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Just three months after its official debut, Samsung’s GS II smartphone has seen record sales at more than 5 million units across parts of Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Originally posted at Android Atlas

A new messaging phone for U.S. Cellular, the Samsung Character, has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

Originally posted at Dialed In

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After three years in the making, Amazon has launched a wireless portable reading device called Kindle which they hope can improve “the book.” When I saw the price tag that read $399, I couldn’t help but initially think “who’s going to buy this at that price.” After reading about all that Kindle has to offer, I could easily see this turning into a “must-have” for book enthusiasts and something people would be willing to spend the money on.

One of the best features about Kindle is that it’s wireless.  You have instant access to over 90,000 blogs, books, magazines, and newspapers.  Say you’re on the train on your way to work and you wanted a new book to read to pass the time. All you’d have to do is power-up your Kindle and you could select what you wanted to read. The best part – no service or data plan is required! It uses Sprint’s high-speed data network so that you have instant access to the reading material that you want to read. Once you selected the material you wanted, it would be sent to your device.

Other features:

• Search Wikipedia for free
• Everything is backed-up at Kindle.com (if you lose the device or it breaks, you can get it all back)
• Sharp and natural display with no glare (looks nothing like reading on a computer screen)
• Light weight! Weighs only 10.3 ounces and can carry 200 books at a time

Obviously the content that you want is going to cost because as we all know, books aren’t free.  Here’s a look at some of their prices: a monthly subscription to a newspaper will be $13.99 while a monthly subscription to a magazine will be $1.49 per month. Prices for books will vary, and if you wanted to read a blog, the monthly subscription fee is $1.99.  Personally, I think it would be better if they offered plans for blogs like for $5 or $6 so that you could read as many blogs as you wanted. $1.99 per month could really ad up if there are multiple blogs you like to keep track of.

It’ll be interesting to see if many people will buy it, but also if this will help out the e-book business which has been a flop. Given the price, I don’t think it’ll be something that people will instantly run out to buy, so Amazon better have some marketing tricks up their sleeves if they want this to turn into something more than Sony’s Portable Reader System.

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Labradoodles, Cockapoos and Puggles better make way, there’s a new designer breed lighting up the pound — blacklight-style. Using the same somatic cell transfer technique that birthed the first puppy clone, Korean researchers at Seoul National University created Tegon, a glow-in-the-dark female beagle. The four years in the making, 3.2 billion won ($3 million) genetically modified pup fluoresces when exposed to UV light after ingesting a doxycycline antibiotic. No doubt this Frankenweenie should have Uptown girls and Party kids scrambling for a bank loan, but a high-end canine accessory end is not what the team had in mind. Citing the 268 diseases mutt and man share, lead scientist Lee Byeong-chun believes future lab-made pooches could include “genes that trigger fatal human diseases,” paving the way for life-saving treatments. If any of this is ringing your PETA alarm, we don’t blame you. We’d much rather see this lambent hooch take the starring role in Tim Burton’s next, great reboot.

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With all of the hype building for the Droid Bionic’s arrival, we can’t say we were expecting to see an unannounced Motorola device receive love from the camera instead. But sure ’nuff, we beheld our gadget-lusting eyes on a handset that’s likely AT&T-bound in the near future — the carrier’s logo is flaunted on the front, at least — and may even be the next-gen Atrix 4G. Sporting a coincidentally similar design to its supposed predecessor, we only know of a few specs so far: the mystery device offers an 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video capture, HDMI connectivity, Moto’s new Blur UI replacement and a curved display similar to the Nexus S — though this time there’s no fingerprint scanner onboard. It looks and sounds great, but let’s just hope that this one really is the “world’s most powerful” smartphone. The gallery below shows the device in all its glory.

Motorola Atrix sequel gets candid with the camera, heading for AT&T? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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