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Filed under: Handsets, Features, Motorola, Linux, GSM, EDGE

Quick: name a Linux-based Motorola touchscreen phone that isn’t widely distributed in North America. Oh, wait, that’s all of them! In this case, “all of them” includes the little A810, a phone that’s been kicking around the rumor mill since way, way back in February of this year. EDGE Dat. and a 2 megapixel camera should help keep this one priced somewhere in the midrange, and while not necessarily attractive, it’s definitely engaging attention to look at. Come on, you’ve got to give it that. Click through to the gallery if you don’t believe us.

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Tags: Edge Data, Gsm Edge, Linux, Linux Gsm, Megapixel Camera, Midrange, Motorola, Motorola A810, Motorola Gsm, Motorola Phone, Nbsp, North America, Rumor Mill, Touchscreen

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, ATT, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Shoot, all Motorola had to do was change from pink mahogany to this nice, normal, compliant shade of black, and that would’ve been enough of an update to justify a model name change. There’s more, though: the V9x will officially offer AT&T Navigator, the Telenav-powered navigation system already found on the Z9, and we can see from these press shots that it’ll even work on the secondary display, which is pretty trick. This appears to be the same update that we’d originally heard would drop way back in January, which means we can likely expect Video Share support as well. Check ‘er out!

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Tags: Amp, Att, Gps, Handsets, Hideous Color, Mahogany, Model Name, Motorola, Motorola Gsm, Motorola Razr, Motorola Razr 2, Navigation System, Navigator, Nbsp, Share Support, Umts, Z9

Filed under: Handsets, Apple

Daaaamn, talk about clout. If DigiTimes‘ sources are correct, then Samsung, the world’s primary supplier of flash memory, just told its non-Apple customers to suck it in favor of a “large batch of orders” it received from Cupertino. The order, is said to be for 50-million “8Gb-equivalent” (we assume they mean gigabyte, or GB) NAND chips “mainly for use in Apple’s iPhone.” This order follows a June procurement for 25 million of the same chips. In response, Samsung has reportedly told its lesser customers that it would “sharply cut supply” of NAND to them while the order is being fulfilled. The shortage is compounded by Samsung lowering its manufacturing output in April and May in an attempt to reduce oversupply. Still, if these numbers are true (they seem high and DigiTimes can be hit or miss with its Apple source) then the world is about to be awash in iPhone 3Gs come July 11th.

Update: We’ve given the Gigabits vs. Gigabytes a bit more thought. If it’s 50 million 8Gbit chips as stated, they would divide evenly across about 2.1 million 8GB iPhone 3Gs plus another 2.1 million 16GB models. A reasonable production run for Apple’s global launch but an order which shouldn’t be so taxing on Samsung’s production capability.

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Tags: 1 Million, 50 Million, Apple Chips, Apple Customers, Apple Orders, Apple Talk, Clout, Cupertino, Flash Memory, Gigabyte, iphone, Launch, Models, Nand Chips, Nbsp, Oversupply, Procurement, Production Capability, Samsung, Suck