Archive for 2009

  • Pine Trail equipped Acer 532h netbook specs leak for all to see

    Pine Trail equipped Acer 532h netbook specs leak for all to see

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    In my humble opinion, conventional wisdom should dictate that any netbook that’s still sporting a 1024x600 resolution should be overlooked immediately. We make an exception today for Acer’s 10.1-inch 532h, which features Intel’s upcoming N450 “Pine Trail” chipset sporting a 1.66GHz Atom CPU.

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  • Dell netbook modded into a rather large handset (video)

    Dell netbook modded into a rather large handset (video)

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Eager to get a hold on your very own Dell-branded Android smartphone? This guy here took matters into his own hands with nothing more than his modding skill, his imagination, and a Dell Inspiron Mini. Of course, this thing won't exactly fit in most pockets, but as a curiosity (and a conversation starter) it performs admirably. Have you ever seen a 10.1-inch novelty handset in action? Now's your chance -- peep the video for yourself after the break.

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    Dell netbook modded into a rather large handset (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The Known Universe by the AMHN put to the music of Muse

    The Known Universe by the AMHN put to the music of Muse

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s New Year’s Eve and you’re stuck in front of a computer. Sorry, bub. You might as well turn your speakers on and zen out to the American Museum of Natural History’s The Known Universe video put to Exogenesis by Muse. The somewhat boring, but also high-def, original video is after the jump if you [...]

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  • Leaked: The Motorola Mirage might just be the best Android phone yet

    Leaked: The Motorola Mirage might just be the best Android phone yet

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, Android - how good you have been for Motorola. It was only months ago that they were teetering on the edge of obscurity; one 350-person Android task force later, they've got the most popular Android handset in the lands and are being name dropped on a nearly daily basis around the rumor mill. A Chinese leakster managed to get his mitts on this (confusingly obscured) shot of an unreleased Motorola handset, and was nice enough to share it with the world.

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  • In-game item in Entropia Universe kinda sorta bought for US$330,000

    In-game item in Entropia Universe kinda sorta bought for US$330,000

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    This story is not nearly as interesting as I was led to believe. Some guy bought something in the online game Entropia Universe. He bought it with in-game currency—PED3.3 million, to be exact. It just so happens that that amount, PED3.3 million, can be converted at will to real life currency. At current conversion rates that equals approximately US$330,000. So if you want to say that the guy bought an in-game item for US$330,000, well, be my guest.

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  • Is Asus killing off the Eee Stick?

    Is Asus killing off the Eee Stick?

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    The Asus Eee Stick might be dead, folks. According to a Digitimes report, the company has slashed the development department down to only 20 team members from the original 100 and more cuts might be coming. Long story short, the department isn't delivering the goods. I mean, have we ever seen a good use of the Eee Stick? It's not like the Eee netbooks were ever that great at gaming.

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  • CrunchDeals: Logitech G13 game controller for $50

    CrunchDeals: Logitech G13 game controller for $50

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Best Buy has a pretty good deal on Logitech’s G13 game controller at $50. It’s backordered for a couple weeks, but patience is a wondrous virtue.

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  • Last call for KEO space time capsule message: Let people 50,000 years in the future how much you rocked

    Last call for KEO space time capsule message: Let people 50,000 years in the future how much you rocked

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Hurry up, sports fans, for today's the last day you can submit a message to the KEO space capsule. The idea is to have a bunch of people write an epic message, then in 50,000 years it'll return and give future people the messages. I have no idea how any of this works, so please direct your WTFs somewhere else.

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  • AT&T drops Tiger Woods sponsorship

    AT&T drops Tiger Woods sponsorship

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Gotta hand it to Bloomberg for this riveting one-sentence article written by two people. “AT&T Inc. is ending its sponsorship agreement with golfer Tiger Woods, company spokesman Michael Coe said in an e-mailed statement.” I don’t recall seeing Woods in any TV or print commercials for AT&T but he definitely had a few big, fat AT&T logos on his golf bag. The company still has Luke Wilson and the iPhone, so sleep easy, friends.

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  • Picture of Motorola ‘Shadow’ leaked, inverted on Taiwanese forum

    Picture of Motorola ‘Shadow’ leaked, inverted on Taiwanese forum

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    While everyone's gearing up to celebrate New Year's Eve, it seems that Motorola's busy squeezing out the last bit of rumor juice of 2009. We're looking at what's purported to be Motorola's 'Shadow' (not 'Mirage' as Google Translate unhelpfully suggests) -- a phone with 9mm thickness, 4.3-inch 850x484 screen (larger than the devices on the leaked roadmap), HDMI port and 8-megapixel camera capable of 1080p video recording. Not much else came out of the "tight-lipped" tipster who might've inverted the picture's colors -- see above for our fix -- but an educated guess should point to that friendly green robot (though that battery icon certainly isn't part of Android's game). Any brave souls dare to guess otherwise?

    Picture of Motorola 'Shadow' leaked, inverted on Taiwanese forum originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Hardware accelerated ‘Doom’ comes to the Pre

    Hardware accelerated ‘Doom’ comes to the Pre

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Pre homebrew has certainly come a long way in its short but happy life -- and now it's just gotten another little notch in its belt. Apparently, with the release of webOS 1.3.5, Palm has included a software library called SDL (or Simple Directmedia Layer) which allows developers low-level hardware access -- like the kind needed to tap into accelerated 3D graphics. With a little bit of elbow grease, webOS hacker extraordinaire zsoc was able to put together a port of Doom which can be run within a card in the OS, and completely functions (including keyboard controls). You've got to get your hands a little dirty with the Terminal app to make things happen right now if you want to try it for yourself, though the experimenters promise an easier solution in the coming days. Exciting stuff for webOS users hungry for a little more horsepower... now let's see if Palm puts this into play come CES.

    Update: PreCentral has a video of the app in action -- check it out after the break!

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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    Hardware accelerated 'Doom' comes to the Pre originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Hey, look: It’s the Jaybird Sportsband. It’s a Bluetooth headset dontcha know?

    Hey, look: It’s the Jaybird Sportsband. It’s a Bluetooth headset dontcha know?

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    This snazzy Bluetooth headset comes to us by way of Jaybird, which specializes in all things Bluetooth. It's called the Sportsband. Presumably it's for sports enthusiasts.

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  • Orange plans to bring ‘HD Voice’ calls to UK next year

    Orange plans to bring ‘HD Voice’ calls to UK next year

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    We've had some indication that Orange planned to expand its "HD Voice" technology beyond the hot testbed of Moldova sometime in the coming year, and it looks like the carrier is now starting to get a bit more specific about when the UK will finally have an alternative to standard definition calls. Apparently, Orange will begin trials of the new and improved, 3G-facilitated service early in the new year, and fully roll it out along with a "range of handsets" before the end of the year. Just what can you expect from HD voice? Why, it will make it "sound as if callers are actually in the same room," according to Orange UK chief executive Tom Alexander, who further added that "HD voice really does inject a level of innovation into mobile phone calls," and that "once people have tried it, they won't want to go back."

    Update: Orange has now pushed out a press release further confirming that trials will begin in the UK early in the new year, with a nationwide rollout due "later in 2010." In related news, DigiTimes is reporting that Foxconn has landed large orders for Android-powered handsets from Orange, although Foxconn itself has issued something of a denial on the matter.

    Orange plans to bring 'HD Voice' calls to UK next year originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Team outs the USB 2.0/eSATA X092 flash drive

    Team outs the USB 2.0/eSATA X092 flash drive

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Here we go again with another dual interface flash drive, but this time USB 3.0 is no where to be found. The Team X092 comes sporting both a USB 2.0 and eSATA interface. Of course with the eSATA interface, the drive should be rather quick and it is thanks to four data channels feeding separate flash memory modules.

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