We love the smell of silicon in the morning — especially when it emanates from one of Intel’s legendary leaked roadmaps. Today, we’ve stumbled across one with specs for Chipzilla’s entire fall collection of mobile chips, and a couple new details about that desiccated overpass the execs keep talking about. First up, it appears sources were spot-on about the Core i7s and Core i5s we heard about last week, but the 2.66GHz / 3.33 GHz Core i5-580M won’t be the only dual-core CPU to look for in Q4; it will be sandwiched between the 2.8GHz Core i7-640M (which turbos to 3.46GHz) and the 2.66GHz / 3.2GHz Core i5-560M — all of which peak at a conservative 35 watts.
True juice sippers will want a 15W CULV, however, and it seems more of those exist than Intel initially let on; Q4 will see a high-end Core i7-680UM that starts at 1.46GHz and turbos up to 2.53GHz and a 1.33GHz / 2.13GHz Core i5-560UM, plus a 25W 2.26GHz Core i7-660LM low-voltage chip will also join the fray. All these new dual-cores will have on-die Intel HD Graphics in one form or another, but all are also stopgaps until Intel’s 32nm “Huron River” platform debuts in the first quarter of 2011. Then, we’ll get WiMAX, WiDi and Intel Bluetooth alongside an intriguing new concept dubbed Zero Power ODD, which promises a power-saving sleep mode for our noisy optical disc drives (see more coverage link) and the promise of enough battery life to play two full Blu-rays on a single charge. Don’t believe us? See the slides below for more.
Leaked Intel roadmap reveals six new notebook CPUs for 2010, better battery life in 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 May 2010 17:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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So you live in the land of WiMax and rainbows. Lucky you. Then you’ll be needing some accessories to go along with that new EVO 4G you’ll be purchasing next week. While we’ve seen some of these before (image from a previous leak after the break), we now have the benefit of pricing to assist with your decisions. And hey, if $30 for a leather pouch with belt clip seems like a reasonable purchase then you might want to check out our fine selection of pocket protectors and Bluetooth headsets. Don’t be shy, embrace your outer nerd… no one else will. Oh!
Continue reading HTC EVO 4G accessories detailed ahead of launch
HTC EVO 4G accessories detailed ahead of launch originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 09:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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When you’ve got the world’s most desired** handset, you don’t keep people waiting. As such, Sprint is recommending that its “preferred retailers” open extra early on June 4th. That should give you a bit of time to grab the new EVO 4G on the way to the office for some good ol’ fashioned bragging rights in the cubicle farm. At least until you remember that one-third of your life is spent working inside of a beige box. Oh and here’s a pro tip: according to the official EVO 4G Launch Guide we’re staring at, the mobile hotspot functionality that turns your EVO into a WiMax hotspot for up to 8 devices will initially work without paying the $29.99 monthly fee if you’re happy with using it on 4G only (no 3G). Sprint expects to correct this sometime in July after which the Sprint Mobile Hotspot add-on will require activation. Read the details for yourself after the break.
** assuming you have WiMax coverage
Continue reading Stores open early June 4th for EVO 4G with mobile hotspot loophole
Stores open early June 4th for EVO 4G with mobile hotspot loophole originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 08:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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T-Mobile announced Monday that it has expanded its HSPA+ buildout to more cities in the Northeastern U.S.: New York, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse are now covered. Connecticut, Hartford, New Haven, Milford, and Stamford have HSPA+. Providence, Rhode Island is also included. HSPA+ potentially gives much faster data speeds to users with 3G-capable phones.
T-Mobile says it will also expand its HSPA+ network into Boston and Washington, D.C. “in the coming weeks.” The company also says its HSPA+ network now covers 30 million Americans and will cover 185 million Americans with “4G speeds” by the end of 2010.
T-Mobile has begun using the term 4G to stand in for HSPA+ in their press materials and will likely begin using it in advertising once more people are covered. This is not to be confused with Sprint’s 4G, which is based on completely different WiMAX technology. AT&T and Verizon have pledged that their own versions of 4G will go live in 2011.
No matter how much T-Mobile wants to pretend, HSPA+ is not on the same upload / download pay grade as LTE and WiMAX. Still, that isn’t stopping the company from calling its new technology rollout “4G speeds,” much to the dismay of another major HSPA+ supporter, AT&T. Cue Ma Bell spokesman Seth Bloom, who recently told Fierce Wireless, “I think that companies need to be careful that they’re not misleading customers by labeling HSPA+ as a 4G technology.” Of course, AT&T itself is rolling out that technology as an intermediate step between current 3G and LTE, and we know they want to reserve the 4G nomenclature for the latter’s unveiling. Hey guys, can we just label it 3.95G and call it day?
AT&T cries foul over T-Mobile’s ‘HSPA+ is 4G’ talk originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 May 2010 20:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
While there’s certainly plenty to love about HTC’s EVO 4G, that 4G in the title is certainly one of the major draws. We’re guessing it’ll be a little easier to sell the things if customers can experience the wonders of WiMAX for themselves, so that’s probably why RadioShack is (according to our tipster) installing these Clearwire WiMAX repeaters in at least some of its stores ahead of the May 30 June 4 launch of the phone there. This will effectively turn The Shack into 4G hotspots and, while we’re not sure of the range of these bad boys, this is a good thing even if it extends the reach of WiMAX just a few feet further into our lives. Another picture after the break.
Update: Oops, the phone is of course launching on June 4. It’s 4G that’s going live in this tipster’s home city on May 30.
[Thanks, Markus]
Continue reading Radio Shack stores getting WiMAX upgrades ahead of Evo launch?
Radio Shack stores getting WiMAX upgrades ahead of Evo launch? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 May 2010 08:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The fact that Sprint is welcoming LTE vendors to respond to its RFP for upgrading its legacy CDMA network is no surprise — in fact, it’s no different than the line that the carrier has been taking for well over a year now. What is a bit of a surprise, though, is that it appears to be every bit as ambivalent about the direction of its 4G technology path as ever. The current RFP is strictly for an upgrade of Sprint’s “core” network, meaning its legacy (if you can call 2G / 3G “legacy”) footprint comprised solely of CDMA; its WiMAX assets aren’t affected this time around. In fact, the company’s VP of product and technology development, Kevin Packingham, went on record with Light Reading this week saying that it doesn’t “see WiMAX and LTE as being mutually exclusive” — in other words, these guys could end up doing both in the long term. We appreciate Sprint’s willingness to accept the fact that LTE’s picking up momentum as the global 4G standard, but considering the overwhelming expense involved in building out a new network, is the notion of a two-pronged strategy the right call?
Sprint still not ruling out LTE, says it’s not ‘mutually exclusive’ to WiMAX originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 11:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Submitted in late April and available for public consumption today, here’s an exciting little FCC disclosure from Lenovo. It’s that mysterious ThinkPad Mini 10 creature we’ve been seeing prowling the Australian outback, this time showing up as a test mule for Lenovo’s new WiMAX module. The antennae in this submission are likely headed for retail inside things like the almost identical X100e and the rest of Lenovo’s US line. We’re liking this trend of seeing netbooks and subnotebooks leaving the factory with WiMAX already integrated, but do beware the price premium that’ll come attached. Lenovo already asks for $150 extra to stick a Gobi 2000 3G chip in a ThinkPad X100e, we don’t expect the 4G option to be any less dear, but we can at least expect it soon(ish).
[Thanks, Vance]
Continue reading WiMAX-equipped ThinkPad Mini 10 visits FCC
WiMAX-equipped ThinkPad Mini 10 visits FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 04:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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As a mobile platform, the EVO 4G’s Android foundation is still an infant — well, okay, perhaps it’s a tweener — but in its two-odd years in the public spotlight, the list of truly revolutionary devices to use it has been a significant one: the G1 for being the first to market; the Nexus One for ushering in a new (and subsequently killed) retail model; perhaps the CLIQ for introducing Motorola to the platform or the Droid for bringing the company some desperately needed, long overdue success. For the moment, anyway, a whopping fraction of the world’s most important phones are running Google’s little experiment.
Needless to say, Sprint, HTC, and quite frankly, many of us have come to expect the EVO 4G to join that short list for some obvious reasons. Put simply, its magnificent list of specs reads as though it was scribbled on a napkin after a merry band of gadget nerds got tipsy at the watering hole and started riffing about their idea of the ultimate mobile device: a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4.3-inch WVGA display, 8 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, HDMI-out, and WiMAX compatibility. Of course, the list of potential deal-breakers for a phone is as long as the EVO 4G’s display is wide; to put it another way, there are countless ways HTC, Sprint, or even Google could’ve screwed this thing up. So does this moderately intimidating black slab of pure engineering and marketing — this high-profile bet on Sprint’s future — deliver the goods? Read on.
Gallery: HTC EVO 4G review
Continue reading HTC EVO 4G review
HTC EVO 4G review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 21:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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