Hasta La Gadget!

Now that the USB-wielding cat’s out of the bag, it’s looking like supplies of the iPad Camera Connection Kit aren’t keeping up with demand — one Engadget reader tipped us off to the fact that the $30 attachments are worth up to $180 on eBay. A quick bit of sleuthing showed that Apple’s actually still selling the things — they’re simply backordered, with a three to four week shipping delay — but sure enough, niche e-tailers currently list the dongles for as much as $150, and eBay auctioneers are finding the kits sell for two to five times the original MSRP. If your external HDD experiments didn’t work out the way you’d liked, at least you can be sure you’ll get your money back.

[Thanks, Paul P.]

iPad Camera Connection Kit a commodity item, now fetches $100+ on eBay originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  eBay  | Email this | Comments

Design challenge Nike78 tasks participants with rethinking the function of a new pair of Nikes. Imagine a Nike face mask and gaming shoes a la Wiimote.

It death of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 on T-Mobile (you can still get it on AT&T, by the way) bummed us out for the simple reason that it was perhaps the best-looking BlackBerry every made. The Curve 8500 series that followed it just didn’t have the same sort of sleek, high-end air about it, so we’re happy to see that the 8500’s follow-on should go a little ways toward closing the gap. What we’re apparently looking at here is the Curve 9300, a phone that carries over the now-standard optical pad from the 8500 but uses a decidedly 8900-esque chrome surround while adding 3G and support for 802.11n, a feature it shares with the Pearl 3G. What keeps the 9300 on the low end of the spectrum, though, is its screen — it’s apparently just QVGA, and we’re a little discouraged that the leaked unit here isn’t running BlackBerry 6 — but you get what you pay for, right?

BlackBerry Curve 9300 fixing to replace the 8500 series? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  CrackBerry  | Email this | Comments

Sure, Intel might not be planning for Moorestown-based smartphones to hit the market for at least another six months, and the LG GW990 might have died a quiet death, but that’s not stopping Aava from getting right in the game with its Virta Android, an Atom Z600-based reference smartphone designed for developer testing. Slated to ship in Q3, the Virta features a Moorestown processor, a 3.8-inch 864 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, quad-band EDGE radios with AT&T 3G support, WiFi, Bluetooth, a five megapixel video camera, and a microSD slot. We’re assuming the shipping version will look a lot like the prototype Aava device we’ve been seeing for a while now, but Aava has some fancier renders up on its site, so we’ll see what happens and how much this costs when this thing arrives.

Continue reading Aava Virta Android reference platform will be the first shipping Moorestown smartphone

Aava Virta Android reference platform will be the first shipping Moorestown smartphone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Aava Mobile  | Email this | Comments

This article was written on July 31, 2007 by CyberNet.

There seems to be a lot of news in the land of Apple today, so instead of covering everything in-depth, we’ve got all the Apple headlines in-brief:

iTunes Store has Sold over Three Billion Songs

• Wowy! The iTunes store has sold over three b-b-billion songs! The iTunes catalog currently features over five million songs, 550 TV Shows, and 500 movies (hmm… this number seems pretty low to me). They are now the third largest music retailer in the United States and I still have yet to make a purchase from them.

Bejeweled Free for iPhone!

• Bejeweled is considered a classic, and now you can get it for free on your iPhone. The maker of the game, PopCap Games has created a version made especially for the iPhone that is played in the Safari browser. You can find the game at www.popcap.com.

Source: CrunchGear

Apple Sued by Eminem Publishers

• Apple has been sued by Eminem’s publishers who claim that Apple broke copyright by selling Eminem’s music which they were not authorized to sell. It always amazes me when issues like this come up. The lawyer handling the case, Owen Sloane says the Apple suit is an example of a larger problem in the music industry where labels have the right to sell CDs but not downloads. Why an artist wouldn’t want their music to be available in the form of a download where they get paid is beyond me.

Source: MacNN

Apple’s iPhone Patents

• Unwired View has an interesting post which shows some of the Apple patents that were filed which cover some of the iPhone’s features like the “intelligent keyboard.” Within the single patent for the virtual keyboard, there were 136 “specific user interface innovation claims” which means that competitors who want to create something similar will have a difficult time!

Copyright © 2010 CyberNet | CyberNet Forum | Learn Firefox

Related Posts:

CyberNotes: Headlines From Jay Leno!CyberNotes: Funny Newspaper Headlines Take 2Best Buy Gets Two Weeks of Apple TV all to ThemselvesVerizon Turned it’s Nose up at the iPhoneApple Computer Market Share Progress Report