Hasta La Gadget!

Are your senses full with the aroma of stag parties and buffet bacon lying listless atop the flicker of a 3AM Sterno flame? No? Well, that’s because you’re not in Vegas. We just rolled in with the double-wide now parked just outside the Las Vegas Convention Center to celebrate our annual CES right of passage. We’re already knee deep in press releases and hot products with dozens of events scheduled throughout the week followed by extensive hands-on coverage and reviews of the all the best products that the consumer electronics industry can muster.

You can view the news in the standard format that you’re used to right here, or you can head over to engadget.com/ces. There you’ll find our coverage presented in a tighter format so that you can more easily keep track of what’s breaking and which events we’re covering live (and when).

So kick back and take it all in. It’s going to get busy, but if you’re like us then it just doesn’t get any better than CES. Gratuitous trailer shot after the break.

Continue reading Engadget is live from CES MMX!

Engadget is live from CES MMX! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Samsung announces two PMPs, one for fitness gurus, one made of glass

Samsung announces two PMPs, one for fitness gurus, one made of glass originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In case there was any sliver of doubt that the so-called LX610 Lotus Elite from LG was a real device ready to fill the original Lotus’ unusually wide shoes on Sprint, feast your eyes on this: a giant billboard covering the side of a Las Vegas hotel pimping the Chocolate Touch, the eXpo, and — yes, that’s right — the Lotus Elite. To be fair, there’s no name mentioned here, but we’ve got a feeling it’s right considering the rest of the intel has ended up panning out. Stay tuned.

LG Lotus Elite’s appearance on a billboard suggests it’s probably real originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve just gotten the inside line on Garmin’s CES spread, and let’s just start this intel off on the right foot: it looks like we aren’t going to see a Nuvifone II at the show this year. Here’s what we’ve got in the pipe:

• Garmin Voice Studio: This might be the coolest announcement, but if you’ve got friends with compatible devices, it’s going to get old real quick. Basically, it’s a PC-based app that lets you record your own nav instructions (which we’re guessing is going to result in some extraordinarily NC17-rated Nuvis). The company is saying it’ll take about 20 minutes to complete a set of commands — and naturally, it won’t do text-to-speech for reading street names and the like. It won’t work on the Nuvi 3xx and 6xx series, but otherwise, you should be good to go.
• Zumo 665: Have a rider in the family? The 665 is Garmin’s latest motorcycle-centric nav unit, which appears to be little more than a 660 with the XM weather, radio (with A2DP out), and traffic on board. It’s got a slightly newer firmware build than the current 660 that adds additional map layouts and data fields; and don’t worry, 660 owners — you’ll get it in the Spring.
• ecoRoute HD: The long-discussed ecoRoute cable will be confirmed (again) at $149.99, this time for a launch somewhere between the first and second quarter of the year.
• Approach G3: This looks to be a downmarket version of the G5 for high-tech golfers looking for a little assistance on the green; MSRP comes in at $349 (compared to $449 for its big brother).

And as far as we can tell, that’s it. Start warming up your best navigation voices, folks.

Update: It’s official.

Garmin’s CES lineup leaked: golf, cars, and do-it-yourself navigation voices originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ll have to wait until tomorrow to get our hands on the Popbox, son of Popcorn Hour C-200, but in the meantime we’ll chew on this healthy list of specs and content providers to imagine what the future of media streamers has to offer. Netflix and 1080p have already been mentioned, but the lists reveal that even as a slimmed down and more affordable option than the box it replaces, it still has the file and codec compatibility fans have come to expect. We’ll soon see if this combo of wide appeal online services like Twitter and MLB.tv, existing media streamer framework, a greatly improved UI (able to pull down IMDB info for appropriately tagged content) and Popapp Center — openly courting developers to take advantage of the SDK since this box was codenamed DAVID — is a winner.

Continue reading Popbox v1.0 hardware specs and content partners revealed

Popbox v1.0 hardware specs and content partners revealed originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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