Hasta La Gadget!

First Toshiba caved on Blu-ray for the home, and now they’re taking the sad show portable. The once-great defender of the HD-DVD crown has begun adopting the format for its laptops, bringing the discs to the P500 (a member of the Satellite family). The system — which was released originally in June sans Blu-ray — sports an 18.4 inch (1920 x 1080) display, HDMI REGZA link, a Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, and a slew of the standard ports and wireless radios. The laptop will be available in October, irony comes standard on all models. [Warning: read link is a PDF]

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Filed under: Laptops

Toshiba adopts Blu-ray for laptops, completes shame circle originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Though unlocked phones offer you the freedom of switching carriers on a whim, they can require a bit of tinkering before you can roam around the world. In most cases, you’ll have to program the phone with the necessary multimedia settings to browse the Internet and send an e-mail …

Originally posted at Dialed In Podcast

AT&T has just announced that MMS — a much-ballyhooed feature of iPhone OS 3.0 — will finally be hitting AT&T on September 25. There’s still no date for tethering, though the company is holding the line that it’ll be offered “in the future.” Expanding on the logic behind the tethering delay, they’re saying that “by its nature, this function could exponentially increase traffic on the network, and we need to ensure that some of our current upgrades are in place before we can deliver the expanded functionality with the excellent performance that customers expect.” We’re no network engineers, but “exponentially increase traffic” and “AT&T” are two things we don’t typically like to hear in the same sentence — let’s hope the 850MHz, 7.2Mbps, and backhaul upgrades they’re cranking on right now go a long way toward sorting that out. As for MMS, they’re acknowledging that the release “does indeed fall a few days past the official end of summer,” arguing that their support of more iPhone customers than any other carrier in the world made a positive launch experience a bit of a challenge. Of course, virtually every other phone AT&T sells (and has sold for the past several years) supports the same tech, so this feels like a pretty active admission that iPhone users blaze through data-rich features at a pace that the carrier has been ill-equipped to handle.

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AT&T rolling out MMS to iPhone on September 25, tethering ‘in the future’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MMS finally arrives on the iPhone.

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Congratulations, iPhone, you can finally join the cell phone family. AT&T announced Thursday that the long-awaited multimedia messaging would arrive on Apple’s device in the United States starting September 25. The iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G will support …

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

In the great scheme of Apple rumors, this ranks just below new colors for the iPod Shuffle. At next week’s announcement, amongst all the talk of new iPods, iTunes, and the Beatles catalog, word is that the company is getting set to release pre-made ringtones. This might be exciting were it not so easy to turn songs into ringtones via the iPhone.

Still, Apple has reportedly been in talks with major labels about releasing snippets for download on iTunes, presumably for the extremely lazy. No word on pricing, save for talk that they’ll go for “far less than $3.”