Nexus S with AT&T bands available in white for $600, headed to Fido and Rogers
April 7, 2011 No Comment
It’s been a long time in coming, but it looks like Google and Samsung’s love child, the Nexus S — a favorite around these parts — is finally available with AT&T’s 850 and 1900 MHz 3G bands from online retailer Negri Electronics, for $600 in your choice of black or white. It’s not the first time we’ve seen the elusive Samsung GT-I9020A in the wild: it’s already appeared both in the hands of the FCC and on the Bluetooth SIG’s website . We’ve also seen pictures of a Nexus S with a white battery cover before. And here’s more: we already knew the AWS version of the Nexus S was coming to Canada via Mobilicity , but according to MobileSyrup , you’ll soon be able to pick up the Nexus S on Fido and Rogers for C$500 contract-free or C$100 with a three-year commitment, and these two carriers use the same 3G frequencies as AT&T in the US. So, until we hear something official from Samsung or Google, hit up our plethora of source links below. Nexus S with AT&T bands available in white for $600, headed to Fido and Rogers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …ZodTTD makes PSX4Droid 3.0 free, claims Google booted him from Android Market
April 7, 2011 No Comment
It’s been one week since Google pulled the PSX4Droid emulator from the Android Market without warning, and today its lead developer has decided to take a stand — ZodTTD’s made a new version of the app free of charge, and is hosting it at his personal website as a downloadable APK. He now claims that not only did Google pull his app, the company has frozen his developer accounts, effectively restricting his ability to publish to (and profit from) the Android Market until this gets sorted out. We can’t confirm his story at this point — and we hear things may not be quite as cut-and-dried as he claims — but we can tell you that if you happen to have a legally-obtained PlayStation BIOS and ROMs sitting around, you’re only a few clicks away from being able to use them on your Android phone. Not a bad deal, eh? [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] ZodTTD makes PSX4Droid 3.0 free, claims Google booted him from Android Market originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …PogoPlug Video and Buffalo CloudStor now shipping, streaming your stuff all over the place
April 7, 2011 No Comment
Yes, you’ve seen these guys before, and now the latest PogoPlug offspring are ready to ship. Both PogoPlug Video and its storage-sporting cousin, the Buffalo CloudStor , put their own unique twist on the firm’s remote access service. As you might recall, PogoPlug Video, which is now available exclusively from Best Buy for $200, allows you to hook up your external hard drives and share streaming video, music, and images to devices anywhere with internet access. Buffalo’s CloudStor, on the other hand, provides the same cloud-based access, with a little something extra. It’s the first PogoPlug branded gadget to sport integrated storage, and comes in three iterations, ringing in at $150 for 1TB, $210 for 2TB, and $250 for the 2TB Pro version. Now you can share all your favorite kitten clips, without ever uploading them to YouTube. Isn’t that precious? PogoPlug Video and Buffalo CloudStor now shipping, streaming your stuff all over the place originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Nokia once said that going with Android was like ” peeing in your pants ” for temporary warmth. Well, even if that warmth doesn’t last forever, it has now helped one of its upstart competitors, HTC, to rise beyond Nokia in terms of market valuation. This is a somewhat beguiling metric to compare companies by — market cap measures the value of a company’s shares available on the market, and not every company has the same proportion of its overall value available in stocks — but it illustrates well the diametrically opposite directions in which the two mobile phone makers are moving. Bloomberg informs us that HTC’s stock has risen by 33 percent this year, while Nokia’s has shrunk by 19 percent. Surpassing Nokia now means HTC is the world’s third most valuable smartphone maker. Of course, neither Nokia nor RIM is sitting idly by and letting the Taiwanese whippersnapper have things its own way, however both companies’ roadmaps for re-conquering the smartphone high-end seem to stretch far off into the 2012 distance. As for HTC, we expect it to launch another Sensation of a device on Tuesday . HTC’s market capitalization reaches $33.8b, overshadows Nokia and RIM originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Yes, laptops and tablets are all the rage these days, but there’s still quite a few of us who enjoy the expansive screen real estate of their sedentary computing brethren. That’s why Acer’s unleashed a sleek and svelte new all-in-one dubbed the Aspire Z5761. This latest AIO keeps the same fabulous form factor of its cousin, the AZ3750 , but sports a larger 23-inch Full HD display, your choice of Sandy Bridge Core i5-2400s, Core i5-2500s, or Core i7-2600s CPUs, up to a 1.5TB SATA II HDD, a Blu-ray or SuperMulti drive, NVIDIA GeForce GT440, GT435M, or GT420 graphics, and a hybrid TV-tuner card so it can do double duty as your boob tube should you be so inclined. Connectivity comes courtesy of gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, and eight USB 2.0 ports. In addition, the system’s preloaded with the company’s Clear.fi tech, so you can grab multimedia content residing on other Acer devices (assuming you have any) with the greatest of ease. Touching down for
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Sharp has George Takei to tell you about the fourth pixel it can’t show you, and now Telus has hired none other than Leonard Nimoy to help out with another difficult task: improving your Facebook status messages. Using the WWLNS application — that’s What Would Leonard Nimoy Say? — you can submit potential status messages to Mr. Nimoy and see what he thinks before you actually post them. Apparently, we’ve been writing in haiku without even realizing it. Of course, you will have to “Like” Telus in order to try it out yourself — clever, Telus, very clever…. logical, even. More Nimoy after the break. Continue reading Telus recruits Leonard Nimoy to help you improve your Facebook status Telus recruits Leonard Nimoy to help you improve your Facebook status originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Thank you Toyota, for teaching us the plural of Prius , because somehow, “Toyota sells one million Priuples” just doesn’t jive. That’s right, the Japanese automaker announced Wednesday that it has officially sold its one millionth Prius on American soil. It’s reportedly also reached a couple of other sales milestones in the last six months, with worldwide Prius sales reaching two million in October and overall Toyota hybrid sales exceeding three million in March. Now that’s a whole lot of Prii. Full PR after the break. Continue reading Toyota sells one million Prii in US alone Toyota sells one million Prii in US alone originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …MSI spits out four more Sandy Bridge laptops, including tasteful-looking F Series gaming rigs
April 6, 2011 No Comment
If it seems like MSI is dropping a lot of laptops this week , you’re not imagining things. The company just announced the FX620DX and FX420 gaming rigs and two mainstream notebooks, the FR720 and FX720, some of which join the 16 laptops it unveiled at CES . The FR720 and FX720 are both beastly 17-inch desktop replacements, with prices ranging from $710 to $900 depending on whether you opt for an Intel Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7 CPU, and whether you stick with integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics or spring for one with a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT520M card. As for the gaming machines, we have to say they’re pretty conservative-looking, with black lids made from a non-peeling, scratch- and smudge-resistant material, and a handful of chrome accents and blue LEDs thrown in for good measure. The 15.6-inch FX620DX packs either a quad-core Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M with 1GB of video memory, and a 720p webcam. The 14-inch FX420, meanwhile, comes with that same quad-core Core i5 CPU and AMD Radeon HD 6470M graphics, also with 1GB of memory. The FX620DX also comes with either a 1920 x 1080 or 1366 x 768 display, while the more diminutive FX420 just offers the latter. Other than that, though, these machines share the same DNA, including an six shortcut buttons, HDMI and VGA port, 4 USB ports (two of ‘em USB 3.0), six-cell batteries, and hard drives ranging from 500GB to 750GB with speeds of either 5,400 RPM or 7,200 RPM. MSI hasn’t announced pricing or availability for the F Series, but hit the source link to peep these laptops’ very discreet designs. MSI spits out four more Sandy Bridge laptops, including tasteful-looking F Series gaming rigs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Google creating YouTube ‘channels’, spending $100 million on original content?
April 6, 2011 No Comment
You can do quite a lot with a sufficiently large catalog of semi-popular footage, but original content is king , and today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that YouTube will sink $100 million into original programming. The idea, according to the usual anonymous sources, is that Google will reshape the home of Keyboard Cat into a television network of sorts — with channels for different topics — and a good number of them featuring “several hours of professionally produced original programming a week.” That sounds like a drop in the bucket compared to the raft of footage that YouTube’s amateurs put out, of course, and it wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen Google invest in original work , but we’d be lying if we said we wouldn’t enjoy kicking back with even a smidgen of the pulse-pounding possibilities that some 4096-pixel-wide footage could offer. YouTube is reportedly attracting talent right now, say the WSJ ‘s spooks, and intends to ease users into the idea of channel surfing starting later this year. Google creating YouTube ‘channels’, spending $100 million on original content? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Commodore USA puts the new C64 up for pre-sales, unveils far-less-retrotastic VIC-Slim
April 6, 2011 No Comment
Now that Commodore USA has sufficiently piqued your curiosity with a revamped Commodore 64 prototype , it’s ready to capitalize on the idea. Quite literally, we might add. $595 buys you the basic basic model with an 1.8GHz dual-core Intel Atom D525 chip, NVIDIA ION 2 graphics, 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive — which it promises to deliver by “early June” — with hundred-dollar increments adding premium features like an additional 2GB of memory, a Blu-Ray drive, up to 1TB of storage, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth. However, if you’re simply looking for a compact keyboard computer (rather than reliving 80′s nostalgia) there’s another option on tap — a likely rebadged wedge of a machine (with weaker specs) that Commodore’s calling the VIC-Slim. Even at just $395, though, something tells us it won’t be the “wonder computer” of 2011. Continue reading Commodore USA puts the new C64 up for pre-sales, unveils far-less-retrotastic VIC-Slim Commodore USA puts the new C64 up for pre-sales, unveils far-less-retrotastic VIC-Slim originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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