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Yes, this was only a matter of time, and we’re a little surprised we didn’t see one earlier. Regardless, this is the Palm Pre knockoff we’ve been waiting for. Seemingly called just iPhone +QWERTY — this KIRF is being marketed as just that — a real business phone with a hybrid identity blending the BlackBerry and the iPhone. And really, that’s not too bad of a description for this little dude, we guess. Boasting analog TV, Bluetooth, and an FM radio, it runs the much-loved OPhone operating system, and can be had for 600 RMP (about $88). There are two more shots after the break. Hit the read link for a full peek.

[Via PMP Today]

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If you have ever thought about starting a legitimate home-based business, this is probably the best time to start one. With heaps of opportunities available online, making money with internet marketing has become easier than it ever was. Take affiliate marketing for example, you can start building your online business through affiliate marketing with an investment as low as $50. If you have no idea how to start a small business online, the article below would help you setting up a plan for your online business.

The best thing about affiliate marketing is that it requires almost zero capital. You can literally start from $50 and make a hundred thousand or even more just within a year. All you need to start off is a website and a small business web hosting account. In this article I am going to discuss 5 essential steps to tell you how to make a lot of money by affiliate marketing.

1- Research

Before you start looking for a product to promote, you need to do an extensive research. You do not want to dive into a niche where there might be a lot of traffic but no money because people are just looking for some free information, or a niche where there is way too much competition for a newcomer to attract any audience. Use tools like Google trends and Twitter search to look for hot trends and then visit sites like Yahoo Answers to find out what kind of solutions people are looking for in your niche. Make sure you pick a niche where there is audience that is willing to spend money for quality products.

2- Select a product

You need to find a product in your niche that has moderate popularity and lesser affiliate competition. It is always good to first try the product before you start promoting it. Go through the sales page and make sure it is good enough to capture visitors and turn them into customers. A strong sales page can make all the difference.

3- Promote

Now that you have done your initial research and selected a great product, it is time to promote it. This is going to be the key to your success. You need to have a strong presell page. Do not send your visitors directly to your affiliate link. Later I’ll explain to you why you don’t want to do this. Drive traffic — targeted traffic to your presell page, there are lots of methods that you can use for this purpose, but first - here you need to do another research and find out your targeted keywords with low competition and comparatively higher monthly search volume, this can be done using a good keyword research tool and then drive traffic using Pay Per Click (PPC) marketing, article marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) for your selected keywords. Remember it’s not about getting lots and lots of visitors but few very targeted visitors.

4- Build a list

Now here is why you do not want to send your visitors directly to your affiliate link. Force your visitors to opt-in if they want to see your offer. Yes! Force them, if they can’t even give you their name and email, there’s not much chance they would buy the product. Using this method, not only will you be able to filter out the visitors that are not interested but you’ll also be building a list at the same time. It’s important to build a good relationship with your subscribers, don’t pitch them a new product every day. Instead provide them free information and build credibility so they can trust you and leverage your list when you find a product worth promoting. After completing these four steps, you’ll be able to actually see how to make a lot of money of money by affiliate marketing.

5- Rinse and repeat

That’s right, now that you know how to make a lot of money by affiliate marketing all you have to do is repeat the process because once you have setup a successful campaign it won’t need more than a couple of hours a week to maintain it.

We checked out Verizon’s most unusual Razzle sourced from PCD at CTIA this week, and put simply, we’re pretty sure there’s a reason that this form factor is among the rarest. Twisting the bottom half of the phone to choose between QWERTY and a speaker with music controls just doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you’re constantly using the phone to play music that you want everyone around you to be able to hear — and that’s assuming you’re okay with the sound quality and volume compromises you’ve got to make with a loudspeaker of this size. What really caught us off guard was the fact that the phone is bent about 15 degrees in the middle only in QWERTY mode; when you switch over to the speaker, it straightens out, though we’re not sure what the use case logic behind that is. Anyhow, if you’re just looking to own the weirdest phone on the block, the Razzle might just fit the bill — and at least it won’t break the bank.

Verizon’s Razzle does the twist for us originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We had a chance to take a tour of Nokia’s research and development facility in San Diego this week — and while we’re afraid to say we didn’t see any Maemo 6-powered devices or Symbian^4 emulators lying around, we did see some pretty cool stuff, particularly in the product testing laboratories where engineering samples and final products are put through pure hell. The idea is to simulate years’ worth of real-life product use in just a few days — individual tests last anywhere from a few hours to three weeks or longer — by pressing buttons, sliding sliders, actuating hinges, heating, cooling, wetting, drying, dropping, whacking, shaking, rubbing, bending, and generally defacing the phones in every way imaginable. Once a phone finally breaks, they look for obvious reasons — cracked plastic, broken springs, and the like — but if that initial analysis fails, they’ve got a well-equipped lab on site complete with a scanning electron microscope and CT scanner for taking microscopic looks at failed components in both two and three dimensions; from here, they can find broken connections on chips, incorrectly-fabricated materials, and the occasional ant eye magnified a couple thousand times (it’s posted on the wall in the lab, and yes, it’s scary). Follow the break for a cheerful montage of a few Nokia phones getting mercilessly beaten beyond recognition.

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Video: Nokia’s product testing labs in 3 minutes, 42 seconds originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Strategy Analytics latest look at its spec-tracking (hence the name) SpecTRAX database of wireless devices has unearthed a few juicy tidbits of information, none more notable than the fact that phone thickness is at a new all-time low — 13.96mm on average, the first time the metric has ever fallen below 14mm (for comparison, Motorola’s original DynaTAC clocked in around 89mm, so we’re making some solid improvement there). USB penetration is at a new high, too, supported by some 85 percent of newly-entered devices in the database, and battery life is up 25 percent from two years ago. Of course, that’s still not nearly long enough — battery tech is falling dangerously behind virtually every other technology that goes into the making of a mobile device, sadly — but we’ll take any improvement we can get.

[Via MobileTechNews]

Cellphones thinner than ever originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, you’ve been able to get it a little early in one way or another, but the Sprint HTC Hero officially launched today, which means a second US carrier is now selling an Android device. High five. Now, is anyone spending the $179 ($479 off-contract)? And Sprint customers, we have to ask: Hero or Pre?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Yesterday we showed you this bad boy behind a thick, hand-stopping sheet of glass, and today, we’re taking you just a little closer to the action. The emphasis has to be on “just a little,” unfortunately, because neither T-Mobile nor Samsung were willing to slip a battery in the phone and let us play around with it, a surefire indication that the firmware isn’t baked to a golden brown yet — and when you consider that they’re promising the Behold II in time for the holidays, the clock’s definitely ticking. Would we pick this over a myTouch 3G? Probably, yeah — especially with the better cam — but let’s be real, the Fender Limited Edition is another story altogether.

Samsung Behold II handled with less battery than we’d like originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Got a cool grand to drop on a Windows Phone? Oh, yeah? Then have a gander at Samsung’s latest fashion piece, the Armani-branded M7500. The cool cats over at PhoneArena managed to get their paws around a unit, and as predicted, they didn’t hesitate to bust out the camera and give us all a good look. They also took the chance to give us a brief overview of how the handset handled, calling it “bulky even for a WinMo smartphone,” though praising the high-res display and well-spaced keyboard. Feel free to hit the read link if you’re interested in more, but don’t be shocked to hear more than a little criticism.

[Via MobileTechWorld, thanks Arnaud]

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Life is an intricate process, each constituent requires its fair share of balance but sometimes rushing our way through it we forget to tip the balance and uncertainties start populating and stealing our peace of mind. At times like these we turn to our friends and dearest to tell the story of our woes, seeking help and a fresh perspective. It doesn’t take long to realize that the friends and family sure provide you a comfort zone to tap into and relax for a while but the problems are still there and you have to tackle them yourself. Does it mean that you have to learn to live with your misery! No, it means that you need to seek the help of someone who has the ability to see and feel your problem just as your mind does. A psychic is exactly the person who can do that.

Professional psychic reading can give you a great insight of your life, most certainly you will find out things about yourself that you were never consciously aware of. If you have a specific problem that other people just don’t seem to understand and you feel the desire for an urgent solution because the problem is stressing you out, a professional psychic reading can help you relax by giving you a perspective that will make your problem much easier than it first felt.

When you meet a psychic or call a psychic on a psychic line and as the discussion builds up, you will find all sorts of questions popping one after another in your head. The best solution to this is to prioritize your questions based on your concerns. You do not want to regret forgetting the most important question later. Online psychic reading eliminates this problem, because when you are seeking help of a psychic through email psychic readings you do not have to worry about forgetting an important question.

It is also very important to know that what to expect from a professional psychic reading. Although there are lots of great psychic out there but you must do your own due diligence in order to make certain that the advices and insights you are going to receive are coming through to you from a clean channel. In my opinion it is probably easier to look for a psychic on the internet because you can search for reviews and suggestions from people at forums and discussion board and you can decide what’s best for you based on people’s opinion and your instinct.

Professional psychic reading is a rare expertise but a very important one that has brought peace to many people’s lives and gave them hope when there wasn’t any. If you have heard success stories of people who were helped by a psychic when things weren’t making any sense and almost everything and everyone failed to help them, you would agree that professional psychic reading is something that has helped people with all kinds of problems, whether they are related to career, relationships or a very unique problem of its own kind, medium psychics have been bringing peace to people’s lives with the help of their extra sensory perception abilities. So whether it is a problem that doesn’t seem to make any sense or a common problem that we all experience through our lives, professional psychic reading can provide you find solutions that can make things a lot easier.

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Yes, this was only a matter of time, and we’re a little surprised we didn’t see one earlier. Regardless, this is the Palm Pre knockoff we’ve been waiting for. Seemingly called just iPhone +QWERTY — this KIRF is being marketed as just that — a real business phone with a hybrid identity blending the BlackBerry and the iPhone. And really, that’s not too bad of a description for this little dude, we guess. Boasting analog TV, Bluetooth, and an FM radio, it runs the much-loved OPhone operating system, and can be had for 600 RMP (about $88). There are two more shots after the break. Hit the read link for a full peek.

[Via PMP Today]

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVIII: Palm Pre knockoff doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up

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