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Word on the street has it that Google’s Android-themed event that is happening in New York City this coming October 29th would also be the platform where the LG Nexus 4 (E960) is announced officially, making it the first of the next generation Nexus branded devices to be revealed to the world. Of course, this remains speculation at time of publishing, but you can more or less say that the planets have been aligned in the right manner with previous rumors circulating around concerning a Google-LG Nexus-branded device.

What you see above hails from evleaks, who did predict the new Lumia devices rather accurately, so we would not be surprised if the LG Nexus 4 did indeed come with a 1.5GHz quad-core APQ8064 processor, a 4.7″ display at 1280 x 768 resolution, 2GB RAM,16GB of internal memory, an 8-megapixel shooter at the back with a 1.3-megapixel camera in front, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a 2100mAh battery, all crammed into a body that measures 9.1mm thin.

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If you’re ready for Windows Phone 8, Microsoft hears you – with an event scheduled for the 29th of October and set to show off Nokia as their brand hero right up front and center. If this doesn’t calm your mind on how Microsoft will be pushing the mobile OS, nothing will – there’s no Surface smartphone in the mix (yet, of course.) What we’ll be seeing here is several sizes of tiles, a lovely new set of integrations with Windows 8, and perhaps a few new bits of hardware as well.

This event will play host to Windows Phone 8 and many of its integrated launch-day services including Xbox Music for battle with Spotify and iTunes. We may see the elusive Verizon Nokia Lumia 822 (aka the Atlas. We’ll definitely going to see more of that “fundamental shift” that Steve Ballmer was talking about. We’ll definitely get a Windows Phone 8 pre-order date if we don’t have it by then.

We’ll hopefully just be seeing a few HTC devices including the Windows Phone 8X and the 8X as well. The 8X will be one to watch, for sure.

The folks at ZTE MIGHT have a Windows Phone 8 device at the event – though that’s unlikely. The devices we’ll certainly be seeing are the Nokia Lumia 920 and the Nokia Lumia 820, both of them ready for action right the heck after the event, we should hope. We’ll be there with bells on, you can bet -stick around!

Windows Phone 8 launch event invites sent for October 29 with Nokia as hero is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Microsoft’s upcoming Surface tablet might have experienced a sold out status in the US for its pre-orders, and we are not surprised to hear that considering how this tablet might just nudge its way into the tablet scene to turn what is currently a two horse race into a three horse race. Since all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, we are not surprised to hear that the Surface tablet too, will be able to support Xbox 360 controllers with the possibility of playing nice with the Kinect peripheral as well.

This bit of information was revealed at a recent “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit which was moderated by Surface general manager Panos Panay, and when faced with the question, “Does the Surface support Kinect and/or 360 usb controller inputs?”, Panay replied, “We used the 360 USB controllers to play with Surface all the time and they work great. We have not tried Kinect yet.” This definitely does sound promising, and there had best be great FPS titles on the Surface for us to make full use of the Xbox 360 controllers.

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Considering the sheer volume of leaks and information floating around right now, it’s becoming more and more clear that the so-called LG Nexus 4 is the real deal. In case you didn’t already have enough to ponder though, the folks behind the infamous @evleaks Twitter account have gotten their hands on yet another photo of the unreleased device and a few new particulars about its size and weight.

But first, the photo. In fairness, it’s far from the best Nexus 4 image I’ve seen out there — that distinction goes to the rather artsy photoset shot (see below) by TechOnliner.ru — but it matches up nicely with earlier leaks. Speaking of matching up, the device’s purported spec sheet (quad-core 1.5GHz APQ8064 chipset, 8-megapixel rear camera, 2GB of RAM, and a 4.7-inch display running at 1280×768) is pretty much a direct translation of the components found in LG’s flagship Optimus G smartphone, again keeping with people’s prevailing notions about the device.

As has been pointed out more than a few times since the first Nexus 4 photos leaked, the device bears a striking resemblance to Samsung’s older Galaxy Nexus. Should @evleaks’ info hold true though, LG’s device will be just a hair heftier than its Nexus predecessor: it weighs in at 139g and sports a 9.1mm waistline.

Naturally, neither LG or Google are willing to confirm the device’s existence just yet (hopefully someone in the process goofs the way printer RR Donnelly did the other day), but that could all change very shortly. Google has already sent out invitations to an Android event on October 29 that joyfully declares “the playground is open” — coupled with earlier reports that the next Nexus device (or devices; playgrounds can be pretty boring if you’re by yourself) would be unveiled before the end of October, it seems like Google is gearing up to steal Microsoft’s thunder with some hardware announcements of its own.