On this week’s installment of the Digital City podcast, we discuss Steve Jobs’ health problems, CES highlights, airplanes with Wi-Fi, and which video game console is selling the best. Plus, a special remembrance of The Prisoner.
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CES 2009 may be over and done with, but we’ll be feeling the ramifications of it for months to come. For those not watching for every last announcement from the show, you may be surprised to find that dozens upon dozens of new HDTVs were introduced, with many of them slated to start shipping this Spring / Summer. Engadget HD has hosted up a thorough mega-guide to showcase what sets made their debut in Vegas this month, complete with links to more information as well as release windows and pricing where available. If you’re even remotely considering a new set this year, you owe it to yourself to give this one a look. Head on over, won’t you?
Filed under: CES, Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
CES 2009 HDTV mega-guide originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Here’s a fun little tidbit from today’s inauguration: Malia Obama’s camera of choice is the Kodak EasyShare M893.
A Kodak spokeswoman spotted a photo of Malia taking pictures of her father’s speech and confirmed the camera was the M893 ($150). I haven’t used one myself, but it doesn’t look too shabby: 8.1 megapixels, automatic face detection technology and an overall four-star user rating (out of five) on Kodak’s web site.
Have one of your own? Now’s the time to brag.
See Also:
Product Page [Kodak] (Thanks, Marisa!)
Sony just dropped some details on its upcoming 2.60 firmware update for the PS3. The big thrust of the update is a new Photo Gallery app, which can sort by various EXIF data, but also the actual content of the image itself, including colors used, number of people in the photo, how old they are, and facial expressions they used when you pulled out your powdered-blue Kodak to take a few historical snapshots. Naturally you can build slideshows with music and the like. Sony’s also adding with this update guest access to the PlayStation Store and DivX 3.11 support. If that’s not enough magic to get you riled up, Sony’s also pushing out a PSP update, firmware 5.03 that addresses “security vulnerabilities” (we wonder what that could be?) and some stability issues. There’s a video walkthrough of the PS3 update after the break.
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Continue reading Sony ushers in change, hope with upcoming PS3 2.60 firmware update
Filed under: Gaming
Sony ushers in change, hope with upcoming PS3 2.60 firmware update originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Celebrate Inauguration Day by helping the economy. And you don’t have to spend a fortune to do so: Check out Gearlog’s deals for Tuesday:
1. TimBuk2 is having one-day sales through Friday. Today’s sale is on the laptop messenger bag with Hemp/PET fabric. Originally $165, the bag is on sale for $82.
2. Let your inner child come out with Excalibur Electronics Micro Zoomers. Yes, toy cars. It’s Two-for-Tuesday at Woot, so get two R/C cars. Choose from a blue or red Mini Cooper, a Pajero Rally, or a silver or black BMW X5, for $12.99.
3. Save 65 percent off the Band of Brothers Blu-ray set from Amazon. Normally $99.98, get the set for just $34.99. The sale ends today, so hurry!
Half a year ago, Motorola was still clinging tight to the number three spot in terms of worldwide handset shipments, but boy — what a difference six months makes. According to numbers compiled by DigiTimes, LG Electronics managed to ship just over 100 million mobile phones in 2008, while Moto checked in with “just” 99.9 million shipped. That makes LG the third largest handset maker in terms of shipments, barely beating out Moto and Sony Ericsson who placed fourth and fifth, respectively. As expected, Nokia and Samsung are still holding down the top two spots, but it’s the continued slippage of Motorola that’s most significant here. You know what they say about being on rock bottom, right? We bet Motorola’s wondering if that mantra applies here.
[Via phonescoop]
Filed under: Cellphones
LG overtakes Motorola for third place in global handset shipments originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading HP Mini 2140 “business” netbook now available
Filed under: Laptops
HP Mini 2140 “business” netbook now available originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A new application enables iPhone owners to view a live stream of today’s presidential inauguration on their handsets.
Ustream, a free application available through the iPhone App Store,
allows users to select live streams from various news
outlets such as CNN.
With a few minutes to spare before the inauguration, I gave Ustream a
test run on my iPhone. On a Wi-Fi connection the app
works great; you can even watch the streams in landscape mode. However, the playback shuts down when
viewing streams on the EDGE or 3G network.
Download Link [iTunes]
Don’t bet the farm on it just yet, but given the FCC filing that outed these sets at the tail end of December, we’d say it’s safe to assume that the panel you see above (and after the break) will be headed to America in short order. Made official today in South Korea, LG’s Xcanvas 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D plasmas sport a sleeker, more fully integrated design that conceals the speakers within the border. The TV itself also detects ambient light and automatically adjusts brightness in order to conserve energy, and the built-in USB port enables portable media to be loaded on for all to see. Few other details about the pair are being released, but you can expect ’em on sale halfway across the world in around three weeks for $1,460 / $1,022, respectively.
[Via Slashgear]
Continue reading LG gets official with 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D Xcanvas plasmas in Korea
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
LG gets official with 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D Xcanvas plasmas in Korea originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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After resting up and settling into our post-CES golden desk chairs, team Engadget got busy at installing Windows 7 on pretty much anything they could find. Most installs went off without a hitch, and BSoDs were fairly few and far between. You can check out all our various first impressions after the break… the names aren’t made up, but the stories are true.
Continue reading Windows 7 install roundup
Windows 7 install roundup originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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