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There’s no official announcement yet, but apparently Dell is going to roll out a massive 30-inch LCD monitor to compete with Apple’s lust-inducing 30-inch Cinema Display. The 3007WFP supposedly has:
No price, but it should hit North America on December 21st, so it will be just in time for Christmas!
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Ever since HP CEO Mark Hurd said he wasn’t interested in smartphones, it’s like the company’s been making up for lost time — first by denying the exec’s predilections, and more recently by actually asking us to speculate wildly. Now Palm’s Developer Relations team has reportedly stepped in to confirm that speculation, telling devs that future devices and a new version of webOS are on the way. While there’s no knowing if those devices are smartphones or when we might see them, we’re told to expect a “very exciting” next year.
Palm confirms new devices, webOS upgrade originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Though the Apple iPad and the Samsung Wave most assuredly share the same brain, EE Times would like you to know there’s more to a chip than its core — analyzing Apple’s system-on-a-chip designs in detail back to early iPhones, the publication noticed that Cupertino’s silicon both has custom design quirks on top of ARM and shows heavy influence from Samsung as well. EE Times claims that while the A4 and Samsung S5PC110 are similar, there are certainly differences, enough to call the A4 a custom design. Essentially, Apple has a taken a one-size-fits-all product originally engineered to meet the needs of a broad range of OEMs and reduced its complexity, footprint, and cost to match Apple’s particular goals. As far as whether PA Semi or Intrinsity had a hand in that design, the authors suggest only the latter seems very involved. What all this means for intellectual property questions is anyone’s guess — we’ll let the lawyers fight that one out — but when you encounter diehard fans that claim one’s ripping off the other, at least now you’ll be able to calmly explain the situation. Find the deep technical dive at our source link.
Apple’s A4 is like Samsung’s S5, except where it’s not originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You still rocking a desktop rig at home? Then you might want to check out Samsung’s latest 3.5-inch spinner, the SpinPoint F4. The latest F-series drive features a 7,200 RPM platter rotation and 8MB/16MB buffer memory in capacities of up 320GB. While detailed performance specs aren’t given, the SATA 3Gbps F4 has a one-head design with fewer moving parts (for quieter operation) delivering a 10% increase in read/write performance over Samsung’s Spinpoint F1 while consuming 7% less power. Unfortunately, that’s not very helpful for comparison against other manufacturers’ drives now is it? Regardless, it’s shipping to OEMs now.
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Samsung’s Spinpoint F4 320GB is fast and quiet, we think originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It’s almost a cliche to say that the Japanese consumer likes vending machines. Given the huge ECO movement that has been sweeping industries here over the last few years it was inevitable that companies would start looking at these convenient dispensers and ways to make them greener.
CScout Japan investigated a lot of these trends as part of its comprehensive ECO Japan report earlier this year, and continues to monitor local ecology developments. Let’s take a look at the vending machines that are making efforts to be make on-the-move consumers more ECO.
Coca-Cola Japan is certainly a leader in this field, having developed some of the first stand-out prototypes. (Coca-Cola have also created great eco-packaging for consumer products, such as the I LOHAS and Plant Bottle.) Now they are going that step further and actually integrating ECO vending machines on a wider scale…
You should start to see their newest machine, the ecoru/solar, which comes with solar panels on the top, popping up over the course of 2010. Coca-Cola is installing 1,500 units around the country; a mere fraction of the 2.4 million beverage dispensers lining the roads (of which Coca-Cola is said to own a third) but certainly progress nonetheless.
The ecoru/solar uses energy-efficient LED lighting, as well as a heat pump, HFC-free refrigeration and vacuum insulation. Of course, this saves Coca-Cola money in electricity to supply the machine, meaning they have lower overheads — and can pass those savings onto the consumer. Given that the planet also benefits then everyone’s a winner!
Fuji Electric also produced the E3 vending machine, which also gets energy from a solar panel and insulates in the winter by growing moss on its side. It collaborated with Coca-Cola to create the e-40, one of the original, ground-breaking vending machines, in 2008, which used 40% less energy than other machines.
Dydo and Pokka — other major vending machine companies in Japan — have contributed to the trend through donations: parts of the sales from a drink go to forestries and other ECO schemes. Not quite so hi-tech but effective nonetheless.
For more detailed and wider analysis, see our ECO report.
We’ve pretty much known about all of these Acer netbooks that are officially being announced today, but their very tempting price tags are definitely new to us. First up is the 11.6-inch Aspire One 721 and 10.1-inch 521, both of which we checked out last month. While the duo are powered by the same AMD Athlon II Neo K125 processors and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics, the 721 will start at $429.99 while the 521 at $349.99. And let’s not forget that, unlike Intel Atom powered netbooks, they sport HDMI ports and claim to be “HD capable.” Speaking of Intel netbooks, Acer’s got those in store too — the 10-inch, Atom powered Aspire One D260 and 533 will also be available later this month. The D620 packs an Atom N450 processor, 1GB of RAM and a three-cell battery for $298. On the flip side, the $330 Aspire One 533 has a slightly faster N475 processor, a 250GB hard drive and a six-cell battery. Enticing, right? The full press release is after the break, but hopefully we’ll be able to assist you in choosing one of these with some full reviews soon.
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Acer comes clean with new Aspire One availability and pricing originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nothing new here, but at this point, Motorola’s delicious duo of fresh Android phones for Verizon is leaking like… well, like a leaky faucet, we suppose. We’ve already got the full scoop on the keyboardless 4.3-inch Droid X — a beast ready to take on sworn enemies from HTC like the EVO 4G and the Droid Incredible — and we’ve seen plenty of details on the so-called Droid 2, too. The latter appears destined to replace the original Droid with a better keyboard layout and ever-so-gently refined ergonomics, but the latest leak from a Gizmodo tipster confirms that the cam’s still 5 megapixels and it’s currently running Android 2.1 atop Moto’s new-look Blur (interestingly, the “Droid 2” name couldn’t be confirmed). Apparently it’s set for release in the “next few weeks,” which would line up with rumors we’ve heard in the past of a launch windows somewhere between July and August — so here’s the real question: X or 2?
Droid 2 (or whatever it’s called) for Verizon breaks cover once again originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Jason, who needs a laptop drive upgrade that doesn’t involve the words “solid state.” Or “really expensive.” If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
“I am in the market for a 2.5-inch notebook drive for my new Core i7 MacBook Pro. The biggest concern for me is performance, with storage after that, and impact on battery life last. Every SSD I have seen is over my budget. I am wondering which hard drive will be the best non-solid state drive to fit in a MBP. Some people mentioned Seagate’s Momentus XT, which is a hybrid drive — are they any good? Thanks!”
One thing Jason left out was his capacity requirements and actual budget, but we’ll go ahead and assume he wants something larger than 40GB and cheaper than the average SSD. Any blazing HDDs out there for the taking? Go on, it’s not like giving up your secret will make everyone reading this go buy up the remaining inventory. No promises on that, though.
Ask Engadget: best non-SSD laptop hard drive? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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