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It hasn’t been verified, but optimistic T-Mobile customers aching to get a little broadband on the beach might want to schedule their trips to Honolulu around Q4 — at least if you’re willing to believe this 3G rollout schedule that’s apparently being sent out this morning. Other notable cities on the list include Milwaukee, Tucson, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Nashville and Salt Lake City, as well as a wide swath of Texas. We’re poking around for confirmation — at the very least, this list doesn’t contradict anything T-Mo’s said in the past, but we’ll let you know.

[Via Boy Genius Report]

Filed under: Cellphones

T-Mobile’s 2009 3G rollout schedule leaked? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A listing on Apple’s job board implies that future iPod Touch models will include a built-in web cam like the iPhone’s.

The blogger hawks at Apple iPhone Apps spotted a job listing for a camera project manager. The listing stated the following:

The iPhone Engineering Group is looking for a Camera Engineering Project Manager (EPM) to drive the design, development and integration of camera modules across iPhone and iPod. The EPM is the interface between our internal engineering teams and the suppliers of sensors, lenses and camera modules.

Most interesting to note is that presumably, Apple has since updated the job listing to remove the "iPod" reference, so now the sentence only mentions the iPhone.

That certainly raises a brow. What do you think? A quick attempt to patch up an accidental leak? Or an authentic correction to the job description? We’re going to bet the former: "Across iPhone" sounds clunky and ungrammatical, and we doubt putting a camera in the iPod Touch would cannibalize iPhone sales.

In any case, the listing was first posted March 16, so if Apple is planning to install a web cam on the future iPod Touch, it’s unlikely we’ll see it in the next upgrade to the device.

Apple Job Opportunities Listing References iPod Camera [Apple iPhone Apps via AppleInsider]

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Hint: If you’re going to post pictures of a new, unannounced Nikon DSLR, don’t pick the worst one:

"I have more and better pictures if people are interested."

So ends the post from indyjb on the Something Awful “humor" forums, which you see above. We remain very skeptical of this snap, mostly due to the source and the fact that he didn’t bother putting up the “better" photographs. If real, we are seeing a Nikon SLR with a flip-out screen, something that doesn’t yet exist. It would certainly fit with Nikon’s innovative strategy to push new features other than plain magapixels counts.

The camera is thought to be a "D500", although it could be a replacement for the entry-level D40/D60 double-team. When would it appear? There is a Nikon event in Austria on Tuesday April 14th, a press breakfast featuring “exclusive new product highlights".

To add to the speculation, it is entirely likely that there will be a D60 replacement and a D300 replacement soon, and that the cheaper camera will shoot video just like the D90. We’ll have to wait and see. One thing we do know is that it will be something worth writing about — for the last year or so, almost every Nikon DSLR announcement has been exciting.

What should I do with spy photos of the new Nikon D500? [Something Awful via Photography Bay]

Yep, it is April 14 [Nikon Rumors]

Oops, it looks like a Dell middle manager somewhere got a little too excited and let a full set of netbook roadmap slides leak out. The biggest news is a planned Mini 11 due sometime between now and the end of Q3, but the Mini 10 is where most of the action is in the short term — the current model will get options for Vista, a 3G modem, and potentially a 1.86GHz Atom on April 17th, a new 1.6GHz Atom N270 SKU will arrive in May and everything will be updated again in the second half of the year with Intel’s Pine Trail processors. Interesting, but we’re wondering when Dell will realize that the Mini 10’s HDMI output and 720p screen are useless unless it can handle true HD video — Ion, anyone?

Filed under: Laptops

Dell netbook roadmap leaks out, get ready for the Mini 11 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, what’s this? A recent Zune job posting says the boys down Redmond-town are looking for someone to come up with “innovative user interfaces for delivering a rich, deep interactive media consumption experience in a living room environment.” That sounds to us like integration of the Zune software team into the ConnectedTV division is starting to kick into gear — the listing also specifically mentions on-demand audio and video content, which seem like a natural direction for ZunePass. We’re not sure how any of this is going to pan out, but at least Microsoft is making moves to keep the struggling Zune platform alive — whether or not that involves actual Zune hardware in the future is still up for debate.

[Via Slashgear]

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Microsoft job ads hints at Zune services in the living room originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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