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Although none too surprising, it looks like Microsoft’s gearing up to release at least one new Zune model this year, according to company man Brian Seitz via his Twitter account. Of course, with Ballmer telling an audience last month they’re “sustaining our investment” on the product, we’re gonna temper our excitement a bit until Redmond shows off the goods, which hopefully won’t be long now that the PMP cat’s out of the bag.

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Microsoft: New Zune hardware coming this year originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re beginning to think there really is no number too high for the megazoom focal length. Back in the day, just boasting a 10x zoomer was enough to fall into said category; today, you best top 20x if you even want into the discussion. Olympus’ 26x SP-590UZ is definitely amongst the craziest out there, sporting a 12 megapixel sensor, 2.7-inch LCD and a launch price of just under $450. Reviewers over at PhotographyBLOG were duly impressed across the board, with a certain critic noting that “the ability to go from capturing wide-angle landscapes to distant details in a four second zoom of the lens cannot be underestimated, especially as there’s little distortion to worry about at either end and excellent sharpness across its entire range.” Not surprisingly, the cam notched a “Highly Recommended” badge along with 4.5 out of 5 overall stars — that said, are you really willing to buy in knowing a 58.983x successor is just around the bend?

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Olympus SP-590UZ (and its 26x zoomer) gets reviewed originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gigabyte’s T1028 TouchNote has been cooking on the back burner for weeks now. After we first spotted it lookin’ pretty at CeBIT, the tablet / netbook hybrid has since landed in the FCC’s database and has now shown up officially on the company’s website. The formal specifications list explains that the 10.1-inch machine will boast a swiveling touch panel (LED-backlit), a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 92 percent full-sized keyboard, embedded HSDPA module, a 2.5-inch 160GB SATA HDD, Bluetooth 2.1, 1.3 megapixel camera, Ethernet, 4-cell battery, WiFi and twin 1.5-watt speakers. Optional equipment includes an Atom N280 CPU, WiMAX module, 1,366 x 768 resolution panel (at least according to the user manual) and a more longevous a 6-cell Li-ion. Now, give us a price and ship date and we’ll be pleased as punch.

[Via Slashgear, thanks Chris]

Read – T1028 product page
Read – T1028 user manual

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs

Gigabyte posts T1028 TouchNote product page, user manual originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 21, 2006 by CyberNet.

For those of you who do a lot of work on eBay, then you probably use TurboLister in order to minimize the amount of time it takes to design a listing. Our company is a pure eBay company (all of our sales come from eBay) and we use TurboLister day in and day out. We use it so much that when there was all of the excitement about Internet Explorer Beta 1 being released, I wasn’t able to give it a shot because TurboLister would crash. This is because TurboLister is based off of IE and apparently Microsoft must have changed something and TurboLister didn’t like it.

Whatever the problem was, it is now gone! I am using Internet Explorer Beta 2 Preview Build 5299 and it is running flawlessly. I still use Internet Explorer minimally because of the enormous selection of extensions for Firefox. Also, one of the features I use the most in Firefox cannot be found in IE: Find As You Type! It is such a basic feature but I can’t live without it! Overall, the IE7 is a big improvement over any other version of IE in the past.

If you are interested in trying out the new Internet Explorer, head over to my post with the instructions to download Internet Explorer Beta 2 Preview Build 5299.

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We hadn’t necessarily taken the Pre crowd as the attention-span-of-a-gnat sort, but in case our psychology is dead off, Sprint has formulated a truly mind-blowing 60 seconds of video that runs down a series of meaningless stats — the number of emails just sent containing “miracle banana diet,” for example — and ties it all together neatly at the end as a plug for the carrier’s 3G and 4G networks. Perhaps more importantly, the Pre makes two brief appearances in the ad — but if you’re looking to take your visual overload to the next level, you can have a peep at Sprint’s updated “Plug into Now” site, which blasts you with a seemingly endless series of widgets that keep you abreast of stats like the number of lung transplants that occurred today, the number of shopping days until Christmas, and the current national debt. Clicking on the Pre takes you to a dedicated series of Pre widgets complete with a spinning Pre — nothing new, really, but if you simply must have fast access to Pre mentions on Twitter, this might just be your dream come true. Follow the break for Sprint’s ad, but make sure you’re not too amped on caffeine first.

[Via PreCentral, thanks James]

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Sprint goes a little crazy with new Pre advertising originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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