According to Reuters, top brass at the FTC is convinced it should bring an antitrust case against Google. The writing’s been on the wall since last year, but it looks like things could finally be coming to a head. More »
If you’re a photographer who covers extreme athletes like mountain climbers and wants to capture a moment from a unique angle, you’re probably willing to take some risks yourself. Like Corey Rich’s use of an incredibly precarious folding ladder tethered to the near vertical side of a mountain. Here’s to hoping he wasn’t working for free for the experience. More »
LG‘s most anticipated device yet is about to hit the US next month. The Optimus G will be the company’s flagship phone, and they created this four-minute-long “product movie” that showcases some of the more notable features of the Optimus G, like QSlide and the camera’s Live Shot and Time Catch Shot features.
The video is fairly odd in a way, and features dancing, archery, and weird hand-waving. However, it all has a purpose, and that’s to show off the LG Optimus G in an artsy kind of way that viewers might enjoy. The “movie” is four minutes long, and is split up into different advertisement spots of various lengths.
The device itself doesn’t get a lot of camera time, so we’re mostly succumbed to the interpretive dancing and the shirtless, muscular archers. However, throughout the video LG gives us a quick briefing of all the features coming to the new device narrated by wavy hand gestures that would put a magician to shame.
The LG Optimus G will come packing with a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage. The display is a 4.7-inch True HD IPS+ screen that offers a 1280×768 WXGA resolution. We certainly wouldn’t mind one of these devices in our hands, and you can check out the device more by checking out our hands on.
LG Optimus G “product movie” released is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Just incase you didn’t know that the Windows Phone 8X was coming to T-Mobile, an alledged roadmap of the carrier’s upcoming releases has made it clear. This roadmap from TmoNews also lists the LG Optimus L9 Android device, a Samsung Toba (possibly a tablet we’ve not heard of before), and a Dell BMW – this very likely being a laptop ready for action with Windows 8, starting up T-Mobile’s laptop efforts again like AT&T is doing with their set of notebook releases. This list goes on as well, showing off a color refresh for the Galaxy S II and a BlackBerry Armstrong device.
The BlackBerry Armstrong has been tipped as being one in the same with the BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900, a device that mixes touchscreen action with a full QWERTY keyboard. There’s a set of new colors for the Galaxy S II – strangely enough – though we must assume that this is mis-typed and means the Galaxy S III which has been getting several colored cases to carriers across the USA recently.
UPDATE: The Samsung Galaxy S II Color is a device in and of itself, bringing on what appears to be specifications replicating the Galaxy S II’s original release on T-Mobile. The BlackBerry device has been confirmed (so to speak, leaked) as the BlackBerry Curve 9315 with a 2.44inch 320 x 240 QVGA display, 1450mAh battery, Blackberry 7.1, 3.2 megapixel camera on the back. The images below also include the Huawei Summit, more than likely the most disappointing phone in the series. The BlackBerry image comes from @evleaks as well.
There’s also a Huawei Summit which will likely be either a smartphone or a mobile hotspot – we’re guessing the first since Huawei has been coming on strong with a variety of mid-market smartphones this summer. The Samsung Toba will likely be another data-connected version of a device they’ve got out in wi-fi only at the moment, and the HTC Windows Phone 8X will more than likely be extremely similar to its international edition.
What we’re seeing here is a set of release dats that places each of the devices either in late October or early November, with the Windows Phone 8X hitting on the 14th of November, the Samsung Toba coming on the 7th of November, and the Optimus L9 coming on the 31st of October. The Samsung Galaxy S II or III with refreshed colors will be coming on the 29th of October, the BlackBerry device on the 24th, and the Dell BMW will be out on the 14th of November.
T-Mobile Roadmap releases Windows Phone 8X on November 14th is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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HTC’s Droid Incredible 4G LTE gave us a pleasant surprise by providing a capable Android phone that didn’t have to be supersized. It’s gone largely untouched since its mid-year introduction, though, which makes a new and imminent update all the more important. The upgrade’s biggest trick is support for Isis mobile payments that more officially throws Verizon’s hat into the NFC payment ring. Anyone living beyond Isis’ coverage will still want to check for the update when it’s ready — the patch switches on global roaming, allows remote technical support, makes Tango video chats useful and improves LTE connection quality. No matter what you’re looking for, Verizon’s tendency to start over-the-air updates within days of posting documentation leaves a likely short wait before the most recent Droid Incredible gets a breath of fresh air.
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We already took a look at gaming hardware sales for September, so now it’s time to pore over the software chart for the month. Unsurprisingly, Madden NFL 13 took the top spot for the month of September, selling over 2.55 million copies according to NPD (via NeoGAF). NPD told GameSpot that Madden NFL 13 sales managed to climb 11% over Madden NFL 12 sales in its first month, which is definitely good news for Electronic Arts and its yearly football franchise.
Of course, we expect Madden to sell well, so the fact that it took the top spot in September is no surprise. What is surprising, however, is that Borderlands 2 managed to come in second place. According to NPD’s numbers, Borderlands 2 sold 1.48 million copies in September, and analyst Anita Frazier tells Game Informer that represents a 234% increase over the first month sales of the original Borderlands. It’s important to remember that NPD only reports sales numbers for physical media, so none of Borderlands 2‘s digital PC sales are counted in that 1.48 million figure. In other words, Borderlands 2 could have easily sold more than 2 million copies during the month of September.
Also interesting: Guild Wars 2 managed to beat out the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria. Of course, we’re assuming that most of the sales for both Guild Wars 2 and Mists of Pandaria were digital, so it’s hard to say that Guild Wars 2 is the clear winner with any certainty. Still, it’s interesting to see that NPD has Guild Wars 2 outselling Mists of Pandaria. Have a look at the full top ten software list for September:
1. Madden NFL 13 – Electronic Arts (360, PS3, Wii, Vita)
2. Borderlands 2 – Take-Two Interactive (360, PS3, PC)
3. FIFA Soccer 13 – Electronic Arts (PS3, 360, Vita, Wii, 3DS, PSP)
4. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo (3DS)
5. Guild Wars 2 – NCSoft (PC)
6. NHL 13 – Electronic Arts (360, PS3)
7. World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria – Activision Blizzard (PC)
8. NCAA Football 13 – Electronic Arts (360, PS3)
9. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes – Warner Bros. Interactive (360, Wii, 3DS, DS, PS3, Vita, PC)
10. Battlefield 3 – Electronic Arts (360, PS3, PC)
In September, we saw Battlefield 3 claw its way back into the top 10, most likely due to the recent release of the Battlefield 3 Premium Edition. Overall, it was a good month for sports games (and Electronic Arts), but it wasn’t so great for game sales in general. Software sales were down 14% year-over-year, but we can probably expect them to climb this month as we begin to close in on the holiday season. Stay tuned.
Borderlands 2 makes strong showing on September software chart is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We’ve heard rumblings that the CPU in the Wii U isn’t up to snuff, but we didn’t have the solid information about the Wii U’s guts needed to make that call. However, Nintendo today publised another edition of Iwata Asks, where four Nintendo engineers described the processor as a “multi-core CPU.” Apparently, Nintendo’s going with a multichip module approach, which leads to more efficient processing between the CPU cores, the GUP, and the eDRAM. The MCM should also lead to significantly less energy consumption. According to Genyo Takeda, Nintendo’s Senior Managing Director:
First of all, adoption of a multi-core CPU for the first time. By having multiple CPU cores in a single LSI chip, data can be processed between the CPU cores and with the high-density on-chip memory much better, and can now be done very efficiently with low power consumption.
Nintendo also published a few images of the Wii U’s motherboard, which you can see at the top of this post. The engineers also discuss the fact that HDTV has become the standard in Japan and much of the world, which is why Nintendo made the Wii U with high definition standards in mind. Perhaps that’s a generation too late, but there’s no doubt that Nintendo put some serious engineering into the Wii U guts.
Read the whole interview with Nintendo engineers here.
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The folks responsible for designing the user interface for Netflix must have had smiles on their faces when they realized that they’d be able to create a Windows 8 flavoring for their archives. The new release of Netflix made specifically for Windows 8 is up for download right this minute, and incase you did not guess, yes, it is made specifically for the touchscreen. Of course you’re not going to have to use a touchscreen to make it work, but you’re definitely going to enjoy the process more if you do.
This update brings the same access to a top 10, new releases, and genres galore that you’re used to from Netflix Instant as well as a whole new way to access it all. The setup replicates closely what you’ll be doing with Windows 8′s own panel-based user interface for touchscreen devices, complete with swipe to the left to drag your whole collection. This update includes the same set of content as any other Netflix Instant offering, here allowing your desktop to make the best of the whole situation.
Netflix viewers on Windows 8 with this update and no touchscreen will be clicking and dragging rather than pulling on scrollbars. This may well bring up some ire in the userbase as we must assume that not everyone in the Windows universe will be wanting to use the touchscreens Microsoft intends them all to use. What we’ll see instead, more than likely, is an update that includes more than one interface – or a scrollbar – if the user does so desire. We’ll just have to wait and see.
The Netflix update for Windows 8 is available from your Windows Store as you would any other app, here bringing with it a couple extra updates outside the user interface as well. This update also brings with it what Netflix describes as a lessening of CPU usage as well as less of a drain on the battery life of your notebook computers. Netflix also notes that “this fall” they’ll be updating the app once again specifically – for now, time to watch True Grit!
Netflix Windows 8 app download up now with touchy panels is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This is deviantART user dragonlorefury’s engagement ring. As you may have guessed, she’s an avid role-playing gamer. What you might have not guessed is that the ring was made by her father, who is a jeweler. You guessed that? How about the fact that the die can be removed and replaced with a gem? WHAT! You’re dragonlorefury aren’t you? Or her dad.
dragonlorefury posted this picture on deviantART last May 2011, so there’s a good chance that she and her fiance have tied the knot by now. May you trek through the dungeons of life and overcome its dragons – metaphorical and literal (you never know!) – with love as your saving throw.
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