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Amazon’s 7-Eleven lockers are very real, very gray, slated for Friday activation originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Those of you who kinda dug JBL’s On Air, but wished it was just a tad more wheel-like, will probably love this AirPlay-enabled speaker from Philips that just passed through the FCC. Burdened with the name DS3801W, this ring-shaped Fidelio unit not only packs WiFi, but a USB port for charging and playing back music from your iDevices, as well as an “MP3-Link” jack (which appears to be just a 3.5mm audio plug) for all your non-Apple players. We got a brief hands-on with its battery-packing sibling, the DS3881w, at IFA and we expect this unit to ship for a little less than that model’s $330 price point. Check out the source link for a bunch more images, as well as the user manual and all the RF exposure reports you can handle.

Philips Fidelio DS3801W, another ring-shaped AirPlay speaker, does the FCC tango originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Half the fun of trade shows is when unexpected beans get spilled at PR stalls and here, my dear Watson, we have another intriguing example. A TechBlog.gr pundit picked up a new Nokia 700 at IFA and was confronted with a stored promo video depicting a totally different and unfamiliar high-end handset. It looks slightly curved like the N9, runs the latest version of Symbian and possesses a rather attractive edge-to-edge LCD. The main gist of the promo is a wireless platform called Air Cloud, which apparently allows the phone to pair up with an audio system via NFC. Word on the street is this could be the N8’s successor — the so-called 801 — but there’s not a great many clues to back that up. In any case, check out the video after the break and savor that fleeting sense of infinite regress.

Update: Sherlock may have run away with himself slightly here. Mobiflip.de reckons it got a comment from someone at Nokia who said the phone is just a concept, made for the purpose of illustrating Air Cloud. Guess that edge-to-edge screen was too good to be true.

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Unannounced Nokia Symbian Belle handset is a mysterious phone within a phone (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The game retailer reportedly will soon start selling Apple’s devices in its stores, though an exact timetable has not been announced.

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Sony spent a fair bit of time at last week’s IFA press conference assuring the press and consumers that it’s doing its darnedest to stay on top of the security issues that have plagued it over the past year. It’s hard to imagine a move more representative of such a stance than the hiring of a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security official. The company announced today that it has done just that, scooping of former U.S. National Cyber Security Center director Philip Reitinger for a senior vice president position. And in case there was any question as to the reasoning behind the decision, a Sony spokesperson addressed the issue, stating, “certainly the network issue was a catalyst for the appointment.” Fair enough, Sony.

Sony nabs former U.S. Department of Homeland Security official originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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