Toshiba has launched their first Android smartphone today, branding it with the popular Regza name normally only used on HDTVs.

Dubbed the Regza T-01C, the smartphone has a 4-inch display with 480x854 resolution.

Making it a high-end device is a massive 12.2MP camera, a 1Seg TV Tuner, and a fully waterproof body. The device will launch with Android 2.1, with an update to 2.2 coming in the Q1 2011.

As is standard, the device has 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 and GPS.

Additionally, the device comes with a landscape stand to make TV watching easier.

The phone will go on sale in December in Japan.

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The online retailer Kelkoo, along with market research firm GameVision Europe, have said today that they expect the Sony PlayStation 3 to win the holiday console sales "war," beating out the Xbox 360 and Wii.

A study from the companies showed that 1.8 million consumers in the UK plan to buy a console for the holidays.

Sales will be buoyed by the launch of the PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect.

Of those 1.8 millon sales, the PS3 will account for 41 percent, or 750,000 units.

The Wii is expected to sell 650,000 units and the 360 is expected to sell 400,000.

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Verizon has officially unveiled the Samsung Continuum today, with a release date of November 11th.

The new Samsung smartphone will be the first to include a secondary display, a small 400x96 AMOLED ticker that displays live news, weather, time and texts/emails/IMs.

A special sensor turns on the small ticker display when users grab the bottom of the phone.

The main hardware uses a 3.4-inch 800x480 Super AMOLED display while the phone runs on a 1GHz Hummingbird processor. The smartphone has 8GB of internal memory and a 5MP camera with HD recording.

Unfortunately it will launch with the outdated Android 2.1 mobile OS.

Pricing starts at $199 with contract.

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Google has announced today that it has partnered with Delta, AirTran and Virgin America to offer holiday travelers free in-flight Wi-Fi for domestic flights in the U.S.

The promotion starts on the 20th and will end on January 2nd, 2011.

Google will offer the Wi-Fi through Gogo, which normally costs $11 per day for in-flight broadband.

The Google Chrome team is sponsoring the free Wi-Fi, but the company made sure to note you can access it with any browser.

Overall, the promotion is expected to affect 15 million travelers on 700 planes.

Google offered the same promotion last year for the same period.

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Tomorrow at the FPD International 2010 trade show in Japan, the Chinese company Hanvon will unveil the first e-reader to include a color e-ink display, giving it a distinct advantage over rivals like the Amazon Kindle and B&N Nook.

Black-and-white e-ink displays are currently used in 90 percent of the world's e-readers, says the NYTimes.

The Apple iPad and the recently launched Nook Color both use LCD color screens.

Jennifer K. Colegrove, director of display technologies at DisplaySearch, described the moment: "This is a very important development. It will bring e-readers to a higher level."

While it is simple to make e-readers with LCD screens, the LCDs tend to take away many advantages of the devices. E-ink screens consume much less battery power and energy and are also readable no matter how bad glare is from sunlight.

Color e-ink screens do have their downsides, however, compared to LCDs. LCD screens will be much sharper, more colorful, and able to handle video. Color e-ink screens have "muted" colors and can only handle "simple animations," notes the NYTimes.

Havon's reader will begin sales this March in China at the equivalent of $440 USD. It will have a 9.68-inch screen and will include both Wi-Fi and 3G support.

The iPad sells for $600 in China.

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According to a new study published in Fertility and Sterility, using a notebook on your lap for extended periods of time can lead to reduced sperm quality, and there is really nothing we can do about it.

Yelim Sheynkin, a urologist that lead the study from the State University of New York at Stony Brook said: "Millions and millions of men are using laptops now, especially those in the reproductive age range. Within 10 or 15 minutes their scrotal temperature is already above what we consider safe, but they don't feel it."

For the study, 29 men had their scrotal temperature taken with thermometers as they balanced notebooks on their laps.

Even if you are using a lap pad, the temperatures were still dangerous.

Warming the scrotum just 2 degrees Fahrenheit can lead to damaged sperm, adds Sheynkin. After one hour of having a notebook on your lap, your scrotum can heat up as much as 5 degrees Fahrenheit.

One in every six couples in the U.S. has trouble conceiving a baby, with a main culprit being male infertility, says the American Urological Association.

What should you do? Every 15 minutes give your "boys" some time to cool down.

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