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We just grabbed a first look at Sony’s new VAIO P. At first glance, the screen is bright and ultrasharp — certainly stretching the limits of our eyesight. We’d say the keys are a little bit light and shallow for our taste, but good as far as most “netbooks” go, and the “nipple,” like all like pointers, will take getting used to and careful calibration, though it’s definitely sensitive. It’s certainly not hefty, but we’d say there’s the standard amount of Sony build quality, and while high for a netbook, $900 doesn’t “feel” too far off. We love lightweight, but this netbook almost feels like it lacks innards, the real deal seems almost like it’s a mock-up device. Videos of all all its best sides after the break.

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Sony VAIO P hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony‘s busting out a plethora of wares today in Vegas, and included among them is a new entry-level W-Series Cyber-shot. The DSC-W220 features both Intelligent Scene Recognition and Dynamic Range Optimizer, both of which were previously reserved for higher-end offerings. Specs wise, it’s touting a 2.7-inch LCD monitor, Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 4X optical zoom lens, HD output, Optical SteadyShot stabilization, 15MB of internal memory and a Memory Stick card slot.It’ll hit this April in silver, black, pink and blue for about $190.

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Sony trots out 12 megapixel Cyber-shot DSC-W220 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Panasonic ended its press conference today with a bang as it debuted the 0.33-inch thick Neo PDP Eco plasma display. We’re still scrambling to find out how close this thing is to production, but good heavens, it’s sexy. Have a look below.

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Hands-on with Panasonic’s 0.33-inch thick Neo PDP Eco plasma originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, that certainly was a quick little experiment, wasn’t it? Just months after quietly becoming available, Nokia has just as quietly slapped an “end of life” label on the N810 WiMAX Edition, officially ending Nokia’s consumer-level support for the wireless standard — for the time being, anyhow. Though we’ve been able to confirm that the discontinuation is official, no word was given as to why it fell off the market so quickly — Nokia inststs that it was a “natural” end of life — but if we had to take a stab at it, we’d guess the Baltimore-only availability had something to do with it.

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Today at CES, LG shared the details of its two new Network Blu-ray players that will be the first to support the new NetCast with content partners like CinemaNow and YouTube — no love for the older players. The BD370 and BD390 are essentially the same with both featuring BD Live etc, with the main difference between the two being the BD390 includes 1GB of internal storage for BD Live, and 7.1 discrete analog output. No word on the price of either, but the BD370 is due in Q2 while the 390 is due in Q3. There are also three new home theater systems that feature Blu-ray players, which of course are also BD Live and feature NetCast, but more interestingly also sport TrueHD and DTS-HD MA. Unlike the LHB954, the LHB977 and LHB979 both feature Tallboy speakers and two HDMI inputs which will really come in handy for anyone with a game console or a STB — so yeah like everyone. The LHB979 (picture after the break) distinguishes itself from the rest with speakers that were designed by Mark Levinson and has more power.

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LG’s 2009 Blu-ray revamp and new Blu-ray HTIBs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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