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It looks like the plush gray carpet in the Coby booth at CES isn’t the only thing that might make you stumble. Coby’s flagship PMP here at CES is the MP836, and it’s safe to say it rubbed us the wrong way. The device itself wasn’t that horrible to look at, but the interface and general aesthetics were both major turnoffs. The Coby reps said that it has multitouch, but there wasn’t any actual implementation to be found. It’ll be available in 4, 8, and 16GB variations when it does eventually hit the marketplace, but we couldn’t get a solid MSRP from the very confused booth staff. Be sure to check out our vids of the device “in action” (if you can really call it that) and the gallery as well. But hey, if lackluster three inch displays and unresponsive touchscreens are you thing, be sure to hit Coby up.

Continue reading Coby’s MP836 hands-on: when ‘not quite ready for primetime’ is a gross understatement

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Coby’s MP836 hands-on: when ‘not quite ready for primetime’ is a gross understatement originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, what have we here? While waltzing about the CES floor today, we stumbled upon a conceptual Mio MID that looks suspiciously like Sony’s VAIO P. The currently unnamed device was actually lookin’ pretty sharp, as it boasted a 7-inch WVGA (800 x 480) resolution display, integrated WiFi, a non-removable battery good for eight hours or so and a full QWERTY keyboard. It was also packing a trackball setup, an SD card slot, a few USB ports and audio in / out. We were told that the design was still being finalized and that it wouldn’t ship until mid-2009 at the earliest, and while we’d love to see this piece ship Stateside, we have our doubts. Oh, and did we mention that this thing runs on an evidently skinned version of Windows Mobile? Because it does. Peek the gallery below if you’re in disbelief.

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Mio’s Windows Mobile-powered concept MID hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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16 gigs ain’t enough space for all those episodes of The Hills on your iPhone? Well, if you’ve got a Buffalo NAS such as the LinkStation Mini or Pro, you can now access all your files remotely on your OS X mobile device through an optimized web page straight from your device. The really nifty part is that you can stream MPEGs over 3G (and presumably EDGE, though we don’t know why you’d want to) — although it took around 60 seconds to buffer a TV show episode in the demo we got. The Buffalo rep we spoke with informed us that an actual app would be available in the App Store sometime this quarter, but if you’re itching to catch up with LC and the gang, be sure to check out any one of the aforementioned devices that support the service and you could be streaming pronto.

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Buffalo’s Web Access hands-on: remote access from your iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We just sat down with Palm for a more in-depth look at the device, and here are our takeaways. First off, the software and hardware they’re showing right now aren’t the final versions. They’re updating and tweaking as we speak, so some of the features haven’t been implemented yet. Our take? Check it all out after the break, along with video, a full spec rundown… and in case you’re wondering… it rhymes with Tree!

Continue reading Palm Pre in-depth impressions, video, and huge hands-on gallery

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Palm Pre in-depth impressions, video, and huge hands-on gallery originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Pogoplug USB to NAS adapter is really in a class of its own. Not only does it do the obvious — allow you to turn any USB hard drive into a NAS — but it is also has a built in web server. But no, they didn’t stop there, for $79 you also get (in our best Billy Mays voice) a web service accessible at Pogoplug.com that gives you the same convenient access to your files anywhere on the internet via either a web browser or the file manager of your choice. There is also a slick little iPhone app available for free.

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Pogoplug hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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