I’m writing this from a café where I’ve been sitting for hours. I’ve got an ancient bagel crust and a mostly-empty cup of coffee that’s colder than Lebron’s greedy little heart. And I’m not leaving anytime soon. Is that appropriate? More »
Four weeks ago today, Sony announced its ‘Welcome Back‘ campaign following the weeks-long PSN outage that began in April. Now, the program is entering its final weekend, giving you just two more days to download your pair of free PS3 or PSP games, along with 100 virtual items from PlayStation Home and 30 days of PlayStation Plus. To claim your gratis package from the PlayStation Store, click on the “Welcome Back” tab and make your pick. Sure, a few handouts may not make up for those countless days you spent offline, contemplating a switch to other networks, but free stuff is free stuff, so head over to PSN to claim what’s rightfully yours before the clock strikes midnight on July 3rd.
Sony rolls up the PSN ‘Welcome Back’ mat this Sunday, takes free entertainment with it originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
A beginner’s guide to HDTV setup, from cables to settings.
Well, what have we here? Another HTC EVO 3D, aka the PG86300, has landed on the FCC’s doorstep — only this time it’s packing radios similar to those seen in the phone’s European edition. This one works on the 1700MHz AWS band, so it appears could be destined for duty in the pockets of T-Mobile’s magenta-clad masses, though we can’t say for sure. However, now that the government’s decreed this EVO’s electronics won’t fry our brains, it shouldn’t be be long before we find out.
Update: This FCC filing is most likely for the European EVO 3G, which, like the European Sensation and Flyer, features a tri-band 3G (HSPA+) radio with 2100 / 1700 (AWS) and 900MHz as well as a quadband 2G radio. This means you’ll possibly be able to import the handset unlocked from Europe and use it with 3G on carriers like T-Mobile USA or Wind in Canada. Sorry, AT&T customers, no 3G soup for you!
EVO 3D at the FCC redux: now with AWS 3G (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You’ve seen the robotic hog head dropper. But there’s still a lot of pig left to butcher. With bones and stuff. How do you make a boneless ham out of all that? The HAMDAS-R Ham Boning machine. More »
There’s a war on in New York City. The lines of loyalty were drawn way back in 1898 and, ever since, it’s been battle for borough superiority. A team of hackers has ushered this county rivalry into the internet age, turning the Big Apple into a giant Risk board where check-ins replace dice rolls and armies are gathered on Foursquare. In World of Fourcraft users pledge fealty to a particular locale then, for the honor of their homeland, check-in to wrest control of neighborhoods from their residents and defend their own turf from potential usurpers. The whole project was whipped up last weekend during a hackathon at New York’s General Assembly. At the moment it does little more than tally check-ins, but the creators plan to add new features in the future. Now, go forth and do battle for your block but, don’t stray too far — to the north and east of the Boogie Down Bronx, and the south and west of the Slums of Shaolin, lies The Waste Land.
World of Fourcraft brings battle of the boroughs to Foursquare originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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25,000 apps? Make it 25,001. The Engadget app for Windows Phone is here. Finally. Now your HD7 or Surround or Trophy or Omnia can get some native news in a format that’s so Metro it doesn’t even have a driver’s license. We know that it took awhile, but we needed it to be right, and now it is. On the app you can get all the posts from the main site as well as Mobile and HD, plus podcasts, videos, and all the content we pour our hearts in to every day, pushed right to your palm. If you have a Windows Phone device that can handle QR codes, there’s an image waiting for you after the break. Or, you’re welcome to click on the source link below, which should open the Zune app and make some magic happen. No Zune app installed? No magic, but maybe that just means you’d prefer our similarly enchanting iPad, iPhone, webOS, BlackBerry, or Android flavors?
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The year’s half over and summer is upon us. That can only mean one thing: it’s time for the young among us to sit in a dark room and stare at a backlit screen for 18-20 hours a day (and for the rest of us to be jealous of them). Here’s the newest batch of Bestmodo gadgets to keep you an unhealthy shade of alabaster and carrion all summer long. More »
So, it turns out that when you crack open the EVO 3D, pixie dust doesn’t pour out of the thing — disappointing, sure, but such is life. Thankfully, there are some interesting things to look at, however, like the dual-core processor and, of course, the cameras that let you take all of those awesome 3D shots of your pets. Wanna see more of the magic? How about a seven minute teardown video shot with a cameraphone? It’s not quite the manner of pro teardowns we’re used to seeing from the folks at iFixit, but there is a certain joy in watching a guy excitedly tear open his new toy. For the rest of you, we don’t recommend trying this at home — but if you do, definitely upload it to YouTube. Video after the break.
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HTC EVO 3D torn down, three-dimensional magic revealed (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Get up, wake up, wake up: it’s the first of the month, and it’s also a Friday, so gather the fam ’round the glowing laptop by the fireplace and fire up the 246th edition of this, the Engadget Podcast. Dana Wollman rolls with us this time around the week in tech, which featured a generous stacking-up-upon of the already gigantic pile of tablets we have lying around HQ. We also had a plus-sized shot from the dark out of Mountain View and a healthy smattering of statistics and other news-morsels we know you wanna hear about. It’s all here for you for free, so get at it!
Host: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guests: Dana Wollman
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: A Hard Day’s Night
00:02:50 – HP TouchPad review
00:10:00 – HP confirms it’s in talks about licensing webOS, Samsung tipped as a possibility
00:13:46 – HP tempts webOS early adopters to buy a TouchPad with $50 rebate
00:21:30 – Google+ for Android app (hands-on)
00:21:50 – Google+ invite received, we go hands-on
00:30:09 – LeapFrog LeapPad Explorer tablet hands-on (video)
00:36:07 – Cisco Cius Android tablet hands-on (video)
00:39:39 – Congolese VMK Gingerbread tablet eager to show its face, shipping in September
00:43:26 – ThinkPad Tablet shown off with keyboard-laden folio cover, could ship within a month
00:45:30 – Andy Rubin: over 500,000 Android activations a day, and growing
00:48:00 – Windows Phone 7.5 Mango in-depth preview (video)
00:54:08 – HTC Status for AT&T announced on Facebook, risks being tagged in embarrassing pics
00:56:05 – CyanogenMod 7 on the Nook Color hands-on (video)
00:58:15 – Ubuntu demonstrated running on Galaxy Tab 10.1, summarily dubbed ‘Tabuntu’ (video)
00:58:46 – US Supreme Court strikes down California law, says video games are protected as free speech
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