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Feed Engadget: Toshiba's Portege G910 / G920 go FCC: followup to the G900 superphone (engadget.com)

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Probably because it's not that big of a player in the domestic cellphone space, Toshiba may not be familiar with all the ins and outs of FCC confidentiality agreements, as evidenced by its testing subcontractor leaving tons of juicy photos of the unannounced Portege G910 / G920 smartphones in those devices' recently-declassified applications. Tosh's blunder clues us in to a whole world of info about this followup to the WVGA, Windows Mobile 6 Portege G900, such as the fact that it's eschewing its predecessor's sliding form factor for the clamshell-design of the Nokia E90 (perhaps an answer to the tilting screen of HTC's TyTN II?). While full specs aren't yet available, we've pieced together that these devices (differentiated by the fact that one of them will have a crippled GPS receiver) are tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 -- sorry, fellow Americans, no US broadband here -- with WiFi, Bluetooth, and dual cameras, and powered by a Qualcomm processor of unknown speed. Hit up the gallery below for a few more inelegant FCC glamour shots, including some dissection photos that may help our clever readers glean even more information...

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by iota-22 (#21623975) Attached to: Jimmy Wales Says Students 'Should Use' Wikipedia
The problem in my experience is not with wikipedia but with students using it. Instead of addressing these problems with a blanket ban by educators, why not put emphasis on teaching students the correct way to use wikipedia and the dangers of not doing so? On another note, a recent "other" niggle on misuse of wikipedia, I was shocked when someone complained about some seminar reading I had set the other day because there WASN'T a corresponding wikipedia article (which could be plagiarised) - clearly there is a problem when such a resource as wikipedia becomes so key to the way people are working (in this case, at a top UK university) that they find it much harder to work without it.

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