Hasta La Gadget!

LG made the bold leap to Android 2.0 with the low-to midrange GT540 it’s showing this week, turning up the style dial a couple notches in a handful of colors (white, pink, dark gray, and black) with stylized wavy backs, chrome accents, and rounded edges. The UI’s very standard with only minor tweaks, including a few custom LG apps; we couldn’t get much information on it since it’s a Euro-only release and the booth’s being staffed primarily by the company’s US team, but we can see that it’s got a 3 megapixel cam, a 3.5mm jack, and a mix of touch-sensitive and physical buttons down below. We couldn’t verify what kind of processor this thing has on board, but the UI speed certainly didn’t blow us away — if we had to guess, it’s probably the same core that you’ll find in the GW620 Eve. Follow the break for a quick hands-on video.

Continue reading LG’s GT540 mixes Android 2.0, pretty, and low-end

LG’s GT540 mixes Android 2.0, pretty, and low-end originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Our dreams of a personal fuel cell that can charge our gadgets on the go are coming closer to fruition, and if the people at Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies continue what they’re doing, our dreams might come true sooner rather than later. A handheld box a bit larger than an iPhone, the MiniPak handheld fuel cell charger uses Hydrostik cartridges filled with solid hydrogen particles to keep your gadgets juiced. It comes with one Hydrostik, which can be refilled with the companion product, the HydroFILL. The HydroFILL gets filled up with water, and when connected to a power source, it breaks the water down to hydrogen and oxygen, filling up the cartridges. We’ll admit that we’re not exactly up on our molecular chemistry, so check out the video after the break to see a Horizon rep explaining it more clearly.

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Horizon MiniPak personal fuel cell charger hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wondering what kind of apps are enabled by the “world’s first HDTV-based application store“? Check out this CES show floor demo of a cross platform game tying together a Samsung flat-screen TV and cellphone to experience the magic of virtual fishing. We’ll probably keep our dedicated systems for gaming, but for a slight hint of what a crossplatform app store has to offer, by all means take a look.

Continue reading Samsung Apps demo ties phone & TV together in Wiimote-like bliss

Samsung Apps demo ties phone & TV together in Wiimote-like bliss originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You have to have a pretty special product to get two Engadget posts discussing your wares during the maelstrom of CES, but this Adam thing just won’t leave us alone with its Pixel Qi display, Tegra 2 innards and bona fide potential to blow the bloody doors off the homogeneous tablet market. We’ve gone back and grabbed video of the device in direct sunlight and it just kept on impressing us. The screen resolutely refused to be overpowered by the light, whether its backlight was on or off, but that was merely the tip of the iceberg as far as the happy impressions. Come past the break to find out more about buttery smooth 1080p playback (with a handy HDMI out), Notion Ink’s plans for modifying the Android OS, and more on the likely pricing of the device which is set to land in quarter two of 2010. Oh, and yea — we totally ripped it open and photographed the insides. Check that out below.

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Notion Ink Adam stripped bare and our in-depth video hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cydle’s M7 isn’t the best tablet we’ve seen this year. In fact, it’s hardly even a tablet — it has a built-in stand that allows it to stand at attention in either landscape or portrait mode. When not in use, the stand actually flips around and acts as a screen cover — which is a little comforting when thinking about this soft 7-inch resistive touchscreen bumping against sundry objects in a laptop bag. The Android software on the device right now is ultra beta, so we weren’t able to see the internal ATSC TV tuner in action, but it does set the $199 device apart from some of its slate brethren, though our favorite feature might actually be the simple ability to use this device as an extra PC monitor. You know… it’s the little things in life. Under the hood there’s an ARM11 processor at 800MHz. The M7 should be launching in the Spring, and you can check out some video of the unit after the break if you’re into that sort of thing.

Continue reading Cydle M7 Android tablet has TV tuner, external monitor capabilities

Cydle M7 Android tablet has TV tuner, external monitor capabilities originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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