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Filed under: Software, Apple, OS X

Ah, bug fixes galore. Apple just declare firmware 2.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. “No crashes,” says Steve. He’s calling it a big update with the promise of fewer dropped calls, big battery improvement, and faster backups. Is this a dream? We’ll find out when it’s released this Friday.

P.S. No mention of copy and paste.

Update: 2.1 will be available for iPod touch owners for $10. Come on, you didn’t really expect it to be free did you? There’s a “buy at this time” button at the end of that link but it only downloads v2.0 at the moment.

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

You know that unlocked HTC Touch Diamond advertised at bes. Buy? Well, we just received word from the inside that it does, indeed, carry US 3G. At least that’s the obvious assumption given the HTCTOUCHDIA model and IAMOND UNLKD 3G description shown in bes. Buy’s all too familiar RSS feed. $700, and “coming soon” — you ready?

[Thanks, anonymous tipster]

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Filed under: Handsets, Software, Nokia, Symbian

That delightful little gift to original N95 owners in the form of firmware v30 has at this time spread to the European-spec N95 8GB, too, offering better battery life (allegedly), a new Flash Lite client, upgraded media player, “enablers” for Comes With Music (sounds promising), and a host of other tweaks that make the N95 better than ever. In fact, it might have some N95-1 and N95-2 owners saying “N96 who?” — but North American N95-3 and N95-4 owners, as usual, might let their eyes wander toward the newer piece anyway since there’s no indication when they’ll be seeing the upgrade.

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