Sony’s E3 press conference spent some time reassuring the public that the PSP platform was still very much alive, with new games and an enthusiastic mascot announced in lieu of price drops or new hardware. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-21539_7-20007819-10391702.html” class=”origPostedBlog”E3 2010/a/p
Mac OS X 10.6.4 just hit Software Update, people. It doesn’t have much in the way of additional features, but it addresses a number of outstanding bugs and glitches — and it includes Safari 5, in case you’re late to the party. We’re downloading it now, we’ll let you know if we discover anything crazy — won’t you return the favor?
Mac OS X 10.6.4 now available originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The PS3’s 3D feature—upgradeable via a software update for every PS3 out there—is actually pretty decent. Not only did we see it live, working, on a giant projection screen, but on a smaller HDTV in front of us. More »
pspan class=”noAutolink”This week, Donald and Jasmine have a lot to crave, not the least of which is a pair of health-monitoring tighty whities. And yet we are somehow much more impressed by a giant chess set made from robotic Legos, a swarm of hovering honeycombs, a massive LED art display that moves to the music, and a roving solar-powered car disguised as a shrub. On the list of things not to crave? Trading drugs for gadgets. Come on people…you’re smarter than that! (Right?)/span
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BGR’s reporting that AT&T’s launch day allocation of iPhone 4s is now sold out, and anyone who got in the door after 1:30PM Pacific Time will get their unit some time between June 25 and July 5. Frankly, we have no idea how anyone managed to get a pre-order in, let alone enough to sell out — but everyone who did deserves a pat on the back and a high-five.
Update: We’ve gotten the official statement from AT&T, and it’s true, though you still might be able to waltz in on launch day without a pre-order and pick up one of the unallocated units:
“Because of the incredible interest in iPhone 4, today was the busiest online sales day in AT&T history. As of Tuesday afternoon, customers who preorder iPhone 4 moving forward will receive their device on June 25 or later, depending on when the order is placed. We’ll email customers with confirmation once their order is placed, and again when it ships. In addition, we will have devices available on a first-come, first-serve basis in our stores beginning on June 24.”
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We had more than a hunch that Samsung was toiling away on a tablet of some sort, and while we’d been loosely referring to its as the S-Pad and Tab, it looks as if the latter moniker is the one that’ll stick. J.K. Shin, president of Samsung’s mobile communications division, recently affirmed as much during a sit-down with the Wall Street Journal, stating the following:
“I can also say that we are planning to launch a tablet computer, named Galaxy Tab, no later than in the third quarter of this year.”
He didn’t elaborate beyond that, so we’re still on pins and needles waiting to find out if it’ll run Windows 7, Bada or BeOS, but we ought to know much, much more in just a few months. An IFA debut, perhaps?
Samsung executive confirms: Galaxy Tab tablet coming by Q3 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
While earlier today we had a quick hands-on with the 3DS, I’ve now had the chance to play a number of actual games. My verdict? It’s a clever, occasionally brilliant system. And no, you haven’t seen anything quite like it. More »
The HTC Evo’s 1-GHz processor is one of the fastest in smartphones today, but there’s always room for improvement.
An Android developer at the xda-developers forum has overclocked his Evo 4G phone to run at 1.267 GHz, nearly 30 percent faster than the standard issue. The developer Michael Huang, who posted the hack under the nickname ‘coolbho3000′, says he’ll try and push the processor to do even more.
“Right now, it’s a proof of concept,” Huang told Wired.com. “I built a version of the kernel that’s running on the phone to overclock it and found it worked fine.”
The hack is pretty technical but the idea is to let advanced Android users and programmers see the potential of the device.
HTC introduced the Evo earlier this month as the first 4G Android phone. The Evo, available exclusively on Sprint, has a huge 4.3-inch touchscreen, a 1-GHz Snapdragon processor, a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera for video conferencing and a 8-megapixel camera for shooting photos and videos. It costs $200 with a two-year contract.
The phone has become the bestselling device on the Sprint network and at Best Buy Mobile.
Overclocking the HTC Evo is not the first such attempt developers have made with an Android device. Earlier, Huang says he has tried to overclock the Google Nexus One, which has the same 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor as the HTC. But that hack pushed the speed of the processor to only about 1.1 GHz.
The HTC Evo overclocking has resulted in speeds of a little more than 1.2 GHz for most users on the forum who have tried it.
But, a few words of warning for those who might attempt this at home: It isn’t a DIY project for just anyone. The files necessary to overclock the HTC Evo are posted online but you need to know what you are doing with it.
“If you have a rooted phone, you can get an update.zip file to apply to that phone,” explains Huang. “What I have done is packaged the special overclocked kernel into the file.” Huang used an Android app called SetCPU available in the Android Market to adjust the overclock.
Huang says he doesn’t have access to the full source code of the HTC Evo OS, which has limited some functions in the phone.
That means the sensors and camera on the phone do not currently work with the hack.
The overclocking also affects the phone’s battery life — despite Huang’s attempt to tweak the voltage piped to the processor.
“If you put less voltage on the processor, then the phone will use less battery, so my Evo kernel is running at a lower voltage than normal,” he says. “But because the processor is at a higher speed, the battery life is lower than usual.”
Once the overclocked device gets running, it also heats up a fair bit, say commenters on the forum. So, try this one at your own peril.
If you don’t want to go through all that, just enjoy the video of the overclocked HTC Evo.
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