LG enV Touch spotted on Best Buy's online store
(Credit: Best Buy online store / Screenshot by Nicole Lee)
An eagle eye reader has spotted the LG enV Touch available for sale on Best Buy for a whopping $599.99. This is much more than the anticipated $219.99 …
Our initial experience with Windows 7’s multitouch was decidedly less than stellar, but it looks like Microsoft’s taking the initiative to ramp up the usability with the newly-unveiled Touch Pack. It’s a software suite consisting of three games and three Surface apps, including a a globe you can pinch and twist around, the ever-popular surface collage for images, and and a zen-inspired lagoon screensaver. OEMs making touchscreen-capable Windows 7 rigs are being offered the pack to use as a pre-installed option, so look for these to arrive around the same time as the new OS, which should be sometime this holiday season. In the meantime, GottaBeMobile’s gotten their hands on the app collection early, and you can view their efforts in the video after the break.
Read – Windows 7 Team Blog
Read – GottaBeMobile’s hands-on
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Microsoft Touch Pack brings Surface experience to Windows 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 20:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Immersion (known for creative input experiences) demoed a fairly interesting new haptic experiment its working on dubbed TouchSense — a virtual, iPhone-like keyboard that not only responds with sound and vibration, but some kind of feedback that recreates the feeling of actually moving your fingers across a keyboard. Details were scarce on the technology used, but during the demo at D7 the company showed off multitouch typing, and a new form of feedback which seems to create the sensation that there is a physical keyboard beneath your fingers. The functionality sounds eerily similar to the Haptikos technology that Nokia showed off way back in 2007. We’re working on more details, but for now, feast your eyes on the pics in the gallery below.
Update: Press release after the break.
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Immersion demos new TouchSense multitouch, haptic keyboard at D7 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 20:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The Guitar Hero franchise has traditionally seen flagship installments launch right around Halloween in the U.S., with Guitar Hero III and World Tour coming in about a week before and Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II about a week after. Such will not be the case with Guitar Hero …
Intel’s Core i7 has become somewhat of a mainstay in the most recent wave of gaming rigs, but it’s been quite awhile (in processor years, anyway) since we’ve seen any new siblings join the launch gang. We’d heard faint whispers that a new crew was set to steal the stage on May 31st, and those rumors are looking all the more likely now that a few heretofore unheard of chips have appeared online. The 3.06GHz Core i7 950 is shown over at PCs For Everyone with 8MB of shared L3 cache and a $649 price tag, and it’s expected that said chip will replace the aging Core i7 940. Moving on up, there’s the luscious 3.33GHz Core i7 Extreme 975, which is also listed with 8MB of shared L3 cache but packs a staggering price tag well above the $1,100 mark. If all this pans out, this CPU will replace the Core i7 Extreme 965 as Intel fastest Core i7 product. Just a few more days to wait, right?
[Via PCWorld]
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New Intel Core i7 CPUs show up unannounced originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 20:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Wholesaler China Ontrade.com has posted parts from the next-generation iPhone 3G 2009: The LCD screen and the middle internal bezel. They even have pictures comparing the new parts to the old ones:
The wholesaler says the following in their site:
This is great honor for China Ontrade (HK) chinaontrade.com to be the 1st started to supply iphone 3gen 2009 parts directly from factory
It looks like the web site and the new parts are legit, but who knows. They also sell every single spare iPhone 3G part you can imagine—as well as original factory parts for Blackberry, Nokia, LG, HTC, MacBooks, and even Nintendo. They claim the new iPhone 3G 2009 parts will ship “within 5 to 12 working days.”
As expected, there is no OLED screen in sight. Unless they have another product using the OLED, which I highly doubt. [Chinaontrade via iPhone-Ticker]
The big surprise at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco on Wednesday? Not Google’s push for HTML 5.0, but the fact that the company gave out over 4,000 HTC Magic phones (AKA the “G2”) to every conference attendee.
In doing so, Google also allowed us to clear up some questions concerning the 1.5 “Cupcake” release and the HTC Magic, as well. But some others remain unanswered, such as the carrier (if there is one) and the price of the phone. Google gave them out to seed the Android operating system, and not the hardware.
Sascha Segan was given some hands-on time with a Cupcake-enabled Magic at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, where he was assured that its 3G radio absolutely does not work in North America.
Given that the phone came with a one-month SIM card from T-Mobile good for one month of unlimited voice calls and data, I can assure you that the phone does indeed place calls, and it’s a good bet that T-Mobile will in fact be supporting the phone. It’s not a sure thing, but as Sascha notes, there’s now enough data points to suspect a conspiracy.
Incidentally, Eric Chu, Google’s mobile program manager, claimed that “we expect that by the end of the year many of the major carriers around the world will be deploying Android devices”.
If you’re interested, the official specs of the HTC Magic are here. A quick recap: the phone uses a a 3.2-inch, 320×480 touchscreen, and includes GPS, 3G, and Wi-Fi. The box also includes stereo headphones (the phone supports stereo Bluetooth, as well) as well as an audio headset. Both the headset and headphones use a miniUSB connection, however.
You’re probably wondering what’s been happening with that super thin, super sexy Plastic Logic e-book reader that we’ve seen floating around various tradeshows. Well, the device has landed at D7, and it’s got a few new features cooked up — most notably, built-in 3G data. There’s no specifics on what carriers or bands, but besides that WiFi connectivity, you’ll be able to go totally nuts out in the real world. Additionally, it looks like the company has seriously tweaked the UI, now providing a simple and clear interface for getting around your documents, and a page-turning gesture (don’t mind the green tint in the pic above, the screen is still very much grayscale). The slate is definitely lust-worthy, but we noted a fairly slow screen refresh (way slower than the Kindle), which is kind of a downer — along with that fairly distant 2010 launch date. Plastic Logic also made an appearance on Fox Business News today, and the video is embedded after the break.
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Plastic Logic e-book reader: now with 3G originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
It’s never dull in cell phone land, and this week is no exception. As we gear up for the June 6 release of the Palm Pre and the start of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, there is much more to talk about.
Bonnie, for one, has amassed a roundup
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Originally posted at Dialed In Podcast
Palm’s official Twitter account just tweeted about testing out yfrog, the image / video sharing site — and as you might expect from a manufacturer, it wants to share pictures snapped with its own equipment. Thanks to some helpful EXIF data parsed out by the site, we know the image you’re looking at here was taken using a Pre, apparently smack in the middle of enjoying a few 5-cent horsey rides. As far as we can tell this is the first shot we’ve seen posted from the Pre’s camera, and we’re cautiously optimistic about what the 3 megapixel sensor has managed to do here. Sure, blowing the image up to full size reveals some nasty artifacting and muddy details, but when you get right down to it, that’s what cameraphone shots are all about, right?
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Palm Pre camera used, results shared at long last originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 18:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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