Hasta La Gadget!

Touch, it’s the panacea of e-book readers, right? Sure, just so long as readability isn’t sacrificed in the process. Flickr user Doodlydood uploaded some pics and video of Sony’s new $300 PRS-600 (on the left above) reader and did a quick comparison with his legacy PRS-505. Unfortunately, the glare from the plastic resistive touchscreen is an issue and the weak contrast, like the touchscreen PRS-700 before it, pales by comparison to Sony’s two year old PRS-505 with glass display. On the flip side, page turns on the new 600 were fast and “work extremely well” compared to the PRS-505. Unfortunately, that’s a minor victory when the whole purpose of an e-reader it to well, you know… read. See for yourselves in the videos after the break.

[Via Lesen.net, thanks Johannes]

Continue reading Video: Sony PRS-600 Touch is fast but too dim to satisfy PRS-505 owner

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Video: Sony PRS-600 Touch is fast but too dim to satisfy PRS-505 owner originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With the 2 Vision’s price and spec recently emerging, all that was missing were some “real life” shots of the player without studio lighting and professional makeup. Archos Lounge has gone and filled that gap, with the added bonus of some 3 Vision and Clipper sightings. Disappointingly, whereas the touch-sensitive horizontal slider originally looked to have been bracketed by buttons sitting flush with the case, in reality those are of the bumpy, cheap looking variety. We can take no umbrage with the thin casing though, as it looks just as skinny as we were led to believe. Hit up the read link to explore the player for yourself, or slide past the break to see it side by side with the 3 Vision.

[Via CrunchGear]

Continue reading Archos 2 Vision, 3 Vision and Clipper spotted in French wilderness

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Archos 2 Vision, 3 Vision and Clipper spotted in French wilderness originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With an “NVIDIA chipset” (presumably, Tegra) underpinning the new YP-M1 media player, Samsung’s got plenty of horsepower to drive its customizable TouchWiz UI across that 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen sporting 480×272 pixels. It’s not ZuneHD-sexy but it’s not bad. Unfortunately, not bad’s not good enough in a waning market for dedicated media players lacking voice and data radios, WiFi, or a web browser. But if you run, run, as fast you can… after the break you’ll catch the Gingerbread Man.

Update: Mike Rayfield, the general manager of NVIDIA’s mobile business unit, confirms the M1 is Tegra-based.

Continue reading Video: Samsung’s YP-M1 TouchWiz interface given a sideways glance

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Video: Samsung’s YP-M1 TouchWiz interface given a sideways glance originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Admittedly, when we saw Game Informer’s survey that pegged Xbox 360’s failure rate at 54.2 percent, we were thinking that was a bit steep of a number, possibly bumped up a few digits from some possible sampling errors. So when we were gearing up to read Microsoft’s statement responding to the data, we fully expected some harsh rebuttal of the number. Turns out we got disappointed. A spokesperson for Redmond pointed to its superior entertainment value, its “best warranty in the industry” and its “constantly improving design, manufacture, and performance.” At no point is there a dispute or even direct reference to the findings, which is really something that could’ve helped public perception on a nagging issue. How about taking a page from Fujifilm, eh Microsoft?

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Microsoft responds to Xbox 360 54.2 percent failure rate report, doesn’t dispute the data originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on June 02, 2009 by CyberNet.

I’ve been playing with Microsoft’s Bing search engine over the last day to see how it stacks up to the others. The thing I always find when trying out a new search engine is that it’s so hard to find what I’m looking for because I’ve grown accustomed to formulating Google queries just right.

There’s one thing that I really like with Bing though, and it’s the image search capabilities. I remember trying out the image search feature on Live a few months ago, and it just didn’t stack up to the results Google Images returned. They must have tweaked their algorithm though, because now the results are excellent. Take a look at what I got searching for “Google Chrome logo” on both Bing and Google’s own site:

Bing image results for “Google Chrome logo”

Google image results for “Google Chrome logo”

Bing displayed a lot more of what I was looking for, and I like the interface for filtering results a lot more than what Google offers. There were definitely a lot of design considerations taken into account with this…

For starters you can view image results in several different layouts/sizes. The page also lacks a “next” button… because it doesn’t need one! As you continue to scroll down the page more results will automatically be loaded so that you’re not bothered with shuffling through multiple pages of results.

And when you get to an image you want to see? Click on it, and instead of opening the site in a new window it opens it in a frame on the search results page. Not only that, but the left sidebar turns into a scrolling list of the image results so that you can shuffle from one result to the next without ever having to go back:

All of these things might not be that big of a deal for some of you, but I search for images all of the time. Features like these can save me a good amount of time, and I have a feeling I’ll be using Bing for all of my image search needs from here on out. I just wish their web results were more like what I see on Google, but I’ll take what I can get.

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