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At Motorola, we believe a customer shouldn’t have to dress up their phone for it to work properly. That’s why the DROID X comes with a dual antenna design. The kind that allows you to hold the phone any way you like to make crystal clear calls without a bulky phone jacket. For us it’s just one of those things that comes as a given when you’ve been making mobile phones for over 30 years.

Apple’s antenna performance page most recently showed that the Droid X suffered from death grip too. Never mind that no one else can replicate the experiment though, at least not naturally. Unless you have Andre the Giant-sized mitts. Realistically, the 4-inch Droid X’s size alone makes it difficult to choke the signal out if you’re not trying to do it on purpose.

Dell just confirmed the price for the upcoming 5-inch Streak mobile tablet: it’ll be sold for $299 if you pick up the tablet-slash-Android smartphone along with a two-year AT&T contract or $549 if you want an unlocked version you can use with any mobile network. The pricing makes it significantly cheaper compared to Apple’s 3G-packing iPad that starts at $629, and could probably be better if you prefer a more mobile slate that can actually run Flash.

The problem is, no one knows when the Streak will be released—at least in the US. According to Dell’s website, the Streak will go on sale before the end of July, although a Dell spokesman recently mentioned in an interview that “the Dell Streak won’t go on sale in July.” It’s already been launched in the UK since last month, running on Android 1.6, although it’s being rumored that the US version might come loaded with an Android 2.1 operating system.

Despite the lack of info, it’s starting to look like a hit though—there are reports that the Streak’s pre-sale page has been getting a lot of orders way before Dell even outlined the price and release date.

Press Release:

Acer Stream: THE PERFECT ENTERTAINMENT SMARTPHONE

London, 26th July 2010: Acer Stream is a high-end multimedia smartphone, optimized for watching movies, listening to music and enjoying web browsing – perfect for most demanding users who want the best in entertainment.

Elegant and minimalist in design, Acer Stream is made from highly resistant materials and offers truly outstanding technical features, all in just 11.2 mm, ensuring users a unique, unrepeatable experience, due to the following:

Superb display quality: the touch screen with AMOLED technology boasts 1.67 million exceptionally bright colors, through a generous 3.7” WVGA display. Furthermore, its incredible contrast (superior 2000:1) makes for clear images and perfect legibility in any environment and light condition. Moreover, this type of display consumes less energy to help increase battery life.

Ultrafast connectivity 3G+ for streaming: HSDPA 7.2 Mbps in download, Bluetooth and WiFi n, enabling faster transmission of multimedia contents than ever!

Power and performance: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor, with its 512 MB RAM, makes Acer Stream one of the fastest and most reactive phones on the market. The operating system behind Stream is Android version 2.1, better known as Éclair.

Unique and high-quality multimedia features, enabling the recording of HD videos up to 720p. Listening to your favorite music or the radio with RDS has never been so pleasant; enjoy the Dolby Mobile quality, with powerful bass and crystal-clear clarity for an unparalleled purity of sound. UPnP technology enables sharing contents with other devices. Furthermore, a 5MP photocamera and integrated GPS system allow photos and videos to be geotagged. Last but not least, you can connect the Acer Stream to your home TV with HDMI port and watch a movie on a larger screen.

Extensive memory! 2GB of internal Flash memory are ideal for downloading a lot of applications and 3D games, while an 8GB memory card as free bundle and a micro-SD card slot support up to 32GB enable users to avail of their favorite multimedia contents at all times.

A completely brand new user interface focalized on what is essential to users and able to guarantee a simple and quick access to all the applications. The new Acer user interface will wrap the user up giving pure pleasure in using the phone and enjoying the discovery of all the stunning things he can do with his Acer Stream!

Main benefits:
-Read information straight from the lock screen’s widget;
-Quickly start favorite applications in one touch;
-Easily switch applications with the History panel;
-Customize the phone according to specific needs;
-Enjoy smooth animations and fine graphics.

Coupled with a three types of predictive keyboards, a smart dialer and a redesigned contacts list, the Acer user interface makes the use of smartphone an efficient and delightful experience.

Social and entertaining: All the most popular applications are pre-installed: Acer Spinlets free streaming service to browse and listen to songs from major music labels and instantly post what you find to your favorite Social Networking sites, nemo Player to enjoy multimedia content to the fullest, Acer urFooz to create your virtual “look-a-like”, add your profile and bookmarks and post it to your social networks, Facebook™ and Twidroid perfectly integrated in the phone address.

Acer Stream, a concentration of fun and entertainment! Open your eyes and start enjoying yourself with the best entertainment smartphone on the market.

The Acer Stream will be available as of the 9th August exclusively from online retailer eXpansys for an RRP of £399 Inc Vat.

Here’s the official word from Apple:

Apple’s goal has always been to insure that our customers have a great experience with their iPhone and we know that jailbreaking can severely degrade the experience. As we’ve said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones as this can violate the warranty and can cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably.

Again, it’s really nothing new. They know we jailbreak our iPhones, and they didn’t stop it. They come out with something new, we keep buying the new thing, find ways to break into the new thing, and they still won’t really do anything about it. As long as we, the consumers, understand that software piracy is still illegal (for those who hack into their iPhones for that reason), and that they won’t replace a busted device if it’s been jailbroken—then Apple seems to be pretty cool with it. And we’ve been cool with that.

Now, if only we can find a totally universal jailbreak app that can open up iOS 4 without having to go through hoops and bootrom restrictions, we’d be golden. (By the way, something like that is apparently coming soon.)

Apple just confirmed that they’ll be offering unlocked versions of the iPhone 4 to people who don’t want to get locked into a 2-year deal with, well, anyone. Now, if you live in North America and you’re not comfortable with running software hacks to unlock a normally carrier-locked iPhone 4 but you’re willing to put up with the unsubsidized price of around US$640-$750 for the 16GB/32GB models, this is definitely a feasible option. Provided that you can come up with a way to accurately snip your regular SIM card to fit the new microSIM format Apple uses on the iPhone 4 and iPad (or hope that your carrier can replace your regular SIM with a microSIM).

For the people already living in Canada, the iPhone is all set to launch via five carriers, including Bell, Fido, Rogers, Telus and Virgin Mobile for $199 and $299 wit a longer lock-in period of three years.

This is still going on? We all thought Apple kind of made their point when they demonstrated that other phones (specifically, the BlackBerry Bold 9700, Droid Eris, and Samsung Omnia II) also suffered from the death grip, but apparently, there’s room for more when they added the Nokia N97 mini and now, the Droid X to the list. The video demo on Apple’s smartphone antenna performance page shows that even the great Droid X’s signal can be choked out if you hold it in that really awkward, I’m-determined-to-prove-a-point way.

Maybe this is the end of it though. As far as we can remember, Motorola and Nokia round out the brands who recently ripped on the iPhone 4’s signal problems. Samsung just put out a subtle new ad that’s still obviously Antennagate-related though, so we’re expecting to see the Galaxy S up there too.

Oh wait, Microsoft kind of made a little poke when they said that the iPhone 4 might be Apple’s “Vista,” so we might see a Microsoft Kin phone being choked in the future as well. Or maybe not. No one really cared about the Kin.

If you already have an iPhone 4, download and install the iPhone 4 case program app (yeah, there’s an app for that. It’s to prevent fakers and case hoarding), sign in using your Apple ID, pick from a number of official Apple or licensed third-party cases, and wait around 3-5 weeks for delivery. There are currently seven design available: Apple Bumper, Belkin Shield Micra, Incase Snap Case, Griffin Motif, Griffin Reveal, Speck Fitted and Speck PixelSkin HD.

For existing iPhone 4 owners, you have until August 22 to apply for the free case. For everyone else on the fence, if you buy an iPhone 4 before September 30, they won’t be handing you a case on the spot. You’re still going to have to do the steps and apply for the free case within 30 days just like everyone else.

If you’ve been waiting for the white iPhone 4 that was supposed to be released later this month, you’re going to have to change your white iPhone 4 owning plans to later this year. Apple just put out a new two-sentence official statement that officially pushes the release back again. They didn’t get into any specifics, but they did mention something about having manufacturing problems. You still have options though: get a black iPhone and have it custom made to look like a non-existent generic white one for around $229 more.

Samsung never really issued a formal statement in reaction to Apple’s experiments that showed Samsung’s Omnia II suffering from death grip , until now. We just assumed that Samsung was cool with it since the iPhone does have some Samsung parts in it, and thought they just didn’ty plan to get into the whole Antennagate debate. This new ad says a lot though, even though it’s pretty short on actual words. You just gotta love the simple subtlety.

The whole “our-phone-can-maintain-a-better-signal-than-yours” debate is actually funny, though. Remember the good old days when mobile brands boasted about cameras, screen sizes and slim profiles? Now that we have all these advanced smartphones, we’re sweating about things like signal strength.

Acer’s Android-based Liquid Stream smartphone has finally been launched, with the UK getting first dibs via Expansys. It’s a little late for the party though; while the spec should still make for a nice high-end Android phone with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Android 2.1 OS, 3.7-inch OLED screen and 5MP cam, it’ll have to go up against the recent wave of 4-inchers from HTC and Motorola now. Oh, and the iPhone 4.

It still isn’t necessarily a bad deal though; it’s a 3.7-incher for those who might feel that the Droid X and Evo 4G is a little bit too big for tighter pockets, and they could still offer this phone at a lower price point in markets where it goes up against the current big boys of the smartphone world. The features are rounded out by 720p HD recording capability, GPS and Wi-fi conenctivity, and access to the Android Marketplace for loading whatever app you need it to do.

It’s currently selling for the equivalent of around $610 for an unlocked unit, and is rumored to reach North American shores in October.

via RegHardware