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Really, there isn’t. Despite what a lot of people seem to have been hoping, it doesn’t seem like Google has any plans to make one either on the long term.

According to Valleywag, the highest guys at Google even denied it, to quote them:

I overheard a rep from Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, chatting up a vice president at Google. Now, I know this particular executive is utterly guileless; she wouldn’t lie. And when the Foxconn rep tried to pitch her on getting a contract to make the Googlephone, she replied, flat-out, “We’re not making a Googlephone.”

I guess we’ll just have to live with the iPhone for now… Too bad I guess, some more competition in the field of ‘internet-capable mobile phones’ wouldn’t hurt I suppose, right now Apple seems to be pretty much alone there; the user experiences of Nokia and the Blackberries don’t even some to come close…

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It’s almost impossible, but it seems that some people haven’t read or heard about MMORPG currency trading-sites… Personally I read about it nearly daily, thanks to the huge loads of comment spam, and the load of advertisements for these companies in ads on websites.

Anyway, what these companies basically do, is trade ‘real life’ money, such as euros and dollars, for stuff inside games, such as the ever popular Warcraft gold, for the popular MMORPG; World of Warcraft.

Often these companies are ran by an American or European headquarter, and an amount of employees located in China or India, simply because their wages are low, very low. This might not be too handy when you’re looking for someone speaking your native language, to ease up the contact.

Beside that, these ‘gold farmers’, as they tend to be called, as they simply repeat things in-game to ‘harvest’ gold, do not have a very positive reputation, in terms of not speaking the language, and sometimes even as not meeting the deals made.

This company, with the name GameGoods, claims to be different though; they’re entirely ran in Europe, which should sound relaxing to a lot of people, in fact, they only seem to accept British pounds, you wont find it anything more European…

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It has been quite a while since the NES was introduced, no less than 24 years for the first one, but in case you still love the idea of actually sliding cartridges, you might like the following ‘gadget’, it’s available right now from GeekStuff4U and costs almost $47 – quite pricey.

Basically, it’s an NES-like block that will be connected to your PC, allowing you to slide in HD’s of both 3.5″ and 2.5″ formats, letting you access your data without opening your PC or having to reboot your PC – thanks to the hotswap option! Whether it is the best option available for your precious data will be left for you to decide; just make sure you don’t move it while transferring files…

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It seems Samsung is really presenting their new top of the bill G600 phone as a cool new mobile phone for young people with style…and money.
Samsung has set up a really interesting site for UK people. It’s got a compilation of the thirty most stylish clubs of the country, and includes a competition with 300 club-goers photographed with the G600. The top 15 wins the phone, and the winner gets a complete photo shoot by an European leading model agency worth £10,000.

Now let’s talk about the phone its self, one of the most interesting features is the 5.0(!) mega-pixel -compare that to the digital camera my parents bought, when they weren’t mainstream yet, it had just 3 MP and cost over $1200, was big, and made bad quality pictures- The design is very sleek, it’s one of those sliding phones, which have to slide upward in order to show the numeric pad. One downside is the slightly high price, but this kind of phones come with a 2 year contract most of the time anyway…

Samsung G600 slim slider – the image concious phone!

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The billionaire Google founders have yet another extraordinary private yet. In addition to the two Gulfstream Vs and a Boeing 767, they now aquired rights to land another plane on the Moffett Field airport (which is operated by NASA, and close to the Google HQ’s). The rights now cost a whopping $1.3 million per year.

The new plane is a Boeing 757, and normally has a capacity for about 200 passengers. This certainly seems like overkill to me, and it is not clear what the Google billionaires are planning to do with it. Although a spokesman told the Times NASA scientists have access to planes, but not for what purpose.
And Frankly, as long as Google isn’t going to start an airline company of some sort, I don’t care too much…

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