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- NEC Medias: Docomo To Offer The World’s Thinnest Smartphone In 3 Weeks
- Huzzah! Android 2.2 Comes To AT&T Captivates Tomorrow
- T-Mobile’s Limited Time Promo Plan: 1500 Minutes + Unlimited Text/Data = $80
- Sprint To Announce Their First Windows Phone 7 Device, The HTC 7 Pro, On 2/24?
- Joystickers: For When You Wish Your iPhone (Temporarily) Had More Buttons
- Apple Sends Out Invites For Their March 2nd iPad Event — We’ll Be There Live!
| NEC Medias: Docomo To Offer The World’s Thinnest Smartphone In 3 Weeks Posted: 23 Feb 2011 11:52 PM PST
On Monday, we’ve just shown you some leaked pictures, but we can now confirm the “world’s thinnest smartphone”, NEC Casio Mobile’s MEDIAS N-04C, is real. And provider NTT Docomo, Japan’s biggest mobile carrier, doesn’t want to lose time in bringing it to market: it will hit stores over here as early as March 15. As reported, the Medias measures just 7.7mm, which makes it the slimmest 3G smartphone out there (the Galaxy S II is 8.49mm thick). At 105g, it’s pretty light, too (the iPhone 4 weighs 137g), especially when you consider what the device packs:
Docomo plans to offer the Media in black and white. No word yet from NEC Casio Mobile if this beauty will be available outside Japan, too, at some point.
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| Huzzah! Android 2.2 Comes To AT&T Captivates Tomorrow Posted: 23 Feb 2011 05:25 PM PST
[via TalkAndroid and Ubergizmo]
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| T-Mobile’s Limited Time Promo Plan: 1500 Minutes + Unlimited Text/Data = $80 Posted: 23 Feb 2011 01:15 PM PST
Lookin’ to hop on board with T-Mobile? Do you burn through data and texts like no ones business, but don’t really use your phone as a phone all that much? The stars have aligned for you, my friend — but only for a limited time. They’re not saying how long this deal will stick around, but T-Mobile has just put up a new Limited Time promo plan. $80 gets you Unlimited Data, Unlimited Texts, and 1500 minutes. That’s $20 less than their Unlimited Everything plan, and $10 less than their non-promotional 1000 minute, Unlimited Data/Text plan.
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| Sprint To Announce Their First Windows Phone 7 Device, The HTC 7 Pro, On 2/24? Posted: 23 Feb 2011 11:49 AM PST
With all this talk of copy-and-paste (or, more recently, talk of failed updates bricking handsets), it’s easy to forget about the other feature of Windows Phone 7′s first big update: CDMA support. In other words, it opens the door to Windows Phone 7-ville to Sprint and Verizon. Based on a handful of tweets out of Sprint and the discovery of a page lingering around on Sprint’s own server, it looks like they’re planning to hop onboard right quick. Back on Monday, Sprint teased an impending phone announcement coming up on February 24th, saying:
Shortly thereafter, they followed up with:
Gaming, Music, Pictures, and Video “hubs”? Given that Windows Phone 7 is the only OS that uses the term “hubs”, that narrows it down a bit. Then:
Xbox integration? Yeah, it’s Windows Phone 7. To bring everything together, Engadget found a tipster claiming that the 24th would bring a Windows Phone 7 device called the “HTC Arrive” — and sure enough, heading to sprint.com/arrive brings you to a page that’s obviously more than the standard 404-Page-Not-Found error. The same tipster claims that the mystery phone is none other than HTC’s absolutely gorgeous QWERTY-slidin’ HTC 7 Pro, though it’ll be known around these parts by the aforementioned “Arrive” name. What do you think,
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| Joystickers: For When You Wish Your iPhone (Temporarily) Had More Buttons Posted: 23 Feb 2011 10:12 AM PST
The iPhone is great for gaming… in some ways. The App Store as a distribution model? Fantastic. The finely-tuned development platform? Amazing! The lack of even a single physical face button beyond the one that exits the application? Ehhh, not so great. While most game developers have learned to make do in this frightfully buttonless world, there are some ideas that simply require buttons. This has lead to a rather staggering number of games that draw their controls onto the touchscreen — which, for anyone who witnessed the control pad’s evolution from the palm-destroying corners of the NES to the pampering curves of today’s consoles, is a fairly terrifying idea. Playing a fighter game on a slab of tactility-free glass? No thanks. Enter Joystickers’ Classics — they’re removable, reusable, arcade-style buttons built to give the iPhone (or just about any touchscreen device) that little bit of extra game. So, how do they work? You take your iPhone, and boot up your favorite game that makes use of onscreen buttons. Slap one of these buttons on top of the onscreen button you’re looking to replace, push down, and bam! The Classic should hold in place thanks to a “special micro-suction cup material imported from Japan”, which they’re promising should stick and re-stick without leaving a mark. Sadly — and contrary to what the “Joystickers” name might imply (get it? Joystick.. stickers?) — it seems that they’ve yet to come up with such a workaround for a Directional Control/D-Pad equivalent. In other words, even if you snatch these up and put’em all over the buttons, your other thumb will be left swimmin’ in a sea of glass for any of the directional input stuff that the game may involve. Like so many of the crazy concepts we’ve been writing up lately, these buttons are part of a crowd-funded Kickstarter project. They’re trying to raise $25,000 to get the project off the ground, most of which they say will go toward funding the “prohibitively expensive” costs of injection molding.
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| Apple Sends Out Invites For Their March 2nd iPad Event — We’ll Be There Live! Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:21 AM PST
Boom! One way or another, word of a March 2nd Apple event trickled out yesterday morning — and sure enough, the invite just hit my inbox. Apple’s straying from their generally coy approach with this invite. There are no mysterious curtains or cryptic guitars for people to spend hours poring over in Photoshop here — they straight up put a picture of an iPad right on the invite, right behind a big ol’ number “2″. The event will take place in San Francisco on March 2nd at 10 A.M. Pacific. We will, of course, be there live, bringing back every juicy detail at a breakneck pace. So What Will They Announce?As with any Apple announcement, this one is (mostly) shrouded in secrecy. With that said, when the entire world is watching and analyzing your every move, it’s more or less impossible to keep things entirely under wraps. A few leaks have sprung up here and there that give us some idea of what to expect. iPad 2
This one’s pretty much a given, as they put an iPad right on the invite. With the rumor mill churning over the idea of an iPad 2 since just a day or two after the launch of the first, all sorts of crazy possibilities have been whispered at one point or another — but here’s what we’re expecting:
The New Final Cut Pro:  Just when many were beginning to think Apple’s Final Cut Pro video editing software had been put out to pasture, we found out that Apple was actually hosting top-secret meetings with select video editors to offer them a preview of the software. Will Apple choose to share the iPad 2′s spotlight with Final Cut Pro? Perhaps not — but with this next build of Final Cut Pro reportedly looking polished up and better than ever, there’s really no better time. OS X 10.7 Lion Dates:
It’s been just over four months since Apple gave the world a sneak-peek at Lion, the latest in their series of big-cat-named overhauls for OS X. Over the last month or so, we’ve seen a dramatic spike in the number of folks visiting TechCrunch while running Lion. When we start to see those numbers climb, it generally means the OS X engineers a pretty far along in their testing process. Though Apple almost undoubtedly has a trick or two hiding in Lion’s mane, we already know a solid number of its features:
Again, it seems unlikely that Apple would spend much time at their iPad event talking up Lion. It’s quite possible, however, that they’ll take the opportunity to announce when Lion will be available for developers to preview.
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