Hasta La Gadget!

The Raspberry Pi is a tasty little Linux computing device but it’s so far been rather hard to buy. I’ve wanted to order one since it officially started to ship in April. However, due to the limited quantities, retailers sold out nearly immediately.

Enter Allied Electronics. The Texas-based electronic distributor is now taking orders for the Raspberry Pi at the list price of $35 each with the only caveat being shipping is not for 10-12 weeks. But I’ll take it!

The Raspberry Pi is a pretty exciting computing devices. The tiny PCB is packed to the gills with respectable hardware: a Broadcom BCN2835 SoC (700MHz ARM CPU), 256MB RAM, Ethernet, two USB ports, and HDMI. Plus, the Linux core allows for all sorts of general coding fun. It’s hard to find a more capable device for $35 — and now you can finally order one.

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By Lauren Wolfe/CPJ Guest Blogger

The story sounds hideously like another–one of a chaotic, predatory attack on a woman journalist in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Clothes torn from her body, hundreds of men surging to grab her breasts and claw at her. A woman wondering, “Maybe this is how I go, how I die.” It has been almost a year and a half since CBS correspondent and CPJ board member Lara Logan endured an attack like this. Now, an independent journalist and student named Natasha Smith reports that it has happened to her.

Smith reported the attack on her blog Tuesday, describing how a hoard of men descended on her Sunday night, pulling her limbs and throwing her around as she tried to protect her camera. She said she soon lost her camera, her backpack, and began to pray: “make it stop.”

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Consider your last trip to the car dealership. Let’s say you saved up and hit up BMW. While you might’ve looked at — or even test driven — the M3, there’s a good chance that your better judgment (and your budget) led you to drive off of the lot with a 328i. Sure, it’s only got a four-cylinder engine inside, but the car offers great handling and good gas mileage. Better yet, you didn’t have to spend an atrocious amount of money to get behind the wheel. The same goes with mobile phones. While it’s fun to dream of owning a One X, a Galaxy S III or an Optimus 4X HD, they’re called superphones for a reason: they cater to power-hungry individuals with a fair amount of disposable income. Like supercars, they’re designed to bring people into the store, even if shoppers ultimately leave with something else in hand.

Enter the LG Optimus L7. Positioned at the higher end of the company’s entry-level lineup, it aims to be the 328i of smartphones. Sure, no one’s lining up to drool over it, but LG is aiming for this to be a practical choice with just enough elegance and pizzaz to keep consumers grinning. Of course, that sweet spot is difficult to achieve, and we’ve seen plenty of smartphone manufacturers miss the mark in attempting to balance performance and amenities with a palatable price. So, does the Optimus L7 rise to the challenge? We’ve spent the past week with it as our daily driver, and we’re ready to make the call. Read on for the answer.

Continue reading LG Optimus L7 review: a beautiful, entry-level Android 4.0 smartphone with LG’s new UI 3.0

LG Optimus L7 review: a beautiful, entry-level Android 4.0 smartphone with LG’s new UI 3.0 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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