WiFi not good enough for you? Verizon’s here to give you a bit more range. Customers will be able to pre-order an LTE-enabled version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 starting on June 8th, but the company’s playing coy about when exactly it will ship. The “coming weeks” is the best week can get, though if that wasn’t vague enough for you the press release embedded below also says “this summer.” Those willing to sign on to a new two-year agreement are looking at $530 for the 16GB model and $630 for the 32GB. That’s a $130 premium over the WiFi edition — not counting the next two years worth of monthly data charges, of course. [Thanks, Bedan] Continue reading LTE Galaxy Tab 10.1 gets official on Verizon, orders start June 8 LTE Galaxy Tab 10.1 gets official on Verizon, orders start June 8 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Sony NGP may become ‘PS Vita,’ give us 100 percent of our RDI of handheld gaming
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If you’re like us, you’ve been spending most of your time in the lead up to E3 scouring the source code of gaming company sites searching for clues about next week’s announcements. We happened to miss Sony’s “Vita” namedrop in the code of a post about the “future of handhelds,” but one reader managed to catch it before the company removed it completely. The inclusion of the name is the latest in a series of slip ups that lend credence to the notion that the decidedly generic Next Generation Portable title isn’t the official name for the company’s less investment heavy handheld. There’s certainly the possibility that Sony was using the name PS Vita while developing the device internally, though mentions seem to be popping up more and more as we push closer to the big event. Either way, we’re certain to get a big dose of vitamin Sony in a matter of days. Sony NGP may become ‘PS Vita,’ give us 100 percent of our RDI of handheld gaming originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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It may have been hard to believe when it was announced back in February, but you can rest assured that Texas Instruments’ new color TI-Nspire CX calculator is indeed real, and shipping right now. Assuming you’re ready to make the jump from monochrome, the $165 asking price will buy you a 3.2-inch 320 x 240 display, 100MB of storage, 64MB or memory, and TI’s new version 3.0 operating system that comes complete with 3D graphing capabilities. Of course, TI isn’t completely breaking new ground here — Casio’s had a graphing calculator with a “high res” color screen since way back in 2010. [Thanks, Michael] TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator now shipping, color officially ‘in’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Nintendo 3DS eShop to launch on June 6 with internet browser and free Excite Bike
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Why wait until June 7th when you can instead get your update on June 6th? That’s the question Nintendo has answered this morning, telling us that the coveted eShop update for the 3DS will come a day earlier than previously anticipated . This will finally give gamers the ability to download some titles straight to their system, but more importantly will give everyone a free copy of Excitebike , the NES classic, naturally re-mastered so that the 2-D side-scrolling racer will have a little bit of depth. Super Mario Land and a few other downloadable titles will come along help launch the show, with Nintendo pledging to add new content every Thursday thereafter. But wait, there’s more! Pokemon fans will be able to use their AR card to check out those they’ve already caught in 3D, and if you’ve purchased any DSiWare games you’ll be able to download those to your 3DS. Last, but certainly not least, will be a full internet browser that you can spin up without exiting a game, which might make keeping tabs on that Ocarina of Time walkthrough a little easier. It has, after all, been a long time since last we vanquished Ganondorf and his Gerudo chums. Again, all this is set to go live in the evening of June 6th (which could still be June 7th where you are), so now might be a good time to invest in that bigger SD card you’ve had your eye on. Continue reading Nintendo 3DS eShop to launch on June 6 with internet browser and free Excite Bike Nintendo 3DS eShop to launch on June 6 with internet browser and free Excite Bike originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Are you seeing what we’re seeing? That yellow starburst touting a “starting 6/24″ promotion date is neatly affixed to the HTC EVO View 4G (aka, Flyer ). If the grab above, nabbed from Sprint’s internal Rewards Me site is to be believed, then we’ve got 7-inches of WiMax-loving Android tablet headed our way in three weeks time. Smack in the middle of the promised summer ship date . It also a good bet that we’ll be seeing the EVO 3D at about this time too. Anyone taking odds? HTC EVO View 4G (Flyer) headed to Sprint on June 24th originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Are you seeing what we’re seeing? That yellow starburst touting a “starting 6/24″ promotion date is neatly affixed to the HTC EVO View 4G (aka, Flyer ). If the grab above, nabbed from Sprint’s internal Rewards Me site is to be believed, then we’ve got 7-inches of WiMax-loving Android tablet headed our way in three weeks time. Smack in the middle of the promised summer ship date . It also a good bet that we’ll be seeing the EVO 3D at about this time too. Anyone taking odds? HTC EVO View 4G (Flyer) headed to Sprint on June 24th originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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As if showing up in two of the first four reference devices for Windows on ARM wasn’t enough of an achievement for NVIDIA’s quad-core Kal-El superchip, it decided to visit us in person here at Computex to demonstrate its splendid graphical prowess. Running Android 3.1 on a 10-inch, 1280 x 800 screen, it gave us a first-hand look at the Glow Ball demo that wowed us in video form just a couple of days ago. What we saw on the dev tablet before us was no less impressive; lighting was being rendered in real time and scattered over a multiplicity of surfaces, while the cloth simulation was, to use a terrible pun, silky smooth. NVIDIA also ran us through a sightseeing tour of the Unreal Development Kit and Lost Planet 2 , noting that the PC game took only a couple of months to port over to work on the Kal-El architecture. Unfortunately, no new details were forthcoming about when Kal-El devices might be coming or what developers we should expect to see coding games and other content to exploit the platform’s evidently mighty capabilities. For now, we’ll just have to sate ourselves with the video after the break. Gallery: NVIDIA Kal-El development platform hands-on Continue reading NVIDIA Kal-El reference tablet hands-on (video) NVIDIA Kal-El reference tablet hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Texas Instruments announces multi-core, 1.8GHz OMAP4470 ARM processor for Windows 8
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When Qualcomm announced a pair of Windows 8 -compatible ARM processors yesterday, we knew Texas Instruments wouldn’t be far behind. Sure enough, the company has just announced a new addition to its OMAP 4 family of ARM SoCs, with the 1.8GHz OMAP4470. TI’s new chip is powered by a pair of 1.0GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore engines, as well as two, 266MHz ARM Cortex-M3 cores that handle multimedia duties. According to the company, this multi-core structure will enable faster web browsing and more frugal power usage, while putting the OMAP4470 in square competition with quad-core chips like NVIDIA’s Kal-El and Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge line. The SoC was designed for tablets, netbooks and smartphones running Android, Linux, or the next version of Windows, and can support a max QXGA resolution of 2048 x 1536, and up to three HD displays. There’s also a single-core PowerVR SGX544 GPU capable of running Direct X 9, OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenVG 1.1, and OpenCL 1.1. The OMAP4470 is expected to hit the OEM and OED markets in the first half of 2012, but you can find more information in the specs sheet and press release, after the break. Continue reading Texas Instruments announces multi-core, 1.8GHz OMAP4470 ARM processor for Windows 8 Texas Instruments announces multi-core, 1.8GHz OMAP4470 ARM processor for Windows 8 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Qualcomm announces dual- and quad-core Snapdragon processor support for Windows 8
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After months of rumors, leaks, and speculation, Windows 8 is finally official on ARM and x86 platforms. Terrific. Now Qualcomm has jumped on Microsoft’s coattails with details about the silicon the company will offer to support Microsoft’s next generation OS. First on the list is Qualcomm’s dual-core MSM8960 Snapdragon with integrated 3G/LTE modem capable of speeds up to 2.5GHz, followed in early 2012 by the quad-core Snapdragon APQ8064 . Of course, ARM licensees Texas Instruments and NVIDIA will be feeding at the Windows 8 table as well, as will Intel and AMD. But we’re hungry for specifics now , and only Qualcomm is offering up any detail. Continue reading Qualcomm announces dual- and quad-core Snapdragon processor support for Windows 8 Qualcomm announces dual- and quad-core Snapdragon processor support for Windows 8 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Bloomberg Businessweek just published an amazingly thorough piece on Nokia, pre- and post-Elopcalypse. We’ve long wondered how MeeGo, an OS that Stephen Elop himself said ” inspires both confidence and excitement ” in October 2010, could be cast aside so quickly in favor of Windows Phone, an OS still struggling to find traction in the heated smartphone market. Well, now we know. Bloomberg recounts a January 3rd meeting between Nokia’s Chief Development Officer Kai Oist
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