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Samsung Nexus S 4G updated to Android 2.3.7, brings Google Wallet support originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In case you haven’t met him already, Obiwan222222 represents the minimalist alternative to hardcore modding. He’s already shown us Wii games running on the PSP and iPod Touch, and now he’s pulled off the same trick on his Asus Transformer. It’s all done with network streaming: he loads up Super Mario Galaxy 2 on his PC using the open-source Dolphin emulator and then transmits it to his tablet via the Splashtop HD remote desktop app for Android. He also throws in an Xbox 360 controller to make things look more confusing than they really are. We’d obviously worry about lag with this type of setup, but the video after the break makes it look just about playable.

Continue reading Play Wii games on your Android tablet via network streaming (video)

Play Wii games on your Android tablet via network streaming (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adding to Verizon’s ever-expanding selection of LTE phones, Pantech’s Breakout will be its first sub-$100 LTE handset, sneaking into the mix at $99.99 on a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate. After an in-the-wild spot, the Breakout finally looks set to arrive on September 22nd — a date that may sound pretty familiar. For the price, it still packs that LTE punch, and the ability to act as a mobile hotspot for up to ten devices. Compared to its pricier Verizon stablemates, the Thunderbolt and the Droid Bionic, the Breakout has a smaller 4-inch screen, but runs on a respectable 1GHz processor. There’s also a 5 megapixel camera at the back capable of 720 HD video capture, and a VGA cam up front. LTE for less — it’s here.

Continue reading Pantech Breakout finally does just that, available from Verizon starting September 22nd

Pantech Breakout finally does just that, available from Verizon starting September 22nd originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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See that there? That’s a Galaxy Tab 8.9 WiFi, and after months on end of mystery, it seems as if the wait to procure one in the US of A is just about over. Shipments are arriving at Best Buy stores across the nation, and according to our sources, they’ll be stocked and ready for purchase starting September 22nd. We’re still waiting to hear back on a retail price, but those who’d like to hazard a guess can extrapolate from those UK figures. So, did your Tuesday plans just get made?

Update: Select stores may be ushering them out on the 22nd, while others will be force to wait until the 25th. As for pricing? It’s “listed” at $399.99, but we’ve certainly seen Best Buy placeholders be wrong before.

Update 2: Samsung chimed in with official pricing. The 16GB model will sell for $469, with the 32GB flavor costing $100 more.

Galaxy Tab 8.9 WiFi shipments arrive at Best Buy, will go on sale this week originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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T-Mobile’s myTouch smartphones have — until now — been an exclusively HTC affair, but both of the phones captured here appear to be LG-made. Phandroid is reporting that a video posted briefly on T-Mo’s official YouTube channel labelled this duo as the myTouch and myTouch Q by LG. We got wind of two new LG handsets headed to T-Mobile back in May, called the Maxx and Maxx Q, but there’s no clear indication just yet that these are one and the same. The videos soon vanished from view, but the screen grab — with a heavy sprinkling of render magic — shows two phones that share a few similarities with the Optimus Sol, like a substantial chunk of bezel between the screen and the threesome of Android buttons. We’re hoping both will share that eye-blistering AMOLED screen found on the Sol, but we’re still waiting on more details to clarify exactly what LG’s got cooking.

LG myTouch phones make brief YouTube appearance? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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