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Welcome to another edition of Catch Up Monday on Otaku Gadgets. The past few days gave been filled with news about the different phones being launched. As is usual, Apple made headlines too but mainly with the iPhone. So get to the other side and start catching up before facing the rest of the week.

Apple Announces Black Friday Sales, Leaks take Place

Apple Has announced a special sale event on Black Friday and now everyone’s busy guessing things. There’s been a fresh leak that predicts cheaper Macs, iPods and others. But this leak has no confirmation. We will know soon. [read]

June 2010: When AT&T Finally Loses iPhone Exclusivity?

Analysts have predicted that the June of 2010 is likely to be the time when AT&T’s contract with Apple ends. As you can imagine, no one expects Apple to renew that contract again. For a company that banks so much on delivering user experience par excellence, the carriers spotty service was enough to anger many customers to the point of contemplating leaving the iPhone. So this news has iPhone lovers and users quite excited. [read]

Sony PSN Will Get Premium Subscription Service

Sony PSN is about to get something pretty interesting and something that will make them more competitive with the Xbox. It is a premium level subscription service that has been confirmed by no less that Kata Hirai himself – the CEO of Sony. But will Sony be able to catch up? We’d hate to see such a great company fall behind. Besides, we do not want to see Microsoft having a monopoly. As long as they have competition behind them, they are good to go. [read]

Chrome OS Arrives, Convergence With Android Hinted At

While the Chrome OS was demoed and released to developers last week, Sergery Bring said that it might meet with the Android OS some time in the future. This has spawned a lot of talk on the Internet about what it might be like. It is likely to take a long time though, because the two are quite different from each other at the point and their goals are also pretty separate.

Eking UMPC Looks Like Handheld Gaming Gone Wrong

Eking, a company based in Shezhen China has something that looks like a handheld gaming console with far too many keys. This is a UMPC that splits the keyboard into two parts and places it on either sides of the screen. Would you want to use something like this? Even if you do, you’d probably have to go to China to get one of these. [read]

Sony Ericsson Kurara Found To Be Quite Ordinary

The mysterious Kurara has been thoroughly checked out by mobile review and it looks like we were right after all. This mobile is nothing out of the ordinary and deserves a low price-tag. But if it does get that low price tage, it could end up being quite a hit. [read]

Nokia N900 Gets Demoed With Skype

The Nokia N900 Internet tablet smartphone has just found itself in yet another demo video. This video demos Skype for the N900. It is understandable that Skype would be one of the first high profile apps to be demoed on the Linux-based device as Skype is already available for Linux distributions. [read]

Spotify Multiply To Multiple Platforms, Yay

Good news for music lovers. Everybody’s favorite music streaming service has finally gone up on multi-platform with Symbian being the newest platform being supported. IN doing so, Spotify has just opened up for business for a very large number of Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson phones. But not even half of those phones will be able to use the app because of regional restrictions. [read]

X10 US Version Missing Frequencies, Out Of Tune With T-Mobile

Looks like the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 will not have much traction in the US. That is because certain frequencies in it are missing in the US version according to Phandroid. So it will be missed on carriers like T-Mobile and will be compatible to AT&T, which is not reason celebrate. [Read]

iPhone Starts Selling In South Korea

Apple adds another country to the iPhone’s roster. This time it is South Korea. The phone just cleared for sale a few days back and the launch is slated for later this month on the 28^th, which is the day when the service will finally be activated. [read]

Monopoly Comes To The App Store

Exactly what the title says. EA Mobile has released the classic game of Monopoly on the iPhone and the iPod Touch via the app store. It can be yours for $5. [read]

Malata Convertible Netbook Tablet Comes Cheap

Chinese company Malata has a new netbook that converts into a tablet. While this is nothing new, its price sure is promising. I am talking about a new netbook that costs around $440 and converts into a tablet, which costs less than the old Asus T91 on Amazon. [read]

Schiller Says Devs Like The App Review Process

After agreeing to be interviewed by BusinessWeek about the App Store’s controversial review process, Phil Schiller has actually barely said anything at all to placate the angry devs. He actually said that the devs like the review process. His words might’ve actually angered the devs even more. [read]

Drobo Becomes Faster

Drobo, the data backup robot, just got faster with Drobo S. Using eSATA, the new Drobo S also has a fifth drive bay to better protection against data corruption and more space opf course. [read]