Fresh leaks arrived this week lending credibility to HTC’s EVO 4G rumored June release date. According to newly leaked documents, Sprint’s next Android-based phone could go on sale in a matter of weeks. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10474067-251.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Android Atlas/a/p
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Samsung still hasn’t managed to get the Wave or any other Bada handset to market yet, but it’s doing the right thing by offering developers the software development kit first. Granted, with a planned June release Samsung isn’t managing the same sort of massive lead-time that Microsoft has with its Windows Phone 7 SDK, but a few weeks of pressure-free coding are better than none. The first public SDK for Bada was just made available yesterday, and inside developers will find an Eclipse-based IDE, a phone emulator, and tutorials. You can get it all for yourself at the source link below, but make sure you get your reading glasses out before clicking through. You’ll need to agree to not one, not two, but four separate sets of terms and conditions before you can get this 606MB download flowing, and a fifth before it’ll install. Oh, and it’s all C/C++ based, so if you’ve been living in the merry land of Java and C# lately you’d better brush up on pointer dereferencing and interface definitions.
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Samsung releases Bada SDK for developers who want to ride the Wave originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 09:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We knew it was coming end of May, now we have a date: May 28th and up for pre-order on May 10th. That’s when the iPad will hit Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. It lands in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore in July. Sorry, still no pricing. Full press release after the break.
Update: Tax-inclusive pricing is out. Très cher! Oh, and Orange UK has fessed up to pricing details for the iPad 3G + WiFi.
Update II: A handy pricing chart has also surfaced, helping you get a better grasp on what Apple’s charging for its first tablet in the first international launch markets.
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Apple has finally decided when customers outside the US will be able to buy an iPad. The wonder device will ship in Canada, Australia and much of Europe on May 28th. You can pre-order yours from May 10th.
The press release is spartan. No mention is made of which model will be shipping, so we will assume that both the iPad and iPad 3G will be available from launch. Neither have prices been decided, although obviously those will have to be made public on the 10th in order for people to pay. The recent economic troubles in Greece may affect the pricing: The Euro has crashed against the US dollar, meaning that Apple may want to jack up prices to keep its margins.
Here’s the full list of countries in which the iPad will be available: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. The iPad will be spreading further across the globe in July, with launches planned in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore.
The country-specific Apple Store pages have not yet been updated to reflect this announcement. We wonder just how “available” the iPad will be. When the iPhone first came to Spain, it was almost impossible to find for weeks, despite crazy-high prices. Me? I’m just hoping my contact in New York can stay sober for long enough to send one over to me.
iPad Available in Nine More Countries on May 28 [Apple]
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Using Apple’s Camera Connection Kit, it is possible to hook up a USB hard drive to your iPad and read files. The catch is that you’ll need to jailbreak the iPad first.
Maxwell Shay, iPad owner and now iPad hacker, offers a rather involved but straightforward walk-through on his blog. First, you need to use the Spirit jailbreak to open up the iPad and allow third-party apps to be installed. Then you need to grab an application called iFile (available in the Cydia application repository on your jailbroken iPad for $4, with a free trial), along with the “Nano” terminal text editor.
After that, you’ll need to be confident of your command line skills, as you’ll be using SSH and editing PLIST files. The step-by-step instructions will get you through.
Then you need to hook up the USB drive. The iPad’s port will not power it, so you’ll need a desktop version with a power adapter, or a Y-cable that will let you plug the drive into the iPAd and a second, powered, USB port (your iPad charger, for example).
Maxwell demoes his hack using the iPad PDF viewer Goodreader, available in the real App Store, but any file-browsing app should see the contents of the drive. From there, you can browse and open files, as well as copy them to the iPad’s internal storage. You probably don’t want to do this on the go, due to the limitations of plugging the drive into a power source, but if you want to grab a bunch of photos or movies from a friend’s home, for example, this hack will let you copy them for take-away.
That overpriced Camera Connection Kit is starting to look a lot more useful. In fact, although Maxwell doesn’t try it, this hack should also let you use the SD card reader from the same kit for arbitrary file storage, not just for photos and videos.
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Yeah yeah, “more cores and faster speeds,” you’ve heard it all before right? That’d be our reaction too if we weren’t talking about the successor to the Nehalem-Ex, Intel’s most gruesomely overpowered chip to date. Launched under the Xeon 7500 branding in March, it represents Intel’s single biggest generational leap so far, and with its eight cores, sixteen threads, and 24MB of shared onboard cache, you could probably see why. Time waits for no CPU though, and Intel’s planned 32nm Westmere-Ex successor will move things forward with an unspecified increase in both core count (speculated to be jumping up to 12) and operating frequencies, while keeping within the same power envelope. Given the current 2.26GHz default speed and 2.66GHz Turbo Boost option of the 7500, that means we’re probably looking at a 2.4GHz to 2.5GHz 12-core, hyper-threaded processor, scheduled to land at some point next year. Time to make some apps that can use all that parallel processing power, nay?
Intel plans to stuff more than 8 cores, extra speed into 2011 server chips originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 07:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Surely by now you’ve come across something on YouTube that was flagged for copyright infringement, a process that’s surely powered by massive teams of elves and other mystical creatures who watch each and every video uploaded to the site. NEC is looking to put them all out of work with a system that, with just 60 frames worth of video (about two seconds, typically) can identify copyrighted video with 96 percent accuracy and a false alarm rate of one in 200,000 — even if it was copied from digital to analog or had captions added. This process is now part of the MPEG-7 Video signature tool, apparently the international standard, and works by creating signatures for copyrighted video that are just 76 bytes per frame. That’s small enough for a desktop with a single core, 3GHz processor to churn through 1,000 hours of questionable video in one second, looking for matches all the while. Unless you freelance for the MPAA this isn’t software you’ll be running, but if you’re a fan of the torrents there’s a good chance that someone you know very indirectly will be.
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Novatel’s little MiFi, the personal 3G router that turns a cell-signal into a Wi-Fi hotspot, is about to jump on the App Store train. Applications for the device will be sold by PocketGear, which is billing itself as an iTunes-like store, but is really just a big website that sells software for smartphones.
The MiFi is a surprise winner in the iPad accessory market. Many people are opting for the portable router over a 3G iPad. Sure, you almost always need to sign up for a monthly plan, but you can share the connection with any of your devices, from laptop to iPod.
So what can we expect? The press release is vague, with nuggets like this: “[I]ts onboard Web server enables the MiFi to connect to remote data locations, retrieve data and present it to the user either online or offline.” That web-server will enable things like BitTorrent clients, download management (continuing to pull down content even when you power-down your computer) and even logging your position using GPS, so you could geo-tag your photos later.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen “apps” on the MiFi. Back in March, Novatel added a media-server to the device, allowing you to stream movies from the MiFi’s microSD card to, say, an iPod Touch. This was courtesy of a firmware update, though, rather than a purchased application.
The launch date of the new store is as yet unannounced. One thing we do know, though, is that that the $130 premium for the 3G iPad might be better spent elsewhere.
MiFi App Store Press release [PR Newswire. Thanks, Kevin!]
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