Tuesday, February 17, 2009

HTC Magic is official, bringing Android to Vodafone sans keyboard

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/17/htc-magic-is-official-bringing-android-to-vodafone-sans-keyboar/


Vodafone just scooped planet Earth with the first touchscreen-only Android phone: HTC's Magic. All the specs look to line up with what was rumored, with a 3.2-inch QVGA screen front and center (that resolution might be a typo, HVGA seems more likely), HDSPA, GPS, 3.2 megapixel camera (no flash), and a G1-style trackball. Details on pricing and availability will be unveiled for local Vodafone markets as they see fit, but pricing in Spain will be from 99 to 199 Euro, depending on contract. Initial markets to nab the phone will be UK (due in April), Spain, Germany, France and Italy, with more countries to follow, and the phone will be a timed exclusive with Vodafone. Crazily enough, the phone has a proprietary headphone jack, proving once and for all that HTC doesn't like you, but at least this one will ship with a touchscreen keyboard out of the gate -- it's running Cupcake.

Update: We have confirmation that the device is indeed HVGA like the G1 before it, that's a typo on the original press release. More detailed specifications after the break.

Gallery: HTC Magic

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Posted by Augustine at 10:57 AM

NVIDIA's Tegra in the flesh, booting to Android and pumping out 1080p video

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/17/nvidias-tegra-in-the-flesh-booting-to-android-and-pumping-out/


NVIDIA really has a technical wonder in the Tegra APX 2600 chipset, and is more than happy to show it off, with a myriad of tech demos on display here at MWC. Some of this they showed off back in June of last year, but it's no less impressive -- there aren't really any mobile devices out there capable of this stuff right now. Still, we're here for the new, and NIVIDA showed up with Android running on one of its proof-of-concept units, and with another unit pumping out 1080p video, with a claimed 10 hours of battery life at that task. NVIDIA says it took them just a few weeks to port Android to the system, and we found it already quite snappy and even usable on the capacitive touchscreen-ed device. We also saw the forthcoming Android-running Yulong N8 and IAC S2 Tegra APX phones, along with an untitled CompalCom set -- they were all in non-working prototype form, but it's clear this chipset isn't just for MIDs. Check it all out in the videos after the break and the gallery below!

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Posted by Augustine at 10:56 AM

Monday, February 16, 2009

SnapMyLifeâs Genius Use of ⦠Humans

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Mashable/~3/T7sCTD7H-p4/

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: SnapMyLife

Quick Pitch: SnapMyLife is a mobile-web community for instantly saving, sharing, and discovering photos around the world with location tagging and maps.

Genius Idea: SnapMyLife offers a familiar method for getting your camera phone pictures onto the Web. After signing up, you get a unique email address. When you send photos to it, that photo becomes part of your gallery and is broadcast to your SnapMyLife friends in a Twitter-like timeline.

What makes SnapMyLife unique is what happens in between. When you send your photos to your unique email address, they are routed through Amazon's Mechanical Turk. From there, Mechanical Turk workers assign tags to your photos.

While you could do this on your own on the site, given SnapMyLife is based mostly on camera phone uploads, having human intelligence do the tagging makes a lot of sense from a usability standpoint, and in terms of getting more tagged content on the site. The result is some great, incredibly accurate tagged photos with beautiful pictures from around the world.

Mechanical Turk isn't free – but in this case, it seems the value that SnapMyLife is getting in terms of content and community makes the expense well worth it.

Sponsored by BizSpark: Featured BizSpark Startup

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Lokad is an online time-series forecasts provider, with clients in the retail and the utilities areas.

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Posted by Augustine at 7:35 PM

Samsung OmniaHD gets exhaustively inspected

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/samsung-omniahd-gets-inspected-pictured-and-critiqued/


Samsung's OmniaHD may have just been announced (and touched), but already it's seeing its first taste of critique. Russian site Mobile-Review had a chance to get said handset underneath its camera, and it also took the opportunity to blast out a few hard-to-interpret first impressions. Judging by images alone, we'd say this beauty has a lot going for it, but we tend to agree with the reviewer here in that Sammy may not move a lot of these to non-cellphone enthusiasts. You can check out a couple of shots after the break, but for a more extensive look at the phone itself, the UI and some machine-translated impressions, you know where to head.

[Via SamsungCentral]

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Posted by Augustine at 7:10 PM

Sony bringing Gobi WWAN module to VAIO Z, TT and P

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/sony-bringing-gobi-wwan-module-to-vaio-z-tt-and-p/


Hey, you! VAIO P modder! Hold up on that HSDPA hack just a minute -- er, on second thought, you should probably proceed, 'cause Sony isn't about to take back your current machine when this Gobi-equipped model ships. Quite curiously, Sony has announced here in Barcelona that its VAIO Z, VAIO TT and VAIO P laptops will soon be embedded with Qualcomm's Gobi, which provides both EV-DO Rev. A and HSDPA support on a single module. As it stands, Sony's US model VAIO P only supports Verizon Wireless' mobile broadband network, which should leave a pretty bitter taste in the mouths of early adopters. There's no mention at all of when Sony plans to start shipping these oh-so-connected machines (nor if they'll be coming to US shores), but we're hoping it's sooner rather than later.

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