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  • Dell’s Expanding Mobile Portfolio Delivers Unrivaled Entertainment, Productivity and Social Experiences for Professionals, Families, Students, Gamers & More

    Posted on December 1, 2010 | No Comments
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  • Microsoft: So what that Apple is the ‘biggest’ tech company? We’re still rich!

    Microsoft: So what that Apple is the ‘biggest’ tech company? We’re still rich!

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh, Microsoft. Don't worry: people still love you. Also, people still hate you, so it all works out in the end. CEO Steve Ballmer told the Wall Street Journal something along the lines of, "So what Apple is now the "biggest" tech company in the land. Big deal. We still make incredible amounts of money. In fact, I'm going to go swim in my giant pool of money right now. Talk later." An exact quote? No, but it certainly captures the spirit that Ballmer was trying to convey: let Apple have its moment in the Sun, but we're not doing too bad for ourselves over here, you know?

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  • iFixIt tears down the Kin Two

    iFixIt tears down the Kin Two

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    I know you’ve been wondering what’s in the Kin Two since it first came out and now you can see the phone’s delicious innards up close. iFixIt tore it up and found an Nvidia Tegra processor, which is nice, and “two very cool springs.” Where did they hide the magical unicorn hoof shavings? * The Kin [...]

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  • Nokia N8 hands-on

    Nokia N8 hands-on

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Nokia_N8_Hands_on_PICS'; Good old London, full of little wonders and flagship devices for you to discover. We were at Nokia's local HQ this morning to talk to the company's Head of Design Marko Ahtisaari, and the good gent happened to bring with him a prototype N8 for us to play around with. It was stressed to us that it's a prototype, so small cosmetic changes might still occur, but we are for most part looking at the hardware that will be hitting retail shelves in Q3 of this year. Speaking of Q3, Marko was adamant that that will be when Nokia "turns on" the Symbian 3 housed within the N8, which -- disappointingly -- meant that we couldn't get to grips with the new UI experience in person. Ah well, there are plenty of pictures to be devoured in the gallery below, and we can provide you with a few observations of our own to tide you over till then.

    The anodized aluminum shell feels very well built and is remarkably light. So much so that our first instinct was to ask whether the battery was inside or this was just a hollow mockup. We'd compare it to the feeling of picking up the Zune HD for the first time, it's a strikingly light device. Plopping it into our pocket also felt extremely natural, which might be attributable to the particular curvature of the N8's sides. Attention to detail in the physical design, as Marko said, was of paramount importance to Nokia. That doesn't come without sacrifices, however, with the user replaceable battery being substituted by an integrated cell, but to quote the man himself, the "overall design concept overruled" such considerations. We found the home button on the front a bit of a pain to press in, but it's still very early to form conclusions about the experience on this device. For now, just go gawk at it below and look out for the in-depth writeup of our chat with Marko Ahtisaari later today.

    Nokia N8 hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 May 2010 07:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The top 5 HP products we would like to see, post-Palm buyout

    The top 5 HP products we would like to see, post-Palm buyout

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    HP didn't just drop $1.2 billion on Palm to simply sit on the assets. There have to be major plans in the works to leverage webOS and slam out some killer consumer devices. This could be huge for not only both companies, but for you and me.

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  • Zune HD hacked, entire hardware open to homebrew programmers

    Zune HD hacked, entire hardware open to homebrew programmers

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Potentially huge news for Zune HD owners—that means Devin and I. It has been hacked~! Yes, the good folks over at ZuneBoards have hacked the Zune HD to pieces, giving homebrew developers full access to the hardware, access that otherwise lay behind the XNA development kit. The Zune HD isn't too shabby, so I fully expect to see ports of popular emulators like FCEUX in no time at all.

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  • Zune HD 64GB available early

    Zune HD 64GB available early

    Posted on April 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Good news if you were waiting on the Zune 64. It just came up as available on the Zune Originals website, much earlier then the previously expected April 12th.

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  • First impressions of Zune firmware 4.5: Video playback works nicely, Smart DJ less nicely

    First impressions of Zune firmware 4.5: Video playback works nicely, Smart DJ less nicely

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Great news, everyone! I just upgraded my Zune HD's firmware to the latest and greatest version, version 4.5, and I'm here to report that everything went smoothly... mostly. I probably shouldn't have used the word "everything," then. I can now play Xvid videos just fine, having tested an old SummerSlam 2001 DVD rip that I had in my Zune video folder. (Why I have old WWE DVD rips on my hard drive is a matter for another day.) So no problems whatsoever in that regard.

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  • Zune Firmware 4.5 hits the streets

    Zune Firmware 4.5 hits the streets

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Microsoft just dropped the Zune 4.5 firmware update, and it looks promising. I mean, who doesn't want more video codecs and a smart DJ?

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  • Cliff Bleszinski will debut new game on Jimmy Fallon next week

    Cliff Bleszinski will debut new game on Jimmy Fallon next week

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Exciting gaming news, ladies and germs! (That's the extent of my April Fooling.) Cliff Bleszinski will debut Epic Games' new game on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon next Thursday. There are zero details beyond that, I'm afraid.

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  • The Zune 64GB leaks right on cue

    The Zune 64GB leaks right on cue

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    The Zune HD has seen modest price drops the last few weeks with the Zune HD 32 now available at the ever important $199 price point. With a lite dose of speculation, it now all makes sense seeing as there is clearly a Zune HD 64 launching in the near future.

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  • Project Pink Microsoft phones coming to Verizon

    Project Pink Microsoft phones coming to Verizon

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    >Remember Project Pink? Whatever Microsoft's secret hardware initiative was? Well, it's real and it's coming to Verizon. You'll see the Turtle, shown here, first, and it will be sort of a Sidekick that won't run Windows Phone. Verizon will launch this like they did the Droid, aiming the might of their armies at flogging this to the feature phone user.

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  • TiVo Premiere hands-on~!

    TiVo Premiere hands-on~!

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Greetings! Nicholas and Jimin here live from the big TiVo Premiere launch in New York. There was a man guarding the device, which was hidden under a cloak, but when the cloak was lifted, oh dear! The gist: this is a TiVo you're probably going to want. HD menus (build using Adobe Flash), searching that actually makes sense, a fancy remote control, and other goodness that you wouldn't mind.

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  • Acer gets into the Android game

    Acer gets into the Android game

    Posted on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Even as Windows Mobile 7 is set to wow us, more and more manufacturers are heading towards Android. Case in point: the Acer Liquid e. This 786MHz Snapdrago device is as bog standard as they come with GPS, WiFi, and HSDAP support. It also runs Android 2.1 and should be nice and fast. It has a 3.5-inch display and looks like a Zune mated with an N1.

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  • Newegg and Amazon cuts the Zune HD price by $30-$40

    Newegg and Amazon cuts the Zune HD price by $30-$40

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    The Zune HD is a tempting piece of PMP goodness and it just got a whole lot more tasty with a modest price drop. Both Amazon and Newegg have at least temporarily dropped the price of our favorite media player. So far we haven't heard anything from Redmond about official cuts, but something is definitely up when these two retailers both cut prices.

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