Nexus S comes to Canada courtesy of Mobilicity (and maybe Bell, Telus, and Rogers, too)
January 21, 2011 No Comment
Canadians, you must chafe under the yoke of a Gingerbread -free existence no longer, for the Nexus S is coming to the Great White North sometime in March. According to Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin, the handset will be available on the company’s AWS band, but he also said that Bell, Telus, and Rogers will carry the Nexus S as well. If true, that means Samsung will be providing another model of the phone with support for WCDMA 850 / 1900 for it to work with Canada’s big three wireless providers. We can only hope that’s the case, as said model would be usable on AT&T’s network — making an awful lot of us living south of Canada quite happy. Peep the video after the break to hear the good news for yourself. Continue reading Nexus S comes to Canada courtesy of Mobilicity (and maybe Bell, Telus, and Rogers, too) Nexus S comes to Canada courtesy of Mobilicity (and maybe Bell, Telus, and Rogers, too) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We were politely asked to keep quiet about this until today, but here’s the truth: XBMC now runs on the Apple A4, period. As in, there’s no reason why you can’t install that shiny new Apple TV 2 version of the media center software on your jailbroken iPad or iPhone 4 too. Find instructions at our more coverage link… then give the hackers and developers a cheer. XBMC comes to the iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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So you jailbroke your new Apple TV, only to realize that there’s not all that much to do at the top of Everest except rest and enjoy your accomplishment, eh? No need to trek back down the hill — there are a great many minds at work to leverage your new-found power into something truly useful. Like what, you say? Take a gander above. An second-generation Apple TV appeared at our doorstep this weekend with XBMC on board — decoding our 1080p HD content, complete with hardware acceleration, on Apple’s ARM silicon, and with only occasional choppiness. If your sense of self-entitlement is wondering what took so long, don’t. We’re told that this isn’t a simple port, as the new Apple TV doesn’t share much with its older brother, and is an entirely different animal to develop for. The bulk of the work has been done, though, and as you can see in the video above, once you launch XBMC from the new Apple TV it is the same great experience you’ve come to love. The difference is, this time, the hardware you’re running it on costs just $99. This tiny box is finally beginning to feel magical… now, we’re just waiting on a simple installer so we can load it up ourselves. Gallery: XBMC now on the new Apple TV Continue reading XBMC comes to the new Apple TV, we go hands-on (video) XBMC comes to the new Apple TV, we go hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’re not sure how we missed this concept tablet at CES a few weeks ago — oh right, there were over 40 something tablets hanging around! — but MSI’s projector-equipped Windows 7 slate sure is an interesting one. Yep, in addition to its crazy Butterfly and Angelow all-in-ones , MSI also put together a rather chunky Atom-powered, 10-inch tablet with a built-in swivel projector. We don’t have any details on the projector itself — no lumens or resolution — but according to Notebook Italia , it can be maneuvered to display onto a wall or even flipped around to project downward onto a table. An MSI rep implied that the latter function could be used to enable some sort of laser projected keyboard (we’re imagining it to be a lot like this one from Light Blue Optics ), but there’s no actual software in place for that yet. That seems to be a popular feature in concepts these days (see Mozilla’s amazing Seabird ) — now just give us the real thing! Hit the source link for a few more shots of MSI’s tablet / projector contraption. MSI shows off tablet concept with a integrated projector originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Kinect combos Street Fighter IV, fires single-fisted boomsticks at the FPS crowd (video)
January 20, 2011 No Comment
Oh sure, we’ve seen the Kinect assist a hadouken or two , but that wasn’t the same: here, the YouTube user who brought us Call of Duty via Wiimote, Nunchuk and Kinect is throwing fireballs and taking names in the real game. Demize2010 manipulated the FAAST emulator to recognize a variety of virtual martial arts gestures, including the infamous dragon uppercut and whirlwind kick — giving him everything he needs for a flowchart victory with only his bare hands. Meanwhile, one Bill Maxwell has taken the Kinect and made it recognize his fist, the better to control first-person shooter games with requiring an Wiimote intermediary. He’s developed a “high-speed kinematic tracker” called MaxFPS that monitors his hand’s position in real time, allowing him to move, turn, jump, and reload with quick swipes of his paw. How do you shoot? Why, by punching those baddies’ lights out, of course. See it on video after the break. Continue reading Kinect combos Street Fighter IV, fires single-fisted boomsticks at the FPS crowd (video) Kinect combos Street Fighter IV, fires single-fisted boomsticks at the FPS crowd (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’ve seen what other companies have in store for our automotive future, and now Audi’s given us a glimpse of what we can expect from its car of tomorrow . The company’s Silicon Valley research lab have teamed up with four universities here in the US to develop technologies that will give city drivers the full KITT treatment — vehicles that recognize the driver (and his or her preferences) and can detect and avoid dangers and traffic delays. Called the Audi Urban Intelligence Assist initiative, each participating university has a specific area of urban mobility research ranging from urban crash analysis to aggregating historical and real-time traffic, parking, and pedestrian data in cities. The schools will also study how best to deliver relevant information to drivers and get them from point A to point B as easily and efficiently as possible. Looks like the groundwork is being laid for a German counterpart to GM’s EN-V we test drove in Vegas , and we look forward to the fruits of their labor. Ich bin ein Ingolst
Continue reading …HTC leaks suggest big, small, buttonless, and Brew MP-based phones are on the way
January 20, 2011 No Comment
All things considered, HTC doesn’t do the best job of protecting its roadmap; indeed, the slides that leaked a little over a year ago ended up doing a fabulous job of showing us what was in the pipe for 2010, so we wouldn’t doubt the massive spread that PocketNow published today. Starting at the top, we’ve got a device that looks like a trackpad-less evolution of the original Desire (pictured above), another that looks like an Aria -sized Nexus One in black (complete with old-school trackball), and an additional version of a buttonless phone that’s got generic HTC branding in place of the Verizon logo in a picture unearthed by Phandroid a few days ago (pictured after the break). That’s not all, though: there also seems to be a lower-end Android device with physical Send / End buttons and an optical trackpad underneath a smallish display accompanied by the usual four capacitive buttons. A device with a China Telecom logo on it is also in the mix, looking like a big-screened model that’ll probably be ready to do battle with that 1.2GHz Droid X by a different name that just launched over there. Finally, there’s a small, entry-level model that might succeed the Smart as HTC’s Brew MP -powered flagbearer, though Android is obviously the thrust here. Specs and names are still a mystery across the board at this point, but as PocketNow says, we wouldn’t be surprised to get details at MWC next month. Continue reading HTC leaks suggest big, small, buttonless, and Brew MP-based phones are on the way HTC leaks suggest big, small, buttonless, and Brew MP-based phones are on the way originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Verizon’s gone to the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC today to officially take issue with the net neutrality policy that the FCC laid out in the waning moments of 2010, saying that it’s “deeply concerned by the FCC’s assertion of broad authority for sweeping new regulation of broadband networks and the Internet itself.” The company’s extremely brief press release on the matter doesn’t detail where their issues lie, specifically, but they’d said back in December that they had concerns , so the move doesn’t come as a terribly big surprise. If we had to guess, the no-blocking rules surrounding wireless networks are certainly high on that list of concerns — Verizon and others have long said that wireless needs to be left largely out of the net neutrality debate — but we won’t know until we’re able to dig into the court case. Follow the break for the press release. Continue reading Verizon appeals FCC’s net neutrality rules Verizon appeals FCC’s net neutrality rules originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Larry Page taking over as Google CEO, Eric Schmidt will remain as Executive Chairman
January 20, 2011 No Comment
Google’s Q4 financial results press release contains a bombshell: as of April 4, co-founder Larry Page (on the far right, above) will replace Eric Schmidt as CEO and assume responsibility for day-to-day operations and product development and strategy. That doesn’t mean Schmidt is leaving — he’ll carry on as Executive Chairman and serve as an advisor to Page and co-founder Sergey Brin, focused on external things like “deals, partnerships, customers and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership.” As for Sergey, he’ll now “devote his energy to strategic projects, in particular working on new products,” with the simple title of Co-Founder. Schmidt’s clarified and explained the change in a blog post, saying that the idea is to make leading Google as efficient as possible, and that “Larry, in my clear opinion, is ready to lead.” It’s clear the idea is to frame this as a simple organizational shuffle — Schmidt says that he, Brin, and Page “anticipate working together for a long time to come” — but there’s no question that Schmidt’s reign as CEO set a clear tone for Google as the company expanded beyond search and into new markets like smartphones, connected televisions, and operating systems, and we’re curious to see what Page’s style is like. We’re also very curious to hear more about why the change was made — although Schmidt, Page, and Brin have worked together for over 10 years, there’s always been some tension between the co-founders and their CEO, particularly over user privacy . In any event, this is a momentous change both for Google and the industry — we’ll see what happens next. Larry Page taking over as Google CEO, Eric Schmidt will remain as Executive Chairman originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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