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Apple’s just announced a brand new, re-designed iPod shuffle. The button is back, and this model’s got up to a 15 hour battery life, is available in five colors, and will run you $49. If you’re in the mood, you can pre-order today, and it’ll ship next week. Full press release is below.

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Apple announces redesigned iPod shuffle, brings the buttons back originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple is also talking up iOS 4.2 today, which will be everything iOS 4.1 is bringing, plus some extra goodies, and will finally bring iOS 4 (hello multitasking!) to the iPad. The most exciting of the new features is AirPlay, which is Apple’s redub for AirTunes, with the important addition of being able to stream music and video to your i-device over WiFi (with an iPad even acting as host for the new Apple TV). Also over WiFi is a new wireless printing feature, complete with a little Print Center applet that sits in the dock and lets you manage your print jobs. It might not be sexy, but it’s certainly a welcome addition to iOS. Apple will be launching iOS 4.2 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices in November.

Apple demoes iOS 4.2, features AirPlay media streaming originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steve Jobs just dropped a few numbers on us. Firstly, that big one above, 120 million iOS devices — that’s iPhones, iPod touches and iPads, for the forgetful in the class — have been shipped since the original iPhone made its grand debut back in 2007. 230,000 is the next number of significance — that’s the tally of daily iOS activations. Moving down to even more granular stats, Apple says 200 apps are being downloaded every second, which has resulted in the mind-bending 6.5 billion total downloads of iOS applications. This is from a catalog of over 250,000 total apps, with 25,000 of them being available for the iPad. Yeah, Apple’s just blowing its horn, but it sure is a big one, isn’t it?

Apple ships 120 million iOS devices since iPhone’s launch originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tired of those fancy-pants delicate Cupertino tablets? GammaTech, which makes military-grade rugged notebooks and tablets, has just released the RT10 series of tablet PCs. Meant for hard work environments where dirt and liquids are constantly ready to take down tech gadgets, the RT10 line offers rugged fully-sealed design. It’s drop-proof, spill-proof, shock-proof, dust-proof, and watertight.

For specs, the RT10 features a high-res (1024 x 600) 10.2-inch WSVGA TFT LCD, support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and it runs Windows 7 Professional, Vista Business, or XP Tablet Edition operating systems. It’s also loaded with two USB ports, an Ethernet port, and a smart card reader. The tablet measures five pounds. Buyers can choose from two varieties: the RT10A features a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, while the RT10D features a 1.2GHz Intel Core Duo U2500. The tablet is available now through resellers, and the company isn’t giving out pricing information on its site.

Despite what we’d heard before, Sony announced today at IFA that the firmware update bringing 3D Blu-ray playback to the PlayStation 3 will not arrive this month, instead pushed back to October which, we are told, is an entire 30 days away. until then we’ll have to live with the recent MotorStorm 3D game that recently popped up on PSN and a slightly-lower res version of Wipeout. Unfortunately, there still aren’t many movies to watch for the time being, and even the most ardent early adopters may want to wait until Sony rolls out the Michael Jackson’s This Is It – 3D Enhanced Edition and Alice in Wonderland 3D bundles it also announced. For the rest of us, we’ll probably still be firmly planted on the fence by the time the Green Hornet and Spiderman movies mentioned on stage come to disc.

Sony: PlayStation 3 Blu-ray 3D update due in October originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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