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  • iPhone KIRFs up to 4.3-inch screen, claims invincibility from haters

    iPhone KIRFs up to 4.3-inch screen, claims invincibility from haters

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Hey, just because Apple won't make one doesn't mean you can't have a 4.3-inch iPhone. This here product of Chinese ingenuity offers you as much real estate as "the king of HTC HD2" while also throwing in both digital and analog TV tuners into the mix. When you factor in the dual SIM compatibility, 2 megapixel camera, WiFi, and removable back cover, it's enough for anyone to agree that "even a popular niche iPhone 4G had to step aside!"

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    iPhone KIRFs up to 4.3-inch screen, claims invincibility from haters originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • RIM’s BlackBerry tablet starting to sound suspiciously like a Foleo

    RIM’s BlackBerry tablet starting to sound suspiciously like a Foleo

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    So BGR is reporting that it has "confirmed with multiple sources" that RIM's alleged BlackBerry tablet device is very real -- despite Mike Lazaridis' recent downer comments on the subject -- and that it'll have an 8.9-inch screen, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity to hook up with your phone. Oh yeah, about that Bluetooth connectivity: the tablet is being billed as a "companion" device, something to use when you need a little bit more horsepower and screen real estate for multimedia and the like. Sound familiar? Yeah, Palm tried this with famously catastrophic results a while back -- and considering RIM's ultra-conservative policy on product innovation, we can't imagine things going any better up in Waterloo. It's apparently slated for a December release with engineers scrambling to get it released even sooner... and, you know, discontinued sooner, too.

    RIM's BlackBerry tablet starting to sound suspiciously like a Foleo originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 May 2010 12:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Depot Angel: Japanese company sells pre-fabricated basements (video)

    Depot Angel: Japanese company sells pre-fabricated basements (video)

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    About a year ago, I blogged about Yamaha's portable room that you could set up in bigger rooms to have your well-deserved quiet time. And now another Japanese company called Tamada brings us something similar: The Depot Angel [JP] (what a name), a pre-fabricated basement that can be, again, used to enjoy some alone time, as a storage room or as anything you'd like it to be. The main idea is to create additional space for Japanese households at relatively affordable prices. Seeing that real estate in Japan is (generally speaking) pretty expensive, it might make sense for some families in this country to get one Depot Angel and bury it under their house.

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  • Video: Kohjinsha dual-display netbook

    Video: Kohjinsha dual-display netbook

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    I actually like this idea. Kohjinsha recently showed off its dual-display 10-inch netbook, which runs Windows 7 atop an AMD Athlon NeoMV-40 CPU at 1.6GHz. The machine can be used as a netbook with a standard 10-inch display (it’s a swivel, screen) or a second 10-inch display can be slid out from behind the first [...]

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  • Pantech Reveal and Impact revealed with impact

    Pantech Reveal and Impact revealed with impact

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments

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    We've just checked out Pantech's new pair of messaging-friendly phones for AT&T, the Reveal and Impact; one of them left an "impact" on us, and we'll let you guess which one (hint: it's the one that would result in a pun occurring). Yeah, the Reveal was a pretty cheap-looking set -- and we're not sure we understand the value of eating of screen real estate with a dedicated numeric pad just so you don't have to slide the phone open to dial -- but the Impact (pictured above) was a genuinely intriguing phone. Up front you've got a glossy black surface that lights up to reveal a basic monochrome display and a numeric pad; pressing buttons on the pad triggers haptics so you can sorta feel your way around. Opening the phone up produces a full QWERTY keyboard with dedicated buttons for key functions (messaging, for example) and a color display with stereo speakers on either side. It's not a huge widescreen like you might find on something like an enV Touch, but it's still pretty big, plenty vibrant, and serviceable for the full HTML browser that AT&T's touting in these new devices. Pantech tells us that the Impact will go for "under $80" when it ships next month, so we'd argue that makes it a heck of a bargain in light of the unusual, slick design and the dual displays.

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    Pantech Reveal and Impact revealed with impact originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Review: mStand by Rain Design

    Review: mStand by Rain Design

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Here at TechCrunch HQ, almost all of us have laptops, with some connecting their laptops to an external display. In my case, I use a 15" Unibody MacBook Pro connected to a 22" Gateway display. I have always gone by the theory that the more real estate space you have, the more productive you are. To keep both displays level, I've been trying out number laptop stands; anywhere from paper stacked on top of each other, to cardboard, but it seems like the best laptop stand for my Mac is the mStand from Rain Design. The mStand is designed for the MacBook and MacBook Pro, yet it works with all laptops. The mStand is made of a single solid piece of aluminum that matches MacBook Pro's silver anodized finish.

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  • Button-less multitouch trackpad coming from Synaptics

    Button-less multitouch trackpad coming from Synaptics

    Posted on June 3, 2009 | No Comments
    ClickPadSynaptics, purveyor of fine touchpads, recently demonstrated its upcoming "ClickPad," which is basically a button-less multitouch trackpad that's "ideal for space constrained netbooks where real estate is at a premium in the palmrest."

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  • Video tour of Burnout Paradise’s Big Surf Island

    Video tour of Burnout Paradise’s Big Surf Island

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Criterion hasn't given up on Burnout Paradise even after outing Burnout Paradise: Cops and Robbers. The latest expansion pack adds a lot of real estate to the already huge world. Big Surf Island has 45 new billboards, 75 new Smashes, and even new vehicles to burn around town while working towards the new Island license. The demo video is a bit long-winded at 8:40, but if you're a true Burnout fanboy like me, you'll be envious during the entire thing. Especially when you see the monster jumps that are coming soon.

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