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There are plenty of Bluetooth speakers on the market today that you can pick if you want to listen to your favorite music without any wires. However, if you already own some speakers that you particularly fond of and you like the idea of being able to turn them from standard speakers into wireless speakers, a new project turned up on Kickstarter allowing just that. The new project is called Vertus.

Vertus offers two Bluetooth receivers that support streaming music to both receivers at the same time from a single device. The Vertus receivers use CSR TrueWireless Stereo technology. The kit ships with a left receiver and a right receiver that plug into any speaker featuring a 3.5 mm headphone port.

The people behind the project say that once you plug in both receivers and pair them with the smartphone, you can enjoy stereo sound from two separate speakers at the same time. You can also use the two separate speakers to bring audio to different areas a large room or outdoor space. Another interesting feature of the Vertus Bluetooth receivers is that they don’t need ports for power.

Both of the Bluetooth receivers plug into an included charging station for recharging. The charging station itself gets power from a micro USB port. The wireless range for the system is 30 feet and battery life is promised be 10 hours. The project is seeking $40,000 with 27 days to go and so far, it’s raised over $8800. A pledge of $79 or more will get you your own set of Vertus Bluetooth receivers.

[via Kickstarter]

Vertus wireless stereo music adapters hit Kickstarter is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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QUALCOMM has certainly been successful with its existing Snapdragon 600 platform. The Snapdragon 600 showed up in a number of high-end smartphones and other devices including the GALAXY S 4, HTC One, and a number of other devices. That Snapdragon 600 success doesn’t mean QUALCOMM isn’t looking ahead to its next generation high-end SoC.

QUALCOMM senior project manager Yufei Wang was on hand this week at a media event held in Beijing, China. During that event, the project manager confirmed that the Snapdragon 800 would be entering mass production in late May. The project manager was willing to confirm that the Snapdragon 800 was going into mass production, he offered no details on what devices consumers can expect to see the new SoC used in.

QUALCOMM also declined to allow anyone in attendance at the meeting event to run benchmarks on prototype mobile devices using the new 800. However, the manufacturer did indicate that benchmarks will be available in June. Hallmarks of the new Snapdragon 800 include a more powerful Krait 400 architecture allowing the processor operating at up to 2.3 GHz.

The SoC is also built with robust power management capabilities, including the ability to operate the four cores on different core frequencies. That means if you only need one or two cores running at full 2.3 GHz, the other cores can sit idle to save power. Snapdragon 800 also uses a new Adreno 330 graphics processor supporting 30 FPS 4K playback.

[via Engadget]

QUALCOMM Snapdragon 800 tipped for production in late May is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Noted Blackmagic Design shooter John Brawley has released the first footage from the company’s upcoming $995 Pocket Cinema Camera that might leave your DSLR green with envy. Though it’s always tough to judge compressed web footage, to our eyes it looks completely untouched by the moire, aliasing and compression artifacts that tends to plague other digital cameras. While not specifying whether he used the compressed RAW setting or not, Brawley said he shot it using a Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 Micro Four Thirds lens with image stabilization turned on, meaning that feature’s likely to be enabled on the camera when it arrives in late July. He also said he was “literally grabbing shots whilst I was shopping,” which bodes well for serious filmmakers with a bit more time to spare. Head past the break to admire the video.

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Source: John Brawley

There’s now no need to dig around your PlayStation’s downloads section for that fresh digital copy of Ni No Kuni you just picked up online at Sony’s Entertainment Network store. Finally catching up to the likes of Steam (and other competition), your orders will now automatically start downloading a few minutes after booting up your PS3. PSN Stores has even uploaded a guided tour of the new function — you’ll find it after the break.

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Skype has landed for BlackBerry 10, but would-be VoIP users will need a Q10 initially, until BlackBerry updates its initial Z10 smartphone. The new app, confirmed as incoming only earlier this week, offers voice and video calling, instant messaging, and text messaging, just like Skype on other mobile platforms; however, it requires BlackBerry 10.1, loaded from the off on the newer Q10, but still pending for the Z10.

That puts the potential audience for Skype on BlackBerry 10 relatively low, at least for the moment, though plans to update Z10 devices to OS 10.1 are already afoot. Skype says that BlackBerry expects that to happen “in the near future” at which point the app will install.

Though described as a “preview”, Skype for BlackBerry 10 does show some significant integration into the core platform. Based on a port of the Android version, rather than built natively for BB10 from the ground up, it has a new UI – suited to the Q10′s squared-off touchscreen – and automatically funnels Skype contacts into the smartphone’s phonebook.

There’s also Skype notification support in the BlackBerry Hub, which means incoming chat requests, file transfers, and contact invite requests – among other things – will pop up in the unified inbox BlackBerry refined for its latest platform. The app can be used for sharing photos, videos, and other files, as well as for making SkypeOut calls to phones not using Skype.

Skype for BlackBerry 10 is already in the BlackBerry World store, where it’s a free download.

Skype hits BlackBerry 10, but the Z10 is out of luck for now is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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