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Whether or not Snow Leopard build 10A432 is really the ready-for-shipment “golden master,” Apple’s own site is giving hope to the masses that its next platform iteration is gearing up for a launch sooner rather than later. MacRumors is reporting that a Mac Box Set containing OS X 10.6 , iLife ’09, and iWork ’09 popped up on Apple’s online store today priced at $169 for single users and shipping within 24 hours. The page itself no longer exists, although not before Google’s spiders managed to pick up on it. It’s probably wishful thinking to think this is indicative of a release before its projected September launch window — and really, at this point, that’s only a couple of weeks away — if you were gonna hope for it anyway, here’s some fodder for ya.

Read – Snow Leopard box set briefly appears in Apple Online Store
Read – Google entry for now-defunct page

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Software

Snow Leopard box set makes short-lived cameo in Apple’s online store originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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No surprise that the Zune HD announcement has resulted in a flurry of iPod rumors, and there’s a couple good ones going around today. Obviously the big news is a set of photos purporting to show a next-gen touch with a camera — the sourcing and the backdrop in some of the pics make it feel like it’s a publicity stunt, but the shots of the motherboard next to a current-gen touch’s board seem convincing — especially because of Apple’s recent propensity to leak this sort of thing. The other piece of news? CNET says that whatever Apple does next month, the new Cocktail “next-generation album cover” will be a part of it, at least according to “multiple music industry sources.” That might link into the major labels’ CMX initiative, it might have something to do with iTunes 9, it might be a fun little Tom Cruise movie, or it might be nothing at all — but it sure seems like we’re in for a hell of a September.

Update: As commenter Joseph pointed out, these look pretty fake when you zoom in Photoshop — there’s a distinct square of pixels around the lens. Nice publicity stunt, guys — we’ll totally start listening to your show now.

Update 2: After seeing some high res versions of these pics, we think we can safely rule out the JPG artifacting as the tell-tale sign that these are fake. You know what we can’t rule out? The really bad looking Photoshop work around the lens. Much clearer pic after the break. [Thanks for the pic, Manny]

Read – The Covino and Rich Show blog post with iPod touch photos
Read – iPod touch photos on Flickr in higher-res
Read – CNET on Cocktail

Continue reading Next-gen iPod touch photos supposedly leak out; Cocktail part of Apple announcement? (Updated)

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Next-gen iPod touch photos supposedly leak out; Cocktail part of Apple announcement? (Updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve been waiting for some more compact cameras with integrated GPS features to hit the market, and this blurry shot of an upcoming Samsung ST1000 gives us a little hope. It’s actually looking like a pretty hot piece of kit in addition to the geotagging features, with a 12 megapixel sensor with ISO 4800 sensitivity behind a stabilized 5x zoom lens, 3.5-inch touchscreen with gesture support, face detection that prioritizes the most-common faces, and WiFi support all cooked in. The rumor says we’re looking at an August 13 launch, so we should know more soon — hopefully the £349 ($580) price tag is a bit more reasonable when it officially comes Stateside. Hit the read link for some more shots.

[Thanks, Chris]

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Samsung ST1000 GPS-enabled camera appears in blurrycam shot originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This “pre-launch” list of upcoming AT&T phones leaked out today, and it’s pretty interesting — in addition to the BlackBerry 9700, it also features the illusory Garmin-Asus nüvifone G60, which finally looks like it’ll be coming to the US just a short 18 months after first being announced. Other notables include the HTC Tilt 2 and something called the HTC Pure, which Boy Genius Report says may be a variant of the Snap. No Android or webOS on this list, sadly, but hey — the nüvifone is coming. Can you feel the excitement?

Filed under: Cellphones

AT&T’s upcoming handsets include BlackBerry 9700, Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve been hearing about Verizon’s upcoming HTC Whitestone for a while now, and it looks like a new pic and specs for the upcoming dual-mode CDMA / GSM Touch Diamond2 variant have leaked out. Seems like a mixed bag — the revised case with a larger 3.6-inch WVGA display is impressive, but inside you’re looking at Windows Mobile 6.1 running on a 528MHz Qualcomm processor with 256MB of RAM, so you’ve certainly lived through this experience before. That’s pretty much the same case with the HTC Mega, which also leaked today: although it’ll ship with WinMo 6.5 and that hot new version of TouchFLO 2D, it’s a lower-end device with a 2.8-inch QVGA display, a three megapixel camera and yet another 528MHz Qualcomm proc with 256MB of RAM running the show. Oh, and just to round things out, there’s a pic of the Dopod-branded HTC Tachi, which probably means this one’s headed for China. Always nice to put a face to a name, though isn’t it? Pics of the Mega and Tachi at the read link.

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Verizon’s HTC Whitestone leaks out, along with the HTC Mega and Tachi originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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