Nokia cancels NFC-equipped 6216 handset

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/nokia-cancels-nfc-equipped-6216-handset/

Visa may be pushing ahead to bring NFC to phones via microSD cards, but it looks like phones with built-in NFC capabilities have now suffered a bit of a setback, as Nokia has officially canceled its already delayed 6216 handset. That phone was a rather unimpressive candy bar in most respects, but it was the first such phone that would have tied NFC payments to a carrier's SIM card, which Nokia had hoped would have been enough to at least give it a foothold, if not kick-start a wave of NFC handsets. For its part, Nokia isn't offering too many details on the reasons for the cancellation, saying only that it felt "the quality of the consumer experience was not what it needed to be," and adding that its "commitment to NFC remains as strong as ever."

Nokia cancels NFC-equipped 6216 handset originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola Devour in the wild once again

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/motorola-devour-in-the-wild-once-again/

We've already seen the Motorola Devour in the wild once, but with the official Verizon launch right around the corner and pre-sales underway, it looks like at least one more unit has made it out into the world. Great -- but we'd like a video of this thing and its mid-range processor running Flash, please.

[Thanks, Zach]

Motorola Devour in the wild once again originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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RT @wiltonbound - 2010: The Year of Change in the Healthcare Industry - http://bit.ly/92C2kh

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Mitsubishi's upconverting technology takes 1080p to 4K x 2K, you to cloud nine

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/mitsubishis-upconverting-technology-takes-1080p-to-4k-x-2k-you/

So, there's good news and bad news, and we tend to prefer starting with the former. According to Akihabara News, Mitsubishi has whipped up an upscaling technology to end all upscaling technologies -- one that takes vanilla 1080p material to 4K x 2K without breaking a sweat. Now, for the less-than-awesome tidbit. For whatever reason, the tech is not yet compatible with Blu-ray content, and moreover, you're still nowhere close to being able to afford a 4K television or projector. Here's hoping this breakthrough makes 'em a wee bit more feasible for the layman, though.

Mitsubishi's upconverting technology takes 1080p to 4K x 2K, you to cloud nine originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TuneGlue Helps You Find New Tunes You'd Like by Mapping Music Connections [Music]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/YH6rolXRhTY/tuneglue-helps-you-find-new-tunes-youd-like-by-mapping-music-connections

If you'd like to discovery some new music and do it in a visually appealing way, TuneGlue let's you explore the relationship between artists and bands in a connection-based web.

You start building a web by searching for an artist. In our sample web above we started with Iggy Pop. When you click on your first node, you can perform variety of actions with the node but the most important action is expanding the node. Expanding adds more nodes to the web, spun off of the node you expanded. By expanding nodes you can generate connections between artists based on listening patterns. Iggy Pop, for example, links to The Stooge which in turn link to the New York Dolls. Curious how we got from Iggy Pop to Garbage? We went from Iggy Pop through Patti Smith -> PJ Harvey -> Tori Amos -> Alanis Morissette -> The Craberries -> Garbage.

Unlike some other music discovery services you can't listen immediately to the artists' work as you find them but you can click on the "Releases" icon on each node to be taken to Amazon.com to sample music from the artist or purchase an album.

Have a particularly interesting string of connections you made through TuneGlue? Have another favorite music discovery service? Let's hear about it in the comments.

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