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The free Android and iOS version of the SoundHound app has been updated, bringing unlimited track IDs to smartphones. It’ll make money via ads and a few of you buying songs through linked retailer Amazon, hopefully… [SoundHound via UberGizmo] More »
A quick gander at Samsung’s Canadian support site for the Galaxy S line reveals that two Android 2.2 updates are currently available: one for the Vibrant — offered by Bell, Virgin Mobile, and SaskTel — and one for the Fascinate as sold be Telus. This all follows just a few days after Sammy had to pull the Vibrant’s Froyo update on word that it seemed be killing the internal microSD storage, so hopefully, this build will be just a little more drama-free. Oh, and Samsung had originally said that Telus Fascinate owners would be waiting until next year to upgrade their units, so it’s pretty neat that they were able to rein that in a bit and get it pushed at the tail end of ’10. So have fun, Canadians — you’ve beaten your friends with T-Mobile Vibrants and Verizon Fascinates to the punch on this one, and we encourage you to lord it over them at every opportunity.
[Thanks, Robert B.]
Samsung Vibrant and Fascinate get Froyo in Canada, hopefully with fewer bugs this time originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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BottomsUP Beer is a beer tap that pours beer from the bottom of the glass. Yep, the bottom. It’s supposedly way faster than the old fashioned way and most definitely way more ridiculously mind blowing. Check out the machine in action. More »
There’s little doubt that the placebo effect‘s real, but it has always been argued that a person feels better because they think the pill is the real deal. But what if it works even when you know it’s a fake? More »
Even though we’re exceptionally nervous, and a little skeptical, about the Total Recall remake from Len Wiseman, it’s out of our hands. Production starts in Canada this March, possibly with Colin Farrell in Arnold’s old brain-bending role. [THR] More »
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told the Guardian about “references to UFOs” in some of the cables that his organization hasn’t released. Now rumors are swirling that these cables are about an underwater UFO base in the Southern Ocean. More »
We’ve seen our fair share of budget tablets from the Augens, Cobys, and Viewsonics of the world over the last six months, but let’s not forget that before everyone and their mother jumped into the cheap-o Android tablet pool, Archos was already in the shallow end with its own sub-$200 tablets. But, while the company was first to market, products like the Archos 5 and 7 Home Tablet certainly weren’t anything to wait in line for — they both packed slow processors, resistive displays, and ran outdated versions of Google’s mobile OS. Whether it was the mediocre reviews or the competition coming up behind them, the French company knew it was time to step it up, and its Archos 70 and 101 attempt to right all those wrongs. The 7- and 10-inch tablet both have Android 2.2, 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processors, and capacitive screens. Oh, and don’t forget the front-facing VGA cameras. With each ringing up at $299, has Archos finally mastered the art of the cheap tablet? Find out in our full review!
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Archos 70 and 101 Internet Tablet review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Recent behavioral studies are finding that when you give a gift, the recipient automatically values it lower than its actual worth. Why? Simply because it’s a gift. More »
Netflix won’t talk about how many subscribers it has in Canada, but the U.S. company says its international expansion plans
for 2011 give strong hints as to how the north-of-the-border launch has gone.
We’ve seen plenty of Kinect hacks over the last few weeks — trouble is, beyond the initial wow factor they’re just not very useful on a daily basis. That situation just changed, however, with the release of KinEmote, a free public beta that lets Windows users navigate XBMC and Boxee menus using nothing but hand gestures. Better yet, the software is built around OpenNI and NITE middleware from PrimeSense, the company behind the Project Natal reference gear. It certainly looks impressive in the video after the break. Good enough that we suspect many of you will hit up the source link below instead of finishing up your last minute holiday shopping — hey, Santa can wait, this is progress!
KinEmote: Kinect gesture control for Boxee and XBMC media centers now available (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Remember that video of Navy pilots dunking helicopters in Lake Tahoe? Turns out they did it to take Facebook photos for their squad’s page. The stunt resulted in $505,000 in damage to the helicopters, but neither crew was punished. More »
It's good to be prepared for all contingencies — so here's a holiday zombie survival guide! From the great minds at Team Unicorn. More »
Graphics are something that always get discussed when talking about shooters. Remember how everyone tried to get their PC to run Crysis? Hell, for at least a year, that was the first question you asked about a new PC: Will it run Crysis?
Now that you have a machine that will run Crysis well, it’s time for the next leap forward in FPS graphics.
YouTube sensation Freddie Wong has become extremely well-known in recent months. He’s made videos of what a real-life aimbot would look like, a special effects laden interpretation of Time Crisis, and now he’s showing us the future of the FPS genre.
Check this out, and realize this: whoever his friend is, letting someone teabag you on YouTube is pretty dedicated.
A Melville couple is facing charges after police found drugs and cash in a local home.
The iPad started shipping in April, and since then it has basically had the tablet market to itself. Literally, in the six months after the iPad’s release, it didn’t have a single direct competitor. Dell launched the Streak shortly after the iPad, but the Streak was a 5” unit that was significantly smaller than the iPad. In the 7-11” tablet market, Apple has been the only real player.
But that all changed when Samsung launched its 7” Galaxy Tab last month. On paper, the Galaxy Tab is essentially a jumbo-sized implementation of the Galaxy S smartphone platform. You’re looking at the same A8-based 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and PowerVR SGX 540 graphics chip, the same 512MB RAM, the same lightweight plastic build, and pretty similar industrial design. The screen has been upsized, from the 4” WVGA unit in the Galaxy S to a 7” WSVGA panel. As the first Android-based slate to come from a major manufacturer, it’s a very important device, and not just to test Android’s viability as a tablet platform.
So in the first of our Android tablet reviews, we have Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. Read on to find out how it stacks up against the iPad and whether it can put a dent into Apple’s current domination of the tablet market.
The only official timeframe we have for an Android 3.0 Honeycomb release is sometime “next year.” A little too vague for our liking and for a seemingly infinite list of manufacturers chomping at the bit to release their fully sanctioned Android tablets onto the world. Now DigiTimes narrows things down a bit with an off-the-cuff comment about MSI preparing to sell its Tegra 2-based tablets in April or May “after Google releases Android 3.0 in March.” Of course, a March release seems almost definite what with Acer hoping to ship its tablets with Honeycomb in April as well. Hopefully we’ll get this confirmed at CES in early January.
Google’s Honeycomb Android tablet release slated for March? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lisa Bettany shot an amazing photo of a rainbow going end to end over the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.
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The province of Saskatchewan continues to post growing population numbers, according to the latest statistics.
It’s not easy being an Android. Sure, you’re cute enough as a logo, but it’s still the phones that get most of the attention. Until this little guy took matters into his own hands, and into outer space. More »
