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This article was written on June 09, 2010 by CyberNet.

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I’m not a huge fan of Java-based apps, but IOGraph is actually kinda cool. There isn’t any real purpose to the app… it is really just for your own amusement.

Once you fire up IOGraph all you have to do is hit the play button to have it start recording your mouse movements. As your mouse strolls across the screen the path will be saved as lines, and anytime your mouse comes to a rest it will create a black circle. The longer you leave your mouse sit in the same spot, such as when you’re typing, the larger the black circle will be.

After you’re all done you can choose to overlay the pattern on to a screenshot of your desktop… which could be ery interesting if you remain within the same app during the entire duration of the recording. You can then save your output, with or without the background, as a PNG image.

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And, as rumored, you can pair it with an optional “Charm Indicator,” a bubble that glows purple when the phone is ringing so that you’ll never again miss a call because your phone is buried beneath nail files and fifty tubes of lipstick. Other accessories include a wireless dashboard speaker for the car, a dock and a workout armband. As that tell-tale FCC report revealed, the purple version you see up there will land on Verizon as a 3G device, with a silver version arriving in Asia and Europe next month. HTC has yet to confirm pricing or availability. If leaks are to be believed, though, those of you with small hands and deep murses should be able to pre-order yours any day now.

Update: We’re told that it’ll sell for the typical $199 on a two-year contract (which includes all accessories), with pre-orders starting on the the 22nd and availability pegged for September 29th. A bit steep given the specifications, but hey — you’ll pay a premium for style, right? Right?

Update 2: As for global aspirations, we heard from an HTC representative that it’ll soon be available on an unspecified amount of European carriers, where it’ll be hawked as the “Hourglass,” tinged in a “sand-like color.” All other specifications and accessories will remain the same, though.

Update 3: Check out our hands-on (with video!) right here.

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Anyone turned off by the HTC Pico’s blueish guise may be happy to see the phone’s dark and serious makeover in these press shots. Now going under the name of the HTC Explorer, the render also gives us our first look at the new HTC Sense Zero skin. Alongside a refreshed bar at the bottom, linking you to the app list and phone, it looks to be a visually lighter skin, hopefully allowing the Explorer’s rumoured 600MHz processor to juggle both HTC’s home-made interface and Gingerbread with ease. The petite Explorer lacks the 850 / 1900 WCDMA bands necessary for a US launch, so we doubt we’ll see it at HTC’s big event later today in New York, though we are expecting to get our hands on at least some of those codenamed phones currently doing the spy shot rounds.

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Google’s Android developer blog is warning creators of Honeycomb apps to rework their code for Ice Cream Sandwich or suffer unsightly consequences. The ‘problem’ with ICS is that it gets rid of the tablet/smartphone divide, such that HC apps designed specifically for tablets will suddenly be allowed to run on small-screen devices. Needless to say, in many cases that won’t be pretty. Creators of HC apps must therefore either disable installation on smaller displays (at least temporarily) or make sure they are fully compatible. Either job will require some time and, by the looks of it, that commodity is quickly running out.

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