HTC Droid Incredible 2 shows up in Verizon's system
Well, look what we've got here! Seeing that
HTC just
introduced the
Incredible S -- a world phone only available in the UK -- it was only a matter of time before the phone hit the stateside. A trusted tipster just hit us with screen shots of Verizon's internals containing a device dubbed HTC ADR6350. The other screenshot below has a listing for the HTC63503 with a description of "INCRD2." Putting two and two together, we'd say with great confidence that the Incredible 2 is coming to Verizon in the near future -- and we certainly wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with that
"buttonless" shot we saw a while back. Stay tuned as we try and dig up more details... and in the meantime, peep the second screenshot after the break!
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Sony indicates all future Alpha models will include translucent mirrors
That satisfying clunk of the mirror swinging up and away, the rapid-fire clatter of
DSLRs going into burst mode, could be on its last legs. Well, for
Sony Alphas at least. The company has confirmed that its translucent mirror tech, most recently confirmed to be coming to the
A77 and earlier shown on the
A55 and A33, will be coming to the entire Alpha line. The sensor actually captures light through the mirror itself, which is just reflective enough to allow for real-time focusing even while capturing video. It's something of a bold move in the generally stoic DSLR market, and only time will tell whether it helps to boost Sony's street cred up to
Canon and
Nikon levels.
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Microsoft announces budget-friendly Lifecam HD-3000 webcam, Comfort and Express mice
Digging the
1080p LifeCam Studio but don't feel like spending $100? Or, maybe you don't need all those p's?
Microsoft has, for you and you alone, announced the new LifeCam HD-3000. It tops out at 720p but retails for a more palatable $39.95. Also newly announced is a trio of mice, first and most exciting being the $19.95 Express Mouse (above) which, according to Microsoft, has both the looks
and the moves. We're not really sure what that means, but it is kind of funky looking with the offset cord your choice of six colors ranging from "Hibiscus Red" to "Dahlia Pink." For those who'd rather stick with something less-flowery there's the Comfort Mouse 3000 for the same price, similar features in a design less likely to stand out in the conference room. Or, cough up another $10 for the $29.95 Comfort Mouse 6000, pictured below. It gives up ambidextrous pretenses in favor of a more form-fitting shape and five whole buttons. Can you handle that many buttons? Yeah, you totally can.
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Microsoft Research shows off next-generation gesture interfaces, Kinect integration, other neato stuff (video)
Leave it to
Microsoft Research to show off some cool stuff that may or may not actually happen on any thing you ever actually buy. Check out the video after the break to see the latest, Director of Microsoft Applied Sciences Steven "Stevie B" Bathiche showing off a variety of interesting interfaces. It all starts with gesture controls that take you well beyond the touchscreen, relying on a retro-reflective sash and a camera to detect hand position. But, things quickly progress to a flat lens called a wedge that can enable holographic-like imagery. Pair that with a
Kinect and perspective shifts come into play, tracking your face to enable you to peer around like looking out a window. It's all just waiting for you below -- and maybe IRL sometime in the future.
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How would you change Panasonic's Lumix DFC-GF2?
We're drowning in
interchangeable lens options, but that's far from being a bad thing. For those that finally caved and picked up Panasonic's
Lumix DFC-GF2, we're interested to see how you'd change things if given that golden opportunity. Are you satisfied with the size, weight and design? How's the low-light performance? Would you alter anything about the lens selection? Introduce a version that changes colors with the seasons? Go on and get creative in comments below -- the GF3 needs some ideas, you know?
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HTC Freestyle for AT&T hands-on
Last time we checked in with the
Freestyle back at CES, we couldn't turn it on -- but things are a little different here at our luxe meetup in San Francisco this evening. Honestly, the phone looks and feels great, doing a great job hiding its
Brew MP-based, not-quite-smartphone underpinnings; pricing is still a concern, but the month-to-month dumbphone data is a bonus, and you've still got a full HTML browser plus a capacitive display at your disposal. Check shots below -- video after the break!
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Visual VoiceMail pulled from Android Market, Google accused of 'pulling an Apple'
Looks like
Apple isn't the only one wanting to make sure that app payments are being
run through appropriate channels. The Visual VoiceMail app, which has been downloaded about a million times (literally), has just been pulled from the
Android Market. When developers at PhoneFusion asked the reasonable question, "why," they were simply directed to section 3.3 of the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement:
If you want to collect fees after the free trial expires, you must collect all fees for the full version of the Product through the Payment Processor on the Market... All fees received by Developers for Products distributed via the Market must be processed by the Market's Payment Processor.
The service allows users to purchase premium features through the company's website, something that many other apps do and that is certainly not new to Visual VoiceMail. What's next remains to be seen, but sadly Google is saying PhoneFusion must re-submit the app with a new name -- losing all the positive reviews it's racked up. Hardly an ideal solution.
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Live from the Engadget reader meetup in San Francisco (live video!)
Have you heard? We're having a party tonight and
you are invited! If you happen to be in San Francisco, we'll be here at
The Metreon playing with the latest gadgets from loads of companies, including Sony, Motorola, HTC, HP, and Jawbone. It all starts at 6:30PM and goes until 10:30PM. Oh, and did we mention there's awesome music and a taco truck parked outside? As you can see, the line is already around the corner, but there's plenty of room. If you can't make it, we'll be liveblogging and uploading tons of pictures in this very post. All the details on how to get here and what to expect can be found
right here.
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Visualized: the HTC keyboard slider family
Clockwise from the top left, that's the the Sprint Arrive, the likely-for-Verizon Merge, the Sprint Evo Shift 4G, and the T-Mobile G2. If we had to rate them, we'd say the Arrive has the best key feel, followed by the Merge, the Evo Shift, and finally the cramped G2 -- although the super cheap-feeling hinge on the Evo Shift knocks off several points. We'd also say the physical keys on the G2 feel better than the mushy keys on the Merge, but the G2's cramped layout doesn't do it any favors. In any event, picking one of these is a pretty great problem to have, don't you think?
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Sprint HTC Arrive with Windows Phone 7 copy and paste first hands-on! (video)
HTC also brought along a
Sprint-branded Arrive to our San Francisco reader meetup, and while we're already familiar with this Windows Phone 7 slider from our time with the
HTC 7 Pro it's still nice to see a CDMA WP7 device in the flesh. Oh, and the keyboard is pretty fantastic -- not only does it feel great, but the dedicated number row alone is reason for keyboard fans to give this thing a look. The best part? The demo unit was loaded up with the
Windows Phone 7 copy and paste update, which is the first time we've seen it in the wild. The system worked well, but we noticed that you once you paste out of the clipboard your text is gone, so you can't multiple paste. It's a little odd -- we'll have a video up shortly.
Update: The video is up -- check it below!
Update 2: Okay, so you
can multiple paste! The paste icon just disappears after the first paste, which is super confusing. You can just swipe to the right to bring it back, though. We'd suggest Microsoft re-think this implementation a little for an update, since it wasn't clear to anyone here at first glance.
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Clash of the Titans sequel will be another 2D-to-3D conversion, and Inception too?
After a
poor response to the first
Clash of the Titans movie and its substandard 3D effects, courtesy of a rushed
conversion process, you'd think they would never try that again, and you'd be wrong. Director Jonathan Liebesman, fresh off of
Battle:LA is helming sequel
Wrath of the Titans and says was talked into doing the conversion process again (but
shooting with that in mind, Piranha 3D-style) on this flick by a series of demos including, Christopher Nolan's
Inception. This is notable both because no 3D re-release has been announced for the visually engrossing flick, but also because Nolan himself has suggested 3D would be a bad choice due to the dimming effect of the glasses. Warner Bros. could only manage to tell
Cinematical "At this time, the plans for
Inception 3D cannot be confirmed," leaving the possibility of a return alongside
Star Wars,
Titanic and others to twist in the wind for now.
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HTC Merge first hands-on! (video)
HTC just rolled in to set up for our
San Francisco reader meetup tonight, and what's this? They brought a brand-new
HTC Merge with them. No one's talking about what carrier this interesting Android slider is going to launch on yet, but that Verizon-red earpiece and search button aren't exactly coy. Apart from that, it's pretty much exactly the device we've seen
leaked all over for months now -- a really nice landscape Android slider with a solid keyboard. More pics in the gallery, and a video after the break!
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HTC Thunderbolt said to have terrible battery life, might explain delay?
We're hearing from... well, let's call them "people familiar with the matter" that HTC's
Thunderbolt -- a phone that's supposed to be Verizon's first with
LTE -- is experiencing positively miserable battery life that's making it difficult for testers to avoid carrying a second phone around as a backup. How bad? Two to three hours from full to empty in some cases. Of course, we wouldn't be surprised if battery life was really bad with the LTE radio left on -- the
EVO 4G wasn't much different at launch with WiMAX lit up -- but the word on the street is that the power situation is largely responsible for the
delays we've been seeing. In fact, our source tells us the phone is currently working on its
sixth retail delay at the moment. More on this situation as we get it.
Update: We've just heard from another trusted tipster that there's definitely a new firmware in the works to address battery life and signal issues (which -- you guessed it -- are interrelated). Thanks, HTC Kid!
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Intel Oak Trail Atom Z670 tablets to arrive at the end of March
Intel's spent the
last nine months prepping its
Oak Trail silicon to improve the battery life and performance of
Windows 7 tablets, and come the end of next month we should finally have some slates with the new
1.5GHz Atom Z670 chip inside. While
Fudzilla has heard that the tablets will hit in the general March time frame, the eagle-eyed guys at
Netbook News spotted the
Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 press materials stating that the new platform will launch on March 30, 2011. That seems to line up with what we've heard on timing, since both the Oak Trail-powered
Samsung Sliding PC 7 and
MSI WindPad 100W were announced with March availability. Chances are we will hear more about it all at
CeBIT next week, but honestly, at this point we're just really eager to get one of these in our hands to see what Chipzilla's really improved.
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Netflix: 30 percent of Watch Instantly titles subbed with more on the way, plus Xbox & Roku support
It's been a slow climb since Netflix first announced it was
adding closed captioning to the PC and Mac in early 2010, but today's blog post indicates its reached 30% of the available titles. So far platforms on the
second revision of its streaming frontend like the PS3, Boxee Box, Google TV and Nintendo Wii support optional captions while the Xbox 360 and Roku players should "later this year." Of course, while its per-episode count is significantly higher, it's still only a few hundred of Netflix's available series, and deaf/hard of hearing users face problems like having some episodes subbed while others aren't. Netflix's new page breaking out supported titles should help, while nc-mac-asl's blog or InstantWatcher.com also can provide a filter. The plan is apparently to have subtitles on 80% of content by the end of the year and here's hoping it gets to 100% soon -- makes our quibbling over
5.1 surround sound seem sort of trivial doesn't it? (But, while we're on the subject, Netflix, where's 5.1 on non-PS3 clients?)
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Samsung's Google TV delayed by Intel exclusivity agreement?
Samsung's
been waffling on Google TV for
quite some time --
prototypes aside -- and now
Bloomberg thinks it might know the reason why. According to an anonymous source, Mountain View's been requiring that OEMs use
Intel's CE4100 chip in their television products, and as any
self-respecting chipmaker might be expected to do, Samsung declined. Now, with Google TV's efforts to break into the living room floundering, the search giant has allegedly lifted the restriction and allowed Samsung to use its own silicon, meaning we'll likely see Google TV running on
a certain dual-core ARM in the months to come. Anything to save us from
Smart TV, right?
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Verizon CEO claims Apple LTE products are coming, doesn't specify when
Dan Mead,
Lowell McAdam's successor at the helm of Verizon Wireless, has told the
Wall Street Journal that we'll "see more coming from Apple on
LTE. They understand the value proposition of LTE and I feel very confident that they are going to be a part of it." No further details were forthcoming from the chief exec, such as timing and the particular shape of Apple's participation in Verizon's LTE plans, but at least we now have an indication that Cupertino is actively working toward 4G connectivity. Mead's comments came as part of an interview discussing the iPhone 4's launch on his network, which has already seen the device bust through Verizon's
opening sales record. Notably, at the actual launch of that phone, Tim Cook said an LTE version of the iPhone would have required too many compromises, so we suspect those compromises are exactly what Apple's working on right now.
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LetsTalk goes out in a blaze of glory, sells Atrix 4G and Laptop Dock bundle for $250 as AT&T partnership ends
We can totally picture how this went down: AT&T appears to have made it
not worth LetsTalk's time (or
Wirefly's time) to sell its phones anymore, which means they're parting ways staring next month. LetsTalk -- wishing to end its AT&T relationship in the most spectacular fashion imaginable -- has elected to sell the Motorola
Atrix 4G / Laptop Dock bundle for $250 on contract after rebates, essentially half of what you'll pay through AT&T directly (LetsTalk runs Walmart's wireless store portal, which we've linked). The fire sale might not fix some of the dock's
flaws... but it certainly makes them a little less painful.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Motorola dragged into court for Xoom trademark infringement
To Xoom or not to Xoom, that is the question -- and Xoom Corporation says Motorola needs to ditch the name of its
new Honeycomb-laden slate. That's right, Xoom has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit asking for monetary damages, a temporary restraining order, and / or a preliminary injunction to spoil Moto's release party for its new tablet. In case you're curious, Xoom (the company) does seem to predate the slate by a good bit: it's been operating its online payments business under that name and has owned the www.xoom.com domain since 2003. Xoom got a registered service mark for its money transfer and e-payment services in 2004.
But what about that
Xoom trademark Motorola filed last year for mobile computers and related accessories? Traditionally, courts give priority to the first user to register a mark, so Xoom Corp. certainly has a case here, but we're not so sure they'll be able to prove that consumers are likely to be confused. To find out, the court will look at multiple factors to determine the likelihood of confusion: the strength of Xoom's mark, the similarities between the two marks, the proximity of Xoom's services and software to Moto's tablet in the consumer marketplace, evidence of actual customer confusion, and the similarity of the marketing channels used by Moto and Xoom. Honestly, we can't see Moto marketing the Xoom tablet to anyone looking for online payment services (aside from the occasional Android Market purchase) so Xoom Corp. has a tough road to hoe, but stranger things have happened -- we'll see how it goes.
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Windows Phone 7 coming to Verizon in March, starting with HTC 7 Trophy?
With Sprint starting up its Windows Phone 7 adventure on March 20th with the
HTC Arrive, Verizon is now said to be matching its CDMA competitor with its own offering, the
HTC 7 Trophy. We already knew this particular handset would be coming to this particular network in "
early 2011," but now
WinRumors has narrowed that down to a launch at some point in late March. Verizon's announcement is expected as early as February 28th, this coming Monday, and we're hearing the
NoDo update -- the one with copy and paste -- should be preloaded on the device from the start. Should this solid-sounding rumor bear out as foretold, Microsoft should finally be on all US carriers by the start of April.
[Thanks, Mike]
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Engadget reader meetup tonight in San Francisco at 6:30PM PST! Win a limited edition gold Xoom!
That's right human beings -- it's happening again! The Engadget crew is getting together their best party outfits and shipping out west for another installment of our fabulous reader meetups. Our
last event in NYC drew loads of people and was an all around blast, and the San Francisco installment is sure to be just as explosive (or maybe more? c'mon... show us what you've got). This time around we're partnering with
Sprint, as well as
Sony PlayStation,
Motorola,
HP,
Roku,
Samsung,
VUDU,
RIM,
Sling,
Sonos,
HTC,
Corning,
Sphero,
OnLive,
Plantronics,
Snapstick, and more to bring you a night of
gadget geeking,
delicious foodstuffs, and some
awesome music (provided by none other than our podcast producer, Trent Wolbe). Also, a whole mess of the Engadget editors will be on hand to entertain and inform, so if you have any pressing questions -- jot them down! Oh, and don't forget to include the hashtag #EngadgetSF in your tweets!
And did we mention there will be
tons of serious giveaways for people in attendance? Because there will be. You seriously don't want to sleep on this. For instance, one lucky attendee to the event will walk away with a
super limited edition gold Xoom (being gifted to this year's Oscar nominees). Check out an image and info after the break!
The
all ages shindig will take place tonight, February 25 at City View at
The Metreon, which is located conveniently in downtown SF. If you're a nerd in the city, you most likely already know what we're talking about. The
doors will open at 6:30PM, and
capacity is limited to 1200 people -- so if you want to get inside, get there early!
Update: A quick update on where to go -- the line is forming at 4th Street and Mission. Yes, there will be a line, but word is Sonos has brought a taco truck! Yes, free tacos starting at
3pm! [Scratch that, taco-palooza begins at 4:30!]
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Samsung Galaxy S II gets very preliminary, expensive UK pricing
Don't go jumping off the Android sailboat just yet, these are very early numbers, but the
Samsung Galaxy S II has been priced by a couple of UK retailers and the category they've placed it in is the distinctly high end. Expansys is listing £630 ($1,020) for the Gingerbread-sporting unlocked handset, while Play.com has it at £600 ($971) and is promising a March 31st release date. Even if you're zany enough to put the cash up for a pre-order today, do take note that Play was showing the cost at £650 (with £670 RRP) only yesterday, so pricing still seems to be fluctuating and finding its sweet spot. Whatever happens, with such a high starting point, we doubt the S II's price will be its most attractive attribute at launch.
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