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After all the buffoonery over what exactly T-Mobile intended to call its newest entry-level Danger device, "Sidekick." Look at 400 x 240 WQVGA display, 2 megapixel camera with video recording capability, Bluetooth 2.0 with A 2DP, and a microSD slot. Sidekick comes close to LX territory, so it should see some solid movement at the $149.99 asking price on a two-year contract. The Sid ekick becomes Danger's first device with user-customizabl e shells, available directly from sidekickshells.com for $14.99 a pop. The whole shebang goes on sale starting today.

New MacBooks from Apple are most certainly coming in the next six to eight weeks, and probably have the most extensive design overhauls in years. The new MacBooks will have a glass, multi-touch trackpad. The MacBook touch concept, is really impractical—a multi-touch screen that size will get really tiring, really fast, since it's a lot of ground to cover, and people are lazy, minimizing motion. Artists could use it to zoom in and directly manipulate images and stuff on the screen (sorta like this). It could display system stats, do Cover Flow, or anything a secondary or touchscreen would be useful for. Or, you know, act like a regular trackpad when you want it to. This is ideal, and would be a logical way to move their multi-touch technology and notebooks forward, together.

Samsung announced that starting July 22, OMNIA will launch on the Italian market. This is the first European country to get the all-in-one multimedia-friendly smartphone, but others will follow and it will be available through major carriers as well as in open markets before the end of August. Italians now can already pre-order the OMNIA, taking advantage of a promotion, giving them a free Xbox 360 Arcade. The unsubsidized 8GB variant will cost 499 EUR ($793), which is a pretty good price for a high-end phone, and a bargain for the same phone AND a console. Prices in other countries will vary.