Mar 23
This isn’t the first QWERTY clamshell mobile phone we’ve ever seen, but it is possibly the first to be square rather than rectangular.
Mar 23
‘Wipe Shirt’ disregards mother, encourages you to wipe gadgets on your sleeve
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The simplicity of a white dress shirt crafted of pure cotton meets the gadget-cleansing power of microfiber in this “Wipe Shirt” from husband-and-wife design team FIFT. Because you’ve gotta wear something with that solar tie and swine-flu resistant suit, and you might as well fight smartphone cheek syndrome (and all other manner of glossy gadget smudging) while you’re at it. Yours for ¥13,650 (or about $150) in either the microfiber cuff or shirttail variant, only from Japan.
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Mar 23
A partnership with Skype and Verizon will put a new Skype Mobile app on select Android and BlackBerry phones in Verizon’s service. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12261_7-20001023-10356022.html” class=”origPostedBlog”CTIA 2010/a/p
Mar 23
Impossible Project’s Polaroid film gets tested, looking pretty old-timey
Posted in: camera, film, photography, Photos, Today's Chili
The Impossible Project‘s new Polaroid-licensed film is going on sale in the UK this week, and the folks over at 1854 just got a nice little press packet in the mail which included some of the surely sought after film. The black and white only (color’s been promised for a later date) film, coupled with a Polaroid camera should obviously lead to some seriously ancient looking snapshots and… surprise, surprise — it does! Now, there are only a very few test shots (taken with a Polaroid SX-70) included for review here, so it’s hard to gauge overall quality of the output, but we have to say the snaps we’re seeing look so antiquey that it’s actually hard to tell what we’re even looking at in the photo — is it the ghost of John Wayne? Is that Charlotte Bronte or Lady Gaga hanging tough in the foreground? Still, we have to say we’re intrigued with the whole idea of producing photos this sepia-toned and grainy, especially at our next in-house competitive rave off. Hit the source link for more test shots.
Impossible Project’s Polaroid film gets tested, looking pretty old-timey originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar 23
HTC EVO 4G is Sprint’s Android-powered knight in superphone armor, we go hands-on
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We’ve been rumoring a WiMAX “HTC Supersonic” for a while now, and Sprint just dropped the hard news: the phone will be dubbed the HTC EVO 4G, will be released this Summer and it’s easily the best specced phone we’ve ever witnessed. The hardware is of quite obvious HD2 descent, but with Android onboard and some nice aesthetic tweaks, the EVO 4G takes on a life of its own. The handset is centered around a 480 x 800 4.3-inch TFT LCD, with a Snapdragon QSD8650 1GHz processor under the hood (the CDMA version of the QSD8250 in the HD2 and Nexus One), and even a helpful 1GB of built-in memory and 512MB of RAM — hello app storage! Even the battery is bigger than the HD2, and the camera is an 8 megapixel monstrosity with flash, that’s capable of 720p video, and is augmented by a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for good measure. The phone features HDMI out (though you’ll need an adapter for turning it into a TV-familiar HDMI plug), 802.11b/g WiFi, and an 8GB microSD card. There’s that still-rare Android 2.1 underneath an updated version of HTC’s Sense UI. But… despite all these wild features, what actually sets the EVO 4G apart is the fact that it’s Sprint’s first 4G phone. The handset runs a combo of EV-DO Rev. A and WiMAX, with calls still being made over CDMA and the EV-DO / WiMAX options for data. Interestingly, it sounds like concurrent data and voice use might be possible for the first time on CDMA carrier in this way (killing AT&T’s well-advertised differentiator), though Sprint says that’s still in the testing phase. One other new feature is the Sprint hotspot app, another MiFi-style connection sharing number, which is obviously aided greatly by the WiMAX on board and can support up to eight concurrent users. Follow after the break for our hands-on impressions and videos of the phone in action, including an up-close-and-personal test of the touchscreen keyboard. Below you’ll find galleries of the phone by its lonesome and up against the Nexus One and iPhone 3G.
Update: We’ve got a graph comparing the Nexus One and Droid with the EVO spec for spec, and there’s also a pictorial shootout with the Desire and HD2. Pick your comparo poison!
Gallery: HTC EVO 4G press shots
Gallery: HTC EVO 4G hands-on
Gallery: HTC EVO 4G vs. iPhone vs. Nexus One
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Mar 23
Live from Sprint’s CTIA 2010 press event
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We’re hanging out in a Greek theater-style auditorium waiting for Sprint’s CTIA event to get underway — we’ve been assured that whatever is about to happen is a Big Deal, so you’ll want to pay close attention to what’s about to go down. Very close attention.
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Live from Sprint’s CTIA 2010 press event originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar 23
Sony drops Pocket Reader price to $169… are e-readers about to get super cheap?
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The Wall Street Journal noted this morning that Sony’s rather quietly dropped the price of its Pocket Reader about $30 to $169. Now, it’s actually what amounts to a sale — the price cut lasts only through April 4th — but that date, just two days after the iPad is made available, could give us a little insight into the timing of the drop. The Wall Street Journal also posits that this could be the first in a series of price war moves in the single purpose e-reader market which are now facing competition from multi-purpose devices such as the aforementioned iPad and the recently announced Kindle app for tablets.
Sony drops Pocket Reader price to $169… are e-readers about to get super cheap? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mar 23
Portable LED Display Offers Laptop Users a Secondary Monitor
Posted in: Displays, LED, monitor, portable, screen, Today's Chili
For laptop users, having dual screens on the road is almost impossible unless they are willing to lug one of Lenovo’s hefty notebooks around.
Now, a Hong Kong-based company MEDL technology is showing a 13-inch lightweight, portable LED display that can be used as a secondary monitor to add digital real estate.
The LED display, simply named “The Panel,” weighs about 2.2 lbs and connects to a PC or a Mac through a USB cable. The screen has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and claims up to five hours of battery life.
The Panel is not limited for use just with laptops, says MEDL. It can connect to phones and gaming consoles such as the Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation 3–anything that has a USB port.
MEDL is showing The Panel at the ongoing DEMO Spring conference.
As laptops become more popular among users than desktops, the idea of having dual displays for mobile devices is catching on. Last year, Lenovo introduced a $5000 dual-screen laptop that weighed about 11 lbs and combined a 17-inch display and a 11-inch screen in a single box.
MEDL’s LED screen could be an alternative to the Lenovo monster, though MEDL is yet to announce pricing or availability for the product.
Mar 23
The 3DS isn’t Nintendo’s first foray into 3D portable gaming, but hopefully it’ll fare a lot better than the sad story of Virtual Boy.
Mar 23
Microsoft Courier existence confirmed on the company’s JobsBlog?
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Well this is something. According to Peter Kafka at All Things D, as well as a few tipsters, Microsoft has all but confirmed the existence (and likely actual launch) of the Courier tablet. In a post on the site by Thomas Kohnstamm (or The JobsBloggers, hard to say) touting Microsoft innovation, this passage was originally posted:
Do you already know everything about Project Natal and the Cloud? Is Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ jaw-dropping TED talk on augmented-reality Bing Maps and Photosynth last month’s news? Then check out some of the online chatter surrounding new releases of Window Phone 7 series handsets, Internet Explorer 9 and the upcoming Courier digital journal.”
That last bit — you know, about the Courier — was linked to our recent post which revealed a handful of images, video, and possible factoids on the device. Though that bit of the writeup has been canned, you can see that the post was tagged “courier,” and the original text is still hanging around RSS (as seen above). So, does this mean Microsoft is getting close to actually giving us some meat on this thing? We can’t know for sure if the info above is 100 percent solid… but it’s certainly telling that this device is on the lips of Microsoft employees who also happen to work on PR campaigns for the company — and they moved quickly to get it offline. What do you guys think?
[Thanks, Ian]
Microsoft Courier existence confirmed on the company’s JobsBlog? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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