Motorola Droid torn down despite desperate cries of 'no disassemble'

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/11/motorola-droid-torn-down-despite-desperate-cries-of-no-disassem/

If you were thinking of tearing apart your own Droid, let us direct you first to this quote straight from the folks at phoneWreck: "no easy task." It seems that even finding some of the screws involved in holding the mess together was a problem, but at the end of the day, good old-fashioned human ingenuity prevailed over... well, other human ingenuity, and the phone fell asunder into the 16 pieces you see here. As you might imagine, there's a bit of industrial magic involved in fitting a full QWERTY slide into a package this tight -- but just as Moto was up to the challenge of putting it together, some dude with a little time on his hands was up to the challenge of asploding it. Needless to say, we won't be doing this to ours.

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Motorola Droid torn down despite desperate cries of 'no disassemble' originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Eneloop Stick Booster supplies emergency power to your portable devices

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/eneloop-stick-booster-supplies-emergency-power-to-your-portable/

Any time a company both enables our gadget addiction and discourages wanton battery consumption we have to consider it a good thing -- and, indeed, Sanyo's wicked-rechargeable Eneloop batteries already have quite a few fans here at Engadget HQ. But what's a busy gadget hound to do on the go, you ask? Try this one on for size: the Eneloop Stick Booster ships with two AAs and can be used to charge them, via any USB source. From that point the device can be used to power your PMP for roughly 90 minutes. How great is that? To be released in Japan on December 1 for an unspecified price, and worldwide whenever the company sees fit. PR after the break.

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Eneloop Stick Booster supplies emergency power to your portable devices originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wistron: Readius-like ereader with pull-out flexible display launching in 2010

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/wistron-readius-like-ereader-with-pull-out-flexible-display-lau/

We've had a soft spot for Polymer Vision in the fetid hollows of that place you call a heart ever since we pressed flesh to its Readius back in February 2008. Unfortunately, we had to let go of any hope for the bendy e-reader to ever hit the market after delays turned into bankruptcy turned into cries of noooo! the world over. Now coddled in the corporate arms of Wistron we hear from Brian Chong, head of Wistron's product planning, that a 5-to-6 inch device with a pull-out flexible e-paper display of similar design to the Readius will launch in 2010. By similar design we hope they've included Bluetooth, dual-band HSDPA, tri-band GSM / EDGE, microSD expansion and SMS capabilities of the original.

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Wistron: Readius-like ereader with pull-out flexible display launching in 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New Manhattan Apple Store in Full View [Apple]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/y2-f65MWxrk/new-manhattan-apple-store-in-full-view

Workers removed the tarps this morning, as opening day draws closer. Pic courtesy of reader, David, who quips: "It's taken something like 14 months to create this place out of a Victoria's Secret. The Empire State building went up quicker."

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Netbook Hackintosh 10.6.2 Fix Coming In "A Few Weeks," Fallen Netbooks Can Be Revived Now [Hackintosh]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/AJY59JtsNNA/netbook-hackintosh-1062-fix-coming-in-a-few-weeks-fallen-netbooks-can-be-revived-now

When Apple killed Atom processor support in the Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update, it was one of the first times they'd actively tried to stop hobbyist hackintoshing. It was also sort of a dick move! Luckily, it's not going to stick.

The (main) man behind the NetbookInstaller software, which takes care of enough of the under-the-hood tweaks to make netbook hackintoshing approachable, heard the plaintive cries of his flock, and handed down a decree from on high:

The kernel will be fixed. It'll just take a few weeks.

This certainty, combined with the flip-flopping Atom compatibility in earlier 10.6.2 builds, points to the breakage as an intentional choice, not just some incidental bug. Update: Actually, there's an interesting case to be made the 10.6.2 killed Atom in all builds of the update. Interesting. —Thanks, Eduardo!

Even better, for anyone who dove straight into the 10.6.2 update only to find themselves very suddenly without a working netbook, there's a quick fix: Downgrade your kernel! ! Using th e same instruction set you can do a partial (excluding the kernel) upgrade to 10.6.2, but you're probably just best off waiting until everything is patched up right and proper. [Meklort, MyDellMini]

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