Feb 18

Samsung SCH-M830 hands-on

Posted in: Features, hands-on, mwc, mwc 2009, mwc2009, samsung, Today's Chili, video, WiMAX

While perusing the Samsung booth for something fresh and fun we happened upon this, the Samsung SCH-M830. The M830 is a WiBro (mobile WiMax) and HSPA set, WiFI, Bluetooth, 3 megapixel camera, a 3.3-inch LCD, memory expansion with microSD, and runs Windows Mobile 6.1. The interface and all the UI elements were in Korean (see that Anycall branding? That’s the hint) so if there were any special goodies in there we definitely didn’t catch them. Impressions? It felt great and was really solid, but as to performance we can’t add much there — though just that big display had us smiling. Lovely gallery and a quick video flip-through follow the break.

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Feb 18

NTT docomo and Sharp show projector phone at MWC

Posted in: Features, hands-on, mwc, mwc 2009, mwc2009, pico projector, PicoProjector, Sharp, texas instruments, ti, Today's Chili

We had a brief peek at yest another pico projecting set at MWC, this time an NTT docomo Samsung affair without a name, price, or even a release date. Specs are as sketchy as these are usable in a brightly lit room, but the hopes are this device will be used for services like mobile TV, home theater (yeah, right), document editing, presentations, and video calling. We were enthused to see the mock ups (pictured above) of where the design of this device could go — and we’re hoping that by next year the bricks we’ve seen lately will be gone and sleek design will become the norm. We filmed a bit of it in action and honestly, we’ve seen TI’s pico projector before and it doesn’t seem to have changed significantly. Follow the link to see the media.

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NTT docomo and Sharp show projector phone at MWC originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Feb 18

General Mobile’s DSTL1 Android phone eyes-on

Posted in: Android, Features, mwc, mwc 2009, mwc09, mwc2009, Today's Chili

Never mind the Magic — we’ve run across another Android device lurking in the midst at MWC, and if you squint, you might just see some HTC influence in this one, too. We’d heard General Mobile’s dual-SIM DSTL1 would launch here, granted, but given its reasonably high-end look and the fact that we’d only seen renders ahead of the show, you have to appreciate our skepticism. Of course, we’re delighted to be proven wrong in these sorts of situations, and we had a chance to play around with a DSTL1 today; WQVGA feels weak and there might be just a little too much Touch Diamond influence, but you have to respect the 5 megapixel AF cam, 4GB of internal storage plus microSD expansion, dual SIM slots, and on-board FM radio. Ultimately, the fact that this thing’ll only be available in two tri-band EDGE flavors kills the dream, but goodness, these guys are getting close, aren’t they? Follow the break for video!

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Feb 18

Viliv S5 and X70 MIDs hands-on with video!

Posted in: Features, hands-on, MID, mwc, mwc09, Today's Chili

We just played around with Viliv’s latest MIDs, the stylish S5 and X70. Both devices use haptic feedback for onscreen keyboard input, and despite the resistive screen we found them both to offer some of the best touchscreen interaction we’ve seen on devices like this. They were both running Windows Vista, and seemed rather responsive and usable, even with Atom under the hood. What’s really impressive is the X70 (pictured), which is thinner than the S5, and also can be mounted to an optional leather case that brings a keyboard and foldability to the device, and turns the unit into a laptop of sorts. Neither device is particularly thin or light, but there’s a lot of quality going on here, and for folks sold on this sort of functionality and form factor, it would be hard to do much better than these at the moment — of course, you’ll have to swim to Korea to do it. Video of the S5 is after the break.

Gallery: Viliv S5 and X70 MIDs hands-on

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Feb 18

Samsung Show hands-on and video at MWC

Posted in: feature, Features, hands-on, mwc, mwc 2009, mwc09, mwc2009, pico projector, PicoProjector, projector, samsung, ti, Today's Chili, video

The Engadget Spanish team just got their hands on the Samsung Show (the European, i7410 model) projector phone that we first caught a sneak peek of a CES. The Show’s projector is powered by Texas Instruments’ DLP pico technology, and though the fact that it packs a projector does increase the bulkiness of the phone as far as looks are concerned, the phone is still rather small and light. The Show can project an image of anywhere from five to fifty inches, with a 480 x 320 resolution. It’s got a 3.2-inch WQVGA touchscreen, the TouchWiz UI and also boasts a 5 megapixel camera. There are plans for this bad dude to hit Asia and Europe (but no word on if it’ll ever make its way to North America), but we still haven’t heard when, nor how much it’ll cost when it arrives. Check the video after the break.

[Via Engadget Spanish]

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Feb 18

Editorial: Ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 misses the mark

Posted in: Features, Microsoft, mwc, mwc 2009, mwc2009, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5

The talk this week at Mobile World Congress has been largely positive about Microsoft’s latest iteration of its smartphone UI, Windows Mobile 6.5. Still, some of us at Engadget (well, one of us, at least), feel like the folks in Redmond missed the mark by a longshot. Instead of demonstrating its technical prowess and vast resources, Microsoft limped out a half-hearted rehash of an OS we’ve seen all too much of, and managed to blind most onlookers with a storm of big time partnerships and bloated PR. While their major competitors (and even some allies) in the mobile space seem bent on changing ideas about how we interact with our portable devices, the company proved once again that it’s content to rest on its laurels and learn little from its mistakes.

To give you another side of the story — a side which I think Microsoft has done an immaculate job of hiding this week — here’s ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints.

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Feb 18

TI’s OMAP 3 hardware doesn’t manage to do Windows Mobile 6.5 any favors

Posted in: Features, hands-on, mwc, mwc09, texas instruments, ti, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5

We were really impressed with Texas Instruments’ OMAP 3-based mobile development platform when we saw it running Android earlier today, and the hardware seems to hold up well to all sorts of video-accelerated magic for a multitude of Linux-based interfaces. Not so much with Windows Mobile 6.5. Granted, this is a very early build of the OS according to Microsoft, and is lacking all sorts optimization mojo that will go into the final product due end-of-year-ish, but at the same time this is basically an interface skin to Windows Mobile 6 that Microsoft has had nearly a year to work on since 6.1, and it’s not exaggerating to say that performance is a complete joke at the moment. TI’s OMAP 3 was clearly struggling to handle basic scrolling of the home screen and app menu, though “smoothness” was slightly improved in scrolling through a gallery of photos. TI has been working with 6.5 for “a few months,” and claims to have added optimizations to interface performance — and interestingly is running this on a capacitive touchscreen device, something that isn’t officially supported as far as we’re aware. They’re also saying that they plan on achieving full smoothness by the time this launches, but there’s really a long way to go, and it’s difficult to understand why this seems to be a last priority for Microsoft at the moment. On the other hand, TI is doing great things with its own 3D-accelerated interface, something which Windows Mobile 6.5 brings support for, so perhaps these will all one day (soon) meet in the middle and give us the sort of interface smoothness and usability we’d expect on a phone built a decade into this century. Check out the painful videos after the break.

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Feb 18

Samsung’s Blue Earth is saving the world from behind glass

Posted in: Features, mwc, mwc09, samsung, solar, Today's Chili

The entirety of civilization seems fairly well and dedicated to one-upping each other in the “green” department, and Samsung is looking to up the ante once again by stating that “blue is the new green” and putting out the new Blue Earth solar phone to prove it. Sadly, the Blue Earth isn’t quite ready to go — currently it’s only to be seen in non-working mockup form, though the hardware is certainly looking good. Samsung’s showing off its eco-packaging and built-in energy-saving functionality, including an “Eco Walk” function to let you know how many trees you save by walking places. The phone itself is built from castor bean extract and recycled plastic, and Samsung claims the integrated solar panel saves up to 34.6% of the battery’s energy. They’re also showing off a hand-crank generator, external solar chargers, and even a solar-charged stereo headset. It’s clear that Samsung isn’t just playing lip service to green (or blue, as the case may be) but at this point in time this technology is likely to act more as a gimmick and promise of things to come than a truly life-changing device.

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Feb 18

Samsung teases wrists with GT-S1100 watch at MWC

Posted in: Features, mwc, mwc 2009, mwc09, mwc2009, samsung, Today's Chili, watch

Remember what LG did at CES last year? Those crafty sons of guns showed off a shockingly decent-looking concept watch phone that ended up seeing a production announcement exactly one year later. Not to be outdone by its crosstown rival, Samsung came to MWC this year with a timeline showing its nearly decade-long history of designing and selling watch phones — and interestingly, the rightmost entry in the timeline was dated “2009.” We couldn’t get any solid information on the GT-S1100, but like LG’s GD910, the device features a full touchscreen, Bluetooth, and a speakerphone (probably a good thing for a phone you can’t put up to your ear without getting a lot of odd looks). ‘Course, in all likelihood, this is just another chapter in the book of Samsung heartbreak — it’ll either never see production or get released by precisely one carrier in precisely one country, then promptly fade into oblivion — but it’s looking awfully production-friendly. Same time, same place next year, Sammy — just make sure you guys bring something more than a dummy behind a glass case this time, k?

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Feb 18

Recommended Tags Plugin for WordPress 2.3

Posted in: Features, Freeware, Screenshots, Software, Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on September 25, 2007 by CyberNet.

Many of you might have noticed in our Daily Downloads today that WordPress 2.3 has been released. One of its most acclaimed features is the built-in tagging system, but to be honest it is a overly simple as it currently stands. It has no sort of near-duplicate detection when adding tags to your posts, which can quickly create a huge mess for anyone with a few dozen tags. In no time you could have tags such as “download” and “downloads” created all because you couldn’t remember which one you originally started with.

To solve that problem we were able to take the Click Tags plugin, and derive our own from it called Recommended Tags. It uses what I consider to be an intelligent system to recommend tags to you based upon the content of each article, and in the event that a specific tag is not recommended there is always a full list of all existing tags towards the bottom of the “Write a Post” page (as seen in the screenshot below). I setup options in the code so that you can easily enable or disable the displaying of both recommended tags and the entire list of tags.

How are the recommendations “intelligent?” For starters all HTML tags are stripped from the post so that linking to a Wikipedia article won’t necessarily recommend the “Wikipedia” tag that you’ve created (since URL’s are removed before matching up tags). Take a look at an additional two features (both enabled by default) that will help match tags:

  • Tags can be “exploded” so that the tag name is broken up into individual words. This will let a tag called “Windows Vista” be recommended even if you only mention “Vista” (note that it is without the “Windows”) in your article.
  • Common plural/past endings (in English) can be trimmed off of the end of tag names. That way a tag called “downloads” will still be recommended even if you only mention “download” in the article.

We will continue to add more features to make adding WordPress 2.3 tags even easier, so keep your eyes peeled for updates to Recommended Tags plugin!

Here’s a screenshot of the plugin in-action:

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