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  • Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks)

    Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks)

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Look, the N900 might be sitting at the top of Nokia's handset pyramid in terms of capabilities, but as we've said all along, the N900 is not a mass-market device. Nokia's been very clear that the N900 was launched as a means to strengthen its Maemo development community (on the path to MeeGo we now know). And by all accounts, it's done just that while winning a rabid fanbase of nerds in the process. Nevertheless, Reuters uses Gartner's estimate of less than 100,000 units sold in the device's first five months as proof that Nokia can't mount a challenge to RIM and Apple. True the numbers are paltry compared to the 8.75 million iPhones Apple sold from January to March, but a more apt comparison might be the oft noted Nexus One sales that reached just 135k units moved after 74 days. Regardless, in its defense, Alberto Torres, head of Nokia's solutions business said that "Sales have substantially exceeded expectations." So yeah, Nokia has problems, but the N900 isn't wasn't one of them.

    Update: While Nokia doesn't normally give out detailed sales figures per device, we've just been told that more than 100,000 N900s sold in the first five weeks -- not months -- globally.

    Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 05:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • HTC EVO 4G review

    HTC EVO 4G review

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Sprint_s_4G_iPhone_killer_reviewed'; As a mobile platform, the EVO 4G's Android foundation is still an infant -- well, okay, perhaps it's a tweener -- but in its two-odd years in the public spotlight, the list of truly revolutionary devices to use it has been a significant one: the G1 for being the first to market; the Nexus One for ushering in a new (and subsequently killed) retail model; perhaps the CLIQ for introducing Motorola to the platform or the Droid for bringing the company some desperately needed, long overdue success. For the moment, anyway, a whopping fraction of the world's most important phones are running Google's little experiment.

    Needless to say, Sprint, HTC, and quite frankly, many of us have come to expect the EVO 4G to join that short list for some obvious reasons. Put simply, its magnificent list of specs reads as though it was scribbled on a napkin after a merry band of gadget nerds got tipsy at the watering hole and started riffing about their idea of the ultimate mobile device: a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4.3-inch WVGA display, 8 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, HDMI-out, and WiMAX compatibility. Of course, the list of potential deal-breakers for a phone is as long as the EVO 4G's display is wide; to put it another way, there are countless ways HTC, Sprint, or even Google could've screwed this thing up. So does this moderately intimidating black slab of pure engineering and marketing -- this high-profile bet on Sprint's future -- deliver the goods? Read on.

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    HTC EVO 4G review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 21:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Columbia gets into the sports watch market in a big way

    Columbia gets into the sports watch market in a big way

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Columbia just jumped head first into the sports watch buisness with nine different model lines spanning three distinct market segments. Chances are that if you need a watch for an outdoors activity, one of these new watches will fit the bill as they feature everything from an altimeter, to a barometer, to a compass — [...]

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  • The Lenovo Q nettop series gets a makeover, should look at home under your HDTV

    The Lenovo Q nettop series gets a makeover, should look at home under your HDTV

    Posted on May 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Lenovo's previous nettop entry was just your standard Mac Mini-clone, encased in a drab black box. But the just-announced Q150 shouldn't have any issues standing out from the crowd. Forget about the sleek exterior, it's the included bitch'n Lenovo wireless keyboard/mouse that will please the masses [of nerds].

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  • Verizon misses the point of the Kin, prices it out of its market

    Verizon misses the point of the Kin, prices it out of its market

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Well, there goes that. The Microsoft Kins seemed like a good system. Online reviews are somewhat positive, at least most say the Kin shows potential. But it doesn't matter. Kin One and Kin Two are likely going to be the only ones of their kind and will only be around for a short while. Verizon killed the platform when it decided that these feature phones need an expensive smartphone data plans.

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  • Celebrity Nerds: Oprah has an EVO 4G and you don’t

    Celebrity Nerds: Oprah has an EVO 4G and you don’t

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Celebrity Nerds confirms what you always knew, deep in your heart of hearts: that stars are nerds like us. Send in your own confirmations of this fact right here.
    We wish we could tell you that Oprah caused a small riot in Chicago by handing out HTC EVO 4Gs to everyone in her audience but, alas, she seems to have just kept this one for herself. More specifically, she used the "fancy new" phone to show "those of you who actually know how to text" how easy it is to sign her "No Phone Zone" pledge. No discounts, no Bono, just a fleeting glimpse of one of the most anticipated phones of the year. Head on past the break for the video evidence of this momentous event.

    [Thanks, Luis]

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    Celebrity Nerds: Oprah has an EVO 4G and you don't originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 15:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • CrunchGear Week in Review: Look to the Sky Edition

    CrunchGear Week in Review: Look to the Sky Edition

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: The User’s Manifesto: in defense of hacking, modding, and jailbreaking Hands-On with the Kin 1 and Kin 2 Hyper Telescope: Bandai’s new “science toy” for kids EasyBloom Plus allows nerds to garden like a pro Ancient art of origami applied to complex fabrication techniques

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  • CrunchGear PSA: Go see Kick-Ass

    CrunchGear PSA: Go see Kick-Ass

    Posted on April 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Kick-Ass is everything Watchmen was not: funny, human, and welcoming to non-comic nerds. Go see it. Excellent stuff.

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  • Daily Crunch: Decent Edition

    Daily Crunch: Decent Edition

    Posted on April 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Video: Japanese company shows Super Mario Bros. on Kindle emulator CrunchGear celebrates National Scoop the Poop week with a Dog-e-Minder giveaway! EasyBloom Plus allows nerds to garden like a pro Descent coming to WiiWare – prepare barf bags Shrimp shells may be used to repair spinal injuries, glass can help rebuild bone

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  • EasyBloom Plus allows nerds to garden like a pro

    EasyBloom Plus allows nerds to garden like a pro

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Hidden in the picture above is a fake plant. Not only is it a fake plant, but it's a high tech fake plant, complete with USB port and soil sampling technology like that used in the Mars rover! The EasyBloom Plus is the fancy successor to the EasyBloom not plus, which allows gardeners to collect sunlight, temperature and moisture data from their lawn or garden and track that data over time. The Plus model introduces a fertilizer subscription service to help make sure you don't over- or under-fertilize your plants.

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  • More Stargate props up on ebay for nerds like me

    More Stargate props up on ebay for nerds like me

    Posted on April 15, 2010 | No Comments
    I love me some Stargate, but I still can't justify dropping cash on some props. I guess I don't love it that much. But if you do, jump over to ebay where there's another group of Stargate props available. There isn't anything really fun this time around like O'Neill's sunglasses or Teal'c's staff, but there might be something in the group that strikes your fancy. The Stargate Atlantis laptop stickers are available along with Bill Nye's seat back from one of the last episodes and Teal'c's hat.

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  • Kids choir sings “Still Alive”

    Kids choir sings “Still Alive”

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    While I doubt many of these kids know what they’re singing, it’s nice to see so many young minds perverted by the words of Jonathon Coulton and GLADOS. Matt and I were just talking this morning and noting that Glee has got it all wrong. Clearly, choir directors are actually huge nerds.

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  • Wherein the LOTR Blu-ray is compared against HD broadcasts and deemed inferior

    Wherein the LOTR Blu-ray is compared against HD broadcasts and deemed inferior

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    The Lord of the Ring Blu-ray discs will be released on April 6, but a few lucky nerds already have access to it. And they don't like what they see.

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  • Disney turns its Monorail into huge Tron light cycles

    Disney turns its Monorail into huge Tron light cycles

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Tron Legacy is nerds wet dream come true. The movie will hopefully invoke the same sort of futuristic imagination as the original. You've watched the trailer, right? Well, anyway, to gear up for the premiere, Disney has skin a couple of its monorails to look like the light cycles. Kind of meta future meets future moment, eh?

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  • I wouldn’t know what to do with the Monochron

    I wouldn’t know what to do with the Monochron

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    From the product description, We wanted to make a clock that was ultra-hackable, from adding a seperate battery-backed RTC to desiging the enclosure so you could program the clock once its assembled. Translation? This clock is for true nerds. Video after the jump. Monochron

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