Hasta La Gadget!

We’ve been uncommonly keen to get our hands on the Sony NEX-FS100 ever since we first heard about it back in March. You see, this is no ordinary camcorder. Its spec sheet reads like a liturgy of filmmakers’ prayers: a large Super 35mm Exmor CMOS sensor, interchangeable lenses, XLR inputs and proper, professional controls. Sure, it comes with a $6,600 price tag to match, but it also heralds a trend that should ultimately benefit pros and ordinary gadget denizens alike: the arrival of big, bold DSLR-style optics within dedicated camcorders. How do these optics effect the quality of the NEX-FS100’s footage? Plant yourself somewhere comfortable and click past the break to find out.

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Sony NEX-FS100 review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If the extent of your mastery of the Italian language entails adding an unnecessary “a” after every other word and gesticulating with your hands, like Jen in that episode of The I.T. Crowd, you may not get a lot from the nine minute and 39 second video below. Still, it’s worth at least a quick look. It’s an unboxing and hands-on of the Olivetti Olipad 100, including an extensive display of the customized interface that sits atop Android and, honestly, doesn’t look half bad. Performance, driven by an ARM Cortex A9, looks quite good on this €394 tablet, which works out to about $550. For the rest of the detailed impressions you’ll have to drop your former pen-pal in Florence a line and see if she can translate for you, then you can lament about how you just can’t get good carbonara in the States.

Update: Sasha was kind enough to provide a translation. It’s after the break!

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Olivetti Olipad 100 gets unboxed and handled in italiano (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Third-party mobile retailer Wirefly has just released a seven-minute video detailing the HTC Thunderbolt’s unboxing procedure in glorious detail, something that’s just liable to make the wait for prospective buyers even more excruciating. Speaking of waiting, word on the street is that the phone might be delayed from its previously-rumored Valentine’s Day launch; an ominous screen shot over on Droid Life says there’s “no ETA at this time,” a fact corroborated by Amazon’s removal of the launch date on its Thunderbolt product page. What’s more, in announcing its unboxing, Wirefly only says that it’ll “begin selling the Thunderbolt soon” without offering a date — so yeah, all signs are pointing to an open-ended delay here. Let’s hope it stays within the short bounds of February, eh? Follow the break for the full video.

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HTC Thunderbolt gets unboxed by Wirefly, Verizon delays launch? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When is a YouTube video not a YouTube video? Every so often, a promotion pops up on the site that thinks outside the box, so to speak. In honor of the Nexus S (i.e. the best Android phone out there until the next best Android phone comes out), Google’s re-teamed with Patrick Boivin and his ragtag group of tiny ninjas — previously seen showing real unboxing power on a Nexus One package. We don’t want to spoil the fun, so just click through and enjoy… and after all is said and done, keep an eye out for the nunchuks. Trust us.

Unboxing Ninjas kick back the fourth wall for the Nexus S originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, would you look at what showed up on our frigid doorstep this morning? That’s right, we are now the proud owners of Google’s first Chrome OS laptop — the Cr-48. Obviously, we ripped open the box and got right to handling the 12.1-inch, Atom-powered laptop. So, what does the thing feel like? How’s that keyboard? And more importantly, how’s Chrome OS looking? Stand by for our impressions, which we’ll be adding in depth over the day. First impression: this thing is different. Here are some quick bullet points, one of our favorite formats for presenting data in a list:

Hardware

• The entire body is made of a soft, beautiful matte black. It feels very Droid-like, just a little less rubberized.
• Overall, it looks a lot like a black MacBook, including a magnetic latch with a split spot for getting your finger in and lifting the lid, a very similar keyboard, and a similar hinge design.
• There’s on of those large Envy-style clickpads. It has great multitouch scroll, and great general mousing feel (better than most Windows laptops), but it also has some of that Envy trouble of disliking a finger floating on the lower part of the pad. Basically, you have to click or mouse, you can’t be doing both at once.
• The matte screen overwhelms us with gratitude. Thank you, Google. Thank you.
• There’s ultra-wide ctrl and alt buttons on the left side, thanks to the lack of a Windows Key.

Software

• It starts up instantly, and it’s actually really hard to tell if we’ve put it into standby or not because there are no drive noises, and we haven’t hit upon any fan noise yet either.
  
• We’re having trouble installing Photoshop.
• Our apps haven’t synced over from our desktop’s copy of Chrome, which must be a still-forthcoming feature.
• You need an internet connection for the very first setup and login, but you can login to an existing user while the device is offline, and access anything that’s cached or HTML5-stored on the device — like some of those new Chrome Web Apps.
• While wake from standby takes less than a second, a cold boot takes around 15 seconds to get to the login screen, and another 6 or 7 seconds to login after you’ve entered your password.
• The remainder of our impressions will be about Poppit!.
• Flash is really bad, both with general applications and particularly with video. Adobe hasn’t built Flash acceleration yet for Linux, and there’s not a hardware acceleration chip, either. Hulu is like a slideshow, YouTube works, but not great.

The most important thing to remember is that this product is in no way designed for the mass market, and it’s up to Samsung, Acer, and other forthcoming third parties to actually build the hardware we’ll end up buying in the long run. Still, there seems to be a lot here that laptop manufacturers of all sorts could take note of, and generic-ified or not, the Cr-48 is pretty striking.Developing…

Google Cr-48 Chrome laptop preview originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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