News that the PlayBook would be at least initially available only on Sprint surely elicited some mixed reactions — hooray for WiMAX but locking your tablet to a single carrier is never any fun. Now Skatter Tech has uncovered a curious page that previously allowed people to join a sort of early-access program for a PlayBook on VZW.
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Google’s Vic Gundotra on Nokia: ‘Two turkeys do not make an Eagle’
Well, well. Just after Nokia CEO Stephan Elop’s “burning platform” memo leaked out and prompted intense speculation that Nokia would start building Windows Phone 7 handsets , Google’s Vic Gundotra tweeted “Two turkeys do not make an Eagle” prefaced with a #feb11 hashtag — the same day as Nokia’s Capital Markets Day event in London.
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Editorial: Engadget on Nokia’s Friday announcement
No matter how you measure it — be it in terms of smartphone market share , consumer mindshare , review scores , or profits — Nokia is in trouble. Even its CEO seems to think so
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Sony announces A700 replacement, the A77, will ship this year
We’ve been hearing rumors about a mystical, magical A700 replacement since last year , and now Sony’s gone ahead and made things more official. The teaser image shows a transparent case, but the bigger news here is the transparent mirror, the same as found last year on the A55 and A33 .
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Item-level RFIDs get support from big retailers, track your every purchase
Toilets , cows , and Germans have all been tagged by RFIDs , but according to a new study, it’s footwear and fashion that top the demand for radio-enabled tracking. In a report released yesterday, ABI Research said more than three-quarters of a billion RFID tags will be used in global apparel markets in 2011, with retailers like Walmart, Macy’s, and JC Penney leading the way.
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Acer debuts GN245HQ monitor with HDMI 3D support from NVIDIA
Acer’s already rolled out a few 3D-capable monitors (among other products ), but none quite like it’s new GN245HQ model, which the company notes is the “first 3D monitor in the world” to support NVIDIA’s HDMI 3D solution. That means you’ll be able to view 3D content from a connected set-top box or Blu-ray player in addition to a PC connected via DVI-DL, and do so with the included active shutter glasses that work in conjunction with the monitor’s built-in IR emitter. As for the monitor itself, you’ll get the usual 1920 x 1080 resolution and 120MHz refresh rate, along with a 2ms response time, a pair of built-in 2W speakers, and LED backlighting that uses two lamps instead of four for a promised 68% savings in power consumption.
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European Union’s ‘One charger for all’ starts sampling, coming this year
It was way back in summer of 2009 that Nokia, Apple, RIM, and the rest of the mobile world agreed to make micro-USB the connector around which all future European chargers would be built. Since then, most of those companies have transitioned their hardware to micro-USB without further prompting, but the European Union is still pushing ahead with a universally compatible charger standard to make sure everything is nice and harmonized
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MetroPCS LTE Samsung Galaxy Indulge available this week, we go hands-on
As you may have gleaned from the small leak last night , Samsung’s MetroPCS LTE phone isn’t called the Forte as we may have previously thought, but the rest of the information we’ve been hearing about the phone for the last few weeks (thank you, FCC and Flickr !) was pretty dead on. Officially called the Galaxy Indulge, the 3.5-inch, Android 2.2 smartphone isn’t quite as well spec’d as the rest of the Galaxy S line up — most notably it doesn’t have that stunning 4-inch AMOLED screen (TFT LCD here, folks) — but it packs a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor, 3 megapixel camera, 1500mAH battery, and some fast LTE speeds
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Nokia kills N9-00, its first MeeGo handset?
We’ve been hearing this one for awhile now, primarily around the Twitterverse thanks to Eldar Murtazin . Now Reuters has jumped in with a couple of sources close to the company claiming that Nokia has ended development of its first MeeGo handset, presumably the device pictured above. It’s not all bad news though.
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No more Adamo: Dell discontinues gorgeous but underpowered laptop
You had to know this day was coming. After aggressively discounting the Adamo 13 over the holidays and then again in the new year, Dell has finally given up on its eye-grabbing ultraportable and is instead focusing on getting you to buy its new gear .
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