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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung

We’ve already gotten word of most of the details of Samsung’s i8510 INNOV8 (get it?) smartphone, but things just got a whole lot more official for the device in europ. and, coincidentally, a number of sites recently got to spend some time with the phone in NYC (despite the lack of an official US release). Of course, there’s not a whole lot of surprises to be found, but it certainly seems like the phone will get the job done and then some, with its built in camera not only boasting an impressive 8 megapixels, but auto-focus, image stabilization, and a flash as well. The rest of the specs aren’t too shabby either. Head on past the break to check out one video of the device courtesy of MobileBurn, and be sure to hit up the Laptop Mag link below for a second, higher-quality look at it.

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Read - MobileBurn, “Samsung’s i8510 Innov8 S60 smartphone”
Read - Laptop Mag, “Hands-on with the Samsung i8510″

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Filed under: ATT, Apple

Conspiracy theories tend to run rampant when a phone (or any object of desire, for that matter) that’s produced in absolutely enormous quantities dries up in retail locations. Are they really sold out? Is the retailer trying to work prospective buyers into a frenzied lather? Is the CEO sleeping on a bed fashioned of gilded iPhone 3Gs? The answer to that last question is very likely “yes” either way, but for their part, AT&T and O2 have Bot. come out to promise customers that they’re putting handsets out in retail just as quickly as they possibly can, with AT&T additionally noting that it’s shipping out direct fulfillment orders on a “first-come, first-serve basis” with lead times currently running around two weeks — in other words, “ship us some more frickin’ phones, Apple.” Seriously though, how’s Apple plan to come even close to keeping up with the next round of national launches when they’re so woefully behind on the existing ones? And more importantly, if these execs would just sleep on queen-sized iPhone Bed. instead of king-sized ones, just imagine how many more happy customers we’d have out there?

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Filed under: Software, HTC, Windows Mobile

Not a very big fan of cooked WinMo ROMs, but desperately want in on that 850MHz action for your Touch Diamond? Well, first of all, anyone who isn’t a fan of cooked ROMs is just a little loony as far as we’re concerned (but we still love you); secondly, HTC’s made it possible to have your cake and eat it too with a new firmware update posted to its Asian site that proclaims the addition of GSM 850 support among several other changes and fixes — some ten in total. After working through some confusion over the appearance (or lack thereof) of 850 in the band selection screen after updating, it seems like this does actually work for a diversity of Touch Diamonds floating around out there, so let us know how you fare if you decide to give it a shot.

[Via xda-developers, thanks Dayne]

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