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Samsung Vibrant launching on July 15 instead of 21?

We’ve just been tipped with a document claiming that the Samsung Vibrant — T-Mobile USA’s flavor of the Galaxy S — is now slated for a July 15 launch (with devices actually shipping to stores on the 7th) versus the July 21 date that had been pegged at the official announcement. Interestingly, this lines up with a completely different document that’s been slipped to TmoNews today, so we tend to believe it; question is, why the change? Is T-Mobile looking to get a Super AMOLED jump on the competition, seeing how all four US nationals are launching a version of the phone? On the outset, seems like it wouldn’t be a dumb move, though we can’t imagine many folks jumping ship and heading to T-Mobile to pick it up when they know they can wait a few days and get a virtually identical phone (or in the case of Sprint, an arguably even better phone) on their own provider.

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Clearwire CLEAR Spot 4G and 4G+ hotspots now available nationwide

Today Clearwire announced that its CLEAR Spot 4G and Clear Spot 4G+ WiFi hotspot devices are available for purchase nationwide and online.

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Verizon’s HTC Droid Incredible suffers another supply shortage, new ship date is August 5th

There’s no question that the Droid Incredible is one of Verizon’s best handsets right now, but supply issues are preventing customers from getting one. The latest delay pushes the ship date back to August 5th. That’s, well, incredible.

At first the word was HTC was having issues getting a hold of AMOLED screens, pushing shipments back to the middle of July. That could still be true, but if you’re down, there could be a bit of conspiracy going on here. Tin foil hat time.

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NYCMate: Free, Official New York Transit Maps For iPhone and Android [Apps]

Even the savviest New Yorker needs a subway map or bus schedule at some point, so go ahead and download NYCMate, a free app for Android and iPhone that packs cached, pinchy-to-zoomy maps and schedules for NY public transit. [iTunes] More »










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Junaio’s augmented reality app for iPhone and Android can add cartoons to your otherwise-boring existence

As an augmented reality navigator that you want to use for finding pizza joints and friends on Foursquare and Twitter, you’ve got more polished options than Junaio’s new 2.0 release — Layar and Yelp, just to name a couple — but Junaio has at least one interesting differentiator with a feature it calls “Glue.” Basically, independent content providers can develop their own Junaio “channels,” which function in the same way as a Layar layer — it’s a particular set of points of interest that’ll be displayed in the current view. With Glue, though, Junaio isn’t just using your positional information as a point of reference, it can also scan the image for specific objects that developers have programmed their channel to look for, and when such an object is found, crazy things can happen.

In Junaio’s demo, pointing the camera at a superhero-type cartoon dude causes a 3D representation of him to be rendered on the phone’s screen; when you tap on him, he’ll point his gun. It’s an interesting concept that could eventually have some commercial implications, but in the short term, the company just needs to improve the app — it crashed several times for us, and its support for changing orientation is a little wonky. If you want to check it out, it’s a free download for both the iPhone and Android; while you wait for the install, check out our quick video demo after the break.

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