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	Pandora, Amazon, other third-party apps demoed on Palm Pre Dovetailing dreamingly with the company’s SDK announcement today, Palm’s chosen CTIA to show off a round of third-party apps for the Pre.		HTC Snap hands-on What the Snap lacks in flair, it makes up for in sheer, unadulterated function — and having an utterly awesome keyboard certainly helps in that regard.
	AT&T’s Samsung Propel Pro hands-on AT&T’s Propel Pro ups the ante not only in build quality and material, but the new set is also reborn as a proper smartphone thanks to the inclusion of Windows Mobile 6.1.		AT&T’s Samsung Impression hands-on with video With AT&T’s Samsung Impression packing things like quad-band GSM, dual-band HSPA for the Americas and a supremely useable QWERTY keypad, we’re suitably impressed.
	Sprint’s Samsung Instinct S30 hands-on with video We had a few minutes with Sprint’s Samsung Instinct S30 at CTIA this evening and while we couldn’t dive in to find its deepest darkest secrets, we did get in a quick tour.	Also check out: AT&T’s Samsung Magnet hands-on with video Samsung Mondi WiMAX hands-on with video Nokia E71x graces us with its presence

CTIA Roundup, Day One originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple let loose a flurry of minor product revisions this AM, bumping internals on the Mac mini, iMac, Mac Pro and MacBook Pro — even the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule networking products got spruced up, while the Apple Keyboard got its numpad lopped off. It was one crazy morning. Check it all out below.

The best:

	Apple debuts new iMacs, including cheaper 24-incher Apple just announced new 24-inch and 20-inch iMacs, with some friendlier pricing and Mini DisplayPort video out.		Apple announces Nehalem-based Mac Pro Apple has announced a new Nehalem based Mac Pro with a starting price of $2,499.
	Apple refreshes Mac mini lineup with GeForce 9400M graphics We suppose the expected five USB ports will be a boon for homebuilt RAID enthusiasts, and the Mini DisplayPort and DVI plugs make for some nice dual monitor support.		Apple axes the numeric keypad on iMac’s standard wired keyboard Apple has swapped out the standard wired Apple Keyboard for a new model lacking a numeric keypad.

The rest:

• New Airport Extreme and Time Capsule juggle two networks simultaneously
• Apple MacBook Pro 15-inchers get quiet CPU spec bump

Filed under: Desktops

Apple morning roundup, few Mac products left unscathed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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DDR3 modules aren’t exactly new or anything, but given just how low the prices of big time kits have become, we figured it prudent to pass along one of the most thorough shootouts on the subject that we’ve seen. HotHardware grabbed a few DIMMs from the labs of OCZ Technology, Corsair and Kingston, threw ’em all in a Core i7 rig (not simultaneously, silly!) and benchmarked the lot until they literally fell asleep at the keys. The results? We’d love to tell you which sticks came out atop the pile, but that would just be spoiling the fun for you, now wouldn’t it? Give the read link a look if you’re ready for the action.

Filed under: Storage

DDR3 shootout pits OCZ, Kingston and Corsair against one another originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A handful of sites have managed to get their mitts on a miniature test PC equipped with NVIDIA’s Ion platform, and it looks like the line between netbook and laptop just got a whole lot blurrier. According to the testers, the setup delivers smooth HD video playback and could be a boon for the Home Theater PC market. It won’t play Crysis, but the DirectX 10-compatible chipset should do World of Warcraft and Left 4 Dead justice. Though the company claims it’ll only use 12% more power than comparative Intel 945GM/E-based solutions, PC Perspective found the test units to consume twice the wattage — of course, it might be a different story when Ion-equipped PCs hit retail channels. NVIDIA says the platform will tack on about $50 to $100 compared to similarly-spec’d 945GM/E models, and the first two computers to use it — one desktop and one netbook — should be out early summer.

Read – PC Perspective
Read – Laptop Magazine
Read – Hot Hardware

Filed under: Gaming

NVIDIA Ion platform review roundup originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It wasn’t that long ago that Monday mornings in the office were a depressing time — another cheerful weekend gone; another long week of work ahead. But, these days, being in the office on a Monday is a good thing, because if your login still works you’ve survived another scary layoff Friday. Spare a thought, then, for those whose system access has been cut off, including 1,300 from Sun (the first wave of a total of 6,000 planned job cuts), 8,000 workers at Sprint who are due to receive pink slips, 6,000 from Philips, and an unannounced number of IBM workers (rumored to be 16,000) who have also found themselves to be on the wrong side of the cost-cutting ax. In one final bit of cheery news, AMD has reported a $1.4 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2008 and, after shedding its handheld graphics unit, is now selling its manufacturing operations to Advanced Technology Investment. Oh, sorry, you were hoping for some genuinely good news? How about this: that loss is smaller than AMD’s $1.8 billion loss from the same time last year. Now have a great day!

Read – Sun confirms 1,300 layoffs
Read – Sprint Nextel Plans to Cut 8,000 Jobs in Quarter
Read – Philips to Release 6000 Employees into Wild
Read – Several IBM employees report being laid off on Alliance@IBM
Read – IBM Confirms Layoffs
Read – AMD Reports $1.4 Billion Loss

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Recession roundup: Monday morning edition originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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