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The HTC EVO, “America’s first 4G Android Phone”, is getting an HDMI dock. The dock, which will let you hook up the cellphone to watch hi-def video the same way you hook up an iPhone to play music, will be on sale “soon” in Best Buy.

Don’t get too excited, though. The folks at PC Mag were “quite disappointed with the HDMI experience on the Sprint EVO 4G” when they tested the output straight through the cable: A Viewsonic TV only saw the a 480p signal instead of the EVO’s actual 720p output, and an H.264 clip watched on a Samsung TV “displayed horrible artifacting in any scene with much movement.” Ouch.

Still, if you plan on watching a lot of video piped from the EVO to the big screen, a dock is certainly convenient. The price is to be confirmed, but as a cable alone will cost $17 up, don’t expect it to be cheap.

Micro HDMI dock for Sprint EVO coming to Best Buy [Android and Me via Engadget]

Hands On: HTC EVO 4G’s HDMI Cable [PC Mag]

We’re still a good dozen days away from its public release, but the Evo 4G has already been given a rooting makeover. Google dished out Evo handsets to all the lucky (so lucky!) attendees of its blowout I/O 2010 event, and a trio of those visitors rolled up their sleeves and decided to get down and intimate with the phone over the weekend. The product of their labor is at this stage just a few screenshots and a blurry video after the break, but fear not, we’re sure details of the hack will be forthcoming promptly.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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HTC Evo 4G rooted in record time (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 03:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google may not rule the universe quite yet, but it certainly rules the hearts and minds of the Engadget Podcasteers this week, in one way or another. Featuring the world debut of the dramatic musical theater segment Nilay’s Niggles.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Special guests: Chris Ziegler, Ben Drawbaugh
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Valpo Usta – Baby

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00:02:35 – HTC EVO 4G review
00:18:46 – Android 2.2 Froyo: everything you ever wanted to know
00:19:22 – Google I/O recap: more web than you can shake a frozen dessert at
00:20:30 – Live from the Google I/O 2010 day 2 keynote!
00:20:40 – Google adding over-the-air app installation and iTunes streaming to Android
00:21:08 – Google claims Froyo has the world’s fastest mobile browser
00:23:10 – Flash 10.1 for Android beta unveiled: Hulu a no-show, Froyo now a minimum requirement
00:38:38 – Google TV: everything you ever wanted to know
00:39:30 – Google TV turns on at I/O: runs Android and Flash, partnered with Sony, Logitech, and Intel
00:40:09 – Logitech’s Google TV companion box includes smartphone apps, we go eyes-on (updated: video!)
00:40:30 – Sony Internet TV, DISH first with Google TV this fall; Adobe, Logitech and others along for the ride
01:00:45 – Sad Violin
01:16:08 – The Engadget Show returns, this Saturday, May 22nd with Sprint’s Evo 4G, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, and an Engadget editors Q&A!

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Engadget Podcast 197 – 05.22.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 May 2010 15:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Can’t wait to get your hands on an EVO 4G? Then it looks like you can now at least settle for the next best thing that’s not actually anything like the real thing: the final, shipping version of the EVO 4G ROM. That’s just been released into the wild courtesy of Conflipper, and is ready to be downloaded for use however you like — and at your own risk, of course. Hit up the source link below for the download link, and let us know in comments if you manage to work any magic with it.

[Thanks, Marcos]

Shipping HTC EVO 4G ROM released into the wild originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 19:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Guess what humans? It’s that time again — the Engadget Show returns this Saturday, May 22nd at 5pm… and it’s shaping up to be a killer! First up, we’ll have an exclusive interview with Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch (taped at the Google I/O conference), which is sure to be both informative and wildly entertaining. What’s more, Josh, Paul, and Nilay will be putting the new HTC Evo 4G through its paces live onstage, then they’ll be joined by our very own Chris Ziegler and Laura June for a hard-hitting round of Q&A with the audience. That’s right, it’s your chance to ask the Engadget editors anything, live and in-person, plus much more (see instructions in the bullet points below). And as usual, we’ll have some rocking 8-bit music from minusbaby and visuals from notendo and plenty of those good ‘ol Engadget Show shenanigans.

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Oh, and did we mention we’re also giving away a brand new iPad (courtesy of The Little App Factory and bundled with all of their software titles)? Well we are, alongside a handful of other goodies.

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The Engadget Show returns, this Saturday, May 22nd with Sprint’s Evo 4G, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, and an Engadget editors Q&A! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 18:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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