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Named yet again a true iPad killer since everybody wants to kill as many iOS devices as they can, Motorola XOOM will start selling (with a subscription of course) at Verizon Wireless stores.

The price? $599 with a two year contract and the monthly prices start at $20 / month for 1GB of data. At the beginning the data service will be 3G only but Verizon (and XOOM) will upgrade to 4G LTE speeds in the second quarter of this year. My opinion? While the hardware is excellent (10.1 inches LCD, dual HD camera – the rear one with 720p HD capture and dual core 1GHz CPU ) and the tablet should fly, the price of both the tablet itself and the data plans are high enough to scare most of prospective buyers.

And while obviously plans with higher data allowance are also available, watching a movie on the go will eat most of them in one day.

Check Verizon’s full press release after the break.

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Today Microsoft proved that they are serious about gaming on Windows Phone 7 by announcing their games lineup for the Holiday 2010.

“Windows Phone 7 is the launch of a major gaming platform for Microsoft” said Matt Booty, general manager of mobile gaming for MGS. “Just like we’ve done with Xbox 360, our charter is to push the envelope and deliver definitive games that maximize the platform. We will have an incredible lineup of MGS titles, and that’s just the beginning.”

Windows Phone 7 offers the Games Hub where the gamer will be able to earn, view and track achievements, customize XBOX Live avatars, shop the game marketplace, play live against other users, etc.

Check after the break for the full games lineup. Read More…

1. Introduction

I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I am commuting to work by train and bus more than an hour and a half each way, every day. So I won’t get crazy listening to various meaningless discussions around me, or at people yelling their personal issues on their phones, I usually read or blog. For the reading part, sometimes I carry paper books with me, but I like to have more than one book at the time, depending of my mood: The answer to that is of course an eBook reader. Now, Amazon did a really good job with their Kindle and that would have been my first choice, however I want to surf on the Internet as well, so I looked around for a small Tablet PC that can do both tasks, and even some occasional movie watching.

I spent a couple of months watching various forums and I stumbled on some products from Viliv. For the Read More…