KDDI unveils HTC J Butterfly (HTL21), the first phone with 5-inch 1080p display

KDDI unveils HTC J butterfly HTL21, the first phone with 5inch 1080p display

We’ve been hearing about a certain 5-inch HTC phablet for Verizon since July, but it looks like its Japanese counterpart may actually hit the market first. Unveiled by KDDI as the HTC J Butterfly (HTL21), this Android 4.1 device is the first announced phone to feature a 5-inch, 440ppi full-HD “Super LCD 3” panel, and it’s fittingly complemented by a 1.5GHz quad-core APQ8064 underneath, making this the latest member in the small family of Snapdragon S4 Pro phones. There’s an eight-megapixel camera that naturally handles 1080p video at the back, accompanied by a 2.1-megapixel front-facing imager. Other details include 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, microSDHC expansion, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 (LE), NFC, LTE and CDMA/GSM/UMTS/GPRS radios — that’s right, it’s a global device. Not bad for a 140g package, and it’s waterproof as well, rated at IPX5. But the question is how well will the 2,020mAh battery last under that super dense LCD and high-end processor? Only time will tell — even KDDI has yet to finalize this part of the specs. Folks on the KDDI network can grab hold of this powerful phone in early December, with a choice of red, white or black.

Update: HTC confirmed to us that this phablet will use panels supplied by Sharp and JDI.

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“Wall Story” Removable Silhouette Stickers Turn On Your Light Switch

“Wall Story” Removable Silhouette Stickers Turn On Your Light Switch“Wall Story” removable wall stickers add personality to outlet cover plates, light switch covers and more. They stick without using permanent adhesives and peel right off when you’re moving or redecorating.

Presidential Debate Instant Polls Show Narrow Win For Obama

WASHINGTON — After a poor performance in the first presidential debate two weeks ago, President Barack Obama came back strong in the second one, winning perceived victories over Mitt Romney in two instant-reaction polls — one of debate-watching registered voters, the other of debate-watchers who went into the debate uncommitted to either candidate.

A CNN survey of registered voters who watched the debate found that 46 percent said Obama won the debate and 39 percent said Romney did. The survey’s margin of error was four percentage points.

After a weak performance in the first debate, Obama outperformed expectations in the second: Seventy-three percent of respondents said Obama did better than they expected, 10 percent said he did worse, and 16 percent said he did about the same as expected. Romney, who had a much stronger performance than Obama did in the first debate, performed closer to expectations: 37 percent said he did better than expected, 28 percent said worse, and 33 percent said he performed the same.

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Google launches Disavow Links Tool for webmasters

Disavow (v): To deny any responsibility or support for something. This definition succinctly describes Google’s Disavow Links Tool, which allows webmasters to disavow links to their websites if they feel that the links are causing harm. If ever there was a time to say, “With great power comes great responsibility,” this is it.

At the Pubcon keynote today, Google’s Matt Cutts announced that the Google Disavow Links tool is now available while stressing that webmasters need to be careful when using it. Said Cutts, “Most sites shouldn’t use this tool. Use Caution. Don’t just start disavowing links. Please start slow.” The tool has been in beta for the last few weeks.

The Disavow tool is most beneficial for webmasters who have received notice of a manual spam action caused by unnatural links to their website. Using the disavow tool, Google can be instructed to ignore these links when evaluating your website. According to the Google announcement, if you haven’t received a notice of spam action caused by unnatural links, you’ve little use for the tool.

In order to use the tool, you’ll need to visit the Disavow Tool link and select your website. If your website isn’t verified, you’ll need to verify it before continuing. Once verified, you’ll then be prompted to upload a plain text file containing the links you want to disavow, with one link per line. Once the file is submitted, the links will be disavowed, for better or for worse.

[via Google Webmaster Central Blog]


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Why Can’t We Create a Human-Powered Helicopter Already? [Video]

The concept of a human-powered helicopter is surprisingly simple. The creation of a human-powered helicopter? Not so simple. People have been trying for 30 years to create a human-powered helicopter that can hover for 60 seconds, reach a height of 10 feet and stay inside a 33-foot box and no one has ever done it yet. More »

Richard Sherman On Mocking Tom Brady: ‘I Don’t Regret Anything About The Situation’

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Richard Sherman doesn’t shy away from talking, whether on the field trying to rattle the receivers he’s defending or just chatting in the Seattle Seahawks locker room.

And Sherman didn’t avoid talking on Tuesday, albeit with a slightly more subdued tone after two days during which his comments following the Seahawks’ victory over New England drew national attention.

Sherman said he had no regrets about his strong comments and messages from his Twitter account after Seattle’s 24-23 victory. While some of his postgame comments in the locker room became instant sound bites, it was a tweeted picture that drew the most attention.

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Obama-Romney Debate Won By President

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — President Barack Obama stepped onto the stage here on Long Island ready to brawl. Within moments, he had called a Mitt Romney assertion “not true” and ridiculed his opponent’s five-point plan as a one-point plan — that one point being that the wealthy play by one set of rules, while everyone else plays by another.

It was a very different Obama from the one who barely showed up for the first debate. “Very little of what Governor Romney just said is true,” Obama said early in the debate. During the first debate, Obama looked down at his notes or his shoes while Romney spoke. Tonight, he turned away from the audience early to squarely face Romney while directly attacking him.

Romney gave it back to the president, as the two stood nose to nose, each looking as if he’d rather be swinging at his opponent than debating him. “That wasn’t a question, that was a statement,” Romney told Obama early on, attempting to assert the dominance he won by default in the last debate.

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Mitt Romney Reiterates ’12 Million New Jobs’ Claim Despite Lack Of Evidence

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney continued to push the claim that his jobs plan will create 12 million jobs during Tuesday’s presidential debate, despite recent controversy surrounding the studies on which that claim is based.

“We have not made the progress, we need to make to put people back to work,” Romney said, according to a transcript provided by the Washington Post. “That’s why I put out a five-point plan that gets America 12 million new jobs in four years and rising take-home pay.”

In some ways, it’s a safe bet, with a recent analysis predicting that exact number of jobs will be created by 2016, regardless of who becomes president, a point noted by the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler.

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AreLikeFacebook.com Lets The Whole Internet Poke Fun At Silly Social Network Ad

It’s the sort of obvious joke that makes you slap your head and say, I wish I’d thought of that.

Parody website areyoufacebook.com went live Tuesday, poking fun at Facebook’s first-ever commercial, which compares the social network to chairs, bridges and other inanimate objects that connect humans. Facebook released its much-mocked ad “The Things That Connect Us,” on the the same day that CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the site had surpassed 1 billion active users.

How areyoufacebook.com works: After the website loads with the familiar “Chairs Are Like Facebook” shot from the ad, you can type any word or phrase you want to replace “chairs” and the site magically puts a relevant image behind it.

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V-Moda’s M-100 headphones get priced at $300, will ship ‘in time for the holidays’

It wasn’t long ago when we got an early look an listen to a near-final version of V-Moda’s audiophile-tuned M-100 lifestyle headphones — and now, after months of crowd-sourcing feedback, the company is finally green-lighting mass production. You may recall that pricing and availability hadn’t been set, but now the company has confirmed that the fashionable metal-clad cans will be ready by the holidays, priced at a cool $300. As a refresher, that dollar amount snags you the foldable mil-spec 810G-rated headphones themselves, a hard-shell case, a duo of 3.5mm cables (one with a single button remote / mic, and another with an auxiliary output), corks for both cable inputs on the earcups and a quarter-inch adapter. You’ll have a choice in color between white with gray, black with red (pictured) and matte black with an orange cable, while adding in an extra 10 bucks also lets you add-on a second set of customizable back-plate ‘shields’ and its Fader earplugs. If you’re eager to ensure you’ll have your own pair once the M-100 headphones are ready to ship, they’ll be up for pre-order by day’s end at the source link below. You’ll find more details in the press release after the break — and don’t forget to peruse our detailed ears-on and interview with owner Val Kolton from last week while you make up your mind.

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