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You may have already gathered that we’re fans of the Jawbone Jambox — seeing as how it appears in our Holiday Gift Guide — but does a miniature portable speaker, even one that pumps out 85 decibels, deserve a $200 price? How about that battery life? We’ve spent weeks now with the little Bluetooth speaker that could, throwing it at every scenario in sight, and after the break you’ll find a full review with all the upsides and downsides.

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Jawbone Jambox review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just days after Sony’s Qriocity video-on-demand service went live across Europe, in flies this — news that the aforesaid service will be spreading its wings and touching the PSP in short order. Word on the street has it that the next PlayStation Portable update (v6.35) will bring along Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity, described as a “new, cloud-based, digital music service from Sony that will give music lovers access to millions of songs stored and synchronized through the cloud.” Post-update, users will notice a new icon in the PSP’s XrossMediaBar under the ‘Music’ category, and moreover, the Media Go application for managing PSP downloadable content on your PC will be updated “with enhancements to the user interface and advanced photo editing tools.” Sony’s remaining mum on a launch date, but the internet is already abuzz about what this may mean for the impending PlayStation Phone. Will Sony finally have a leg-up over iOS with an ingrained unlimited music client? A boy can dream, can’t he?

Update: Tipster Isaac spotted the screen above and the one after the break on his PSPgo today. Looks like the launch may be sooner than we’d imagined, eh?

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Sony PSP to gain unlimited music via cloud-based Qriocity service originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Why more people aren’t doing this kind of thing, we don’t know. La Boite Concept, a French design studio with a focus on electronic acoustics, has put together the above piece of laptop-loving music furniture, dubbed the LD120. It features a total of seven drivers, including a down-firing subwoofer and a stereo pair at the rear, the latter of which is intended to bounce sound off a wall and neatly into your ear canal. You’ll still only be getting 2.1 audio output at the end of it, but when it emanates from a leather-trimmed desk equipped with its own USB sound card and a cable-tidying channel in one of its legs, we’re kind of willing to overlook that little detail. We only wish we could be as blasé about the price, which at €980 ($1,300) places the LD120 strictly on our “hope someone buys us one” list.

[Thanks, Samiksha]

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La Boite Concept LD120 is the hi-fi desk your laptop’s been crying out for (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Nov 2010 04:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve always had a soft spot for Altec Lansing’s wide array of speaker docks — these guys have been embedded in that space for an awfully long time, and the quality has always seemed up to snuff in our eyes. Er, ears. For whatever reason, it looks as if Altec is trying to replicate that success in the earbud market — a market that’s been growing increasingly crowded over the past couple of years as the portable media player and smartphone sectors have exploded. These days, a set of third-party headphones are nearly a requirement to fully enjoy whatever media player you’ve ended up with, and thus, hordes of companies have flocked to cater to the demand. The Ultra MZX606 earbuds ($99.95) popped onto the scene just two months ago, and now we’ve had a solid weekend to push the latest Underoath, Happy Body Slow Brain, Kanye West and Otis Redding jams through here. Hop on past the break for our impressions.

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Altec Lansing Muzx Ultra MZX606 earbuds review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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