Hasta La Gadget!

In case you haven’t noticed, Microsoft’s been in a blissful shopping mood lately — and while we already knew the company had snatched up the creator of that enormous 82-inch touchscreen, today’s the day a more formal introduction is taking place. Via its Official Microsoft Blog, the Redmond-based outfit is suitably welcoming the Perceptive Pixel team aboard the Office Division, also announcing that PPI’s Founder, Jeff Han, will be joining as a “general manager” and reporting to Kurt DelBene. Naturally, we’re still wondering what exactly the acquisition will bring to the table, but if Perceptive Pixel’s previous doings are any indication of what’s to come, we can expect some more delightful novelties to come out of Microsoft’s HQ in the hopefully-not-so-distant future.

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T-Mobile’s Galaxy Note has been one of the worst-kept handset secrets in recent memory but the one thing the carrier managed to keep close to its proverbial chest is when its customers could actually go and get their hands on one. According to CNET, T-Mobile will begin selling its version of Samsung’s 5.3-inch phablet on August 8, for a cool $249 with a two-year contract.

Of course, whether or not you should buy one is another story entirely. Sure, there’s nothing wrong with the T-Mobile version per se — it’s nearly identical to the AT&T model, save for its lack of an LTE radio and the fact that it ships loaded with Ice Cream Sandwich. What really makes things dicey is the launch window that T-Mobile and Samsung have come up with.

You see, Samsung is expected to pull back the curtains on its “newest Galaxy device” just one week after T-Mo’s Galaxy Note goes on sale, and there are significant rumblings that said device is none other than the Galaxy Note 2.

If early reports hold true, the update should be a substantial one. South Korea’s MK Business News reported earlier this month that the new phablet will sort a quad-core chipset, a surprisingly beefy 12 or 13-megapixel camera, and an ever larger display — as if the Note didn’t already skew toward the unwieldy side of things. Samsung being Samsung, there’s no official word on what the company plans to unveil come the 15th — it may well be the oft-delayed Galaxy Note tablet — but it’s still a strong argument for staying at home and waiting to see what the Korean electronics giant has up its voluminous sleeves.

This week the folks at Samsung and T-Mobile are getting ready to unleash the Samsung Galaxy Note once again, this time on the big pink carrier. This device has already been out for several weeks on AT&T’s 4G LTE network and is now ready for action with T-Mobile’s HSPA+ 4G flavoring of content delivery. You’ll be able to pick the device up starting on August 8th for $249.99 USD with a 2-year contract attached.

This device also requires that you send in a $50 mail-in rebate if you want that $249.99 pricing, so right up front you’ll be paying closer to $300 right off the bat. You’ll find this device appearing in stores for your literal ability to pick it up and take it away on August 8th, and you’ll be glad to know that it’s essentially the same device that we’ve seen before on AT&T. This same gigantic beast contains a 5.3-inch HD SUper AMOLED display, a lovely 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm S3 processor, and and cool 8-megapixel camera on the back.

This version of the device also comes packed with the Samsung Premium Suite, a software upgrade that came with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software boost that the AT&T version of the device received recently as well. This device also has a 2,500mAh battery so you can rock and roll all night and day, and you’ve got 1080p video recording abilities as well. Inside you’ve got NFC and Android Beam for pushing small bits of content between devices quite simply, too.

This device has been given a full review by SlashGear in each of its several forms, our T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note review having just been posted this morning. Check out the rest of our recent Samsung Galaxy Note posts in the timeline below as well, and stay tuned for more Galaxy Note action as this monster continues to reign over the rest of the puny phones with an iron fist!

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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note hits August 8th for three bills is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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