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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

MeeGo Gone Wild! Features detailed, companies come on board at IDF 2010

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/meego-gone-wild-features-detailed-companies-come-on-board-at-i/

Wow, the MeeGo news is flying fast and furious today! Our first stop is the Intel Developer Forum, where a recent talk detailed feature lists for netbooks and handhelds running (presumably) 1.0. For the former, you can expect to see it rockin' Chrome (or Chromium), and overhauled social messaging, media, camera, email, and calendar apps. That's in addition to touch and gesture support. As for handhelds, Fennec with Flash support popped up on the slides (probably a carry-over from Maemo, since they already have Mozilla with Flash), VOIP (at least until the carriers start hollerin'), instant messaging, social networking, location-based services, cloud data syncing, and portrait mode support -- not to mention "the Intel app-store framework that can be used to make branded 3rd-party app stores." But that ain't all! According to some freshly minted PR, the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco will be lousy with developers staring Wednesday when the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit begins in earnest. To be announced announced at tomorrow's keynote are are a host of companies that are throwing their lot in with the mobile OS, including: EA Mobile, BMW Group, Acer, Gameloft, Novell, Asus, and more. Which is all well and good, but the question remains: when are we finally gonna get our hands on an LG GW990? PR after the break.

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HTC Incredible's Specs Leak, Show Snapdragon Android Phone With 8MP Camera [Android]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5515922/htc-incredibles-specs-leak-show-snapdragon-android-phone-with-8mp-camera

HTC Incredible's Specs Leak, Show Snapdragon Android Phone With 8MP Camera It's one of the leakiest phones of the year, but it looks like BGR has the official specs, courtesy of a well-placed source at Verizon—rumored to be the exclusive carrier for this Android phone.

A 3.7-inch WVGA OLED capacitive screen, 1GHz Snapdragon QSG8650 processor and 8MP camera with autofocus and flash place it above both the Nexus One and HTC Desire, and by the looks of things, it'll come with Android 2.1 pre-loaded, slicked with HTC Sense over the top. GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth—it's all there. I'm seriously excited about this handset. If you thought the Desire sounded good after reading my review, the Incredible could blow it out of the water.

But then...it's no Sprint Evo 4G, is it? [BGR]

Image Credit: AndroidAndMe

HTC Incredible's Specs Leak, Show Snapdragon Android Phone With 8MP Camera

GE's LED light bulbs look cool, last forever, cost a lot

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/ges-led-light-bulbs-look-cool-last-forever-cost-a-lot/

Citizens of the Earth, you're looking at the lightbulb of the future. In the coming years and decades our lives won't be illuminated by simple spheres or coils of white. Oh no; future bulbs will have cool fins and flares that make them look almost worth the $40 to $50 we'll pay for the things. That's what GE plans to ask for its Energy Smart LED bulb when it ships sometime in the next 12 months, and while that is a lot compared to the exiting options, look at the benefits: GE's bulbs will last a whopping 17 years when used four hours a day, and they give off light in all directions -- not focused in one spot like previous designs. But, most importantly, they're very efficient, using nine watts to give off the equivalent amount of light of a 40 watt incandescent bulb. That's 10 percent less than a 40 watt equivalent CFL, and there's no mercury or other toxic goop involved here either. It's the future, folks. Start saving.

Gallery: GE Energy Smart LED bulb

GE's LED light bulbs look cool, last forever, cost a lot originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel adds Android to Moorestown compatibility list, wants to Atomize your smartphone

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/intel-adds-android-to-moorestown-compatibility-list-wants-to/

Alright, so this isn't the first time we've seen Android running on the x86 CPU architecture, but it's notable that Intel has ported the OS to run on its Atom CPUs with the specific aim of offering Android plus Atom smartphone combos. Such is the news that has emerged today at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, which means Intel loyalists will have a second option in the smartphone sphere, beyond the already known Moorestown-powered MeeGo handsets. It would seem that Chipzilla is taking the ARM threat to its home markets seriously, and is launching a counter-offensive in the mobile space. As to when that will happen, Intel's bigwigs are saying they're still "on track for introduction during the first half of this year," meaning we'll be seeing (or at least hearing about) the vanguard of its attack by the end of June.

Intel adds Android to Moorestown compatibility list, wants to Atomize your smartphone originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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