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The living room wars move on to the remote control. Motorola takes on TiVo Slide with NYXboard, its own version of the keyboard remote control.

The NYXboard remote packs in a compact QWERTY-keyboard on the back of its standard cable box remote. Sensors recognize which side is facing up  and deactivate the side not in use. No more worrying about accidentally changing the channel while using the keyboard side of the remote!

The remote controls both the cable TV set-top box and the television set.

Motorola is expected to make the remote available by the end of the year, but it will be up to the individual cable companies as to whether customers will actually receive the keyboard remote with their cable TV boxes.

Outside of confirming the phone’s existence and predicting pre-orders this month, T-Mobile hasn’t put out its own official price tag and launch date for the G2 yet, but that’s apparently not stopping Best Buy from publishing its own version of upcoming events. Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile are accepting pre-orders for the phone as of today, and will launch the device in stores on October 6th for $199 with a two year contract. That doesn’t rule out a higher price or some rebate shenanigans from T-Mobile’s own retailing efforts (though $199 is the rumored official pricetag), but it’s comforting to know that this phone, the great gray / white / black hope for QWERTY sliders running stock Android, will retail for the industry standard $199 at least somewhere.

Continue reading T-Mobile G2 retails for $199 on October 6th at Best Buy

T-Mobile G2 retails for $199 on October 6th at Best Buy originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There are plenty of QWERTY remotes out there, trying to be all fancy and make operating your TV more like operating a computer. They think they’re so clever, but they’ve all overlooked one important point: you’re dead sexy. Do they really expect you to rock a remote that any old ugly person could buy at Sears and point at their more-than-an-inch-thick LCD? Philips understands, and its Home Control division is launching the Dual remote just for you. It’s a pretty simple execution, with a minimal remote on one side and the full QWERTY on the flip. It’s a little hard to tell from the presser, but it sounds like there’s an optical track pad hidden somewhere on here as well. We also don’t have any mention of release date or price, but do details like that really matter? No, they don’t. Because this remote’s sexy. And you’re sexy. Problem = solved.

Continue reading Philips Home Control’s Dual is a QWERTY remote for attractive people

Philips Home Control’s Dual is a QWERTY remote for attractive people originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Been wondering how much T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ phone will set you back? Why, it’s that most generic of all smartphone prices: $199 with a two-year commitment or $499 without. To be fair to T-Mo, the G2 was one phone that it could plausibly have upmarked to, say $249, as Sprint has done with the Epic 4G, but nope, it’s landing squarely in the middle of the well beaten path to smartphone sales. There is the dreaded specter of a $50 mail-in rebate to deal with, but we doubt it’ll be enough to dampen anticipation for what’s looking like the next great Android slider phone.

T-Mobile G2 priced at $199 with contract, $499 without, by latest leak originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We imagine that LG’s security forces are combing Poland as we speak, because Android.com.pl has just provided us with yet another high-end handset leak. This LG C900 (last seen combing AT&T trenches) reportedly joins LG’s E900 in housing a 1GHz QSD8650 Snapdragon chipset under its sliding-QWERTY hood. Though our first look at the device suggested a plasticky matte frame, our erudite Polish informants tell us the phone’s mostly metal inside — despite a comparatively teensy 3.2-inch capacitive screen, they say it weighs about as much as an original Motorola Droid. A 3.5mm jack and a miniUSB port will play nice with headsets and charging cables respectively, and the site says it’ll run 1,100 zloty (about $350) if or when LG’s marketers recover from the shock of these leaked details and decide to ship. Find a video after the break and a host of similarly excellent pictures at our source link.

Update: Did we say 1.3GHz? We meant 1.0. As it turns out, Google Translate enjoys adding the letter “A” to acronyms immediately preceding a Polish comma, which made a 1GHz QSD8650 SoC look like a 1.3GHz QSD8650A to our tired eyes. Apologies! [Thanks, Anudeep]

Continue reading LG’s C900 Windows Phone 7 handset resurfaces with 1GHz Snapdragon, metal frame? (update: not 1.3GHz)

LG’s C900 Windows Phone 7 handset resurfaces with 1GHz Snapdragon, metal frame? (update: not 1.3GHz) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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