Sep/100
Logitech Revue and Google TV get very early blurrycam impressions
Well, what do we have here? Looks like a Logitech beta user was kind enough to (potentially break his NDA and) show off his early grab: the Google TV-infused Revue. What follows is a series of blurred photos that’d make the FCC weep, but all the same, who are we to critique news? The little unassuming box has HDMI in and out ports, a couple of USB inputs, ethernet, and SPDIF. According to the handler, installation was a “12-step process includes asking the details of your Google account, your physical location, TV, cable box, amp, and more.” It works with any Harmony remote, an Android device (in this case, a Droid Incredible), or the packaged keyboard. That latter input we last heard was still in development, but it seems to be working fine right here: full QWERTY, a trackpad, all the necessary keys for GTV navigation. One more pic of the keyboard after the break, as well a video walkthrough.
[Thanks, Craig]
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Logitech Revue and Google TV get very early blurrycam impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep/100
Roku XD and Netgear Roku XD Player hit the FCC
Well, well, what’s this? Looks like Roku has some bigger plans for hitting back at the $99 Apple TV than just price cuts of its own: a Roku XD and a Netgear Roku XD Player just hit the FCC. That’s right, Netgear — Roku’s expanding its platform to third parties. We don’t know if these two devices are standalones or designed to work together, but we’re guessing they’re standalones; the Netgear unit might blend in some of the Digital Entertainer line’s support for local playback and services like PlayOn, YouTube, and CinemaNow. Of course, the big question is going to be price, since if these are substantially more than the Apple TV’s $99 they’re going to have to offer some major features, but we should be finding out what’s up soon enough: the confidentiality on these docs lifts October 23.
Roku XD and Netgear Roku XD Player hit the FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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LG’s E900 and E720 handsets hit the FCC, one with AT&T-compatible frequencies
We knew LG’s C900 QWERTY-packing Windows Phone 7 handset was sliding towards an AT&T finish line, but it’s looking like the company’s E900 slate phone might play for Team Blue as well — here’s an FCC report (the third Federal scoop in an hour!) that shows the handset boasting GSM 850 and 1900 radio frequencies as well as compatible 3G data. You can also expect Bluetooth and 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi alongside that 1GHz Snapdragon SoC when or if the handset hits US shores. We don’t know nearly as much about the Android-based LG E720 (which apparently just popped in for a quick Bluetooth test) but a filing suggests it might not be destined for the US — unlike with the E900, there’s no mention of WCDMA 850, 1900, or AWS for 3G data, only the comparatively slow EDGE.
LG’s E900 and E720 handsets hit the FCC, one with AT&T-compatible frequencies originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep/100
New Apple TV hits the FCC with Bluetooth, dual-band WiFi
New Apple TV hits the FCC with Bluetooth, dual-band WiFi originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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FCC tears apart the new iPod touch, while iFixit wistfully looks on
We’re not quite sure when the Federal Communications Commission got into the habit of tearing devices limb from limb after testing their wireless radiation levels, but we have to say we’re loving the trend — and there’s quite nothing like peering into the juicy innards of a new Apple device. Here, the FCC got its greasy paws on the new Retina Display-packing iPod touch, aka “Apple A1367,” and in the gallery below you can see exactly where Cupertino keeps that A4 processor, 3.44 watt-hour battery, internal antenna, and 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi.
FCC tears apart the new iPod touch, while iFixit wistfully looks on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Boxee Box QWERTY remote hits the FCC, its innards splayed asunder
It’s been a long, long time since we first got our hands on the Boxee Box QWERTY remote. Since then the device went through something of an existential crisis before suffering a sad delay. Now we have some encouraging news for its planned November release date: the QWERTY remote has hit the FCC. Called simply the “Remote controller” (model numbers DSM-221, DSM-22), it looks to have passed with flying colors, the FCC celebrating by ripping it to bits and photographing every piece of exposed silicon. Want to see the cruel results? We have a taste after the break, but for the rest of the grisly photos you’ll have to hit that source link.
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Boxee Box QWERTY remote hits the FCC, its innards splayed asunder originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
Amulet voice-activated Windows Media Center remote hits the FCC
Amulet Device’s intriguing voice-activated remote for Windows Media Center has long since missed its original ship date, but it just popped up at the FCC, complete with product shots and the user manual. Besides providing typical universal features like IR learning, as a package the rechargeable battery-powered controller, USB dongle, and companion Windows Media Center Plugin will allow users to operate their home theater by simply speaking commands to the remote’s built-in microphone. Like any good robot servant, the remote will also audibly respond to questions such as “what song is playing” and even distinguish when you’re talking to it versus just chatting with friends, thanks to nifty advanced positioning sensing technology. Sadly taking dictation isn’t in the cards and there’s still no word on an official launch date, but that hasn’t stopped the budding emperor in us from hoping it arrives soon.
Amulet voice-activated Windows Media Center remote hits the FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab falls into FCC hands with GSM radio frequencies, 5GHz dual-band WiFi
When Samsung’s 7-inch tablet finally sees the states, it might indeed be more than a giant Galaxy S — for one thing, it may have Froyo, but for another, it could have faster, more building-penetrating WiFi than most comparable devices on the market. That’s because when the Galaxy Tab hit the FCC by the name “SHW-M180S,” it came loaded with dual-band 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi capable of speeds up to 150Mbps. It also intriguingly sports the GSM 1900 radio frequency, meaning an AT&T launch might be in the cards alongside the CDMA one rumored for Verizon. Browsing through the WiFi Alliance databases in an attempt to track the tablet down, we spotted both a “GT-P1000T” and a “GT-P1000L,” each with dual-band WiFi, suggesting that there are multiple versions in the works… and the Global Certification Forum shows one of them actually has quad-band GSM and HSDPA connectivity. Not bad, Samsung. Now, let’s hear about battery life.
Samsung Galaxy Tab falls into FCC hands with GSM radio frequencies, 5GHz dual-band WiFi originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
Clearwire’s Rover service goes live, offers $5/day 4G service
Looks like the prepaid wireless data market is starting to heat up: Clearwire just launched its Rover service, which offers 4G wireless data for as little as $5 a day — with two free days included when you first sign up. That’s not bad if you just need a quick hit here or there, although you need to pony up $150 for that Rover Puck WiFi hotspot we saw at the FCC last month or $100 for a USB stick, and anything more than a day quickly becomes less of a deal at $20/week and $50/month. Oh, and it’s 4G-only, so if you’re not living or working in a WiMAX city you’re out of luck. Still, those prices aren’t terribly out of line with the competition, although we might be more inclined to choose Virgin’s $40/mo prepaid MiFi and settle for 3G speeds while getting more coverage. Decisions, decisions — what a wonderful problem to have. PR after the break.
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Clearwire’s Rover service goes live, offers $5/day 4G service originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
G-Mate Mag Gun controller for Xbox and PS3 gets FCC approval; we’d like to see them try and stop it
Hopefully you had your Campbell’s Chunky Fully Loaded Beef Stew this morning, because it takes a Man to look down the barrel of the G-Mate Mag Gun and live. The weapon just passed through the FCC unscathed, and now it’s gunning for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. The basic operation is simple enough, with triggers, face buttons, a d-pad and everything else you’d need to ape a modern console controller. There’s only one analog nub, but that’s of course because the gun’s own motion is meant to emulate the second. G-Mate isn’t so clear on how that part of the gun works, but from what we can glean, it’s basically an accelerometer and / or gyroscope, which you calibrate to the center of your particular screen with a dedicated button. A sensitivity knob completes the Mag Gun-specific functionality — which probably won’t revolutionize the FPS genre, but certainly might give those suspicious of the Move or too masculine for the XCM Fire something to watch out for. Check out some videos of it in action after the break.
G-Mate Mag Gun controller for Xbox and PS3 gets FCC approval; we’d like to see them try and stop it originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
Griffin’s PartyDock does four-player iPhone/iPad gaming with just one device
Huddling around the iPhone, squinting at a tiny LCD is no way to spend your game nights. Even with an iPad the idea of multiplayer, single-device, cheek-to-cheek gaming doesn’t sound much more appealing… unless it’s one of those parties, perhaps. Anyhow, Griffin is apparently looking to make four-way iDevice gaming a little more palatable with the PartyDock, just spotted crossing the great FCC. It has a dock connector for your iPhone, iPod, or iPad and four simple wireless controllers for interacting with four-player games, pumped to your TV over composite and component. It basically creates a simple gaming console out of your portable device, an interesting idea, but what will make or break it will naturally be the software. Griffin has a few four-player games it will release for the thing, but short of a flood of titles hitting the App Store we have a hard time believing this will be a hit — whenever it ships, and for whatever it sells for.
Griffin’s PartyDock does four-player iPhone/iPad gaming with just one device originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 to hit US for less than $300 unlocked, we go hands-on
Last time we heard of Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X8 it was crawling around the FCC, but last night we found the little thing in a more welcoming, though equally as judgmental place — our hands. Formerly codenamed the “Shakira,” we were hoping the Android phone would be a bit more modern and slim, but sadly that’s just not the reality of the rather chunky smartphone. Just like its X10 Mini and Mini Pro siblings, the 3-inch handset runs Android 1.6 with Sony’s rather-deep custom skin — a Sony rep on hand told us there would be an upgrade to 2.1 sometime in Q4. That seems a bit late, but there’s no doubt that the X8 is a lower-end phone with its 3.2 megapixel cam and 600MHz CPU. The X8 we saw was wearing a white cover, though were also told there would be other interchangeable cover options available when it hits the market soon. Other than that we found the prototype (it was clearly marked that!) to be rather responsive and the UI to be quite intuitive, however the onscreen keyboard was extremely cramped for typing a URL into the browser. In comparison to the hoards of powerful Android smartphones we’ve seen in the last month or so, the X8 is certainly lackluster, but the little thing may just be an affordable unlocked choice when it hits the US for less than $300 soon.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 to hit US for less than $300 unlocked, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
HTC Windows Phone 7 device hits FCC, destined for Europe?
You’ve already gotten one flavor of Windows Phone 7 from HTC via the feds’ filing system — but how about another? This time around, the ID label HTC has filed is a screaming yellow, suggesting that this bad boy is going to lean toward the fashionable side of things (assuming you thought the HD Mini and Aria were fashionable, that is). As we mentioned, this particular unit seems destined for Europe, a fact we’re gleaning from the filing’s apparent lack of mention of any US-compatible WCDMA or EV-DO — the only reason it’s in here is to cover EDGE 850 / 1900 plus 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth. Considering how HTC’s been operating as of late, we wouldn’t be surprised to see an Americanized version of this puppy — whatever it is — but for now, you Euros can revel in your exclusive.
HTC Windows Phone 7 device hits FCC, destined for Europe? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
LG’s C900 Windows Phone 7 handset for AT&T gets FCC approval
If you wade through LG’s alphabet soup of upcoming WinPho 7 goodies, you might recall that several of them seem to be headed directly for AT&T later this year. Evidence for one of them in particular — the C900 landscape slider — just got a little stronger this evening on news that a phone by the very same model code has just been hooked up with FCC approval in the past few hours. Indeed, a quick look at the SAR report shows that we’ve got WCDMA bands II and V here, which means it’ll work like a champ on AT&T; unfortunately LG is (and always has been) particularly awesome at making its ID label documents useless for identifying phones, so there isn’t much other evidence to go on from this. Needless to say, though, we’re convinced it’s going to be a very interesting fourth quarter of the year for the Microsoft camp.
LG’s C900 Windows Phone 7 handset for AT&T gets FCC approval originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
FCC cracks open Sony’s Xperia X8, posts user’s manual and revealing photos
Sure, that Xperia X8 in the picture may look demure, but the FCC doesn’t mess around — mere seconds after we found this shot of the 3-inch, Android 1.6 handset, we stumbled across a PDF showing the phone in — ahem — various states of dress. Now, we try to run a clean site here, so you’ll have to hit our source link to find those salacious pics (and manual) yourself, but if you want some nice, tasteful shots of the device’s exterior and ports you’ll find them immediately below. No new specs here, by the way — it’s the same quad-band GSM HSPA handset with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, A-GPS and FM radio we’ve seen before.
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FCC cracks open Sony’s Xperia X8, posts user’s manual and revealing photos originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
New AWS-equipped HTC in FCC — is it the T-Mobile G2, the Glacier, or something else?
So we’ve collected enough circumstantial evidence recently to safely say that T-Mobile’s getting at least two potentially ultra-awesome Android phones in the next few months: the G2 (aka Vision, aka Desire Z), and the multi-core Glacier. We don’t know which, but we’re thinking that one of those bad boys has just garnered FCC approval thanks to a filing today for a model code PC10100 that features support for AWS 3G — the frequency pair T-Mobile USA uses — along with 802.11n WiFi. Notably, the filing also points out that HSPA+ is in the cards, which is a feature T-Mobile has been quick to trumpet in its G2 advertising thus far. Given that the G2 seems closer to retail than the Glacier, we’ll go ahead and surmise this is almost certainly the G2 here — but then again, crazier things have happened.
New AWS-equipped HTC in FCC — is it the T-Mobile G2, the Glacier, or something else? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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KeyCase iPad Folio packs a Bluetooth keyboard, scores FCC approval
KeyCase iPad Folio packs a Bluetooth keyboard, scores FCC approval originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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LG GW910 slider turns heads at FCC; likes AT&T, Windows Phone 7, and long walks on the beach
So, BEJGW910, we meet at last… or should we call you the LG GW910 with Windows Phone 7? Oh, don’t act surprised, we’ve had you on our radar for some time now. You’re not as sneaky as you might think, you know that? Sure, you thought your FCC meeting was a private one, but that foul temptress is not one to keep things to herself, and lookie, she’s put some surprisingly decent shots online. External and internal, we’re afraid. She also tells us you’re wired for AT&T, is that to say you’re in cahoots with Ma Bell? We’ve got all the photos ourselves now in a gallery below, so don’t try and deny the rendez-vous. Oh, and your user manual showing off a “multitasking” button? We jumped ahead to page 25 and noticed the LG eXpo nod — it’s just a cobbled-together draft manual, a ploy to trick us. Good joke, you — now tell us about your evil twin brother, C900.
Gallery: LG GW910’s external photos from FCC
LG GW910 slider turns heads at FCC; likes AT&T, Windows Phone 7, and long walks on the beach originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Cowon X7 materializes from the ether into a real life FCC applicant
Alright, so this isn’t quite like seeing Duke Nukem Forever popping up on Walmart shelves, but the Cowon X7 has been a long time in the making. Rumored since 2007, the Korean company’s portable media player has now finally sauntered up to America’s Communications Commission to dot some Is and cross some Ts. We’re let into the knowledge that it’ll come with a Bluetooth radio and a HDD of some kind, which GenerationMP3 speculates will be a 1.8-inch unit. Really now, a spinny thing in our PMP feels better suited to good old ‘07, but then if Cowon can combine some capacious storage with a large screen, it could still have a winner on its hands. Particularly if the rumblings of Android as the OS turn out to be true.
Cowon X7 materializes from the ether into a real life FCC applicant originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
Exclusive: Samsung Cetus i917 bows for AT&T, shows off its Windows Phone 7 ways
Does the almost Pre-esque shape of this beast look vaguely familiar? It should, because it matches up nicely with the outline of the Samsung Cetus we saw in the FCC a little while back. Indeed, we’re told this is the Cetus i917 destined for AT&T, featuring Windows Phone 7 in a glossy, black, curved shell that should fit nicely in those new skinny pants you just overpaid for. We don’t know when this is hitting exactly, but we suspect everyone involved — Microsoft, AT&T, and Samsung — wants to have this on shelves in time for the holiday season. Hit up the gallery below for a couple more shots.
Exclusive: Samsung Cetus i917 bows for AT&T, shows off its Windows Phone 7 ways originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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