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Hoy

Carlos — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:29:14 +0000

Hoy me siento nuevo, a pesar d tener algunas partes oxidadas!!
…..que viva el WD 40

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Having fun!

Carlos — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:00:24 +0000

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Lokeras……

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Test

Carlos — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:54:52 +0000

Yessss this is a test

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Dominicanos HOY: Aerodom realiza simulacro emergencia aeronáutica

Carlos — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:45:40 +0000

Aerodom realiza simulacro emergencia aeronáutica

Noticias, * | jue, 20-may 18:12
Por: Redacción DH

Aerodom realizó un Simulacro de Emergencia Aeronáutica en el Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas-JFPG (AILA), con el objetivo de medir la capacidad y tiempos de respuesta tanto del personal interno como de las instituciones externas en caso de la ocurrencia de una emergencia real.

El simulacro se realizó este miércoles 19 de mayo de 9:00 a 11:30 AM en estricto cumplimiento con las normas de la Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI) y el Instituto Dominicano de Aviación Civil (IDAC).

En el acto de bienvenida del simulacro estuvieron presentes el Director General de Aerodom, Andrew O’Brian; el Director del AILA, Raúl Berroeta, el Director del Cuerpo Especializado en Seguridad Aeroportuaria (CESA), General de Brigada Piloto FAD (DEM) Pedro R. Valenzuela Quiroz, y el Presidente-Director Ejecutivo, y Gerente para la República Dominicana de CSI International, Anthony Piegaro.

La aerolínea Pawa Dominicana facilitó la aeronave DC 9 utilizada durante el ejercicio, mientras que Copa Airlines participó como aerolínea invitada con el nombre de Kaleta Air.

La Directora de Relaciones Públicas y Comunicaciones de Aerodom, Yolanda Mañán, explicó que la empresa cuenta con los equipos necesarios para dar respuestas rápidas en cualquiera de los seis aeropuertos que opera.

Mañán dijo que el simulacro fue anunciado con anticipación con el propósito de evitar alarma en la población, y que fueron utilizadas ambulancias aéreas y terrestres de Aero-Ambulancia, empresa operada por Helidosa.

Para la realización del supuesto, fue activado el Puesto de Mando Principal (PMA), la sala de ilesos, de familiares y de Prensa, las cuales son habilitadas en caso de que ocurra un evento real.

En el ejercicio intervinieron además de Aerodom, el Instituto Dominicano de Aviación Civil (IDAC), el Cuerpo Especializado en Seguridad Aeroportuaria (CESA), el Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia (COE) Santo Domingo, la Cruz Roja Dominicana, Defensa Civil, Cuerpo de Bomberos, Fuerza Aérea Dominicana, Policía Nacional, Policía Turística (POLITUR), y la Autoridad Metropolitana del Transporte (AMET).

Además, el Departamento Aeroportuario, el Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social, el Instituto Dominicano de Seguros Sociales (IDSS), Aero Ambulancia, las diferentes aerolíneas que operan en el AILA, División de Servicios Aeroportuarios (DSA), y Menzies Aviation Group, entre otras instituciones.

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Future of Flash | Adobe

Carlos — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:13:02 +0000

Setting the record straight

Recently there has been a surge in discussion about Adobe® Flash®, and within that discussion, a fair amount of incorrect information has been communicated.

We would like to clear up some of those misperceptions.

Touch

Flash was actually originally created as a technology for tablets with touch interfaces. And today, Flash has full support for working on touch-based devices.

For existing Flash content developed with mouse input in mind, Flash Player will automatically convert the touch events into mouse events. This allows Flash content designed for the desktop, to work seamlessly on touch-based devices.

For new Flash content developed specifically with touch in mind, Flash Player 10.1 provides a complete set of multitouch and gesture APIs.

Read more about Flash and multitouch

Video

75% of all video on the web is viewed via the Flash Player, including videos encoded in the most popular codecs such as H.264 and VP6.

There are many claims that H.264 will kill Flash. However, H.264 is a video codec (which requires a player), while Flash is a complete multimedia runtime, which can play back H.264, among other codecs. Furthermore, Flash provides a complete solution for advanced video distribution, including support for technologies such as streaming, adaptive bitrate delivery, and content protection.

Of course, playing back high definition video can be a CPU-intensive task. This is why Flash Player 10.1 includes support for hardware accelerated video playback across devices from mobile to desktop environments. Now that the appropriate APIs are available in OS X 10.6.3, we are also implementing GPU accelerated video on the Mac, available as a preview release code-named Gala. This can significantly improve both CPU usage as well as battery life.

Find more information on Flash Video at the Flash Video Technology Center

Performance

Flash content is dynamic and visual, and like all multimedia content and technologies, it requires more processing power than static HTML documents. Flash performs as well as, if not better than, comparable multimedia technologies. The Flash Player team is constantly working to deliver the best performance for rich, interactive media on the web.

On mobile devices better performance translates into better battery life. Adobe has made a number of further optimizations in Flash Player 10.1 around code execution, memory usage, hardware accelerated video playback, and battery life.

Of course, since Flash runs across platforms, all of the optimizations made for mobile will also benefit Flash content on desktops, laptops, netbooks, and tablets.

Get more information on Flash Player performance

Security

Security is one of the highest priorities for the Flash Player team. The Symantec Global Internet Threat Report for 2009 found that Flash had the second fewest number of vulnerabilities of all Internet technologies listed (which included both web plug-ins and browsers). This is significant when you consider that Flash Player is among the most widely distributed and used pieces of software in the world.

Given the complexity of modern software, security vulnerabilities are going to be present. However, Adobe has taken extensive steps to both reduce the total number of issues as well as help ensure that when issues are found we can quickly address them and provide updates to end users. This includes taking steps to ensure that users are able to get the latest Flash Player updates as quickly as possible, and working with browser vendors to integrate Flash Player privacy settings with those of the browser.

Read more about Flash Player security

Openness

The Flash Player is part of a rich ecosystem of both open and proprietary technologies.

The core engine of the Flash Player (AVM+) is open source and was donated to the Mozilla foundation where it is actively maintained. The file formats supported by the Flash Player, SWF and FLV/F4V, as well as the RTMP and AMF protocols are freely available and openly published. Anyone can use the specifications without requiring permission from Adobe. Third parties can and do build audio, video, and data services that compete with those from Adobe.

There are no restrictions on the development of SWF authoring tools, and anyone can build their own SWF or FLV/F4V player.

Adobe Flex, the primary application framework for Flash, is also open source and is actively maintained and developed by Adobe and the community.

Finally, Flash has a rich developer ecosystem of both open and proprietary tools and technologies, including developer IDEs such as FDT, IntelliJ, and haXe; open source runtimes such as Gnash; and open source video servers such as Red5.

Learn more about Adobe Open Source

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NYU Students Raise More than $100,000 to Build Facebook Alternative

Carlos — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:05:09 +0000

Four New York University students have a vision to build Diaspora, “an open source personal web service that will put individuals in control of their data,” or essentially the anti-Facebook.

They started with just a dream and a prayer — that prayer was to raise $10,000 by June 1 so that they could spend the summer making their vision a reality. They reached that goal in just 12 days.

Now, still more than two weeks away from their deadline, the team of programmers has already broke $100,000, collected via the fundraising platform Kickstarter.

Team Diaspora — college kids Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Ilya Zhitomirskiy and Raphael Sofaer — believe that sharing information online and maintaining one’s privacy should not have to be mutually exclusive. What they set out to build is a network that allows everyone to install their own “seed” — i.e. a personal web server with a user’s photos, videos and everything else — within the larger network. That seed would be fully owned and controlled by the user, so the user could share anything and still maintain ownership over it.

What it looks like remains to be seen, but this answer to current FacebookFacebook

culture has a hit nerve with the more than 2,300 individuals who have agreed to back the company with as little as five bucks.

Now that the guys have reached their goal, we expect them to fulfill their promise and forgo all fun this summer to build their pet project. In a few months time we should see what $100,000 and a powerful vision can produce.

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Washington pledges to help find Dominican Republic’s most wanted couple

Carlos — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:28:23 +0000

SANTO DOMINGO.- The Attorney General of the United States coordinated with Dominican par RadhamJimz the assistance to capture the Puerto Rican fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto and his Dominican paramour Sobeida Felix.

Eric Holder, in a meeting with Jimenez in Brasilia where they addressed several topics of interest for both nations, said the FBI, the DEA and U.S. Marshals will be instructed to work in coordination with Dominican authorities.

Jimz described Figueroa%u2019s case, for which Holder pledged all the help required to locate and arrest them, and hailed the efforts by Dominican authorities in its war on drug trafficking and organized crime.

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2010: My Fifth Annual List Of The Tech Products I Love And Use Every Day

Carlos — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:01:15 +0000

It’s time for my annual list of technology products that I love and use every day. This is the (wow) fifth year I’ve done this. Here are my previous lists: 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006. The scope of the list has changed over time. In 2006 it was just about websites. Now the list includes other web services, some desktop software and even a few gadgets.

These aren’t necessarily newly launched products (see Daniel Raffel’s post yesterday for a solid list of great new products). This is a simple list of the tech products that are an integral part of my day – work or play. Some have withstood the test of time and I just can’t live without. Others are newcomers that have captured my imagination.

I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them. There are now 24 products on the list.

Just three of these products have been on the list all five years: TechMeme, Skype and Wordpress. As I said last year, TechMeme continues to be the news aggregator I check multiple times per day to keep up on tech news (although Google News is becoming more important over time). Skype is the instant messaging and VoIP platform that I use most often at work and with friends. And Wordpress software powers all of our blogs.

I’ve added 13 new products to last year’s list: Android, Apple Magic Mouse, Dropbox, Evernote, Foursquare/Loopt/Gowalla, Google Docs, Google Voice, Kodak Zi8, MOG, Skitch and Spotify.

I’ve removed seven products from the 2009 list: 1-800-Free-411, Digg, Friendfeed, Google Reader, iPhone, MySpace Music and Zoho.

There are lot of products that I use daily that aren’t on the list for various reasons. My iMac and MacBook Pro and Droid phone, for example, aren’t on the list specifically even though all three products are exceptional. I don’t really have a browser preference, although I suspect Chrome will be on the list next year. And there are lots of websites and services, like Posterous and Amie Street, that I use regularly but just didn’t make my arbitrary cut. We also use Bit.ly extensively on the site for URL shortening, and EventBrite and Amiando for event ticketing.

Here’s my 2010 list of tech products that I love and use every day:

Android

I gave up the iPhone this year and switched to Android mobile phones. First the MyTouch, then the Droid. I’ll soon be upgrading again. What I like best about Android is the deep integration with Google Voice, which I talk about below. These two products go hand in hand.

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Animoto

I first put Animoto on the list last year. The service makes beautiful slide shows of photos, and this year they added videos (here’s one I made). Their iPhone application continues to impress. This company is now profitable and my guess is someone like Apple will acquire them in the next year.

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Apple Magic Mouse

The Apple Magic Mouse is the best computer pointing device ever made. It functions as a normal mouse but also has multitouch on top. Once you use it you’ll never be happy with an old mouse or touchpad again.

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Delicious

Delicious, the social bookmarking workhorse, has been on my list every year except 2007. It’s not perfect but it’s better than anything else out there.

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Dropbox

Dropbox is a new addition to the list this year. It’s just dead simple file syncing across all your computers, mobile devices and the cloud. It’s also a great way to privately share big files. Dropbox is now one of my must-have productivity tools. I just wish Google offered something similar so that I could have an integrated dashboard for my Google Docs files and Dropbox stuff.

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Evernote

Evernote is also a new addition this year. Like Dropbox it is an amazing productivity tool that lets you capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms. You can take notes, clip webpages, snap photos using their mobile phones, create to-dos, and record audio. All data is synchronized with the Evernote web service and made available to clients on Windows, Mac, Web, and mobile devices. Additionally, the Evernote web service performs image recognition on all incoming notes, making printed or handwritten text found within images searchable.

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Facebook

This is the third year in a row that Facebook has been on the list. Facebook has won the social wars, and even the biggest companies are now surrendering to them. Facebook Connect is turning into the defacto online identity solution for tens of millions of people.

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Foursquare, Loopt and Gowalla

These three startups (Foursquare, Loopt and Gowalla), among others, are battling to control mobile social networking. They all have variations of the check-in model, where users are encouraged to note where they are for their friends to see. Foursquare has all the early adopter momentum, But Loopt has millions of users and Gowalla has a compelling product. All three are likely to win.

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Gmail

This is the fourth year in a row for Gmail. It’s the best webmail out there, and I appreciate the free imap support and forwarding. Enough said.

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Google Docs

This is a new addition for me this year. I never bothered installing Office on my new laptop, and find that Google Docs has all the functionality I need, plus easy sharing with others and storage in the cloud. I may never install Office again. I previously had Zoho on the list, a competitor, and removed it only because I find that centralizing as many services as possible at Google makes things easier for me as a user.

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Google Voice

This has been a big year for Google Voice, previously called Grand Central. The mobile apps let Google Voice completely take over Android phones. I’ve ported my mobile number to Google Voice and now any time someone calls that number I can direct it to any phone I like based on where I am, who’s calling and when. It has changed my life, and I will never use a mobile phone that doesn’t have deep integration with the service.

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Hulu

This is the second year in a row for Hulu. I’d love for them to add a paid model and let me watch HBO shows or pay per view new release movies. And I wish they could secure rights to archived libraries of shows, but even as it currently exists, Hulu is a great entertainment service.

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Kodak Zi8

This digital video camera beats the pants off the current Flip models. The best feature is the ability to add a microphone. Flip doesn’t have this, and the audio quality is often terrible. The Zi8 is a full generation ahead.

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MOG, Pandora and Spotify

MOG and Spotify are new this year. Pandora has been on every year except 2008, and with hindsight I should have added them that year, too. These are three streaming music services that are awesome. MOG, which is $5/month, is the best music experience on the Internet. Spotify, a desktop streaming service that hasn’t launched in the U.S. yet, lacks the radio and social features of MOG but is currently free. And we hear it will launch on a limited basis in the U.S. very shortly. Pandora is still a very cool place to just sign in and listen to music that I love quickly and easily.

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Scribd and Docstoc

Scribd and Docstoc, two services that let you upload office files like PDFs and Word documents and then embed them on sites, are very useful to bloggers like us. When we have a document that we want to share with readers, we use one of these services and embed it into the post. Both services were also on the list last year.

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Skitch

I’ve been using Skitch for years. It’s Mac software that makes basic image manipulation a breeze – sort of a very light version of Photoshop. For 90% of our images, Skitch works just fine. It’s easy to add text, resize and crop images, etc. And it automatically uploads them to the website for you, too.

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Skype

Skype is on the list every year and will probably stay there, even under new management. I’d give up email before I gave up Skype. I use it almost exclusively for instant messaging, and a big percentage of my voice calls are over the service. I love doing video chat with friends oversees, too.

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TechMeme

TechMeme is another service that has been on the list all five years. It is the definitely news aggregator for technology news, and a huge asset to our community.

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TripIt

TripIt is a simple travel service that is absolutely awesome, and returns to the list this year. You forward confirmation emails from flights, hotels, etc. to the service and it creates an itinerary automatically. You can then access it via a mobile device.

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Twitter

Twitter is fast becoming as essential marketing tool for TechCrunch, and I’m addicted to it personally. This is the third year I’ve added Twitter. For mobile use, I love the Seesmic Android application.

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Wordpress

All our blogs run on Wordpress’ open source software, and we use other services of the company, Automattic, that runs the project (Akismet for spam, polldaddy for polls). It has been on the list all five years, and we are thankful for such cool, and free, software.

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Yammer

Yammer, a Twitter-like service for companies to use internally, won TechCrunch50 in 2008 and is an essential productivity tool at TechCrunch. We long ago moved to the paid version of the service, and we’ve never looked back.

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YouTube

This is the fourth year in a row for YouTube. It’s always good for a two minute entertainment diversion from work, and we use it exclusively to host our own video content.

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Let me know what services you’d add to your list, or leave off. Each year in the comments I hear about someone’s passion for a new product that I overlooked before, and sometimes they make the list in the following year.

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WEBMAIL WINS: 70% Prefer Gmail to Outlook

Carlos — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:45:14 +0000

This week, we asked you to make a choice about the web’s oldest form of communication: email. We pitted Microsoft’s Outlook, standard-bearer of desktop email software and businesses worldwide, against Google’s Gmail, the webmail software that continues to innovate how we use and manage our inboxes.

After over 5000 votes, you’ve spoken loud and clear. The winner ….

… is GmailGmail

by a landslide. With 3684 votes (a full 70% of the vote), Gmail has trounced Microsoft OutlookMicrosoft Outlook

, which garnered only 980 ballots (19%). The remaining 11% of you called the battle a tie.

Clearly desktop email is going the way of the dinosaur for the universal accessibility of webmail. This is definitely what GoogleGoogle

is hoping for as it continues with its plan to destroy the desktop. For now, let us know what you think of the dichotomy of email on the desktop and the web in the comments.

Who would win in a fight: Google Gmail or Microsoft Outlook?(polls)

Web Faceoff: Overall Results

Week 1:
– Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome
– WINNER: FirefoxFirefox

, 4600 votes (ChromeChrome

: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 votes)

Week 2:
– Tumblr vs. Posterous
– WINNER: TumblrTumblr

, 1809 votes (PosterousPosterous

: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 votes)

Week 3:
– Pandora vs. Last.fm
– WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes (PandoraPandora

: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 votes)

Week 4:
– Twitter vs. Facebook
– WINNER: FacebookFacebook

, 2484 votes (TwitterTwitter

: 2061 votes, Tie: 588 votes)

Week 5:
– WordPress vs. Typepad
– WINNER: WordPressWordPress

, 2714 votes (TypepadTypePad

: 267 votes, Tie: 357 votes)

Week 6:
– Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
– WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 votes, Tie: 121 votes)

Week 7:
– TweetDeck vs. Seesmic Desktop
– WINNER: TweetDeckTweetDeck

, 3294 votes (Seesmic DesktopSeesmic Desktop

: 1055 votes, Tie: 260 votes)

Week 8:
– Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs
– WINNER: Microsoft Office, 1365 votes (Google DocsGoogle Docs

: 994 votes, Tie: 315 votes)

Week 9:
– Apple iPhone vs. Google Android
– WINNER: Google Android, 3323 votes (Apple iPhone: 1494 votes, Tie: 228 votes)

Week 10:
– AT&T vs. Verizon
– WINNER: Verizon, 1161 votes (AT&T: 538 votes, Tie: 118 votes)

Week 11:
– Google vs. Bing
– WINNER: Google, 2180 votes (BingBing

: 519 votes, Tie: 97 votes)

Week 12:
– iPod Touch/iPhone vs. Nintendo DS vs. Sony PSP
– WINNER: iPod Touch/iPhone, 704 votes (Sony PSP: 639 votes, Nintendo DS: 482 votes, Tie: 108 votes)

Week 13:
– Digg vs. Reddit vs. StumbleUpon
– WINNER: DiggDigg

, 14,762 votes (Reddit: 11,466 votes, StumbleUponStumbleUpon

: 2507 votes, Tie: 1032 votes)

Week 14:
– Old versus new Twitter retweets
– WINNER: Old style retweets, 1625 votes (New style retweets: 699 votes, Tie: 227 votes)

Week 15:
– Gmail vs. Outlook
– WINNER: Gmail, 3684 votes (Outlook: 980 votes, Tie: 590 votes)

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LEAKED: New Details and the Price of Google’s Nexus One

Carlos — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:41:49 +0000

The Nexus One, also known as the Google Phone, has been causing a stir this month after details began to emerge about the project. Earlier today, we learned that the phone will likely be revealed on January 5 at a Google press conference (which we will be covering).

Information on the phone’s already starting to leak through the GoogleGoogle

gates, though. Screenshots obtained by gadget blog Gizmodo reveal one of the most important details about the device: its price.

The screenshots seem to be the future landing pages for the Google phone. It will apparently go live soon at google.com/phone and be the sole portal for purchasing your very own Nexus One. And while we cannot verify the accuracy of these screenshots, the information presented makes sense.

Here are some of the key details you should know:

- Price: $530 unsubsidized and unlocked (ouch!), $180 subsidized on the T-Mobile network with a 2 year contract.

- Rate Plan: $79.99 per month on T-Mobile, which includes unlimited texting/MMS and web data, along with 500 minutes. This seems to be the only plan available, even if you’re already on another plan with T-Mobile

- Purchasing: You can buy up to five Nexus One phones per Google account.

- Cancellation: If you cancel within 120 days, you have to pay the subsidy difference ($350) or return the phone to Google.

The subsidized price makes it competitive with the iPhoneiPhone

and the Verizon Droid, but we won’t know how well the phone sells or if people will pay the $530 price tag for an unlocked phone until it launches. Let us know what you think of the price in the comments.

[via Gizmodo]

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