Hasta La Gadget!

We’ve got a number of tips this morning about lucky iPhone 3G S pre-orderers getting shipment notifications from Apple. Naturally, with a high profile launch like this we’re guessing Apple has done all it can to ensure shipments won’t slip through earlier than the June 19th launch date, but hopefully at least few folks will get lucky — and at least they’ve got one of the only guarantees of a launch day phone going. In other news, an anonymous Apple Store employee has done some homework and tallied up average reservation numbers at other US stores — he estimates about 800 people on average are on the reservation list per Apple Store (ranging from a couple hundred to well over a thousand), which amounts to about 200,000 reservations as of now, a number he believes could double before launch. There’s no way to back that number up, but it sounds fairly rational. Finally, the iPhone 3G S firmware download link has made its way into the wild. Sure, it doesn’t do you any good if you don’t have an iPhone 3G S, but we thought you just might want to know all the same.

[Thanks to everyone who sent these in]

Read – iPhone 3G S shipping notice
Read – iPhone 3G S firmware

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

iPhone 3G S pre-orders start shipping, reservations estimated in the hundreds of thousands originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Without a doubt, the next big thing in the world of HDTVs is internet capabilities. With Toshiba just shipping its own web-enabled sets this week, LG Electronics is making sure it doesn’t fall too far behind by floating a few of its own NetCast models out to the open market. Originally unveiled at CES, these HDTVs are the first from the company with built-in Netflix streaming support, and if you’re curious about model numbers, it’s the 47-inch 47LH50 LCD HDTV and the 50-inch 50PS80 plasma that are available today. LG tells us that the 42-inch 42LH50 LCD and 60-inch 60PS80 plasma should hit later this summer, but if you’re looking to buy now, you’ll have to pony up $1,999 for the 47LH50 or 50PS80.

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

LG’s Netflix-friendly 47LH50 and 50PS80 NetCast HDTVs now shipping in America originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just under two months. That’s how long it took Nokia’s N86 8MP to go from FCC to store shelves here in America, as the cats in Espoo have just announced to the world that the aforementioned cellphone is now shipping globally. In case you’ve forgotten, this 8 megapixel slider touts variable aperture, a mechanical shutter and automatic motion blur reduction, not to mention 8GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot. There’s no official mention of price, and as of right now, the phone’s not even listed on Nokia’s American e-store; still, based on early estimates, we’d say you best break out the bank just in case.

Filed under: Cellphones

Nokia’s N86 8MP now shipping worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’ve a proven track record of delivering solid products to consumers (much like Garmin has), we’ll cut you some slack for awhile if you happen to hit a snag or two along the way while bringing a completely new device to market. But after more delays than we care to count and a 1.5 year gap between announcement and right now, the benefit of the doubt vanishes. To that end, we couldn’t be happier to report that Garmin’s president and COO Cliff Pemble feels that it’s “getting very close” to a carrier launch (AT&T, perhaps?) in the US. Said statement was given at a shareholders meeting today, and he also mentioned that the Asian market would see the Nuvifone “this month or in early July.” We appreciate the update, but at this point, the burden of proof is squarely on you, Garmin.

[Via Electronista]

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Garmin “getting very close” to a US Nuvifone launch… or so it says originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel’s Core i7 has become somewhat of a mainstay in the most recent wave of gaming rigs, but it’s been quite awhile (in processor years, anyway) since we’ve seen any new siblings join the launch gang. We’d heard faint whispers that a new crew was set to steal the stage on May 31st, and those rumors are looking all the more likely now that a few heretofore unheard of chips have appeared online. The 3.06GHz Core i7 950 is shown over at PCs For Everyone with 8MB of shared L3 cache and a $649 price tag, and it’s expected that said chip will replace the aging Core i7 940. Moving on up, there’s the luscious 3.33GHz Core i7 Extreme 975, which is also listed with 8MB of shared L3 cache but packs a staggering price tag well above the $1,100 mark. If all this pans out, this CPU will replace the Core i7 Extreme 965 as Intel fastest Core i7 product. Just a few more days to wait, right?

[Via PCWorld]

Read – Core i7 Extreme 975 listing
Read – Core i7 950 listing

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New Intel Core i7 CPUs show up unannounced originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 20:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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