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Symbian's answer to App Store on the "Horizon"

Mats Lewan | Jul 17, 2009

Symbian, the world's dominant but seriously challenged operating system for smart phones, on Thursday announced its take on application distribution--the Symbian Horizon application-publishing platform.

Symbian compares the program, which it has hinted at before, to a book publisher or record label. It's a one-stop-shop for developers to reach a series of phone application stores--those offered by phone carriers and manufacturers--and get revenue in return. Horizon, scheduled to launch in October, will also offer assistance with technical development issues and language translation.

Symbian, which has been nonprofit since Nokia acquired the British company last year and created the Symbian Foundation, will not charge anything for the program.
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Photographers make splash with Casio Exilim camera phone

Justin Yu | Jul 17, 2009

Casio might be ripe to the world of mobile phones, but it certainly made a splash last night with a unique party for the launch of its Exilim C721, a versatile phone that combines rugged durability and a 5.1-megapixel camera in a stylish handset.

(Credit: WireImage/J. McCarthy)

Casio canonized the launch by offering the Exilim mobile to several handpicked photographers with the challenge to use the short-form medium to document a week of their lives. Ricky Powell, Richard Kern, Dave Potes, and 11 other prominent artists were all in attendance at last night's event at the Stephen Weiss Studio in downtown New York, where several wall-to-wall digital projects were used to bring their distinctively playful snapshots to elaborate scale.

Casio also had the Exilim C721 handsets on display, cleverly submerged in a sterile tank to show off their military-spec (code MIL-STD 810F) resistance to water, rain, shock, dust, salt, fog, and high altitudes. The phones continued to play their video and photo slideshows underwater, and surprisingly maintained their monochrome OLED display as well. While the phone does come with a pretty stiff price tag (US$280 with a two-year service agreement and a US$50 mail-in rebate), last night's gala proved that its creative innovation and tough-guy attitude may very well be worth the cost.

Via CNET Crave

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Shanzhai ji: Fake phones lowdown

Brendon Chase | Jul 17, 2009

Zhu Chenghao takes a drag on his cigarette as he pulls out his latest top-selling phone--the iPhone Mini. He may be less charismatic than Steve Jobs but is every bit as keen to show those all too familiar features from a full-size iPhone: The touchscreen, integrated media playback, games, colorful icons and stylish curved finish.

(Credit: Brendon Chase/CBS Interactive)

But as the Apple CEO would say, "that's not all". The iPhone Mini includes features Apple is yet to announce in its smartphone: An FM radio player, dual-SIM card support, Java, external storage via miniSD and video recording, to name just a few.

"Shanzhai," Zhu says with enthusiasm as he shows off the shake-to-shuffle feature.

Welcome to a Shanzhai tech market in Shanghai, China. Shanzhai is the Chinese term used inside the middle kingdom for counterfeit or copied goods. The direct translation of Shanzhai (山寨) is "mountainvillage" and is used to refer to the small, low-quality factories in southern China. It's a blanket term for a range of counterfeit goods ranging from designer bags and clothing to tech gadgets, cars (even Formula One race cars) and helicopters.
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iPhone makes sniping easier

Darius Chang | Jul 16, 2009

It may surprise you to know that real-life long-distance sniping is not simply a matter of peering down a scope and pulling the trigger. As the target distance gets further, wind direction, type of bullet and even gravitational forces can mean the difference between a hit and a miss.
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Smudge-resistant touchscreens vs. French fries

Damian Koh | Jul 16, 2009

Just how well do the Apple iPhone 3GS and the HTC Hero stand up to our grease test? Resident Cravers John Chan and Damian-French-Fries-Koh find out.

Update: Even though oil stains on the back of the HTC Hero came off easily, it's not because of a Teflon coating. Only the white version comes with a Teflon back cover. Parts of this video have been edited to correct this.

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