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  • Apple CDMA iPhone 4 rumor given new wings

    Apple CDMA iPhone 4 rumor given new wings

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    With the iPad unicorn now slain, what other beast can DigiTimes shackle its rumor mongering machine to? How about Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology (and inspiration for the ASUS company name), galloping forth with promises of a CDMA iPhone. According to the Taiwanese rumor rag, Pegatron (ASUStek's OEM manufacturing arm) will begin shipping a CDMA version of the iPhone 4 from its Shanghai plants to Apple in Q4. Right, just in time for the holiday shopping season and perfectly alligned with Apple's annual September iPod event... you know, should Apple want to announce a deal with Verizon.

    Apple CDMA iPhone 4 rumor given new wings originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Garmin-Asus planning another nuvifone for AT&T?

    Garmin-Asus planning another nuvifone for AT&T?

    Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
    It takes a little bit of creative dot-connecting to follow our thought process here -- but we think we're onto something, so do us a favor and lend us an ear for a second. Garmin-Asus, of course, kicked off its North American efforts with the forgettable nuvifone G60 on AT&T, then just followed it up with the Garminfone on T-Mobile. We'd speculated previously that AT&T might have some sort of US exclusive on the use of the "nuvifone" name, considering that the company strays from that branding in no other market in the world. Additionally, all of ASUS' phones are happening through the Garmin-Asus joint venture right now, so when we found this E600 "PDA Phone" in the FCC this week, we knew right away that we were likely looking at a new nuvifone model. Looking at the filings, we see that it's rocking 850 / 1900MHz 3G, which leads us to believe that AT&T might be ready for round two -- either that, or one of our GSM friends north of the border is looking to deploy it -- but any way you slice it, that G60 is looking pretty long in the tooth.

    Garmin-Asus planning another nuvifone for AT&T? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • T-Mobile Garminfone now on sale, price still boggles the mind

    T-Mobile Garminfone now on sale, price still boggles the mind

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    As promised, T-Mobile has brought the Garminfone to retail today for $199 after $50 rebate on a new two-year contract, calling into question the viability of selling a nav-centric Android device with an HVGA display, 3 megapixel camera, and no 3.5mm headphone jack for $250 out of pocket in the store. We suppose the awesome car dock will attract some, but the myTouch 3G Slide certainly seems like the better option for less money -- maybe this would work at $99 or $149, we suppose. Not that we're impatient or anything, but where's our Froyo update, Garmin?

    T-Mobile Garminfone now on sale, price still boggles the mind originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Kindle application pre-installed on Asus laptops and netbooks

    Kindle application pre-installed on Asus laptops and netbooks

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Notebook and netbook maker Asus is pre-installing the Amazon Kindle for PC application, allowing Asus owners to access Amazon's selection of e-books without having to suffer through the pain of software installation on their own time. Not much more to say about this, except that it further cements Amazon's hegemony in the e-book market. How will Barnes and Noble respond, I wonder?

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  • Garmin-Asus Garminfone review

    Garmin-Asus Garminfone review

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    The holy matrimony between smartphone and personal navigation device just keeps getting stronger, scorning dedicated GPS units like forgotten flings and leaving navigation-free handsets wandering lost and alone. Garmin-Asus has been flirting with the perfect bond with its Nuvifone series for some time now, but rather tragically from a branding perspective its strongest attempt yet comes without the nuvi moniker. It's the T-Mobile Garminfone, and its Android underpinnings go a long way toward making the best mix of PND and smartphone to date.

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    Garmin-Asus Garminfone review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 11:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Asus claims 100 percent recyclable laptops (that are made of bamboo)

    Asus claims 100 percent recyclable laptops (that are made of bamboo)

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    What do you do with a laptop when you're done with it? That's an actual question being that the only laptop I owned before my current old man MacBook is sitting in the closet, broken beyond repair. Now, if I had one of these new Asus laptops, I could, somehow, recycle them. Helping the Earth, one laptop at a time.

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  • Is the Asus Rampage III Extreme the best motherboard ever or overpriced hype?

    Is the Asus Rampage III Extreme the best motherboard ever or overpriced hype?

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Moments ago, in our chatroom, I said that, if I had the money, I'd buy two Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboards: one to use and one to hang on the wall like a diploma. That's how great the thing looks. Never mind that, simply reading the stats, it's one of the best motherboard money can buy as of today—it looks as if it was designed by an extraterrestrial being, one with an advanced outer space art degree. It's a very good board, but is it OMG BEST THING EVER~!

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  • The Asus Eee Keyboard is finally shipping

    The Asus Eee Keyboard is finally shipping

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    My goodness. Talk about a long product development cycle. We first saw a working demo of the Asus Eee Keyboard 17 months ago at CES 2009 and it just now started shipping to customers. We're not even going to pretend to know why it would took so long to make it from the show floor to customers. All that matters now is that the device is now shipping from Amazon to buyers. Finally.

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  • Official Eee Keyboard specs revealed

    Official Eee Keyboard specs revealed

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    After over a year of delays, promises, and waiting, we finally know what's going to be in the Eee Keyboard. Has it been too long? Is it too late for the poor keyboard that every wanted, but no one could get? Do we still care? I'll admit, I like it, but I may be in the minority.

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  • EEE PC 1218 leaks, and wins awards

    EEE PC 1218 leaks, and wins awards

    Posted on May 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Asus leaked their own product this time, by revealing that their newest secret project, the Eee PC 1218. The details are sketchy of course, but what we can see looks hawt. Here’s what we do know, the body is made aluminum, and it’s finished in either silver of black. It appears that Asus was going for [...]

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  • Asus Eee Pad coming in July

    Asus Eee Pad coming in July

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    We're about to see another manufacturer throw their hat into the Tablet PC ring. ASUS is expected to show out their EeePad in June at Computex, with a July launch date. Of course, ASUS has a reputation for needing to push those launch dates out a little bit, so we'll see if things go as planned.

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  • Absolutely bananas Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard first offered by Origin

    Absolutely bananas Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard first offered by Origin

    Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
    This is the greatest motherboard that has ever lived. It's the Asus Rampage III Extreme, and it's designed for people who do insane things like run three video cards simultaneously alongside an Intel Extreme Edition processor. People need to run Metro 2033 (and, soon, Crysis 2) at 200 frames per second. Origin is the first enthusiast builder to offer the motherboard.

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  • Asus Eee Keyboard: It’s a keyboard–no, it’s a netbook.

    Asus Eee Keyboard: It’s a keyboard–no, it’s a netbook.

    Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Fancy keyboard is fancy. It’s the Asus Eee Keyboard, a sorta PC-keyboard hybrid that pretty much blew my mind. It’s got an Intel Atom processor, 1GB of memory, and either 16GB or 32GB or storage space, and a five-inch touch screen on the right-hand side. The idea, nearest I can tell (this is the first I’ve ever heard [...]

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  • Asus Ares 5970 is truly two 5870s slapped together, no holds barred

    Asus Ares 5970 is truly two 5870s slapped together, no holds barred

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    The ATI Radeon HD 5970 is essentially two 5870s slapped together, but underclocked a little bit so as not to melt a hole through your carpet (but will melt a hole through your bank account~!) Asus saw that and was like, "Pfft, wait till you see what we've come up with." It's called the Asus Ares 5970, a true-to-life dual 5870 solution that doesn't downclock nothin' for nobody. Slight problem: it might not actually come out here in the U.S.

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  • Asus adding USB 3.0 to entire PC line

    Asus adding USB 3.0 to entire PC line

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
    USB 3.0 is quickly on the road to becoming a standard issue item and Asus is helping it along in a big way. The computer manufacturer just announced that its adding the faster interface to every PC computer it makes. Yup, that includes Eee netbooks and the Eee box. Of course not all of these products [...]

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