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By now you’ve probably watched iFixit’s recent iPad 2 teardown video several times while drooling profusely, but we just know you’re itching to find out what’s different with the innards of the WiFi-only, GSM, and CDMA versions. Well once again, iFixit’s got you covered — via an “exceptionally cool” user-contributed post, this time. A grand total of three iPad 2s were sacrificed in this round, revealing variations in case design, antenna count, WWAN board layout, radio chipset choices, and headphone jack assemblies. Besides clearly visible changes like the black antenna window on the 3G models and the microSIM slot on the GSM version, it’s interesting to note that Apple made the same design choices with the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4. The CDMA model features an additional antenna over its GSM sibling, and uses a Qualcomm Gobi dual-mode radio which supports both CDMA and GSM — the latter being unused — along with an integrated GPS receiver, just like the iPhone 4 for Verizon. The GSM version, meanwhile, uses an Infineon chipset for GSM and a separate Broadcom module for GPS, just like the global iPhone 4. Follow the source link below for more sordid details plus high-resolution pictures.

iPad 2 sliced up again, this time in the name of radio science originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sprint has stopped playing coy about one of the worst-leaked devices in recent memory and has at long last made it official. The EVO View 4G is a 7-inch, 1024 x 600 Android tablet with a 1.5GHz processor, 5 megapixel rear- and 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, a WiMAX radio, and HTC’s loving application of Sense for a UI. If all this sounds familiar, it’ll be because we’re really talking about HTC’s Flyer tablet, introduced at last month’s MWC, and just like it, the EVO View will also feature the HTC Scribe capacitive stylus. The Evo View 4G will ship with 32GB of storage “this summer.” You’ll now find the full press release and spec sheet (including a healthy gigabyte of RAM and a 4000mAh battery) after the break, and some preliminary shots below. Full hands-on to come!

Continue reading Sprint makes EVO View 4G tablet official: 1.5GHz, WiMAX, 7-inch screen, and a stylus to boot

Sprint makes EVO View 4G tablet official: 1.5GHz, WiMAX, 7-inch screen, and a stylus to boot originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We still haven’t heard what happened to the HTC Glacier, but the GLBenchmark database brings word of another mysterious high-end phone from Taiwan — the HTC Shooter, which is very likely equipped with a dual-core Qualcomm processor. The “PG86100” certainly identifies itself as carrying a speedy new Adreno 220 GPU, which is typically paired with twin processing units, and should help push plenty of pixels to the 960 x 540 screen that’s presently displaying Android Gingerbread 2.3.2. All in all, it sounds a lot like the rumored HTC Pyramid for T-Mobile — except this one’s apparently destined for Sprint. Could it be the EVO 3D, or something wholly different? We’ll likely find out next week at CTIA 2011.

Update: The HTC Glacier actually reappeared as the T-Mobile myTouch 4G — that second-gen 1GHz Snapdragon CPU (at a time when other handsets ran the same Scorpion core at 800MHz) was responsible for the high scores we saw. [Thanks, Mitch]

HTC Shooter appears for Sprint with Android 2.3.2, qHD screen and dual-core CPU? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re willing to bet Qualcomm’s Adreno 220 GPU is an abstract concept to most readers, but we can put it into perspective real quick — here it is in the HP TouchPad, pumping pixels and mapping textures to a seriously stunning little air combat game. We got our hands on the webOS 3.0 tablet and gave Polarbit’s Armageddon Squadron II a whirl at GDC 2011, and the
experience felt pretty solid overall, framerate only dipping significantly when unleashing a hefty barrage of rockets upon your foes. What’s more, the tablet easily — and automatically — paused our game when flexing webOS’s multitasking muscle to check a text message that had just come in. What’s that you say? You’re wondering how the HP TouchPad does text messages? Well, it doesn’t quite — it requires a webOS smartphone paired via Bluetooth to share the cellular modem for texts and calls. But you knew that already, right?

Armageddon Squadron wasn’t the only title Qualcomm had handy to show off the power of the Adreno 220, though, as SouthEnd Interactive’s Desert Winds seems to be the feather in the company’s cap. It’s a 3D action-adventure title starring some very fancy lighting effects for a mobile game — not to mention a buxom female swordslinger who dredges up memories of ATI’s Ruby. See that after the break!

Update: Adreno 220 is actually a single-core GPU, part of the dual-core Snapdragon 8×60 system-on-a-chip.

Continue reading HP TouchPad shoots down planes, shows off next-gen Snapdragon’s GPU (video)

HP TouchPad shoots down planes, shows off next-gen Snapdragon’s GPU (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Our program today is XXXXXL heavy in a lot of different ways, and most of those ways lie under a big robotic green umbrella. Get it? It was a weather-related Android allusion; please forgive us. It’s the Engadget Podcast, wedged firmly between the past and the future, unsure of what to feel about either one, but trying to exist really completely in the now.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Love Will Tear Us Apart

00:05:30 – Samsung Galaxy S II official: dual-core 1GHz CPU, 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus, coming this month (hands-on with video)
00:05:50 – HTC Incredible S, Desire S, and Wildfire S video hands-on
00:06:00 – Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 preview (video)
00:16:22 – Qualcomm promises Netflix streaming support on ‘future Android devices’ with Snapdragon
00:16:43 – Android-powered LG Revolution caught streaming Netflix at MWC (video)
00:23:02 – Next version of Android will combine Gingerbread and Honeycomb, arrive on a six-month cycle
00:23:58 – The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (update: video and full spec sheet!)
00:24:25 – Sony Ericsson touts Xperia Play multiplayer gaming, promises 50 titles at launch
00:24:40 – Sony Ericsson Xperia Play available in March, on Verizon in ‘early spring’
00:35:26 – LG Optimus 3D hands-on
00:44:48 – HTC’s Facebook-worshipping phones headed to AT&T later this year
00:46:20 – HTC Salsa and Chacha bring the dedicated Facebook button to Android (update: eyes-on)
00:51:30 – Motorola Xoom vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs. LG G-Slate — battle of the Tegra 2 Honeycomb tablets
00:52:08 – Motorola Xoom price official: $799 unsubsidized on Verizon, $600 for WiFi-only
00:53:00 – Motorola’s Sanjay Jha on Xoom: ‘Our ability to deliver 4G justifies the $799 price point’
00:59:10 – HTC launches 1.5GHz, 7-inch Android 2.4 Flyer into the tablet wars (update: hands-on video!)
00:59:48 – HTC Flyer tablet hits Amazon.de for 669 euros
00:59:55 – The stylus isn’t dead: more pen-based tablets and apps coming this year
01:05:01 – Exclusive: Sony ‘S1’ PlayStation tablet (updated)
01:06:02 – Nokia: ‘Our first priority is beating Android’
01:06:20 – Eric Schmidt: ‘We certainly tried’ to get Nokia to use Android
01:06:40 – HTC CEO Peter Chou on Microsoft / Nokia partnership: ‘it’ll make the ecosystem stronger’
01:07:00 – The Engadget Interview: Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman talks Windows Phone 7 and Nokia
01:07:30 – Windows Phone 7’s multitasking uses zoomed-out cards to check on your apps
01:08:50 – Microsoft Rally Ball demo shows Windows Phone 7, Kinect, Xbox Live living in perfect harmony (video)
01:09:10 – Microsoft shows off WP7’s future with multitasking, Twitter integration, and IE9, all coming this year
01:12:40 – Nokia’s marginalization of MeeGo came as a surprise to Intel
01:13:58 – Intel’s Otellini insists company is committed to MeeGo, says he ‘understood’ why Nokia moved to Microsoft
01:14:25 – Editorial: Intel keeps pushing MeeGo, but why?
01:14:50 – Intel shows off more of its MeeGo Tablet UI, still needs lots of work
01:27:50 – Motorola Atrix 4G review

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Engadget Podcast 233 – 02.21.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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