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If you’ve never seen a micro-SIM before, you’ll probably be pretty shocked to learn that it’s simply just a smaller SIM card… just like the name implies. What’s interesting, however, is that the SIM isn’t actually different as the chip is exactly the same, the only difference is that the plastic surrounding it is minimized. In any case, just in time for the Apple iPad 3G launch and upcoming next generation iPhone launch, AT&T stores have started receiving new SIM cards which have cutouts for both the regular SIM standard, and the new micro-SIM all in one. A pretty cleaver move, don’t you say?

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And so the rollout of MOTOBLUR handsets begins in the True North Strong and Free as TELUS today announced the immediate availability of the Motorola BACKFLIP. Featuring a unique reverse-hinge QWERTY keypad design with a BACKTRACK navigation pad on the reverse, the BACKFLIP also boasts a 3.1? HVGA capacitive display, 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack, 512MB of internal memory, microSD support, and MOTOBLUR atop Android 1.5. Now, you’d think this phone would be priced along the lines of AT&T’s $99.99 on contract but you’d be wrong — it’s currently listed on TELUS’ website for $249.99 on a 3-year plan. If this isn’t a typo… Yeah.

UPDATE: Looks like TELUS made a typo on their website. $249.99 is the contract price without a data plan. With data it’s $99.99. Thank heavens

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Today Nokia announced the N8, the company’s first smartphone to run Symbian^3, the latest version of Symbian.

The N8 measures 113.5mm x 59.12mm x 12.9mm (4.46in x 2.32in x .5in) and offers a large 3.5 inch 640 x 360 pixel resolution capacitive touchscreen display. Symbian^3 provides three homescreens that you can customize to your liking with widgets and more. The N8 also comes equipped with a 12 megapixel camera with xenon flash, 16GB of storage as well as a microSD card slot, an FM radio, 802.11 b/g/n wireless connectivity, and a GPS chip. Nokia claims the 1200mAh battery is good for up to 5 hours and 50 minutes of talk time.

The N8 will also come loaded with Nokia’s services, including Ovi Maps, which provides free turn-by-turn directions, as well as the Ovi Store for finding and installing applications. The N8 is the first device to work with Nokia’s Qt software development environment for making app development easier to deploy across Symbian and other platforms.

Nokia says the N8 will be available in select markets during the third quarter of 2010 with an estimated price of 370 EUR ($494) before taxes and subsidies. It will be available in dark gray, silver white, green, blue, and orange.

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A mysterious new Nokia device has cleared FCC testing. The device sports a unique mix of radio bands, specifically 3G support for the 850 / 1700 / 1900 bands, which might indicate support for both AT&T’s network, which sits on the 850 / 1900 bands, and T-Mobile’s 3G network, which uses 1700 as one of it’s bands. The FCC label for the new device seems to be etched onto the shell, perhaps indicating a unibody construction without a standard, removable battery? The scant photos available from the FCC seem to match supposedly leaked photographs of the rumored Nokia N8 smartphone. Besides the 3G support, the phone will feature Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and an FM transmitter, which fits with Nokia’s high-end Nseries lineup.

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For those of you who couldn’t go to Israel because you just couldn’t part with your iPad, take note. The ban Israel had in place for the device has been lifted. Get your ass to Israel!

The about face comes just two weeks after an iPad ban was put in place due to the belief that the “magical” (Steve’s words, not mine!) tablet would interfere with other devices’ wireless signals.

That’s just not so, ruled the Israeli Communications Ministry, after it completed a test of the device. The test showed that the iPad successfully “identifies the Wi-fi access point in its surroundings and adjusts itself automatically, enabling the iPad to be operated without interfering with other wireless devices.”

Better still, for Israeli iPad lovers anyway, is that the government will now allow one iPad to be imported, per person, beginning today.

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Android: iTag is a free service and application that offers several tools for locating—and if necessary, remotely wiping the data on—your lost, stolen, or misplaced Android phone.

On top of the hassle involved when you lose your phone, you also have to deal with the potential of somebody getting access to the private stuff on it. iTag is here to help.

iTag isn’t just a basic tracking application, but a full-featured suite to help you recover and control access to your phone. Once you sign up for an iTag account and install the iTag application on your phone, you can locate your phone, shut your phone down, backup your phone’s contacts before locking it, force your phone to ring—overriding silent mode—and even see if the thief who grabbed the phone swapped out the phone number. Check out the video above to see it in action.

iTag is free and currently only available for Android-based phones. Have any experience with security software on your phone—Android-related or otherwise?—we want to hear about it.

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Meet Rana Sobhany. She puts together some great beats using only two iPads and some apps. No laptop or synth needed—this gal’s an iPad DJ.

As she explains in Rob Scoble’s (extra-long) video, Rana is using some additional equipment for this presentation, but she can work with just her iPads and some apps—Groovemaker House, Looptastic HD, iDaft, AC-7 Pro, Pianist Pro, and Sonosaurus Rex to be specific.

Now, while Rana’s not exactly doing anything that another DJ couldn’t, she’s certainly carrying around a lot less equipment and—assuming there’s a Wi-Fi network near or she upgrades to a pair of 3G iPads—can download new tools in an instant.

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So it looks like Barron’s and The Wall Street Journal have talked to enough store clerks and Sprint reps today to confirm that Radio Shack is definitely dropping the original Palm Pre and Pixi from its in-store lineup. For what it’s worth, Sprint says that “this is in line with Radio Shack’s normal product planning process — there is a designated amount of space in stores for handsets and they work to keep the line up of devices as current as possible,” and we actually tend to believe that story since the phones (the Pre in particular) are getting awfully long in the tooth and we wouldn’t blame the retailer for trying to cycle in some fresh stuff. The bigger question is whether the move indicates that Palm has some hot new gear for Sprint around the corner; if not, this gives Palm one less avenue for sales at a time when it needs all the help it can get, especially since you won’t find these guys hawking Verizon’s versions.

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According to Engadget, the site that scooped the pics, this prototype was “found on the floor of a San Jose bar inside of an iPhone 3G case” and supposedly features a front-facing camera and 80GB of internal memory. Here’s what we’re betting on… we do think this unit is actually real and not a fake, clone or anything else. But, we’re guessing it’s very — and we mean very — early along in the prototype phase. Not to say the final design isn’t all ready to go, but we’re guessing this isn’t it. For starters, look at the seems in the aluminum casing. You think Apple, of unibody fame, would not have a single piece of machined aluminum for the bezel? Also, the phone appears to be flat, like, completely flat on both sides. That basically goes against almost all of Apple’s principles. Additionally, look at the back of the phone. It actually looks it’s supposed to be the front of the device. You can clearly see either a piece of glass or plastic that’s fitted into the case much like how the display is on an iPhone 3GS, or the display on the iPad. Look at the material around the sides of the back of the phone, you’ll see what we mean. So, we do think this is Apple-manufactured, we just don’t think this is anything close to what we’ll see announced in June. What do you guys think?

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We’d heard a couple times that the Nexus One was selling at a mere trickle, but what we haven’t heard is whether the phones that have sold are enough to generate a profit for Google — and on its earnings call today, the company claimed for the first time that its superphone is indeed in the black. Speaking both of the Nexus One specifically and of the platform as a whole, the company said that “it is a profitable business for us… we are driving the business to be a profitable business,” some of the strongest language we’ve heard that Google intends to fully convert Android from a hobby into an integral part of its financials going forward. On a related note, the company also boasted on the call that it’s “seeing more than 60 thousand devices sold and activations daily,” which — by our rough math, anyhow — would work out to close to 22 million Android activations annually, and they’re now up to some 38,000 apps in the Market. Certainly seem like these guys have cemented their position as a mobile powerhouse, doesn’t it?

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