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Paul Miller Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
Another hack in the grand tradition of Altoids tin usage, the Minty Boost hack from from Ladyada is a new external iPod battery pack that uses AA batteries and some design smarts to about double the battery life of your iPod. The last time we saw an Altoids-based charger for the iPod it was running off of some 9v batteries, making the hack a simple one, but not very efficient. By using cheap and available AAs, the Minty Boost should make quite the addition to your collection of iPod accessories -- as long as you can manage to follow along at home with Ladyadas detailed instructions. Luckily, shes quite thorough, and even has a kit available to make things even easier. Plus a little bit of fresh breath never hurt anybody.
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Paul Miller Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
Theyre not the first and most surely wont be the last to join the club, but Buffalo has just added an 8GB thumb drive to their flash lineup. The RUF2-R8G-S manages to squeeze the gigs into a 0.75 x 3.6 x 0.55 enclosure, and promises 32MB/s write and 27MB/s read speeds over USB 2.0. No word on price, but were sure the Yen required will be many. Now how about a bit of 16GB action?
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Stan Horaczek Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
While we were taking a peak at Samsungs summer line of HDTVs, TrustedReviews was busy testing, and ultimately falling deeply in love with, their budget-friendly LE26R41BDX 26-inch LCD HDTV. The 1,366 x 768 box sports all the usual inputs (HDMI, component video, PC and SCART) and an 800:1 contrast ratio, but also includes a surprising array of high-end features, such as a digital tuner and a slot for "pay TV" subscription cards, all for the low -- at least by UK standards -- price of ?600 ($1100). Ultimately though, it comes down to picture quality and thats where the review gets the mushiest, raving about dark blacks, intense colors and an "unusually potent backlight." It sounds like a solid deal to us, especially when you consider the alternative....
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Paul Miller Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
If HTC has anything to say about it, most of the major Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition contenders these days are sporting QWERTY keyboards and a bit of bulk. ASUS is taking a different tact with their new P525 smartphone, and if you can stand the lack of text input, it might make a decent bid for your smartphone buck. The quad-band GSM phone has a 2.8-inch QVGA screen, 2 megapixel camera, 416MHz Intel XScale processor, 802.11b WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, miniSD, 128MB flash ROM and 64MB of SDRAM. Even better news is that all of this fits into a 5.6-ounce, 0.75-inch thick form factor. The P525 also sports push email, along with Skype, though without UMTS youll probably want to be doing most of that on a WiFi connection. No word on price or where exactly this is dropping for now, but...
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Ryan Block Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
When Intel announced Viiv, no one had any idea what the hell they were talking about (in fact, we still dont). Then AMD re-announced their Live! strategy at CES, about which we also didnt really have any freaking clue. Well, now we have a clue, thanks AMD; Live! is a (gasp) entertainment platform that will use a number of applications to create a more immersive, improved multimedia experience
designed around their existing Athlon64 X2. Those applications, you ask? Well, theyre mostly software rebadges: AMD LIVE! On Demand powered by Orb Networks, AMD LIVE! Network Magic, AMD LIVE! Compress, AMD LIVE! LogMeIn, and AMD LIVE! Media Vault. So its basically Viiv -- nebulous multimedia software suite + CPU / platform -- but AMD style, which we more or less knew. Expect Live! PCs from "leading O...
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Thomas Ricker Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
JVC Victor just loosed a couple more PlaysForSure DRM capable portable audio players into an abyss of yawning apathy. Both the 1GB XA-C109 and 512MB XA-C59 support MP3/WMA/WAV and PlaysForSure WMA playback, a 1.3-inch display, FM tuner, about 20 hours of music playback, and even the ability to record in WMA stereo via an external mic. Sure, we know that any DAP from JVC is going to sound pretty sweet in a closed, acoustically controlled room. But these pups are portable man, and sound pretty much the same as any comparably priced MP3 player when masked by a smoggy traffic drone. And were not entirely sure, but the use of the ol "F1" and "F2" on the controls is a pretty good sign that their designers just gave up in the end. Expect these to drop in Japan sometime towards the end of Ju...
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Ryan Block Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
Were sorry to say we dont have a price or release date for you, but a little birdie told us Cingulars business units going to very soon be getting Nokias QWERTY hotness, the E62 (that little birdie also supplied us a picture). Unfortunately it wont be UMTS (sigh) or have WiFi, as we knew, but itll still have quad-band GPRS / EDGE, Good, MS Direct Push, BlackBerry Connect, XpressMail, just about every Bluetooth profile imaginable, Symbian 9.1 / S60 3.0, and all the hardware weve come to expect: 235MHz CPU, 32MB RAM and 160MB flash, MiniSD, QVGA 256k color display, and USB mass storage support. Wed say its safe to assume you can expect this in the very near future; well keep you posted....
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Paul Miller Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
Why just swipe one product design when you could be keepin it real fake-er with two unabashed design steals? M-Cody asks that question with their new M20 music player, which merges a few stylings of LGs uber-popular Chocolate phone with a nice helping of iPod nano to create a quite stylish and sexy -- if a bit unoriginal -- music player. The specs arent that bad, with MP3, WMA and OGG support, flash storage ranging from 512MB to 2GB and a nano bustin 1.1 to 1.4-ounce weight. The positively bulky 0.3-inch thickness doesnt quite match up though, and 128 x 64 pixel OLED display isnt going to win many awards either. We dont have a price or launch dates yet, but this presumably China-bound player isnt looking too
shabby -- fakery and all....
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Thomas Ricker Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
Well, we never really thought theyd have the guts to do it, but those kooky cats over at Dell just outted the XPS M2010 first seen at CES. Its not a laptop, its not a desktop, its, well, something in between which isnt always the best place to be. The XPS M2010 is pretty much spot-on to those leaked specs, meaning this roughly $4000 (about $8,000 fully specd) Windows Media Center PC maxes-out with a 2.16GHz Core Duo T2600, up to 4GB of dual-channel DDR2 memory, a 20.1-inch 1680 x 1050 LCD driven by a 256MB RADEON X1800 graphics card, up to 240GB of RAID 0/1 capable disk, 802.11a/b/g WiFi and a host of other features including a detachable Bluetooth keyboard with mouse, 1.3 megapixel cam integrated into the display bezel, and 8 built-in speakers with
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Thomas Ricker Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
IO-Data just announced their new LCD-TV241X which, as the name suggests, doubles duty as your PCs display while throwing up some that sweet, sweet TV for some post-pivot tablin downtime. This 24.1-inch LCD brings 1920 x 1200 (WUXGA) Full HD resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 178-degree viewing angle, and a rather sluggish 16ms response. Sure, its not the first choice for gamers or the aesthetically elite. But with a built-in analog tuner and a slew of ports including Japanese D4, DVI-D, VGA, and S-Video this panel makes for a nice do-it-all display. Expected to drop in Japan starting at the end of June for ?139,650 or about $1,240.
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Thomas Ricker Year:by , posted May 31st 2006 at 1:25PM Source Site:engadget
Man, talk about rough months. First XM feels the business end of the litigious spear when the record labels sued em over Inno recording, then their acquisition of WCS was squashed, and now XM must suspend shipments of certain radio units after suffering the attentions of the FCC. Specifically, XM has temporarily ceased shipments of their SkyFi 2 (pictured) and Audiovox Xpress due to
concern over excess emissions from the on-board FM transmitters. The suspension might also spill over to their Roady XT and Sports Caster in addition to certain radio units sold by arch-rivals, Sirius. The good news for XM is that the whole mess should get sorted without a recall and on the cheap. Still, some of these units have been on the market for years making us wonder: 1) what took the FCC so long to fig...
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