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One of the most delicious phones the consumer world hasn’t had a chance to taste yet is firming up plans to finally make its way out to retail. Nokia’s Finnish store has put the E7 up for a €599 pre-order, which is expected to get the all-business device to your door some time in February. That matches the last word from Nokia on the subject of the E7’s release and should reassure anyone who’s made use of Amazon’s early pre-orders for this handset that the wait won’t last much longer.

[Thanks, Esko]

Nokia puts E7 up for pre-order in Finland, planning on delivering in February originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Project Buran was the USSR’s answer to NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia. Unlike its highly decorated American counterpart, however, this child of the 1970s produced only one unmanned space flight during its operation and was ignominiously shut down by Russian authorities in 1993. The remains of this most ambitious (and expensive) effort are still around, however, and have now taken on a layer of rust, weeds and general decay that would make any post-apocalyptic set designer swoon with admiration. It’s as beautiful as it is sad, this gallery of failed human endeavor, and you can see it in full at the link below.

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Visualized: the fate of the most ambitious Soviet-era space exploration project originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 26, 2007 by CyberNet.

There’s no need for a white-board or paper the next time you need to organize your thoughts and make a diagram.  Instead, try bubbl.us, a mind-mapping product powered by flash that makes great use of Web 2.0 technology. This is for anyone who needs help organizing, or planning and sorting out your ideas. By visiting bubble.us, you can easily, and quickly get started in the planning process.

It uses linked text bubbles and color coordination to create an easy to read diagram.  The process begins with a parent bubble.  By hitting tab, it will create another bubble the same color, and the same level of hierarchy.  By hitting enter, it will create a new level of hierarchy with different colored bubbles (child).  Each of the bubbles are connected with lines.  You’re able to click to drag each of the bubbles and arrange them how’d you like it.

They’ve added a little bit of fun with the deleting process.  By pressing the x in the corner of a bubble, you’ll delete the bubble.  Instead of simply deleting the bubble, a counter will begin counting from three, right on down to zero.  The line that connects each bubble looks like a lit fuse, and when it reaches zero, the bubble blows up into a cloud of fire. Fun.

Bubbl.us places the navigation to the right.  Your list of current projects will be there, and easy to access.  You’ll also find the save function, along with the print function.  Certainly there are more complex mind-mapping products out there, but this is free, and it’s easy to use for your basic needs.

One thing that would be nice to see implemented in the future would be a collaboration feature.  If you were using this for work or school purposes, it would be great to be able to collaborate with group or team members. Overall I think bubbl.us is a great Web 2.0 mind-mapping product that gets the job done.

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At CES, Verizon had mentioned that “some… but not all” of its first LTE handsets would support the simultaneous use of voice and data. That’s not news for 3G customers on T-Mobile and AT&T, nor WiMAX customers on Sprint — but for Verizon subscribers, this is a very novel concept, indeed. Well, we can chalk up the mighty ThunderBolt from HTC as one of the models that’ll support it, if leaked training materials for the phone over on Android Central are to be believed. On a related note, the very existence of these materials gives us hope that we’ll be seeing it on store shelves before too long; don’t get us wrong, the two USB modems Big Red’s launched for LTE service so far are all well and good, but we could really use some handsets on these airwaves.

HTC ThunderBolt will support simultaneous voice and data in LTE areas originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s nothing that runs counter to the ongoing whispers we’ve heard so far, but according to Bloomberg and its pair of sources, Sony Computer Entertainment’s Tokyo event on January 27th is indeed the platform from which it’ll unveil the next PSP, and next month at Mobile World Congress will be where we finally meet — officially, that is — the PlayStation Phone. Next week’s press conference will also reportedly “outline a strategy to use its networked entertainment services to share games, movies and music among handheld products, TVs and other devices.” Not much else to say at this point, so just sit back, relax, and wait for the other guys to do their presentation, first.

Bloomberg: Sony PSP2 to debut next week, PlayStation Phone at MWC originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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