For new portable game machine, Nintendo will use technology from Japan’s DMP–not more standard technology from graphics chip suppliers such as Nvidia and ATI. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20008443-64.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Nanotech – The Circuits Blog/a/p
Considering Google’s typically feverish pace in deploying new Android builds, we’ll admit — we kind of expected Android 2.2 Froyo to be released to retail Nexus Ones by now… but no dice. So, where is it? The company hasn’t committed to a firm date for a global roll-out yet, but there’s official word from an Android employee over on the Nexus One’s support forums this week that FRF72 is not the final update and that a release “will only happen once a release candidate meets [their] quality criteria.” Korean versions of the phone were pegged to launch with 2.2 this week, so any way you slice it, it can’t be long now.
Google on Android 2.2: ‘feverishly working to get a final version out the door’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Check this out: it’s free, live mobile TV on the iPad, enabled by a little box called the Tivizen. We previously saw the Tivizen back in January when it was called the Valups Tivit. It receives a new form of over-the-air TV broadcasting called Mobile DTV, and sends it out over a Wi-Fi network so gadgets live iPads can watch through their Web browsers.
Here at the CEA Line Shows, the Open Mobile Video Coalition is showing off a bunch of Mobile Digital TV devices, including Samsung and LG phones, portable DVD players and a potential in-car system. And they have a list of dozens of channels planning to broadcast Mobile Digital TV or running channels for testing right now, from WNUV in Baltimore to KAIL in Fresno, CA.
Unfortunately, the march to mobile TV has temporarily stalled because of a 1964 law which apparently mandates that all TV receivers get analog channels, the OMVC’s Dave Arland said here at the show. (Mobile TV receivers are digital only.) So the OMVC has asked the FCC to give an official thumbs-up to digital-only receivers. With the government’s blessing, MDTV receivers should start appearing on shelves in July, Arland said.
Completing a phased roll-out that kicked off back in April, AT&T has finally gotten around to launching its 3G MicroCell in all of its markets, giving the entire customer base some flexibility when “more bars in more places” doesn’t happen to include your place. Interestingly, the announcement was made in passing during comments by AT&T director Gordon Mansfield at the Femtocells World Summit in London this week, where he spent much of his time trying to quell a minor furor over the carrier’s continued application of data caps when using the MicroCell. He makes some pretty strong arguments: even though all MicroCell voice and data traffic starts off traveling over your own internet connection, it ultimately ends up within AT&T’s core infrastructure — and a legal requirement that the carrier be able to intercept traffic for law enforcement use prevents it from diverting that traffic elsewhere. More importantly, though, if you’re within range of a MicroCell, odds are very good that you’re also within range of a WiFi connection — and since all of AT&T’s data-heavy handsets offer WiFi, the whole complaint is kinda moot. So just get one if you need one and don’t worry about it, okay?
AT&T 3G MicroCell now available in all markets originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
In an open letter three months ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs challenged Adobe to ship its Flash software on any mobile device and prove it worked well.
Adobe, now, has an answer. The company has released Flash Player 10.1 to its mobile partners and the technology should be in the hands of Android phone users with the upcoming Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ update to the operating system.
Flash Player 10.1 will be available as a “final production release” for smart phones and tablets, once users are able to upgrade to Android 2.2, says Adobe.
Among the devices that will get Froyo and Flash Player 10.1 are the Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, Motorola Droid, Motorola Milestone and Samsung Galaxy S. Google hasn’t said yet exactly when Android 2.2 will be available to users, though it is expected in the next few weeks.
Adobe says Flash Player 10.1 will also be available in devices using BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows Phone, MeeGo and Symbian operating systems.
If major Android phones get Flash capability it will be a push back against Apple’s efforts to turn public opinion against Flash on mobile devices.
With the launch of the first iPhone in 2007, Apple declared war against mobile Flash. Apple is supporting HTML5 and its efforts have influenced the online video landscape significantly. Many major websites are starting to use HTML5, and video players such as Brightcove are serving up HTML5 videos for devices not compliant with Flash. Separately, Apple has worked with companies like YouTube to produce iPhone-compatible versions of their sites.
“We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it,” wrote Jobs in a note posted on the Apple website in April. “Adobe publicly said that Flash would ship on a smartphone in early 2009, then the second half of 2009, then the first half of 2010, and now they say the second half of 2010. We think it will eventually ship, but we’re glad we didn’t hold our breath. Who knows how it will perform?”
But many developers are not convinced. Adobe’s Flash standard is still widely used on the internet, for everything from animated banner ads and splash screens to infographics, educational content and games. Much of that content has been unavailable on mobile devices: The previous version of Adobe’s mobile Flash player, Flash Lite, supported only basic Flash content, such as video.
Gadget Lab’s first look at a Flash Player 10.1 beta showed that Flash on the mobile phone can be fun, unlocking sites that otherwise would be inaccessible. But it’s not a flawless experience. On a Nexus One, Flash content — especially video — took time to load, which was frustrating. And it sucks bandwidth.
Still, for Adobe, it’s a big step toward making Flash a contender in mobile multimedia.
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Photo: Flash Player 10.1 on a Nexus One phone (Keith Axline/Wired.com)
Is there any love more forbidden?
Nilay: “So… do you have the iPhone?”
Ross: “Hey, we ran out of markers coloring our 3G coverage map, can we borrow yours?”
Richard Lai: “Stealth sabotage fail.”
Chris: “Can you hear me now, [censored]?”
Thomas: “Trust me, I just need help lifting this couch into the van.”
Sean Hollister: “Stick together — it’s the T-Mobile way.”
Vlad: “And this, dear friends, is where all your phone tariffs are calculated, negotiated, and determined. Yay, free market!”
Tim: “Ten years ago, a crack wireless unit was kicked out of Bell Atlantic for a crime it didn’t commit. This group promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the FCC, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… The V-Team.”
Laura: “There’s like, a map for this, right?”
Darren: “Hey, someone has to mop the floors around here, right?”
Joanna: “Rumor: Verizon to get rollover minutes!”
Paul: “What the world needs now…”
Myriam: “Hey man, I have some great speakers to sell you real cheap.”
[Thanks, Brad]
Caption contest: the Verizon van makes a pit stop originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aw, suki suki now! Looks like we’ve got our first iPhone 4 delivery here in the US, a full 24 hours before the first batch is supposed to land. The best news isn’t that throngs of pre-orderers are seeing their units “out for delivery” today, but that this Mac Rumors user was able to activate his unit already in seamless fashion. ‘Course, we highly doubt it’ll be so easy for everyone else crashing the servers tomorrow and Thursday, but there it is. So, anyone else seeing their iPhone 4 marked as “out for delivery?” Or better still, “in hand?” Give us a shout in comments below.
[Thanks, Anonymous]
Update: We’ve moved the FedEx image past the break, as one lucky Mac Rumors member already has his in hand. And so it begins. [Thanks, Adam]
Update 2: A reader has sent us over the above picture of his own brand new iPhone 4, which has only just arrived. [Thanks, Mark!]
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First iPhone 4 units being delivered originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to create some unlikely Kinect games. And man, some of these are flat-out brilliant. More »
Le sigh. For years now, Nintendo‘s online efforts have quite clearly lagged behind those of Sony and Microsoft, both of which have placed a priority on nailing online multiplayer and making it part of the draw for prospective buyers. Xbox LIVE is a entire universe of online goodies, and it’s the exception rather than the rule to see a major title launch on the 360 sans online play; in many ways, Sony sings a similar tune. Nintendo, meanwhile, seems to keep online play on the back burner, occasionally throwing it in where it’s easy enough to add but never really going out of its way to make sure the latest AAA title will allow Bobby and Jacky to play from across the street. During an investors meeting last week at E3, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confessed that he’s “not currently satisfied with the online efforts that we have made so far,” and that the Big N is “working at ways to improve those.” In an episode of corporate double-speak to end all corporate double-speak, he followed up with this gem: “On the other hand, I do not think that online functionality is something that we should be devoting resources to for every single product.” Seriously, Iwata? You can’t think of a single reason why the next installment of Balls of Fury could benefit from online support? For shame.
Nintendo ‘not satisfied’ with online efforts, but no big changes in store originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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