Monday, March 02, 2009

Samsung BD-P1600 Netflix streaming Blu-ray player pops up at retail

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/02/samsung-bd-p1600-netflix-streaming-blu-ray-player-pops-up-at-ret/


Samsung's new value priced Blu-ray player managed to fly under our radar at CES in favor of its better equipped brethren but that hasn't stopped Dave Zatz and others from stumbling into them at retail lately, like this one sitting on a Best Buy shelf. By making BD-Live required 1GB storage and WiFi dongle aftermarket accessories, you can grab a slim, Netflix streaming, fast Blu-ray loading box for $299. Right now we'll probably wait until the whole product line appears and prices slide down a bit more before considering picking one up, but depending on your needs this could be a good option, more pics of this bird in its unnatural habitat beyond the read link.

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Samsung BD-P1600 Netflix streaming Blu-ray player pops up at retail originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 8:08 PM

Acer K10 pocket projector finally lands in the UK

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/02/acer-k10-pocket-projector-finally-lands-in-the-uk/


Acer announced its K10 pocket projector way back in December, but it looks like it's just now finally landed in the UK, and unfortunately received a bit of a price hike in the process. Now retailing for just over £400 (or $560, roughly a $100 increase), the SVGA projector otherwise seems to have remained unchanged since its debut, with it still promising an impressive 20,000 hour lamp life, and offering up 100 ANSI lumens of brightness, a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, and a projected image size up to 60 inches. As you can see, it's also not quite able to join the ranks of pico projectors, though its specs certainly beat out most of its smaller cousins.

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Acer K10 pocket projector finally lands in the UK originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 8:08 PM

Psion countersues Intel over netbook trademark, asks for $1.2b in damages

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/02/psion-countersues-intel-over-netbook-trademark-asks-for-1-2b-i/


Well, this was sadly predictable. Following filings by Dell and Intel with the USPTO requesting that Psion's "netbook" trademark be canceled, Psion has filed a $1.2b countersuit against Intel, claiming that the chipmaker knew Psion owned the netbook mark but used it anyway. That's interesting because Intel's efforts to push "netbook" on the industry went basically nowhere from March until June of 2008 -- when Atom-powered laptops ran amok at Computex -- but we're guessing Psion doesn't care. As it has in the past, Psion claims that it's been selling Netbook-branded machines continously since 1999, along with some interesting sales figures to back it up -- as Ars Technica notes, the numbers seem to add up oddly at all the wrong times, with $2m of Netbook accessories sold in 2006, three years after the product went off the market, and just 4100 total Netbooks sold over 10 years. We'll see how the court decides to pull all this apart -- it's certainly starting to look like a showdown's brewing, but we're still convinced that Intel and Dell have money, time and momentum on their side here.

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Psion countersues Intel over netbook trademark, asks for $1.2b in damages originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 8:08 PM

Samsung X360 ultraportable dips below $800 mark

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/02/samsung-x360-ultraportable-dips-below-800-mark/


Samsung's ultrathin X360 didn't quite get the love of some of its competition out of the gate, and has already been preempted by the X460, but the X360 has always had a lovable price tag on its side. Not like this, though. The originally $1900-ish laptop is now going for $750 after rebate on Amazon.com, and that includes 3GB of RAM and Vista Biz to boot. Sure, the 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo SU9300 and Intel integrated graphics never did anyone any favors, but at least this should shut up your non-productive Atom-powered bowling buddies. Or you could wait a month for every other ultraportable on earth to best this pricetag and netbook specs to catch up.

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Samsung X360 ultraportable dips below $800 mark originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 8:07 PM

ASUS slaps 1TB SSD within Lamborghini VX5 laptop

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/02/asus-slaps-1tb-ssd-within-lamborghini-vx5-laptop/


We're just now wrapping our heads around that 1TB SSD that pureSilicon launched in January, and already ASUS is looking to place us back in a state of disbelief with its newfangled Lamborghini VX5 laptop. Said machine, which is slated to debut tomorrow alongside a litany of other products here in Hannover, will sport a 1TB SSD, a Core 2 Quad CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 16-inch "Full HD" display. You'll also find a GeForce GT 130M graphics card with 1GB of GDDR3 memory, an illuminated "chiclet" style keyboard and a Blu-ray optical drive to boot. Needless to say, this one's aimed at those not fazed by stratospheric price tags, and we're saying that well before the MSRP has been made public. Call it a hunch... or just superb deductive reasoning.

[Via Electricpig]

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ASUS slaps 1TB SSD within Lamborghini VX5 laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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