Apple sent out invitations to select media outlets inviting them to the Guggenheim Museum in New York for an education announcement. While details are still limited, The New York Times has cited that the company will showcase its entrance into the textbook market. This is a feature many student have been waiting for, the ability to ditch their physical textbooks. We are excited to see what Apple has come up with.

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We had an opportunity to sit down for breakfast with the Product Manager for the Nokia Lumia 900. The Lumia 900 was announced yesterday at CES and features a 4.3-inch AMOLED ClearBlack Display and a 1.4GHz processor. At this breakfast we were given all access to a Lumia 900 prototype and was told that neither the hardware nor software is final yet. We took a bunch of hands on photos and attached a gallery below. Enjoy!

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Nokia held a press conference today at CES to unveil the Lumia 900. The phone will be available exclusively on AT&T in the United States, no date set for Canada yet. The Lumia 900 is the third in its series, the first two being the Lumia 710 and 800. However, the Lumia 900 is the first to have LTE built-in.

When it comes to specs, the Lumia 900 seems to be Nokia’s attempt at making a high-end Windows Phone available in the United States. It has a 4.3-inch AMOLED ClearBlack Display that allows for the rich and bright images. Powering the device is a 1.4 GHz processor to make sure you can run all those latest Windows Phone apps. To hold that your power with this amazing screen, Nokia has included a 1830 mAH battery.

The camera on the phone is 8 megapixel, Carl Zeiss optics, an aperture of F2.2, and wide angle focal length of 22mm. The Lumia 900 also has a front-facing camera for video chat.

Chris Weber, president of Nokia Americas said, “The introduction of the Nokia Lumia 900 with AT&T is another significant milestone in the ongoing rollout of Nokia’s global smartphone strategy… The Nokia Lumia 900 is designed specifically with the US in mind and the announcement of this collaboration with AT&T, in addition to other recent announcements, signifies a new dawn for Nokia in the US.”

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Today is press day at the Consumer Electronic Show, where technology bloggers from around the world come through to check out all the latest technology from the big companies. Samsung gave an early look at one of the devices it plans on announcing at CES this year. The Galaxy Note has a 5.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display, which is the reason Samsung’s banner outside the Las Vegas Convention Center says, “Phone? Tablet? It’s Galaxy Note!”.

The Galaxy Note is expected to have a dual-core 1.4GHz processor, a 2MP front-facing camera and a 8MP rear-facing camera. Smartphone Nation will be live on the floor at CES to get a first hand look at Samsung’s new devices. We will keep you updated as we hear it.

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Smartphone Nation will be at the International Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas to bring you the latest news on your favorite gadgets. We are going to be riding with Nokia from Monday, January 9 until Wednesday, January 11, getting the latest scoops on everything for you.

Is there anything you want to specifically see or want us to ask Nokia? If so, fill out the form below and we will cover it for you.

It has been less than a week since Verizon launched the Galaxy Nexus on its network but the company confirmed today that it already working on an update to fix signal issues. No need to worry, a company spokeswomen has said that there is no issue with performance of the device, instead it will adjust the wireless signal strength indicators.

Verizon has not put a date on the update but we can expect it soon.

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We have been waiting for an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 since it’s release. There is now a semi-tethered jailbreak using Ac1dsn0w, but nothing compares to not having to sync when you restart your phone to regain use of your most important apps.

Luckily a hacker named Pod2g has been working towards the cause and released a preview video showing an untethered jailbreak on an iPod touch. No details on when it is going to be releases, if ever, but at least we know it may be possible. Check out the video after the jump.

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We have been waiting an awful long time for HP to decide the fate of webOS, the mobile OS bought from Palm. HP has been having fire sales on its previously unpopular TouchPad tablet.

So what is the fate behind webOS? HP will be contributing the OS to the open source community and continue to be active in the development and support. But the efforts of the developers won’t go without use. Meg Whiman, HP president and CEO, explains, “By contibuting this innovation, HP unleashes the creativity of the open source community to advance a new generation of applications and devices.”

HP has set four operating principles to help define the project:

• The goal of the project is to accelerate the open development of the webOS platform
• HP will be an active participant and investor in the project
• Good, transparent and inclusive governance to avoid fragmentation
• Software will be provided as a pure open source project

We are excited to see what comes from this in the future and be sure to keep a look out for those $99 TouchPad fire sales.

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Today is iPhone 4S launch day! The phone is now available on Verizon. AT&T, and Sprint. Many people waited out all night to get the iPhone first! In fact, we got a chance to catch up with Steve Wozniak (The Woz), cofounder of Apple, who was first in line at the Los Gatos Apple store.

We have been monitoring stock and it seems that many of the Apple stores are still in stock with most models. If you want to grab a iPhone 4S, hit your local store and you may have a chance to still grab it on launch day.

But the day was not plague free, we’ve heard intermittent issues activating on AT&T’s servers.

Did you all get your iPhone 4S?

Google has called it’s “first-to-knowers” to an event on October 19th to unveil it’s Ice Cream Sandwich Android update. It is also likely that we will see the Google’s Nexus Prime (or Samsung Galaxy Nexus). The Nexus Prime is will have a 720p resolution, 4.65″ Super AMOLED  display and a 1.5 GHz dual core processor.

It all kicks off at 10:00pm EST on October 18th. Those who were not invited can watch the Livesteam at youtube.com/android.

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