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And to illustrate this point, below is a side-by-side of the same game on the same device, with the one running 2.2 running quite a lot faster than the one with 2.1. Live Updating More »

So T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G Slide — the QWERTY-enabled version of the venerable myTouch 3G — has been priced and dated, and we’re happy to see that “expected to be available in June” has turned out to mean the very beginning of the month; June 2, to be exact, in your choice of red, white, or black. What makes us less happy, though, is the notion of paying $179.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate for an Android device that now has the unenviable job of lying in the massive shadow created by the brilliant EVO 4G. Granted, the two phones are for very different carriers, but that doesn’t really excuse T-Mobile from offering up a phone with a lower-class processor, 40 percent of the screen resolution, and three megapixels lopped off the camera for just $30 less upfront, does it? Time for some serious price correction across the smartphone landscape, wethinks.

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide coming June 2 for $180 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 11:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We haven’t heard any tales of exploding batteries in quite some time, and we’re sure that’s in large part thanks to proactive battery recalls like the one HP has been running since about this time last year. However, it’s a little disconcerting that this recall keeps getting expanded. For the second time a new group of laptops are being added to the pile, entries from the Pavilion, Compaq Presario, and other lines manufactured between August of 2007 and May of 2008. We have the complete chart included below. If you’re included the bad news is that your aging laptop could explode and wipe out your entire neighborhood at any moment. But, the good news is… free replacement battery!

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HP expands laptop battery recall, again originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 11:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey, you there, wanna check out some unreleased new hardware from NVIDIA? Donanimhaber, the same site that brought us early (and accurate) specs of the GTX 470 and 480, is back with the above shot of an ASUS-built GTX 465 that is intended to entice the more mainstream crowd into the Fermi party. Essentially a GF100 with its wingtips trimmed, this’ll offer the same 607MHz graphics and 1,215MHz processor clock speeds of the 470, but comes with a narrower 256-bit memory interface, a tamer 3.2GHz effective memory clock, 352 rather than 448 CUDA cores, and — happily — lower power requirements. This word is also corroborated by Bit-tech, whose scribes expect a launch at the start of Computex. The Turkish site also has news of a GTX 460, which they say will show up in the middle of July with 768MB of GDDR5, while also being “cheaper and slower” than the 465. Hit the Hexus link below for some early benchmarks of the latter card.

NVIDIA GTX 465 detailed ahead of June 1 launch, GTX 460 also rumored originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 10:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Like me, most of you have probably given up on purpose-made alarm clocks in favor of a cellphone under the pillow, or the less brain-boiling option of an iPod or other non-cellular clock.

Unlike me, you probably get out of bed when the alarm rings, or at least after a few rounds of hitting snooze and nodding back off (I just kick the Lady out of bed and wait for her to awaken me with coffee and a smoothie).

But the most annoying part of getting up – having to actually move and press buttons whilst still groggy from dreams of being chased through treacle-aired street – is removed from this little Moshi alarm clock, a “digital” clock radio that can be silenced merely by telling it to shut up.

The voice-activated Moshi will use its digital AM/FM tuner to provide the wake-up music, and it can also lull you to sleep with your own music by hooking up an external source through a line-in jack. Snooze time is the industry standard nine minutes, allowing you to roll back into your stupor simply by whispering the correct instruction. You can even tune the radio and set the alarm via voice, but those are probably best done when you aren’t moaning groggily and slurring your words.

The Voice Control Digital Clock Radio will cost you $70. For those still unconvinced, Moshi is planning an iPhone app soon, which should let you simple moan “Just let me sleeeeeep” into your pillow and the iPhone thereunder will obediently comply. Available now.

Voice Control Digital Clock Radio [Moshi. Thanks, Valerie!]