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If there’s one thing that universities are good at, it’s dreaming up trendy technology initiatives. Apple knows that (as does McGraw-Hill) so it’s no surprise that the company’s been pushing to get the iPad adopted by schools around the country. And so it begins: Seton Hill University, a school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has announced that starting this fall all full-time students will get a slate of their own. We thought that the Kindle as textbook replacement idea was a little whackadoodle, and we don’t have much hope in the iPad as a textbook replacement either. But if the school’s aim is to get students playing Super Monkey Ball and up-to-date on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, then we might have a winner here.

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Sure, Verizon and AT&T shout at each other across our TV airwaves all the time, but how often do we get to see two exactly same phones running on both carriers? The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus have just such a distinction, and we stopped back by the Palm booth with our Verizon Pre Plus in hand just to prove to ourselves we weren’t dreaming. Naturally we couldn’t keep ourselves from a little browser battle, and we even caught the two phones commiserating about that dismal plastic USB jack flap of infamy. Sure, we’re longing for a new webOS device, and have a hard time thinking AT&T will reverse Palm’s fortunes alone, but there’s something special about this new era we’re entering with the likes of Palm and Google where you can (almost) choose your device and then your carrier, not the other way around.

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Right on cue, just after the aptly-timed teaser poster, Motorola signs on just the right dotted lines to make its i1 push-to-talk Android handset official. Let’s run through the specs quickly, shall we? A 3.1-inch HVGA (320 x 480) touchscren, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and 4x zoom, WiFi, and microSD expansion — no mention of the processor, so we’ll have to find out on our own later. The OS version is 1.5 and, while there’s oddly not a single mention in either the press release of fact sheet, given the official images and unofficial leaks, it’s definitely got Motoblur. The browser of choice is Opera Mini 5 with support for Flash 8, and if you’re worried about Mother Nature’s wrath, the i1 meets Military 810F standards for handling averse weather conditions. iDEN lovers can pick up the call sometime this summer on Sprint, with price yet to be named.

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We’ve heard it all before, but it’s always nice to get a modicum of legitimacy from a primary source. T-Mobile has now officially announced the release details for the HTC HD2 — you know, that phone whose cool factor has dropped a few Mega Fonzies since we confirmed once and for all it wasn’t getting a Windows Phone 7 upgrade. Look for it next Wednesday, March 24th, for just a penny under $200 on a two-year contract (and $450 without). Hey, at least this one’s definitely got copy and paste, right?

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Today Sprint Nextel commenced sales of the Motorola i890, a stylish flip phone that features Nextel’s Direct Connect and push-to-talk services, such as Group Connect, Direct Talk, Direct Send. The i890 has a push-to-open button to open the flip, and has a 2 megapixel camera with video capture. It stereo Bluetooth, GPS, and support for microSD cards up to 8GB. The i890 can run Java applications and has a speakerphone, media player (with external touch controls) and supports threaded messaging services. The i890 is available for $130 after rebates with new agreement.

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Samsung first announced its R0 PMP way back and July of last year, and we saw its R1 model hit the FCC a month later in August, but the company has just now finally gotten official with US availability for both of them. Set to be available sometime next month, the touchscreen-equipped R1 will come in 8GB and 16GB varieties (in black or silver) for $149.99 and $179.99, while the non-touchscreen, and slightly larger R0 (pictured above), will run just $99 and $129 for the same capacities in your choice of black, silver or pink. Both will also give you Samsung’s own Digital Natural Sound Engine 3.0 “sound enhancement” technology and DivX support, along with a microSD card slot on the R0, and Bluetooth support on the R1, among other standard fare.

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…and we use the word refine very loosely. In the last 30 days, Apple has dropped the App Store ban-hammer on applications that display images of scantily clad women and Wi-Fi scanning/stumbling applications. The bare-naked ladies were removed because, as Apple VP Phil Schiller put it, “the needs of the kids and parents” had to come first. Wi-Fi scanning applications got the boot for making calls to a private API, which raises the obvious question… why were these applications approved in the first place? So, what is latest app genre to feel the sting of Apple’s proverbial backhand? So called “cookie-cutter” applications. Apple is beginning to reject apps that were created using application building services and do not add any specific functionality to the iPhone or iPod Touch. Or, as TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid succinctly put it, “Apple doesn’t want people using native applications for things that a basic web app could accomplish.” Whatever the reasoning, Apple is sending a scary message to potential application developers… we can change our mind.

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Once upon a time, there were these cables that got into your home and into these things that went ring-ring, with numbers and redial buttons and call waiting. The DSP Multimedia Handset is the same, with Android and a touchscreen.

It’s also looks like the last twist to landline-based DECT handsets. In addition to Wi-Fi, this phone uses the Android operating system, meaning that you would be able to read your mail, surf the web, listen to music, talk with Google Voice, or use any of your favorite Android apps using its 3.5” TFT LCD touchscreen. It even supports accelerometers, so you can play even play games.

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Today T-Mobile launched the Nokia 5230 Nuron, a new touchscreen smartphone that offers free turn-by-turn directions with Ovi Maps navigation.

The 110.9mmm x 51.56mm x 14.47mm (4.37in x 2.03in x 0.57in) device, targeted as the mass market, offers a 3.2-inch 640 x 360 pixel resolution touchscreen, and is the first U.S. phone to come with the Ovi Store pre-loaded. Other features include a full HTML browser, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a 1320mAh battery good for 7 hours of talk time over GSM networks, aGPS, and a 2 megapixel camera.

The device is expected to retail online and in T-Mobile USA stores in the coming weeks. The device will cost $69.99 with a 2-year contract.

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Not a heck of a lot to report on this one, but a picture is worth a thousand words, no? The Mozilla team has posted a couple teasers pictures, on their Facebook page, of the Fennec mobile browser running on the HTC Nexus One and Motorola DROID. No word on a release time line or when a public build of the mobile Mozilla offering will be available to the masses.

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