BlueAnt S1
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Buttons on the BlueAnt S1
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BlueAnt introduced a new visor-mount speakerphone at CTIA 2009, called the BlueAnt S1. Designed to work in the car, it has pretty much the same features as the Supertooth 3, except it has support for …
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We couldn’t get the thing to turn on — prototype buffoonery, zapped battery, or a classic case of trade show jitters, we figure — but Inventec’s curious V112 was on display inside Qualcomm’s booth at CTIA. Why Qualcomm, you ask? Well, Qualcomm owns Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, which has been pushing its mirasol display tech for several years now; the main draw is that it’s super high-contrast which eliminates the need for a backlight in many situations where a traditional LCD would need a little help, and the WinMo-powered V112 uses a small mirasol strip as a secondary display surrounded by nav controls. Even though we weren’t getting any Windows Mobile action, we did manage to engage the mirasol display (also known as “the cool part”) where we saw an example of what the V112 might be able to do without turning on the battery-destroying LCD up top: show basic status information and the current time. It’s a good idea; we’re not sure that the V112’s implementation is perfect since there’s zero tactility to the d-pad, but you’ve got to start somewhere, and mirasol could use as many commercial implementations as it can get.
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Inventec’s mirasol-equipped V112 smartphone goes on display originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Meet the British Steam Car, which looks a bit like the love child of the Batmobile and an F-15 fighter jet. The goal for this sleek, modern-day automotive design is to break the 127 mph land speed record set by a Stanley Steamer in 1906.
The vehicle, which uses superheated …
(Credit: Matt Hickey)Earlier Friday, we brought you news that AT&T had made some fairly narrowing changes to its terms-of-use policies for wireless data. One such change would prohibit users from watching non-AT&T video services, such as Hulu, on their AT&T devices. Users around the Internet, of …
It certainly seemed like Ugobe was dead-forever a few days ago when we noted that the company’s website was seemingly gone and no one was answering the phones, but it’s apparently not all bad: the site’s back up, and CEO Caleb Chung told the Idaho Business Review today that the company will respond in an “organized way” with a press release coming in the “next few weeks.” Uh, okay, but that isn’t going to distract anyone from the half-million lawsuit just filed that alleges Pleo and Co. are in breach of contract for failure to pay supplier Arrow Electronics. We’ll see how it plays out — something tells us Pleo’s gonna have a hard time dodging this meteor.
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Pleo-maker Ugobe not totally dead, not totally okay originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Not too long ago, we told you about modder Eddie Zarick, who turned his MacBook logo into a psychedelic LCD display.
The LCD giving the logo its psychedelic flair is fitted inside the lid of the MacBook with tape.
(Credit: Eddie Zarick)
The modification video, which as of this writing …
In this week’s sensuous episode of the Gadget Lab podcast (#69), we highlight the exciting opportunity to get free iTunes video lessons on developing iPhone applications, courtesy of Stanford and Apple.
We segue into the not-so-exciting product announcements at this week’s CTIA wireless convention in Las Vegas. No — Danny still wasn’t allowed to touch the Palm Pre. But he did get to check out the Magic, HTC’s second handset to run the Google Android operating system.
Then we stray out of the gadget universe to talk about the "finer things in life" — specifically, tea, which seems to be a new fad among geeks who are as obsessed with having energetic bodies as they are with fast computers. (Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss are, at least.)
This week’s podcast features Danny Dumas, Brian Chen and editorial assistant Maren Jinnett, with audio engineering by Fernando Cardoso.
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(Credit: Think Geek)That tauntaun sleeping bag that was all over the Internet on April Fools’ Day just might go from being a geek dad’s dream to being a real product. Think Geek has updated the fake product listing page with this information:
ATTN Tauntaun Fanatics! Due to an …
LG Prada 2 with slide-out QWERTY keyboard
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The LG Prada 2 isn’t new of course, and our European and Asian cousins have had the chance to get their hands on it months ago. In fact, our friends over at CNET UK have given their own hands-on impressions …
Originally posted at CTIA show
Looks like the uproar over AT&T’s recently-tweaked wireless terms of service banning video streaming and p2p activity caused some hasty rethinking in Dallas — the company just sent us this statement:
The language added on March 30 to AT&T’s wireless data service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It was brought to our attention and we have since removed it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Well, that settles that, at least for now — high fives all around, Internet friends.
Filed under: Cellphones
AT&T retracts new terms of service, apologizes originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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