Aug 19

IRL: Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight and the PowerPlant portable battery pack

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Does our own self-professed book collector Dan Cooper need an e-reader? No, but he might get one anyway. And do you need a portable charger with 3.6 times the capacity of an iPhone 5? Yes, or at least that’s what Darren tells us.

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Aug 12

IRL: Motorola’s Droid RAZR M and the SignEasy digital signature app

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You can ask Dana which phone she uses, but don’t act all surprised when you find out it’s a $99 mid-ranger. You can also ask Darren what he thinks of SignEasy’s digital signature app, but he might talk your ear off. Straight ahead: lots of talking, and one long defense of a phone with a mediocre camera and tiny little battery.

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Aug 05

IRL: Mint.com and Incipio’s Feather case for the Retina MBP

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It’s about time you know what a Type-A person our managing editor Dana Wollman is (though a tendency to copy edit other people and benchmark laptops should have already been hints). In this edition, Dana makes a case for the personal finance app Mint.com, while Edgar (maybe a little Type-A himself) deals with a snap-on case for the sake of keeping his MacBook Pro scratch-free.

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Jul 29

The Daily Roundup for 07.29.2013

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DNP The Daily RoundUp

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Jul 29

IRL: TYLT’s Energi charging backpack and the Logitech FabricSkin Keyboard Folio

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IRL: TYLT's Energi charging backpack and the Logitech FabricSkin Keyboard Folio

This week, Darren Murph, the man of many bags, is at it once again, trying out a charging backpack we got to handle for just a few minutes back at CES. In addition, we’ll give you a peek at Logitech’s suspiciously Surface-like FabricSkin keyboard case. Find it all after the break.

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Jul 22

IRL: Optrix XD5 waterproof iPhone case and the RokDock charging stand

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One of the many perks of being Darren Murph: you get to travel the world, testing ruggedized, waterproof iPhone cases along the way. Meanwhile, our contributor Jason Hidalgo isn’t making any excuses for liking a $99 charging dock that doesn’t do anything else. Because, you know, CNC-machined aluminum.

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Jul 15

IRL: UNDFIND’s One camera bag and FIFA 13 for Xbox 360

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Can’t bring yourself to spend $300-plus on a leather camera bag? Get a $130 one made out of Neoprene, says Darren. (And he should know: he’s tested just about all of them by now.) As for Edgar, he’s not recommending you buy anything, per se; he just wants you to know how much he loves FIFA 13.

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Jul 01

IRL: Chromebook Pixel and AlienBees’ ABR800 Ringflash

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Sure, the Chromebook Pixel is expertly constructed, but you won’t find more than a sentence about that here. Nope, we’d rather talk about its blazing fast LTE speeds. As for our copy editor Philip, he doesn’t write for Engadget often, but when he does, it’s about camera gear.

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Jun 24

IRL: BlackBerry Q10 and the Chevy Volt

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Fun fact: IRL was inspired by long-term car reviews — the sort of detailed write-ups you can’t expect after just a week of testing. Appropriately enough, then, we’ve got some impressions of the Chevy Volt from Engadget Spanish editor Jose Andrade, who’s already on his second model. Meanwhile, you’ll also find some thoughts on the BlackBerry Q10 from who else but Canadian editor Jon Fingas.

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Jun 17

IRL: Mophie Juice Pack Plus for iPhone 5 and testing Solavei’s MVNO

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IRL: Mophie Juice Pack Plus for iPhone 5 and testing Solavei's MVNO

Welcome back, and happy Monday. After a week of getting hands-on with all manner of laptops, we thought we’d spare you our thoughts on Ultrabooks this time around. Tablets, too. Fortunately, we’ve got lots of other stuff to wax on about, from a battery-packing iPhone case to Solavei’s new MVNO, which piggybacks on T-Mobile. Head on past the break to read more.

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