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Samsung’s highly-anticipated Nexus S 4G joined the WiMAX family this month, pairing Google’s popular Nexus handset with Sprint’s 4G network. But with the honeymoon over, customers have noticed that the Gingerbread device isn’t living up to Sprint’s former flagship mates, such as the Epic 4G, with last year’s model besting the new guy on both speed and network reception tests. Customers also noticed issues with battery life, though so far we’ve found it to be consistent with other WiMAX smartphones. We took both out for a stroll around New York City, and on a quick weekend getaway to Miami Beach, and we’re sorry to report that we’ve confirmed your fears about performance. Sprint and Google have confirmed that they’re looking into the performance issues, and we hope they can patch things up with some over-the-air update therapy, but in the meantime, jump past the break to see what we found.

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Engadget Investigates: Samsung Nexus S 4G WiMAX performance issues originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 May 2011 17:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last month we asked for a “funny pages” display in Google’s next release of Maps that shows a thick dotted line depicting where we’ve traveled, but it appears the folks at El Goog had a different agenda in mind for version 5.5. This time around, we see a few redesigns as well as some streamlined Latitude features. First, check-ins and ratings have now been added to the Places page, giving you one extra point of access; you also now have the option of changing your home or work address within your Latitude Location History, in case you ever move or just like to roam from place to place. Last but not least, Google Maps 5.5 for Android also offers reorganized transit station pages that now list off upcoming departures, transit lines serving that particular station, and links to other stops nearby. Though not a substantial upgrade from previous versions, it’s still impressive that Google pushed it out less than a month after 5.4. The new update is available as a free download in the Android Market.

Google Maps 5.5 for Android cops more Latitude, tweaks Places and transit pages originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 May 2011 16:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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To celebrate its 190th anniversary, the U.K.’s Guardian creates a Georgian/Victorian era version of its front–er, home–page, complete with serifs, swashes, and other such stylings.

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CNET editor Dong Ngo gives his take on OCZ’s latest solid-state drive, the Agility 3.

It’s all about doing new stuff, right? This week, we’re doing a lot of new stuff: paying for soda pop with our cell phones, reading books on E Ink displays, and waiting for Duke Nukem Forever. OK, well maybe none of those things are actually new, but we’re doing them in new ways this week, kind of. Listen to the podcast, is all we’re saying.

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02:30 – Kobo unbuttons for $129 eReader Touch Edition, we go hands-on (video)
03:52 – Barnes & Noble announces new touch-enabled Nook for $139 (video)
13:43 – Barnes & Noble selling Nooks for $99 on eBay
18:03 – Live from Microsoft’s Windows Phone VIP preview event!
22:00 – Windows Phone ‘Mango’ search offers location-specific results, app integration (video)
29:36 – Windows Phone Mango and Bing Vision hands-on
32:05 – Live from the Google Wallet press event!
33:50 – Google Wallet mobile payment service, Google Offers announced
35:16 – Google Wallet vending on Nexus S hands-on
43:21 – Droid Incredible 2 review
48:53 – Spotify and Facebook partner up, send Europe a friend request?
50:55 – Sony makes good, doles out identity protection activation codes for PSN and Qriocity users
51:28 – TweetDeck and Twitter, together at last
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