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  • Nuance FlexT9 for Americas Spanish Now Available for Free for a Limited Time

    Posted on June 15, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Sega says Nintendo 3DS will bring back mature gamers. But let’s not confuse ‘mature’ games with ‘violent’ games.

    Sega says Nintendo 3DS will bring back mature gamers. But let’s not confuse ‘mature’ games with ‘violent’ games.

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Sega believes the Nintendo 3DS could be just the thing to win back the hearts and minds of older, more mature gamers, the implication being that your average 20-something doesn't want to play Mario Does His Taxes 8. Games like House of the Dead and Saint's Row were two of the game that Sega referred to in a recent interview.

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  • Video: Is it a camera? Is it a phone? It’s the Android-powered point-n-shoot!

    Video: Is it a camera? Is it a phone? It’s the Android-powered point-n-shoot!

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    For years now, people have been arguing that point-n-shoot cameras will one day be replaced by camera phones, but now it seems that Altek have decided to do a backflip and replace the camera phone with a point-n-shoot. What you're looking at here is the 14MP, Android-powered, Altec Leo point-n-shoot-camera-phone-thingo.

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  • Tips and tricks to extending the HTC EVO 4G and Incredible’s battery life (and what this says about Android)

    Tips and tricks to extending the HTC EVO 4G and Incredible’s battery life (and what this says about Android)

    Posted on June 3, 2010 | No Comments
    MG and I came at our EVO 4G reviews from different backgrounds. Even though I'm married to a  BlackBerry with a little Droid action on the side and he's a self-proclaimed iPhone fanboy, we both came to the same conclusion: the battery life on the EVO 4G sucks. Sorry, it does. But that's the state of high-powered Android phones at the moment. Both the EVO 4G and Incredible are in the same boat. The 1GHz Snapdragon CPU makes the phones a joy to use, but drains the battery in no time. It's not entirely the snappy dragon's fault either. Android users have been putting up with these type of shenanigans since the G1 debuted in late 2008. It's really sad that the battery life issue still exists and users have to work around it just to use the latest and greatest hardware. I read every single comment on my EVO 4G review with the hope that I was wrong about the phone's battery issue and was simply doing something wrong. But none of the suggestions significantly improved my EVO 4G's battery life. However, by doing a bunch of little things, I extended it's idle life from about 12 hours to 14:30 -- this is the phone's battery life with everything turned off besides 3G and it just sits. All the tweaks are easy to do, but you're going to have to forgo some of the more fun things about Android. It's a shame, really, that a user has to give up fun widgets, advance wireless connections, and auto setting just to squeeze a few more hours from their phone.

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  • Prima strategy guides now on Steam. Yup, Prima still makes strategy guides!

    Prima strategy guides now on Steam. Yup, Prima still makes strategy guides!

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Got an e-mail from the good folks at Steam a few moments ago detailing a new feature y'all might be interested in. I mean, the only thing anyone is going to care about today is Google TV, but I'll do what I can to distract you from that for a moment. The deal is that Prima Guides are now available for use in-game. You know, via that shift+tab overlay thing.

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  • Nuance’s Dragon Dictation for E-Mail now available for BlackBerry

    Nuance’s Dragon Dictation for E-Mail now available for BlackBerry

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Typing is hard. I hardly ever type unless I have to. In fact, roughly 80% of MobileCrunch’s operating bills go towards paying a full staff of invisible underlings to write what I say and censor my vulgarity. Unfortunately for the livelihood of the aforementioned underlings, they’re now replaceable by a BlackBerry. Following up on the launch of [...]

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  • The G-Mate Gun Overlord – Real or Fake?

    The G-Mate Gun Overlord – Real or Fake?

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    We're not entirely sure this thing exists in real life. The G-mate Gun Overlord just seems a bit too glorious. Even the video after the jump isn't enough proof. If it is real though, watch out, it could be awesome. Unless of course it's not and actually really lame.

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  • Dragon Dictation. On the iPad. For free!

    Dragon Dictation. On the iPad. For free!

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    We’ve been yelling at our gadgets for years to get them to work. And with Dragon NaturallySpeaking software from Nuance, they might actually listen. The mobile version, Dragon Dictation, has been available in the Apple apps store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It got upgraded to version 1.3 today, meaning iPad support. Oh yeah, [...]

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  • HP and Dragon Training

    HP and Dragon Training

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    How to Train Your Dragon, from DreamWorks Pictures opened on Friday and promptly blew fire over most of the competition. Numerous outlets reported the film was Number 1 at the box office this past weekend, despite somewhat slower ticket sales than expected. In case those HP commercials featuring New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby (perhaps most well-known [...]

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  • If only you had actually seen The Hurt Locker

    If only you had actually seen The Hurt Locker

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Who saw The Hurt Locker? Oh, right: none of you. Even if you didn't you probably are already familiar with the basic concept: a U.S. Army guy whose job it is to disable I.E.D.s sorta goes crazy. That's the gist of it. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense in the UK has unveiled something called the Dragon Runner, a remote-controlled robot that disables bombs.

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  • And now Redbox will have to wait 28 days for new Warner Bros. DVDs

    And now Redbox will have to wait 28 days for new Warner Bros. DVDs

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Warner Bros. has agreed a new deal with Redbox that will give Redbox access to its DVDs, but only 28 days after the retail release. The move is designed to encourage people to actually buy the shiny, new DVDs when they come out. Why is that a problem?

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  • Let’s talk about the World of Warcraft: Official Magazine for a bit

    Let’s talk about the World of Warcraft: Official Magazine for a bit

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    You'll recall that, a few months ago, we mentioned that Blizzard, in collaboration with Future (the publisher responsible for Edge in the UK, among other magazines), would be creating a World of Warcraft-themed magazine. It's called World of Warcraft: Official Magazine and I just received the very first issue, Winter 2009. From a visual standpoint, the magazine is gorgeous. It's like looking at a work of art. These guys clearly know their way around Adobe InDesign.

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  • HTC Incredible is coming to Verizon, better live up to its name

    HTC Incredible is coming to Verizon, better live up to its name

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    We've just been able to confirm with a trusted source that the Incredible -- one of the codenames found in HTC's leaked Android 2.1 ROM -- is destined for Verizon. We don't know what the Incredible is, but given its... well, incredible name, we can only assume it's going to be a beast -- possibly yet another name for the Dragon / Passion. Our source isn't sure whether Incredible is a go-to-market name or just something that's being thrown around internally, but frankly, it's just dorky enough so that we hope they stick with it.

    HTC Incredible is coming to Verizon, better live up to its name originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Xbox 360: Not big in Japan

    Xbox 360: Not big in Japan

    Posted on December 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Would it be foolish to begin this story with the words “poor Microsoft”? I mean, the company isn't exactly hurting for money, and yet it looks like 2009 was the year that the Xbox 360 finally died in Japan. Not that the Xbox 360 ever really did well in Japan, but this year it looks like everything fell off a cliff.

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  • Nuance outs free Dragon Dictation for iPhone

    Nuance outs free Dragon Dictation for iPhone

    Posted on December 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Talking on your phone is one thing, but talking at your phone makes you look like a crazy person. Of course, virtually everyone on the Engadget masthead is crazy in one sense of the word or another, so we have absolutely no qualms about the release of Nuance's Dragon Dictation for the iPhone, which uses the company's NaturallySpeaking engine to let you transcribe pretty much whatever you like. Of course, seeing how the iPhone lacks multitasking, it uses the clipboard as an intermediary -- talk into the Dragon app, then move over to wherever you want the good and paste 'em. It's free for a limited time, so you might want to grab this one sooner rather than later.

    Nuance outs free Dragon Dictation for iPhone originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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