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May 02

Nokia N98 leak validated by N8, is there a QWERTY slider brewing up in Espoo?

Posted in: leak, nokia, plans, qwerty, QwertySlider, slider, smartphone, speculation, Today's Chili

Just gaze upon those curves up above and tell us what they remind you of. Yes indeed, the Nokia N98 — which seemed so futuristic we were inclined to dismiss it as the product of a hyperactive imagination — is today looking all too credible thanks to the obvious design similarities it shares with the officially released N8. Starting with the distinctive tapered edges with contrast coloring, moving through the black bezel-sporting display, and jotting down to the positions of the Nokia and N00 logos as well as the Options menu, the viewer can’t help but be convinced that this February leak came with no small portion of truthiness to it. Now, we don’t live anywhere near Espoo, so we can’t tell you whether this was just a precursor to the N8, which lost its physical keyboard and N9x naming scheme to become the beastly media phone we know today. But wouldn’t it be lovely to believe Nokia’s working on all cylinders and planning to introduce a 4-inch QWERTY variant of its new flagship?

Nokia N98 leak validated by N8, is there a QWERTY slider brewing up in Espoo? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 May 2010 04:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 02

CyberSearch 0.9.6 Update

Posted in: Firefox 3, Firefox Extensions, Freeware, Newly Released, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on July 07, 2008 by CyberNet.

Last week we released the CyberSearch Firefox extension, and I can’t believe all of the great feedback we’ve received. Dozens of different sites have written about the extension already, and we’ve received over 2,100 downloads. If you like to follow stats as much as I do then you can head on over to CyberSearch’s statistics page that I’ve made publicly viewable. There you can see a pretty graph of the downloads, and it looks like they’ll periodically update how many active daily users there are. Right now there isn’t much data, but as the extension continues to grow it might be interesting to see things like what operating systems people are running it on.

We’ve already gotten over 60 emails with questions regarding bugs, compatibility issues, and recommendations to make the add-on even better. CyberSearch 0.9.6 addresses all of the bug reports that we’ve gotten up until now, and we appreciate everyone who has sent in quirks they’ve found. If you get a spare moment please stop by the review page and leave your thoughts on the add-on. Hopefully we’ll be able to get out of the experimental stage soon!

Also in this release we’ve incorporated the functionality that the Edit Middle extension offered, and part of the reason we decided to do so was because of a compatibility issue with it. What does this feature do? In Firefox 3 when you edit any text in the address bar it won’t show search results unless your cursor is at the end of the text. For example, if you type “cybernnet” into the address bar and go back to remove an “n” Firefox 3 wouldn’t show any results in the drop-down menu. With the Edit Middle extension (and now with CyberSearch) modifying any text in the address bar will trigger the drop-down menu to appear with matching results.

As far as the bug fixes go here’s a list of the most notable ones this release addresses:

Pressing the down arrow to select a result now works. This was a problem for those choosing not to have Google results intermingled with the history results.
The “unending” loading icon that some people were experiencing has been fixed.
There was a compatibility problem with some extensions, such as GooglePreview. CyberSearch should now play nice with all of the extensions. P.S. This wasn’t entirely the fault of our extension, but it was an easy fix.
If you choose to show history results even when a keyword is recognized the extension will now ignore the keyword for history results, too. I think this makes more sense, but I might make it an optional thing in a future release.

Download CyberSearch 0.9.6
CyberSearch Homepage

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May 01

ASUS EeeKeyboard gets really, really official

Posted in: ASUS, keyboard, Today's Chili

It’s already gone up for pre-order and been unboxed, but ASUS has only just now really, officially “launched” its EeeKeyboard, completing a long, strange journey that began way back at CES 2009. Since then, we’ve seen the keyboard PC get a June launch date, run Moblin, get an August launch date, get gutted, hit the FCC, get an October launch date, hit the FCC again, get a capacitive touchscreen upgrade, get a price and a February launch date, get delayed, lose a space, and get a late-April launch date before now finally launching… in May. Thanks for the memories, ASUS.

[Thanks, Sal]

ASUS EeeKeyboard gets really, really official originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 May 2010 21:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 01

HTC EVO 4G found loitering in Sprint store

Posted in: 4G, HTC, in the wild, InTheWild, Sprint, Today's Chili, WiMAX

It’s not the biggest of pictures — the PPCGeeks forum poster says he shot this with his Touch Pro 2 — but what we’re looking at is allegedly the HTC EVO 4G. Wish we could have a better look, but who knows, maybe some lucky contest winner in the next few weeks will have a decent DSLR handy.

[Thanks, Rigo]

HTC EVO 4G found loitering in Sprint store originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 May 2010 19:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 01

HTC Incredible suffering random reboots for Tar Heel fans and Duke devotees?

Posted in: HTC, Today's Chili, verizon, Verizon Wireless, VerizonWireless, vzw

Well now this is a bit of an odd story, but we’ve seen enough reports to think that it is fully legit. HTC Incredible owners in and around the great state of North Carolina, particularly those in north-central portion (the Triad) are reporting that their phones are rebooting all on their own with alarming regularity. Many have tried new phones, combinations of wireless settings, and other remediations only to find the problem still occurring just as frequently as before. Verizon Wireless is said to be aware of the issue and there has been talk that tower-switching in areas of low signal is to blame, but at this point it certainly sounds like anyone’s guess. Have you been affected? Drop us a note in comments — but try to keep the intra-college banter clean, yeah?

Update: We’re being told there are far more Duke and Tar Heel fans per capita in the Triangle area of NC than in the Triad, which is where this issue seems to be centered, meaning it’s really the Demon Deacons who should be concerned.

[Thanks, Ben]

HTC Incredible suffering random reboots for Tar Heel fans and Duke devotees? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 May 2010 18:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 01

Hello Rewind laptop sleeve hands-on

Posted in: case, Today's Chili

Hey, we just got our Hello Rewind laptop sleeve in the mail, and we’re pretty psyched about it. If you’ll recall, Hello Rewind is a startup in New York City dedicated to helping the survivors of sex trafficking learn new skills by running a business turning old T-shirts into laptop sleeves, and all of the proceeds are used to sustain the enterprise and help more survivors. Pretty neat, especially since helping out just requires you to donate a favorite old shirt and $49 — and the sleeve itself is actually quite nice. Be warned, though: it fits pretty snugly around 15-inch MacBook Pros, and it wasn’t even an option for our bruiser 15-inch HP Elitebook, so you might want to get a size up if you’ve got a bigger machine. Of course, that pales in comparison to the bigger problem: what T-shirt are you going to use?

Gallery: Hello Rewind laptop sleeve hands-on

Hello Rewind laptop sleeve hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 May 2010 16:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 01

iFixit gets iPad 3G on day one, immediately destroys it

Posted in: Apple, ipad, teardown, Today's Chili

Unsurprisingly, the chaps over at iFixit have already torn their brand new 3G iPad to shreds. There isn’t anything insanely shocking in there (no visible “magic,” though there is some fragmentary evidence of a “revolution”), but it’s still a pretty interesting sight to behold. So, what’s going on in there? Well, for starters, the 3G iPad has five antennas, including one that appears to take up the whole of the LCD frame, and one inside the Apple logo; it’s also got the same baseband processor as both the WiFi iPad and the iPhone 3GS. There are plenty more tidbits to glean from the teardown, if you’re into that sort of thing, so hit the source link if you’re so inclined.

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iFixit gets iPad 3G on day one, immediately destroys it originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 May 2010 15:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 01

Tannoy’s old-school speaker tech wows audiophiles

Posted in: Today's Chili

Tannoy’s Prestige Kensington SE doesn’t sound like any other high-end speaker, it’s something else again. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-20003844-47.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Audiophiliac/a/p

May 01

T-Mobile Garminfone finds itself in the camera’s eye (update: video)

Posted in: ASUS, gps, in the wild, InTheWild, navigation, t-mobile, TMobile, Today's Chili

Where to, Garminfone? The front of a gracious tipster’s camera, that’s where. Well, looks like someone’s enjoying the navigation smartphone on T-Mobile bands, even if it’s not yet you. More pics below!

Update: And now we’ve got video, too, via TmoNews and after the break!

Gallery: T-Mobile Garminfone finds itself in the camera’s eye