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  • Microsoft’s Oprah moment: You’re all getting Xboxes

    Microsoft’s Oprah moment: You’re all getting Xboxes

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Although there was plenty of news coming out of Microsoft today, the most interesting move is their decision to begin shipping the brand new XBox - it's basically the old XBox with 802.11n Wi-Fi, a 250GB hard drive, and Kinect support - the same week they announced it. It's not quite same day, but it's close. However, another treat came when they announced all the media at their press event will be getting XBox 360s immediately and that they would be showing up at their domiciles and places of business posthaste. These sort of giveaways are common at developer events (well, actually just Google IO) and I suspect they'll become more popular in the coming months. Gear is so cheap to build and ship that it almost makes sense to blanket the evangelists with it. Whereas the old model of "selective releases" works for some products - Apple, in particular excels at this - the XBox team is dealing with an entrenched base of hardware users who will be loathe to swap out their old XBox, provided they're not RRODed. Update: Now with video!

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  • Sprint EVO 4G is officially Sprint’s fastest-selling device

    Sprint EVO 4G is officially Sprint’s fastest-selling device

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Sprint have just proudly announced that their new hotness, the EVO 4G (reviewed here and here), has beaten the Palm Pre and Samsung Instinct to become their fastest selling device ever. And by "beaten" I mean "obliterated": the Palm Pre and Samsung Instinct were tied as Sprint's previous best sellers, but the EVO 4G sold more than three times as many units in it's first day than the two of them did combined over their first 3 days.

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  • Old cranks now learning to love their iPads

    Old cranks now learning to love their iPads

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember when everyone was like "I'm returning my iPad? It's the garbage?" That was SO early Spring 2010. The new hotness is increased iPad affection with a soupcon of wistful disappointment that comes to the folks who originally attacked the iPad and are now smitten. It was so fun to have a flat, glassy enemy back in April! First, anecdotally, Disrupt this week featured so many iPads you could have feasibly placed one on every seat in the auditorium and still had iPads left over to pave halls by the loading dock. The iPad is the new iPhone but the tamagotchi effect - that thing you see where people just endlessly fiddle with their iPhones in public, rubbing them like hamsters - just doesn't happened. The iPad sits, open, on your table in front of you and you occasionally brush your hand over it like a sleepy wizard. It doesn't require as much attention as the iPhone.

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  • Hard at work? Congress spends all day playing with the iPad

    Hard at work? Congress spends all day playing with the iPad

    Posted on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
    The iPad is a huge hit in the United States Congress. I mean, passing any sort of meaningful banking reform is apparently out of the question with these guys , but there's always time for the iPad. Just amazing, really.

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  • Cellphones purportedly used more now for data, Gossip Girl blasts than calls

    Cellphones purportedly used more now for data, Gossip Girl blasts than calls

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Ever notice how easy it is to find mobile plans with unlimited minutes these days? Yeah, it's because they're about as valuable as pea coats in the dead of summer. With more and more consumers disconnecting their landlines in favor of using their cellie for everything, the art of communicating via voice is also becoming lost. According to "government and industry data" cited in a New York Times report, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has "stagnated," with 2009 being the first year ever in which the "amount of data in text, email messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices [in the US] surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls." Dan Hesse, Sprint's head honcho, even chimed in with this nugget: "Originally, talking was the only cellphone application; now it's less than half of the traffic on mobile networks." We also learned that the average length of a mobile call was just 1.81 minutes in 2009, a drop from the 2.27 minutes per call seen in 2008, with many individuals feeling that other communication methods (email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) were far less invasive of someone's time, being that they could respond to those messages at their convenience. Of course, on the Upper East Side (where all the richies use Verizon dumbphones, apparently), we get the impression that yakking away about a cornucopia of drama is still the hotness.

    Cellphones purportedly used more now for data, Gossip Girl blasts than calls originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 May 2010 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The Sony NEX-7 will bring 1080p recording later this year

    The Sony NEX-7 will bring 1080p recording later this year

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    You might want to hold off buying a Sony NEX-3 or NEX-5 camera for a bit. They might be the hotness right now, but it seems their big brother is right around the corner. The NEX-7 sounds awful nice.

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  • HTC EVO 4G Preorders Start This Month (May)

    HTC EVO 4G Preorders Start This Month (May)

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    I have a confession for you: the HTC EVO 4G is my fav phone at the moment. I can't lie. Snapdragon processor, 4.3" 800x480 screen, 8MP camera, Android 2.1, all topped off with a blazing-fast WiMAX data connection. It's irresistible. So I'm pleased to tell you that the all-powerful fiery-phone-of-awesome will be available for pre-order this month at The Shack.

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  • Layar Launches Store for Augmented Reality Layers

    Layar Launches Store for Augmented Reality Layers

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Augmented reality is being touted as the new hotness. I'm sure most of you have heard of the augmented reality browser, Layar. Basically, Layar offers a window through which to view the world, where handy hints and information are displayed over the top in real-time. The Amsterdam-based company released Layar last year for both Android and iPhone, and a number of interesting "layers" have already made their way into the application. The layers mentioned in that post were created by interested developers, but today, Layar opened up a store for selling layers.

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  • Rumor: EVO 4G to cost $199 From Best Buy

    Rumor: EVO 4G to cost $199 From Best Buy

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Are you hankerin' for some hot 4G action, but a little worried that the new tech could add a premium on top of the handset price? Well, lucky for you I have some good news: The new hotness -- the Sprint EVO 4G -- is rumoured to cost only $199 on contract from Best Buy.

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  • Rumour: EVO 4G to cost $199 From Best Buy

    Rumour: EVO 4G to cost $199 From Best Buy

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Are you hankerin' for some hot 4G action, but a little worried that the new tech could add a premium on top of the handset price? Well, lucky for you I have some good news: The new hotness -- the Sprint EVO 4G -- is rumoured to cost only $199 on contract from Best Buy.

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  • Old and busted: e-ink; New hotness: e-skin

    Old and busted: e-ink; New hotness: e-skin

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    E-ink is cool, sure, but it's still largely a black-and-white technology. Philips Research has moved into the color realm with what they're calling e-skin. “The first applications using the technology could be e-skins for small devices such as MP3 players or cell phones. However, the technology is highly scalable,” says Kars-Michiel Lenssen, Principal Scientist at Philips Research. The vision from Philips is an e-skin on your portable device that can be changed to match your outfit or your mood with the press of a button.

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  • This season, crazy monkey shoes are the new hotness at the Chrome OS event

    This season, crazy monkey shoes are the new hotness at the Chrome OS event

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Velcome, darling! Look what we have for you! Sergey Brin wearing VFF KSOs, CrunchGear's favorite, as Greg calls them, "crazy monkey shoes." I'm personally a VFF convert and I'm very impressed that Sergey is willing to walk around in these. Embiggen after the jump.

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  • Motorola DROID causes a disturbance in Android-based web traffic

    Motorola DROID causes a disturbance in Android-based web traffic

    Posted on November 11, 2009 | No Comments
    According to Web analytics company, Clicky, Motorola’s flagship DROID handset has already caused a major disturbance in the Force Android-based web traffic. The new hotness purportedly already accounts for more than 23 percent of all Android web traffic here in the States. Not too shabby for the new kid ‘droid on the block. The less [...]

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  • T-Mobile nabs HTC’s Touch HD2, schedules release for November

    T-Mobile nabs HTC’s Touch HD2, schedules release for November

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments

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    T-Mobile nabs HTC's Touch HD2, schedules release for November 9
    WinMo folks, we wouldn't blame you for getting a bit of Android envy after last week's DROID onslaught, but if there's one thing that could make people pine for your OS it's HTC's HD2, and T-Mobile has just confirmed it's coming on November 9 -- a mere weekend after Moto's new hotness hits Verizon. Mind you, there is some confusion going on here, as the picture on T-Mo's site is of the old Touch HD, not the HD2 we met and loved, and the mention of "loads of applications to download from Android Market" is particularly perplexing. But, we've been told to go ahead and blame a bumbling marketeer rather than to expect some sort of cross-platform app marketplace love fest -- groovy as that may sound.

    Update: We've also just learned that HTC is going to officially launch the HD2 on November 4 ahead of a November 11 release elsewhere. We're not entirely sure what there is left to learn about the thing, but we're always game for another press event.

    Update 2: Just to clarify things, this is T-Mobile UK. Also, as many have pointed out in comments, we're now thinking the "09" above means 2009, not November 9, which likely points to a November 11 release. Surely you can swallow that DROID envy for another two days, yeah?

    [Via WMPoweruser.com]

    T-Mobile nabs HTC's Touch HD2, schedules release for November originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • 69adget’s OhMiBod Freestyle Review

    69adget’s OhMiBod Freestyle Review

    Posted on October 24, 2009 | No Comments

    The OhMiBod Freestyle Vibrator lets you DJ your own orgasm - literally. The vibrator wirelessly connects with your iPod or iPhone and vibrates along with the beat. Perfect for those of you who get turned on by the hot new Jay-Z song (or Ricky Martin, it’s cool, he’s on my playlist too), whatever your music of choice may be, this vibrator will redefine the way you look at your iPod.

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