T-Mobile MyTouch 3G
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Just a couple of weeks after Google released its Android 1.6 SDK to developers, T-Mobile began its official roll out of Android 1.6 (aka Donut) to T-Mobile G1 and T-Mobile MyTouch 3G owners on Thursday.
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Originally posted at Android Atlas
There she is. 20 months and 1 day after its original introduction to the world, the Garmin-Asus nüvifone G60 is at long last in our (admittedly sweaty) palms. The highfalutin’ smartphone isn’t slated to hit AT&T shelves until this Sunday, but we were able to wrangle a retail unit early in order to bring you a sneak peek at what’s to come. Frankly, we’ve been looking forward to this day for a long (long!) time. We’ve got a soft spot in our hearts for the Garmin navigation UI, and we have to say, that very same look and feel has been beautifully migrated to the mobile space. Upon unwrapping the phone, we were struck by just how classy the whole thing looks. It’s plenty thin for being a GPS-turned-phone, light enough to not weigh you down and sturdy enough to somewhat justify the $299 (on contract) price. We did some brief browsing around, and everything felt satisfactorily snappy. The resistive touchscreen had some expected give, but by and large screen presses did exactly what we wanted ’em to in our limited testing. We’re aiming to give this bad boy a serious critiquing over the next few days, but for now, feel free to peruse the absurdly detailed gallery below.
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Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 unboxing and hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
(Credit: CopyRanter)We’re very proud and excited to welcome Beck’s Beer back as our official show sponsor for the month of October, as you can see by the advertisement over yonder. You know what that means, right? All month long we’ll be bringing back the Semi-Weekly Audio Draft Pick, sponsored by Beck’s Beer in conjunction with Last.fm. That’s a lot to say, so if you can think of a better title for the segment (maybe even a funny acronym involving beer), shoot us a line at the404(at)cnet[dot]com. Just like in July, we’ll be introducing you to some of our favorite musicians and playing their music on the show every Tuesday and Friday for the next month, so be excited, and if you have any suggestions, well, tweet us.
OMGWTFBBQ! The Robsham Theater Arts Center from Boston College is putting on a musical comedy inspired by songs by our buddy Jonathan Coulton! If you didn’t hear his live performance the last time he was on The 404, go check it out and get ready for some musical theater. Luke Jorgenson, the associate theater professor at BC, was “taken by Coulton’s satire of office life and technology,” which inspired him to produce the script. We’re very psyched for Jonathan. Congrats, buddy!
Next up in the news, we’ve got a few iffy Sony PS3 ads to show you guys. The first one is a picture of a stereotypical gamer giving a blood transfusion to someone that looks a lot like Erwin Rommel, aka “The Desert Fox” and a German General in World War II. The other one features the same gamer, but this time he’s giving his heart to Joan of Arc. Like, literally giving his heart in a celebratory transplant. Yikes, Sony–what message are you guys trying to convey here?
Next, we play a brief PSA video to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a subject that is very dear to our hearts. The video is played in jest, and of course we have to make a few jokes about the steamy subject matter, but Breast Cancer itself is very real, so all month we’ll be supporting the cause.
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Astak — the company looking to give Amazon’s Kindle a ‘run for its money’ — gave us a little bit of a shock when it unveiled its attractive 5-inch EZ Reader Pocket PRO back in August. At the time, the company said that the units would be shipping by the end of September, and, lo and behold, they’re now shipping from Newegg. The Reader features a 400MHz CPU, 512MB of memory, an SD card slot, an 8-level grayscale E-ink screen, a replaceable battery good for 8,000 page turns per charge plus MP3 player that can operate in the background, and it’ll run you $250 if you want to get in on the e-reader action.
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Astak’s 5-inch EZ Reader now shipping from Newegg originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Times Online: Would you want a bath in the beedroom? Mark Macauley, a documentary-maker from London, did. His three-bedroom flat in South Kensington has an elegant drawing room with the original 1890s shutters and stained-glass windows in the dining room, but the most eye-catching feature is undoubtedly the handmade £5,200 copper-clad bath that takes centre stage in the master bedroom.
The inspiration was not just the colonial splendour of African safari lodges that Macauley, 53, has visited over the years, but also Babington House hotel in Somerset, where three of the 32 rooms have baths by the beds and Room Six — Madonna’s favourite — has one on the balcony.
Chris Sanderson, a director at the Future Laboratory, a trend-forecasting consultancy, says people increasingly want their own homes to be like the hotels where they stayed on holiday — especially the bathrooms. “It has made us realise they didn’t have to be poky places where we knocked our elbows against a mouldy shower door,” he says. “We now want wet rooms, scented candles and shelves full of gorgeous bath products.” If anything, he says, the practice appears to have increased during the recession.
At least someone is (seemingly) listening to our Blu-ray gripes. /Film hit a Fox hosted press summit and heard exactly the things we’ve been waiting to hear: a future where “advanced” Blu-ray players can do what DVD players have done for years: automatically resume play where we left off on all players, dramatically reduced load times and a live demo of the IMDB Live Lookup feature available on the Wolverine release. The company has nabbed a researcher from Panasonic, Joe McCrossan, who is heading up the efforts to improve viewer’s experience and tossing around long promised buzzwords like iPhone connectivity and Digital Copy along with the previously mentioned features under development — if he succeeds on making them reality we’ll rename an Engadget editor Joe in his honor, and it might not even be the one already named Joe.
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Fox dreaming of a future where Blu-ray movies load faster, are judged by the content of their character(s) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Ooma Telo costs $249.99 for the hub (right) and $49.99 for the handset, which will be available in November.
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You probably don’t remember it, but way back in January, at CES, a little company called Ooma unveiled its next-generation phone system, the Telo, which combines DECT 6.0 cordless-phone technology with Internet-based (VoIP) calling. Well, after nearly 10 months of waiting, the Telo is finally landing in stores and is available for $249.99.
Ooma’s claim to fame is that it sells VoIP phone systems that let you make free domestic U.S. calls and low-priced international calls. To help drive home the point that you don’t have to pay for phone service, Amazon labeled Ooma’s first product, which remains on sale, the Ooma Core VoIP Phone System with No Monthly Phone Service Bills.
Once you shell out the $250 for the Telo, you can make unlimited domestic calls for free, and such features as caller ID and access to online call logs are included at no additional charge. If you want to port your existing number, that will cost you $39.99, but if you want a brand-new number, you don’t have to pay anything.
From a design standpoint, the Telo is sexier-looking than its predecessor and more importantly, improves on the feature set, as well as on the call quality. …
Let’s say you have a monumental collection of data at your place. Like, say, everything ever posted to the Pirate Bay. And let’s say the Feds are beating down your door and you need to dump that data to a secure off-site storage facility right now. Who do you call? A lawyer, of course, because currently there’s no practical way to do such a thing. But, in the not too distant future you might call up Bell Labs, a company whose scientists managed a monumental 100 Petabits per second per kilometer transmission rate using 155 lasers at different optical frequencies. If you take distance out of the equation you’re looking at 15.5 Terabits per second, more than ten times faster than the last laser transmission test we reported on. Naturally, this was conducted in conditions that don’t quite equate to the real world at large, and it’s going to be a long time before we have fiber pipes like that beaming data into our homes. So, hands up chum, and make that one call count.
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Bell Labs uses 155 lasers to beam ridiculous amounts of data over 7,000 kilometers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The success of the Halo franchise has been incredible. So much so, it was only a matter of time before we’d see a movie. Microsoft plans on releasing a seven-part series spanning from its origins to the game’s third installment, titled Halo Legends.
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Originally posted at Digital City Podcast
Gateway and Verizon Wireless are teaming up to release a new netbook equipped with Verizon’s 3G mobile broadband service.
The Gateway LT2016u will be available starting October 4 on verizonwireless.com and in Verizon stores. The device is available in “night sky black” and will connect to the Web via Verizon’s 3G network.
The netbook will retail for $149.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate, which will be sent out in the form of a debit card. Customers will also have to sign up for a two-year Verizon mobile broadband contract. Options include 250MB of monthly access plus 10 cents per megabyte overage for $39.99 per month or 5GB plus 5 cents per megabyte overage for $59.99 per month.
The LT2016u features a 10.1-inch, high-definition WSVGA LED, a 6-cell battery that Verizon says will provide up to six hours of battery life, an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of memory, 160GB of hard drive space, and a digital media card reader.
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