Chandan Banerjee

At least one lucky fellow’s 3G iPad arrives a day early

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:06:00 +0000

That’s right — you’re probably already aware that tomorrow, April 30th at 5PM marks the beginning of retail availability of the 3G version of Apple’s iPad , and a lot of those who pre-ordered can expect to receive theirs in the mail tomorrow too. It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, but at least one guy’s happy today — his iPad 3G arrived already! We’re sure we’ll be seeing way more of these crop up as the day progresses, but for now, here’s to the first! [Thanks, Mike] At least one lucky fellow’s 3G iPad arrives a day early originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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Motorola posts another tiny quarterly profit, phone division not yet pulling its weight

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:46:00 +0000

Moto’s earnings for the first quarter came out today, and they pretty much echo what the company managed to do in the fourth quarter of 2009 — pull a small profit thanks to performance from the Home, Enterprise Mobility, and Network groups in the face of an operating loss from the Mobile Devices (read: phones) division. Unfortunately, all of the numbers are just a little bit worse across the board; Motorola didn’t have any Droid -style blockbuster launches or major gift-giving holidays to help it along this quarter, and ended up dropping $192 million in the hole compared to $132 million in the quarter prior. Co-CEO Sanjay Jha still seems upbeat, though — and he’d better, considering that he’ll lead the spun-off phone division after the breakup — pointing out that shipments actually increased in the quarter with the release of six new handsets.

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Samsung’s technicolor N150 netbook gets Verizon-powered 3G

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Recently, about the only thing worth getting excited about regarding the Samsung N150 was the plethora of colors that its casing could be ordered in. Now, though, the little thing has been finally been updated to include the 3G modem it’s always promised , and is ready to connect up to Verizon Wireless. Sure, it isn’t the LTE model that was spied at MWC — that is still a few months off, at least — but it does mean there’s yet another option out there for road warriors who like little lappys.

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Steve Jobs publishes some ‘thoughts on Flash’… many, many thoughts on Flash

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:34:00 +0000

Steve Jobs just posted an open letter of sorts explaining Apple’s position on Flash, going back to his company’s long history with Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. HTML5 naturally comes up, along with a few reasons you might not expect. He concludes in saying that “Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice.” Basically, it’s for the olds.

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Sony’s Dash goes on sale, officially this time

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:25:00 +0000

Yeah, we spotted the Dash at Best Buy a few days ago, accidentally eating up shelf space, but we’ve finally hit that April 29th launch date and Sony has unleashed the non-tablet touchscreen device into the wild.

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TomTom reveals plans for App Store in battle against smartphone navigation

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:29:00 +0000

You know how TomTom is moving to a WebKit-based UI with its new flagship Go Live 1000 satnav?

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Polaroid returns to instant photography with the 300, thinks you’ll pay a premium for it

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:09:00 +0000

When Polaroid left the instant film market back in 2008, it left a gaping hole that Impossible Project has attempted to fill with its overpriced reproduction paper. We’re guessing someone at Polaroid saw that and thought: “Hey, why don’t we charge too much for instant film, and make an overpriced camera to use it in?” And thus the $90 Polaroid 300 was born. Yes, $90 for the sort of instant point-and-shoot that, a few decades ago, you could pick up for under $20

Acer set to fill our lives with MID goodness in May

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:42:00 +0000

For Acer , the future is the MID , and for you, that future starts next month.

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MSI’s GE600: nine Benjamins, now shipping from Newegg

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:08:00 +0000

Though we question the MSI GE600′s status as “gaming notebook” given it doesn’t hold a candle to the company’s signature red-and-black machines , those looking for a well-rounded, noble laptop — not to mention a sub-$1000 price — will now find just that on Newegg. For nine hundred clamshells, you’ll get 16 inches of low-res 1366 x 768 real estate, 4GB of DDR3 memory, a 320GB 7200 RPM hard drive and Mobility Radeon HD 5730 graphics, all fed their requisite bits and bytes by a 2.26GHz Core i5-430M CPU — plus all the usual ports, Bluetooth and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi. Care to dine in the lap of semi-luxury?

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Bookeen’s upgraded, colorful Cybook Opus to debut on May 7

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:29:00 +0000

We were promised a color-loving version of the diminutive Cybook Opus and here’s the delivery of said pledge. Coming in seven new shades to match its May 7 release date, the newly revised Cybook Opus boasts instant-on functionality, a new Boo Reader software that helps to optimize battery life, and a category-best 12 font sizes. It’s still a monochrome E Ink display — 800 x 600 pixels — and memory hasn’t budged up from the 1GB on its predecessor, but at least the opening price has dipped down to a £149 ($199 in USA) RRP

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