Would you pick up a sub-$100 iPhone?

With all of the great tech that is coming out this summer and later into the fall, do you find yourself in any way, remotely interested in a cheap, sub-$100 iPhone?

I mean, with the Droid Shadow (Droid 2), Evo 4G, MyTouch 3G Slider, countless Windows Phone 7 handsets, BlackBerry 9800 slider, the Dell Streak, and many others I’m probably forgetting, is an iPhone — even below $100 — worth it?

Let’s hear it: Would you consider it considering everything that’s on the horizon or is it $100 you’re saving to go towards the latest and greatest?

MSI’s external graphics card promises vastly improved graphics for laptops wanting a little more…

Lug around a laptop — a desktop replacement/gaming laptop no less — and longing for something a little more substantial in the GPU department? Gaming oriented laptops certainly have a leg up on the standard laptop affair when it comes to graphical power. But even then, a high-end laptop GPU doesn’t really hold a candle to it’s desktop sibling.

Even more extreme — any self respecting gamer wouldn’t even think of gaming on a netbook.

But with MSI’s help, that’s exactly where the MSI GUS is setting it’s sights…

Dell’s Streak is the the smartphone that’s not a smartphone. 5″ of Android mystery device…

Thankfully for us, Dell is terrible at keeping secrets. That’s allowed goodies such as the now official Streak to pique public interest for several weeks now with geeks around the world mulling over just what exactly Dell’s new device is.

To any average user, they look at the spec sheet and see data + voice features and say: “Smartphone!” But it’s soooo much more than that…

Samsung shows off 19″AMOLED display…that’s transparent.

Look at all of your good, classic sci-fi movies. Besides the whole space thing, one glaring similarity is transparent displays. They’re everywhere. So for a gadget junkie such as me and you, living in a world devoid of such treasures is borderline depressing.

Current display technology only has one real viable solution to transparent displays in the near term — OLED. And wouldn’t you know it, Samsung is taking the floor at the Society for Information Display International Symposium as a chance to show off some of their latest tech — transparent AMOLED displays…

AT&T offering up unlock codes for pre and post-paid devices. iPhone sulks in the corner.

If you can’ beat ‘em, sue ‘em, right? That’s the general motto of the U.S. these days. Though in fairness, sometimes it is warranted. In the scope of the cellular world, something needs to be done across varying fronts as consumers often get the shaft. But justice does prevail from time to time as it did in the case — a pre-trial settlement that has AT&T giving customers something that they actually want. Unlock codes…

The settlement entitles each and every AT&T user (pre and post-paid customers) to receive if they so choose, an unlock code from AT&T providing they meet a few criteria. There’s a few strings of course. First, pre-paid customers provide proof of purchase of their locked handset while post-paid customers will be required to “have their accounts in good standing” and fulfilled at least 90 days of service. Doesn’t sound too hard does it?

And then there’s the biggest catch — iPhones are excluded…

OCZ ups the ante. Introduces 400GB and 480GB SSD’s to Vertex 2 and Agility 2 lines.

SSD’s have come a long way since “back in the day”. From measly single-digit storage capacities unfairly matched with astronomic prices to half a terabyte capacities for a fraction of the cost. Of course, half a terabyte in SSD’s is still going to cost you a pretty penny compared to current HDD models.

Speaking of that half a terabyte claim, OCZ has taken the wraps off of two new options in their Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSD lines. If speed is number one, capacity has to come in a close second. Finally — Finally! — we can have some super fast and capacious solid state storage to the tune of 400GB or 480GB.

Prices haven’t been revealed yet, but at 240MB/s read and 250MB/s write speeds and taking into account the aforementioned storage sizes can only mean one of your children must pay the price…

Which one will it be?

Bolt for BlackBerry updated to 2.1.

BlackBerry users will want to take a minute or two out of their hectic schedule today in order to fulfill one app update that’s worth grabbing. The popular Bolt Browser has been updated to 2.1.

With it comes enhanced Facebook integration as well as an updated webkit engine. The latter of which is always considered a good thing as such updates usually beget speed. And we all know how much rendering speed means in the mobile sphere.

But speed isn’t everything. Namely, tabbed browsing, better page rendering, and HTML5 are now part of the game. What are you waiting for?

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