Jul/100
Nintendo, Sega controllers and carts find a new home in the RetroN 3 console
Nintendo, Sega controllers and carts find a new home in the RetroN 3 console originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jun/100
Psion veteran Charles Davies leaves Nokia for TomTom
Charles Davies might not be as immediately recognizable as some other industry veterans, but anyone that’s been following this business since the early days of PDAs will no doubt be familiar with his work. Davies was Psion’s very first employee way back in 1981, and stuck with the company all the way up until 2003 when he left to join Symbian, before moving on to Nokia with the rest of the Symbian staff a few years later. During that time, Davies helped Psion pioneer the use of flash memory and custom silicon in handhelds, served as Symbian’s CTO, and helped Nokia head up the strategy and architecture team for its R&D division. What’s more, as The Register notes, Davies move to TomTom only further bolsters the ex-Psion ranks at the company — he’ll be joining former Psion CTO Mark Gretton, and former hardware exec Ken McAlpine, who joined TomTom two years ago after a stint at Apple. Still no word on what Davies’ exact role at TomTom will be, but the company has confirmed the move, and promises to provide more details at some point.
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Psion veteran Charles Davies leaves Nokia for TomTom originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May/100
Pandora handheld now shipping: first mass-produced unit unboxed, world somehow survives
The open-source Pandora handheld has had a long and arduous time to market, but the days of delay are apparently at an end. You gaze upon the very first Pandora off the assembly line — the fruit of over two years labor — and project leaders are presently shipping out the rest of the first completed batch, with scores if not hundreds already on the way. GP32X forum mod X68000 got this unit for his help in construction, which means you can see Pandora’s box literally opened at our source link (har har). Puns not your thing? Spot a batch of handhelds at the soldering station instead, right after the break.
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Pandora handheld now shipping: first mass-produced unit unboxed, world somehow survives originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 May 2010 05:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May/100
Foxconn’s Tegra 2-powered Android tablet hands-on (video)
Well we just got to lay hands on the above Foxconn-manufactured, Tegra 2-powered Android prototype, and we’ll be honest — it was awfully sweet. There wasn’t much going on beyond some gaming action — we didn’t see it boot into standard Android — though it was running the 3D football title you see above at a pretty healthy clip (check out the video after the break). NVIDIA reps weren’t very keen on sharing info about the device, though we can tell you that it’s apparently got 1GB of RAM inside cuddled up to that 1GHz ARM Cortex 9 CPU, a front-facing camera, and the WSVGA screen measures 8.9-inches (it’s also a much wider aspect ratio than something like the iPad). We’re going to hold any judgment till we see this thing cooking with a full UI, but we’re not knocking it — get this in at the right price, and we’ll likely be first in line.
Update: Correction, the screen size is 8.9-inches, not 9.7.
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Foxconn’s Tegra 2-powered Android tablet hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 19:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May/100
Phone guitar: iPhone OS, Windows Mobile and Android got all night to set the world right (video)
What can you do when no one’s got a phone to jam with you? Why, you can be a geeky one-man band, of course! Web developer Steffest (just one name, like Sting or Madonna) managed to do just that by strapping a couple of Android devices (possibly an Archos 5 and a HTC Desire), a couple of WinMo handhelds (looks like a HP iPAQ h1940 and a HTC Touch Diamond), and an iPod touch on top of a portable speaker. All this just for a forthcoming presentation on mobile cross development — Steffest had to painstakingly write the same audio program “in Java for Android, in C# for Windows Mobile and in Objective-C for iPhone.” Oh, and it doesn’t just end there — turns out this dude can also pluck tap away a good Neil Diamond classic on this five-way nerd-o-strummer. Get on board and check out the video after the break.
Phone guitar: iPhone OS, Windows Mobile and Android got all night to set the world right (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 May 2010 04:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr/100
Keepin’ it real fake: PSP-shaped Mini Game King makes classic emulation a royal decree
Flamboyantly attired in a flowing fuchsia scarf, the Mini Game King is probably guilty of countless copyright violations, but we don’t care. The real question is whether this latest KIRF PSP can actually play games, and we’re happy to say it does. Summoning the full might of its infringing power, the King can emulate eleven classic consoles and handhelds when it’s not playing AV files from 4GB of internal memory, and its Chinese manufacturer triumphantly claims that the device “will make you happy unlimited” if you hook up an wireless six-axis controller as well. “This controller does not come with the console, you have to pay for it,” reads the box, but we’re dying to try “3Dthergame” and “Othergame” as soon as we can dig one up.
Keepin’ it real fake: PSP-shaped Mini Game King makes classic emulation a royal decree originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr/100
64 Boy might be the smallest N64 mod yet (if not, it’s pretty close) (video)
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64 Boy might be the smallest N64 mod yet (if not, it’s pretty close) (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr/100
MeeGo Gone Wild! Features detailed, companies come on board at IDF 2010
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MeeGo Gone Wild! Features detailed, companies come on board at IDF 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr/100
MeeGo Gone Wild! Features detailed, companies come on board at IDF 2010 (updated)
Update: We added a couple shots of the very in-progress UI from Intel’s slide show. See more after the break.
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Apr/100
CE-oh no he didn’t!: Reggie Fils-Aime says the iPhone OS isn’t a ‘viable profit platform for game development’
We can’t say we’d expect Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime to lavish praise on iPhone OS gaming and the abilities of the iPad, but we figured everyone had to at least acknowledge the effect of Apple’s handhelds on the market and the potential of its tablet, you know? Nope — ol’ Reg just told Kotaku that Apple “is not having an impact on Nintendo when you look at our business, our volume, our hardware, our software,” and that “clearly it doesn’t look like their platform is a viable profit platform for game development because so many of the games are free versus paid downloads.” Snap — although we’d bet plenty of top-tier iPhone game devs like ngmoco would argue that their “freemium” model is working plenty okay. That’s not all, though, as Reggie also had some choice words about depth: “If our games represent a range between snacks of entertainment and full meals depending on the type of game, (Apple’s) aren’t even a mouthful, in terms of the gaming experience you get.” Double snap — we’ll leave it to you to argue that one out.
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Apr/100
CE-oh no he didn’t!: Reggie Fils-Aime says the iPhone OS isn’t a "viable profit platform for game development"
We can’t say we’d expecting Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime to lavish praise on iPhone OS gaming and the potential of the iPad, but we figured everyone had to at least acknowledge the impact of Apple’s handhelds on the market and the potential of its tablet, you know? Nope — ol’ Reg just told Kotaku that Apple “is not having an impact on Nintendo when when you look at our business, our volume, our hardware, our software,” and that “clearly it doesn’t look like their platform is a viable profit platform for game development because so many of the games are free versus paid downloads.” Snap — although we’d bet plenty of top-tier iPhone game devs like ngmoco would argue that their “freemium” model is working plenty okay. That’s not all, though, as Reggie also had some choice words about depth: “If our games represent a range between snacks of entertainment and full meals depending on the type of game, (Apple’s) aren’t even a mouthful, in terms of the gaming experience you get.” Double snap — we’ll leave it to you to argue that one out.
CE-oh no he didn’t!: Reggie Fils-Aime says the iPhone OS isn’t a “viable profit platform for game development” originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar/100
Sony’s PSP turns 5, may very well live forever
It’s somewhat hard to believe that Sony as a whole turned 60 just under 4 years ago, and since then we’ve seen the PlayStation turn 15, the PlayStation 2 turn 10 and the PlayStation 3 celebrate its first. Today, the outfit’s PlayStation Portable (or PSP, in shorter terms) is gettin’ down on its fifth birthday (while our own bionic Thomas Ricker parties on his 482nd), with the North American debut happening on March 24, 2005. To date, over 17 million of the iconic handhelds have been sold, over 820 titles have been created for it and an all-new, UMD-free version has come along to dazzle those who are champing at the bit to ditch physical media. The platform as a whole still has aways to go before it catches the Big N and its Game Boy / DS line, but hey, the millennium is young.
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Sony’s PSP turns 5, may very well live forever originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar/100
How would you change Nokia’s N900?
Maemo 5 didn’t stand on its own for long before being mashed together with Intel’s Moblin, but Nokia’s N900 still stands as one of the best handhelds for web browsing. It’s hardly the world-beater that Nokia (may have) hoped it to be, but that’s not because the internals aren’t impressive. We’re guessing that only a handful of you made the effort to fork over wads of cash in order to pick an unlocked version up, but if you did, you no doubt have some opinions post-purchase. Is the display living up to your expectations? Are you and Maemo getting along alright? How’s that keyboard? We’re eager to know how you’d tweak the N900 if you had the keys to the design kingdom, and with MeeGo already being announced, we’re forbidding you from suggesting the obvious. Or you can, but we’ll be plugging our ears, closing our eyes and humming annoyingly.
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How would you change Nokia’s N900? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mar/100
Entelligence: Aiming high or another Mylo?
We heard a rumor last week that Sony was working on new handhelds to compete with devices like the iPad. It sounds like a great idea: a PSP with integrated telephony and e-book functionality could perhaps give everyone in the market a run for their money. But I’m a little skeptical — Sony’s Clié line once defined state-of-the-art PDA, but the company ceded the market to Palm long before the PDA was eventually reborn as the smartphone. If Sony’s seriously thinking about getting back to the handheld space, here’s some lessons it might learn from its efforts back in the PDA day.
1. Innovation is great but only when you really innovate. Sony led the market in innovation when it entered the PDA space. It offered the first Palm OS devices with removable storage, the first devices that could play back audio and video, and the first high-resolution color devices. All of these clearly drove the market forward. Then the innovations became less innovative and more “gadgetry.” There were 3D interfaces for the launcher that were confusing and awkward. Some devices had Bluetooth support but not others. Devices like the NZ-90 (pictured above) added so many features into the mix that it was big, bloated, and nearly useless.* In short, the innovations became less compelling and eventually stood in the way of. I’m worried that Sony’s meshing the type of functionality rumored to be its new device without any thought how it all has to work together.
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Entelligence: Aiming high or another Mylo? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Feb/100
SanDisk’s 64GB iNAND embedded flash adds memory girth to handhelds
Isn’t it amazing how flash memory has grown over the years? Not too dissimilar from your ego, right? Just two years ago SanDisk was only offering 16GB modules in the high end of its iNAND embedded flash range, and today the same company presented a new MLC NAND chip with four times the capacity. The trick in this 64GB 32nm silicon gem is the same-old X3 flash technology (along with undisclosed, but evidently significant, “innovations in flash management”), which allows each cell to store three bits. Go on, OEMs — just shove one of these chips into our next phone and we’ll promise to leave you alone until next February. Wait, did we say “promise?” Try… we meant try.
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SanDisk’s 64GB iNAND embedded flash adds memory girth to handhelds originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Feb/100
Finalized Pandora handhelds start shipping, proves that dreams really do come true
It’s been over two solid years since we first caught wind of this here gaming handheld, and while we were initially led to believe that finalized units would be in the hands of emulation junkies long before now, we suppose loyalists are finding that late really is superior to never. After months and months of “almosts,” the first wave of final Pandora handhelds are shipping out, with many community followers posting up unboxing shots as they come. We’re also expecting a flood of homebrewed applications to start surfacing as more of these filter out, so be sure and drop us a line if you discover and / or create something otherworldly. Plenty more shots in the links below — you know, if you’re still patiently awaiting the arrival of your own.
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Finalized Pandora handhelds start shipping, proves that dreams really do come true originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jan/100
Mustek MER-6T is another Twilight-loving, touchscreen e-reader
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Jan/100
Mustek MER-6T is another Twilight-loving touchscreen e-reader
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Mustek MER-6T is another Twilight-loving touchscreen e-reader originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jan/100
ASUS DR-950 to be released in April for a likely £250
ASUS hasn’t exactly been tight-lipped about its DR-950 e-reader — you know, with it outing photos and all — but apparently the 9-inch E Ink, touchscreen reading device will be ready for buyers in April. ASUS told the guys at Electric Pig that it’s currently in process of shopping around for content partners, but plans to have the e-reader to market by springtime with a price tag in the range of £250 (about $354). Not too bad, though it’s tough to get too jazzed about a black-and-white model with the OLED color DR-570 version on the horizon.
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ASUS DR-950 to be released in April for a likely £250 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug/100
Ask Engadget: best messaging phone that doesn’t need a data plan?
We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Josh, who simply ain’t interested in spending the loot necessary to get a full-on smartphone. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
Hate to hear about your Windows Mobile dilemma, but hopefully that OS will be pushed aside as far more capable ones hit the market. It’s tough to say at this point whether webOS or Windows Phone 7 will be your answer (probably not for some time, though), but we’re pretty sure our commenters would be more than happy to assist with your need for a messaging phone. Right, guys / gals?
Ask Engadget: best messaging phone that doesn’t need a data plan? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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