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Marc Perton Year:by , posted Jun 13th 2005 at 8:00AM Source Site:engadget
Welcome to the Pipeline, where we decode the hidden messages buried in the mainstream media. Not surprisingly, the mainstream media was all over Apple this week, for their announcement that theyll be going Intel inside a level of Apple saturation not seen since, well, since about a month ago, when they all went wild over Tiger. This time, opinions were not quite as unanimous, though the general tone was that this would be a good thing for Apple and for consumers in the long term, but that it could hit Apples sales in the short-term as current customers hold off on upgrades and "switchers" wait for the new boxes before taking the plunge.
Walt Mossberg sums things up nicely in The Wall Street Journal: "In the long term, the change will strengthen Apple and the Mac, which is good news for ...
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Ryan Block Year:by , posted Jun 13th 2005 at 8:00AM Source Site:engadget
So if youve note been following the whole homebrew and pirated game drama going on with the PSP, we last left off with Sony making everyone upgrade to firmware 1.50, 1.51, and 1.52 in order to prevent from bootstrapping games off the MemoryStick slot. Supposedly Sony had the problem licked, but it looks like once again we shouldnt underestimate the mad scientist powers of legions of hardware hackers the world overa group called PsP-Dev have apparently confirmed successful a homebrew bootstrap on 1.50 (no word on 1.51 or 1.52). Whats that mean for the indie developer/emulation/warez communities? Well, pretty much the same as beforeuse your hardware the way you want it. For SNES emulation, that is. Obviously.
[Thanks to Ian and Kipp]
Update: We got the word on compatibility with firm...
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Peter Rojas Year:by , posted Jun 13th 2005 at 8:00AM Source Site:engadget
Samsungs finally figuring out that its not all about the megapixels anymore, and are adding some extra niceness to the SPH-V7800, their new five megapixel cameraphone, like a 3x optical zoom lens auto focus, a flash, manual white balance, 13 different scene modes, a widescreen 16:9 picture mode and support for PictBridge. The rest aint bad either, and the V7800 also has a QVGA LCD screen, EV-DO, a MMCmicro memory card slot, and an antibacterial silver nano coating.
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Ryan Block Year:by , posted Jun 13th 2005 at 8:00AM Source Site:engadget
Wow, now that didnt take very long. Apple had OS X for Intel machines (which were lovingly referring to as OS X86) under wraps for a half a decade, and not a week after its announcement, a "developer version" is apparently already in the wild on P2P and IRC networks. Supposedly it can be installed on just about any PC box, and Rosetta and the iLife suite are fully operational; one can assume fairly sketchy hardware support though, and the finer details like updates are probably out of the question without some serious shoehorning. Some are calling this stealth marketing, but if we know anything about Apple (and wed like to think we do), weve got a sneaking suspicion that they, just like everyone else, just cant keep a lid on their more highly coveted goods forever. Just like we have a f...
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Peter Rojas Year:by , posted Jun 13th 2005 at 8:00AM Source Site:engadget
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past seven days of Engadget:
Announcements
Introducing Engadget China
Features
The Pipeline: Akimbo reviewed, playlists mixed
Live from WWDC: Steve Jobs keynote
How-to: Make your own 1920s style bluetooth handset
Switched On - Macintel: Expanding market share via the chic, the geek, and the IT meek
The Clicker: R.I.P. DVD Decrypter
Ask Engadget: Should I stay or should I go (buy a Mac)?
Caption contest: ballroom dancebots
Music Thing: The Array Mbira
How would you change the Archos AV400 series?
Movie Gadget Friday: The Transporter from Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Podcast
Engadget Podcast.30 06.05.2005
News
Kenwoods HD20GA7 20GB MP3 pla...
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Barb Dybwad Year:by , posted Jun 13th 2005 at 8:00AM Source Site:engadget
So this rumour has been swimming about on the interwebs this past week about how piracy groups have cracked the Nintendo DS and leaked commercial games such as Nintendogs and Super Mario 64 onto the web as playable ROMs via 512MB/1GB flashcarts. Most of the news outlets are reporting this as a done deal, though loads of folks in the developer communites are saying its pure bunk. So whats the real scoop? Is there some evidence out there of this as reality, or is this just hype?
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Peter Rojas Year:by , posted Jun 13th 2005 at 8:00AM Source Site:engadget
Yeah, weve hit this one before (no, not that way, you dirty bastards), but check out this totally creepy pic of Osaka Universitys Repliee Q1 bot.
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Ryan Block Year:by , posted Jun 13th 2005 at 8:00AM Source Site:engadget
Weve never really known our Nordic MP3-playin friends Jens of Sweden to be types, but who isnt jumping onto the comicbook bandwagon these days? Their MP-450 is a gig, sure, and its got all the standard Jens goodness (MP3, WMA, OGG support, FM tuner, USB 2.0, integrated li-polymer battery) but with a little extra skinned "flair" to feed that fanboyosity. Yeah, were still kind of wondering why, too.
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Ryan Block Year:by , posted Jun 13th 2005 at 8:00AM Source Site:engadget
We know Apple just annoucned theyre going Intel, but AMD would just like you to know that by the time Apples moved over to x86 in 2007, theyre planning on having quad-core CPUs on the marketand we aint just talking dual-core Hyperthreaded devices. Later plans include scalability to up to 32 processors in their devices, but since most applications still arent multi-threaded and wont take advantage of such systems, were hoping theyve got some tricks in their bag for making faster really mean faster.
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Barb Dybwad Year:by , posted Jun 11th 2005 at 1:38PM Source Site:engadget
Well, Photoshopped or not, the Nintendo ON rumours have failed to die any sort of natural death. You all know how these things go these pics have bubbled up from somewhere, some developer, NDA, whatevs. You know the drill. Take it or leave it, but its still out there giving Nintendo fanboys sleepless nights. We just really want to know if the box of chocolates will be an add-on or come standard.
[Thanks, product_number_18]
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Peter Rojas Year:by , posted Jun 11th 2005 at 1:38PM Source Site:engadget
Alright, so maybe there isnt all that much reviewing you can do of a memory card (Does it work? How fast is it?), but The Gadgeteer got their hands on Ideatives new easySD memory card that comes with a built-in USB connector (Delkin and Digimaster also sell this same card under their own brand names). The good news? Well, you wont need to worry about finding a memory card reader. The bad news? These cards cost twice as much as regular 128MB SD memory cards and you have to make sure you dont lose the cap (which is why its probably a good thing that SanDisks version has an attachable cover).
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