The association at SpaceTime are aggravating to agitate up how you browse the Web with a chargeless app that lets you browse in 3D. The abstraction is appealing simple. Rather than accept a 2D blueprint of your browser with tabs all over the place, SpaceTime break the "pages" out like a storyboard. It's not so applied if you're searching at one page, but if you're accomplishing a search, it'll assemblage your seek hits in 3D (making it easier to see them all at once). It'll do the aforementioned for your eBay searches, absolution you browse through photos of the being you wanna buy. The app is accessible for PCs only. – Louis Ramirez

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Until just a few years ago, manned spaceflight was the absolute head of not just nations, but of the world's baddest superpowers—the countries with abundant disposable assets to say, "F-ck it. Let's go to the Moon." Those canicule are over, sadly, boring smothered by shrinking budgets and realigning priorities.

But this isn't the end of amplitude flight. In fact, it's the alpha of an agitative new affiliate in manned exoteric exploration. Tomorrow, the SpaceX Falcon 9 barrage arrangement will yield off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 4:45am tomorrow to bear food to the International Amplitude Station, appearance the aboriginal time a bartering amplitude has docked with it. So, how absolutely will the advantage get there?

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The SpaceX Falcon 9, that's how. Built by Elon Musk's Amplitude Analysis Technologies Corp. (aka SpaceX), this two-stage, rocket-propelled supply arrangement measures 178 anxiety continued by 12 anxiety advanced and weighs in at 735,000 pounds, getting primarily complete from aluminum lithium alloys. It is composed of a Falcon 9 rocket booster capped with the SpaceX Dragon capsule, which will authority the bisected ton of supplies.

Nine Merlin 1C engines anniversary aftermath 125,000 pounds of force at ascent (1.1 actor lb-f n total) while afire a admixture of aqueous oxygen (LOX) and rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) propellants. Once the aboriginal date rockets accept spent their ammunition 345 abnormal into launch, the lower-stage boosters will be jettisoned, forth with the Falcon's carbon cilia interstage. From there, addition individual Merlin engine will burn to accommodate the blow of the advance bare to get up Dragon abridged to the ISS's Low Earth Orbit. The Falcon 9 is able to lift up to 23,000 pounds to Low Earth Orbit and 10,000 pounds to GTO.

Seated aloft this actor pounds of advance is the reusable SpaceX Dragon capsule, itself a three-part design: a careful adenoids cone, a pressurized area that seats up to a aggregation of seven, holds brittle cargo, and the avionics, and an unpressurized block that holds burden what doesn't charge to breathe.

As it approaches the ISS afterwards a two-day voyage, the Dragon will aboriginal absorb some time practicing its access to the station—it's advised to apart approachthe ISS with alone a chiral override advantage (the ISS itself deploys a grappling barb to advice abduction and adviser the abridged in)—because a befuddled access could potentially could cause astringent accident to the base itself and put the ISS's six aggregation associates at risk. So yeah, no pressure. Once aggregate is in place, NASA will arresting for the the Dragon to hotlink up and off-load its cargo. It will again abide absorbed to the ISS for a fortnight afore flaking off like a band and aqueous down into the Pacific for retrieval.

"I achievement this becomes so accepted that humans will not even pay absorption to it anymore," amplitude base astronaut Donald Pettit told the AP. So does NASA. The bureau has already sunk $381 actor into allotment SpaceX (the aggregation itself has spent over a billion) but if this flight is a success, SpaceX and the added scattering of firms in the industry will accomplish abiding the anchorage to amplitude break paved for ancestors to appear [SpaceLaunchReport - SpaceX - Wikipedia - The AP - Images: SpaceX]

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We've lamented WP7's abridgement of copy & paste (though we haven't absent the irony), but now trusted Windows blogger Long Zheng is advertisement that all achievement is not lost:

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As it turns out, the development aggregation in fact knows absolutely how they will be implementing archetype & adhesive in WP7S but did not accept it could be implemented after affecting the absolution agenda they've committed too and accordingly will be including it in an amend down the road.

Zheng is aswell adequately assertive that the action will not yield two years, as it did on the iPhone. [istartedsomething via BGR]

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It looks like internet radio's favorite fee-collection organization, SoundExchange, ability be arena harder and fast with acknowledged banned on how it can absorb calm money. Not on the account of three adequate uses (full acknowledged abracadabra post-jump) is lobbying and PR. But Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk noticed that it appears to be affianced in both.

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Under Area 114(g)(3) of the Copyright Act, it's alone accustomed to use the money for

(A) the administering of the collection, distribution, and adding of the royalties;

(B) the adjustment of disputes apropos to the accumulating and adding of the royalties; and

(C) the licensing and administration of rights with account to the authoritative of brief recordings and performances accountable to licensing beneath area 112 and this section, including those incurred in accommodating in negotiations or adjudication affairs beneath area 112 and this section, except that all costs incurred apropos to the area 112 brief recordings appropriate may alone be deducted from the royalties accustomed pursuant to area 112.

Yet, it's a affiliate and financier of the musicFIRST affiliation (fairness in radio starting today), a PR accumulation which aims to end the "free ride" approved radio stations get by not paying achievement royalties (satellite radio already does and net broadcasters might soon ).

Despite my abridgement of a law degree, I'm appealing abiding none of musicFIRST's activities are listed in those provisions. But organizations affiliated to the music industry specialize in artistic acknowledged interpretations (they represent artists afterwards all), so I'm abiding there's a altogether acceptable account for that. [Listening Post]

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Apparently, there's a boiler botheration in pertaining to the Endeavour's Auxiliary Power Unit. To adduce Sam, "Duchess Middleton will NOT be upstaged." [Twitter]

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CoverFlow may be alone semi-useful on your Mac, but brainstorm what it would attending like on a Windows Mobile phone. In fact useful! The Face Acquaintance plugin, which costs $14.95, displays all your acquaintance photos in a CoverFlow-esque way in your home screen, absolution you cast amid humans and even anon dial, argument or forward emails from their photo. Cool for sure, but is it account $15? Probably not. Plus, are all your contacts in fact acceptable searching abundant that you'd wish to beam at them every time you cull out your phone? [Cnetx via Just Another Mobile Monday via PhoneMag]

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Sony and NEC accept clearly active an acceding which would absorb both of their admired optical drive businesses. With the acceding Sony will ascendancy 55 percent of the aggregation while NEC will ascendancy the added 45 percent. The company, called Sony NEC Optiarc Inc., will activate accomplishment alloyed optical drives this spring.

The kicker, Sony is one of the leaders of the Blu-Ray movement, while NEC has about backed the HD DVD format. Even admitting both of the new formats are affianced in a acrimonious action to the death, Sony has already said that they may aftermath HD DVD drives alongside their Blu-Ray drives.

Sony, NEC To Form "Optiarc" Drive Business [Extremetech]

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Microsoft had ahead told us that Windows Phone 8 will be out this fall, but Mary Jo Foley at ZDnet is reporting some new dates, including one for WP8: The OS will go to manufacturers in September, and accessories will be accessible to the accepted accessible in November. So maybe hold off on accepting a Windows Phone until then, yeah? [ZDnet]

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Many of you asked for a re-do of Windows Mobile browser testing afterwards our Battlemodo declared the belvedere above worthless for surfing. So actuality it is, the internet active on Windows Mobile's finest hardware.

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Before we get started, a quick agenda on the endure Windows Mobile test, and what we're accomplishing abnormally here. Some of you guys complained that the Samsung Epix was a crappy, apathetic section of hardware. However, according to Laptop, its 624MHz Marvell processor and 128MB RAM are specs that just about on par with the three phones clamored for in the comments. Still, you get your wish: Actuality we lined up the Sony Xperia X1, HTC Blow Pro (AT&T's Fuze) and the Samsung Omnia, and put them through the aforementioned tests. On the Epix, for Opera testing, we went with v8.65 in adjustment to not use beta software. (Opera's own site lists 8.65 as its a lot of contempo abiding version.) Here, all the Windows Mobile accouterments we've added to the analysis accept Opera 9.5 congenital adapted in.

So afterwards added explanation, actuality are the numbers—time to amount the page, and how accurately it was rendered application Firefox 3 as a reference:

As you can see, the Xperia, Fuze and Omnia are about on par with the Epix if it comes to IE (they suck!), admitting Opera Mobile 9.5 acutely crushes 8.65 if it comes to acceleration and competency. I asked Opera why I saw the achievement differences amid the three phones and they accepted that there are some tweaks, which "are mainly with authoritative our browser plan best on the altered devices." So, let's attending at the new phones and see how they amount adjoin the Epix:

Xperia X1


You apparently noticed in the blueprint that amount times are best over Wi-Fi in a few spots. This is because it would about hang, not loading data, for up to 20 seconds. The Xperia was aggravating because its touchscreen seemed to be the atomic acknowledging of the three, authoritative aeronautics a pain, admitting its optical abrasion came in accessible for zipping about pages, and it formed bigger than the Omnia's. One added acrimony is that Opera blocked its basic attribute keyboard from advancing up, which fabricated it harder to access one of the URLs. It avalanche accurately in the middle.

HTC Fuze


I had the smoothest all-embracing acquaintance with the Fuze, and would be my abutting affair to a recommendation. Its touchscreen was responsive, which fabricated bifold borer to zoom and pan about pages fast and mostly automatic in Opera Mobile. Having symbols mapped anon to the keyboard is a big time saver while punching in URLs. This is good, back it seemed to be the slowest of the three, both over 3G and Wi-Fi. Sluggishness aside, the web acquaintance is acutely added accessible than the added two new phones.

Omnia


The all-touchscreen Omnia, admitting getting the fastest over 3G in a amount of cases, was a nightmare. During the 3G tests, it managed to blast Opera on three of the six pages tested. I aswell had bags of Wi-Fi issues. Eventually I was told by Samsung that VZAppZone, Verizon's pseudo-app abundance that's all but pre-installed on the buzz (after you blaze it up, it installs), was breaking the Wi-Fi. (On the Epix in the antecedent showdown, I was afterwards told by Samsung that installing Opera is what bankrupt Wi-Fi for IE. So, uh, Samsung maybe...oh, whatever.) Also, its account keyboard has keys so ridiculously skinny, they'd admonish anorexic models not to eat. If Opera did plan and a page was in fact loaded, it was the snappiest at affective about the page. But overall, yeesh.

Conclusion



So area would I aperture Opera 9.5 all-embracing if I were to accelerate it into the antecedent browser battle? I'd accord it a B-. It has a great, desktop-y UI (though I ambition a few of the buttons were a atom bigger, demography into application fat fingers and the inadequacies of arresting touchscreens). It's absolutely competent, and it has a solid zoom metaphor, with the bifold curtains usually alive like a charm. And it has account like tabs. But, and this is the big but, it still doesn't feel absolutely as bland or instantly acknowledging as Safari or Android's browser. It's acutely an OS issue, though, not an Opera one.

Speaking to that, testing these three phones in fact took best than it did to analysis the six in the aboriginal Battlemodo, absolutely because of how abundant angry I had to do with Windows Mobile. I've acclimated abutting to a dozen Windows Mobile accessories over the endure year, and it's still a bitch.

If you haven't noticed in our reviews of Windows Mobile phones, we've basically accomplished comparing to them annihilation but added WM phones, in a ambitious attack at analgesic our absolutely adapted antipathy for the OS, lest the analysis about about-face into one behemothic bitchfest. They're acutely off in their own apple of achievement and function.

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If the iPhone ran bisected as ailing as Windows Mobile phones, Apple haters would (rightfully) scream as audibly as Apple fanboys do about Vista. If any BlackBerry was as abundant of a flustercuck, reviewers would debris the applesauce out of it. I'm sorry, but at this point, any apologist larboard arresting Windows Mobile is either delusional or abounding of crap—either way, not account alert to.

I will not blow addition Windows Mobile buzz until WM7 or at atomic 6.5, no amount how alarming the accouterments looks. Alarm me if it runs Android.

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Users on Apple's altercation lath accept been experiencing issues with their PCs locking out iPhones if application Windows 7 with the Intel P55 USB chipset. It's a appealing specific admixture that you're apparently not running, so don't panic.

The cilia is alone 5 pages long, but assorted users are claiming the exact aforementioned "0xE8000065" absurdity bulletin if aggravating to accompany their data. The affair appears on P55-based motherboards from Asus, MSI and Gigabyte, and it seems like Windows 7 64-bit is added decumbent to the botheration than its 32-bit brother.

Keep in apperception the P55 is a new chipset, and unless you're computer is brand-spankin' new or you're the DIY type, affairs are you accept a bureaucracy that works altogether fine.

If you do accept a new P55-based motherboard, Microsoft is searching into the issue. Hopefully a fix for you afflicted few will appear anon enough. [The Register via Engadget]

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Sony Style has acquaint a brain-teaser on its foreground page able that the company's traveling to bead some ability on Monday at 9PM. Chances are, it's about Sony's new Centrino 2-based VAIO line, which should action bigger achievement while arresting beneath ability than its earlier models. Laptops accounted to be featured cover the company's aboriginal 16:9-ratio notebooks, including the 13.1-inch VAIO Z and the 16.4-inch VAIO FZ. [Electronista]

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You assuredly brought that man/woman of your dreams aback to your amplitude den, and you're aggravating to allowance the deal. May I advance application this $15 Spaceship Fragrance Oil Warmer, the geekiest adulation aid we've anytime seen. Imported from far off galaxies and recommended by captains by the name of Kirk, Gordon, Solo and Zapp Brannigan, I'm not abiding how you could go amiss except if you angled it over and acquired a actinic blaze in abysmal amplitude and your airlocks all blew out afore you accomplished your business time. [product page via Nerd Approved]

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I've asked for balloon versions of iPhone and iPad apps back the beginning. Not lite versions, but complete apps that users can analysis for 24 hours afore buying—or not. According to the latest iTunes beta, it may happen.

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App Advice has apparent mentions to "app rentals" in the latest iTunes beta. According to these argument strings, the apps would be removed at the end of the "rental period." There are no mentions for trials, rental periods or prices.

It doesn't accomplish faculty to hire a 99 cent app. Or one with a two bucks amount tag, for that matter. The rentals alone accomplish faculty for big-ticket apps, like A-list amateur and abundance apps. Paying 99 cents to try a big bold afore affairs it makes sense.

On the added hand, conceivably there are free rentals for a day too—for apps that amount 99 cents to four bucks. That will annihilate the charge for Lite versions and accomplish activity easier for consumers (and developers). Hire the app for chargeless or a price, ability the borderline and accept the advantage to accumulate it assuredly for the aberration in amount or canal it. That's how I would like it to work. [App Advice via Cult of Mac]

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Some time soon, you'll be able to go to Disney affair parks and pay for getting application annihilation but wireless bracelets. It's magic! Or uh, is it laid-bare affairs desensitizing visiting families from the abounding of banknote they're spending?

Obviously, there's something in it for Disney. Its affair parks aftermath massive revenue, and with parents already knee-deep in the budgetary buck trap, the RFID bands are basically a lock to access that. But there's aswell an accurate agreeableness to demography the purchasing mechanisms out of giving a allowance at a affair park. "You wish this toy princess? IT'S YOURS. Go ahead, airing abroad with it." That's not all the MagicBands do. In accession to getting your acclaim card, you can use them to accidentally assurance up for FastPass—Disney's line-speeding affection at parks that lets you agenda if you'll appearance up to ride—as your allowance key, esplanade ticket, and to accord claimed advice to the park's advisers (if you opt in). For example, it can acquaint Cinderella that it's your altogether after anyone cogent her.

But what do you guys think—are the allowances abundant to attending accomplished the agilely buried "Give us added money, family-of-five!" vibe? [New York Times via FastCo Design]

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At continued last, the Xperia Z is advancing to the states. It was the a lot of ambrosial buzz at CES aback in January, with its acceptable looks and waterproofiness. But that was bisected a year ago, and aback again the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 accept fabricated absolutely an impression. The Z is still appealing and quirky, but it ultimately break your heart.

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What Is It?

The Xperia Z is one of Sony's two flagship smartphones (the added accepting the adverse Xperia ZL, which we advised endure month). It has a 5-inch 1080p screen, a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, two gigs of ram, abundant storage, a 13MP camera, NFC, and LTE. It runs Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with Sony's "Experience Flow UI" (coughskincough) on top. The bigger selling-point? It's waterproof to three anxiety for up to bisected an hour.

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Who's It For?

People who wish a thin, attractive smartphone. People who like Sony. People who are consistently bottomward their phones into toilets.

Design

When it's off it about looks like a thin, atramentous rectangle. It's in fact actual slick-looking. The aback is bottle as well, so the foreground and aback attending appealing similar. They are both, as you ability suspect, fingerprint magnets. Sony has eschewed capacitive aeronautics buttons for on-screen buttons, which we about prefer. On the bend of the accessory there are four abstracted panels that accessible up and allowance bankrupt (so baptize can't get in). At 0.31 inches thick, it's just as attenuate as the Galaxy S4.

It will yield micro SD cards for accretion your storage. Like the Xperia ZL, the array isn't user-replaceable. Clashing the Xperia ZL, there is no committed concrete camera button or IR blaster for authoritative your TV. Bummer on both counts.

Using It

The way the Xperia Z functions is in fact appealing agnate to banal Android in a lot of ways—you get into Google Now by annexation up from the home button, for instance. However, the software's similarities to banal are blocked somewhat by animations and little flourishes (e.g. if you abolish an account from your desktop the trashcan's lid opens and closes) that abandoned serve to apathetic things down. Added additions are absolutely useful, for archetype shortcuts to mini-apps (notepad, timer, calculator) in the assignment switcher, and Sony's able-bodied ability administration solution.

The auto-correct in Sony's congenital keyboard is absolutely atrocious, alter it with SwiftKey or the banal Android Keyboard for a much, abundant bigger experience. If you're on a Wi-Fi arrangement you can accomplish calls over Wi-Fi, about we activate that unless you were appealing abutting to the router, alarm superior would be absolutely bad. We like the interface on Sony's camera app a lot.

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The Best Part

It's waterproof. All accessories (especially phones) should be waterproof. The buzz rings while you're in the shower? Just acknowledgment it. Wish to watch a video while you yield a ablution or adore a hot tub? Knock yourself out. You could even shoot a little bank underwater video in a basin if you wanted. It's absolutely the phone's standout feature.

Tragic Flaw

The all-embracing user acquaintance just isn't actual good. While it absolutely isn't "slow," there is absolutely added dribble and lag than on the HTC One or Galaxy S4. This is partially due to the hardly earlier processor in it, and partially due to Sony's skin. There are aswell bags of bugs. One day I was clumsy to aphasiac alerts on the buzz until I rebooted the accomplished thing. Addition day, the awning would abandoned affectation at abounding brightness. Plus, the touchscreen seems to be beneath authentic than it is on added high-end phones, and acute the amiss button/key/menu advantage as a aftereffect is a accepted occurrence. And, really, it's the affliction auto-correct of any keyboard we've acclimated in contempo years. All of these things add up.

This Is Weird...

The buzz is waterproof because of these little artificial doors that columnist in over all of the ports (four in total). The micro USB anchorage is abnormally catchy to A) locate, and B) pry accessible with your fingernail. Now, add black to the equation, and averseness about with your buzz to bung it in at night (every night) after alive up your cogent added is affectionate of a affliction in the ass. You can buy a berth cradle that will allegation it added calmly (for about $30, which is apparently account it if you buy the phone), but if anytime a buzz begged for congenital wireless charging, this is it.

Test Notes Sony's Stamina Approach does a agitating job of advocacy standby time. It does this by disabling wireless abstracts for all apps you haven't white-listed (like Gmail, for example). That said, it abandoned helps if the awning is off and if you're not application it. If I was abandoned agilely application the buzz I got two abounding canicule on a individual charge, which is incredible. With added acceptance (lots of reading, web browsing, emailing, and some gaming) I still fabricated it accomplished 10pm about every day. Actual impressive.T-Mobile's LTE arrangement has at endure amorphous rolling out in NYC. We averaged about 10Mbps downloads and 8Mbps uploads. That's affluence fast, admitting it's by no agency revolutionary. UPDATE: It just formed out in a above way, and while this doesn't represent while the arrangement will attending like already it's added congested, we're accepting peaks of 58Mbps download, which we've never apparent on a adaptable device. So, yeah, that's fast enough. The camera is a bit of a disappointment. We accepted the Exmor RS sensor to absolutely flash in low-light, but it produces abundantly noisey images. In aurora reds actual abundant drain calm and images just aren't absolutely as aciculate as you'd wish them to be (though they're not bad). HDR approach tends to just accomplish aggregate gray, and while HDR video is a air-conditioned concept, it doesn't do abundant in practice. To be clear, the camera is by no agency bad (except in low light), it's just not what we'd hoped. You can see photo and video samples here.The awning is affluence aciculate and colors are actual accurate, but compared to the Galaxy S4 or the HTC One, it looks bleared somehow. The blacks, specifically, aren't decidedly deep, which makes aggregate attending just a little added banal than it should. The Z's glossy aback agency it'll accelerate off surfaces added calmly if you're not careful.Audio superior from the phone's alien apostle is tinny and unappealing. This is apparently because there's a elastic barrier over it to accumulate it from calamity if submerged. Up to you if it's account the trade-off.

Should I Buy I?

While we absolutely like it added than the Xperia ZL, we'd absolutely never acclaim it over the HTC One or Galaxy S4. Maybe if you consistently acquisition yourself the victim of douse tanks, but if that's the case, Which buzz should I buy? is hardly your bigger problem. It looks great, but it underperforms, and clashing with the Xperia Tablet Z (which we absolutely liked) that under-performance is acceptable to become a added austere nuisance.

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You'll be able to airing into a Sony abundance as of today and buy the Xperia Z for $0 down and $25 a ages for 24 months, or you can just pay $580 for it up front. T-Mobile barter will accept to delay addition week. They will be able to pre-order the buzz on July 16th for $100 upfront followed by $20 a ages for 24 months. It'll hit T-Mobile retail food and activate shipment the next day.

The Xperia Z absolutely isn't bad, it just isn't awesome, either. And these days, alarming is what it takes.

Sony Xperia Z Specs

• Network: T-Mobile• OS: Android 4.1 with Acquaintance Flow UI• CPU: 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro• Screen: 5-inch 1920x1080 Bravia Adaptable Engine 2 (441PPI)• RAM: 2GB• Storage: 16 micro SD up to 32GB• Camera: 13MP rear / 2MP front• Battery: 2330mAh Li-Ion• Dimensions: 5.47 x 2.80 x 0.31 inches• Weight: 5.15 ounces• Price: $100 down + 24 payments of $20, or $580

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