Kristen Stewart: Twilight "Definitely" Connects to Real-Life Virgins; Does Robert Pattinson Agree?

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's Eclipse characters, Bella and Edward, essentially have three or so movies of virginal eternal longing for each other; they never quite go all the way (except in Breaking Dawn, which Melissa Rosenberg swears she's penning as quite sexy...but more on that later).

When we talked to the stars of Eclipse at last night's premiere at the L.A. Film Festival, we threw it out there to the cast: Do you think the longing and self-control the main characters exhibit when it comes to sex is something high schoolers can actually relate to these days? Here's what Rob, Kristen, Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz had to say...

"Oh my god, definitely," Stewart told us on the carpet with the stern-yet-sweet look she exhibits so well. "I feel like everything in our movie—the reason people love it so much—is because it's everything that we experience. It's like put on this...I don't want to say ideological...It's just put on this level that it is fantasy love. You feel like when you're in love it's fake almost. I feel like that's how everyone feels."

Spoken like a girl who has been truly smitten before! Speaking of, Rob, in his über-cool, maroon Gucci suit, added that he has no clue if holding out for something great is in touch with teens today, but it's what he is used to.

iPhone 4 or EVO 4G: which one should you get?


Hoo Guy. This is a tough one, isn't it? In our years, we've rarely seen such deafening debate and adulation for a pair of devices. In one corner we have the iPhone 4, coming off a few relatively easy rounds atop the smartphone mind share heap. However, the Droid and its ilk have weakened Apple's spot, and here comes the HTC EVO 4G in for the kill, sporting a larger screen, 4G data, and all manner of HTC sexy. If the devices themselves weren't enough, the debate has turned into something larger and metaphorical, with Apple representing tight restrictions and a singular top down vision, while Google's Android stands for something perhaps a bit more haphazard but democratizing. The gloves come off after the break.

Rumor: Fergie Gearing up to Leave The Black Eyed Peas?

FERGIE is on the verge of quitting the Black Eyed Peas — according to a new report.

RadarOnline says the singer — who’s married to Hollywood hunk Josh Duhamel — wants to leave the group because she doesn’t like Will.I.Am and tension in the band has become intolerable for her.


“Fergie is saying she wants out of the band and the second half of the tour isn’t confirmed for early next year,” a source said.

“Things have gotten really bad with Will.i.Am. And it’s not just Fergie who is clashing with him. So is the rest of the band. His ego is out of control.

“Fergie just wants to get away from the whole thing.

720p Video Capture Comparison, iPhone 4 v. DROID X


We’ve taken the video cameras of the DROID X and iPhone 4 for a spin, as we wanted to see what 720p looked like on the latest offerings from both Motorola and Apple. Our rudimentary results are in, and the winner is…the iPhone 4. The DROID X records 720p video at 24 fps, while the iPhone 4 records at 30 fps. While 6 fps seems negligible you can really tell the difference in both the indoor and outdoor tests we did. Another thing we noticed is file size. The DROID X records in the 3GP MPEG-4 format, and our 36 second clip was 102.4 MB. The iPhone 4 records in the MOV H.264 format and our 35 second video came in at 47.2 MB. The DROID X records with twice the bit-rate of the iPhone 4 which accounts for some of the difference in file sizes. The DROID X did beat out the iPhone 4 in color accuracy and audio recording quality. Hit the jump, as we’ve got a few videos and screenshots ready for your scrutiny. Make sure to set the video to play in full 720p!

First up is the indoor test; we have the iPhone 4 filming the DROID X, then the DROID X filming the iPhone 4.

First day iPhone 4 sales estimate: 1.5 million

Reported waits of up to eight hours in line to buy the iPhone 4 Thursday indicated that first-day sales were going to be good. And while Apple has not yet announced official sales numbers, some Wall Street analysts have done some extrapolation based on interviews with customers at stores around the U.S. Thursday.

On Friday, Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner did a little math to estimate that Apple may have sold more than 1.5 million iPhone 4s to date. He gets there by adding the 600,000 preordered units Apple announced last week, plus estimating 100,000 units sold to walk-in customers (guessing an average of 500 per store), 50,000 units sold to Best Buy (about 45 per store), and then doubling that number to include international sales.

There's no way to know how accurate those numbers actually are--Apple doesn't publicly disclose how many units are distributed to each store--but it seems plausible. Apple may release numbers sometime Friday, or it could wait until after the weekend, as it has with past product launches, to enumerate its total four day sales total.

Apple sold 1 million iPhone 3G units in the first weekend it went on sale in 2008, and 1 million iPhone 3GS units during its first weekend available in 2009.

iPhone 4 proximity sensors not functioning properly?


Another day, another problem for the iPhone 4. Today’s hot topic issue deals with its proximity sensor. According to a group of concerned iPhone owners on 9to5mac, the proximity sensor on the iPhone 4 isn’t quite sensitive enough and carriers a large potential for in-call issues. Users are reporting that the sensor has a tendency to think the phone is away from one’s face when it is in fact not. This can lead to user’s cheeks doing everything from muting calls to hitting the end button. Our devices aren’t suffering from this issue, but based upon what we’ve read there are quite a lot that are. How is your proximity sensor working out?

Are Katy Perry and Russell Brand already married?

Singer arouses suspicions with 'slip-up' on Graham Norton show

Rumours have been flying around regarding their wedding plans ever since Katy Perry and Russell Brand got engaged.

But an apparent slip up by the 25-year-old pop star may have revealed that they have already tied the knot.

During an interview on the Graham Norton show she spoke about Brand, saying: 'Life's never dull with him - that's why I married him!'


Graham and the audience gasped in shock at her statement before Katy quickly said; 'That's why I'm marrying him!'

Whilst she refused to admit any truth to her mistake, she also referred to Russell's mother Barbara as her 'mother-in-law', while Russell himself has been referring to Katy as his wife for some time.

Jerry Yan claims He is worst off of F4

Earlier, Ken Zhu wrote on his Weibo that he was a pig with no ambitions, and was asked by the ringmaster to join the circus. He even compared F4 to a circus, and said that he wasn't a greedy person, and wouldn't wish for a specific high ranking in the circus. He also believed that out of the four men, he had the worst career. Jerry Yan, in a recent interview in Mainland China, said "The one with the worst career should be me, because I was the most childish, and kept messing things up."

Before they officially started on their solo careers, there were already rumours that F4 was going to disband. After going on their separate roads, they have still kept in contact privately. Jerry supported his fellow members, feeling that Ken was a really nice person, used to taking care of others. Although Ken was younger than Jerry, Ken was like the big brother in the group, and would cook dinner for Jerry when Jerry visited his house. Jerry said, these past 10 years, his character changed the most, because he was very insolent in the past, and didn't care about other's feelings.

2NE1’s Sandara Park is a fan of Taeyang?


Now that 2NE1 is in Los Angeles, Sandara Park has been updating her me2day more frequently with all kinds of pictures for fans to enjoy.

Her latest update consists of the photo above along with the following message, “Wassup Korea?? It’s 2:30AM here ㅠ I haven’t gotten used to the time difference, so I took a nap during the day and woke up now ㅠ sob sob sob. . Wow but the song girl~ I need a girl~ is stuck in my head…the song must have eaten addictive berries or something..ke”

Nokia N9 (or rather N8-01) photos leaked – no sign of MeeGo

Some guys over at Negri Electronics claim to have some hands-on photos of the Nokia N9 – which should be the Finnish company’s first MeeGo device, and the second Nseries smartphone to run something else than Symbian (after the N900).

While the device seen in the leaked photos is most likely real, and most likely made by Nokia, the chances for it to be the N9 are really slim – because the UI that it shows off is a Symbian UI (probably Symbian^3).


This is an Nseries handset for sure – it says “model: N00”. So what device is it? Well, Eldar Murtazin says it’s probably the Nokia N8-01, so it’s just a QWERTY version of the N8 (by now, you should be familiar with Nokia’s new way of naming phones: C1-00, C1-01, C1-02 etc).

Nokia has recently announced that the N8 would be the last Nseries Symbian smartphone, so it makes a lot of sense for this device to be the N8-01 – because it’s still an N8, right?

The iPhone 4: it blends


Another Apple product launch, another episode of Will it Blend? No cheating this time as far as we can tell, but the production values have certainly gone through the roof for the inevitable iPhone 4 edition and yes, just

Kristen Stewart & Rob Pattinson "All Over Each Other"

Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson may have had separate tables at the official Eclipse afterparty downtown, but they couldn't keep their hands off each other a private bash later.

A source tells E! News that the undercover couple was "all over each other" while attending a rooftop party at the Thompson Hotel.

And we're talking full on PDA here, Twi-hards, not just hand-holding. "They were kissing, nuzzling, holding hands and embracing," the source tells us.

"He's so into her," says the insider. "The way he looks at her is so passionate."

As for K.Stew? She seemed to be loving the attention from Rob. "She was so smiley," says our source.

More platonic partygoers included Taylor Lautner and the rest of the cast, who entered the bash through the back entrance. This is the second year in a row they've celebrated at the hotel.

Lady Gaga Brings Blood to Elton John's Benefit Ball

Ouch! Did a bad romance just get a whole lot worse?

Nah, it's simply Lady Gaga being her usual Gaga self.

At the 12th annual White Tie and Tiara Ball to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation in Windor, England, Thursday night, the singer took to the stage sporting a bra, panties and fishnet stockings, assessorized with, (we assume), fake blood smeared all over her upper body.

Then again, even if it was real, would anybody be that surprised?

Hitler. iPhone 4 Antenna. You Know The Drill

It seems like everyone is up in arms about the iPhone 4 antenna issue. You know, the one Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested you fix by avoiding “holding it that way.” That “way” being the way just about everyone holds their phone. As such, it should be no surprise that Hitler is upset about this issue as well.

Michael Ingram Jr. made the excellent video below.

The choice lines in this one:

* “Even with the MicroCell we lost signal”
* “Jobs email said to hold the phone differently. Or get a case.”
* “I don’t feel like paying more money to make my $300 phone work like it should!”
* “Bumpers are multi colored and cost only $29.”
* “Multi colored? Are you serious?”
* “Damnit, how am I supposed to have an online flamewar with all those Android fanboys?”
* “MG Siegler laughed it off in his latest post talking about ‘that’s what she said’”
* “Maybe it’s time to look elsewhere. I heard those Google boys make a mean mobile OS.”

Final Fantasy V and VI Possible for 3DS

Square Enix's Shinji Hashimoto revealed several months ago that Final Fantasy V and VI had technical problems, but could the games be heading to 3DS?

The remakes for both classic SNES games have been uncertain, and by the looks of things, are still uncertain. That said, there is hope RPG fans - especially those of you who are considering 3DS. Siliconera questioned Hashimoto at E3 earlier this month into the whereabouts of both games, and whether they'd be brought to 3DS instead.

For the moment Square Enix are holding out, waiting to "see how 3DS does, how it evolves, and then make a decision."

StealthArmor Is A More Attractive "Fix" For iPhone 4 Reception Than A Bumper Case


Supposedly iPhone 4 reception issues are fixed if you just hold the device differently (uncomfortable and awkward!) or put it in a Bumper case (ugly!). This StealthArmor for the iPhone 4 might be the first attractive pseudo-solution.

StealthArmor appears to be more of a self-adhesive covering than a case, but it's supposed to keep your iPhone 4 free of scratches just the same. As it comes with side panels that prevent your fingers from coming into direct contact with the device's antennas—which is supposedly what causes the reception issues—it might also prevent your signal from dropping:

Life After Michael Jackson: The Year in News


It hardly seems like a year has passed since ambulances were called to the rented Los Angeles home of Michael Jackson, but June 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the pop star's death. He was pronounced dead at a LA hospital after suffering cardiac arrest. So much has happened during those twelve months, not the least of which is that his estate earned $783 million from album and DVD sales, his 50 percent stake in the Sony/ATV music catalog and various publishing deals. Let's take a look at what's happened in the year since his death.

Robert Pattinson's Message to Vampire-Hatin' Miley Cyrus


As you may have read here yesterday, Miley Cyrus is not a fan of blood-sucking dead people.

"I hate vampires," she recently told me.

So what do Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have to say about that? We caught up with the Twi-trio at last night's Eclipse premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival to find out…

R.Pattz says he has a simple idea to get the "Can't Be Tamed" singer to come over to the fang side. He laughed, "It's so obvious—just watch Eclipse."

Musclehead Lautner doesn't care if Cyrus is hating on vamps. "She doesn't need to like vampires," he said. "As long as she likes werewolves, we're cool."

Stewart was a bit surprised to hear Cyrus dislikes our favorite creatures of the night . "She does?" Stewart asked wide-eyed when we broke the sad news to her. "Is she scared of them or does she just not like them?"

77% of iPhone 4 buyers replacing older iPhones

Apple’s iPhone 4 launch may have been marked with even greater queues and online preorders than every before, but that may not have left them with a dramatically increased market share. According to analysts Piper Jaffray, while Apple are tipped to sell between 1m and 1.5m iPhone 4 handsets in the first three days (rival firm Oppenheimer reckon it’ll be more like 1.5m in the first day alone), 77-percent of those picking up the fourth-gen smartphone are in fact upgrading from an existing iPhone.

In fact, according to their figures – based on questioning 608 iPhone 4 buyers in San Francisco, Minneapolis and New York – only 6-percent of new iPhone 4 owners were upgrading from BlackBerry devices and 3-percent from Android handsets. Only 16-percent of buyers were switching to AT&T, versus 28-percent switching at the iPhone 3GS launch in 2009. Then, 56-percent were upgrading from an earlier iPhone, while 38-percent of iPhone 3G buyers in 2008 were upgrading from the first-gen model.

Motorola DROID X video overview


We’re still in the throes of reviewing the DROID X, however we wanted to post up a quick video showing off the hardware and several software features of the new device. If you have questions be sure to drop them in the comments. We’ll be checking in periodically and try to answer as many of them as possible. We’ve got the video below…make sure to set the resolution to 720p!

Emma Watson brings high fashion to her grungy Glastonbury style

As a seasoned red carpet veteran and model for Burberry, we're used to seeing Emma Watson looking pristine in a sleek designer dress.


But as the Harry Potter actress arrived for her first trip to the Glastonbury Festival today, she embraced a grungier new look in a bid to fit in with the crowds.

The 19-year-old appeared to have left her style credentials at home with a haphazard ensemble of a khaki-print Louis Vuitton corset, denim shorts and spiked wellies.

iPhone 4 antenna woes contextualized by dude in the know


It's the ultimate of ironies that Apple's externalized antenna array in the iPhone 4 -- hoped (and hyped up) to finally give us a phone every bit as good the rest of the device -- has become the cause of most rancor in the immediate aftermath of the handset's release. This morning you'll be rubbing both sleep and disbelief out of your eyes as you read that Apple's response to some people's reception problems with the 4 is to hold it differently. But, before we start ostracizing Apple as the singular offender here, let's hear from a man in the know.

Spencer Webb runs AntennaSys, a company that designs tailormade RF solutions, and has himself worked on making quad-band transceivers for AT&T. As he tells it, almost all phone makers have now transitioned to locating their antennae at the bottom of the phones. This has been in order to move radio wave emissions away from the head (a shortcoming that a top-mounted aerial would incur), which the FCC has been quite demanding about with its SAR standards --

The iPhone 4, however, moved the antenna action from the back of the phone to the sides. This probably improves the isotropy of the radiation pattern, but only when the phone is suspended magically in air.

HTML5 speed test finds IE9, Firefox 3.7 lead the pack in Windows, Chrome a distant last


Curious to see how the latest preview release of Internet Explorer 9 stacks up against the competition when it comes to HTML5 performance in Windows? So was Download Squad, and it's now revealed its findings in some vivid, if not entirely scientific tests. The end result is that Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 3.7 were well ahead of the pack in the 1,000-fish stress test (with Firefox about 5 or 10 percent ahead of IE), while Opera was stuck somewhere in the middle, and Chrome placed a distant last (and maxed out the CPU) -- all with hardware acceleration enabled, of course, although that had to be done via command line switches in the case of Chrome. Head on past the break to check out the four-way showdown for yourself, as well as an earlier test with just IE9 and Chrome.

Flash arrives in Google's Chrome browser

Google has fulfilled a promise to build Adobe Systems' Flash Player into Chrome, a move that helps keep the beleaguered plug-in relevant despite significant efforts to replace it.

Chrome 5.0.376.86, the stable version of Chrome released Thursday, extends the plug-in to the mainstream version of Google's browser. Previously it was only in the developer and beta releases, and because of some hiccups it was disabled for a time there.

The new version also fixes five security bugs, including one involving a cross-site scripting vulnerability that had been fixed earlier but that recurred.

Flash has been a dominant component for building the richer aspects of the Web, notably games and streaming video, and programmers have relied on it to bridge compatibility and feature differences among browsers. But browser makers have long chafed at how Flash programs could crash the browser and confuse its user interface, and long-running work to reproduce many Flash abilities in Web standards is steadily maturing.

Google is among those pushing this work, which sometimes loosely is called HTML5 but which in fact also includes Cascading Style Sheets for formatting, and JavaScript for processing, and other elements of the Hypertext Markup Language for Web pages beyond the upcoming HTML5 version.

Second Preview of Taeyang’s SOLAR album released! “SUPERSTAR”

Yesterday, Big Bang’s Taeyang released a minute long preview for the intro track for his upcoming first full length SOLAR album. Now a minute long audio preview of the second track titled SUPERSTAR has been released.


As we reported earlier, YG Entertainment plans to release minute long audio samples of Taeyang’s tracks for six days until the 30th, with the album dropping the very next day.

The beat hits hard with horns and a nice drum loop, the track is produced by YG Entertainment superstar producer and 1Tym leader Teddy. Thanks to everyone who sent this in and check out the preview below.

IRIS 2 Spin off Athena Reveals Promotional Shots

There has been feverish anticipation ever since a spin off to the hugely successful IRIS was announced for this year.


The spin off titled Athena – Goddess of War was to be produced by the same production house behind IRIS, Taewon Entertainment and boasted of an impressive cast which include Jung Woo Sung, Cha Seung Won, Soo Ae, Lee Ji Ah, Kim Min Jong and Choi Siwon.

Actress Lee Bo Young was also announced to be joining the cast but her late addition meant that she won’t make it on the first promotional posters which have been revealed on June 25th of the above-mentioned cast members.

DROID X gets disassembled, gawked at


Are you fascinated with the innards of a mobile device and dying to see what is inside of Verizon Wireless’ flagship DROID X handset? If you answered with an enthusiastic “Yes!”, then check out the disassembly video and 26 photo exposè put together by DROIDX.net. Unlike iFixit which painstakingly identifies each and every component, this disassembly is more a “How-To” guide designed to prep future DROID X owners who wish to take apart their own handset when it lands next month. Potential followers looking to tear down their DROID X should note that there is a no re-assembly guide at this time and should take heed as the phone is useless once it is broken down to its side rails and motherboard. Nonetheless if you’re interest is piqued, hit the read link to gawk at all the guts and glory of this upcoming Android handset.

Motorola's Droid X up for pre-order today at Best Buy: $200, no pesky mail-in rebates


Sweatin' those iPhone 4 reception issues? Got a thing for beastlier phones? Still perturbed that your white iPhone 4 pre-order didn't exactly "work out" as expected? If you've found yourself nodding that noggin' up and down upon reading any of the above questions, you should know that Best Buy's offering pre-sales of Motorola's forthcoming Droid X starting today. The benefit, naturally, is that you can avoid Verizon's pesky $100 mail-in rebate, paying just $199.99 (plus all applicable taxes and bribes) to BB while grabbing a coveting spot in line for the next giant Android phone. Not like you needed an excuse to take a half-day today, but hey -- at least you've now got a legitimate one.

Motorola's Droid X up for pre-order today at Best Buy: $200, no pesky mail-in rebates


Sweatin' those iPhone 4 reception issues? Got a thing for beastlier phones? Still perturbed that your white iPhone 4 pre-order didn't exactly "work out" as expected? If you've found yourself nodding that noggin' up and down upon reading any of the above questions, you should know that Best Buy's offering pre-sales of Motorola's forthcoming Droid X starting today. The benefit, naturally, is that you can avoid Verizon's pesky $100 mail-in rebate, paying just $199.99 (plus all applicable taxes and bribes) to BB while grabbing a coveting spot in line for the next giant Android phone. Not like you needed an excuse to take a half-day today, but hey -- at least you've now got a legitimate one.

iPhone 4 volume button switch-up; this is just getting silly now

Not only are you not holding it right, you might not be pressing your iPhone 4 right either. In a masterpiece of button madness, at least one new iPhone 4 handset has been found to have its volume controls swapped around: the button marked + actually reduces the volume, and vice-versa.


It seems it’s just a cosmetic issue – someone at Foxconn made a mistake with the two button caps, and accidentally fitted them the wrong way around – but given the value of mis-stamped coins and incorrectly printed stamps these dodgy iPhone 4’s could be worth a few extra dollars in years to come. Of course, someone could just as easily accuse you of following iFixit’s teardown guide and switching them yourself, so probably best to simply complain to Apple instead.

Sprint: EVO 4G users getting Android 2.2 'in the near future'


It looks like EVO 4G users will soon have one more thing to smile about, as Sprint has just announced that an Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) upgrade will indeed be coming to the "superphone."
With the Android 2.2 upgrade, customers can expect improvements to include the following benefits: updates to user interface, improved EAS Support, improved browser performance, including Flash 10x Support, voice dialing over Bluetooth and application storage on external memory.

No word on a timeframe yet, but you'll know as soon as we do -- promise.

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