Slated to release the same week as the movie is G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, the video game, for all major consoles.
This third-person shooter has an exclusive storyline that picks up where the film leaves off. With 20 levels of game play, three character classifications, (Commando: Does well …
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GPS devices maker TomTom offered a tantalizing preview of its iPhone application and car kit at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this year. But that demo came without pricing or availability information.
Now a U.K. retailer Handtec has started taking pre-orders for the app and the kit combo on its web site for£113.85 ($164). The pricing indicates the TomTom iPhone car kit could be available in the U.S. for $200 soon.
In June, TomTom said that it would make an iPhone app that would offer turn-by-turn GPS navigation for users. What made TomTom’s announcement interesting was that the company said it will also create a car dock-connector for the iPhone. Just as with a standalone GPS device, the TomTom for the iPhone dock would stick inside the car and act as a charging cradle for the iPhone. It would also enhance the GPS capability of the phone.
At $200, the TomTom iPhone car kit would probably be the same price as a dedicated GPS device. If customers don’t have to pay monthly subscription fees for the app and just pay $200, we think it could be a pretty good deal.
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(Credit: Handmark)The countdown is well under way for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile app store, called Windows Marketplace for Mobile, which is slated to arrive in early fall alongside the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. Yet on Tuesday, mobile media company Handmark outmaneuvered Microsoft, releasing a rival application for …
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The rebate computers don’t work, the web software knocks dealers off-line, and a program that was supposed to have funding for July to November ran out in the first week. You could say CARS (Car Allowance Rebate System) is a joke. Here’s a joke that actually is funny: The bumper sticker being promoted by Mini dealers – “My Other Car Was Demolished by the Government.”
While the Mars Spirit rover is still stuck, its twin Opportunity has begun imaging a possible meteorite on the surface of the red planet. The chunk of iron isn’t the first one the two rovers have come across, but it’s the largest at about two feet wide and one foot high, according to Discover.
“When you’re driving around on relatively smooth, flat, boring plains for a long time, anything that looks like a decent-sized rock says, ‘Come get me!'” said rover team member Albert Yen, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the article.
To study the possible meteorite, scientist are training the rover’s alpha particle X-ray spectrometer on it in order to study its composition, the report said. The goal is to gain insight as to what the meteorite saw–atmosphere and surface-wise–when it first landed on Mars however many eons ago.
That new BlackBerry Curve 8520 for T-Mobile is in the house, sucking down EDGE data like it’s going out of style (oh, right, it is). For a device that can be scored for $50 at Walmart as of tomorrow ($130 at T-Mobile stores), this is a surprisingly solid handset. The keyboard is classic BlackBerry goodness, and the overall heft gives us at least a little bit of assurance that the phone can hold up to wear and tear better than its predecessors. Most of the changes are for the better, like a trio of media keys up top and the rubberized sides, but we’re not completely sold on the touchpad. It works great when it works, but if it’s too clean or our thumb is at the exact wrong moisture level, we found that we kind of “stuck” to the pad instead of gliding across it. A bit of texturing could go a long way. We also found the QVGA screen to be pretty dim, which is particularly unfortunate in light of RIM’s higher-end, high-res wonders, but it’s certainly passable. We’re planning on spending some more time with the handset, testing that EDGE network to the limit, giving UMA time to handle some of legendary conversational stylings, and seeing how many Engadget Podcast episodes we can narcissistically cram onto the bundled 1GB microSD card.
In speaking with RIM, it’s quite clear that the decision to go EDGE was primarily based on price, along with the fact that T-Mobile’s 3G rollout is still lacking — it’s still a head scratcher to us, though. The spokesperson also seemed pretty confident that the new touchpad interface is the way of the future, and we get the feeling the BlackBerry’s legendary trackball isn’t long for this world. Check out a quick video hands-on after the break, or you could opt for some fine unboxing shots below.
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Sheepishly preparing to hunt innocent virtual deer.
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Toys just aren’t the same as when I was young, when a Rubik’s Cube and a Greedo action figure were enough to get me through a Sunday. Jakks Pacific, makers of many a plug-and-play retro-gaming peripheral and children’s toy, has some new wrinkles up its sleeve for the holidays, and we got a chance to get our hands on some of the new stuff in the CNET office.
On the more controversial side, Jakks’ new product in their direct-to-TV plug-and-play games line is a low-cost all-in-one version of Big Buck Hunter Pro. In case you’ve been away from bars for a while, the popular arcade game is a rifle-shooter light-gun game involving hunting for deer. This home edition, unlike PC and console games before it, consists just of the plastic shotgun–which has the game software built-in–and a wireless IR bar that sits atop the TV like the Wii’s sensor bar. But is this something you’d want in your home?…
INQ Mobile has unveiled two cell phones aimed at the social networking crowd. The INQ Chat is a QWERTY slab that looks a lot like a T-Mobile Dash 3G. It features a built-in proprietary e-mail client with push Gmail (!), as well as native Facebook, Skype, Twitter, and IM apps. It also comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, a 3.2-megapixel camera with auto-focus, and a built-in GPS radio.
The INQ Mini, meanwhile, is a slim candy bar that offers many of the same services, but in a smaller device with a numeric keypad. Both devices include 3G radios and can function as modems for laptops. They can also be customized with a choice of seven different back panel colors, and offer seamless media sync with PCs and Macs. A 2.2-inch QVGA screen and 2-megapixel camera round out the design.
Both handsets will be available sometime in the fourth quarter of 2009; no word yet on a carrier or price.
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