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  • Orange begins HD Voice trial in Southern England, leaves out Buckingham Palace

    Orange begins HD Voice trial in Southern England, leaves out Buckingham Palace

    Posted on June 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember the good news that Orange brought to the UK on our alcohol-fueled New Year's Eve? We thought so. Anyway, it looks like said fruit company's still on course to "a new era for UK mobile communications" as it launches HD Voice trial in England today. Lucky participants across Bristol, Reading and Southampton will benefit from "crystal clear" voice calls, courtesy of the wider speech bandwidth -- 50-7000 Hz as opposed to the current 300-3400 Hz. Sadly, Orange isn't keen on dishing out deets about the special hardware, but our friends over at What Mobile had the chance to play with a modified Nokia X6 from yesterday's demo -- "It was like listening to AM radio and then switching over to listen to a CD." If all goes well, we'll meet the rest of the gang when HD Voice is rolled out "before the end of the summer." Press release after the break.

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    Orange begins HD Voice trial in Southern England, leaves out Buckingham Palace originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • WSJ: RIM testing Blackberry tablet for potential release by year’s end

    WSJ: RIM testing Blackberry tablet for potential release by year’s end

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    We're not sure why the Wall Street Journal just posted up a piece talking about BlackBerry OS 6.0 and the Bold 9800 QWERTY slider as though we haven't been running leaked pictures and videos of them for months now, but whatever -- the story also apparently confirms RIM's Foleo-like tablet plans and says the device could be out by the end of the year. Sounds like RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis decided the tablet market is a little clearer than he's been letting on. As we've heard in the past, the tablet will tether to your phone for connectivity instead of sporting its own 3G connection, which is interesting, given that RIM is notoriously proud of how little bandwidth its phones use, and we're guessing a full-screen tablet experience might use just a little more data than the average Pearl. Plus, it would be pretty wild if RIM ended up validating a Palm product idea so seemingly doomed that the company killed it dead just four months after it was announced in 2007 -- we're not saying the times haven't changed dramatically, but we'd note the Celio RedFly has thus far failed to blow up the universe. We'll see -- the WSJ also says the tablet is in the "early stages of development," so anything can change.

    WSJ: RIM testing Blackberry tablet for potential release by year's end originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • AT&T iPhone tethering to cost $20 a month extra, requires you to ditch your unlimited data plan

    AT&T iPhone tethering to cost $20 a month extra, requires you to ditch your unlimited data plan

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Gather round, everyone! It's time for this week's edition of "Good news, bad news" -- only this week, "bad news" is being supplanted by "terrible news". The good news: As we touched upon earlier, AT&T has finally confirmed that iPhone tethering will launch this summer. The bad terrible news: You'd have to be pretty crazy to bother with it.

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  • Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G put through its bandwidth-sucking paces

    Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G put through its bandwidth-sucking paces

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    So, since you're stuck paying $10 extra per month for "premium data services" (not that bad of a 4G tax, if you ask us), what wonders await you on the HTC EVO 4G, fueled by Sprint's next-gen network? Well, if these best-case-scenario tests we just did are any indication: everything you ever dreamed of. Of course, Sprint's WiMAX might end up stumbling up the steps of reality, but there's no denying that this is 21st century technology that's worthy of some of the excitement that's been lavished upon it. We just saw demos of Qik video conferencing, YouTube HQ (output brilliantly over HDMI), simultaneous data and voice usage, and even a straight-up speed test (4Mbps down, 1Mbps up, the latter of which is a hard cap). The phone performed brilliantly in each scenario, but of course that's to be expected when you have a 4G tower in the building. Check out the videos of all this breathless action after the break. Added bonus? All four (totaling about 100MB) were uploaded with our laptop tethered over WiFi to an HTC EVO 4G. Don't be jealous. Okay, be just a little bit jealous.

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    Sprint's HTC EVO 4G put through its bandwidth-sucking paces originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 20:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • USB 3.0 adoption could be slowed because of lack of demand

    USB 3.0 adoption could be slowed because of lack of demand

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Willing to spend $300+ on a fancy motherboard just so you can get USB 3.0 support? Yeah, that might not be such a good idea, if only because Intel is in no hurry to integrate the spec into its chipsets. That means companies have to go out of their way to offer USB 3.0 on their systems. The odds of seeing USB 3.0 on a cheap-o netbook, then, are pretty much non-existent.

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  • RIM CEO pulls an AT&T: “We need to conserve bandwidth”

    RIM CEO pulls an AT&T: “We need to conserve bandwidth”

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis started blabbering on in an interview about network applications for the Blackberry platform. Was he thankful that developers were creating rich applications for his phones? Was he excited for the future? No. He started horking about “conserving bandwidth,” just like AT&T’s CEO: “Manufacturers had better start building more efficient applications and more [...]

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  • Asus has the first Nvidia Optimus laptops~!

    Asus has the first Nvidia Optimus laptops~!

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Kudos, I guess, to Asus, being the first manufacturer to incorporate Nvidia's Optimus technology into actual products. The Taiwan-based company has announced five laptops (note: I refuse to use the term "notebook" when referring to laptops; I think the name "netbook" is dumb, too, so at least I'm consistent) that range in size from 13.3 inches to 17.3 inches, all of which use Optimus. "What is Optimus?" I'm glad you asked! It switches between the Nvidia GPU and the Intel integrated GPU as the situation warrants. So, using Firefox? Let the Intel handle it. Playing World of Warcraft? Nvidia takes over. It's not too hard to understand.

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  • Spawn Labs ships gaming console hub

    Spawn Labs ships gaming console hub

    Posted on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Spawn Labs (remember them from TC50?) just started shipping their HD-720 gaming hub. The device allows for two way communication between the player and their console, enabling them to play remotely via a computer, assuming you have a broadband connection.

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  • Holy wow! AT&T admits NYC/San Fran 3G service sucked

    Holy wow! AT&T admits NYC/San Fran 3G service sucked

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    A recent AT&T earnings call consisted of a lot of talk talk talk but one slide stands out: it essentially admits that 3G in San Francisco and New York sucked ween AKA were both far below their official performance objective. Although I can’t figure out what the actual “Performance Objective” truly is based on this slide, [...]

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  • AT&T to Fake Steve: Go on, punk, make my day

    AT&T to Fake Steve: Go on, punk, make my day

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    It's he said/she said time, where maybe like Fake Steve is the She and maybe like AT&T is the he. So like Fake Steve was all like "Let's send nasty texts about AT&T! And then we'll mess with them on Friday." And then AT&T is all like "No way! Nobody does that to me!" Hilarity ensues!

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  • AT&T says you’re using too much bandwidth! Bad you!

    AT&T says you’re using too much bandwidth! Bad you!

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    All you punks out there watching Internet video and downloading monkey porn had better stop! There’s a current 5 gigabyte cap on laptop data use right now but soon, friends, AT&T is going to close up that “unlimited” plan and hopes to educate the consumer on proper data use. This, interestingly enough, is absolute bullshit. The [...]

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  • Tekken 6 update should improve online playability

    Tekken 6 update should improve online playability

    Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
    You'll find that opinions vary with respect to Tekken 6's netcode. I didn't run into too many problems, but others certainly have. What are you going to do, right? Come November 26, you can, I don't know, apply the update that will hopefully clear up some of those glitches. So that's what you can do.

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  • OnLive demonstrates iPhone app, set to redefine mobile gaming?

    OnLive demonstrates iPhone app, set to redefine mobile gaming?

    Posted on November 16, 2009 | No Comments

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    OnLive demonstrates iPhone app, set to redefine mobile gaming?
    Okay, we admit to still being a little bit unsure about OnLive's pledges for high-end, high-resolution, lag-free gaming on any 'ol device with bandwidth, but we want to believe, and so it's with skeptical optimism that we report on news of mobile implementations. The company has demonstrated an iPhone app in which users are able to play against gamers on a PC or on the company's MicroConsole -- despite not having a single button to press. It's interesting stuff but, according to OnLive's CEO Steve Perlman, it'll be awhile before we see this in the wild, as plans for initial mobile apps will be limited to checking game stats and watching live gameplay. However, we presume it'll be a small step from there to flip the switch and two-way communications, meaning that perhaps by the time Modern Warfare 3 hits the wires you can keep gaming even while you're commuting.

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    OnLive demonstrates iPhone app, set to redefine mobile gaming? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Interview: A conversation with Larry Halff about the relaunch of Ma.gnolia

    Interview: A conversation with Larry Halff about the relaunch of Ma.gnolia

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Many of you may remember Ma.gnolia—the nifty social bookmarking tool that unfortunately imploded at the beginning of this year. Founded by Larry Halff almost 4 years ago, the site had a different aesthetic and attitude toward sharing information. It was one of the more community-minded tools I remember from that era, offering features like the [...]

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  • Former Grokster exec involved with The Pirate Bay 2.0, hints at new model

    Former Grokster exec involved with The Pirate Bay 2.0, hints at new model

    Posted on July 16, 2009 | No Comments
    The former president of Grokster, Wayne Rosso, just dropped a little hint regarding The Pirate Bay 2.0. Mr. Rosso, writing on The Music Void, said that he's been contacted by Hans Pandeya, the CEO of the company that's poised to buy The Pirate Bay for nearly $8 million. What's the big deal?

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