Jan 04

iLuv App Station speaker dock rolls with its own Alarm Clock App

Posted in: ipod dock, IpodDock, speaker, Today's Chili

It’s CES again kids and that means it’s time to pump out as many iPod / iPhone peripherals as possible. Most are lame reworks of designs we’ve seen over and over and over again. iLuv’s App Station, however, is a refreshing update that combines a few old designs: as a rotating iPhone speaker dock, the device can be shifted into vertical or horizontal positions for movies or music. But there’s also a free downloadable iLuv App that turns the device into a big ol’ alarm clock. The App Station is expected to go on sale in February for 130 beans.

iLuv App Station speaker dock rolls with its own Alarm Clock App originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

Panasonic’s CES Lumix sextet leaked: FP and FH models galore

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Looks like some Asian website, as Photo Rumors puts it, made a boo-boo and published its Panasonic point-and-shoot a tad early. Specs for six (and press photos for four) Lumix cameras have come to light. Here’s what’s the gang reportedly found, in a nutshell: the very compact, 14.1-megapixel FP3 has a 3-inch touchscreen LCD, 4x zoom, shoots 720p 30 frames per second video, and comes in a variety of colors; the FP1 similar in stature but with 12.1 megapixels and a 2.7-inch non-touchscreen LCD instead. The Lumix F3 drops the “very compact” look of the FP1 but is also 12.1 megapixels / 3x zoom, 720p 30fps video, and 2.7-inch LCD. The FH20 has a 14.1 megapixel sensor, 8x zoom, 720p video, and a Venus Engine IV image processor, which is also reportedly claimed by the FH1 (12 megapixels, 5x zoom) and FH3 (14.1 megapixels, 5x zoom). It’s just that time of the season, eh?

Panasonic’s CES Lumix sextet leaked: FP and FH models galore originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

Engadget is live from CES MMX!

Posted in: Features, Today's Chili

Are your senses full with the aroma of stag parties and buffet bacon lying listless atop the flicker of a 3AM Sterno flame? No? Well, that’s because you’re not in Vegas. We just rolled in with the double-wide now parked just outside the Las Vegas Convention Center to celebrate our annual CES right of passage. We’re already knee deep in press releases and hot products with dozens of events scheduled throughout the week followed by extensive hands-on coverage and reviews of the all the best products that the consumer electronics industry can muster.

You can view the news in the standard format that you’re used to right here, or you can head over to engadget.com/ces. There you’ll find our coverage presented in a tighter format so that you can more easily keep track of what’s breaking and which events we’re covering live (and when).

So kick back and take it all in. It’s going to get busy, but if you’re like us then it just doesn’t get any better than CES. Gratuitous trailer shot after the break.

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Engadget is live from CES MMX! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

Engadget is live from CES 2010!

Posted in: Features, Today's Chili

Are your senses full with the aroma of stag parties and buffet bacon lying listless atop the flicker of a 3AM Sterno flame? No? Well, that’s because you’re not in Vegas. We just rolled in with the double-wide now parked just outside the Las Vegas Convention Center to celebrate our annual CES rite of passage. We’re already knee deep in press releases and hot products with dozens of events scheduled throughout the week followed by extensive hands-on coverage and reviews of the all the best products that the consumer electronics industry can muster.

You can view the news in the standard format that you’re used to right here, or you can head over to engadget.com/ces. There you’ll find our coverage presented in a tighter format so that you can more easily keep track of what’s breaking and which events we’re covering live (and when).

So kick back and take it all in. It’s going to get busy, but if you’re like us then it just doesn’t get any better than CES. Gratuitous trailer shot after the break.

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Engadget is live from CES 2010! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

Samsung announces two PMPs, one for fitness gurus, one made of glass

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Samsung announces two PMPs, one for fitness gurus, one made of glass
We expect there to be no shortage of hot new PMPs announced this week, so manufacturers are looking for something — anything — to differentiate theirs from the rest. Samsung has two interesting angles for its latest players, the first being the MyFit, an 8GB model with integrated sensors to detect fat and stress, plus the typical accelerometer to measure your activities, and apps that can help you keep hydrated and even stop smoking — assuming you ever started. Oh, and it plays music, too. Then there’s the Ice Touch, a 16GB model with a two-inch AMOLED screen that’s transparent, much like the Xperia Pureness, but with more colors and fewer stunned looking models. The device itself is said to have a case made of tempered glass, which should make those accidental drops onto concrete a little more exciting, and it packs support for a wide variety of audio and video formats, lossless and high-definition, respectively. No pricing on either, but we’d expect the glass one to cost more than the healthy one.

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Samsung announces two PMPs, one for fitness gurus, one made of glass originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

HP TM2-1070US tablet details leaked, is temporarily out of stock

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HP TM2-1070US tablet details leaked, is temporarily out of stock
Wondering about HP’s TM2 tablet we heard about back in September? Read on and sate thy curiosity, as eCost seems to have updated their database a bit early, spoiling HP’s fun and, if this is accurate, confirming the detailed specs of the TM2-1070US. It’s packing a 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo processor behind a 12.1-inch multitouch screen, 4500MHD integrated graphics, 4GB of DDR3 memory, a 320GB disk, and even a fingerprint scanner, all in an aluminum case that’s been given the “factory custom” treatment with some laser etching. It’s listed next to a $1,099 price, which seems fair enough, though the site still won’t let you order one at this point. We’re guessing this one will stay “temporarily out of stock” until HP gets the druthers to make it official. That should be soon enough.

[Thanks, Liam]

HP TM2-1070US tablet details leaked, is temporarily out of stock originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

Google Nexus One support page goes live, quickly dies again

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Google Nexus One support page goes live, quickly dies again

Wondering how to activate your shiny new Nexus One? Curious how to get started with the thing, or how to use the 3D gallery? Oh, wait, you don’t have yours yet? Oops. Google seems to have posted its support page for the phone a little early, a little site that went live for just a few minutes — just long enough for us to click through a little, read that Terms of Service that was leaked to us last week, and watch a few videos. The first one that came up is actually the walkthrough for Android 2.0, curiously, but the other videos showed 3D photo gallery and some other goodies. Now they show nothing, though, having been set private and the pages removed. Surely they’ll be up again soon, with the device getting announced tomorrow, and while we’re still not sure exactly when you’ll be able to get your own, you’re always welcome to enjoy our hands-on impressions.

Update: Jakob wrote in to let us know that there’s another support page still alive — but barely. It just shows some funky characters, a nearly empty dropbox, and a very nice Nexus One logo.

[Thanks, Joe]

Google Nexus One support page goes live, quickly dies again originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

LG Lotus Elite’s appearance on a billboard suggests it’s probably real

Posted in: LG, Sprint, Today's Chili

In case there was any sliver of doubt that the so-called LX610 Lotus Elite from LG was a real device ready to fill the original Lotus’ unusually wide shoes on Sprint, feast your eyes on this: a giant billboard covering the side of a Las Vegas hotel pimping the Chocolate Touch, the eXpo, and — yes, that’s right — the Lotus Elite. To be fair, there’s no name mentioned here, but we’ve got a feeling it’s right considering the rest of the intel has ended up panning out. Stay tuned.

LG Lotus Elite’s appearance on a billboard suggests it’s probably real originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid: laptop by day, unhinged tablet by night

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We’re still trying to wrap our heads around what Lenovo’s just announced here, but it appears that the 3.8-pound IdeaPad U1 Hybrid is a 11.6-inch laptop with a retractable multitouch screen. It’s sort of like the Always Innovating Touchbook, but in our opinion a lot more interesting. When the screen is locked into its upright position in the laptop’s chassis, it’s powered by a CULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor and runs Windows 7 Home Premium. But when the screen is pulled from its shell it morphs into a Qualcomm Snapdragon powered-multitouch slate with a 16GB SSD that boots Lenovo’s customized Skylight Linux interface. Two processors and two operating systems? Hybrid is right. It seems like we’ll have to wait until June to buy the $999 device, but we’ve been promised a look at it in Vegas so stay tuned.

Gallery: Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid Gallery

Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid: laptop by day, unhinged tablet by night originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

Can new ThinkPads keep their Edge? ThinkPad Edge 13-inch First Take

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Lenovo’s new ThinkPad Edge line begins with a 13-inch thin-and-light. Is it worth the consideration for a budget entrepreneur? pOriginally posted at a href=”http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10424695-269.html” class=”origPostedBlog”2010 CES/a/p

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