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Continue reading Microsoft Touch Mouse unveiled, available for $80 in June

Microsoft Touch Mouse unveiled, available for $80 in June originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The world’s fastest high-capacity CompactFlash card? Yes, please! SanDisk has just taken the CF game to an entirely new level, doubling the capacity of its current highest Extreme Pro offering by dishing out a 128GB model here at CES. The Extreme Pro is definitely the card of choice for the high-speed cameras here at Engadget HQ, and for those who’ve outgrown their twin 64GB setup within their D3S, you can soon pop in a pair of these bad boys for a nominal fee. The card touts performance as high as 100MB/sec (write), a Power Core controller and a UDMA-7 interface, perfectly suited for capturing hours of 1080p footage. Oh, and speaking of that nominal fee — it’s expected to hit retail “later this year” for $1499.99. Yeah, a grand and a half. But hey, you get what you pay for. In less enticing news, a pair of new flash drives are also being launched this evening, the SanDisk Ultra and Cruzer Edge. The Ultra offers transfer rates as high as 15MB/sec, ships in capacities ranging from 8GB to 32GB and will cost between $44.99 and $109.99. The Cruzer Edge reaches from 2GB to 16GB and will set you back between $12.99 and $79.99. Check out the full releases after the break, and though we shouldn’t need to advise you, we’d recommend you start pinching those pennies dimes soon.

Continue reading SanDisk reveals $1500 128GB Extreme Pro CF card, Ultra / Cruzer Edge USB drives

SanDisk reveals $1500 128GB Extreme Pro CF card, Ultra / Cruzer Edge USB drives originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kaz Hirai, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, just twirled a fine dance around the PlayStation Phone. In discussing Sony’s future strategy for offering a coherent and extremely expansive consumer offering, he used the words “tablets,” “smartphones” and “PlayStation” in the same sentence, whetting appetites but never taking the leap to confirm what we all pretty much know his company is working on:

Strategy encompasses driving the development of a variety of new strategic products and services including tablets currently in development as well as smartphones, all the while of course integrating the knowhow and the assets that we’ve accumulated from our PlaySation business.

Oh Kaz, just admit it.

Kaz Hirai non-confirms the PlayStation Phone and tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Surprised? No, not really, but let’s not rain on Sony’s parade, adding a trio of new models to its lineup of simple to use Bloggie cameras. Most notable is the Bloggie 3D, which does 1080p in 3D through two sensors and has a 2.4-inch 3D LCD — glasses-free. Then there’s the Bloggie Duo, with a 2.7-inch LCD on the back and 2.0-inch on the front, nestled beneath the lens. Finally is the “ultra compact” MHS-FS1, which doesn’t have any fancy tricks. It’s just tiny. We just got some quick hands-on time with the Bloggie 3D at the Sony press conference, and while it wasn’t a real working unit, we can confirm that you will soon be able to put 3D in your pocket. Check out some of the hands-on pictures below and then hit the break for the full PR.

Continue reading Sony adds three new Bloggie models, including the 1080p Bloggie 3D

Sony adds three new Bloggie models, including the 1080p Bloggie 3D originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The cat is out of the bag, Sony! We just walked into Sony’s CES press conference and look at what we found hanging around in the back? It’s Sony’s Xperia Arc, and it is one slim smartphone. No, like it is really thin and it has a concave back, which reminds us a lot of the Nexus S. According to the placard it has a “Reality Display” with a Mobile BRAVIA Engine. We’re not sure what those fancy words mean, but the display (we’re assuming it is 4.2 inches) is definitely extremely bright and crisp — like AMOLED bright and crisp. We don’t know the exact measurements of the handset, but it looks just as thin as the iPhone… if not thinner. Other than that we know it has an mini-HDMI port and runs Android 2.3 (confirmed on the device itself!). It also has a Sony Exmor R camera. We should be learning much more about this thing as soon as it becomes “official,” but until then hit the break for some hands-on shots.

Update: Ah, finally some confirmed specs. The Arc does in fact have a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4.2-inch display, 8.3 megapixel camera, and measures just 8.7mm thick. Hit the break for the full PR and specs.

Continue reading Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc first hands-on!

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc first hands-on! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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