Hasta La Gadget!

So the ROM included with the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools refresh that was launched this week (to get it up to speed with the final release of Visual Studio 2010) has already been unlocked and torn apart over on xda-developers, and as you might expect, there are quite a few changes and additions in here versus what we’ve seen in the previous release. The most notable change appears to be the inclusion of Office, but we’ve also got dialer and in-call user interfaces, call history, call notifications (using Windows Phone 7’s standard notification paradigm, of course), and a method for uninstalling apps. Clearly, we’re still a long way from going final with this thing — and fortunately, Microsoft has given itself basically the rest of the year to get it good and solid. Andele, ladies and gentlemen.

Latest Windows Phone 7 emulator ROM unlocked, has Office and other goodies originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 May 2010 09:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One of the biggest complaints with Android since the dawn of civilization is that the expansive plains of storage available on microSD cards have been left under-utilized; coldly ignored by the OS while it did everything it could to stuff the measly couple-hundred megs of internal storage with apps. Soon that problem will finally be rectified, with a Google representative closing the long-running Issue 1151. The issue, which covers external installation of apps, was opened in October of 2008 and since then was voted on by 2561 people, all of whom want Google to set their memory cards free. Exactly when this functionality is coming it remains to be seen, but the “coming soon” note in comment 535 is very encouraging. Froyo, anyone?

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Android support for memory card app storage is finally ‘coming soon’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 May 2010 08:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ah, there it is, UK’s first-ever Best Buy store, officially born at 7am local time yesterday. Naturally, we had to be there to witness such magical moment for Britain’s consumer tech market — the Brits had longed for an injection of energy and professionalism to the seemingly slacking chain stores. Many would agree that DSGi’s two main brands — Currys and PC World — are on the naughty list, even after their recent relaunch. From what we saw today, it looks like Best Buy’s already heading in the right direction. Let’s start with the front-line employees. Most of these Blueshirts provided genuine technical answers rather than bluffing their way out, plus we were given product recommendations with no desperate sales pitch as commonly seen in other stores. When we revealed our identity to one of the sales reps, he confirmed that they were trained to not force random products onto customers — quite the opposite culture to his old days at DSGi (assuming he was telling the truth). We sure did appreciate this new-found shopping freedom in gadget stores, but did the other customers feel the same way? Find out what we heard after the break.

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Best Buy opens first UK store in Thurrock, we go hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 May 2010 05:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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President Clinton’s order to stop scrambling satellite signals paved the way for civilians to use GPS with the same accuracy as the military had long enjoyed.

This article was written on August 06, 2006 by CyberNet.

A research scientist from NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, named Jeff Han, invented what could be the coolest computer interface I have seen in a long time. In the movie he talks about how kiosks can only accept input at one point on the screen at a time, meaning you can’t touch the screen with two fingers and have it accept both as an input. They are working to remove that restriction and demonstrate what the possibilities would be if we were free from it.

The video is a little long but you will not be able to stop watching it. You’ll see things like a lava lamp that is completely at your disposal and they even show you how easy it will be to shuffle through to view your photos. If you see a photo in the bunch that you want to make bigger you just grab two opposite corners and drag them apart…pretty cool!

So where will this take us in the future? Is this going to be the replacement to the Tablet PC that Microsoft has worked so hard to promote? People have a hard enough time forking out hundreds more for a Tablet PC so this touch-screen probably won’t be much different. Just like Jeff says in the video though: “Google should have one of these in their lobby.”

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