Rumor yesterday, Reality Today Thats what you can say about the new Samsung i7500. Till yesterday, Samsung was rumored to launch its first Android based phone the i7500 along with O2 and today it is official. Samsung;s first ever Android based phone will be launched on O2. The phone features Android 1.5 (Cupcake, Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity, Dual band UMTS/HSPA connectivity, 3.2 inch OLED Display capacitive touchscreen display with HVGA (480 x 320) resolution, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5MP camera with LED flash, 3.5mm headset jack,528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7200A CPU, 8GB of internal memory, microSD card support. The phone can support 32GB memory on an external card, thats huge man!! The phone will be hitting the European markets somewhere in June 2009. [Via]

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Everyone knows that email is the tool of choice for communicating with grown-ups. (In fact, several teens have told me that GMail stands for “geezer mail.”) So how are the younger (and hipper) technoratti connecting? Well, sure there’s SMS texting, but for a broader hub, adults think Facebook and Twitter are the popular choices. And as such, they’re joining up in droves which of course means that they are so over.

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