Samsung definitely has a winner here. The dual-LCD is super useful for people who want to take pictures of themselves and this feature is frankly overdue. I am sure all the other manufacturers will following this trend and there will be many more dual LCD cameras on the market next year.

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We have just posted our speculations on what might the mysterious iTablet be. Check it out.

http://www.skratchboard.com/2009/07/apple-itablet-is-coming/

These specs should have been in the U120.

Looks like it's trying to do what the Mac Book Air was trying to do. I am sure some executive somewhere who just have too much money to spend (maybe the AIG execs?) will buy one of these and these machines will find their niche somewhere. But a high-price, lower-power combination isn't a recipe for success in this economy.

The machine does look beautiful though.

xGPS is another great alternative that we have reviewed. But it will require a jailbroken iPhone. Although the navigation experience on smartphones today don't come close to portable navigation devices, they are getting closer by the day. PND makers should be nervous, as there is no longer a need for a separate device. Smartphones also have the benefit of having connectivity, so it allows more dynamic and up-to-date contents. Garmin is already going into the smartphone business, and we wonder how TomTom will evolve.

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We were just covering this too. We think this is a brilliant move on Amazon's part for many reasons:
1. Amazon can sell more digital contents since every iPhone owner is now a potential buyer.
2. By having an iPhone app, Amazon is making the Kindle experience better for existing owners since they can roam their contents between iPhone and Kindle. Users can now read on whichever device they want depending on the environment.
3. It is taking another step in making e-book reading more mainstream and changing the social habits of reading digital contents from a device instead of a book.
4. Once people are sold on the idea of reading digital contents, more people are likely to buy Kindle devices.

Congratulations to Kindle for iPhone team at Amazon!

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In many developing countries, the mobile phone will be people's only computing device. The most used application? SMS. In rural areas in India and Africa, the use of SMS is much more advanced than in North America. People use SMS to pay water bills, electric bills and do all sorts of things we do on the web. The concept of web doesn't really exist, nor does e-mail for these folks.

So it's great to see that our hand-me-down phones for them are enabling so many people to be able to join in the communication and technological revolution that otherwise they would not be able to afford.

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Great to see Samsung flexing its broad product portfolio muscle to make wireless TV a la phone a reality. The use case makes a lot of sense as network bandwidth picks up and people can easily download HD content onto phones. But when they get home, they don't want to watch it on the small screen anymore and they want it on their TVs.

The biggest problem is bootstrapping a large number of TVs/handsets that can work well together across the different manufacturers. Good to see Samsung spearheading this.

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We tried Google Latitude on BlackBerry Bold and we have written up a review from our 5 day use.

You can check it out at http://www.skratchboard.com/?p=566

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Hmm... are you guys sure you want to carry such a large device around? When this incorporates flexible display, maybe. But until then, we are going to wait for the new Kindle announcement next week!

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