Nov 23

Dish Network remote access app comes to Android, your Harmony groans

Posted in: Android, android market, AndroidApps, AndroidMarket, AndroidOs, IphoneApp, IphoneApps, Today's Chili
Dish Network took another step towards its ambitious TV Everywhere plans — not to be confused with Comcast’s and Time Warner’s TV Everywhere partnership — by releasing the Android version of its Dish remote access app late last week. This nicely completes the provider’s suite of mobile offerings, which have already been available on the iPhone, iPad and certain BlackBerry phones. The catch is that to take advantage of the app, Android users must own a Sling-enabled Dish device like the ViP 722 / 722k HD DVRs or the recently released Sling adapter. With the necessary hardware though, the app turns smartphones into a control freak’s best friend, working as a remote control, a DVR manager, and a Sling-powered media streamer to view recorded or live programming over Wi-Fi or 3G. That’s a pretty nifty feature set considering it costs a lovely low price of free, and it’s certainly more robust than mobile offerings from Comcast, Time Warner, or DirecTV. In other words, when it comes to getting the most from your paid TV service while on the go, it appears the underdog satellite company can certainly dish it out.

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Dish Network remote access app comes to Android, your Harmony groans originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 23

GPS AutoBot Dongle Tracks Your Car From Your Cellphone

Posted in: Accessories and Peripherals, Android, apps, Cars, gps, iPhone, Today's Chili

I’m not sure what’s my favorite part of this GPS-dongle for cars. Maybe its that it makes it impossible to misplace your car, or perhaps it is that fact that it’s called the AutoBot, clearly the most Transformer-tastic name for a car accessory ever.

Hooking into the car’s on-board diagnostic brain via an OBD-II-port, the AutoBot works with a partner-app in your Android phone or iPhone. From here you can get walking directions to the car, or tap into the diagnostics for in-depth info on what’s happening under the hood.

Even better, the dongle will also let you track a stolen car (or sound an alarm when your kids drive to the local make-out spot instead of going to music lessons), and will send your location to both family members and 911 should your airbags deploy. The AutoBot will be in stores early next year for “less than $300″.

There is one catch. The monthly service comes in exchange for spam. If you don’t pay to opt-out, you’ll get “offers” based on what it going on with your car. Ominously, “AutoBot knows when you need an oil change, tires rotated, and how many miles you’ve driven,” and will “share this information with our partners.” No thanks.

AutoBot product page [Mavizon Tech via The Giz]

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Nov 23

Samsung Shifts 600,000 Galaxy Tabs in One Month

Posted in: Android, ipad, sales, samsung, Tablets and E-Readers, Today's Chili

Despite being hamstrung by an operating system designed for the smaller screen of a smartphone, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has sold an impressive 600,000 units in less than a month. That’s pretty close to the iPad’s initial sales, which reached one million in 28 days.

It’s important to remember that the iPad’s first month was largely confined to the domestic U.S market, whereas the 7-inch Tab has been available all over the world since launch. In fact, according to the Korea Herald, Samsung has shifted just 30,000 Tabs in its own home market of Korea.

Remember, too, that a large proportion of these sales will have been subsidized by telcos, lowering the ~$600 price-tag in exchange for a data-contract.

But these numbers are impressive by any standards, and show that there is a huge demand out there for super-portable computers with the battery life and connectivity of a cellphone. It seems that the Galaxy Tab really is a real rival to the iPad, just like we thought.

Galaxy Tab global sales top 600,000 units [Korea Herald]

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Nov 23

Is this the Motorola Olympus Tegra 2 smartphone?

Posted in: Android, leak, motorola, olympus, rumor, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili

A tipster is shopping this device around the tech blog circuit this morning claiming it’s the first of two “iPhone killer” Olympus Tegra 2 smartphones from Motorola. At first glance, it looks like a Motorola Defy. Closer inspection, however, reveals a slightly elongated speaker above the Motorola logo, different volume controls down the right-hand side, and possibly a front-facing camera top-left. We’ve already seen the words “Motorola” and “Olympus” cohabiting in the official UPnP Forum with bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi confirmed by the Bluetooth SIG and WiFi Alliance. What this is, we can only guess. See a second snap after the break.

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Nov 23

Sony Reader app hitting iPhone and Android devices in December

Posted in: Android, app, application, e reader, e-book, e-books, e-readers, ios, iPhone, reader, sony, Today's Chili

Playing catchup, are we? Sony’s hot on the trail of Amazon and Barnes and Noble, who already have e-reading apps for the Android and iOS platforms, with its own freshly announced Reader offering set for release next month. The functionality in this upcoming slice of software will be familiar: you get to access books already purchased at the Reader Store or pony up cash for new ones, while making bookmarks, notes and highlights on your mobile device. Throw in adjustable fonts and you’ve got your boilerplate beginning to a decent mobile e-reader. Now you just need to pick your fave ebook purveyor.

Sony Reader app hitting iPhone and Android devices in December originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 22

Samsung says it’s sold 600,000 Galaxy Tabs worldwide

Posted in: Android, GalaxyTab, sales, samsung, samsung galaxy tab, SamsungGalaxyTab, tablet, Today's Chili
Samsung said it expected to sell a million Galaxy Tabs this year, and it looks like it may not be far off that mark, if it doesn’t exceed it — the company has apparently told The Korea Herald that it’s sold 600,000 of the tablets worldwide so far, less than a month after launch. That includes 30,000 units sold in Korea since its November 14th launch there, but Samsung doesn’t seem to be dishing out specific numbers for the rest of the world just yet. Of course, as impressive as that is, it may well be all downhill from here once word of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s frown gets around.

Samsung says it’s sold 600,000 Galaxy Tabs worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 22

The Best Free Phone on Every Major Carrier [Free Phones]

Posted in: Android, att, Google, palm, Sprint, t-mobile, Today's Chili, top, verizon, webos

Amazon will gladly sell you awesome phones for a penny. But what if you need that penny? Here’s the best free phones on every carrier. More »

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Nov 22

Viacom drops the ban hammer on Google TV devices, blocks streaming episodes

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Viacom drops the ban hammer on Google TV, platform gets a little less attractive

We have high hopes that Google TV will evolve into something magical and wondrous over the next year or so as its namesake adds apps and features to flesh out the platform’s somewhat underwhelming current state. Today, though, it just got a little less attractive thanks to a move by Viacom to block full episodes from streaming on your Logitech Revues and your Sony Internet TVs and the like. We’ve confirmed with our own Revue that attempting to stream episodes from network sites like MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central show messages like “this content is not available for your device,” which is an unfortunate and frustrating change. Yes, the user agent tweak still works, but wouldn’t it be nice if we could all just get along? Surely Google is still working on its content partnership agreements and hopefully things will improve in the future, but given how friendly the company’s past dealings with Viacom have been we’re not optimistic about this particular front.

Viacom drops the ban hammer on Google TV devices, blocks streaming episodes originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 21

Sony Ericsson CEO suggests February reveal, perhaps the PlayStation Phone?

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Plausible deniability seems to be Sony’s strategy when it comes to the PlayStation Phone, and that apparently goes for Sony Ericsson as well — once again, without actually confirming the existence of the Android-based gaming handset, its manufacturer is hinting strongly at an impending reveal. “There’s a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere,” CEO Bert Nordberg told the Wall Street Journal, adding that some sort of new Sony Ericsson product will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress this February. While that particular item could easily be the 4.3-inch Anzu slate rather than a PlayStation slider phone, the chief executive didn’t seem to shy away from video games in a series of additional quotes. “I haven’t dug into that history, but the future might be brighter,” he said when asked why the company didn’t make a PlayStation Phone years ago, and later suggested that gaming might be the ticket to help SE diversify its offerings. “Sony is of course a very strong brand, and why shouldn’t we use that?” he asked the Journal. We can’t think of a single compelling reason, Mr. Nordberg. Bring on the games.

Sony Ericsson CEO suggests February reveal, perhaps the PlayStation Phone? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 21

Screen Grabs: Someone named Jesse McCartney uses his Motorola Flipout to stare at some poor girl’s backside

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Pop musicians have been endorsing products as long as they’ve existed (who could forget Beatles toothpaste, Ricky Nelson hand sanitizer, or Enrico “The Great Caruso” Caruso-brand horse polish?), but for some reason the convergence of the two never fails to amuse (and annoy) us. Even more so when sensible boy band yelper Jesse McCartney, um, flips out his Motorola Flipout Android phone to surreptitiously film some hard working dancer’s backside. Is that how a celebrity should act? We think not! Video after the break (if you really want to, that is).

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