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Crestron is a name synonymous with two things in the world of home automation: cost and quality. So it’s always good to the see the company shed its proprietary nature and embrace an off-the-shelf consumer product. Take its new iPanel for example. Instead of dropping a few thousand dollars on a Crestron touch-panel that does just one thing, you can purchase this $500ish snap-on case with thirteen dedicated buttons for home, lights, guide, and info functions. In other words, for the half the price of a typical touchscreen Crestron touchscreen controller you also get a WiFi-connected iPad. Sounds like a winning combination to us. Look for the iPanel to get official at CEDIA next week.

Crestron iPanel controller for iPad does twice as much for half the price originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Time to set aside childish things, dear readers. Dell’s just added the imperious U3011 monitor to the list of chattels available to purchase from its online store. This 30-inch IPS wonder offers a 7ms response time, 178-degree viewing angles on both axes, an eye-searing 370 nits of brightness, and a satisfyingly dense 2560 x 1600 resolution. A pair of DVI-D ports are kept company by a single DisplayPort and two HDMI inputs on the back, meaning that if you’ve got the cables, you’ll probably never have to reach around back after the initial setup. CNET‘s done an early review of this fresh new UltraSharp below and, if you must know, the 10-bit IPS panel walked away with an Editor’s Choice badge and a few stolen hearts. That menace!

[Thanks, Dan]

Dell UltraSharp U3011 now shipping: $1,499 for a 30-inch IPS panel with 2560 x 1600 res originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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At separate conferences this week, ATT and Verizon Wireless announced expansion plans for their respective 4G LTE networks. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20016765-85.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Dialed In/a/p

Remember the mysterious reference to iProd 2,1 that appeared in the iPad’s code? We thought it might be a new CDMA or camera-equipped iPad, but it just might have been the new iOS-based Apple TV instead. Diving through the iOS 4.2 beta, a TUAW tipster allegedly uncovered the above key, which hints that we might have been right about the device’s app potential all along. Though Apple may rely on a simpler media streaming UI for the home theater to enhance accessibility and ease of use, there’s always the chance the community might jailbreak the $99 set-top box to do far greater things. While you wait with bated breath for confirmation of this wondrous possibility, why not check out our Apple TV hands-on?

New Apple TV’s iOS can be jailbroken and made to run apps? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Times are tough for top-level executives these days, from HP to Nokia and even this side of Dell. The latest in that dubious list is LG Electronics. Wanting to “take responsibility for the slack performance” (i.e. declining sales) in the handset market, CEO Yong Nam has resigned and will be replaced next month by LG International head (and member of the founding family) Koo bon-joon. Sad to see Mr. Yong after three years and nine months in the position, but on the bright side, as far as we can tell this won’t have an effect on the company’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 lineup.

LG Electronics CEO resigns in wake of waning mobile phone sales originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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