Sep 26

Another alleged HTC Vigor leak: HD display, 1.5GHz dual-core, Beats Audio (update: more pics)

Posted in: 720p, dual-core, HTC, leak, mobilepostcross, rumor, Today's Chili, video

We know the high-end HTC Vigor exists, but we’re still in the dark about its precise specs — not least because a previous ‘leak’ turned out to be double Dutch. Now an Italian dude by the name of Fabio Mele reckons he’s gotten hold of Verizon’s ROM for the Vigor and extracted a ton of information, including tutorial videos (which yielded the render above) and key hardware credentials. And they’re some credentials: a 4.3-inch screen with 720 lines of LG-rivalling HD craziness, a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 1GB RAM and an 8MP rear camera. The reported ROM also contains HTC’s much-hyped Beats Audio software, which we’ve experimented with on the Un-American Sensation XE. We’re taking all this with a pinch of salt if you don’t mind, Signor Mele, but we want to believe you, we really do.

[Thanks, Giuseppe]

Update: That elusive Vigor tutorial vid has popped up online and shows the handset from all angles, including what lies beneath its battery cover (hint: it’s a SIM slot for what we presume to be LTE access). Check it out after the break.

Update 2: And now some real photos of the Vigor have shown up online, too. Check out a couple after the break, and get the full spread over at Android Central.

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Another alleged HTC Vigor leak: HD display, 1.5GHz dual-core, Beats Audio (update: more pics) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink HDBlog (Italian), Droid Life, Android Central  |  sourceFabio Mele, Team BAMF  | Email this | Comments

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Sep 26

Samsung’s Omnia W: Mango, 3.7-inch Super AMOLED, 1.4GHZ processor

Posted in: mango, mobilepostcross, samsung, Today's Chili, windows phone, WindowsPhone, Wp7

Samsung just took the wraps off its Omnia W, which looks like a non-US variant of the Focus Flash we’ve already heard about via AT&T. The handset will debut in Italy and start spreading across the Old World and Latin America from next month. It’ll sport Windows Phone 7.5 out of the box, a 3.7-inch 800×480 Super AMOLED display, 1.4GHz processor, VGA webcam on the front and rear 5MP shooter with 720p video recording. We expect it’ll go head-to-head with HTC’s 3.8-inch Radar when the War of the Mangoes finally kicks off.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Gallery: Samsung Omnia W

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Samsung’s Omnia W: Mango, 3.7-inch Super AMOLED, 1.4GHZ processor originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 26

Bluetooth Sports Earbuds Jam Immovably Into Your Ears

Posted in: Apparel, bluetooth, earbuds, Sports, Today's Chili

The Freedom earbuds won’t fall out, no matter how hard an unnoticed car might hit you

Ever since I broke a leg during a bike polo game, I have stopped wearing headphones while riding. My podcast-listening has dropped off, but my concentration is surely up. Which is why I won’t be buying these Bluetooth sports headphones from JayBird, despite the fact that they’ll probably never distract the wearer by falling out of the ears.

The Bluetooth headphones actually have a cable joining them together, which runs behind your neck. the units themselves come with a flat, Paisley-shaped (or sperm-shaped) hook, made from a squashable, honeycomb material. These squeeze inside your ears and grab onto the nooks and crannies therein, securing them against the most violently head-shaking of sports.

The buds, which double up as a microphone headset for your phone, are also water-sealed against dripping sweat, the downfall of many a pair of earbuds in my home. They’re even reasonably priced, at $100. I’d also like to see a wired version with the same ear-grabbing tech.

Freedom Earbuds product page [JayBird via Werd]

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Sep 26

Pandora Arrives on the Desktop

Posted in: Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on June 04, 2008 by CyberNet.

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Pandora has done a great job of making a name for themselves as the ‘go-to’ music recommendation and Internet radio service on the web. Most people who use the service regularly have nothing but praise for it, but have often requested some type of desktop application to compliment it. Now Pandora is about to satisfy those users who had requested the feature by announcing that a beta version of Pandora Desktop has launched.

This new Pandora Desktop (beta) was built to use the Adobe AIR platform. One of the unfavorable aspects of it is that the advertisements they use stick out like a sore thumb. Of course we can’t blame Pandora for using advertisements because we too rely on them to pay the bills, but those who have used Pandora Desktop already have commented that the advertisements as they are currently set-up do take away the beauty of having a desktop version. Pandora addresses this issue on their blog saying,

It’s important to understand that at Pandora we have big licensing and streaming bills to pay and from the beginning we’ve been working hard to figure out that piece of the puzzle. That means that advertising is an integral part of the Pandora experience and in an effort to keep the advertising as unobtrusive as possible we’ve focused on graphical ads rather than audio ads. The one downside to that is that we need lots of pixels to run the ads, so one thing you’ll find with the desktop app is it’s not some tiny little widget. As nice as that would be, it would make it basically impossible for us to cover our costs with advertising. So, at least for now, the main window of Pandora Desktop (which you can minimize) looks pretty much exactly like the Pandora.com home page.

Here’s what Pandora Desktop offers users:

  • The option to easily see what’s playing with one click
  • Conveniently pause, play and change stations
  • Quick start to begin listening to Pandora

It’s worth noting that Pandora Desktop works for both Mac and Windows users which is nice. I installed it and it looks pretty much just like their website, and allows you to type in the name of an artist, song or composer and then it tries to find music you’d like based upon that.

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It’s a great start for Pandora and while there’s some work that can be done to make it better, there are lots of people happy that a desktop version of Pandora has arrived.

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Source: TechCrunch
Thanks for the tip Omar!

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Sep 26

Julius Blank, chip-making pioneer and Fairchild co-founder, dies at 86

Posted in: att, Today's Chili

Somber news coming out of Palo Alto today, where Julius Blank, the man who helped found the groundbreaking chipmaker Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, has passed away at the age of 86. The Manhattan-born Blank (pictured third from left, above) began his engineering career in 1952, when he joined AT&T’s Western Electric plant in New Jersey. As a member of the engineering group at the plant, Blank helped create phone technology that allowed users to dial long-distance numbers without going through an operator. It was also at Western Electric where he met fellow engineer Eugene Kleiner. In 1956, Blank and Kleiner left AT&T to work at the lab of Nobel Prize-winning physicist William B. Shockley, but departed just one year later (amid to start Fairchild, alongside a group of six other computer scientists that included future Intel Corporation founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. At their new labs, Blank and his peers developed an inexpensive method for manufacturing silicon chips, earning them $1.5 million in capital from a single investor. As the only two with any manufacturing experience, Blank and Kleiner were charged with bringing the dream to fruition — a task that required them to build the chips from scratch, beginning with the machinery for growing silicon crystals. They succeeded, of course, and in 1969, Blank left Fairchild to start Xicor, a tech firm that Intersil would later buy for $529 million, in 2004. But his legacy will forever be linked to those early days at Fairchild, where, as Blank described in a 2008 interview, he and his colleagues were able to experience the unique thrill of “building something from nothing.” Julius Blank is survived by his two sons, Jeffrey and David, and two grandsons.

[Photo courtesy of Joan Seidel / AP 1999]

Julius Blank, chip-making pioneer and Fairchild co-founder, dies at 86 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 26

Newegg Joins Amazon in Charging Taxes in New York

Posted in: amazon, General, Today's Chili

This article was written on May 26, 2008 by CyberNet.

newegg tax in new york.pngBack in mid-April, we wrote about a new Bill that was signed in New York called the “Amazon Tax Bill.” It forces retailers to charge sales tax to customers who live in the state of New York which then provides the state with an extra $50 million in revenue. We mentioned at the time that if ever there was a way to kill online retailers, this could be it. Clearly the people living in New York aren’t too happy (even though they are supposed to pay sales tax on items purchased from out of the state anyways), but retailers like Amazon aren’t too happy either. In fact, Amazon has decided to fight New York on this bill.

Despite the fact that the bill is named after Amazon.com, it doesn’t mean they are the only ones required to follow it. Now Newegg, a favorite store among geeks for purchasing computer hardware and software, has joined Amazon in charging taxes in New York. Recently, their customers living in the state received the following letter:

Important Message to Our New York Customers

May 23, 2008

Dear Valued Newegg Customer,

As a result of recent changes in the State of New York Tax Law requiring certain out-of-state retailers to collect and remit sales taxes to the State of New York, we regrettably inform you that Newegg.com must begin collecting applicable state and local sales tax for all orders shipped to New York addresses on or after June 1, 2008.

Qualified business customers can continue to use the Newegg.com Sales Tax Exempt Form.

We value our relationship with you and all of our New York customers. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this change in New York law and assure you that we will continue to work hard to offer you the best prices, fastest shipping and award winning customer service you deserve.

We look forward to continuing to provide you with the premier online shopping experience for all of your IT and Consumer Electronics needs.

Sincerely,

Bernard Luthi
Newegg.com

Eventually all online retailers using affiliates in the state will have to comply, so slowly but surely, we’ll start seeing other retailers sending out similar letters to their customers. The only way to “get out of it” would be to drop their New York based affiliates because it’s the affiliates, according to New York Government, that give retailers a “physical presence” in the state. Now that this bill is being enforced in New York, it’ll only be a matter of time before other states will follow in their footsteps. What state wouldn’t want several extra million in revenue?

Source: SlickDeals

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Sep 26

$16,400 Titanium Bracelet for Over-Compensating Men

Posted in: Apparel, Today's Chili

Just $16k will buy you this ridiculous piece of over-compensating jewelry for the short man in your life

It’s said that if you squeeze this Rogue Breacher Bracelet, testosterone will drip freely from the beautifully-engineered gaps between its links. These links are fashioned from suitably tough-sounding titanium. “Mil-spec G-5 aerospace-grade titanium,” to be precise.

Each link, lubricated as it is with mythical man-juice, rotates in two axes allowing the bracelet to “flow freely” across the wrist and “constantly adapt to the natural movement of its wearer.” If James Dyson was commissioned to build a robot’s spine (and had his primary-colored paints confiscated), it would look like this.

According to the maker, these things take 100 hours of “machine time” to make, which explains the limited production run (just 20 are being made) and the price, a chest-beating $16,300. Part of that might be cost of materials: the titanium plates I carry in my leg cost a similar amount. The rest of it is clearly designed to make an otherwise pedestrian piece of jewelry attractive to a certain kind of man.

Rogue Breacher [Rogue Design via Uncrate]

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Sep 26

BMW’s Active Sound Design is like putting your head under the hood of the new M5

Posted in: speakers, Today's Chili

We know EVs of the future will lose their ability to silently kill, but how about replicating engine noise for the enjoyment of bonafide petrolheads? Eagle-eyed readers will note that’s a promised feature of the upcoming (but ever-delayed) Fisker Karma, but here beating it to market is BMW’s upcoming M5 — sort of. München’s implementation coined “Active Sound Design,” won’t blast engine machinations on the outside, but instead internally overlays the harmonic soundtrack of the twin turbo V8 over internal speakers as you drive. That audial racket is based on throttle position, engine revs and speed, and gets even louder when the car is set in Sport or Sport+ modes. No word on if you’ll be able to customize with other soundtracks (a la Karma), but there’s nothing a little enthusiast hackery can’t fix…

BMW’s Active Sound Design is like putting your head under the hood of the new M5 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 26

LG’s Clip-On 3-D Specs for Four-Eyed Moviegoers

Posted in: Accessories and Peripherals, LG, Today's Chili

Watch 3-D movies or harass Ferris Bueller lookalikes in video game arcades — you decide

For a spectacle wearer, 3-D movies are a no-go zone. Even if the filthy, crappy 3-D glasses provided by the local movie-house were instead clean and awesome, they’d still be impossible to wear over your own specs. LG has come to the rescue with an updated version of that 1970s style staple — clip-on, flip-up shades.

The passive glasses use even more 1970s tech to do their work. Polarized lenses let differently polarized light into the left and right eyes. This passive 3-D was found in a recent study to be superior to active 3-D, in televisions at least.

The best thing about these glasses, apart from the fact that wearing them will inspire you to grow a mustache, is the price: At $20, you might just want to buy them and use them as actual clip-on sunglasses.

LG AG-F220 product page [LG via Engadget]

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Sep 26

Daily Downloads: FeedDemon, Pitaschio, QTTabBar, and More

Posted in: Daily Downloads, Today's Chili

This article was written on January 15, 2008 by CyberNet.

Windowblinds Notepad FeedDemon Pitaschio Logos Icons Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it’s safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we’ll try to note the paid-only programs).

As you browse the Internet during the day, feel free to post the software updates you come across in the comments below so that we can include them the following day!

–Stable Releases–

The software listed here have all been officially released by the developers.

–Pre-Releases (Alpha, Beta, etc…)–

The software listed here are pre-releases that may not be ready for everyday usage.

  • None

–Release Calendar–

  • Early 2008 – Vista SP1 [Review]
  • Early 2008 – Internet Explorer 8 Beta [Review]
  • Early 2008 – XP SP3 [Review]
  • January – PhraseExpress 5 [Review]
  • January 15 – Mac Office 2008 [Review]
  • January 31 – Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 4
  • February – iPhone SDK [Review]
  • February – Deskscapes 2.0 [Review]
  • February 27 – Windows Server 2008 [Review]
  • March – WordPress 2.5 [Review]
  • March 4 – OpenOffice.org 2.4
  • April 24 – Ubuntu 8.04
  • September 2 – OpenOffice.org 3.0 [Review]
  • 2009 – Windows Mobile 7 [Review]
  • 2009 – Paint.NET 4.00 [Review]
  • 2010 – Windows 7 [Review]

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