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Thursday, March 22, 2012

US Cellular's first LTE device ships, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 claims the honor

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/us-cellular-galaxy-tab-lte-now-shipping/

Just under two months after being officially unveiled, US Cellular's first LTE device is now shipping. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's a tablet taking the first journey out on the carrier's 4G superhighway, with Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 on sale today online and in stores for... well, entirely too much. Despite being nearly a year old, USCC's Tab 10.1 will sell for a staggering $499.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate, though customers residing in one of its LTE markets will be able to grab it for a Benjamin less. Oh, and did we mention that a two-year agreement (with data plan) is still required? Yeah. Pardon us while we fire up the gravedigger -- we've seen this one before.

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Facebook updates photo viewer with hi-res images and full-screen mode

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/facebook-photo-viewer-update-hi-res-full-screen/

No more than 24 hours after introducing you to Acquaintances, Facebook is rolling out a couple of new features for its photo viewer. The social network's fresh bits will let you get a resolutionary look at all those images shared by your friends, boosting the max resolution size to a whopping 2048 x 2048 -- perhaps to pair up nicely with a certain Cupertino-born slate. Additionally, now you'll be able to check out those hi-res photos in full-screen mode, though you'll need to be on the most recent version of Firefox or Chrome to do so (sorry, Safari). Best of all, there's some extra Face-uh-oh-book goodies waiting for you after the break.

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Facebook updates photo viewer with hi-res images and full-screen mode originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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THE FUTURE OF MOBILE [DECK]

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3

Connected Devices Growth

Yesterday, we hosted our IGNITION WEST: Future of Mobile conference in San Francisco.

To kick off the conference, our BI Intelligence team—Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Alex Cocotas, and I—put together a deck on the current trends in mobile. We looked closely at the growth of smartphones and tablets, the platform wars, and how consumers are actually using their devices.

You can flip through the deck below (click on the link).

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Angry Birds Space now available for download, pigs will fly

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/angry-birds-space-now-available-for-download-pigs-fly/

Angry Birds Space now available for download, pigs fly

Rejoice, casual gamers -- Angry Birds Space has landed! Rovio's latest game -- which we recently took for a spin on Samsung's Galaxy Note LTE at SXSW -- frees itself from the earth's gravitational pull to explore the final frontier. We've gathered download links to all the major platforms below for your epic birds vs. pigs entertainment. Aren't space physics fun?

Update: Video and PR after the break.

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Google Street View takes you to the Amazon, without all the pesky piranhas

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/google-street-view-takes-you-to-the-amazon-without-all-the-pesk/

So, before a company of the same name started making your e-readers, the Amazon was a river. And now, thanks to Google, you can take a boat ride down that body of water, without having to deal with all of those scary river monsters. In celebration of World Forest Day, Google has added a tour of the Amazon to the Street View functionality of Maps. Interested parties can travel down the river and hike along trails with 360 degree panoramic views, courtesy of some 50,000 photos nabbed with help from the Street View trike.

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Netflix iPad app upgraded with Retina quality icons and images now, HD video soon

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/21/netflix-ipad-app-retina-hd-video/

Now that the third generation iPad has hit the streets even more apps are pushing out upgrades for its high-res display, and among the latest is Netflix. Version 2.1.1 adds not only high-res artwork but also fixes for VoiceOver, improved playback on external displays and other more minor tweaks. Better yet, for when you're actually watching your movies and old TV shows, the official Twitter account promises HD video streaming is on the way. Not rocking one of the fruit logo-branded tablets yet? You still may notice some changes, as HackingNetflix points out the homepage has been revamped once again recently, with a design that feels smoother and faster, featuring a floating red bar that follows as you scroll down. However, as Netflix giveth, Netflix taketh away, and streaming-only customers have lost the ability to even view or rate DVD-only titles in this new version. Take a peek at the latest changes for yourself and let us know in the comments below how they strike you.

Netflix iPad app upgraded with Retina quality icons and images now, HD video soon originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe unveils Photoshop CS6 beta with redesigned UI and 65 new features, download it for free today

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/adobe-photoshop-cs6-beta/

It's been two years since Adobe unveiled a new version of Photoshop, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the company's engineers have been toiling away behind the scenes on a major update. The outfit's clearly ready to start showing off the fruits of its labor, though, as it just unveiled the beta version of CS6. All told, the outfit's added 65 user-feedback-inspired features, including a new crop tool, expanded video editing options, auto recovery and the ability to search for specific layers. Fans of the dotted lines in Illustrator now get the same vector tools in Photoshop. Additionally, every slider for the Camera Raw 7.0 plug-in (exposure, contrast, etc.) has a freshly tweaked algorithm. And for anyone who's ever looked on helplessly as Photoshop locked itself up during a long file save, projects can now save in the background while you work on other things. Looking for more info? A brief rundown of the beta and a full list of new features awaits just past the break.

Gallery: Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta screenshots

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Yamaha's singing keyboard makes X Factor even more redundant (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/21/yamaha-vocaloid-keyboard/

Tired of singers over pro-ho-ho-ho-nouncing every vowel? Perhaps the solution is to just remove their ilk from the equation altogether. That's the idea behind Yamaha's new Vocaloid Keyboard, which transforms the Vocaloid software into a ready-to-play device. 16 keys represent consonants, vowels and the types of voicing marks used in Japanese, while at the same time selecting a tone on the keyboard. An LED display prints out each letter as its plays, ensuring that you aren't making any playing errors (or should that be "typing errors?"). Experienced musicians who have used the device found that they were able to produce nursery rhymes after three hours of practice, but sadly the company isn't planning to press it into production. Instead, as the chip inside is "removable," it might contemplate licensing it t another interested party, Simon Cowell, perhaps.

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Yamaha's singing keyboard makes X Factor even more redundant (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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YouTube wants to make your crummy video slightly less crummy

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/21/youtube-wants-to-make-your-crummy-video-slightly-less-crummy/

Upload a lot of videos to YouTube, but still can't afford that tripod? No worries, the Google-owned video site today announced some welcome additions to its editor, which can detect problems with your video and offer up corrections, so you can brighten things up a bit or eliminate some of the shakiness. If you're the type who needs this information explained in animated form, check out the YouTube video after the break. The feature, meanwhile, will be rolling out to users over the next few days.

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YouTube wants to make your crummy video slightly less crummy originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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#SESNY Panel on Search and Social in Regulated Industries

Moderator:

Augustine Fou, Marketing Science Consulting Group, Inc. - @acfou

Thanks to Panelists

Julie Sun, Citi

Sheri Fitzgerald, DePuy - @sherifitzgerald

Tom Cherniak, Cmp.ly - @cmply

Win a chance to ride along with Engadget for a private briefing on Panasonic's 2012 home entertainment lineup!

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/win-a-chance-to-ride-along-with-engadget-for-a-private-briefing/

Panasonic WT50

As you probably know, we're in a lot of exclusive, behind-closed-doors briefings of products that won't find their way to retail availability for months to come. We do our best in every post to give you the full experience and virtually bring you along with us, but for the first time we're doing something different. Next week, Panasonic will be giving the media an up-close look at some of its biggest home entertainment products shipping later this year, including the 55-inch WT50 IPS LCD and the VT50 plasma (successor to last year's HDTV of the Year). This time, we've been given permission to take a lucky few of you along for the ride.

The event takes place next Tuesday, March 27th in New York City at 7:00pm. To get a chance to attend, you need to email nycevents [at] engadget.com with your full name. If you make it, we'll respond back with details on the event, but it'll be up to you to find your way to Manhattan.

Winners will not only get to check out Panasonic's 2012 line of cameras, HDTVs, Blu-ray players and other home entertainment products but a few particularly lucky attendees will get to take some of them home. Yes, there will be giveaways, and they'll be good ones.

Here are the deets:

The event is open to those 18 and older.
The event begins at 7:00pm and will run for approximately two hours.
This is not first-come-first-serve, so there will be no need t! o line u p.
Please bring a photo ID and your confirmation with you for admission.

Send those emails in soon, and we hope to see you next week!

Update: We've received more than enough entries, so we're halting acceptance of new ones for now. We'll let you know if we need to re-open the flood gates!

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Opera's TV browser strides into Berryville, population one

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/opera-tv-browser-supports-berryville/

The lips of Intel's PR team have barely delivered the final superlative about its new Berryville set-top silicon, and already software houses are confirming support. In this case it's Opera, who has been quick to announce that its TV-based WebGL browser plays nice with the new Atom Media Processor CE5300 (to give it its full name), which given Opera's cross-platform proliferation, isn't surprising really. We're sure a slew of others will follow soon, but for now you can rest easy knowing that one of the internet's oldest living browsers will work on tech you don't even have yet.

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Xperia Neo L will be Sony's first ICS phone, but only for China?

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/sony-xperia-neo-l-is-first-ICS-phone-in-china/

While your Xperia might not have gotten its planned Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade just yet, Sony's come clean on its first phone to wield Google's latest straight from the factory: the Xperia Neo L. Appearing on the company's Chinese website, we wouldn't expect a redux of the mostly 2011 hardware to go on a world tour anytime soon. Those buying will be treated to a 4-inch FWVGA (854 x 480) screen that's a smidge bigger than the original yet still carries a 1GHz worth of Snapdragon coupled to 512MB of RAM. Unlike the archetype, though, the camera gets downgraded to a 5 megapixels in the rear while retaining the same VGA shooter in the front. Naturally there's no word on price or availability, but at least for diehard fanboys can have their ice cream and eat it too.

Xperia Neo L will be Sony's first ICS phone, but only for China? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Samsung's WiFi-laced DV300F camera now available, priced at $260

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/samsung-dv300f-available-price-release/

After having launched in January, Samsung's WiFi-enabled DV300F camera officially hit the market today, according to a fresh announcement from the Korean manufacturer. As the latest addition to the DualView line, this 16 megapixel shooter features a 25mm wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom, and boasts a three-inch main LCD, along with that 1.5-inch front-facing display. The latter is specifically designed to make self-shots a bit easier to manipulate, but it also features some extra kids games in "Children Mode," to help keep the little ones at bay. And of course, there's onboard WiFi connectivity, allowing users to instantly upload shots to Picasa and Facebook, and an extra "Smart Face Recognition" function. According to Samsung, the device is now available on a "global basis," for a price of ₩299,000, or about $266. For more details, check out the full, but choppily translated PR, after the break.

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Intel refreshes set-top silicon with Atom CE5300 Media Processor, aka Berryville

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/intel-refreshes-set-top-silicon/

Intel's empire-building in non-PC markets could almost be considered Napoleonic, were it not so inherently rational. Having given us the lauded Medfield SoC for smartphones and tablets, it has now announced its next-gen processor for cable boxes. Nicknamed "Berryville", the dual-core Atom CE5300 is loaded up with integrated 2D/3D graphics, hyperthreading, virtualization and ultra-realistic car chases, which Intel hopes will allow Pay TV providers to offer smarter services, like gaming, home security and home automation. Can't let ARM have all the fun now, can we?

Intel refreshes set-top silicon with Atom CE5300 Media Processor, aka Berryville originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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