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  • Ooma Adds Smartphone Features to the Home Phone

    Ooma Adds Smartphone Features to the Home Phone

    Posted on January 10, 2012 | No Comments
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  • The Wait is Almost Over – Kyocera Echo™, the Nation’s First Dual-Touchscreen Smartphone, to Launch April 17 Only at Sprint

    Posted on March 14, 2011 | No Comments
    OVERLAND PARK, Kan. & SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sprint (NYSE: S) and Kyocera Communications Inc. today announced availability of Kyocera Echo™, the nation’s first dual-touchscreen smartphone,...

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  • New Acer Aspire desktop PCs start at $449.99

    New Acer Aspire desktop PCs start at $449.99

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    What can I do to get you into a new Acer Aspire X3 or M3 Series PC? I can't go lower on price - my manager is already busing my stones about dropping the price down to $449.99 - but how about I throw in a "space-saving chassis" and mention they're an "appealing addition to a dorm, bedroom or home office." No? Still nothing? Look, the X3 series is the high-end stuff, a good, strong machine. This M3, though has only been driven one-hundred and then thousand miles by somebody I know personally who changed the graphics cards regularly. You can get an Intel or AMD processor to go with your X series or a nice AMD processor for M3. You've heard bad things about foreign processors? Where? Consumer Reports? They lie. They lie all the time. Can we go into my office, sit down, have some coffee? Talk this over? I think we can make a deal.

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  • Android 2.2 Froyo officially announced

    Android 2.2 Froyo officially announced

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/android-2-2-froyo-officially-announced/'; No huge surprises here, but Google just announced Android 2.2 "Froyo" at I/O, and the big addition is a just-in-time compiler, which brings a 2-5x speed boost to the system. There are also 20 new enterprise features, including better Exchange integration and device administration APIs, as well as a new device backup app that'll let you transfer personal data to a new device. Android 2.2 also features a new cloud-to-device messaging API that Google called "much more than a push notification service designed to make up for a lack of basic features like multitasking," and of course, WiFi tethering -- which was used to get a WiFi iPad online during the demo to great cheers. Google also demoed a new JavaScript engine in the Android browser, which is billed as "the world's fastest web browser," and a Chrome browser plugin that allows you to send directions from Maps on your desktop directly to your phone.

    It's all going on live right now, so make sure to go hit our I/O liveblog!

    Android 2.2 Froyo officially announced originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 11:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Another iPhone 4G prototype shows up, bares all including Apple’s own A4 chip

    Another iPhone 4G prototype shows up, bares all including Apple’s own A4 chip

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    This is just silly now. Another iPhone has leaked onto the Internet. What kind of ship does Steve Jobs run over there at Apple? This time around they aren't going to be able to bust down the owner/seller/stealer's door seeing as it all went down in Vietnam. Then again, anything is possible with the Apple gestapo. But somehow a Vietnamese website got a hold of the device. The back story really doesn't matter right now. They got and posted pics and video -- good for them. The site went a bit farther than Gizmodo, though. They actually tore it apart, revealing a nice little surprise.

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  • Yet another so-called iPad killer surfaces, brings a 1Ghz CPU and Android 2.1

    Yet another so-called iPad killer surfaces, brings a 1Ghz CPU and Android 2.1

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Note to manufacturers and the Internet: Just because a tablet has the latest hardware, can run Flash, and rocks Android, doesn't mean it's going to take over the world. Like this Mastone Lifespad 3G. Technology-wise it's on par with the iPad with it's 1Ghz Freescale CPU, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, and 3G module. Then the Android 2.1 install somewhat tops the iPhone OS with multitasking and the works. But that doesn't mean it's an iPad killer.

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  • Video: The iPhone 3G might be able to multitask in OS 4.0 after all.. if it’s jailbroken

    Video: The iPhone 3G might be able to multitask in OS 4.0 after all.. if it’s jailbroken

    Posted on April 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Never ones to let Apple's work go untested, the jailbreak community has just put to the test Apple's claims that the iPhone 3G (as compared to the iPhone 3GS) couldn't handle the multitasking functionality introduced in iPhone OS 4. As it turns out.. it can -- but don't prep the torches and pitchforks just yet.

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  • Boing Boing shows off the Marvel Comics iPad app

    Boing Boing shows off the Marvel Comics iPad app

    Posted on April 2, 2010 | No Comments
    The Marvel Comics app one of the three iPad apps that actually make me want to drink the Apple kool-aid and go lay down alongside the Apple faithful to slowly drift towards a land of simple, non-multitasking computing. So far we’ve only seen screenshots and a press release for the app, but Xeni over at [...]

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  • Exclusive first look at the Viliv S10 Blade

    Exclusive first look at the Viliv S10 Blade

    Posted on March 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Laptops are becoming smaller and smaller and after we saw and lusted after the Sony Z series we were curious how the new Viliv S10 would perform. First off, it looks great. It’s very slim and the battery life is promising thus far. Is it an iPad replacement? Sure. It’s light enough and small enough [...]

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  • What if…Apple only offered the 64GB/3G iPad and sold it for $499

    What if…Apple only offered the 64GB/3G iPad and sold it for $499

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Even though the iPad is still more than a month away from shipping, iSuppli conducted a preliminary itemized parts breakdown. The results aren't that surprising: Apple's making a boatload on these things. Suppli concluded that the $499 16GB/no 3G model only costs $229 to manufacturer with the $829 64GB/3G model costing only $117 more to make even though it carries a $329 premium. Nice, eh? These numbers can be broken down even further showing Apple's insane margins. The 3G module only costs $24.50, but Apple charges $129 more for the option. The NAND memory chips are really the only difference between all three options, but their real costs of $29 for 16GB, $59 for $32GB, and $119 for 64GB are nowhere near proportionate with the iPad's prices. All this data shows that Apple's abandoning its long-held K.I.S.S. strategy. So what if Apple got back on the keeping it simple bandwagon, only offered the high-end 64GB with 3G iPad and still sold it for $499? After all, the company would still be making at least $153 on each iPad sold. Would that turn around the iPad's outlook?

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  • Review: Sony VAIO X Series Notebook PC

    Review: Sony VAIO X Series Notebook PC

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Short Version: It’s got an Atom CPU and it starts at $1300. That being said, Sony’s X Series is one of the coolest computers I’ve ever used. Features: Intel Atom Z550 CPU at 2GHz Windows 7 Home Premium 11.1-inch LED-backlit LCD at 1366×768 resolution 64GB or 128GB solid state drive 2GB of RAM GPS, Verizon Broadband, Bluetooth, b/g/n Wi-Fi Standard and extended batteries [...]

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  • Multifl0w project teaches Apple a thing or two about iPhone multitasking

    Multifl0w project teaches Apple a thing or two about iPhone multitasking

    Posted on November 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Though it's relented on MMS and copy / paste, Apple has stubbornly, steadfastly continued to hold the line on the multitasking issue throughout the iPhone's two and a half-year career. Though it has a point about traditional multitasking burning through power, competing smartphone platforms -- scratch that, every competing platform -- has proven that it's still plenty possible to get a full days' life out of a battery while running a full host of apps in the background. Of course, the jailbroken iPhone community knows this full well, which is why there are a number of utilities available for backgrounding apps, but maybe none quite as slick as the just-released multifl0w. Taking a cue from the Pre, multifl0w adds backgrounded apps to a horizontally-scrollable gallery of cards; the only thing it's missing is a swipe gesture for quitting, but it's a minor point. Apple, we know you're seeing how good this is -- is there a defensible reason for why we still have to h4x0r our handsets to get this?

    [Thanks, Jai]

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    Multifl0w project teaches Apple a thing or two about iPhone multitasking originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Two More iPhone Overhaul Concepts: Multitasking And Dashboard Widgets. Would You Use These?

    Two More iPhone Overhaul Concepts: Multitasking And Dashboard Widgets. Would You Use These?

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    A few weeks back, we shared a video by Swedish Design agency Ocean Observations which demonstrated a rather clever (but arguably useless) concept: Exposé for the iPhone homescreen. We shared that video on a whim, and the resulting conversation and comments were outstanding. As a result, the same design firm has since churned out two more [...]

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  • More pics and facts about the new DROID by Motorola

    More pics and facts about the new DROID by Motorola

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Today is the International Day of the DROID. Well, not really, but Verizon did follow through and officially announced its new flagship Motorola Android device – DROID. Along with the official presser, Motorola was also kind enough to provide some glistening press shots of the DROID, “A no-compromise supergenius” as they like to call it, along [...]

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  • Study: Multitaskers actually worse at processing information than non-multitaskers

    Study: Multitaskers actually worse at processing information than non-multitaskers

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    So, hotshot, you think just because you follow 300+ people on Twitter, thanks to Tweetdeck, that you're some sort of super-duper Information Age sage? Slow down, because a recent study, coming out of Stanford, says that multitaskers are no better at processing or retaining information than single-minded non-multitaskers. If you're trying to process and retain information, then, best to stick to one task at a time.

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