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For those of you who wouldn’t touch a tactile screen if we gave you one, Verizon’s just put a smartphone up for pre-order that might be preferable: the Blackberry Q10. Big Red will carry the regular black model and has exclusive dibs on the dapper white Q10 we saw earlier, both of which are on pre-order for $200 with a two-year activation, or $600 sans commitment. On top of real QWERTY chiclets, you’ll get a 3.1-inch, 720 x 720 Super AMOLED touch display, dual-core Qualcomm CPU, 2GB of RAM and Blackberry 10.0. As a bonus, Verizon’s estimated ship date of June 6th might even line up nicely with the imminent arrival of a certain new version of the OS, too.

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Apple today dropped a mid-cycle refresh of the iPod touch, its iOS-based iPod, with 16GB of storage on board and without a rear camera, for $229. This slots in its existing lineup between the refreshed, fifth-generation iPod touch, which has a rear camera (and a loop for attaching a wristband), and the iPod nano.

The new iPod still has the same 4-inch Retina display you’ll find on the existing iPod touch and the iPhone, but it only comes in one color, black and silver, and it replaces the 16GB fourth generation leftover which Apple had offered since introducing the fifth-generation touch, presumably to fill the price gap between it and the 32GB $299 model of that lineup. The fourth gen models had been available for $199 for 16GB, and $249 for 32 GB, so this threads the needle between those two options in terms of price point.

You’ll still get the front-facing FaceTime camera, with 720p HD video recording on this device, the same A5 processor, and the same battery life. The new iPod touch variant is actually .06 ounces lighter than the existing versions, however, which is probably the weight of the rear camera module component. It also boasts the same Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi capabilities as the fifth-gen device.

As MacRumors points out, this refresh was actually predicted by KGI Securities’ analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has an impressive track record on products so far, though he also predicted an 8GB model, too. Still, the fact that he nailed the lack of a camera and the price point on the 16GB model is impressive.

Apple has seemed more open to making changes that go beyond internal specs on products mid-update cycle, including the iMac, which got a VESA-compatible variant earlier this year. I suspect that Apple needed its component and manufacturing costs to get to a point where this version would become viable in terms of its margin expectations, and also that it probably benefitted from clearing the supply lines of the fourth generation model by waiting this long to introduce this variant, but it still might be indicative of a new way Apple is thinking about product releases.

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Hybrid TV/streaming service YouView will integrate internet TV channels this summer, blending a theoretically “infinite” number of new channels into the on-demand service. The system, now in 400,000 homes across the UK the company confirmed today, will also get a new Android app to sit alongside its existing iOS software, due for release in the next few weeks.

The internet channels will be folded into YouView’s existing program guide, with a row of three small dots underneath the channel number indicating that it’s being delivered via the viewer’s internet connection. However, there won’t be the full functionality users have become familiar with; initially, at least, there will not be support for pausing internet channels, as is the case with timeshifted live-TV.

The first of the new channels will show up on YouView boxes in around a month’s time, and may well include BT’s sports channels in the initial wave. They’ll join YouView’s on-demand access to BBC iPlayer, Channel 4′s 4oD, and such.

As for the Android software, that will be a remote channel guide rather than a streaming app, at least initially. The software will show what’s on currently as well as what is playing next, and support remote recording control. YouView may add in direct remote control functionality in a future update, as well as content streaming.

Meanwhile, YouView will also release a WiFi dongle for its DVR, cutting the ethernet cord. Set-top boxes from BT and TalkTalk will be the first YouView hardware to get the new internet channels, sometime this summer, with updates to other models coming later in the year.

VIA Crave; What HiFi

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Shazam might claim over 300 million song-checkers already, but it’s all about increasing that audience, and from today, that includes Windows Phone 8. The app has launched free on Microsoft’s mobile OS, with the ability to tag directly from the home screen. Once it’s recognized the track, Shazam can connect to both Xbox Music and Nokia Music services to pick up the full track for playback. Shazam also promises to recognize TV shows and ads through audio and offer up an “interactive second-screen experience,” although there’s scant detail on what that might involve. While the app is free, like its iOS and Android counterparts, it arrives with unlimited tagging, which should make it perfect for anyone that really can’t remember who did that song. (It was probably Prince.)

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