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Apple took more than two million preorders for the iPhone 5 in the first 24 hours the new iOS 6 smartphone was up for sale, the company has confirmed, setting a new record. In fact, pre-sales more than doubled the one million orders of the iPhone 4S last year, Apple said, with availability now being pushed back into October.

Although “the majority of pre-orders will be delivered to customers on September 21″ Apple said in a statement about the new record, “many are scheduled to be delivered in October.” Shipping estimates slipped to two weeks after less than an hour of pre-ordering being available in the US, and are currently listed at 2-3 weeks.

iPhone 5 hands-on:

“iPhone 5 pre-orders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the customer response to iPhone 5 has been phenomenal.” Philip Schiller, senior VP of Worldwide Marketing at Apple said today. “iPhone 5 is the best iPhone yet, the most beautiful product we’ve ever made, and we hope customers love it as much as we do.”

In comparison to the old iPhone 4S – which remains on sale at a new, $99-with-agreement price point – the new iPhone 5 includes LTE connectivity and a faster processor. It also introduces a 4-inch screen, taller though no wider than the existing display, and debuts iOS 6.

More details on the iPhone 5 in our full hands-on.

iPhone 5 pre-orders burst past 2 million in first 24 hours is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We told you Apple would likely provide numbers for those “incredible” iPhone 5 pre-orders. The company tells us that it notched two million pre-orders in the first 24 hours, more than twice as many as the million it recorded for the iPhone 4S last year and over three times the iPhone 4’s figures. Many of those online purchases that missed launch day now won’t arrive until October. Yes, it would almost be a shock if Apple didn’t shatter any records given the size of its existing user base, but the scale of demand suggests you just might want to get in line Friday morning if you’re bent on getting an iPhone 5 on launch day.

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While new tablets and smartphones are almost always great, there are users out there who might be more concerned over other aspects of the device and not just on its features and hardware specs. These other aspects includes issues such as how easy would it be to repair, are the parts all customized and will need specially made equipment to fix and etc. Well the good news is that if you’ve always wondered how the innards of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD looks like, the folks at iFixit have posted their tear down of Amazon’s latest tablet.

Thanks to their teardown, they have confirmed that the Kindle Fire HD is powered by the TI OMAP 4460 processor and comes with 1GB of Elpida RAM. They have also discovered that the Kindle Fire HD measures 0.1mm thinner than its competitor, the Google Nexus 7 and is apparently a lot easier to open, hence a lot more repairable as well. If you’re interested in checking out the rest of the components within the Kindle Fire HD and see how they are laid out, head on over to iFixit’s website in the source link below. In the meantime if you’re trying to decide if the Kindle Fire HD is the tablet for you, check out our hands-on here.

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One thing that is timeless about the game of Monopoly is this – greed is still an inherent trait in all of us, where we want more and more in our lives, so much so that owning a monopoly of things is always a good thing as long as we are the owners. Having said that, you might want to relive those classic Monopoly moments of your youth with your own kids this time around, but instead of playing on a usual sized board, how about treating them to something special? I am referring to the $149.95 Giant Monopoly Game that will include playing pieces that are 150% their normal size, accompanied by an oversized board to boot.

The board itself is built with solid wood stained and varnished for a subdued gloss finish befitting wealthy industrialists, measuring 30″ x 30″ in size while including a 20″ x 20″ recessed well lined with smooth green felt so that you can place the 3″ x 5″ Chance and Community Chest cards within. The well is also perfect for rolling the game’s 1″ cu. dice. The entire raised playing surface tips the scales at 12 lbs., so flipping over this board when you lose is not a good idea as someone is gonna get a hurt real bad if the board flies off in the wrong direction.

[ Giant Monopoly Game copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

MMOs have always been around, although lately it seems that there have been more popping up than usual. Interestingly according to Team Fortress 2’s lead designer, Robin Walker, it has been revealed that Valve at one point in time was worried that they did not have an MMO of its own to compete with the rest. This was revealed in an interview with Gamasutra, where Walker also revealed that instead of developing and launching an MMO of their own, they took some MMO elements and introduced it to Team Fortress 2, along with the free-to-play model and micro-transactions, such as the ability for players to buy hats for their characters.

“MMOs were the dominant story in the industry, and one concern we had was that we might not be able to survive if we didn’t build one […] We were starting to feel the same way about micro-transactions as we did initially about MMOs: that our company was at risk if we didn’t have internal experience and hard data on them.”

What do you guys think? Would you like to have seen Valve come up with an MMO of their own?

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