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| HTC Incredible 2 makes its first appearance in Verizon’s internal system Posted: 26 Feb 2011 12:25 PM PST The HTC Incredible 2 has just been spotted in Verizon’s internal system almost a year to the day after its predecessor. Before you get too excited, assuming you are prone to getting excited about the Incredible 2, keep in mind that the original Incredible didn’t launch for a little over two months after it made its first appearance in a similar screenshot. It’s a safe bet that the Incredible 2 will at least borrow quite a bit from the already announced Incredible S, but whether it is in fact a carbon copy remains to be seen. One trait it hopefully doesn’t pick up from its overseas cousin is Android 2.2. Here’s a quick refresher on the basic Incredible S specs:
That 4″ screen size seems to be the sweet spot for a lot of users, but is that going to be enough to sway people in the face of the 4G and dual-core options arriving soon on Verizon?
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| Hashable arrives on Android, tracks your real world interactions Posted: 26 Feb 2011 08:36 AM PST Over the past few months I’ve been curiously tinkering with Hashable, a interesting new tool for managing who you’re meeting with and introducing. The service allows you to log real world interactions in a number of ways. Android users could log a connection with a specifically crafted tweet, by sending an email, or by entering the meeting manually on the Hashable website. Starting today, you can log interactions with a beautifully styled native Android app. The idea behind Hashable, while a bit tough to explain, is a totally solid one. Instead of fumbling with a stack of business cards, you can quickly log the people you meet, live, in the moment. Hashable then stores all your interactions and starts to build a web of real world social influence. Lately I’ve found myself collecting Twitter handles when I meet people anyhow (nerd alert, I know), so I figured I might as well try logging them with a service that actually did something.
On top of the app being an insanely easy way to track connections in the moment, Hashable offers a handful of tools for making sense of the social data you log. Each person you connect with gets a personal history, showing each interaction and keeping track of your relationship strength. They recently launched the inner circle, which is a way to share your connections with those you trust. If you’d like to be public, though, they’ve got that covered too, with leaderboards and a reputation system called Hashcred. To make Hashable a more seamless process, they’ve included a bunch of 3rd party account support. Clearly, a large part of the service is built around Twitter, but you can also import contacts from your Google Account, LinkedIn, etc. Hashable can even watch your Foursquare account to automatically create location-specific interaction logs. For all the things that Hashable does right, it still feels like they have a ways to travel. I think the core issue, though, is just that Hashable is a pretty wild idea. It takes a moment to wrap your head around what the service even does and takes even longer to derive real use from it. Personally, it seems like a totally worth experiment and I’m looking forward to using it during SXSW. I imagine I’ll meet quite a few people who I’ll want to talk to on Monday morning and now I won’t even have to remember their contact information. Gallery            PS: For those of you that have downloaded the app and are feeling lost, Hashable has created a handy cheat sheet for getting the most out of the service.
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