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The Samaung Epic 4G is Samsung’s latest Android smartphone, and looks like it may be their most impressive to date, it features a 4 inch Super AMOLED touch screen display, plus a five megapixel camera and an LED flash.

The camera can record HD video in 720p and there is also a front facing video camera, which means that the Epic 4G can be used for video calls.

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Motorola has announced the sucessor to its popular Droid Android mobile phone, the Motorola Droid 2. The Motorola Droid 2 featires a 3.7 inch display, plus a slide out QWERTy keyboard and it comes woth the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 2.2.

The Motorola Droid 2 is the first Android smartphone to be released that features native support for Adobe Flash, and it supports the latest version of Flash, 10.1.

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MSI has added another gaming notebook to its range with the launch of the MSI GX660R, which features an Intel Core i7 processor, up to 12GB of DDR3 RAM, and a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics card with 1GB of RAM.

Other specifications include two 500GB SATA hard drives, a 15.6 inch LED backlit display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, which can display Full HD video.

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The Space Invader Couch is the work of designer Igor Chak, and whilst it is just a design concept at the moment, I think they should definitely make this one.

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UK mobile phone operator has announced that it will remove unlimited data from all of its smartphone plans, this include the new Apple iPhone 4. From the 24th of June 2010, when O2 starts selling the iPhone 4 it will introduce additional monthly charges for all new customers and existing customers who upgrade to the iPhone 4 and other new smartphone users.

An example of this is that a customer who is paying £35 a month on a two year contract will get 500MB of free data per month, if they go over this allowance, O2 will charge them an extra £5 for every 500MB of data they used.

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When Apple [AAPL] announced the iPhone 4 yesterday, the three major networks in the UK announced that they would be carrying the iPhone in the UK, O2, Orange and Vodafone.

Now UK mobile phone operator T-Mobile has also announced that they will be selling the iPhone 4 in the UK, this is great news for UK iPhone 4 customers and is bound to bring more competitive deals between the four networks.

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Apple’s [AAPL] CEO Steve Jobs has announced the next generation iPhone, the iPhone 4 at his keynote speech at this years World Wide Developer Conference.

The new iPhone 4 features the same design that we have been seeing for the last month, a complete new design over the iPhone 3GS, and the new iPhone 4 is 24% thinner than the 3GS measuring just 9.3mm thick.

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Apple’s iPad goes on sale in the UK tomorrow, there will be two models for sale a WiFi model and a WiFi +3G model. If you are looking to buy the 3G model you will need to get yourself a micro SIM card with a data plan from one of the providers in the UK, but which one is the best deal?

Four of the UK’s mobile phone operators are offering the micro SIM cards, and all of them have different tariffs available with different levels of data, so we though we would put together a chart comparing the deals on offer.

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Check out this innovative way to recycle bicycle inner tubes. The ElasticShelf designed by SystemDesignStudio uses tension created
in the tubes when they are stretched between two fixed metal bars on the wall. This tension is then used to keep your objects in place and no the shelf.

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We told you last week that Google was about to announce the latest version of its Android OS, Android 2.2 also known as Froyo. Right on schedule Google has officially announced Android 2.2 at its I/O developer conference.

Android 2.2 comes with a range of new features over Android 2.1, the main one being speed, as we previously reported, Android 2.2 is considerably faster than Android 2.1, according to Google it is around two to five times faster than the previous release.

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Here is something fun for all the Star Wars fans out there, now you can carry C-3PO around with you with this fun C-3PO Bespin Backpack, luckily he wont talk and annoy the hell out of you like the real C-3PO.

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Forget the iPad, and the other tablets that are being launched this year what you need is a replica of the original tablet that was used in Star Trek, the TNG DS9 PADD Replica.

Although we suspect the TNG DS9 PADD Replica won’t give Apple much competition as it doesn’t actually work, so you wont be able to surf the web on it or send emails.

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What could be more fun than a cookie jar shaped like Doctor Who’s Tardis? A Doctor Who Tardis Taking Cookie Jar, well it doesn’t actually talk but it does feature some fun Doctor Who sound effects.

This fun Doctor Who Tardis Taking Cookie Jar measures 11 inches by 6 inches by 6 inches, although it may be bigger on the inside like the real Tardis.

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Storm Japan has just released another monster gaming PC named the Annihilator Max Gaming Edition. Which is equipped with a 3.33GHz Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, an Intel X58 Express Chipset, a 1GB GeForce GTX 470 graphics card, a 6GB RAM, ans 80GB solid state disk for the operating system.

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Apple [AAPL] has finally updated its MacBook Pro range, all models have had a refresh with the 13 inch MacBook Pro featuring the new NVIDIA GeForce 320m graphics chip, which is designed to deliver up to 80% faster graphics and a 10 hour battery life.

The 13 Inch MacBook Pro now comes with 4GB of RAM as standard, a 250GB hard drive and a 2.4 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo processor or a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

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