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  • Yes, you can certainly scratch the iPhone 4 (updated with more photos)

    Yes, you can certainly scratch the iPhone 4 (updated with more photos)

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
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    Well, this is not encouraging. The photo you're seeing above is our leader Joshua's iPhone 4 review unit, snapped by Ryan Block just moments ago. Ryan pointed out that there are some nasty scratches on the back of the phone. While we don't have any better photos of it at the moment, Josh told us that they're hard to see unless in bright light, but they look pretty notable to us for a five day-old unit made of Gorilla Glass. We'll get some better photos for you as soon as humanly possible.

    Update: We should note that while iFixit has said that the new iPhone's front panel is made of Gorilla Glass (and they tend to be right about these things), the material on the back of the phone has not been positively identified, though it is also a hardened glass.

    Update 2: We've added three higher quality photos after the break, and seen the scratch with our own eyes. It's what we would call "incredibly minor," not visible at all dead on, but in bright light at an angle... well see for yourself if the photos.

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    Yes, you can certainly scratch the iPhone 4 (updated with more photos) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Video: AMD explains the explosive growth of the Cloud (there’s no stopping it!)

    Video: AMD explains the explosive growth of the Cloud (there’s no stopping it!)

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    From the good folks at AMD comes this, a video explaining the wonders and joys of moving all of our computing… to the Cloud! The soundtrack makes me feel like I’m in the movie Hackers. What a simultaneously great and terrible movie. Call me a cynical old man, but I’ve never been totally “down” with keeping [...]

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  • Arbitron’s Portable People Media 360 uses *cell technology*

    Arbitron’s Portable People Media 360 uses *cell technology*

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like the radio industry (well, pretty much media industry, actually, but I'm pretty sure radio is the biggest user of Arbitron data) has a new people meter up its sleeves. It's called the Portable People Meter 360, and it's designed to make reporting your radio-listening habits all the more easy. It reports to Arbitron HQ using cell technology. Just like you can download books over a cell network on your e-book reader, so, too can you tell The Man that you're listening to The Fan as you sit in traffic on the LIE.

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  • Video: Hands on with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

    Video: Hands on with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Did you love what you saw when Sony Ericsson announced their mid-range Xperia X8 yesterday? Are you longing for a little more than a few press shots and a photo of the various colours? Have I got a hands-on video? Yes! Yes I do!

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  • Unknown HTC Android phone appears, shrouded in mystery

    Unknown HTC Android phone appears, shrouded in mystery

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    For those that have only recently tuned in, the Android Guys have just unearthed photos of an upcoming Android handset from HTC, which they speculate to be the forthcoming HTC Aria. As you'll recall, in last week's episode, we thought that the HTC Aria was the QWERTY phone spotted at the FCC some months ago. However, the phone here appears to be of the slate variety... so... where does this leave us? Confused for a start, but no more than usual after a long weekend.

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  • Motorola’s 4.3-inch Droid Shadow found in a unicorn gym?

    Motorola’s 4.3-inch Droid Shadow found in a unicorn gym?

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Color us highly skeptical of the backstory, but Gizmodo claims to have received a picture of Motorola's rumored 4.3-inch Droid Shadow. The device above was supposedly left behind at a Verizon corporate gym in Washington. As the story is told, a gym employee managed to snap the photo above and identify an HDMI jack, 8 megapixel camera, Snapdragon processor, and 16GB of storage before the handset was remotely locked and the owner returned to claim it. Suspiciously, there's only one photo of the device shown at precisely the same angle as the supposedly leaked "getting started" image seen three days ago -- right, just enough time to cobble together a Photoshop. The refined Motoblur UI seems to align though so who knows... really, who knows?

    [Thanks, Aaron]

    Motorola's 4.3-inch Droid Shadow found in a unicorn gym? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 May 2010 06:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The PSP 2 will be ‘[expletive] powerful’

    The PSP 2 will be ‘[expletive] powerful’

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    There will be a PSP 2. No, not some sort of halfway sequel, à la the PSP Go, but an actual, holy smokes PSP 2. That's the rumor, and you'd have to assume that's the case. But the specifics of the rumor, today's incarnation of the rumor, that is, is that the device will be "[expletive] powerful." That's pretty powerful!

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  • Hands-on with the WiFiSync app

    Hands-on with the WiFiSync app

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    WiFiSync should have existed a long time ago. Created by Greg Hughes, it uses two programs - desktop app and an iPhone app - to sync your iPhone wirelessly. I was able to sync music, movies, and info quickly and easy, just by pressing "Sync" in iTunes. The app costs $9.99 on the Cydia store. The Cydia Store appears when you jailbreak your phone and it's sort of a Bizarro App Store unsanctioned by Apple.

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  • New iPhone in Vietnam spotted running iPhone OS 4? (update: it’s a fake)

    New iPhone in Vietnam spotted running iPhone OS 4? (update: it’s a fake)

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    This is a bit of a confusing one, but we just got tipped an additional shot of this 4th generation iPhone that leaked out in Vietnam, but this time with a big twist: it appears to be running iPhone OS 4. Or at least displaying a screenshot of the new OS, with that telltale wallpaper in the background. We have no idea how this crew might've circumvented Apple's lockdown of the device, and there's always the chance this is some sort of Photoshop or other trickery. Still, a source has confirmed to us that the markings "N90 PRO2" indicate an older prototype N90 (the Apple codename for the new iPhone), which refers to "Working Prototype 2" and might possibly be easier to enable than the newer, lock tight model Gizmodo obtained. Also, despite the photo's out-of-focus nature, the display (or at least its contents) doesn't appear nearly as sharp as those previous shots we saw of the "fireball" screen. We're digging for more info as we speak, but unfortunately the original source site, Taoviet, is down right now. We'll keep you posted if we hear anything else about this image's origins.

    [Thanks, ITKINGDOM]

    Update: The source link is loading for us sporadically. The translated text above the shot reads: "Iphone 4G VN is distributed by the network not it? Maybe not then, we'll be the first use:" It's all so clear now!

    Update 2: Woah, do these things just grow on trees? French site Be Geek has just received photos of what looks to be a third iPhone 4th gen floating around in the wild. Chances are it's of a similar build generation as the Vietnam device, since it's lacking those screws at the bottom, but it does seem to a separate device, since it's rocking a different SIM.

    Update 3: Turns out this new set of photos was pulled from the same Vietnamese forum, so it seems to be the same phone. Makes sense, but we're still puzzling over that different SIM.

    Update 4: Sorry, it's a Photoshop kids. This phone can't boot past DFU.

    New iPhone in Vietnam spotted running iPhone OS 4? (update: it's a fake) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 May 2010 12:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Going it Alone, Part III: Injection Molding

    Going it Alone, Part III: Injection Molding

    Posted on May 2, 2010 | No Comments
    The first half of Going it Alone, Part III: Inside the Factory Walls appeared on CrunchGear yesterday. We pick up our survey of how consumer electronics are made with … Injection Molding “One Word: Plastics”. Injection molding is the process by which hot, liquefied plastic is injected into steel (or sometimes other materials) cavities called [...]

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  • This is what Thor looks like in the upcoming movie that’s also called Thor

    This is what Thor looks like in the upcoming movie that’s also called Thor

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    This is Thor. Thor SMASH~!

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  • Flip goes off-mission, releases lumpen Flip SlideHD

    Flip goes off-mission, releases lumpen Flip SlideHD

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember when Flip was all about video cameras in your pocket? Well those days are gone thanks to the lumpen, misshaped SlideHD. The new model has a landscape screen that "slides" up so I can put the device on the table and rock out with my sad-eyed friends to some video of us guys sitting around playing Russian Roulette with an empty gun at my last house party. According to current reports it's much to large to fit comfortably in your pocket but you can put it in your iPad Man Bag, when and if you buy one.

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  • Adios, Usenet: UK High Court rules against Newzbin

    Adios, Usenet: UK High Court rules against Newzbin

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments

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  • This is pretty much PAX East 2010

    This is pretty much PAX East 2010

    Posted on March 27, 2010 | No Comments
    If one, and only one, photo could be said to represent PAX East 2010, I’m gonna said it’d be this one. Two gentleman in full-on cosplay mode (unless that’s just what they wear every day!), hunched over a computer monitor, playing to their hearts’ content. It almost brings a tear to your eye.

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