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An alleged BlackBerry A10 “Aristo” smartphone is showed off on video. This is supposedly the latest upcoming flagship smartphone from BlackBerry.

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There are plenty of apps which let you use your iPad like a piano, but to be honest, playing on a toucscreen is just not the same as using a tactile keyboard. And while Ion has been making a wired iPad piano keyboard for a while,  it’s not exactly the type of thing you’ll throw in your backpack.

Now, there’s a Kickstarter project which hopes to provide a high quality piano keyboard, built into a protective cover.

Miselu’s C.24 Music Keyboard adds a two octave wireless piano keyboard to your iPad. It connects wirelessly to your iPad using Bluetooth Low Energy, and transmits CoreMIDI data over Bluetooth.

The keys fold neatly into a cover that’s about the same thickness as the iPad itself, and acts as a stand for your iPad when opened up. Anti-polarity magnets give the keys the sense of weight, and infrared emitter/detector pairs capture key presses. The keyboard supports MIDI velocity data and monophonic aftertouch as well. Best of all it’s compatible with any iOS app which supports CoreMIDI, which means you’ll be able to play tunes with many apps out of the box.

There’s also a capacitive ribbon controller along the top edge of the keyboard which allows you to shift between octaves as well as to provide analog expression data for things like pitch bending.

The C.24 also has an expansion bay which will allow for the addition of things like knobs, faders, sliders and other controls, and will be releasing an open standard for creation of these add-ons.

A pledge of $99 (USD) or more will get you in on the first batch of C.24 iPad Keyboards – $50 less than the price that later backers will pay. Delivery is expected to start this November – assuming the project reaches its funding goal by August 8.

This looks like a much more serious bit of hardware than the Ion Piano Apprentice, and well worth a look for traveling electronic musicians.

[via Gear Hungry]

This afternoon, a video showing off the basics in the Motorola Moto X software experience have been leaked complete with several next-generation innovations for Android vanilla software builds. If you’re planning on picking the Motorola Moto X up inside Canada, it would appear that your only choice will be to jump onboard with Rogers. This video suggests that the smartphone will be a Rogers exclusive while we’re confident that here inside the USA, multiple carriers will be onboard with the machine.

This video suggests that the carrier will be bringing Moto X in August of this year in white or black, a likely indicator of availability at other carriers inside the USA, while Motorola handles the customization features we’ve heard so much about already. If this device does indeed come to Rogers by August, we can expect at least AT&T and/or T-Mobile to be onboard with the device by then as well. Meanwhile Verizon has been tipped to be launching the phone on August 23rd specifically.

In the demonstration you’re about to see here, Rogers representatives show the Moto X’s ability to work with Google Now as well as active voice recognition. While the user works on a PC, the smartphone is able to sit to the side and listen in for questions the user might have, actively answering in kind whenever needed.

You’ll also find this machine’s ability to launch it’s camera at a flick of the wrist. Taking the Moto X out of one’s pocket and flicking it twice launches the smartphone’s camera, while tapping its screen will take a photo. Holding a finger down on the display while the camera app is open will take several photos in quick succession.

This device also works with “Active Updates”, as they call them, showing what’s happening with notifications on-screen instead of with a notification light. You’ll find this particular model showing a message coming in from Facebook Messenger, disappearing after a few moments as the user decides they’ve heard enough for the day.

The Moto X here is shown in black and, in several close-ups, is proven to be working with black all around – back cover, bezel, edges and all. The white model seen last week was suggested as coming with black bezel and edges while its battery cover worked with a textured white. This machine also appears to be working without a removable back as indicated by the microSIM card slot on its side.

Don’t forget the pure Android experience from top to bottom, also – barely seen but quite apparent here in brief.

You’ll also see a light emitting from this device’s microUSB port – this could just be leaking from the device’s inner bits, but it’s just as likely there’s some use for this piece of flare than not. Keep tuned as we continue to run down the investigation!

VIA: AusDroid; Android Community

Moto X leaks in up-close video tour is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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A leaked video has been posted on YouTube which shows off Rogers’ tech demo of the Moto X. The video reveals that this smartphone will have always-on voice commands, camera gestures, active updates and more.

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