Surely you’ve heard of Qik by now, right? It’s most closely linked to Sprint’s EVO 4G , but it looks as if the video calling service is now siding with another “4G” carrier: T-Mobile USA. Shortly after T-Mob tossed off the gloves and proclaimed to be ” America’s largest 4G carrier ,” Qik has come forward with an interesting tidbit about the newfangled myTouch 4G. According to it, the “integrated T-Mobile Video Chat powered by Qik will be the first to offer integration into the native Android address book with the benefit of indicating live presence allowing customers to connect with friends and family through live video conversations and video messaging over T-Mobile’s network and WiFi.” We’re even assured that T-Mobile Video Chat will offer “dramatically improved video quality and frame rates compared to other video calling solutions on the marketplace through deep hardware integration,” and users can even see if folks in their contact book are able to video chat at a glance — no trial and error necessary. We’ll be testing this stuff out in our upcoming myTouch 4G review, but be sure to let us know how it’s treating you in comments below. You know, if you’re an “early adopter.” Continue reading Qik integrates deeply into myTouch 4G’s hardware, Android contact book Qik integrates deeply into myTouch 4G’s hardware, Android contact book originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’ve seen the awful , terrible , hideous things that an iPad can do to an otherwise respectable car interior, and now it’s time to see what horrors Android can unleash. Superchips, makers of chips and flash units to summon a few extra ponies under the hood, has announced the creation of the Vivid “vehicle performance programmer” — an Archos 43 Internet Tablet that’s been… augmented with some software. Thanks to this, and a Bluetooth ODB-II module, the car can monitor car performance in real-time and display data while also acting as a G-meter and even a back-up camera. No word on what any of this will cost when it ships in early 2011, but those who already have a little Android buddy will be happy to know that a standalone Bluetooth dongle called the AVID will be releasing in the summertime, enabling all the same functionality without the need for another device. What’ll we stuff in our headrests then? Continue reading Superchips turns an Archos into a vehicle interface, dubs it ‘Vivid’ Superchips turns an Archos into a vehicle interface, dubs it ‘Vivid’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …The Urbee Hybrid is the first car to come out of a printer, presumably a big one
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3D Printers are getting ever more advanced and, apparently, ever bigger too. Proof to that is the Urbee Hybrid, the result of a partnership between transportation company Kor Ecologic and Stratasys , who we’ve already seen shamelessly rebranding its 3D printers as HP Designjets . Kor provided the concept and the underpinnings of the thing, a design that amazingly has its roots in the early ’90s but has been given a new, teardrop body 100 percent printed by Stratasys. Underneath is a plug-in hybrid powertrain that manages up to 200mpg on the highway and 100mpg around town running on ethanol or plain ‘ol gasoline. No, there are no plans for the three-wheelin’ Urbee to actually see production, and beneath that luscious shape rolls something that looks rather more like a work in progress, which you can see in an early video below. Continue reading The Urbee Hybrid is the first car to come out of a printer, presumably a big one The Urbee Hybrid is the first car to come out of a printer, presumably a big one originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Where there’s smoke, right? Just days after hearing that Panasonic’s newest Micro Four Thirds camera was on the way later this week, along comes this — an event poster in Paris that leaves little doubt about what’s to come. As the story goes, this shot was taken over in France, and it’s detailing an event that’ll actually take place tomorrow. If we had to guess, we’d say the world’s smallest mirrorless camera kit will be officially unveiled within the next 24 hours. We mean, wouldn’t you? Panasonic’s Lumix GF2 Micro Four Thirds camera spotted on billboard originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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You inhale deeply and step onto the middle rung of the corporate ladder. You return home dazed, alimony unpaid, dishes piled up like a pie in the sky that turned out to be miles too high. You grab a bag of chips and pull up a seat in front of the Xbox Infinite 360 mod. You crawl inside. Lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle age, you exhale. Continue reading Xbox 360 mod mirrors the infinite regress of adulthood (video) Xbox 360 mod mirrors the infinite regress of adulthood (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Tired of going at it alone, eh WiGig ? The aforesaid Alliance has just teamed up with yet another organization — a mere six months after doing likewise with the Wi-Fi Alliance. For those unaware, WiGig’s 60GHz multi-gigabit technology has already begun to penetrate the higher-end AV market, particularly in devices that shoot 1080p from source-to-display sans cabling. But as we’ve seen, the adoption rate there isn’t anything to write home about, and it seems as if the entity is branching out in an effort to broaden its potential profit portfolio. The newest partnership is with VESA, and the most important aspect of it (from a consumer standpoint, anyway) is summed up here: the two will be working to create a certification program for wireless DisplayPort products. The goal, as you may imagine, is to create a new spate of products that’ll connect PCs and handhelds to monitors, projectors and HDTVs, all without wires and with gobs of bandwidth. Sadly, no time table is being revealed just yet, but we’ll be cautiously expecting a few prototypes at CES. Right, dudes? Continue reading WiGig and VESA team up, promise wireless DisplayPort gear WiGig and VESA team up, promise wireless DisplayPort gear originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Samsung announces 7-inch Super AMOLED panel, makes first-gen Tab a little nervous
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We’re calling Samsung’s Galaxy Tab the best Android tablet of the moment, but curiously the company seems intent on planting a seed of doubt in the minds of early adopters, announcing what may very well be the next Tab’s display. Early (and likely baseless) rumors on the current Tab indicated it would be fronting a Super AMOLED panel, but of course that didn’t come to pass. Now Samsung Mobile Display is set to debut a new 7-inch Super AMOLED panel at the FPD-International exhibition in Japan in two weeks, ahead of full production in mid-2011. Its 1200 x 600 resolution is a bit odd, wider than the Tab’s current 1024 x 600, but more pixels in the same space are generally a good thing. That’s all we know at this point, and of course there’s no confirmation that this will indeed find a home in a next-generation tablet, but don’t let that stop you from speculating in comments about what else the OLED Tab might offer. Samsung announces 7-inch Super AMOLED panel, makes first-gen Tab a little nervous originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …LG Pad coming in Q1 2011, with Android Honeycomb, dual-core Tegra 2, and 8.9-inch screen
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Want some specificity about LG’s super-duper tablet roadmap? Last we heard from the Korean tech giant, it was canning plans for a Froyo slate and looking forward to a more suitable iteration of Android, which a senior official at the company has today clarified to mean Honeycomb , describing it as the “tablet PC-version” of the OS. He’s even gone beyond the call of PR duty in placing a release schedule for the 8.9-inch LG Pad in the first quarter of 2011, boasting that it’ll come with a dual-core Tegra 2 chip inside. That sounds terribly delicious to us, as does the note that LG has worked hard to accommodate the needs and wants of European and North American consumers — the release window is explicitly said to be for both domestic and overseas markets. LG Pad coming in Q1 2011, with Android Honeycomb, dual-core Tegra 2, and 8.9-inch screen originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …T-Mobile starts up 4G ad campaign by poking a stiletto into AT&T’s network (video)
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We suspected T-Mobile’s new advertising campaign would ruffle some feathers , but we weren’t ready for quite such brazen trash-talking right off the bat. Of course, it’s trash talk dressed up in a pretty white and Magenta dress and delivered in the most angelic of voices, but T-Mobile makes its point to AT&T subscribers loud and clear: we got 4G, you don’t. Whether you consider the network’s current 21Mbps theoretical max a true representation of 4G or not, we’ll leave up to you; just make sure to join us past the break for the Apple-scented commercial, which also teases the myTouch 4G, a HSPA+ handset that T-Mobile happens to be launching today . Continue reading T-Mobile starts up 4G ad campaign by poking a stiletto into AT&T’s network (video) T-Mobile starts up 4G ad campaign by poking a stiletto into AT&T’s network (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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What do you know, someone’s been busy working in Microsoft’s labs while we’ve been waiting for the company’s Kinect motion control peripheral to launch itself into our living rooms. The highly sophisticated webcam has undergone some algorithmic optimizations and now Alex Kipman, lead software developer for what used to be known as Natal, tells us that its processing overhead for the Xbox 360 console will be no greater than a “single-digit” percentage. That contrasts very nicely with the last number Alex gave us, which indicated there’d be a 10 to 15 percent penalty for using Microsoft’s new motion controller, and should mean your petting sessions with Kinectimals will be running smooth as butter when Kinect hits stores tomorrow . Great news, eh? Kinect will use only a ‘single-digit’ percentage of Xbox 360 CPU power originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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