Even when they’re relatively easy to root, it usually takes a few weeks of elbow grease to get an Android device fully opened — but thanks to the hard work that’s been put into the T-Mobile G2 root recently, its just-released sister device has been cracked already, too. Sure enough, if you’re willing to put a little time into it, you can now break your myTouch 4G wide open, which presumably means it won’t take long before we see some stock ROMs become available (if you’re into that sort of thing). Seriously, judging from the list of instructions, this isn’t the easiest root in the world — so unless you want to be up on the bleeding edge, you might want to hold out until some awesome ROMs start floating in. Then again, we totally understand if you do it right this second. We’re the same way. [Thanks, Davis] T-Mobile myTouch 4G rooted, has G2 root to thank for it originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Not much of a surprise at this point, but Verizon has now confirmed that it will be launching the Android-based Motorola Citrus tomorrow, November 11th, and that it will be offering it for just $50 on the usual two-year contract (after a $100 mail-in rebate). Of course, that still doesn’t make it the cheapest Android handset around , and that low-end price comes with some specs to match, including a sluggish 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 processor, a low-res 3-inch screen, and just Android 2.1 with some Blur customizations. Full press release is after the break. Continue reading Motorola Citrus launching on Verizon tomorrow for $50 on-contract Motorola Citrus launching on Verizon tomorrow for $50 on-contract originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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In addition to an updated app for Boxee , the NHL just announced its GameCenter streaming app is coming to the PlayStation 3 and Roku players. Free to PlayStation Plus members ($9.99 for all others, free on Roku) gamers get access to the app with its highlights, stats and information, while subscribers to the $169 GameCenter Live service get the full package including streaming out-of-market games and some playoff matchups. It’s pretty similar to the MLB app that’s also available on PS3 , but similarly the lack of locally blacked out games makes it more of an alternate way to catch more sports than a cord-cutters best friend. Additional details are in the press release after the break, or check for the app under the video section of the PlayStation Network store. Continue reading NHL GameCenter streaming coming to Roku, PS3 NHL GameCenter streaming coming to Roku, PS3 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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This is a little confusing, but it looks like there’s another Kinect driver out in the wild, and this one is actually available for download. The folks at NUI Group, who posted results first , are working on an SDK and Windows driver for all the capabilities of the device, which they plan to release as open source once their $10k donation fund is filled up. Meanwhile, hacker Hector Martin has performed a quick and dirty hack of his own (three hours into the European launch, no less) and has released his results and code into the wild. Sure, pulling data from the IR and RGB cameras and displaying it is a lot different than actually making sense of it, but if you’re just looking for a way to plug your Kinect into your computer and squeeze some fun visuals out of it (and you’re smart enough to deal with some pretty raw code), it looks like Hector is your man of the hour. Peep his video proof after the break. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Continue reading Open source Kinect camera driver now available for download Open source Kinect camera driver now available for download originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …LG demonstrates two color e-paper displays, one with a split personality
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Competition is good, let’s officially welcome LG to the burgeoning color electronic paper market. The company is diving right in with not one but two color prototype displays that it showed off at FPD International in Japan. Both are 9.7-inches diagonal, the first being fully color with an 800 x 600 resolution — which just happens to exactly match the specs of E Ink’s latest . The second, however, is only partly color, the top three quarters being monochrome with a 1200 x 1200 resolution, augmented by a 200 x 600 color strip at the bottom. It’s an interesting offering, a layout not unlike the Nook but all on a single display. No word on price or availability, but you can see them doing their thing, along with E Ink’s latest, in the video below. Continue reading LG demonstrates two color e-paper displays, one with a split personality LG demonstrates two color e-paper displays, one with a split personality originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Gartner’s global phone sales rankings match IDC’s, but say the big guys have less of the pie
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At a 30,000-foot level, the global mobile phone sales numbers for the third quarter of 2010 just released by Gartner match up with what IDC posted a few days ago, but you might say the devil’s in the details. These guys have all of the top five players — Nokia, Samsung, LG, Apple, and RIM — at noticeably lower total market shares than IDC did, suggesting that second-tier players like Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and HTC (if you can really call them “second-tier”) are grabbing more hearts and minds. And hey, considering Motorola’s prominent role at Verizon and HTC’s ever-growing global presence, we could totally believe it. Notably, Nokia is well below 30 percent in Gartner’s report at 28.2, a whopping drop of 8.5 percent year-over-year — way more than the 4.1 percent drop that IDC’s got pegged. Of course, there’s no way of knowing which of the two reports is more accurate — and you know how margins of error work with these things. Hey, at least the rankings are the same, right? Gartner’s global phone sales rankings match IDC’s, but say the big guys have less of the pie originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Sure, it’s one thing to build a Game Boy emulator out of what is typically viewed as a limited-purpose language for enhancing website interactivity for the usual emulator-building reasons: you like video games, you’re trying to impress the ladies. But just to prove a point? Imran Nazar is building a Game Boy emulator out of JavaScript to show how far the language has come, particularly with the fancy new stuff HTML5′s tag allows for, and to see if it would be possible to fully emulate a Game Boy from the CPU up. Sure, HTML5 has already proven useful for straight games, but an entire architecture? Turns out, it’s pretty possible, and Imran has an excellent multi-part tutorial for how he’s doing it. Right now there’s a nearly playable version of Tetris, and pretty soon we’ll all be playing Zelda in our web browsers and that time when we tried to build an HTML table from scratch to show a few of our favorite animated GIFs on our GeoCities page will only be a distant memory… Game Boy emulator being developed in JavaScript by a very smart person originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We knew it was coming , and now we’re hearing from MacStories (and their source at AT&T, who was probably wearing a trench coat and fedora) that iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad will roll out beginning this Friday, November 12, at 10AM PST. Of course, in order to take advantage AirPlay we’ll have to see an update to iTunes as well, which is good because iTunes 10.1 is rumored to be coming tomorrow at some point. But that ain’t all! It seems that the website of note for Mac stories has been hearing from devs that references to AirPrint have been disappearing from online documentation in the iOS developer center, leading to speculation that Mac OS X 10.6.5 (also rumored to hit tomorrow) will not have the ability to print wirelessly after all. We can’t speak to the veracity of all these claims, but we’re pretty sure we can look forward to a new OS for our Apple handhelds before the week is over. iOS 4.2 coming Friday with iTunes and Mac OS X updates, sans AirPrint? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Well, well, what’s this? We were just sent this obvious mockup of an ESPN Xbox 360, which our tipster found just hanging out on a Microsoft PR server. Now, this could just be a branding exercise or the remnants of a failed idea, but now that ESPN 3 is live on the Xbox 360 Fall 2010 Dashboard Update , it makes sense for the two companies to explore a branded console — we know a lot of college students (and Engadget editors) who’d love to ditch their cable and still get ESPN through their 360s. We’ll see what comes to pass — and if Microsoft wisens up and tones down that red. Microsoft planning ESPN-branded Xbox 360? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Elecom claims first Bluetooth 3.0 mouse, performance improvements sure to be palpable
November 10, 2010 No Comment
Bluetooth 3.0 is poised to bring some big improvements, like WiFi hand-off for approximately 24Mbps data transfers… but how good is that for a mouse ? We still don’t really know, but that isn’t stopping Elecom from boasting about its new, “first ever” BT 3.0 mouse — and as best as we can tell, it lacks the “+ HS” protocol for utilizing the aforementioned 802.11 speeds. In other words, we don’t think this was a race to beat the competition so much as it was one company finally saying, “hey, why not?” Japan denizens should be able to pick this up next month for
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