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Opera is a fast, innovative web browser that’s been popular on the desktop for a long time. When the Opera team released their browser for the iPhone, it instantly reached the position of most downloaded free app, showing that people really loved it.

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Just yesterday we covered the new kobo touch reader, a new touch-based eReader from Kobo, in partnership with Borders Books. In that story, we noted that the new touch-based Kobo reader was superior to Barnes & Noble’s Nook, because touch input was superior to the rather kludgy input system on the Nook. Barnes & Noble didn’t waste any time in remedying this problem however. The company announced its new touch-based Nook eReader today, developed in cooperation with design firm Ammunition, Inc.

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Now that we’re all resigned to not seeing a new iPhone until the fall, one analyst is speaking out, giving us hope where there was none. One Andy Zaky of Seeking Alpha believes that a new iPhone 5 (or 4S?) will be released at the end of June, early July, as per usual.

Can you feel it? Is that a fresh wind of optimism and anticipation stirring up inside you? That would be just like Apple, to let everyone think that the iPhone 5 is delayed, only to come out with a new model, JUST LIKE USUAL. Boom, indeed.

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While the current number of available apps is hovering somewhere around 400,000, Apple has surpassed an amazing milestone.

In less than 3 years, Apple’s App Store has broken the half million mark of approved apps. This impressive number was reached and surpassed this morning as the review team approved the 500,000^th.

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If we get information about upcoming products from support staff, we almost immediately disregard it, but if someone in the position of CEO at a major carrier starts to talk a bit about rumors, we immediately tune in. If anyone at Orange would be in-the-know about the next iPhone, it would likely be Stephane Richard. That is, if Apple feels he needs to know, which he may not.

Ina Fried of All Things Digital fame had a nice interview with the Orange CEO, and he also managed to get some golden nuggets from the executive. In addition to getting the CEO to announce that Apple created the smartphone market, and that Orange was more in favor of a carrier curated App Store, he also dropped some awesome rumors on the next iPhone.

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Late last night a white iPhone case popped up on the web that had the new camera slots like we’ve been hearing about, as well as a shiny Apple logo. Obviously everyone immediately jumped on the iPhone 5 bandwagon, but this one looks a lot more legit than anything we’ve seen up until this point. Again, this could obviously be fake, but if it is even remotely based in reality, it’s actually looking pretty good. Legitimate iPhone parts have been known to show up just before announcements from time to time, so this could also be legit for that reason.

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Movator has a new app out for those of us who care about dumb things affect our real life like health and fitness. The app essentially does something that other devices have yet to do: it sits in your pocket and based on your daily activities, it counts how many calories you’ve burned.

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Given the number of applications we check out on a daily basis, sometimes it’s easy to forget about the thousands and thousands of applications that either don’t get covered or don’t deserve coverage. No matter how you look at it, app development isn’t the happy go-lucky place that a lot of us imagine it may be. The iPhone, and more specifically, the mobile sector, isn’t some modern age Chocolate Factory. Most of the time it’s an ugly scene.

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