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Filed under: Handsets, LG, GSM, EDGE

If there’s one way to ruin an otherwise perfectly good handset, it’s by equipping it with a disgustingly triband GSM / EDGE chipset. Fortunately, though, this isn’t one of those otherwise perfectly good handsets, so we’re not plan to sweat it too hard. The KS360 from LG made its loud entrance at CommuncAsia this week, featuring a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel cam, stereo Bluetooth, FM radio, and a 2.4-inch QVGA display, all wrapped in a rather freakish red and black shell with globule-like controls. Asia’s the target market for the device, destined for a wallet-friendly price tag where features like 3G and inoffensive industrial design are apparently optional. Yeah, QWERTY’s continuously nice, but not when we find it physically difficult to look at the keyboard.

[Via Unwired View]

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Tags: Asia, Black Shell, Disgustingly, Fm Radio, Globule, Gsm Edge, Keyboard, Megapixel, Nbsp, Price Tag, Qvga, Qwerty, Target Market, Wallet

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA

Call it Raphael no longer! HTC has officially thrown the cover off its Touch Pro today — the QWERTY slider sibling of the recently-unveiled Touch Diamond — which should cover the bases for those who loved the Diamond’s keen looks but decided they’d go our of their gourds without a full set of physical keys at their disposal. Under that glossy black shell lies WiFi, HSPA with a solid 7.2Mbps on the downstream, Bluetooth, 2.8-inch VGA display, Windows Mobile 6.1 featuring HTC’s TouchFLO 3D interface, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a half gig of ROM, and 288MB of RAM. It’s not plan to win any “world’s thinnest” records with an 18.05mm waistline, but those five rows of textual healing don’t come without a price. The first batch of devices will be Europe-bound in “lat. summer” with 900 / 2100MHz 3G alongside the quadband GSM and EDGE; North and Latin American versions are promised for later in the year.

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Tags: 3d Interface, 3g, Black Shell, Bluetooth, Display Windows, Edge North, Gig, Gourds, Gsm Edge, Hspa, Htc Touch, Latin American Versions, Nbsp, Quadband, Qwerty, Raphael, Sibling, Slider, Umts, Waistline

Filed under: Apple, OS X

We’ve heard that the 3G iPhone would add real, true, honest-to-goodness (no joke) GPS into the mix instead of the fakey guesstimation the current model offers, and Dat. unearthed deep within the annals of the 2.0 firmware emulator lends credence to the scoop. Specifically, users have found references to NMEA data, the raw language used to communicate GPS coordinates between devices; that’d suggest that Apple’s intending to offer official support for GPS add-ons at the very least, but more likely, it foretells the inclusion of a GPS receiver right in the glossy black shell itself. What that means for efforts like locoGPS (pictured) remains to be seen, but it’d be awfully nice of Stevie to let external modules talk to the new firmware features on original iPhones, wouldn’t it?

[Via Navigadget]

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Tags: Add Ons, Annals, Apple Os X, Black Shell, Credence, Emulator, External Modules, Firmware, Gps Coordinates, Gps Devices, Gps Receiver, Honest To Goodness, Inclusion, iphone, Iphones, Joke, Nbsp, Nmea Data, Os X, Scoop