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The Beats by Dr. Dre badge has usually been attached to headphones and the occasional laptop or smartphone. We’ve never really seen it attached to dedicated speakers, however, and that’s where both an FCC filing and a sighting at UK retailer HMV’s online store raise a few eyebrows. The House that Dre Built appears on the edge of launching the Beats Pill, a Bluetooth wireless speaker with four drivers and a shape that more than explains the medicinal name. While we don’t know just how much of that signature Beats thump we’ll get, we do know from the FCC that the Pill can serve as a speakerphone, carries an aux-in jack and will last for a typical 8.5 hours on its USB-rechargeable lithium-ion battery. There’s also signs of a red version of Beats’ Mixr headphones coming at the same time. HMV has publicly scoured its pages of any trace of a ship date or price for the Pill, but cached copies point to a £170 ($276) price and a release around September 28th — not necessarily trustworthy figures, but they may be in the ballpark. Our only question is whether or not we’ll get a dose of the Pill in the US.

[Thanks, Germaine]

Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio/Video

Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker spotted at FCC and HMV: take one and call Dr. Dre in the morning originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We know our fair share about the redesigned Galaxy Note 10.1, but wait — what’s this? Another Samsung tablet, the GT-P8110, has made a trip through the FCC to complicate what was looking to be a simple near-future strategy for the Korean tech giant. The likely Galaxy Tab variant isn’t a familiar design by any stretch, with curved sides and the absence of a back antenna window pointing to a change in aesthetics. The wireless features of the 16GB model at the agency are the conservative elements — there’s just 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC. Our only current hint at what the unknown slate might be is a mention of the 11.8-inch P10 in court evidence, but we don’t know if that’s what the P8110 represents or if the P10 is even on track for 2012, as Samsung’s roadmap hinted in the past. We’re not counting on Mobile Unpacked to shed any more light on the subject than the FCC does today.

Update: We’re less inclined to think it’s the P10, since the dimensions as we understand them wouldn’t realistically support that 11.8-inch screen.

Filed under: Tablet PCs

Mystery Samsung GT-P8110 tablet passes through the FCC (update: likely not the P10) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This year has already seen a fair share of ViewPads — with ViewSonic outing the E70 and 10e tablets at CES and introducing three more slates ahead of MWC — but the more the merrier, right? According to the company’s latest FCC filing, the ViewPad E72 will be fleshing out the already well-padded lineup. The E72 runs Android 4.0 on a 7-inch, 1,024 x 600 display, and packs a 1GHz Cortex A9 CPU under the hood. Storage is limited to 8GB, but that’s expandable up to 32GB via a microSD card. The 0.86-pound slate has a 0.3-megapixel camera (no rear-facing shooter here) and is rated for up to four hours of battery life. Think this might be the budget-priced serving of ICS you’ve been waiting for? Click through to the user manual, or hit up the source link for a rundown of the E72’s specs.

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ViewSonic ViewPad E72 hits FCC: ICS in a 7-inch package originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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