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Sure, you love the Engadget Podcast… but how much do you love it? Allow the power of your undying devotion to the sounds of Engadget chatter be tested this week as Josh, Paul, and Nilay take a journey through space and time. This week, you’ll hear the guys dissect Amazon’s Kindle DX launch, wax excited about Android v1.5 (that’s Cupcake for us pros), talk openly about Google’s netbook designs, and generally rap about a whole bunch of really cool junk. Don’t miss it. Seriously.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Take On Me

00:01:04 – Amazon Kindle DX announced: $489, ships this summer
00:37:44 – Android 1.5 coming to T-Mobile UK now, USA next week
00:52:00 – Is Dell cooking up an Android-powered netbook?
01:00:20 – HTC working on an Android netbook for T-Mobile?
01:02:50 – Xbox 360 to get motion-sensing add-on with full body game control?
01:13:37 – DJ Hero announced at last, along with Band Hero for the family and Guitar Hero 5 for the face melters

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Engadget Podcast 145 – 05.08.2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 May 2009 14:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Acer has been busy showing off one smartphone after the other over the past few months, and making promises about at least one Android-based device, but it now looks like folks in the US will have to wait a bit longer than expected to actually get their hands on ’em. While complete details are a bit light, according to Gearlog, the phones are being held up as a result of some snags with US carriers, and the first phones now likely won’t make their debut until some unspecified point in 2010. Presumably, that means the phones are still on track for a release overseas this year, and there’s no doubt at least a slight chance that the situation could change over here before the year is out.

[Via Phone Scoop]

Update: That “slight chance” just got a little greater. Acer has told SlashGear that a fourth-quarter 2009 release isn’t out of the question; we’re figuring it probably depends more on how carrier relationships work out than anything else.

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Acer says US smartphones won’t arrive until 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 May 2009 18:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rogers is launching both the HTC Dream and the HTC Magic in June of this year, snapping a “cold spell” of Android-lessness up north. The phones will Rogers exclusives in Canada, and it’s one of the first spots we’ve heard of — other than the fairly inevitable T-Mobile USA — to be getting the elusive HTC Magic outside of Vodafone. Otherwise details are scarce, but Rogers promises more information soon, and has an online countdown for “the revolution” on June 2nd. How polite.

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Rogers nabs HTC Dream and HTC Magic for Canada’s first look at Android originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 May 2009 09:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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And so it’s finally confirmed: no consumers on un-hacked T-Mobile G1s in the US have this yet, but Android 1.5 and all its gooey, chocolatey Cupcake goodness will finally be hitting American units come late next week. Of course, you know how Android updates go — they “roll” — and not everyone is expected to get hooked up until the end of the month. Meanwhile, British G1 owners are getting updated as we speak — so you might say they’re getting back their American counterparts for launching the hardware afterwards. You know, what goes around, comes around.

[Thanks, Shawn and David]

Update: The 1.5 update includes Picasa and YouTube uploads (you didn’t forget about video capability, did you?) straight from your device, which is pretty cool.

Read – T-Mobile USA announcement
Read – Android 1.5 now available in UK

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Android 1.5 coming to T-Mobile UK now, USA next week originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 May 2009 16:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember that shockingly pink (false color, we presume) Hero that was allegedly part of HTC’s planned Android lineup for 2009? CodeAndroid appears to have nabbed the first in-the-wild shots of the very phone, and it’s got every bit as much “chin” in real life as it did in those fuchsia renders. That could be good or bad news depending on just how strongly you feel about the G1’s unforgettable cosmetics, but also notable here is that we appear to have an honest-to-goodness 3.5mm headphone jack up top — a first for an HTC Android device — and an utter lack of any d-pad. The trackball is certainly gone, so unless there’s some wild touch-sensitive area below the screen, it seems like the touchscreen might be the only way to navigate. How this phone ultimately stacks up against its stablemates when it hits the market later this year remains to be seen, but at a quick glance, we’d say the Magic’s looking more like a beauty queen than ever.

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HTC Hero caught flashing some Android in the wild? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 May 2009 03:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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