Hisense's 55-inch 4K Smart TV priced at $2,000

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/12/hisenses-4k/

Seems like this is the week to push out all of those budget 55-inch 4K sets before the holidays roll around. Following yesterday's Sears-centric announcement of a Seiki $1,500 set, Hinsense is offering up the T880. The $2,000 UHD offering features built-in WiFi and a number of smart TV apps like Opera, Netflix, YouTube, Pandora, Twitter and Facebook. The company's also promising a 178-degree viewing angle, so you can sit as away from your family members as you want, while still enjoying the movie. The T880 is available through a handful of budget-conscious retailers like Walmart and Costco here in the States.

Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD

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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema camera now supports RAW video for better dynamic range

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/12/blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-now-supports-raw-video/

After releasing its $995 Pocket Cinema Camera last summer with ProRes422 support only, Blackmagic Design has finally unleashed RAW CinemaDNG video recording with a firmware update. The format losslessly compresses each frame like a .zip file to capture 1080p video from the Super 16mm sensor -- the same one that's on the original Cinema Camera. That preserves the full fidelity of the video stream, letting cinematographers save files with more dynamic range for increased flexibility during color correction. That's not to say that ProRes422 is shabby, as we saw from earlier footage -- but shooters who want RAW in a small form factor now have a way without hacking (and possibly bricking) a Canon DSLR.

Filed under: Cameras, HD

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IDC: 21 percent of smartphones shipped in Q3 were big-screened behemoths

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/12/idc-on-smartphone-sizes-in-q3/

Supersized smartphones have been increasing in popularity for quite some time, but IDC now believes that they've truly hit the mainstream. The analyst group estimates that about 21 percent of the 261.1 million smartphones shipped in the third quarter had displays five inches or larger; that's a huge jump from just three percent a year earlier. An influx of big flagships like the Galaxy S 4 and G2 no doubt played a major role in the growth. However, IDC notes that the average price of a large-screened phone has dropped by 22.8 percent in one year -- those shipments included a wave of lower-cost behemoths like the Ascend Mate and Galaxy Mega 6.3.

IDC is also estimating market share for the quarter (shown after the break), although it's painting a familiar picture. Android now has more than 80 percent of the market, while iOS is treading water at 12.8 percent. Windows Phone grew quickly as well, climbing from two percent in Q3 2012 to 3.6 percent a year later. The fourth quarter may be a different story, however -- Nokia is getting into the giant handset game with the Windows Phone-based Lumia 1520 and 1320, while Apple is enjoying brisk sales of its recently launched (if relatively small) iPhone 5s. We won't be shocked if Google's mobile rivals grab a larger slice of the market.

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Blackberry

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AMD's next desktop chip lands in January, merges CPU and GPU like never before

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/12/amd-kaveri-desktop-chip-date/

We've been waiting a long time for the AMD chip known as Kaveri, but at least now we have a date for its availability: January 14th. We also know that the flagship desktop part for FM2+ socket motherboards will be called the A10-7850K, that it'll use four Steamroller CPU cores clocked at 3.7GHz, and that it'll incorporate the same TrueSound audio processing technology found on AMD's latest Radeon graphics cards. What we don't know for sure is how much this A10 chip will cost, or whether it'll arrive first as a standalone part or in pre-built systems. But either way, we're about discover something important: namely, whether the next-gen "Heterogeneous Systems Architecture" (HSA) that AMD has been boasting about, and which is supported for the first time on Kaveri, is actually worth its syllables. Read on for more.

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, AMD

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Twitter's custom timelines let you dump your obsessions into one organized stream

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/12/twitters-custom-timeline/

Where does Carson Daily obsess over news articles about The Voice? Prior to Twitter's new custom timelines feature, he likely had some kind of scrapbook at home. Now, thankfully, he can put them all in one handy stream, delivered directly over Twitter's platform. The feature lets you handpick the tweets by way of TweetDeck, and the microblogging service is also opening up a beta version of an API that will let developers automate the process. TweetDeck users should be seeing the manual version over the next several days.

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Source: Twitter Developer Blog

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