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Archive for December, 2009
HTC HD2 plays Tekken 3 using FPSECE emulator
0870 days
by Arlene.L
in Cellphones
Not much to say here other than there’s a PlayStation emulator for the HD2 and it bloody well works! The original gangster of consoles, already emulated on other WinMo devices such as Toshiba’s TG01, has made its way to HTC’s finest thanks to version 0.10 of the First PlayStation Emulator for Windows CE. You can hit the read link to find out how to get it up and running on your own handset, and then we’ll naturally expect you to come back and tell us how good it felt to play Final Fantasy VII in a whole new way. The more impatient among you will already be watching video of the HD2 running Tekken 3 effortlessly after the break, so go join ‘em already.
Nexus One trounces 3D benchmark, gets caught in high-res photoshoot
0870 days
by Arlene.L
in Cellphones
Just when you thought you’d seen it all with Nexus One, along comes an old friend with some higher resolution shots of the handset (hooray!) and a pretty impressive 3D benchmark test using Qualcomm’s Neocore. Video’s after the break –that Snapdragon chip outputs a mean framerate, no?
Lenovo’s wireless Multimedia Remote with Keyboard sneaks out for retail
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In an age of advertising hyperbole so gratuitous that every spec tweak or color change is accompanied by a press release, it’s honestly refreshing to watch Lenovo tip-toe interesting new products into retail with nary a peep. Like this palm-sized Multimedia Remote with Keyboard spotted by an Engadget reader inside a Singapore mobile phone shop. Seems this wireless pup (model 57Y6336) has been on sale for about a week across the globe with a $60 MSRP or about $30 after a quick Google for discount coupons. That meager tithe takes home a 2.4GHz keyboard with trackball and USB “nano dongle” for your Windows home theater PC good for about 10-meters of wireless sofa surfing. See it in the wild after the break.
Update: This “pretty awesome peripheral” received a brief hands-on over at HardwareZone who tells us that it’s powered by a pair of AAAs as well.
Notion Ink’s Adam gets a name, June 2010 release
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Well, the first bit of news here is immediately apparent — the heretofore untitled tablet device coming out of India has now been given the name of Adam. After ruffling a few feathers a week ago with its extremely ambitious battery life projections and admittedly mouthwatering Tegra plus Pixel Qi combo, Notion Ink is back with more details on the project. We understand the company is now discussing 3G testing with Indian and US operators (its 3G bands are compatible with AT&T’s networks), and there’s also a planned landing date in June. Can’t say we’re too excited about a launch six months from now — other Pixel Qi devices may well beat the Adam to market — but there’s also the pleasantly small matter of the price, which in this case is projected to be an aggressively low 15,000 rupees (about $321). CrunchPad part deux? Only time will tell.
DoDoNA’s S-100 mp3 player doesn’t need no stinkin’ ergonomics
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Clearly, skinny jeans aren’t yet as popular in Korea as they are in Western lands. For if they were, we’d never see chunky cube-shaped players like this S-100 here, and the world would definitely be poorer for it. Taking its design cues from the mesmerizing Mintpass Cube, with a smidgen of old school iPod buttonry, this device boasts a 1.1-inch OLED display, FM radio, built-in speaker, voice recording, and a slightly pedestrian 4GB of integrated memory. No, it’s not exactly sterling value at nearly $170, but we have the suspicion that the S-100 was never targeted at the unimpulsive analytical types anyway.
Sanyo’s Eneloop music booster keeps stage musicians effect-ed
0871 days
by Raymond.J
in Peripherals
If there’s even a faint need for a recharging solution, there’s a decent shot that Sanyo will have an Eneloop device to fit the situation.Take the newly announced music booster, for instance, which is designed to sit alongside your Tube Screamer, TU-2 Chromatic Tuner and RV600 Reverb Machine in order to keep the juice flowin’ even if a breaker trips mid-solo. Truthfully, the device could be used to energize pretty much anything that taps into a 9V power source, and if you’re concerned over noise interference, Sanyo assures us that you shouldn’t be. The unit — which goes on sale in March 2010 — can be fully regenerated in around 3.5 hours, and depending on the drain of the device(s) it’s powering, can keep things going for anywhere between 2 and 50 hours. Rock on, as they say.
RoyalTek outs RPJ-2000 pico projector
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by Raymond.J
in Peripherals
Taiwanese company RoyalTek’s just announced the first of what will apparently be five pico projectors it releases in 2010. The RPJ-2000 boasts 3M’s second generation LCoS chipset, VGA and NTSC / PAL inputs, and 0.5 watt speakers. The projector can project a 65-inch image at 640 x 480 resolution with 14 lumens of brightness. Disappointingly, there is no onboard storage or media player on this little guy, but we’re betting one or more of those other models RoyalTec is set to unleash probably will have those glorious extras. If you want to use this baby with a Mac, you’ll need to purchase an adapter kit which runs around $43, in addition to the $315 pricetag of the projector itself. There’s no word on sale of the RPJ-2000 outside of Taiwan as of yet, but we’ll keep you posted.
Ten years of BlackBerry
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by Raymond.J
in Cellphones
The year is 1999. Bill Clinton is the President of the United States, gas is 94 cents a gallon, Bondi Blue iMacs are a staple in dorm rooms across the country, and Microsoft is trying to bring the desktop Windows experience to the pocket, pushing its Palm-size PC concept (after Palm had quashed the original “Palm PC” branding) on a world still feeling jilted by the failures of the Apple Newton. 3Com subsidiary Palm and its heavyweight licensee Handspring have figured out something interesting about the still-nascent PDA market, though: people like simplicity. If an electronic organizer does what it says it’s going to do, keeps your information in sync with your PC, runs for forever and a day on a single set of batteries, and does it all with a minimum of fuss, people will buy. It’s an exciting, challenging, and rapidly-changing era in the mobile business.
Online iPhone sales back on in New York City
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by Raymond.J
in Cellphones
We may never know exactly why AT&T suspended online sales of the iPhone to residents of New York last night, but it doesn’t matter anymore — the site’s been updated and online sales are back… online. In other news, previously spiking sales of pants in the New York area have suddenly flatlined.
Sprint now pushing webOS 1.3.5 to the Pre
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by Raymond.J
in Cellphones
We’d heard webOS 1.3.5 would be coming to the Pre on Sprint today, and here we go — it’s being pushed to devices right now. The official changelog is quite long, but the big-ticket tweaks include the removal of the app storage limit, better performance, and improved battery life. We’ll let you know how our update goes — you let us know the same now, kaykay? Kay.