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HTC Tilt 2 And HTC Pure WinMo 6.5 Phones Arrive In The US

Danny Allen — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:15:00 +0000

Windows Mobile 6.5 rolls-out tomorrow, so expect to hear about a bunch of new handsets this week. Getting in early, AT&T has gotten official with its versions of HTC’s TouchPro 2 (Tilt 2; shown left) and Touch Diamond2 (Pure).

Both phones use an enhanced TouchFLO 3D interface on top of WinMo 6.5, and here’s how each breaks down:

The Tilt 2 is a QWERTY slider with “tilting” 3.6-inch WVGA touchscreen, dual speakers/microphones (with noise cancellation), and 3.2MP camera. AT&T says it will be available in the coming weeks for $US300 (after $US50 rebate, with a two-year contract).

The Pure updates the Diamond2’s look, and has a 3.2-inch WVGA touch screen, 5MP autofocus camera, expandable memory, gravity sensor and ambient light sensor. It’s available now in the US for $US150 (after $US50 rebate, with 2 year contract).

Turtle And Pure Pink Phones May Be Just Next-Gen Sidekicks

Matt Buchanan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:20:00 +0000

CNET’s Ina Fried says the Microsoft Pink phones leaked yesterday are “more the evolution of the Sidekick” using Windows Mobile as the core OS, and in addition to Microsoft’s main phone push. What’s interesting is the reason Microsoft bought Danger.

It’s because Danger was all about cloud services for their phones, and Ina hears that they’ll be a big part of what Microsoft’s doing with phones overall. If Windows Mobile 7 is the core, as Mary Jo Foley has reported, the phones will launch when WM7 launches, at the very earliest. Either way, it’s clearly somebody’s busy over in Microsoftland. [Cnet]

The Pink Phone Pics Microsoft Doesn’t Want You To See Yet

Pretty Boy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:30:00 +0000

Project Pink is Microsoft’s new phone for regular people. Rumours about the software go back months, but the hardware, and who’s making it for Microsoft, has been a mystery. Here are the first pictures of Pink phones, Turtle and Pure.

These phones are going to be made by Sharp, who’ll get to share branding with Microsoft. Sharp produced the Sidekick hardware for Danger, who was bought by Microsoft two years ago. (Which is honestly the only reason we can think of why Microsoft stuck with Sharp for the new phones, versus someone like HTC.) Pink will be primarily aimed at the same market as the Sidekick, and branding and identity for it is highly developed, pointing toward a later stage in the development cycle.

The hardware design has a younger feeling too: Turtle looks like a chunky child’s version of a Palm Pre, while Pure seems like a standard slider, and both are clearly plastic. They have an overall sense of roundedness, with lots of soft angles and circular keys.

It’s been reported elsewhere that Pink phones will include Zune services, and have its own app store, making it as close to the Zune phone as we’ll get. We’ll see if it’s close enough in the coming months, though these are the only facts our source will let us safely publish for now.

Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle: Pure And Lego Batman?

Danny Allen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:09:45 +0000

Ars Technica’s freakishly-reliable mole says the $US300 Elite will include both games after its $US50 rebate ends on October 5. Additionally, the 802.11n adaptor will likely be $US100 (ouch), while the 802.11g version drops to $US80. [Ars Technica via Kotaku AU]

Sensia Wi-Fi Radio Has Touchscreen, Twitter, Facebook

Sean Fallon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:20:00 +0000

Taking cues from devices like the Chumby, Squeezebox and HP’s DreamScreen, Pure is throwing a kitchen sink full of features into their new Sensia radio—including Wi-Fi, DAB and FM support, a 5.7-inch touchscreen and plenty of popular widgets.

Other features include: two full-range 3-inch drive units, an optional rechargeable battery, RF remote and a 3.5mm input for hooking up additional audio sources. Widgets like Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, weather and news are available now, but the lineup should grow over time. Plus it kind of looks like something the Jetsons would have. The Sensia will be available in Europe for the equivalent of $470, but there is no word on when or if it will ever be available in Australia. [Sensia via Slashgear]

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‘Secret’ Document ‘Leaks’ Xbox Pure?

Mark Wilson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:30:00 +0000

A reliable contributor to the Cheap Arse Gamer forums (someone who supplied early leaks of the Xbox 360 Elite) revealed this document mentioning “Xbox Pure” as a proposed final product name needing approval. There’s also some allusion to metal plating. Since I’m about 90% certain that Microsoft purposefully leaked the Elite early to build publicity (through articles like this one), I’m guessing that the Xbox Pure is already a final product name and this document is just for our own amusement purposes only. In other words, let’s view it as what it probably is—a cryptic press release—and not pull out the decoder rings by candlelight just yet.

UPDATE: It appears that we were misled by Cheap Arse Gamer as part of a prank contest. Running fabrications like this one does not help a site’s credibility.

[Cheap Arse Gamer]