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| Firefox ported to Pre, N900 says 'psh, whatever, I am still awesome'
April 13, 2010 at 2:19 AM
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| | WebKit's all well and good, but every once in a while there's a reason why you've got to pull out the Old Standby, right? 0nce reserved for the Maemo Elite, Firefox is slowly spreading from pocket to pocket, and webOS is mercifully the latest to get hooked up. We don't know the full backstory here yet -- it looks like you can't download a user-friendly package right now -- but this'll undoubtedly be a good option when the Pre's in-built browser simply won't do. It's not an official port we're looking at, but let's be honest: the community does a better job half the time, right? Firefox ported to Pre, N900 says 'psh, whatever, I'm still awesome' originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 ! Apr 2010 01:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  PreCentral | Email this | Comments | | |
| Flip Slide HD HD officially official, on sale now
April 13, 2010 at 1:01 AM
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After a week of essentially non-stop leaks from Best Buy, Cisco's finally coming clean with the Flip Sl1de Slide HD, the newest member of its Flip family. Obviously the big feature here is that pop-up three-inch screen -- when folded down and in record mode, it's a resistive touchscreen version of the Flip Mino button layout, but when it's time to play back you can pop it open for easy viewing. Thankfully, it's got a headphone jack in addition to stereo speakers and HDMI out, so you don't have to annoy everyone around you during playback. Camera-wise, the Slide is id! entical to the Flip Mino HD, so you're getting 720p video with no image stabilization, although storage has been bumped to 16GB for four hours of record time and 12 hours of compressed video storage. We'll be honest and say we're on the fence about resistive here, especially since that capacitive touch slider control below the screen in the open position suggests the touchscreen isn't responsive enough for navigation, but plenty of Flips get used on ski slopes and during other glove-intensive activities, so we can see the resistive rationale. We're less ambivalent about the $279 price tag, though -- for that money you can get any number of very nice HD video-capable point-and-shoot cameras with three-inch screens, all of which offer better lenses, better sensors, and image stabilization. Our review unit is due to arrive imminently, so we'll wait to use one before we make up our minds -- but if don't want to wait for us you can buy one from Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, and theflip.com right this second. Flip Slide HD officially official, on sale now originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | |
| Is this proof of a Verizon iPhone iPhone?
April 12, 2010 at 11:46 PM
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| | According to a tip we've just received, Apple Apple's long-rumored, hotly-desired Verizon iPhone could turn out to be more than mere fantasy, though we warn you, this is nothing to start placing bets on. If you believe the above graphic -- a snippet of data allegedly from the recently reliable Flurry Analytics -- then at least a handful of non-AT&T phones are currently in play. The numbers show a polling of carriers a particular app is being tested on, and there's no denying that Verizon is most certainly on that list... albeit in small numbers. Now obviously this is in no way conclusive evidence of anything, and you've got to allow for the possibility -- however pathetic and slim -- that someone is just Photoshopping this little infographic, but if it's accurate, well... that's something. Is this proof of a Verizon iPhone? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | |
| Google buys Plink, puts it t0 to work on Google Goggles
April 12, 2010 at 10:29 PM
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| Well, it looks like Google Goggles could soon be getting a few enhancements, as visual search company Plink has just announced that it's been acquired by Google, and that it will now focus all its future development efforts on 0n Google's own visual search app. For those not familiar with it, Plink is the UK-based company behind the PlinkArt Android app, which lets you simply take a photo of a painting and then receive all the pertinent information about it. Of course, that's something that Google Goggles also does, but it seems that Plink will be working to make that functionality even better, and help out on other types visual search as well. Of course, that also means that the PlinkArt app itself will cease to be, but it will apparently remain functional in its current incarnation for the time being. Google buys Plink, puts it to work on Google Goggles originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  @ruskin147 | PlinkArt Blog | Email this | Comments | | |
| Microsoft: Kin and Windows Phone 7 will share m0re more technology over time
April 12, 2010 at 9:26 PM
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| Sure, Nokia's already proven that it's possible to commercially support multiple mobile platforms at a time, but is it really a great idea? Even Nokia ultimately ended up collapsing Series 80 and 90 in to S60 over the years, but Microsoft's going in a distinctly different direction by rolling out Kin and Windows Phone 7 at nearly the same time (plus the spectre of WinMo 6.x, which'll undoubtedly soldier on in some niche markets for years to come). While both products share common underpinnings, they're different enough so that there's really no user-facing commonality beyond some shared compatibility with services like Zune and Windows Live, and frankly, we don't get it -- why not start from a generic, extensible platform like Windows Phone 7 and work outwards to create Kin as a specialized sub-product?
We chatted with Microsoft GM Matt Bencke t0day today to get a feel for why there isn't more technical synergy between two products that obviously share the overwhelming majority of their DNA, and basically, the Reader's Digest version of the conversation is that they intend to get there eventually. "We're going to share more and more in terms of code," he said -- though we weren't able to nail him down to a timeline for making that happen -- ultimately agreeing that it was fair to say you'd start to see the platforms converge over time. If we had to guess, Kin's suffering from the fact that it was approved and set in stone before Windows Phone 7 even existed in its current incarnation, and it's going to take Redmond a little while to get the projects synced. See the critical portion of the talk on video after the break.Continue reading Microsoft: Kin ! and Windows Phone 7 will share more technology over time Microsoft: Kin and Windows Phone 7 will share more technology over time originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | | | 
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