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Nokia’s shown off its Windows Phone 8 wares, so has HTC, and we knew Huawei was bringing a WP8 handset to the table sometime soon, too. That day has finally arrived, as an official looking render of the Ascend W1 has popped up on Twitter. If the picture’s to be believed, the Chinese firm’s handset sports bright coloration similar to its Windows Phone compatriots, and looks to be a handsome addition to the family. Drink it in folks, the official unveiling is likely just over a week away.

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We’re under a week away from Apple’s next big event on October 23, where the company could be announcing the iPad mini, as well as possibly a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and new Mac minis. In the meantime, ETrade Supply has posted some photos that show what is said to be the iPad mini’s display unit that has the same 4:3 aspect ratio as the 10-inch iPad.

The display unit in question measures approximately 6.4 inches (162 mm) x 4.9 inches (124 mm), which, according to the Pythagorean theorem, goes right along with the well-rumored 7.85-inch screen size of the iPad mini if you take the bezel of the display unit itself into account — the math has it coming out to just over 8 inches in diagonal length.

Text on the back of the display unit mentions that the item was manufactured by LG, and text on the ribbon cable is said to be consistent with the labeling that’s normally found on genuine parts used in Apple products. A French source also posted photos showing what looks to be the iPad mini’s display in quality testing. However, they weren’t able to verify, but the display looks very similar to the one that ETrade Supply posted.

Both sources also had photos of the iPad mini’s battery, which don’t give us a lot of info and aren’t too revealing anyway — it’s just a battery after all. However, sources say the battery will be rated at 16.7Whr running at 3.72V. To compare, the iPhone 5 has a 5.45Whr, so the iPad mini’s battery is more than three times larger.

[via MacRumors]

Today, we got word that Apple is officially holding an event on October 23, which is most likely when the company will announce the heavily-rumored iPad mini, and possibly a 13-inch Retina-equipped MacBook Pro and new Mac minis. However, the main event is the iPad mini, and it turns out that there might be 24 different models of the new device when it releases.

First off, 24 different models doesn’t means that Apple will offer 24 different configurations of the iPad mini. It means that there will probably be two, three, or even four versions that may come in both WiFi and WiFi+3G variants. Then, each version will have colors to choose from. This will roughly end up to around 24 different models.

The part numbers themselves are quite interesting. You’ll see numbers P101, P103, P105, and P107 in the list. These numbers may correspond to the different capacities of the iPad mini, which would probably be 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. Then again, they could correspond to the different connectivity options.

Each “P” number also has three different designations called “GOOD”, “BETTER”, and “BEST”. Again, this may refer to capacity size with 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB being likely capacities, or they may correspond to connectivity with there possibly being multiple WiFi+3G models for different cellular networks.

Then, there is either an “A” or “B” next to each model. It’s said this may have something to do with color options with either black or white to choose from. In the end, we’re not sure exactly what the letters, numbers, and words represent, but come next week, we’ll certainly know for sure. Stay tuned!

[via MacRumors]

iPad mini part numbers reveal 24 different models is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We’ve certainly heard a lot of rumblings when it comes to Google’s upcoming Nexus device. It’s about that time of the year when the company usually outs a new product, so it’s really no surprise that Nexus rumors are flying around. The latest leak comes from a couple of Google and LG employees themselves who ended up posting photo samples from a mysterious device onto Google+.

Google employee Jason Parks and Bae Sang-Hoon of LG’s Pyeongtaek Learning Center both posted image samples onto their respective Google+ pages, which have since been taken down on both pages, but that didn’t stop people from taking some screenshots and saving the photos themselves — EXIF data and all — before they were taken down.

According to EXIF data, listed under “Camera” is the “Nexus 4,” which we take will be an upcoming Nexus phone that apparently is already manufactured and being tested as we speak. We’re not sure if the phone will actually be called the Nexus 4, or if it’s just a working name or codename. Either way, we know a new Nexus is coming extremely soon.

This also isn’t the first time we’ve heard about the “Nexus 4.” The phone showed up in the Carphone Warehouse’s inventory system a few days ago, and then we heard about a rumored launch date of October 29 on the same day. Whether or not we’ll see the phone that soon is yet to be known, but it will surely be soon.

[via Android Community]

LG Nexus 4 photo samples leaked onto Google+ is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google faces the challenge of dismantling its unified user accounts, which among other things helps bake its Google+ social network into most aspects of search, under pressure from French regulators. The huge endeavor, backtracking on its integrated privacy policy, will be forced by the French CNIL data protection commissioner, The Guardian reports, with an announcement by the organization expected on Tuesday this week.

Google’s downfall, it’s suggested, is not giving its European users the opportunity to opt-out of the privacy policy changes made back in March. Then, the search giant said that it was doing users a favor by scything away 60 or more individual privacy policies and replacing them with a single, unified agreement that it claimed was easier both to read and, critically, understand.

Unfortunately, regulators didn’t see the changes in the same, positive way, with particular horror at the new data-sharing provisions that allowed information from different Google products to be mashed together. That, Google argued, not only opened the door to useful features for users – such as using location, calendar and traffic data to warn them it they were likely to be late to an appointment – but was not significantly different from what was permitted under the old agreements.

French privacy advocates demanded Google delay the changes while it looked into their legality, but Google denied the request, insisting that there had been no “substantial concerns” raised when it initially mentioned the amended policy approach to lawmakers. That refusal could come back to haunt the company, however, with policy experts suggesting that the selection of the CNIL to head up the data protection inquiry was a deliberate one based on the French commission’s aggressive approach.

Google has declined to comment specifically on the CNIL press conference, saying only that “we are confident that our privacy notices respect the requirements of European data protection laws.” However, the search company is likely to complain far more vocally if forced to reverse its privacy modifications and put back in place the old system.

Google faces forced privacy backtrack after Euro scolding is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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