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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Sprint HTC Touch Pro Delayed [Htc Touch Pro]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/423132651/sprint-htc-touch-pro-delayed

The rumors, they are true—Sprint's HTC Touch Pro, originally set to drop on Oct. 19, has been delayed until at least the end of the month, and possibly into November. Apparently it's an issue of making sure they have enough to go around. Oddly, it seems like Sprint stores and their online shop will get the phone after "select national retailers" (i.e., Best Buy).

"Sprint expects to slightly delay launch of the Touch Pro by HTC to ensure we have adequate inventory in all channels before making the device commercially available. Customers can expect the device to become available in select national retailers by the end of the month and then in all Sprint sales channels including online at www.sprint.com and Sprint Stores by early November."

Two weeks isn't so bad, as long as it stays that way. [Cnet]

Apricot Computers rolls out PicoBook Pro Cloudbook-variant

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/422128585/

Filed under: Laptops

The Cloudbook isn't nearly the hard-to-find commodity it once was, but Apricot Computers seems to think it still has its share of appeal, and it's now churned out its own variation in the form of its new PicoBook Pro. This one packs the usual 8.9-inch display, and includes a 1.2GHz low-voltage VIA processor, 1GB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive, your choice of Linux or WIndows XP and, perhaps most notably, optional WiMAX support. No word on a release 'round these parts, but folks in the UK will apparently be able to pick one up on November 1st for a starting price of £279 (or roughly $485).

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CEIVA's 8-inch CEIVAlife / CEIVAshare digiframes now on sale

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/422165015/

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays

CEIVA's duo of 8-inch digiframes started shipping out this month, but it appears the whole world was too busy ignoring digital photo frames on the whole to notice and / or care. Originally announced at CES, the CEIVAlife features a surprisingly striking design, a 640 x 480 resolution display, a multicard reader to support nearly every card format you've ever heard of, WiFi / phone / optional Ethernet connectivity and an optional PicturePlan service that "automatically uploads photos and receives photos via camera phones, online or from a PC." The WiFi-ready CEIVAshare (shown after the break) sports a more traditional look and includes an 800 x 600 resolution LCD along with a more digestible $129.99 price tag. As you've likely gleaned, both can be purchased now -- well before the gift giving season arrives.

[Via Digital Picture Frame Review, thanks Brian]

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NVIDIA gets official with GeForce 9400M GPU

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/422492879/

Filed under: Gaming

Not like NVIDIA really needed to waste the ink here, but it has decided to hover under the spotlight a bit more by officially introducing its GeForce 9400M GPU. Yeah, the same one Apple made official on its behalf yesterday. The single-chip design features 16 parallel processing cores, 54GFLOPs of processing power and promises 5x the graphics power over Intel's Centrino 2. In other words, this thing will come a lot closer to handling Crysis in a satisfactory manner than that lowly integrated set you're probably working with now. But you already knew that, now didn't you?

[Via Physorg]

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Samsung's SP-A900, SP-D400 and SP-L300 projectors make the scene in Korea

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/422794101/

Filed under: Displays

Samsung Korea has just dropped the dime on three new projectors. No word yet on pricing or a release date, but there are a few tantalizing details. For high definition video buffs, the SP-A900 offers full HD resolution, a contrast ratio of 12,000:1, Texas Instruments DarkChip4 chipset and 1,000 lumens brightness. The SP-D400 comes complete with a 3,000:1 contrast ratio and 4000 lumens brightness. As for the SP-L300, you get a 3LCD data projector with 3000 lumens brightness and an onboard speaker. Along with some swank design, all three of these projectors feature HDMI input.

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