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We’ll admit that we had our reservations about the Verizon Wireless Razzle. The swivel design seemed unusual and gimmicky. We weren’t sure if we liked having to swivel the phone all …

Originally posted at Dialed In Podcast

The cat may have gotten out of the bag ahead of the Windows 7 launch, but Verizon has just now gotten official with its latest subsidized netbook offerings, which include some unfortunately pricey 3G-equipped versions of HP’s Mini 311 and Mini 110. As expected, the 311 is the first one out of the gate (available right now), and packs an 11.6-inch screen, an Atom N270 backed up by NVIDIA’s ION chipset, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Windows 7 Home Premium and, last but not least, a price tag of $249.99 on contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. The Mini 110, on the other hand, kicks things back a whole generation to Windows XP and straight-up Intel internals, and will be available for $199.99 (on contract and after rebate again) sometime in mid-November — in the meantime, you can still pick up the carrier’s HP Mini 1151NR netbook while supplies last.

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More information has trickled out about the Dell’s Adamo XPS, the notebook with an eating disorder we showed you video of Thursday.

The highly abnormal machine sports some decidedly normal specs. Though nothing is official just yet, the XPS will reportedly sport either 1.4 or 1….

Mom / wife / building superintendent still won’t let you get a drum set, huh? Well, you can show them, you can show them all with the new iGOG VelAUcity app, which for a mere $5 lets you do velocity-sensitive drumming on the iPhone. It works pretty great, too… to an extent. The technology appears to be based on the iPhone’s built-in mic (VelAUcity doesn’t work on an iPod touch), and the app recommends you use it with headphones, but not a headset with its own built-in mic, which would gum things up. In practice the drumming is really great, with multiple hit points on the drum pads and pretty good velocity sensitivity (for an iPhone app), but there are plenty of mic-introduced foibles like the potential for feedback or stray noises messing things up — you basically would have trouble using this in a live application, though there are plenty of sliders so you can tweak things and give it a shot. Our favorite part perhaps is the mic trigger mode, which lets you do your fake drumming next to the iPhone, adding a whole new level of fake realness. Our least favorite part was the crashiness and the buginess — part of which might’ve be blamed on our speed-strapped 3G. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Video demonstrations are after the break.

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iGOG VelAUcity brings velocity-sensitive drums to your humble iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple’s new iMac all-in-one desktops impressed us, especially the massive 27-inch model we reviewed this week. But we’re left wondering what happened to the rumored Blu-ray drive option. Playing HD optical disc content on that big 2,560×1,440 screen seems like a no-brainer, so …

Originally posted at Digital City Podcast