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This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of September 19, 2011:

• Opera Software, builder of the popular mobile browser, announced it was acquiring Handster, an app store platform that supports Android, WP7, BlackBerry, and Symbian. [TechCrunch]
• Samsung unveiled three new HSDPA feature phones destined for India: the Champ 3.5G (S3770), Primo (S5610) and Chat 527 (S5270). [UnwiredView and SammyHub]
• A leaked image indicates the HTC Hero S will be coming to US Cellular in the near future. The device appears to be the Kingdom, and is expected to feature a 1.2GHz single-core Qualcomm CPU, 768MB of RAM, a 4-inch qHD display and Gingerbread. [PocketNow]
• Speaking of US Cellular, the Motorola Electrify officially became available for purchase online this week (expected in stores on September 26th), and can be yours for $200 after a $100 mail-in rebate. [AndroidCentral]
• Wirefly accidentally outed press renders of the Samsung Stratosphere — on the retailer’s Pantech Breakout page. The images have since been removed. [OwenJohnston]
• A white version of the Samsung Galaxy S II is making the rounds in the UK, but we learned this week that Bell Canada will be launching it well before the holidays. Interestingly, the device in the image (seen above) has retained the international version’s three-button layout. [MobileSyrup]
• Among the barrage of new phones Sprint’s releasing on October 2nd is the BlackBerry Curve 9350, according to another leaked employee memo. The price will likely be $80 after a $50 mail-in rebate. [CrackBerry]
• T-Mobile MVNO Simple Mobile announced a new unlimited prepaid plan for BlackBerry devices for $60 / month, which includes access to T-Mo’s HSPA+ network. [N4BB]
• Huawei appears to have outed press images of the Honor, which is said to have a 4-inch FWVGA LCD, Gingerbread, 1.4GHz CPU (no specifics known yet), and an 8MP rear camera accompanied by a front-facing cam (again, no details on the resolution here). [EuroDroid]
• A member of the iPhone Dev Team has released a new version of Redsn0w, its popular iOS jailbreaking software, known as 0.9.9b1. Check the link to get the full list of new features. [Technobolt]

Mobile Miscellany: week of September 19, 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on February 11, 2006 by CyberNet.

Rumors are starting to float around the web saying that Google has plans of adding a calender to GMail and also creating a web editor. Both of these seem like a definite possibility since Google rumors about domain management also seem real. I would like to see a calendar in GMail because I currently always have GMail open, so it would be easy to see and edit my schedules. The calendar, to me, is the most realistic out of the handful of rumors because it seems like Google wants the GMail service to become a complete personal information manager. Here is the information given to Valleywag by their ‘source’:

Google has a project codenamed trogdor, an ajax webpage editor for creating web pages. = geocities except with a javascript page creator.

Calendar for GMail, basically like ical in javascript

Wireless in every city in the US, not just mountainview – still in early development + legal problems

News Source: Valleywag

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This article was written on October 11, 2006 by CyberNet.

If you’re not ready to have Internet Explorer 7 installed from the Automatic Updates then you may want to disable it. IntelliAdmin has put together two great tools to disable the IE7 update so that you don’t have to go digging through the registry.

The first tool will let you remotely enable/disable the update by entering in the computer’s name and the username/password of the machine. It will then remotely connect and change exactly what it needs to.

The other tool that they have is for enabling/disabling the IE7 update on your local machine. Just one click and you will be all set to block Internet Explorer 7 from being able to automatically install on your system!

I actually welcome the new Internet Explorer because it brings a lot of changes in both security and usability. I would understand that some corporate environments may not want to do the upgrade until they can walk their employees through how to use it, but home users should dive right in and get their feet wet.

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It’s been almost two years since Sezmi launched its hybrid antenna and internet TV service, and now it has announced the dream of pay-TV without cable or satellite is dead. An email went out to customers tonight informing them the ability to view or record programming on their Sezmi systems would be shut off Monday, September 26th. The only compensation given for the sudden disconnect? Free access to the VOD catalog before that disappears too, on November 1st. The $20 / month Select Plus package that offered pay-TV channels over antenna never spread beyond Los Angeles, although users happy to settle for basic channels and online VOD had access in other markets. Still, we predict it won’t be missed simply because it doesn’t seem like many people ever signed up. Despite nice features like unique profiles for different household members, the limited sports selection cut off many early adopters from the beginning. The company is apparently trying to pivot into selling its technology to other service providers, we’ll wait and see if a Moxi-like resurgence is in the cards. Check out the letter to subscribers and our original video demo after the break while we plan a month-long memorial service for those soon-to-be-useless 1TB DVRs.

[Thanks, John]

Continue reading Sezmi’s cable / satellite alternative TV service to shut down Monday, won’t be missed

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Looks like we weren’t the only one afflicted by the Sony NEX-5N camera’s annoying click problem. In case you missed it, the camera displayed the disruptive tendency of producing an audible click loud enough to ruin any 1080/60p video if it was moved suddenly while shooting. Tonight Sony updated its support site to promise a “performance improvement” available to all owners under the camera’s warranty that it claims reduces the sound. At the moment we don’t have any more information on what’s causing the sound or what the improvement entails, but owners can dial 888-868-7392 to get their units upgraded.

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