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Skype’s PR folks have been unusually loquacious today, as they’ve responded to a query about whether HTC’s EVO 4G would get a Skype client with a deep and meaningful forward-looking statement, underpinned by a promise of an Android app “for all consumers globally to download regardless of carriers.” This universally available addition to the Market should arrive “later this year,” but what’s important about it is that it’s preceded by a lengthy spiel about Skype’s ambition to “set the bar on mobile video calling,” which it also intends to do this year. Does this necessarily mean that Skype video calling is coming to Android in time for us to wish granny happy Hanukkah over video chat? No. Is it a well constructed insinuation to that effect? Hell yes. Read the full statement at the source, or find the juiciest excerpt after the break.

[Thanks, Jeremy]

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Skype Mobile with video support coming to Android Market later this year? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 06:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It looks like those private beta rumors earlier this month were legit, seeing how Sling Media is now officially showing off its latest SlingPlayer Mobile incarnation on HTC’s lovely EVO 4G for Sprint. The company is boasting that the app has the fastest load time of any version of SlingPlayer Mobile to date — and we can’t imagine that WiMAX hurts, either — so this should be the perfect accessory to your EVO 4G purchase when the phone launches early next month. It’s not clear yet what other Android devices will be compatible with the software, but we imagine Sling will be saying more soon, so stay tuned.

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SlingPlayer Mobile for Android teased on an EVO 4G originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 18:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Greetings people of Earth. The Engadget Show is back in a big way with this latest episode! First, Josh sits down with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to tackle a handful of thorny questions, from Flash vs. HTML5, to the smartphone revolution and his company’s relationship with Apple. Then Josh, Paul, and Nilay welcome editors Chris Ziegler and Laura June for a special editor’s Q&A, answering all your burning questions about news, culture, and what it’s like to write for Engadget. We’ve also got a tour of AT&T’s Global Network Operations Center (GNOC), which is essentially a war-room for networks that has to be seen to be believed. All that, and music from minusbaby and visuals from noteNdo. Okay that’s enough reading… time to watch!

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Special guests: Kevin Lynch, Chris Ziegler, Laura June
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Music by: minusbaby
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Continue reading The Engadget Show – 009: Kevin Lynch, editor Q&A, AT&T GNOC tour, Sprint EVO 4G

The Engadget Show – 009: Kevin Lynch, editor Q&A, AT&T GNOC tour, Sprint EVO 4G originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 16:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Keep your eyes tuned to this post — because at 5:00 PM ET, we’ll be starting The Engadget Show live, with Adobe’s Chief Technical Officer Kevin Lynch and special guests, Engadget Editors Laura June and Chris Ziegler. Josh, Nilay, and Paul are back of course, plus we’ll have music from minusbaby and visuals from notendo and much, much, more! You seriously don’t want to miss it!

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The Engadget Show Live! with Adobe’s Kevin Lynch, HTC EVO 4G, and Editor Q&A originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 May 2010 17:00:00 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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