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  • Samsung Galaxy S taking UK pre-orders, Vodafone promises June 15 delivery

    Samsung Galaxy S taking UK pre-orders, Vodafone promises June 15 delivery

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Were you looking forward to purchasing a 16GB smartphone with unique screen technology and an app-centric OS this month? Great, because the Galaxy S pre-order has now gone live in the UK, offering a delivery only four days away from now and prices that are pretty much par for the superphone course. If you want the Super AMOLED machine for free, minimum monthly cost will be steep, starting out at £35 ($51) a pop over 24 months or £40 ($58) over 18 lunar cycles. Both those deals furnish you with 900 minutes of talk time, unlimited texts, and 1GB of 3G data, but the latter works out to be the better value as it tallies up to £720 ($1,045) in total investment over the full term. Then again, most of what Vodafone has on tap compares favorably to the madness O2 is asking iPhone 4 buyers to pony up.

    Samsung Galaxy S taking UK pre-orders, Vodafone promises June 15 delivery originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Android 2.2 will invite you to visit ‘Flash-enabled’ sites, rub Apple’s nose in it

    Android 2.2 will invite you to visit ‘Flash-enabled’ sites, rub Apple’s nose in it

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    The battle for minds is well and truly on now, and if there was any doubt that Google and Adobe are cozying up together to take on Apple, let it now be extinguished. TechCrunch is reporting that the latest version of Android -- you know, the one with the 450 percent performance improvement and buttery smooth Flash playback -- will, upon updating, guide you to visit a selection of Flash-enabled websites. Countering Apple's list of iPad-ready (aka Flash-free) websites, this is clearly intended as a showcase of the Adobe software's capabilities. Ironically, a sizable number of the sites on the list are "mobile optimized," meaning you won't be hitting their full desktop versions (which doesn't quite mesh with the idea of "the full web experience"), but it's still likely to cause some consternation over in Cupertino. All we're wondering now is how much Adobe had to pony up to ensnare such a prominent promo position, but things like that don't stay secret for long.

    Android 2.2 will invite you to visit 'Flash-enabled' sites, rub Apple's nose in it originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 03:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Kin available online starting tomorrow, in Verizon stores on May 13

    Kin available online starting tomorrow, in Verizon stores on May 13

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Dearest members of the Upload Generation: the wait to buy the Kin of your dreams is a short one -- provided Mommy and Daddy are willing to pony up the $30 a month in data charges, of course. Verizon will be selling both the Kin One and Kin Two online starting tomorrow, May 6, for $49.99 and $99.99 respectively, after you agree to a two-year contract and come to terms with the fact that you'll be paying $100 more upfront while you wait for your rebate to be mailed to you on a debit card (par for the course these days). If you'd rather play with the devices first, your wait isn't much longer -- you'll be able to score both of them in Verizon retail locations starting a week later on the 13th.

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    Kin available online starting tomorrow, in Verizon stores on May 13 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 May 2010 11:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • CrunchDeals: Zx1 weather-proof Pocket Video Camera for $54

    CrunchDeals: Zx1 weather-proof Pocket Video Camera for $54

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    What could be better than an HD video camera? How about an HD video camera with a pony inside it? Or, barring that, how about a $54 HD camera. Scratch the pony part. It might make the pony sick. You can get the Kodak Zx1 video camera with 1.6-megapixel sensor and 2-inch LCD display for $53.99 [...]

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  • Pioneer outs four “Works with iPhone” certified speaker docks

    Pioneer outs four “Works with iPhone” certified speaker docks

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    iPod speaker docks are still big business and Pioneer just announced three solid high-end contenders. Whether you're looking for an audio-specific model or a feature-packed system, one of these models will likely fit the bill -- as long as you can pony up the cash for the high admission cost.

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  • Weekend Giveaway: Slacker Radio Plus subscription and a pony

    Weekend Giveaway: Slacker Radio Plus subscription and a pony

    Posted on April 24, 2010 | No Comments
    While I don’t want to suggest that you people are lazy (you are), I do want to offer you slackers two one year subscriptions to Slacker Radio Plus and three three-month subscriptions. With these subscriptions you get: Slacker Radio Plus: *Unlimited Skips *Unlimited Song Requests *No Audio or Banner Ads *Complete Lyrics *Station caching on BlackBerry, Android and coming soon to [...]

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  • Free Sirius XM for a month? Sure, why not!

    Free Sirius XM for a month? Sure, why not!

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Free Sirius XM for a month, amigos! That is to say, free Opie & Anthony and Ron & Fez for 30 days. It's the company's latest promotional tactic to get you to pony up the $15 or whatever a month for the service. A test drive, if you will.

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  • One iPad per child: Seton Hill to give all students iPads

    One iPad per child: Seton Hill to give all students iPads

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember textbooks? Yeah. Forget about textbooks. Students at Seton Hill University are all getting iPads and access to all their textbooks on the iBook store. I'd say it's one of the biggest changes in pedagogy since the move from the one-room schoolhouse. TUAW has a tip from a Seton Hill student who sent in a memo that said: "Students will be able to download their textbooks to their iPads from the iBook Store. In addition, iPads can be used as phones and for air and file sharing, as well as note-taking." Gone will be the days of lugging a huge calculus book from room to room and I can only imagine the mixture of joy and dread as textbook publishers realize the grey market for used textbooks is dead but, in its place, a new pirate market will appear overnight.

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  • iPhone 3GS coming to Tesco Mobile on December 14, extreme price plans in tow

    iPhone 3GS coming to Tesco Mobile on December 14, extreme price plans in tow

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    The marriage of a high-priced smartphone to a value-minded department store was always going to be interesting and Tesco has not disappointed. Having just announced that availability of the latest and greatest iPhone is coming on December 14, the company has also detailed some unique -- for the UK at least -- price plans to go with it. Most notable is the unlimited (subject to fair use policy) 3G web and BT Openzone WiFi access on offer, which will be free for a year to Pay As You Go and one-year contract customers or for two years if you're on a 24-month agreement. Tesco's also bringing the minimum monthly outlay down to £20 ($32) on its one-year contract, but that only gets you a £60 ($98) calls and texts allowance and you'd have to pony up £320 ($520) for the 16GB handset. On the other hand, you could go nuts and get the unlimited calls and texts plan for £60 a month, which isn't too bad value for the incessant chatterboxes out there. Finally, there's also half-price calling to your favorite five numbers, which isn't going to matter much to people on the all-you-can-eat price plan, but is a nice extra.

    [Thanks Tony H. and everyone who sent this in]

    iPhone 3GS coming to Tesco Mobile on December 14, extreme price plans in tow originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Verizon’s Droid and Droid Eris going BOGO this weekend?

    Verizon’s Droid and Droid Eris going BOGO this weekend?

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    We're not saying you should do anything rash and sign up for two lines when you only need one, but we're sure there are plenty of people out there still shopping for a last-minute First Weekend of December gift -- and it looks like Verizon might have just the ticket. The rumor going around right now is that Big Red is going to pony up its Droid and Droid Eris for buy-one-get-one-free deals starting this Friday running through the following Monday. If you've already bought one though, don't fret: the rumor goes on to say that customers who've picked up their phones in the last 30 days will also be eligible, which kinda makes sense when you consider that Verizon's got a 30-day return policy anyhow. So, what do you think? Droid for the mister, Droid Eris for the missus? Vice versa?

    Verizon's Droid and Droid Eris going BOGO this weekend? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Got $600 bucks? The Sony Ericsson Aino is now available in the US

    Got $600 bucks? The Sony Ericsson Aino is now available in the US

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Hurray! Not only is today “Droid Day”, but it also just so happens to be “New Sony Ericsson phone with a name no one can pronounce” day! Happy NSEPWNNCP Day, everyone! Sony Ericsson’s present for today is the Aino, an 8.1-megapixel’d, WiFi’d, tri-band HSPA’d (so it should work with certain US GSM carriers – that [...]

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  • For Free! Play Unreal Tournament 3 all weekend, starting today

    For Free! Play Unreal Tournament 3 all weekend, starting today

    Posted on September 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Two things I like about this: one, we can play Unreal Tournament 3 for free all weekend. Two, Steam’s weekend apparently starts on a Thursday. You can pre-load the full version of Unreal Tournament 3 into Steam right now and then starting at 1PM Pacific, 4PM Eastern today, the game will be available to play. [...]

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  • Desktop Factory hits the dead pool

    Desktop Factory hits the dead pool

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Goodbye, Desktop Factory, we hardly knew ye. This company was supposed to offer a sub-$5,000 desktop 3D printer. Alas, they are no more and they’ve sold their IP and assets to an unnamed buyer. But a funny thing happened as we launched our effort to sell Desktop Factory. We found interested parties who do understand [...]

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  • Update: Pushfix for Jailbroken iPhones caused Push broadcast problems

    Update: Pushfix for Jailbroken iPhones caused Push broadcast problems

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    We have an update on the AIM push problem we wrote about this morning. The problem only affects jailbroken iPhones 2 and 3G running the homebrew app Pushfix. If you are in this sad number please restore to the original firmware or risk seeing your IMs spread far and wide. Pushfix is a homebrew app that "repairs" push functionality on Jailbroken apps. The iPhone Dev Team, the same folks who unlocked the iPhone in the first place, created it to help us lowly users but they left a fatal flaw in the program. It seems they used a single UDID - Unique Device ID - for the fix. This in turn creates a sort of broadcast network of multiple jailbroken phones running Pushfix that report back to the push servers with the same UDID. The result? When you push to one, you push to all.

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  • Daily Crunch: All Good Things Edition

    Daily Crunch: All Good Things Edition

    Posted on June 27, 2009 | No Comments
    I like my iPhones the way I like my marshmallows: golden brown Star Wars accessory for Wiimote - I’ll give you one guess A pony, for your Friday amusement

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