drag2share: Double portion of prepaid LG Android handsets coming to Net10

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/03/double-portion-of-prepaid-lg-android-handsets-coming-to-net10/

The upcoming battle of the budget Androids just won two new recruits courtesy of Net10. The MVNO is offering up the LG Optimus Net prepaid with a 3.2-inch HVGA display, 800MHz processor, 3MP camera (though Net10's site wrongly mentions 5MP), Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G and an included 4GB microSD card expandable to 32GB. There's also a slider version called the Optimus Q, which we're trying very hard not to confuse with last year's Optimus Q and which actually looks like a variant of Virgin Mobile's Optimus Slider. There's no price tag in sight, but contrary to the saying you probably can afford it.

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Double portion of prepaid LG Android handsets coming to Net10 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: Zune is dead, long live Zune

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/03/zune-is-dead-long-live-zune/

Like Zune's own Business Development Manager once said, all consumer electronics products have a lifespan, and today the (not so long) lineage of dedicated Zune hardware expires not with a roar, but with a promise to honor its warranties. Tucked away in the inner chambers of the Zune support site lies a page spelling out Microsoft's final words on the device, "Windows Phone will be the focus of our mobile music and video strategy," it says, "we will no longer be producing Zune players." The Zune HD is survived by the Zune music service, which will continue to function with straggling standalone media players, as well as the Windows desktop, Windows Phone and Xbox platforms.

Zune is dead, long live Zune originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: Toshiba Regza DBR-M190 stores 15 days of HDTV from six channels, we go hands-on (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/toshiba-regza-dbr-m190-stores-15-days-of-hdtv-from-six-channels/

There's no question that Japan gets all the cool gadgets -- many of which never make it stateside. Well, we have yet another tease for you, in the form of an eight-tuner Toshiba DVR with five terabytes of storage. The DBR-M190 reserves six of those tuners (and four TBs of storage) for its Time Shift recording, which as its name implies, transports you to an alternate dimension -- in realtime, mind you -- allowing you to watch past HD episodes of those favorite Japanese programs that you otherwise neglected to record. OK, fine, it can't actually shift physical time, but the home DVR does allow you to record 15 full days of HD content from six channels. Or 30 days from three channels, or 90 days from one -- you get the idea. It also offers 3D Blu-ray playback. Huzzah!

There's some pretty heavy compression in place in order to squeeze all that HD content with the allotted storage, but Toshiba reps insisted that the content looks acceptable. Clever as they are, reps also neglected to have that heavily compressed HD video available for demo at CEATEC, but were happy to let us peek at a show recorded using a much more liberal amount of compression, which nets you just one-fifth of the advertised amount (think three days, not 15). Still, three days of 24 hour content from six channels ain't too shabby, but that 200,000 yen price tag (about $2,600) is a bit of a deal breaker, no? As is the fact that you can't plug this puppy into cable networks overseas (Time Shift is only compatible with basic cable channels in Japan). Jump past the break to see it in action, and expect to see it hit Japanese shores sometime in mid-December.

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drag2share: CHART OF THE DAY: Android Could Hit 1 Million Activations Per Day This Month

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-android-activations-2011-10

Google's Android is on track to hit a major milestone this month — it could be at 1 million activations per day by October 20, says Michael DeGusta after a little analysis. 

If you extrapolate from Andy Rubin's June tweet that, "there are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w," you arrive at the 1 million per day projection for October.

If Rubin was getting ahead of himself, there's still a good chance that Google hits the milestone by December based on its previous growth.

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drag2share: SendTab Easily Moves Your Browser Tabs to Nearly Any Device [Browser Extensions]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5846106/sendtab-easily-moves-your-browser-tabs-to-nearly-any-device

All web browsers and iOS: SendTab is a very simple utility that lets you send a browser tab to another device with one or two clicks. It works in an instant, cross-browser, and even with iPhones and iPads.

SendTab is like a combination of Instapaper and remote tabs, allowing you to send content to other devices to read later or simply access as needed. If you're at work and want to check out an article on your home laptop, it'll let you click a button and the page will open up pretty much instantly. All you have to do is sign up for SendTab on their web site and specify a location. If you're using Chrome or Safari, you can install a browser extension that'll let you send tabs to other computers and iOS devices. If you're using Firefox, Opera, or another browser, there's a bookmarklet available instead. On your iDevice, you can purchase the SendTab app for $1. Currently there's no Android version, but hopefully that is in the works. Regardless, it's still a pretty handy way to move your pages from computer to computer to mobile device. It functions seamlessly, is free to use (outside of the iOS app), and is definitely worth checking out.

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