Hasta La Gadget!

Ever wanted to know more about the inner workings of the FCC? You’re in luck, because CEA head honcho Gary Shapiro is sitting down with the man in charge at the FCC, Chairman Julius Genachowski at CES this year to chat about his time with the Commission. Naturally, they’ll be talking about broadband, spectrum reform and other hot telco topics, but we’re just hoping to hear how the Chairman will rid us of the terrible 10,000 feet. Will he give us any such good news? There’s only one way to find out — stick around as we’ll bring their conversation to you live, right here.

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Internet, Mobile

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You may be familiar with Syntellia’s Fleksy — its predictive touch typing solution has already been available to iOS users since last July. But as we recently learned at CES, the company’s gearing up to offer Android and Spanish-language versions. It’s not something you’ll necessarily see in the Google Play store, however, as we were told the company intends to license the platform out to various Android OEMs. We pressed CEO Kostas Eleftheriou for more details on possible partnerships, but he remained tight-lipped, only assuring us that talks were in progress.

So, how does it work? For starters, the Android version offers two keyboard options — a simple QWERTY-only and one with a space bar — that can be toggled on or off with a two finger swipe down. Text corrections are also controlled via gesture control, with your seemingly garbled input transformed into the closest possible word match via a right swipe. Users can even browse through a list of suggestions by highlighting text and then swiping up or down. Admittedly, word prediction seemed to fare better for the company’s (well-trained) reps than it did for us, but we’ll chalk that up to a learning curve. Punctuation is handled by swiping twice to the right and the symbol menu can even be accessed by a swipe up from the right edge of the full keyboard.

Since its announcement this week, Fleksy for Android’s managed to notch around 5,000 beta testers and Kostas expects that number to continue growing. If you’re interested in taking the mobile keyboard alternative for a test drive, we’d recommend you head to the company’s site now to sign-up. Otherwise, content yourself with our gallery below and a brief video demo after the break.

Continue reading Fleksy for Android beta hands-on (video)

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Hey, we just saw these, and this is crazy, but here’s some headphones, for listening, baby.

Dana Murph threw a wish in the well for this report.

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It’s a wild a crazy world out there when it comes to in-car-entertainment and this year at CES 2013 one company came out a little bit ahead of the pack. Uconnect just won AOL Auto’s Technology Of The Year award, and we’ll be talking to Chrysler’s Marios Zenios, VP of Uconnect on the Engadget stage and the company’s latest ICE technology.

Check out our full CES 2013 stage schedule here!

[Photo Credit: WardsAuto]

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Most of the time I carry a lightning cord in my bag because I just plow through my iPhone’s battery. What a pain, right? But iBattz’s new Mojo Refuel charging case will let me leave the cable at home where it belongs, because it comes with two extra 2500 mAh batteries. More »