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T-Mobile’s HTC HD2 gets purchased and unboxed early (video)

MobiG — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:21:00 +0000

T-Mobile's not officially selling its world-beating HD2 until Wednesday, but if you've a Walmart nearby and hankering to get HTC's latest and greatest a few days early, it might be worth a trip out. JDMiPhoner managed to score one from his local Wally World a full four days early, and he's been kind enough to unbox it, boot it up and give us a few first impressions on video. Is it really worth a couple of Benjamins with Windows Phone 7 Series just a few months away? Head on past the break if you'd care to be reminded of just how painful it is to know that this WinMo 6.5-packin' gem won't ever be upgradable (natively, anyway) to WP7S.

[Thanks, Andrew]

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 12 2010

MobiG — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:22:58 +0000

Welcome to the latest edition of the week in review here at SlashGear. Tons of new gear popped up last week, so let’s get right to it. We spied some pics of new WinPo 7 handsets from LG, Asus, and Samsung early in the week, the devices looked very cool.

A new 3D mobile phone from Samsung is set to launch this month called the SCH-W960. The device has a 3.2-inch screen and dual DMB tuners inside among other things. Samsung is set to toss its iPad rival into the ring in the second half of the year. The device promises a more PC like user experience than the iPad is expected to offer.

Comcast is set to show one of its first 3D programs over its cable network next month. The Masters golf tournament will be shown in 3D on the cable network, but you will need 3D ready TV to watch. Intel launched its new Xeon 5600 series processors built using 32nm tech. The processors promise 60% more performance than previous generation Xeon 5500 series parts.

Shuttle offered up a cool new AIO machine called the XPC X50V2 running an Atom D510 CPU and using no fans. The machine has a 15.6-inch touchscreen and 4GB of RAM. Some pics turned up this week of what is supposedly a refreshed mainboard for an Xbox 360. It’s about time for some sort of update for the Xbox.

T-Mobile has confirmed a March 24 launch for the HTC HD2. The handset will sell for $199.99 with a new 2-year agreement. A new Lenovo ThinkPad Mini 10 netbook has been spotted making its rounds inside some Aussie schools. The machine has a 10-inch LCD and an Atom processor.

New ads turned up online mid-week that showed some significant price increases on Apple computers in Australia. The price increases are believed to point to the long expected refresh of the MacBook Air and Pro lines soon. Vincent Audio revealed a seriously expensive CD player for hard-core and rich audiophiles called the C-60. The thing sells for $5,000.

Parrot showed off a cool AR.Drone helicopter at CES that interfaces with the iPhone. A new video has surfaced this week showing the AR.Drone in a dogfight with another AR.Drone. Google is set to bring Android into the living room with help from Intel and Sony. The three firms are working on a set top box and connected TVs.

Archos has unveiled a new A13PS ultraportable computer that is set to launch in April. The Archos 9 is also set to get a CPU update. HTC said again last week that it would defend itself vigorously against Apple. The Apple patent infringement suit has serious ramifications for makers of touchscreen devices if Apple wins.

The HTC Incredible is set to launch in only a couple weeks time according to rumors. The leaked launch date is supposedly straight from Verizon sources. Chord Electronics launched a new preamp called the CPA 8000 that is scary expensive. The thing sells for over $50,000.

A patent app turned up late in the week from Apple that was filed in November of 2009. The patent outlines a way to send audio text messages, which would be a great feature. Color e-ink displays have reportedly been showed off to Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Devices using the screens could reportedly be shipping in Q1 2011.

The specs and pricing were confirmed for the HP Slate. The iPad competitor gets a price of about $546 here in the US and features Windows 7, USB, memory card reader, and a webcam. Details of the AMD Thuban 6-core CPUs leaked this week. The parts will be the 1035T at 2.6GHz, the 1055T at 2.8GHz, and the 1075T at 3GHz. That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!

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Line 6 peripheral brings MIDI and iPhone closer than you ever expected

MobiG — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:56:00 +0000

It's no amplifier substitute, but Line 6 has come up with something potentially even better for the budding songwriter buried deep within your rhythmic veins. The MIDI Mobilizer for iPhone and iPod touch is an app-based peripheral that lets you record, playback, store, and transfer MIDI sequences and parameters using the MIDI Memo Recorder software. While it does sound convenient in theory, we'll have to wait until we can try the dongle out for ourselves. At this point in time, price of the Mobilizer is TBD and the release date is the ever-vague Spring 2010. As for the recorder app, it's currently available on iTunes free of charge, although it's more or less useless without the complementary hardware. For now, you'll just have to settle with living vicariously through the promo video, after the break.

[Thanks, Fred]

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New Sprint ad shows iPhone using WiMAX… via Overdrive

MobiG — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:43:00 +0000

Your existing iPhone (yeah, even the original) can surf the information superhighway at 4G speeds. Today. Who knew, right? Sprint's Overdrive -- which creates a WiFi hotspot that enables nearby devices to cruise on Clear's 4G (or 3G, if you're not in a 4G locale) network -- can theoretically enable any WiFi-capable phone to surf on WiMAX, but Sprint's taking a pretty bold approach by actually touting the feature in a new spot. Befuddled? Hop on past the break and mash play. Too bad this is about as close the iPhone will ever get to Sprint's shelves...

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Google China Closing Up Shop on April 18

MobiG — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:02:02 +0000

All of this mess with Google, China, and Google China has come to a head as of late. We’ve seen Google be the brunt of brute-force cyber attacks, before which they were trying to uncensor a nation of censorship. And now it seems that the word getting pushed around is that Google is about ready to close up shop, and it’s happening sooner than we imagined it would.

Google has been positive about their presence in China, with some assuming that the company would shift in their views and positions, or at least figure out a way to work with the Chinese government to meet both their needs. But, there’s no surprise that the two of them probably couldn’t come to an agreement. Even if the last few things swirling around was that Google would be sticking around, with hopes of keeping the Google China employees, you know, employed, it’s looking like that’s not going to be the case after all.

Citing an anonymous source, the Chinese Business News is saying that Google is closing up their China shop by April 10th. Along with the positions, the search engine based in China is also going the way of the Dodo. But, Google wants to do everything they can for the employees that are going to be displaced by the closure, so they’re apparently offering current employees positions at their US-based operations, or heading over to its Asia-Pacific locales. We hate to see any shop close down, or people lose their jobs, but we’re definitely giving a big thumbs up to Google for offering the employees positions elsewhere. Hopefully this all gets figured out soon.

[via Bloomberg]

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Sygic Mobile Maps for Nokia N900 brings turn-by-turn to Maemo

MobiG — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:33:00 +0000

Nokia may still not have brought turn-by-turn navigation to Maemo with its own Ovi Maps, but N900 users can now get their fix courtesy of Sygic, which has just released a version of its Mobile Maps app for the device. Available only in Europe to start with, the app costs €60, and includes maps of both eastern and western Europe, along with the usual "millions" of points-of-interest, speed camera locations and speed limit warnings, and plenty of customization options (including support for multiple languages). No firm word on availability outside of Europe just yet, but Sygic does say that additional regions will be announced "gradually." Head on past the break for a quick demo video.

[Thanks, Brad C]

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BIS 3.0 coming to North American BlackBerry users next weekend?

MobiG — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:01:00 +0000

It seems almost too good to be true, but it looks like the era of usable Gmail integration on BlackBerry might finally be upon us. CrackBerry is citing information that BIS 3.0 will be rolled out to North American customers in the wee hours of Sunday, March 28, when most of us are in a peaceful slumber (a good thing, considering that data services will be mostly down during the four-hour window). Out of the gate, 3.0 will offer Gmail label creation and deletion when using the plug-in along with support for OpenDocument file types and WMA audio, but the real meat should come shortly thereafter as two-way synchronization of read status and sent messages "will be added throughout the Spring 2010 by region." Technically, Spring starts today, so this could show up the moment BIS 3.0 goes live -- but given that we've waited literally years for this to happen, we're not getting our hopes up prematurely.

BIS 3.0 coming to North American BlackBerry users next weekend? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Engadget Show live with Nicholas Negroponte, PlayStation Move, and Joystiq’s Chris Grant

MobiG — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Keep your eyes tuned to this post -- because at 5:00 PM ET, we'll be starting The Engadget Show live, with Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab and OLPC Project, Dr. Richard Marks showing off Sony's PlayStation Move, commentary from Joystiq editor Chris Grant, plus much, much, more! You seriously don't want to miss it!

Update: The live show is over, but don't fret. We've got the full version coming soon (within a day) for download via iTunes, Zune Marketplace, and RSS feed, or you can watch the stream right here. Stay tuned, the post will be soon!

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Silverlight beta comes to S60 5th Edition

MobiG — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:02:00 +0000

Microsoft naturally spent the overwhelming majority of its breath chatting up Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 earlier this week, but buried beneath the fanfare was a little morsel for a distinctly different platform. That's right, Symbian fans, you've now got a Silverlight runtime (for a few devices, anyway) some two years after Nokia announced that it'd be coming. Support right now is limited to S60 5th Edition -- that is, touch-enabled Symbian devices -- with both in-browser and standalone Silverlight apps available for the taking. It's just a beta right now, so don't have too much faith in the stability or feature-completeness of this thing -- but it's a start.

Silverlight beta comes to S60 5th Edition originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sprint to release Android 2.1 update for Hero and Moment ‘over the coming weeks’

MobiG — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:27:00 +0000

If you recall, about a month ago Sprint tweeted that it was working on delivering Android 2.1 upgrade for its HTC Hero and Samsung Moment in early Q2 this year. An optimistic guess would be April, right? Funnily enough, Techie Buzz has heard that two eager customers managed to squeeze a more precise date out of Sprint over a phone call -- end of March or even March 26th. Don't go reaching for that champagne just yet, though -- a self-proclaimed Sprint employee shared a recent internal memo on XDA-Developers forum, revealing that it's "actively working on having the Android 2.1 platform available to our Hero and Moment customers over the coming weeks," and that "more information coming in April." Oh Sprint, you do love playing with our little minds, don't you?

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