Hasta La Gadget!

It’s begun. Although lacking a general release of the SDK, the first homebrew apps have emerged thanks to last night’s leaked WebOS root image. The first application puts a stake in the ground by displaying a simple “hello world” on the screen. Unfortunately, the code overwrote the pre-installed Sprint Nascar application… oh wait, that’s probably a good thing. Devs have also started tampering with existing code to disable the shutter sound on the camera while leaving the rest of the sounds enabled. Now why would somebody want to do that?

Update: New image from an excited developer that shows scm6079’s work over at PreCentral evolving with a 5-second photo timer and more. We’re being told that several members of the Pre hacking team consist of old-school PalmOS hackers from the Samsung i300 days. Now if Palm can just lure back the rest of its developers smitten by Android and the lure of App Store riches then they might just make something of this fledgling smartphone platform.

[Thanks, Scott M. and C.J.]

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WebOS homebrewers say ‘Hello World!’ to Palm Pre originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It won’t be the cheapest way to get in on 7.2Mbps HSDPA, but it might be the coolest way — or at the very least, the geekiest — when LG finally begins shipping out its GD910 watch phone starting next month. Sales will kick off in Europe on Orange, followed by Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and Latin America, so odds are good that this thing will be available in a neighborhood near you over the next few weeks. Practical, it’s not — but video calling through a wristwatch is pretty much every little boy’s dream, so we’re going to cut this phone a whole lot of slack.

[Via Akihabara News]

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LG GD910 to start shipping in July originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s the case that never ends — the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued a temporary delay of of the injunction and fine handed down yesterday in the EchoStar / TiVo lawsuit while it considers an appeal, meaning that DISH owners with older DVRs won’t have to worry about losing their pause-and-rewind functionality at least for now. That pretty much means we’re back in stasis with this one, with even more delay to come if the appeal is granted. That’s cool, we needed a nap anyway.

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DISH / EchoStar DVR injunction temporarily put on hold by court originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well we battled the mob to get our first hands on with Sony’s latest PSP — the Go! It was actually fairly light in hand, but not un-solid feeling. We thought there could be a little more depth between your thumbs and palm of your hand, and it felt a bit hard to locate the shoulder buttons, but that may be because we’re used to the older model. Look — we know what you really want, so hit the gallery below!

Update 3: New galleries are in — more pics, and some detail shots. Enjoy!

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PSP Go first hands-on! (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just as expected, Sony just announced the PSP Go at E3 just now — Haz Kirai called it the “worst kept secret at E3.” The slider handheld has a 3.8-inch LCD, built-in Bluetooth and 16GB of internal storage, all in a case 50 percent smaller and 40 percent lighter than the original PSP-1000 — a weight savings we’re guessing is directly attributable to the loss of the UMD drive. That’s right, the Go doesn’t have a UMD drive — games will instead load in through the Memory Stick Micro slot or over PlayStation Network. That’s not the end of the classic PSP, though — Sony says it will “live on.” New PSP titles will be distributed through both UMD at retail and online simultaneously — Sony’s beefing up the desktop client and renaming it Media Go for easier access and syncing with Playstation Network media, but you’ll be able to get PSN content directly from the Go as well. The PSP’s music features have also been beefed up with a new auto-playlist feature called Sense Me, which sounds a lot like Pandora or iTunes Genius playlists, and there’s a new video delivery service being rolled out.

Don’t expect the loss of UMD to lower the price, though: the Go will be $249 when it launches on October 1 in North America and Europe and November 1 in Japan. Sony’s showing demo videos with both black and white versions, but that’s not confirmed yet — we’ll let you know.

Update: Check the full PR here.

Update 2: Sony has just blasted out the detailed specifications. Here are the highlights:

• Approx. 128 x 16.5 x 69 mm (width x height x depth)
• Weight: 5.6 ounces (including batter)
• CPU: 333MHz
• 64MB memory
• 3.8-inch display (480 x 272 resolution)
• Built-in stereo speakers and microphone
• 802.11b WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
• USB 2.0
• Memory Stick Micro slot
• Analog video out
• 16GB storage

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Sony PSP Go announced — $249, no UMD originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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