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Berg’s whimsical Little Printer has been hacked to support photos, though the new direct messaging feature won’t be present in the first generation of the unusual desktop gizmo. Part of a side-project by a member of the Berg team, the app update adds a camera feature to the currently text-only smartphone software, allowing users to append a photo to their wirelessly-beamed message.

Those messages are then printed out by the Little Printer, complete with a monochrome version of the image. The app has a number of filters, intended to help people get the clearest final result given the limitations of the printer itself, but don’t be expecting anything up to even Instagram level of clarity.

Still, it’s a neat tweak, and a sign that the Berg team hasn’t stopped evolving the Little Printer even though it’s now up for preorder and nearing shipping stage. The last update we saw was integration with Foursquare, Google, and other sites, extending the number of data sources for printed text messages.

Unfortunately, Berg says it’s “not sure when or if we’ll launch this,” with the only certainty being that it definitely won’t be in version one as the team doesn’t have time to integrate it properly. The Little Printer is up for preorder now, priced at £199 or $259, with shipping expected in mid-October.

Berg Little Printer teases Instagram-esque photo tweak is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sprint’s efforts to bring LTE to the masses have led to a large amount of frustration from the consumer base, but an announcement made by the carrier this morning shows that it’s hard at work to rectify that. The Now Network is nearly ready to blanket up to 100 markets with the high-speed data tech in the near future, and the full list of cities (shown after the break) can expect to enjoy LTE in the “coming months.” That leaves a whole lot of wiggle room for Sprint, admittedly, but at least the company is not backing away from its Network Vision goals. Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, New Orleans, Orlando, Philadelphia and Washington DC are among the major markets listed, but take a look below to see if your municipality has made the cut this time around.

Sprint 4G LTE service is expected to be available in the coming months in Chicago, Boston, New York and Los Angeles. And that’s not all. We expect to bring Sprint’s all-new network to more than 100 new cities during this period.

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If you are looking for a new car and want to make sure that the environment gets a shout out along the way, you might want to consider the 2014 Honda Accord Plug-in hybrid that hits the 100MPGe mark. Not the best looking hybrid ride in the market, the Honda Accord Plug-in hybrid does have its fair share of qualities to fall in love with, which would include the estimated 100 MPGe rating in addition to a pure-electric range which does not make it fall short of its rivals. We are looking at you moving the vehicle around for up to 15 miles just on battery power alone, which should be adequate for you to hit the nearest gas station in most cases.

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Samsung’s initial plans to equip the Galaxy Note II with a 13-megapixel camera were scuppered by supplier shortages, insiders claim, with LG snapping up the bulk of the high-res sensors for its new flagship. The new stylus-enabled 5.5-inch “phablet” that Samsung announced at IFA has an 8-megapixel camera, like its predecessor, but the company had hoped to step up to 13-megapixels, DDaily reports. However, supplier Sony proved unable to meet Samsung’s demand.

That’s because LG had already called dibs on Sony’s supplies, with a deal inked earlier this year meaning the bulk of the 13-megapixel CMOS were headed to LG’s production lines and the Optimus G. That handset is expected to be officially released to the market later in September.

Camera resolution was one blip on the Galaxy Note II’s spec sheet, with the rest of the smartphone representing a useful step up from its predecessor. The new “phablet” has a larger display and a more usable stylus – thicker and longer than the first-gen version, as well as having a new, rubberized tip – together with an upgraded 1.6GHz quadcore processor and 2GB of RAM.

As we’ve undoubtedly seen in recent months, the number of megapixels in a phone’s camera isn’t the be-all and end-all of final image quality; instead, it’s about how a camera uses those megapixels that really counts. Still, if the reports are true, Samsung’s compromise is unlikely to warm it to LG. More on the Galaxy Note II in our full hands-on.

[via GottaBeMobile; via Unwired View]

Samsung’s 13MP Note II plans reportedly killed by LG’s Optimus G is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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A few days ago, we did touch on Nokia issuing an apology to the masses for the confusion that arose from their recently announced Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone’s PureView trailer, and it seems that an ethics officer will be holding a review into why Nokia went ahead to publish such misleading marketing materials. It is said that this particular ethics and compliance officer will be working on an independent report “to understand what happened.”

While the Lumia 920 was impressive in its own right, this particular faux pas could not come at a worse time, considering how Nokia is struggling with their handset business, and it does not make too much sense to “bet” on a misleading information campaign on something so huge like their flagship device.

According to Richard Windsor, a global technology specialist at Nomura International Plc in Dubai, “It doesn’t look great. The “marketing mishap” may dent sentiment toward Nokia shares, yet Lumia sales will probably be unaffected.” What do you think the outcome of this internal review will be, and will any action be taken?

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