Jan 03
Company is moving from its familiar ground of flat-screen TVs to launch a Android-based smartphone and tablet at this week’s CES 2011.
Jan 03
LAS VEGAS — Samsung is first out of the gate with at CES 2011 with a brand-new, easy-to-use camcorder. Folded down, the simple cylindrical shape of the HMX-Q10 looks a lot like a thermos flask or a flashlight. Open it up and you see just how much Samsung has packed in.
Almost everything is controlled from the 2.75mm touch-screen, which itself features an orientation-detecting design so the picture – and therefore the controls – is always the right way up, just like a modern smartphone. This also means that left-handers can flip it upside down and still have full control. Samsung calls this a “switch-grip”.
As for pictures, you can shoot up to 1080i and 720p at 60fps, and capture 4.9 megapixel stills. These are all recorded onto an SDHC memory card, for as long as the battery lasts: anywhere between four and 34 hours depending on picture-quality settings.
The HMX-Q10 also comes with all the gimmicks you’d expect on a consumer-grade camera: face-detection, a scene-detection mode for exposure adjustments, and a low price. When the camera goes on sale in February 2011, it will cost just $300.
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Jan 03
iRobot updates Roomba, Scooba
Posted in: Today's ChiliiRobot will unveil two new robot cleaners at CES this week–the floor-washing Scooba 230 to fit in tighter spaces and the vacumming Roomba 700 series to pick up finer particles.
Jan 03
Toshiba Shows Off iPad Competitor
Posted in: tablet, Today's Chili, Toshiba
‘Tis the season for company-sanctioned pre-CES announcements. Toshiba today took the wraps off its upcoming tablet–the first Android Honeycomb-based tablet to be unveiled this year (keep in mind that, while Motorola has let slip some no-so-subtle hints about such a device, it has yet to actually pull back the curtain).
So, what’s Toshiba’s new tablet called? Simple. It’s called the Toshiba Tablet. Yup. Clever, right? It’s a device name that really lets the world know what it is.
Beyond the Honeycomb thing, here’s what we know about this cleverly-named tablet: it has an Nvidia Tegra dual-core processor inside, front and rear-facing cameras (2MP in the front, 5MP in the back) for video chatting, 1080p video playback, a keyboard with haptic feedback (take that, Apple), and a user replaceable battery (and that).
It also has a USB 2.0, mini USB, and SD card ports. There’s built-in 802.11n, Bluetooth, and GPS. The thing will weigh 1.7 pounds. No word on pricing yet.
The Toshiba Tablet is first of what’s sure to be countless tablets introduced at CES 2011, happening this week in Las Vegas. If only all of them could be so simply named.
Jan 03
Freescale announces i.MX 6 processor series, wants quad cores in your smartphone
Posted in: arm, Today's Chili
Power. We need more. More for streaming video, more for playing games, and more just so that we can say we have it. Freescale hears us, and it’s delivering the i.MX 6 series of mobile processors offering up to four ARM Cortex A9 cores at 1.2GHz each. That’s plenty for 3D rendering on your car infotainment system, music-making on your smartphone, maybe a little SETI action on your next smart refrigerator. Even 1080p30 video encoding is a said to be within these chips’ reach. i.MX 6 processors will be available in one, two, or four core configurations with up to 1MB of L2 cache. HDMI 1.4 support is onboard, along with gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0, but sadly not 3.0. It seems there’s always something to look forward to in the next revision, but that could be quite a wait with i.MX 6 sampling not set to begin until “later this year.”
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Jan 03
Multiple Intel Core 2011 PCs spotted at Vancouver Future Shop, yes it’s still the present
Posted in: CoreI7, intel, sandy bridge, SandyBridge, Today's Chili
Ooh, what’s this? A couple of desktops rocking Intel’s latest and greatest, available for purchase perhaps a few days too early? Matthew T. spotted these machines at a Vancouver Future Shop, advertising Core i7 2600 and Core i5 2300 processors, which fall squarely in the Intel Core 2011 (née Sandy Bridge) family. Both come from Gateway and both offer all that core 2011 has to offer, which in the case of these desktops isn’t too much since neither has a Blu-ray drive to take advantage of the new 3D HDMI 1.4 support and neither has much use for WiDi 2.0 wireless displays. But, don’t let that stop you from being the first on your block to Core it up 2011 style.
[Thanks, Matthew T.]
Multiple Intel Core 2011 PCs spotted at Vancouver Future Shop, yes it’s still the present originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Jan 03
Yeesh. What manner of ungodly sum is Facebook worth these days? $5 Billion, thanks to a new investment from the deep pockets at Goldman Sachs, who plunked down $500 million for the social networking site.
Remember how shocked everyone was when AOL bought Time Warner back in 2000–and not the other way around? Well, you might want to sit down for this–the new valuation puts Facebook’s valuation at more than Time Warner, Yahoo, and eBay.
A number of folks are speculating that such a valuation might end up convincing the company to go public with its stocks earlier than planned. At present, however, it doesn’t appear that Zuckerberg’s company has any plans to do so at least until 2012.
Jan 03
iPhone alarms still not working, worlds crashing left and right
Posted in: Apple, AppleIphone, breaking news, BreakingNews, ios, iPhone, iphone 3g, Iphone3g, Today's Chili
Hey, you — it’s January 3rd. You know, the day you’re supposed to return to work / school / life. And the day you’re supposed to catch a flight you’ve had booked for three months. And probably a day that you’re supposed to accomplish lots of other tasks. Unfortunately for you, you actually believed that your iPhone alarm would fix itself when today rolled around, but based on hordes of complaints seen on Twitter and Facebook, said fix is still hibernating. And thus, you’re still sleeping. Even here at Engadget HQ, we’ve seen iPhone 4 handsets not wake us as promised (on non-recurring alarms), so who knows when Apple will step up to the plate and address the issue. In the meantime, go ahead and set up a recurring alarm while gently crossing your fingers and toes. Or, you know, buy a battery-powered alarm clock off of your grandmother.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
iPhone alarms still not working, worlds crashing left and right originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jan 03
Samsung announces $299 HMX-Q10 camcorder, makes it work upside down
Posted in: camcorder, samsung, Today's Chili
Lefty? We feel ya — sometimes modern camcorders just aren’t built for those with alternate dominant proclivities, but Samsung‘s HMX-Q10 most certainly is. Though, really, it’d be great for anyone who has felt the need to keep on filming while using their right hand to cling desperately onto a grabrail or the like. It offers a compact design with a prominent record button right on its fanny, about the only physical control you really need to worry about. The rest displayed on the 2.7-inch touchscreen, which automatically flips itself if you hold the camera upside down. Images are beamed through a 10x (2.75 – 27.5mm) optical zoom and then splayed across a 5 megapixel sensor, which enables full HD recording — albeit at 60i. If you want progressive you’ll have to drop to 720p, but that’s not such a bad deal considering the cost of $299 when it ships in February. Besides, the lower res will make your SDHC card feel a little more roomy.
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Jan 03
Samsung today announced that it has managed to sell 10 million Galaxy S smartphones since the Android-based handset was launched, back in June. That number matches the very public (and somewhat derided) goal that the company set for itself on the phone’s launch.
North America comprises the largest chunk of that 10 million, with four million Galaxy S units sold. Europe is number two at 2.5 million, and Asia makes up about two million. The total number breaks down to an impressive 40,000 units a day and 1.4 million a month.
Samsung ended the last quarter as the number four manufacturer of smartphones globally, following Nokia, Apple, and BlackBerry manufacturer, RIM. The company is reportedly on-track to ship 61 million smartphones next year, including the Google-branded Nexus S.
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