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New BlackBerry Curve 8520 drops the trackball

David Meyer | Jul 29, 2009

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced UK release details for its new entry-level BlackBerry, the Curve 8520.

Editors' note: We have contacted RIM about its availability in Asia and are awaiting a response.

The device, which RIM expects to be available at a lower price than any of its predecessors, will go on sale from August, the company said on Monday. However, a spokesman for RIM would not confirm the price as UK carriers for the handset have not yet been announced.

The Curve 8520 is the first of RIM's smartphones to use a touch-sensitive optical trackpad, rather than a rollerball, as its primary input mechanism. It is also the first BlackBerry to have dedicated media keys for controlling the playback of music and videos.

The device comes with 256MB of flash memory--its storage is also expandable through microSD cards--and uses a 512MHz processor. It has a 2-megapixel camera and a 3.5mm stereo headset jack.

As the quad-band handset is entry-level, it lacks 3G connectivity. Instead, users can surf the Web using 802.11b/g Wi-Fi.

Via ZDNet UK

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Study: Drivers who text 23 times more likely to be in a crash

Jennifer Guevin | Jul 29, 2009

It isn't exactly breaking news that texting while driving is a bad idea. But a study released Monday night reveals just how dangerous it really can be.

After examining the behavior of truck drivers covering more than 6 million miles of road, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute concluded that people who send text messages while driving are 23 times more likely to be in a crash (or what they call a near-crash event) than non-distracted drivers.

To conduct the study, researchers mounted cameras inside drivers' vehicles. They studied where drivers' eyes were looking as they did various things, such as texting, dialing a cell phone, talking on a phone, and reaching for an object. Not surprisingly, the numbers (PDF) showed that the tasks that took people's eyes off the road caused the greatest amount of danger.

In crashes or near-crashes, texting took a driver's focus away from the road for an average of 4.6 seconds--enough time, the report point out, to travel the length of a football field at 55mph (88.5kmh).
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Android devs: Time to make the Donuts

Tom Krazit | Jul 28, 2009

With Cupcake barely starting to cool, Google's Android team has started circulating the ingredients that will make up the Donut release of its Android mobile operating system.

Google is using sweet treats as code names for future Android releases, and Donut is next on the list, following the release of Cupcake in May.

According to several reports citing Android developers, including one from The Boy Genius Report, Donut code started making its way around the community of developers that work on Android this weekend. Among the notable additions are support for the CDMA networks used by Verizon Wireless and Sprint to the operating system, as well as new features like universal search.
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Microsoft kicks off WM app store challenge

Jessica Dolcourt | Jul 28, 2009

At long last, Microsoft is publicly getting its Windows Mobile application storefront under way. On Monday, Microsoft opened the door to submissions from developers in 29 countries. To sweeten the deal and to drum up excitement, Microsoft has also announced the Race to Market Challenge, a contest of superlatives that will end with Redmond doling out four touchscreen Microsoft Surface tables to four winning developers.

All applications, games, and widgets certified in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile before December 31 will be eligible to win one of four categories: Most downloaded freeware, most moneymaking app (calculated by the number of downloads times price), the most useful product, and the most playful. Microsoft will determine the last two subjective awards by a panel decision.
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Overview of Google Latitude on iPhone

Josh Lowensohn | Jul 28, 2009

Last week Google released a Web app version of Latitude, its geolocation-based social tracking service. At Apple's request, Google made it a Web app instead of a native app that required installation.

This isn't an entirely bad thing as I found out after extended use this weekend. There's a lot to like, and some that's not so great. Here's the breakdown:

The good:

Simple service to use. If you've got it set to automatically refresh your location you just have to fire it up from a bookmark, or home screen shortcut and you're done.

You can keep it running in a browser tab while you're doing things in other tabs. It's almost like running multiple applications at once!
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