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Nothing new or unexpected here: just like we said a few days ago, the Samsung Saga, one of the bluest handsets in recent memory, is now available online at Verizon. Also filed under “things we already knew,” the globetrotting GSM and CDMA-enabled smartphone with EV-DO is selling for $199.99 (with a 2-year contract and one of those mail-in rebates we all know and love), though apparently you won’t be able to walk into a Verizon store and pick one up in person until December 1st. Hit the read link for more granular details should you really, really want them.

Verizon’s Samsung Saga shows its face, as anticipated originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Does a UMPC with a breathalyzer still raise eyebrows? In addition to making you face your demons (something several family-led interventions have failed to do) UMID’s F1 is a GPS-enabled device aimed clearly at drivers. This 7-inch, 800 x 480 LCD touchscreen PC sports HSDPA and WiMAX connectivity, a VIA C7-M 1.2GHz processor, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, a GPS receiver, DMB TV tuner, FM tuner, a remote control and Windows XP Home. Available with 512MB or 1GB memory and up to 60GB storage, this machine is currently on sale in Korea. No word yet on pricing.

UMID F1 GPS-enabled, breathalyzin’ UMPC available in Korea originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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By Joanne Chiu and Nerilyn Tenorio MACAU (Reuters) - China took another step toward its long-cherished goal of operating high-speed telecoms services, with China Mobile (0941. HK: Quote) dishing out over $4 billion of deals and smaller rival Unicom

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Hey Sprint, you listening? Granted, GSM doesn’t do Sprint a whole lot of good in the States, but swapping a CDMA radio into HTC’s first WiMAX effort here would make for a downright mighty response to the Touch HD. The previously-seen T8920 has turned out to be the MAX 4G, an 800 x 480 monster with 8GB of Flash on board, two cameras, an FM radio, GPS, WiFi, triband EDGE, and — most importantly — WiMAX support, making it the first GSM / WiMAX handset anywhere in the world. It’ll be launching on Scartel’s Yota network in Russia, and if you have friends cool enough to have a MAX 4G of their own, calls between the two of y’all will automatically be routed over the WiMAX airwaves using VoIP. A launch date hasn’t been announced, but unless you’re in Russia, there’s probably not much point in even bothering to lust after this one. If you insist, though, you can check out a couple additional shots of the phone over at Engadget Mobile.

HTC MAX 4G officially announced, world’s first GSM / WiMAX phone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops

Netbooks too big for you? MIDs too cramped? What you need is a super mini laptop from Korean company UMID, one of the sexiest entrants into what seems to be a burgeoning sub-netbook category (or subnet-books for the network admins out there). It weighs just 315 grams (a little over a half-pound) and, while exact dimensions weren’t listed, seems to sit somewhere between Nintendo DS and Everun Note in terms of size (judge for yourself, more pics below). Inside it can pack a 1.33GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, and up to 32GB of storage via SSD, meaning it can hold its own against the netbook hordes, and do so on the run thanks to WiBro, WiMAX, HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity. It also has a 1.3 megapixel camera situated next to a 4.8-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen and can be yours running XP, Vista, or Linux. Well, not yours, since we don’t know when or where this thing will be appearing for sale first or, for that matter, how much it will cost when it does.

[Via jkkmobile]

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UMID’s “super mini laptop” is small, shiny, super originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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nformation, Cell Phones Over the past year we have seen the launch of many cell phones, such as the Apple iPhone 3G, T-Mobile G1, BlackBerry Storm, and the latest to join the party is the LG Incite from AT&T. All of these have one thing in common,

nformation, Cell Phones The Canadian BlackBerry designer company Research in Motion has said that it hopes to avoid previous mistakes in wireless technology by incorporating 4G into their products when it comes available. Reports suggest that the company

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Sony’s lithe new PRS-700 conquers many of the most annoying faults of Amazon’s chunky little fire-starter, but falls just short of greatness according to MobileTechReview. First with the good: the touchscreen enables page turning with the flick of a finger (or stylus), note taking via virtual keyboard, responds quite well, and doesn’t even smudge! It supports PDF and Word files, can be used landscaped, and even has LEDs built into the screen’s border for reading in the dark. Sadly, though, that display can’t even match the contrast of its predecessors, which are plenty murky to begin with, and with no wireless of any sort you’re stuck filling this one via USB, SD, or MS Duo. In other words there’s still no perfect choice in the world of the e-ink reader — but it is awfully hard to ignore the Reader’s sleek exterior when compared to the Kindle’s distinctively sci-fi doorstop look.

Sony’s new Reader close to greatness, but a bit too dim originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Demonstration system using AxisNT’s remote radio head and CommAgility’s signal processing board shown at LTE World Summit LONDON, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ — CommAgility and Axis Network Technology announced today that they are working together to develop