Hasta La Gadget!

Clear your calendars everybody, because this Sunday, January 30th, the inimitable co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak will be joining us for the first Engadget Show of 2011! It will be a night to remember as Woz joins us for an evening of frank, eye-opening, and all-around awesome conversation. We’ll be streaming live at 6:00PM from Cooper Union’s Rose Auditorium and we’ve got about 200 seats available on a first-come, first-served basis if you want to join us in person. We’ll also have music from the talented Zen Albatross and the usual crazy giveaways. Trust us when we say that this episode is going to be epic.

REMINDER: The Show will be taking place in a lovely new venue, the Rose Auditorium in Cooper Union’s New Academic Building (ie. not the TimesCenter), located in Manhattan at 41 Cooper Square. Seating is extremely limited, so get there early!

Tickets are — as always — free to anyone who would like to attend, but seating is limited, and tickets will be first come, first served… so get there early! Here’s the updated info on our new ticketing policy that you need to know:

• There is no admission fee — tickets are completely free
• The event is all ages
• Ticketing will begin at the Cooper Union New Academic Building at 2:00PM on Sunday, January 30th, doors will open for seating at 5:15PM, and the show begins at 6:00PM
• We now have assigned seating, so the first people to get their tickets will get priority seating. This also means that once you get a ticket, your seat is guaranteed — you won’t have to get back in line to get a good seat.
• You cannot collect tickets for friends or family — anyone who would like to come must be present to get a ticket
• Seating capacity is limited (only about 200 seats in the theatre), and once we’re full, we’re full
• The venue is located at 41 Cooper Square New York, NY 10003 (map after the break)
• The show length is around an hour

Unfortunately, we won’t be running the usual text-to-win sweepstakes for this episode (we know it sucks, but it’s out of our hands), so if you want a seat you’ll have to show up in person. If you’re a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we’ll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com.

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This won’t be the first (or by any means last) video you’ll see the Xperia Arc starring in, but it is the most comprehensive look we’ve had so far at this finely crafted Android Gingerbread handset. The guys over at HDBlog.it have somehow sourced both the silver and black variants of Sony Ericsson’s upcoming 4.2-incher and they’ve given the pair a nice and thorough video overview. They happily report that Timescape and Mediascape, Sony Ericsson’s pervasive features in the earlier X10, have been scaled down to mere widgets, making them “far less intrusive” and resulting in the rest of the UI being “faster and easier to use.” Make the leap past the break to get the full dish on SE’s latest and greatest.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc subjected to a thorough video preview originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The choice of Android Gingerbread handsets just grew by one, courtesy of the Sony Ericsson MT15i and Russia’s premier mobile reviewer, Eldar Murtazin, who has put it through his rigorous preview cycle. The typically curmudgeonly gent was pleasantly surprised by SE’s latest (and entirely unofficial) handset, claiming that the company “has developed and is about to launch truly cutting edge devices and … has almost nothing to fear in the hardware department as well.” He has praise for the above-average front-facing cam, the endurance offered by the 1500mAh battery, and the 854 x 480 res on the Reality Display — though he does warn that Sony’s Bravia Engine is only used when consuming multimedia and therefore has limited impact on improving output quality.

Internally, you’re looking at 512MB of RAM and a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM7630 with Adreno 205 graphics, all of which resulted in perfectly smooth, lag-free operation. In spite of its many pluses, Eldar describes the MT15i as a phone targeting the mid-range, which invites all sorts of delicious pricing speculation, though we’re not entirely sure we agree with his postulation that this handset will be called the Vivaz 2. The Xperia branding up front and the replacement of Symbian with Android would collectively suggest it’ll bear an altogether new name when it’s unveiled — which we’ll go ahead and presume is going to happen at MWC next month.

Sony Ericsson MT15i / Vivaz 2 ensnared by Eldar Murtazin, given glowing preview originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony Ericsson announced the latest addition to its high-end Xperia series of smartphones last week at CES with the debut of the Xperia Arc.

It’s a slick little number, and I got to spend a bit of time playing with it on the show floor.

The Arc’s screen measures in at an expansive 4.2 inches, a screen size proving to be very popular in smartphone announcements this week. The 849 x 480 resolution on the capacitive touchscreen highlights visual media well, and Sony is doing all it can to play up the entertainment-hub aspects of the Arc. HDMI-out lets you hook up to an HDTV with an HD cable — which comes included with the phone, saving you another trip to Best Buy.

And much like Motorola’s new Atrix, when hooking the phone up to a TV-out, the Arc’s UI is replicated on the screen, even rotating depending on the position of the phone. Essentially, you can turn your TV into a wireless device and start web browsing or watch YouTube videos through the phone to your big screen.

The 8.1-megapixel back-facing camera is easy to shoot with, especially on the Arc’s very bright screen. It’s also capable of recording video at HD 720p, which looked and ran smooth in playback on the Arc itself.

While many of the phones we saw announced last week will be running Froyo, the Xperia Arc has a leg up on its competitors with the latest Android OS release, Gingerbread 2.3. At a show where many of the big manufacturers are showcasing two or three new Android smartphones with none of them running Gingerbread, it was a refreshing change of pace to see Sony Ericsson’s up-to-date offering.

Most striking about the Arc is its titular shape, measuring in at a very slim 8.7mm at the phone’s waist. While the shape of the Arc is a nice fit for resting in the hand, it’s essentially an exercise in creating attractive industrial design, and I think it works. The metallic-blue finish on the back cover and the silver sheen on the phone’s sides give it a damn fine look.

I was a bit concerned with the plastic construction, as there wasn’t a lot of metal composing the outside of the phone casing. On the plus side, it keeps the phone light and not too bulky, but I couldn’t help but shake the feeling that it might not hold up to a good drop from a high-enough spot.

The Xperia Arc is indeed a high-end phone, and though Sony Ericsson didn’t give any exact details on pricing, the company “anticipates a premium smartphone price” upon its release. We should start to see the Arc pop up globally some time in the spring.

Photos: Jon Snyder, Mike Isaac/Wired.com

Starting to look pretty real, isn’t it? That rumored X10 Mini Pro replacement seems to be gallivanting about in China again; this time it’s not turned on, but the point is that it’s out there and certainly doesn’t seem knockoff-y to be a fake. For what it’s worth, the original X10 Mini series has been one of the few relatively bright points in Sony Ericsson’s Android lineup thus far, so we’re pretty stoked to see that they appear to be taking another shot at the diminutive form factor — let’s just hope those wild GPU results we saw last time hold up by the time it’s at retail.

Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro successor out for another casual stroll? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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