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Those UI elements still a bit too small in Windows Mobile 6.5? It’s no problem at all for the HTC Leo, which has been found at last in the wild. The monstrous handset houses what we’ve heard to be a 4.3-inch screen, and the hardware info screen shows it to be pumping an 800 x 480 resolution with a 1GHz Qualcomm 8250B Snapdragon processor — excuse us while we allow a tingle to run leisurely up and down our spine. It dwarfs the Touch Pro2 (a largish handset in its own right) in head to head comparisons, and seems strikingly similar to earlier leaks — even down to that dual LED flash and the Pro.Three moniker on the back.

[Via WMPoweruser.com; thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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HTC Leo spotted in the wild, sports gargantuan 800 x 480 display originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been months since we’ve heard a peep from Voodoo or its swaggering founder, Rahul Sood. Now it seems that one of the changes headed to the Voodoo brand is no branding at all judging by the pics of this purported Envy 13 from parent company HP — it steals both the name and size-indicative numbering from the Voodoo Envy 133 without a hint to its heritage. The 13.1-inch laptop is said to run Windows 7 on an Intel chipset. Visually we can see a pair of USB jacks, HDMI, and trackpad that looks to be packing some special sauce. A peak at Sood’s Twitter account calls Tuesday “D Day” with the promise of “new product coming out in September/October (ish),” that will make you, “the envy of all your friends.” In other words, we expect to learn more tomorrow. Backside pic after the break, more over at notebook italia.

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HP Envy 13 exhumed lacking Voodoo DNA originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey — this one makes sense, so we shouldn’t be too surprised, but it turns out that Time, Inc. is seriously looking into getting into the e-reader business, according to a leaked presentation from June of this year. The slides, which are entitled “New Platforms & Business Models for Publishers,” also contained notes which had been updated as late as this past August, indicating that Time has plans to launch a product as soon as the end of this year. Though Time had said back in March that it had “no interest” in getting into the e-reader biz, it’s not terribly shocking to hear that they were either fibbing or changed their minds, considering how the market’s been heating up lately, combined with the deaths of many, many print mags. NBC contacted Dawn Bridges — a spokesperson for Time — about the story, who said the company is “speaking with a number of hardware and software companies as well as other content companies about various projects.” Vague enough for you?

[Via Gizmodo]

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Time looking to kick out the e-readers after all? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The BlackBerry Onyx hasn’t exactly kept itself a secret in the past few months, so it’s no surprise that we’re seeing what looks to be the official press image and release from T-Mobile well before the handset’s launch. No big surprises here, really — it’s still a 3G mashup of the Bold and the Curve 8900 with that new optical trackball — but apparently RIM’s preloading it with the Amazon MP3 store, so that’s slightly interesting. From what we can tell, it’s due in early November, but pricing is still a mystery — hopefully RIM and T-Mobile have saved the best surprise for last.

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T-Mobile BlackBerry Onyx press image leaks out originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hope you Bold owners out there managed to snag AT&T’s BlackBerry Bold visual voicemail software update while it lasted, because an internal memo leaked to BGR says it’s been pulled due to compatibility problems with “network enhancements being deployed.” That sounds to us like there’s an issue with either those 850MHz 3G rollouts or whatever black magic Ma Bell’s doing to get iPhone MMS up and running, but either way, it’s one more fire for AT&T’s engineers to put out while its customers sit around waiting.

Update: AT&T just sent us their official word on the matter — and they also told us it has nothing to do with MMS or 850. Check it out after the break.

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AT&T yanks BlackBerry Bold visual voicemail software update originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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