Archive for May, 2010
Qualcomm ships first dual-core Snapdragon chipsets clocking 1.2GHz
Last Updated on Monday, 31 May 2010 10:44 Written by Thomas Ricker Monday, 31 May 2010 10:44
Oh yeah baby, Qualcomm ‘s finally shipping its first dual-core Snapdragons. To whom , is the big question. Its third-generation Mobile Station Modem MSM8260 and MSM8660 Snapdragon chipsets for high-end smartphones — originally announced in February 2009 — are now sampling and capable of running at up to 1.2GHz. The MSM8260 supports HSPA+, while the MSM8660 brings support for multi-mode HSPA+ and 1xEV-DO Rev. B. Both integrate GPS, a GPU with 2D / 3D acceleration engines for Open GL ES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1, 1080p video encoding and decoding, a dedicated low-power audio engine, and support for 24-bit WXGA 1,280 x 800 pixel displays. Anybody at Computex care to step forward with a reference design
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Motorola XT502 another Android phone for North America?
Last Updated on Monday, 31 May 2010 07:15 Written by Chris Ziegler Monday, 31 May 2010 07:15
There’s no shortage of Motorola buzz going around lately — thing is, nearly all of that buzz is focused on the Verizon side of the camp. What about the other six-odd national carriers in the States and Canada, five of which are using GSM? Well, for you guys, we submit this so-called XT502 — a phone that may be codenamed “Greco” thanks to the naming of the image file found over in the Bluetooth SIG’s certification directory. We can’t gather much from the microscopic image the SIG is using, but they’ve kindly listed radio details, which indicates we can expect a triband HSPA setup working on the 850, 1900, and 2100MHz bands — perfect for AT&T, Bell, Telus, and Rogers with a little dash of Europe thrown in for good measure
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Steve Jobs to be interviewed at the D conference… and we’ll be there live
Last Updated on Monday, 31 May 2010 06:34 Written by Joshua Topolsky Monday, 31 May 2010 06:34
Hey guys, just in case you didn’t know, there’s a crazy party going on this week out on the West Coast… a little something called D: All Things Digital . D (or D8 this time around) is a pretty wild schoozefest, where the cream of the crop hobnob and trade secrets — but it’s also a place where major news sometimes happens. One of the folks speaking at the event (besides Steve Ballmer, Mark Zuckerberg, and a slew of other major players) is a gentleman who goes by the name of Steve Jobs (he works at Apple). We’re thinking he might have something fairly interesting to say, and if you didn’t end up with a seat at the conference, that’s okay — we’ll be there to bring you the news as it happens. Things kick off around 6PM PT tomorrow (that’s June 1st ), so check out our liveblog landing page right here for the main event. Note: We will — of course — be doing live coverage of other big names at the event, including Steve Ballmer (you can see our encounter with him last year over here ). Stay tuned for announcements! Steve Jobs to be interviewed at the D conference… and we’ll be there live originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 May 2010 21:34:00 EDT.
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Synaptics intros ClickEQ, multi-finger TouchPad-IS trackpad solutions
Last Updated on Monday, 31 May 2010 06:00 Written by Darren Murph Monday, 31 May 2010 06:00
Synaptics has been a serious roll of late, first introducing those luscious multitouch gestures to older trackpads, and last month extending its Gesture Suite to Linux and Chrome OS . Here at Computex, the company is expanding its TouchPad family of solutions, with the multi-finger PC TouchPad-IS range seeing the first update. Aside from being able to recognize four-finger gestures, the new platform prevents accidental activation of the cursor when a user’s palm unintentionally contacts the TouchPad, and it also brings the aforementioned multi-finger capabilities of a touchscreen right onto a PC’s trackpad. Next up is the new ClickEQ, which is hailed as the “industry’s first hinge-less uniform force, uniform click depth ClickPad mechanical design.” As you’d expect, this feels an awful lot like the glass trackpad that Apple’s freshest MacBooks have, but you won’t find us kvetching about getting a similar technology onto run-of-the-mill laptops and netbooks. Moving on, the company is also introducing new OEM customization capabilities for Synaptics gesture workflow technology, Scrybe , which will allow users to store specific trackpad settings and references so the whole family can control the laptop their own way. Sadly, there’s no published ship date for any of these whiz-bang contraptions, but we’re cautiously hoping to see it implemented in at least prototype form as we scour the show floor. Continue reading Synaptics intros ClickEQ, multi-finger TouchPad-IS trackpad solutions Synaptics intros ClickEQ, multi-finger TouchPad-IS trackpad solutions originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 May 2010 21:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds
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PlayStation 3′s first 3D title updates coming June 10th to Japan
Last Updated on Monday, 31 May 2010 03:13 Written by Ross Miller Monday, 31 May 2010 03:13
Good news / bad news, folks. First with the smiles: PlayStation 3 ‘s first 3D-enabling updates are due out on June 10th for downloadable titles Super Stardust HD, WipEout HD, and Pain. The first two games get the added dimension for gratis, but Pain lovers (who should be accustomed by now to its abundant premium add-ons) will need to fork over ¥300 (approximately $3.28) for the benefit. The other stickler is that these updates are so far only announced for Japan — and by merit of a Bravia promotion , Europe as well. So what’s a North American gamer with a penchant for wearing special glasses to do?
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Racing Green Endurance SRZero electric car to make 16,000 mile trip, 250 at a time
Last Updated on Monday, 31 May 2010 11:59 Written by Tim Stevens Monday, 31 May 2010 11:59
Want to show that electric cars can be practical in day-to-day living? Take one on an impossibly long trip and show the world. That’s the plan for the Racing Green Endurance team, centered at Imperial College London, which will be taking its SRZero electric car along 26,000km (16,000 miles) of the Pan-American Highway, starting in northern Alaska and driving all the way down to Tierra del Fuego on the southern tip of South America. Their car is a repurposed Radical SR8, once a back-breakingly quick two-seat prototype with a curb weight of just 1,433lbs and a rollicking 363 V8 in the back. That lump has been displaced by a pair of Axial Flux electric motors, producing a combined peak of 386hp, though their batteries conspire to nearly double the car’s initial weight to 2,600lbs. Still, a 248 mile range is predicted on the EPA cycle, and since you can eke out 300 in a Tesla Roadster (224 mile EPA-rated range), 350 might just be possible here. We’ll find out in July, when the trip begins. Early video after the break, filmed by Claudio von Planta of Long Way Round fame, and we threw in footage of the SR8 setting the Nurburgring production car record just for kicks. Continue reading Racing Green Endurance SRZero electric car to make 16,000 mile trip, 250 at a time Racing Green Endurance SRZero electric car to make 16,000 mile trip, 250 at a time originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 May 2010 14:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds .
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