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Nokia N9 MeeGo slider leaks in early video tease?
Um, yeah.
Acer beTouch E130 kicks it BlackBerry-style, but runs Android 1.6 (video)
It’s not everyday that we come across an Android phone with an exposed keyboard, so naturally Acer’s beTouch E130 caught our eye here at Computex. The BlackBerry-esque phone is equipped with a 2.6-inch QVGA touchscreen display, a scroll ball and a full QWERTY keyboard. In hand the device felt really solid, and though the screen is smaller than most Android phones, the rough-feeling scroll ball is great for navigating the menus.
Nokia’s €15 bike charger will abide
We’ve been seeing dynamo-powered gadget bicycle chargers for, well, ever . But it’s good to see a company with the global reach of Nokia getting into the action with a €15ish kit all its own. Nokia says that a 10 minute bike ride at 6mph (10kph) will produce enough power for 28 minutes of talk time or 37 hours of standby
Telefonica gets behind MeeGo, says ‘smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and internet connected TVs’ are possibilities
Virtually all of the MeeGo buzz since Intel and Nokia’s tie-up back in February has been focused on high-end smartphones, tablets, and netbooks, but Telefonica reminds us that there’s another potential target for the platform, too — connected TVs. The Spanish wireless, fixed internet, and cable operator has thrown its weight behind MeeGo this week (which is a pretty big deal considering that the company has global reach across 25 countries and about a quarter billion subscribers), hinting that “services could potentially include content and applications that can be accessed from devices such as smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and internet connected TVs for Telefonica’s wireline and wireless operations.” We’ve yet to see any set-top box announcements in the MeeGo space, but with Google trying to light fires under the connected TV market , we imagine some competitors are bound to emerge — and it’s probably a good sign that they’ve got the backing of a cable company
ASUS launches netbook App Store eying a MeeGo future
ASUS didn’t make much of a fuss over it, but its ASUS-branded App Store for netbooks did launch today. Not much to get excited about unless you’re already pumped by Intel’s AppUp store at the heart of ASUS’ offering. The best part might be the announced MeeGo support, whenever the Intel / Nokia OS mashup is ready
Nokia N8′s USB On-The-Go support demoed, lesser phones turned into slaves
Among the Nokia N8′s neater tricks is its support for USB On-The-Go, which basically lets you connect USB peripherals (flash drives, for example) to the phone and have it act as a host — a duty usually reserved for heavier-duty devices like PCs. Though the N8 is still a solid month or three away from release, we’re getting a nice little video demo on YouTube today of an N8 being walked through the paces of connecting both a plain-vanilla USB drive and another Symbian-based Nokia candybar (brownie points for naming the model in comments, by the way). Basically, you can treat the connected hardware as mass storage and browse it just as you would the N8′s internal space, which basically means you’ve got unlimited music capacity as long as you’ve got a pocket full of USB sticks and a micro USB-to-USB adapter cord
