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It’s not every day you see an old-school clamshell running Android, and really, there’s a great reason for that: when your entire UI is touch-centric, putting the screen a few inches away from the user’s thumb is a usability nightmare waiting to happen. Be that as it may, Samsung’s rolled out a fairly sophisticated new folder in China under the name SCH-W899 that features not one, but two separate 3.3-inch Super AMOLED displays on either side of the phone’s top half. You’ve got a 5 megapixel camera, 512MB of onboard storage expandable with a 32GB microSD slot, CDMA EV-DO compatibility for service on China Telecom, GSM roaming capability, and — of course — the kind of respect that only comes with using a phone with gold accents. We wouldn’t expect to see this one in the Western Hemisphere apart from the rare import, so if you were thinking of getting into the collectible Android phone business, there might not be a better time. Lucrative, we hear.

Bonus points: count the number of gratuitous lens flares on the phone’s official product page.

Samsung makes an Android 2.2 clamshell; unless you’re in China, you can’t have it originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Alright, we know AMD’s busy showing off its Atom killer, but there’s still a little life left in Intel’s netbook stalwart, which has been harnessed to its fullest in Dell’s screen-flipping Duo tablet / netbook. And the good news is that we apparently won’t have to wait too long to see that zany concoction out in the real world. Well placed sources have informed CNET that Dell intends to release the Inspiron Duo at some point next week, potentially on November 23rd, while pre-sale information should be dished out later this week, alongside Microsoft’s announcement of a new store opening. Things are moving along nice and swiftly, it would seem.

Update: And just to fan those flames of desire a little more, the Duo has shown up in Microsoft’s latest cloud computing advert. See it after the break.

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Dell Inspiron Duo tablet could be with us next week originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I bet you didn’t know that next month is Movember. The made
up month (think of it as the autumn version of Smarch) is part of an annual
moustache growing event aimed at raising money for men’s health charities.
Cisco’s Flip camcorder is getting into the event this year, with a selection of
moustache-sporting camcorders.

The company is offering 10 mustachioed varieties, including
The Professor, The Auteur, The Sunshine Gander, and Chalet Cognac. You can get
the aforementioned mustaches on the UltraHD and MinoHD models. $10 from the
sale of each will go toward the Movember Foundation.

Yes, folks, it’s true: Engadget’s capable of scooping itself at its own reader meetup, as evidenced by the BlackBerry Style we just checked out at RIM’s booth here. The phone is pretty much what you’d expect from what you’ve seen in the shots so far, essentially a clamshell riff on the Curve line; to that end, we’d argue that it feels a little cheaper than your average Bold, but it still seems to be a marked improvement from the Pearl flips of days gone by — and at $99 on contract, we think that’s exactly the market they were likely going for. Interestingly, the keyboard looks more like a Bold component than a Curve one… and depending on the faction of BlackBerry users you fall into, that’s either a very good or a very bad thing. Like the old Pearl flips, the Style’s definitely large and in charge, boasting dimensions barely smaller than the Bold — when closed! Check out the gallery below.

BlackBerry Style first hands-on! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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