beyond the debate of the level of pleasantness of reading a paperback book versus an e-book on a Kindle and look at how digitizing everything might save space and shrink the environmental footprint of everything we produce, but also put the longevity of our information at risk. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Something to look forward to if Prop 19 passes : Swap the Dungeness crab cakes and peasant skirts for lobster rolls and L.L. Bean khakis, and this snug seaside hamlet a few hours north of San Francisco could be a dead ringer for a New England village. (It was a stand-in for Cabot Cove, Maine, in the long-running TV series Murder She Wrote.) But if California voters approve a controversial ballot proposition in November to tax and legalize marijuana for recreational use — and it’s ahead in several polls — some local growers say Mendocino, pop. 900, might become better known as the tourist capital of a “Napa Valley of cannabis.” The notion of opening marijuana-tasting rooms, meet-the-grower tours and ganja-friendly “bud and breakfasts” in Northern California’s pot-farming “Emerald Triangle” is like “tearing down the Berlin Wall. It’s not going to happen overnight,” says Matthew Cohen of MendoGrown. His 12-member association promotes a “sustainably grown medical cannabis industry” in the county, where legal and illicit pot — sanctioned for medical use by California residents since 1996 — fuels an estimated half to two-thirds of an economy once anchored by fishing and timber. Still, he says, passage of Proposition 19 would mobilize entrepreneurs and help jump-start a sluggish tourism industry by putting “Mendocino County on the map as a vision of what cannabis country could look like. The vibration is already here, and if you love (marijuana) enough to smoke it in a coffeehouse, why wouldn’t you want to come out and enjoy it at the source?” They’re going to have to put rubber bumpers along the freeway up there.
Continue reading …Steve Ballmer teases three WP7 handsets on Today, gets no respect from Matt Lauer
October 11, 2010 No Comment
Today’s going to be a big day for Microsoft, and Steve Ballmer’s kicking it off early. Showing up on the Today show, Samsung Cetus in-hand, he let loose a humble smile and spent a little time showing off a trio of phones. Along with the Cetus, nestled in the middle in the picture below, is an LG C900 on the right and an HTC Mondrian on the left, none of which got as much face time as the man himself, who took a (tersely) polite ribbing from host Matt Lauer about the status of Microsoft’s mobile efforts compared to the competition over the past year, even making mention of Ballmer’s recently cut bonus thanks in part to the Kin debacle . Steve was having none of that, not interested in looking back, showing off an “always consistent” interface that is simply “delightful” according to the man. How delightful is it? Look to learn a lot more as the day progresses. Update : Thanks to muslimsteel for pointing out in comments you can watch the segment yourself right here . Continue reading Steve Ballmer teases three WP7 handsets on Today, gets no respect from Matt Lauer Steve Ballmer teases three WP7 handsets on Today, gets no respect from Matt Lauer originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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