What better way to while away the hours spent standing in lines, waiting for friends, and traveling on planes, trains, and buses than with some fun, free games? Here are five great ones for your Android.
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Another year is in the books, but before we shut the door on 2010 and sign off for the holidays, we wrap up some of the latest cell phone news and reviews. Plus, we give you a preview of what to expect from CES 2011. From LTE handsets to dual-core Android phones, it’s shaping up to be a very busy show, and we’ll be there to report on all the action, so be sure to tune in on Friday, January 7 at 2 p.m., PT for special broadcast of Dialed In live from Las Vegas. Finally, we want to wish you all a wonderful holiday season and happy new year! As always, thanks for listening, and we’ll see you in 2011.
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10 million freaking smartphones. Who thought, when Samsung put that number forward as its 2010 Galaxy S sales goal two months ago, that it was actually going to happen? Well, with just over a week left in the calendar year, the Korean giant has racked up 9.3 million sales of its Android superphone globally and actually expects to sneak past the mythical 10 million mark just before the champagne glasses start clinking. The Galaxy S has also scored a win in its home market of South Korea, where its two million units sold so far leads the 1.8 million iPhones sold since the series debuted in November 2009. Hearty congratulations are due to the crew in Seoul, such success doesn’t happen by chance, but let’s keep working on those Froyo (and Gingerbread!) software updates as well, eh chaps?
Update: This article has been update to reflect Chosunibo’s claim that 1.8 million iPhone series devices were sold — not just iPhone 4 handsets.
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CNET’s review on the LaCie FastKey portable drive: the first thumb-size USB 3.0 portable solid state storage solution.
We have all ideas that the 70b will look mighty weak after next year’s spate of slates, tablets and readers hit the public view at CES, but with a price tag as diminutive as €99.99 ($130), who cares about bells and / or whistles? Spotted first in the FCC’s lairs a few weeks ago, the Archos 70b e-reader is now up for pre-order in Europe, boasting a 7-inch WVGA touchpanel, 4GB of storage, 802.11b/g WiFi and an SD expansion slot. We’re told that the battery will keep things humming for around ten hours (or up to 18 if using it strictly as a music player with the screen flipped off), and if we had to guess, we’d say it’ll probably make the trip through the Panama Canal in Q1 2011. Question is: will you care?
Archos’ Android-based 70b e-reader up for pre-order in Europe originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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As the annual wireless conferences draw closer, new Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone rumors suggest that the device will carry the name “Xperia Play” and be released in April.
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This article was written on August 30, 2006 by CyberNet.
Everyone is addicted to Sudoku and if you say you’re not addicted then you probably haven’t played it. Online versions have popped up all over the place to help people cope with their addiction. However, you don’t always have an Internet connection wherever you go.
Portable Sudoku may be your solution to feed the addiction. Stick this bad boy on your USB drive and you’ll be all set to get your game on. It has four difficulty levels just to make sure that even the Sudoku Grand Master would be challenged. You can even make little notes in the boxes by holding down shift and selecting a number.
If you have to run and don’t have time to finish your game there is no need to worry. It will automatically save your game when you close the program. Of course, for the cheaters there is also a “Solve Game” feature that will reveal the solution. Maybe just one peek wouldn’t hurt anything. 
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You can be as jaded as you like, and trust us we’ve offered our own fair share of cynicism, but let’s put that aside for a moment as we learn that General Motors is pulling in about 100 miles worth of oil-soaking booms, 100,000 pounds worth that would have otherwise gone into landfills, and turning them into stacks of plastic parts that will go under the hood and in the front bumper of the Chevrolet Volt. The booms of course come from the Louisiana coasts, where oil is still being collected despite the US media having collectively forgotten all about it. These 100 miles of booms will provide enough parts to outfit the entire first-year production Volts and, while we’re sure this is as much a PR move as it is a practical or environmental one, we’re going to go ahead and just call it a win-win.
GM making Volt parts from oil-soaked booms used in Louisiana, getting greener by the minute originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Get your iPhone running. Head out on the highway. Looking for some pancakes, and whatever else Google Local Search finds along the way. BMW’s Mini brand has been on the forefront of iOS connectivity and the Mini Connect app is now in the App Store, ready for download. It lets you stream internet radio through your 2011 model’s speakers or have Twitter and news feeds read to you. Google integration means easy use of Local Search and a “Send To Car” feature lets you find your destination on the phone and then deploy it to the rather more clunky built-in nav system. Finally, the “Minimalism Analyser” (MINImalism, hah!) gives you points for driving all nice and environmentally friendly. You’d better lay off the Stepphenwolf if you’re looking to do well there.
Mini Connected app hits iTunes, now you can finally hit the road originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
They’re here, well, almost. Two attractive and legible alternatives to the over designed watch, Ziiiro’s Gravity and Mercury, are now available for pre-order. No, they can’t tell you if it’s snowing out like Fossil’s Connected, and they won’t bump your 2010 year in review playlist like an iPod nano watch, but they do tell time like no other — quite literally. The Gravity and Mercury have taken Ziiiro’s lofty goal of stylish utilitarianism from concept to reality. The watches function without any of the markings of standard analog timepieces, instead using a continuously rotating combination of two rings to make temporal distinctions. The tip of the inner ring represents the hour, while the tip of the outer ring denotes minutes, and a fading gradient tracks the passage of time. Ziiiro doesn’t let form override function, but it doesn’t skimp on aesthetics, either: Mercury, which touts a stainless steel band, comes in four different color schemes, while Gravity boasts a patent pending bracelet strap (a silicone-metal combo), available in six colors. Both watches also feature pop-out faces, allowing for a variety of Swatch watch-style face-band pairings. However, while they’re both readable and fashionable, these low frills watches don’t come cheap: prices range from €100 to €143, or about $130 to $175.
Ziiiro Gravity and Mercury watches coming soon to a wrist near you originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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