May 28
Intel unveils its first mainstream CPUS with unlocked clock multipliers
May 28
In an official statement, Samsung says that the Samsung Behold II will only be upgradeable to Android 1.6 and nothing beyond that, which is sure to make the phone’s owners very unhappy. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20006258-251.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Android Atlas/a/p
May 28
We’re gearing up for Computex, and so is X2, apparently. The iTablet (which has been announced and then failed to materialize in the past) will be making an appearance at the show with not one but five variants. Seems like they’re throwing the kitchen sink at us to see what will stick, eh? According to JKK Mobile we can, look forward to no less than three Intel-sportin’ devices (including the iTablet Lite, which features a 10.1-inch display and 1.6GHz Atom CPU and both the T23A and T23X tablets with Core 2 Duo 743 1.30GHz CPU and 12.1-inch display) as well as a pair of 10.1-inch bad boys including the iTablet Speed-Lite (Nvidia Tegra 2 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 512MB NAND Flash storage) and the iTablet Ex-Lite II, which is pretty much the same but for the Freescale 800MHz CPU. The latter two will rock either Windows CE 6 or Android 2.0, apparently. We’ll hold out for prices and actual product before passing judgement, but until then you can hit the source link — you know, if you’ve never seen rendered images of vaporware tablets.
X2 promises a clutch of elusive iTablets for Computex originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 10:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
May 28
The next Apple TV revealed: cloud storage and iPhone OS on tap… and a $99 price tag
Posted in: Apple, apple tv, breaking news, BreakingNews, exclusive, Television, Today's Chili, TV
If you thought that Apple’s foray into the world of home entertainment died with the last iteration of the Apple TV, you’re quite wrong. A tip we’ve received — which has been confirmed by a source very close to Apple — details the outlook for the next version of the Apple TV, and it’s a doozy. According to our sources, this project has been in the works long before Google announced its TV solution, and it ties much more closely into Apple’s mobile offerings. The new architecture of the device will be based directly on the iPhone 4, meaning it will get the same internals, down to that A4 CPU and a limited amount of flash storage — 16GB to be exact — though it will be capable of full 1080p HD (!). The device is said to be quite small with a scarce amount of ports (only the power socket and video out), and has been described to some as “an iPhone without a screen.” Are you ready for the real shocker? According to our sources, the price-point for the device will be $99. One more time — a hundred bucks.
Not only will this be priced to sell (like hotcakes), it seems that Apple is moving away from the model of local storage, and will be focusing the new ATV on cloud-based storage (not unlike Amazon’s streaming scheme, though we’re talking instant-on 1080p, a la Microsoft). For those still interested in keeping their content close, there will be an option to utilize a Time Capsule as an external storage component, but the main course will be all about streaming. The new ATV will do away with its current OS X-lite variation as a operating system, and will instead adopt the iPhone OS for the underlying experience. There’s no word at this point on whether apps and the App Store will be coming along for the ride, but it makes sense given the shared platform. Of course, scaling iPhone apps to that 52-inch plasma in your living room isn’t exactly a no-brainer. Perhaps not surprisingly, Apple won’t deliver the ATV news at the upcoming WWDC — that event will be focused on the capabilities of the new iPhone — but development on the product is most definitely full steam ahead. Is your TV screen the next battleground in the platform wars? Survey says: hell yes.
The next Apple TV revealed: cloud storage and iPhone OS on tap… and a $99 price tag originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 10:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May 28
Next month, the world will be shaken by the ultimate in camera-phones. The Leo, from camera OEM Altek, will sport an almost scary 14 megapixels. That, for comparison, is two more than I have in my full-frame Nikon D700 SLR.
The news comes via GSM Arena, who also supplied these pictures. Pictures which are, as you can see, just CGI renderings. Still, they’re enough to get the idea: the Leo looks to be more of a camera with a phone tucked inside than the usual phones we see, which have the camera added as an afterthought.
All we know of the Leo, to be launched next month at the CommunicAsia exhibition in Singapore, is that it will feature this overcrowded sensor, shoot HD video and (barely) contain a 3x optical zoom lens. There will also be a Xenon flash, a touch-screen, Wi-Fi and 3G.
A little extra snooping of the pictures reveals the lettering around the lens, which shows that it will be a 6.5-19.5mm zoom with apertures running from ƒ3.1 – ƒ5.6. Not too bad for a cellphone.
The design of this beast gives us some hope that this is a real camera with a decent-sized CCD inside: the dedicated zoom-buttons, for instance. We’ll also be interested to see whether this will be sold under the Altek brand, in which case we’ll probably never see it in the West, or sold as OEM gear normally is: with somebody else’s logo slapped on it.
Altek Leo – 14MP cameraphone with HD video and optical zoom [GSM Arena]
May 28
Coulomb begins worldwide EV domination with ChargePoint expansion to Australia and Poland
Posted in: electric vehicle, ElectricVehicle, ev, Today's Chili
Look around you. Are you at an electric vehicle charging station? If so, good for you! If not, that’s okay, because the things are still mighty rare. California-based Coulomb is helping to change that, expanding its operations with deals that will see its ChargePoint networked charging stations appear in Poland and in Australia. The Warsaw-based station is powered by juice from 365 Energy, while the Sydney one is being run by GoGet, a sort of Aussie Zipcar, if you catch our drift, mate. They join the 600 stations that Coulomb deployed in 2009 and are part of the thousands the company hopes to scatter about in this year. Both forward-reaching press releases are included for your enjoyment after the break, either of which make for great reading while your Tesla hungrily sucks down the electrons.
Coulomb begins worldwide EV domination with ChargePoint expansion to Australia and Poland originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
May 28
Shanghai’s Roewe 350 auto rolls off the assembly line with Android 2.1
Posted in: Android, automobile, Today's Chili
This is probably not what Google means by a mobile OS, but no matter: SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) has recently announced that the Roewe 350 — which began production last week — will feature a custom variant of Android 2.1 called Inkanet for its entertainment and GPS system. This bad boy sports Internet access (via China Telecom 3G), OnStar, and a “walkie-talkie” function for chatting with other Inkanet users. With the vehicle estimated to cost upwards of 130,000 yuan ($20,000), this is certainly the most expensive Android MID we’ve seen yet — as well as the least pocketable. Peep the car itself after the break.
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Shanghai’s Roewe 350 auto rolls off the assembly line with Android 2.1 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 09:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
May 28
HTC EVO 4G accessories detailed ahead of launch
Posted in: accessories, exclusive, HTC, Sprint, Today's Chili, WiMAX
So you live in the land of WiMax and rainbows. Lucky you. Then you’ll be needing some accessories to go along with that new EVO 4G you’ll be purchasing next week. While we’ve seen some of these before (image from a previous leak after the break), we now have the benefit of pricing to assist with your decisions. And hey, if $30 for a leather pouch with belt clip seems like a reasonable purchase then you might want to check out our fine selection of pocket protectors and Bluetooth headsets. Don’t be shy, embrace your outer nerd… no one else will. Oh!
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HTC EVO 4G accessories detailed ahead of launch originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 09:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May 28
Here at last is proof that open-source design can indeed kill the iPhone. The iPhonekiller is a mallet designed to smash the iPhone up good. Made from an inch-thick slab of stainless-steel, the head weighs in at a screen-crushing 3.5-pounds and the handle is made of beautifully carved wood.
Open source? Yes. Designer Ronen Kadushin says that the “iPhonekiller is an Open Design, meaning, its design CAD files can be freely downloaded, copied, modified and produced by anyone, without special tooling, under a Creative Commons license.”
In fact, the iPhonekiller is more ambitious than you first thought. The killing machine is not only compatible with the all iPhones today, but “also the future ones, and with iPads.”
iPhonekiller by Ronen Kadushin [DeZeen]
iPhonekiller (prototype) [Ronen Kadushin]
May 28
Nokia N8 video overview: Symbian^3 homescreens, messaging, email, and Flash-capable browser on show
Posted in: demo, flash, mobile os, MobileOs, nokia, Software, symbian, Today's Chili, video
It seems like the only question really left about the Nokia N8, albeit the most important one, is just how it’ll interface with the user and what the experience of living with it will be like. The Nokia Conversations team is now aiming to answer just that with the first of three video walkthroughs taking us on a tour of the new device and its Symbian^3 operating environment. We now know you can have up to three homescreens with six widgets apiece, and — gasp — wallpapers are available right off the bat. Threaded messaging is also implemented in the new OS, as well as a soft QWERTY keyboard and a set of emoticons… yes, emoticons. Notably, the entire demo is done with the phone held in landscape, suggesting that might be the preferred method of use, while transitions between menus look as quick and pleasurable as you might expect from a promo video. See the whole thing after the break.
Nokia N8 video overview: Symbian^3 homescreens, messaging, email, and Flash-capable browser on show originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 09:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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