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HTC’s next Android-powered missile is a big-ass smartphone called the Evo. Designed to run on Sprint’s 4G network, the Evo is packed with a number of powerful features underneath its beautiful 4.3-inch touchscreen.
To give us a look at the Evo’s guts, repair company iFixit disassembled the smartphone in an exclusive video shoot with Wired.com. Some of the most notable observations include the behemoth 8-megapixel camera sensor, accompanied with a much smaller 1.3-megapixel front-facing cam for video conferencing.
Also impressive was the HTC-branded battery (3.7-volt, 1500 mAh rechargeable Li-ion), which contains 23 percent more capacity than an iPhone 3GS, 15 percent more than an HTC Droid Incredible, and 7 percent more than an HTC Nexus One.
The Evo is due in stores June 4, just three days before Apple is expected to announce its fourth-generation iPhone at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Leaked prototypes of the next-gen iPhone revealed a front-facing camera, also presumably designed for video conferencing. The Evo and the fourth-gen iPhone may be the first mobile contenders to spark a battle for video calls.
Check out the video above for a deep dive of iFixit’s dissection, starring iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens.
This episode of the Gadget Lab video podcast was produced by Annaliza Savage, with editing by Michael Lennon and audio engineering by Fernando Cardoso. For more video from Wired.com, go to www.wired.com/video.
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ASUS may have spent most of its Computex press conference talking tablets and pads, but the company is definitely descending on the show with some new laptops. The 11.6-inch Lamborghini VX6 and 15.6-inch VX7 are amongst the most eye catching — ASUS has redesigned the premium systems with new glossy casing, sleek automotive adornments, chiclet keyboards and a Bang & Olfsen ICE power sound system. We’re totally swooning over the smaller VX6, which packs a dual-core Atom D525 processor, USB 3.0 and NVIDIA Ion 2 graphics, though the higher end Core i7 VX7 and its NVIDIA “enthusiast graphics” sound pretty darn good as well. No word on when these bad boys will be going from zero to sixty to a store near you, but given the fact that the systems at the show didn’t boot we’re going to go with a not very soon. We’ll let you know when we hear more, but you’ll certainly want to check out the beauty shots of these puppies below.
Gallery: ASUS Lamborghini VX6 and VX7
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When Google TV was shown to the world a couple weeks ago, only Logitech was on stage as a hardware partner for peripherals. Google would do well to check out the offerings of the Taiwanese-based Cideko. At Computex, it’s showing several new devices that would fit very nicely within the Google TV ecosystem–or, since it’s DLNA-compliant, even the Windows environment.
The Air Player (photo after the jump) is a device that can stream audio and video from multiple interfaces over to your HDTV. It can connect to your PC, external hard drive, or memory card and wirelessly transmit audio and video. And the Air Sender delivers up to 1080p A/V programming from your PC, external hard drive, or memory card and transmit it wirelessly up to 100 meters. The Air Player can then receive those signals and play them on your HDTV or any other remote monitor.
Although no one wants to keep a keyboard on the coffee table, console controllers have certainly found a home there. Cideko’s Air Keyboard Conqueror (above) offers the flexibility of a game controller with a full QWERTY keyboard. It also works as a 3D gyro mouse, so you can point and click on icons on your HDTV.
Cideko reps can’t say when, or if, these products will hit the U.S. But if the connected living room is going to catch on it will need products like this, or something a lot like them.
Check out our ever-growing slideshow of Computex 2010 at PCMag.com.
Like it or not, T-Mobile has now officially turned its myTouch brand into an entire franchise, thanks to the addition of a second model and an entire line of styled accessories — but it’s not just about the hardware. Far from it, in fact: with the myTouch 3G Slide, the carrier has actually built a custom skin on top of HTC’s Sense for Android 2.1, and all kidding aside, this phone represents one of the deepest carrier-customized experiences we’ve ever seen. Seeing how this phone arguably represents the true successor to the G1 — T-Mobile’s (and the world’s) first retail Android device — it’s pretty important that they get this right, particularly considering how critical it is for a carrier’s bottom line to capitalize on the meaty, profitable midrange of its smartphone lineup. Does the myTouch 3G Slide live up to the G1’s good name? Read on.
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Often, iFixit needs to wait for a product to be released before it can spend a few hundred bucks buying one and tearing it asunder — but in the case of the EVO 4G, Google’s pre-release of units to attendees at IO appears to have been just the kind of event these guys needed to get in the door early. Taking the phone apart is described as a “wonderfully easy” process, and changing the screen’s glass is said to be pretty easy as well — good news considering how easy it’ll probably be to crack those 4.3 inches of pure WVGA glory. There aren’t any surprises in terms of silicon, but we’ve got one tip for you, HTC: if you’re going to take this color-the-inside-of-the-phone business seriously, would you do us a favor and match the color of the circuit board, too? Seriously guys, go big or go home. Follow the break for iFixit’s full rundown of the process.
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