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With a tablet market dominated by the svelte iPad 2, a device with a “chunky design” isn’t bound to Thrive. According to Notebook Italia, Toshiba’s expected to announce a new ultra-thin tablet at IFA this week, swapping full-size USB and HDMI ports for micro-USB, micro HDMI, and microSD slots in order to shave off a few millimeters from last year’s model, leaving the new device with a sleeker, much more appealing design. The rumored slate is expected to ship with a TI OMAP4460 dual-core 1.5GHz processor, an edge-to-edge screen, and a brushed-metal housing. Other specs, including Android version and screen size are a bit thin at this point, but we should have only a few more days to wait before Toshiba’s new tab makes its glorious IFA debut in Berlin.
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While some rumors hold that the next iPhone might adopt a 4-inch screen, sources tell DigiTimes that Apple will stick with a smaller size–anywhere from 3.5 to 3.7 inches.
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Surly’s Moonlander. Tell me you don’t want to take it for a spin. Photo credit Surly
Surly, maker of tough bikes for tough people with a sense of humor, has pulled back the curtain on the coming year’s new products. There are many updates to existing lines (the Long Haul Trucker frame will also be available with disk brake mountings, for instance), and a pair of new bikes. Here, though, we’ll take a look at the new Moonlander. Why pick on this one? Well, just look at it:
Crazy, right? The space-colored (black with “metal goodness flakes”) frame sits atop a pair of wheels that would probably float over just about anything. The Clownshoe rims are 100mm wide, and have holes cut in them to cut down on weight (960 grams or 2.1 pounds). And yes, it would appear that rubber bulges through these holes. The be-holed Clownshoe will cost $200.
The Clownshoe rim is as absurd as a real clown shoe. Photo credit Surly
Onto these comedy rims (which will also come in a non-holy, heavier and cheaper version) goes the Big Fat Larry, a 26×4.7, 120tpi tire that’s as fat as your upper arm. The tire is listed as “tire colored,” and it should be on sale any time now for $140.
The Moonlander itself has a few special mods to let the chain clear these huge wheels. Surly has modded its Mr. Whirly cranks into the MWOD Mr. Whirly Offset Double. This puts the chainrings further out (the rear wheel has a matching offset) to clear the tire. The crankset will ship in late September for $310.
Should you opt for just the Moonlander frame, you can have it in late September, too, for $700. The full bike will arrive in December, for $2,350.
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The electronics giant postpones the release of its tablet Down Under and also says it plans to countersue Apple for patent infringement within its flagship iPad tablet.
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E FUN’s aPen A3 stylus brings digitized scribbles to Android, BlackBerry users (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Supposedly there are some magical TouchPads out there with Android pre-installed on them, but that won’t help you load it up your new collectors item. Thankfully the Cyanogen Mod team is hard at work on a port of Google’s mobile OS for your HP slate and aiming to claim the bounty on its head. It’s still in the extremely early stages. At the moment it does little more than boot up and unlock with the aid of ADB — even the touchscreen isn’t working just yet — but it shouldn’t be too long before you can swap out webOS with CM7. Check out the brief demo video below.
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TouchPad port of CM7 in the works, can barely be called an alpha (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It seems like every day we’re given new information about the progress of one lawsuit or another in the mobile world. The fight has been stretched across the globe, and includes such a tangled web of intersecting companies that it is just mind numbing to try and follow without being hand held through it by a legal […]
Panasonic’s new ‘premium’ lenses drop the focus and zoom rings. Photos Panasonic PR
Panasonic has launched a pair of new non-Leica-designed lenses for its Micro Four Thirds range of cameras. The emphasis is on making these new lenses small and light, and to this end Panasonic has removed somewhat essential features.
Speaking to the British Journal of Photography, Panasonic’s UK Lumix boss Barney Sykes said that “Leica has very strict standards when making lenses. This would not have conformed to Leica’s standard.”
The two lenses are power-zoom models (you zoom in and out by pressing two buttons instead of twisting a dial), like you’d find on compact cameras. Also replaced by buttons is the manual focus ring. There’s a 14-42mm ƒ3.5-5.6 and a 25-175 ƒ4-5.6 model. The 14-42 in particular is tiny when the zooming center is retracted — barely larger than the tiny 20mm pancake.
The lenses are the firs tin Panasonic’s new “X” line, which denotes high-end optics, and are supposedly of better quality than the current lenses.
Sykes says that the lenses use “digital technology to get the same quality” as the lenses designed in collaboration with Leica. This, presumably, means that there’s a lot of correction going on in-camera. We’ll be able to test this when we get our hands on one by comparing the in-camera JPG files with the RAW files processed in Lightroom. If the camera is making corrections, then the unprocessed RAW file should show the naked image.
The 45-175 will cost $450 and be available in September. The 14-45mm will cost $400 in November.
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How do you compete with Google’s new Wallet mobile payment system? Well, a $100 million cash infusion certainly couldn’t hurt. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have plans to invest just that amount in Isis, sources told Businessweek. That sum is likely to grow, since taking on Google is no small feat, especially considering Wallet is already off the ground, with nationwide retail partners and support for MasterCard PayPass. Though Isis first made its debut last year, Google Wallet, which was announced in May, has clearly taken the lead. Isis is little more than a top-level website at this point, though with three of the nation’s largest carriers providing support, it could have a chance to catch up — especially if the carriers elect not to partner with Google, leaving Sprint as the sole wireless provider. We’re glad to see some potential healthy competition for Wallet, especially considering that it was looking like Google was poised to create a monopoly. We expect much more to come on the Isis front, but in the meantime, hold on to those wallets — cell phone payments may be in your future, but for now, paper and plastic are where it’s at.
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon give Isis mobile payment network a $100 million boost originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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