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Coming in straight from Microsoft’s Mango launch conference. Microsoft confirmed that the first Windows Phone 7 Nokia handsets will be coming packed with Windows Phone 7.1 Mango. Andy Lees revealed at a Manhattan press event that they were already working with the Nokia hardware at their corporate labs.Mango has been promised for a Fall release so we can expect Nokia’s WP7 offerings this holiday season. Microsoft is gonna be busy the next few weeks revealing more Mango powered phones and we hope the new OEMs pack some serious hardware into their devices just like their Android counterparts.

Source: PocketNow

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Windows XP was one of the most popular operating systems to come after Windows 98. We all know how much of a failure Windows ME was, oh don’t get me started on that. Windows XP came out and introduced a whole new experience to PC users worldwide. It started selling like hotcakes. Compatibility to the max with every driver. Plug and play (keep in mind this was at the time Windows 98 was famous) and a very calming new interface. It was an amazing OS and it received its due share of respect from owners worldwide. But of course there is evolution and it does takes its toll every now and then. When Windows XP came out, Microsoft stopped giving out updates for 98, which was kind of sad at first but it was all for a greater system in the end. The sad part happens when Vista comes out.

Vista wasn’t that popular as XP, it was cursed with a compatibility flaw and had other major issues that needed to be solved beforehand but weren’t. My personal concern was, for someone who wasn’t ready or willing to move to Vista, what’s to become of Windows XP. Soon after the release, Microsoft started referring to XP as “Earlier Version Of Windows”, if users installed two OS in their PCs and one happened to be XP, it didn’t show as XP in the OS selection screen.

A while back, Windows 7 came out. By far the most perfect version of Windows to date. It too referred to its long lost brother as “Earlier Version Of Windows”. It’s a sad cruel world out there.

I mean it’s a shame, they just couldn’t have the courtesy to replace the entire condescending sentence with “Windows XP”. We love you XP, you will always be in our hearts, even if you’re not in our PCs.

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After a long session of rumors Verizon has just made the HTC Trophy official. The HTC Trophy will be Verizon’s first WP7 phone and will start selling online on the 26th of May for $150 after a rebate and service agreement. The HTC Trophy features a 3.8-inch WVGA display and is powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It has a 5 megapixel camera at the back along with 16GB of internal memory. Microsoft added CDMA support to Windows Phone 7 last Spring, Verizon and Sprint were expected to start issuing phones then and there. Sprint’s plan went as planned with the HTC Arrive but Verizon’s WP7 kept getting delayed and delayed.

Verizon is also offering a free Xbox 360 game with the phone if you buy it before the middle of July. So who’s getting one?

Source: Verizon

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Just a couple hours earlier, PSN and Qriocity sign-in was taken down and it was said that they were under maintenance due to a large amount of password reset email still being undelivered. Just after that Eurogamer and Kotaku reported that it was due to an exploit which allowed hackers to easily change passwords using only PSN account email and Date of Birth of user. It was actually an exploit in the password reset page which many users received in their email.

Sony immediately took down the sign-in services for a couple of its sites including Playstation.com and Playstation forums. The exploit was first discovered on Nyleveia.com and was later reported by NeoGAF users as well. Sony has now officially confirmed this news on the Playstation blog saying that there was no hack involved, it was just a url exploit. The statement reads:

We temporarily took down the PSN and Qriocity password reset page. Contrary to some reports, there was no hack involved. In the process of resetting of passwords there was a URL exploit that we have subsequently fixed.

Consumers who haven’t reset their passwords for PSN are still encouraged to do so directly on their PS3. Otherwise, they can continue to do so via the website as soon as we bring that site back up.

Source: Playstation Blog

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While a lot of users were trying their best to reset their password after Sony rolled out the latest firmware update. Sony has pulled out the official PSN website for maintenance. According to official statement made by Sony:

Fortunately we have got ISPs to release outstanding emails; unfortunately, a small amount of maintenance is required to improve this process

So those guys who were anxiously waiting for their password reset email or those of you who just got it and were about to change password, we truly feel sorry for you.

It is important to note that this doesn’t effect PSN on consoles, it is only for the PSN website.

Source: EU Playstation Twitter Feed

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As the PSN users rejoice world over, Japan seems to be left out. The government officials, not compromising on the security breach on the giant’s PSN service, have taken a hard stance towards the matter, disallowing the service’s continuation until enough information is provided about the new safeguard measures. “We met with Sony on May 6 and 13, and basically we want two things from them,” Kazushige Nobutani, director of the Media and Content Industry department at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, told Dow Jones Newswires.

Nobutani has stressed upon two areas where more information is required, before a green light is issued to the Company.

“The first is preventative measures. As of May 13, Sony was incomplete in exercising measures that they said they will do on the May 1 press conference,” Nobutani said.

The second factor is the restoration of user confidence, in regards to personal data.

“There were similar cases in the past that were caused by other firms, and we are asking Sony whether their measures are good enough when compared to countermeasures taken in the past.” 

http://www.psu.com/No-PSN-restoration-for-Japan-just-yet,-says-government-officials—a011658-p0.php

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With WWDC  just around the corner the iPhone rumor mill is in full swing. As if previous reports weren’t compelling enough, PCworld also reports that the iPhone 5 will be manufactured in the third quarter which will lead to a Q4 launch, citing its source, a financial analyst firm. FBR Capital Markets also said in a research note that the phone will include a 8MP camera and will use a single baseband chip for both GSM and CDMA, instead of two different phone versions for either channel. This may be the same GSM/CDMA chip that was spotted in the Verizon iPhone. They cited the information from their various industry contacts.

About 20 million iPhones will be produced in the third quarter, FBR said, with the iPhone 5 accounting for about 8 million of those; the rest will be iPhone 4 models. They further went on to say that the phone will use a 8-Megapixel CMOS sensor from Omnivision with Sony being a backup supplier. The phone is expected to sport the Dual-Core A5 processor introduced with the iPad 2.

Source:  PCworld

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Steam announced to offer new deals everyday starting from today. A new deal would be available after every 24 hours at a discounted price and these deals are not to be linked with the Weekend/Weekday offers on Steam. You would have received an update on your steam client about the new deals feature.

Do join the Twitter and Facebook pages of Steam for daily updates and notifications on Steam. Along with this, Steam has already announced its first Daily Deal off Operation Flash point: Dragon Rising which is avilable for 75% Off. You can grab it here.

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Verizon finally released the Samsung Droid Charge just a few days and we all know what that means: a full fledged marketing campaign for the next coming in the Droid line of phones. The AD basically hypes up the phone and features it’s leading qualities like the gorgeous 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display. Check out the AD after the break and decide whether you are ready to dish out $300 for the Charge.

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The HTC Sensation which is HTC’s highest spec’d phone yet has just been priced at a very fair $200 price tag. The HTC Sensation will be arriving overseas in just a few weeks while the guys in US have to wait a bit longer. The HTC Sensation comes packed with a 1.2GHz CPU, with 768MB of RAM, and a 4.3″ qHD display and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with the latest Sense UI 3.0.

The phone will also be available off contract for $549 which makes it a much better buy than the subsidized Droid Charge selling at $299.

Source: AndroidCentral

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