Hasta La Gadget!

It’s that time again, the Engadget Show is back in a big way this Friday, August 27th at 8pm! First up, Josh is sitting down with Samsung Chief Strategy Officer Omar Khan to chat up the company’s recent Android sprint, then Engadget’s investigative correspondent Rick Karr is back to scale a skyscraper and check up on an AT&T team tasked with improving New York’s data infrastructure. Next up, Josh and Paul welcome fellow editor Joanna Stern back to the roundtable and we’ve got an exclusive live demo of Rock Band 3, plus a special Harmonix surprise… oh, and be ready to rock out to mind numbing chiptunes music, since Zen Albatross and invaderbacca are back for an encore performance! You were wondering about giveaways? You’re in luck, because this time we’ll be giving away, not one, but four Samsung Galaxy S phones! Yep, we’re talking about four phones, on four different carriers, so you know what that means. And if that isn’t enough, we’re also giving away an insane laptop rig from ASUS, featuring the B53J Eyefinity laptop and three (count em!) ASUS VE276Q Monitors! Whatever you do, don’t miss this one! As usual, we’ll be doing the giveaways at the live show only, so make the trek and join us at The Times Center in person. If you’re geographically incapable of joining us in New York City, just tune into the stream at right here on Engadget.

The Engadget Show is sponsored by Sprint, and will take place at the Times Center, part of The New York Times Building in the heart of New York City at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues (see map after the break). Tickets are — as always — free to anyone who would like to attend, but seating is limited, and tickets will be first come, first served… so get there early! Here’s all the info you need:

• There is no admission fee — tickets are completely free
• The event is all ages
• Ticketing will begin at the Times Center at 5:30PM on Friday, doors will open for seating at 7:30PM, and the show begins at 8PM
• You cannot collect tickets for friends or family — anyone who would like to come must be present to get a ticket
• Seating capacity in the Times Center is about 340, and once we’re full, we’re full
• The venue is located at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City (map after the break)
• The show length is around an hour

If you’re a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we’ll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com.

Sprint is offering 50 guaranteed tickets to the Engadget Show taping to the first 50 entrants who text “ENGADGET” to 467467 or enter online! Standard text messaging rates apply. Click for the Official Rules and see how to enter online.

Note: “Official Rules” needs to be linked to http://www.engadget.com/show-tickets/

Subscribe to the Show:

[iTunes] Subscribe to the Show directly in iTunes (M4V).
[Zune] Subscribe to the Show directly in the Zune Marketplace (M4V).
[RSS M4V] Add the Engadget Show feed (M4V) to your RSS aggregator and have it delivered automatically.

Continue reading The Engadget Show returns this Friday, August 27th with Samsung CSO Omar Khan, Rock Band 3, crazy giveaways, and much more! (Updated)

The Engadget Show returns this Friday, August 27th with Samsung CSO Omar Khan, Rock Band 3, crazy giveaways, and much more! (Updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

Continue reading ASUS rolls out B series laptops with Boston-Power’s Sonata batteries

ASUS rolls out B series laptops with Boston-Power’s Sonata batteries originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  ASUS  | Email this | Comments

We’re still waiting on leaked (or official, we’re not partial) images to confirm, but based on a presentation slide and a bit of insider information passed on to Notebook Italia, ASUS is gearing up to replace its aging EeeBox EB1501 with the EB1501P. Reportedly, the box will be based around Intel’s dual-core Atom D525 processor and will feature NVIDIA’s Ion GPU, a 250GB hard drive, 2GB of DDR3 memory, 802.11n WiFi, an HDMI output, six USB sockets and Bluetooth. That aligns quite nicely with the EB1501U (shown above) that we spotted back at CeBIT, which has yet to launch in any capacity since. A proper introduction at IFA, perhaps? We’ll be watching, ASUS.

ASUS’ EeeBox EB1501P leaks out with Atom D525, Ion GPU originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Notebook Italia  | Email this | Comments

While Microsoft has let the tech press poke around Windows Phone 7, the built-from-the-ground-up OS it announced back in February, we’ve so far heard zilch about the phones that will be running it, save for the fact that a handful of top-tier OEMs will make them. Today, though, a photo of what could be a pioneer WP7 handset from Asus surfaced in Pakistan, an atypical source of leaks.

The phone, which carries Asus’ branding on the front side, adheres to Microsoft’s stringent hardware requirements, which includes a capacitive touchscreen and three hardware buttons, including home, search, and backward navigation keys. Although it’s unclear how chunky the phone is, its brushed metal exterior and rounded edges give it a more sophisticated look than the reference (read: not-for-sale) model that made the rounds recently.

Indeed, it’s those rigid hardware requirements that make Windows Phone 7 devices interesting — and somewhat difficult — to imagine. Microsoft’s insistence on uniformity in the way these phones are built is unprecedented, and reminds me of the way Google will compel OEMs to design Chrome netbooks a certain way.

Even Google, though, whose fleet of Android devices share certain characteristics, such as a search button, has a more lax attitude about how the Android OS and the phones running it work together. So, it’s interesting to see how Asus (and, soon, other companies) will design a phone that still looks distinct.

Although we’ve known since day one that Asus would be one of the first companies to manufacture a WP7 device, I’m inclined to take a grain of salt with my brushed metal. Pakistan isn’t a common source of leaks, after all, and this wouldn’t this be the first time we saw leaked photos of what turned out to be a mock-up (ahem, would-be iPads!).

Either way, we’ll know in just a couple months: Microsoft has said that a series of WP7 handsets would be announced before the holidays.

(via Slashgear)

Photo credit: Shaista Hussain / Twitter

Check out this 14mm-thin contender: built by Pegatron and still at the prototype stage, the MasterPad looks to be the embodiment of Steve Ballmer’s incoming armada of desirable Windows 7 tablets. It sports an 11.6-inch IPS screen, which accommodates a 1,366 x 768 widescreen resolution, a 1.3 megapixel webcam plus mic, two USB ports, a memory card reader, an accelerometer, mini-HDMI port, 3G connectivity, and 32GB or 64GB SSD options. All that hi-tech goodness is wrapped up in a magnesium and aluminum alloy body, weighing 990 grams. There are some less cutting edge specs, like the disappointing 2-cell battery that will only get you 5 hours of use and the 1.66GHz Atom N450 CPU — but we’re being promised 1080p video playback and Flash compatibility are ready to roll, and our machine translation hints at an additional HD video-processing chip. The early hands-on experience seems to have left the Israeli journos impressed, and their homeland can expect the MasterPad to arrive “in the coming months,” with an Android version also in the works. See it on video after the break.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Continue reading MasterPad prototype marries Windows 7 to 11.6-inch IPS screen (video)

MasterPad prototype marries Windows 7 to 11.6-inch IPS screen (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Ynet.co.il  | Email this | Comments