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New iPhone announcement tomorrow

I get the feeling that the iPhone 5 will not be much more than a incremental refinement of the iPhone 4. From the suspected changes, it doesn’t sound like anything more exciting than some me-too technology catch ups, like support for HSPA+ for faster data speeds and voice recognition. Nothing that you can’t already get on other phones.

Has Apple slowed down it’s iPhone and iOS development? If there’s nothing more than these changes coming then this next iPhone is nothing more that an iPhone 4.1 really. Not that I’d want one anyway. The day I buy an iPhone will be the day it supports Java, and that’s not going to happen anytime, if ever.

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HTC Sense UI security vulnerability on some HTC Android phones

If you have an HTC Android phone running Sense UI (Evo 4g, Thunderbolt etc), you might be interested to take a read of this article over at Android Police where they’re got details of an HTC logging app on some Sense UI phones that exposes potentially a substantial amount of info from your phone from it’s system logs.

To see if your phone is affected, look for this app here (using a file browser like Astro): /system/app/HtcLoggers.apk

If you don’t have this app then apparently you’re ok. I checked my stock MyTouch4G that runs Sense UI and I didn’t have it,

It’s worth to spend some time to check the permissions on the apps you already have installed (and definitely when you install new apps) – Permissions Dog is an easy way to do this – good article on Lifehacker here.

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Amazon unveil new Kindle device this morning

No live video feed from Amazon’s press conference this morning but cnet are live blogging from NYC here.

Update: looks like a touch enabled color Kindle is $99. Not sure if this is the Android powered tablet or just a touch enabled Kindle. If that’s the tablet then that is a bargain at that price.

Update: $99 for touch enabled e-ink Kindle, $79 for non-touch Kindle and ad supported. No details on tablet yet.

Update: here you go… Kindle Fire 7″ Android based tablet… $199. That’s an awesome price. This thing is going to sell like hotcakes. Pre-order now, ships Nov 16.

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