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With the G1 on its last legs, the CLIQ stands as T-Mobile USA’s only QWERTY Android set — and for a carrier that seems as committed to Android as T-Mobile does, that doesn’t seem right, now, does it? Indeed, that rumored myTouch Slide looks like it’s going to get real here pretty shortly now that we’re seeing shots of the thing in the wild, and… well, it looks nothing like the original myTouch 3G (and even less like the Fender edition). Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder — and we’d want to wait until we see this in the flesh — but the myTouch Slide appears to lack the old model’s attractive contours, sticking with a spartan design strangely paired to a chrome-ringed earpiece. Besides the clear addition of an optical pad here (something we’d previously heard HTC would be pushing hard in 2010), it’s apparently got an HVGA display, externally accessible microSD slot, camera with flash, and unfortunately, an old-school ARM11 processor. We’re holding out hope that T-Mobile has plenty of higher-end gear waiting in the wings, but for now, this looks like the G1’s true spiritual successor.

T-Mobile myTouch Slide in the wild? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple certainly isn’t the first company to launch or even talk about a tablet. Microsoft launched the concept in 2001, and since then we’ve seen perhaps dozens of devices based on the design, including a Dell prototype just a few weeks ago.

So there’s no question that Apple isn’t first to the market. What’s unusual, however, is a claim that Apple actually copied an existing design.

That charge comes from the chief executive of Shenzhen Great Long Brother
Industrial Co., who claims that Apple copied the design of its P88 tablet. All this is being reported by the Shanghaiist blog, which also links to a Spanish-language report in El
Mundo, claiming that the company could sue Apple, if the iPad is ever brought to China. 

“We are considering legal action, but we can not do much in the United States. But if Apple brings the iPad to China, we will be forced to denounce them, because it will certainly affect our sales,” said Wu Xiaolong, the company’s president said, in a statement translated by Google Translate.

“It is certainly our design. They’ve stolen because we present our p88 everyone six months ago at the IFA (International Electronics Fair in Berlin),” Wu Xiaolong added.

A lot of hot air? There was a great deal of concern about bringing the iPhone to China, potentially the world’s largest market. This may be something to watch.

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Well, Happy Friday to you, too! We’ve been inundated with tips from perturbed Nexus One users across the country (and even in Puerto Rico) suggesting that their T-Mobile data coverage is completely out of commission. As you can see above, our own Josh Topolsky is seeing the error in Brooklyn, NY. Some users have reported that their SIM card pulls down data when swapped out of the Nexus One and into another handset, and both T-Mobile and HTC tech support centers have purportedly been slammed. At the moment, no one really seems to know what the issue is, but we have seen some reports from owners that their data is coming down just fine. So, what say you? Let us know what’s going on with your Nexus One in the poll below.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: As of 12:54PM ET, it seems that data is back in action for Nexus One users. You should probably try rebooting your phone if it’s not.

Nexus One experiencing nationwide data outage? (update: it’s back!) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The evening before Apple’s iPad launch, CNBC conducted an
interview McGraw-Hill CEO, Terry McGraw. The interview revolved primarily
around the book publisher’s quarterly earnings–this is, after all, what CNBC
does. About two-thirds of the way through the conversation, however, the anchor slipped
in a quick question about the then-rumored tablet. McGraw happily answered, and
thus a leak was born.

 During the actual event the following day, however, McGraw
was nowhere to be seen. The New York Times was prominently featured, but there
was no one stage with Steve Jobs talking about the device’s potential as a
textbook reader. Was McGraw-Hill kicked out of the lineup after the slip? According
to a company rep, the answer is no–McGraw-Hill was never a part of the event.

Oh, and McGraw’s comments, those were merely “speculative,”
according to the company.

On Tuesday afternoon Mr. McGraw appeared on CNBC in a wide
ranging interview to discuss our earnings announcement and growth projections
for 2010. His speculative comments about Apple’s pending launch, which he
shared earlier in the day in a call with investors, were simply intended to
suggest that if the new device were to use iPhone applications, many of our
education products would be compatible with the technology and could be made
easily available on it.

 What were those original “speculative remarks, again? Oh
yeah,

Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one.
We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be
based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable.

 Sounds a bit like McGraw knew something the rest of us didn’t, doesn’t it?