Unity Music Media Keys Controls All Your Web Based Music Players in Chrome [Chrome Extensions]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5945206/unity-music-media-keys-controls-all-your-web-based-music-players-in-chrome

Chrome: If you bounce between a lot of different music services then chances are you've got a tab open in Chrome to one of them all day long. Unity Music Media Keys is a Chrome extension that makes that experience better by offering quick push button controls, and support for Apple's keyboard media keys.

What's especially nice about Unity Music Media Keys is that it works on a bunch of different music webapps, including Pandora, Google Music, Grooveshark, Bandcamp, Rdio, and more. You can either pull up the controls directly in Chrome, or simply use the media keys. If you bounce around between a lot of different music services for your music, Unity Music Media Keys is handy to have around.

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Samsung Galaxy Camera Hands-On: Oh Please, Please Bring This Bizarre Android Camera to America [Video]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5945231/samsung-galaxy-camera-hands+on-oh-please-please-bring-this-bizarre-android-camera-to-america

Last month, Samsung showed us a glimpse of its Galaxy Camera: A weird and wonderful mashup of the Samsung Galaxy S III and a long-zoom point-and-shoot. Now, we've finally seen one of the first on American soil. Oh please, Samsung figure out how to bring this camera to America.

Even though what you're looking at above is just a prototype, the camera works far better than you'd expect from a Frankensteinish combination. It's running the silky Jelly Bean OS over the same core specs as the Galaxy S III: the same 4.8-inch LCD touchscreen, the same 1.5 GHz quad-core processor. The addition of a 1/2.3-inch image sensor and a 21x optical zoom doesn't slow the camera down at all. The pictures we saw taken with the camera looked sharp and beautiful, and the full-manual camera controls built for the touchscreen interface are very well designed.

Overall, we're impressed at what Samsung built, but the only problem is that we've got no idea when we might actually see this camera for sale in the United States. Samsung wants to bundle it with a data plan so that you can instantly share your photos to Instagram and Facebook, or upload them to your favorite storage locker service. So far, there's no US carrier on board for the camera. Pricing for a data plan will be tricky. But based on what we've seen, the sooner they figure it out the better.

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Packaging hints at ASUS Padfone 2 having 4.7-inch 720p display, 13MP camera, quad-core S4 Pro

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/21/asus-padfone-2-box-perhaps/

We can't guarantee what this box contains, but if the list of specs is accurate then it's definitely too good to gift-wrap. The photo above was posted to a Chinese forum thread entitled "Padfone 2 specs revealed" by a user called cj1024, and indeed the A68 model number at the top of the list does sound appropriate, considering the original Padfone was the A66. If we assume it's legit, for the sake of argument, then maybe we can expect ASUS's next modular phone to come with the same quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and 13-megapixel camera resolution that are already strutting around in the LG Optimus G, alongside an uncommonly bright, 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 Super IPS+ display, LTE and 2GB of RAM. You can digest the rest for yourself, or just wait until October 16th.

Update: Keen-eyed doubter Firuz has spotted a problem: the display icon says "SuperAMOLED" even though the specs state "Super IPS." Dodgy 'chop or actual packaging error? You decide.

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Packaging hints at ASUS Padfone 2 having 4.7-inch 720p display, 13MP camera, quad-core S4 Pro originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:! 21:00 ED T. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Vellamo benchmark adds CPU and memory tests, here's how it rates the One X and GS III

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/21/vellamo-benchmark-adds-cpu-and-memory-tests/

Qualcomm's Vellamo app has been a part of the furniture in our Android benchmarking suite for a while now, providing a fun little test of browsing and networking speeds on almost any Android device. Version 2.0 adds something extra, however: a section called "Metal" that is all about putting your processor and memory through the wringer.

As a quick taster, we ran the new HTML5 and Metal tests on the HTC One X (both global and AT&T) and the Galaxy S III (global and Sprint), settling on the average of three consecutive results. Conspiracy theorists who think that Qualcomm's app favors its own processors will only find further ammunition in the CPU results, however the HTML5 scores actually give the QCOM devices much less of a lead than the old Vellamo did, scoring all four handsets roughly equally. You'll find the table overleaf, along with a publicity video that explains the update.

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Vellamo benchmark adds CPU and memory tests, here's how it rates the One X and GS III originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:3! 1:00 EDT . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung Galaxy Note II for Sprint hands-on

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/20/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-for-sprint-hands-on/

All we know so far is that it's possibly coming to US shores at some point in November, but the good news is that Sprint brought along one of the world's most famous phablets to a press event in New York City and, better yet, we got to play with it for a little while. Yes, we're talking about the Galaxy Note II. Looks-wise, the Now Network's flavor of that 5.5-inch behemoth hasn't exactly changed much from the unit(s) we landed our hands on when it was first unveiled to the world, meaning there's no "Sprint" branding anywhere to on the plastic shell -- at least for now, and, frankly, we kind of hope it stays this way. With that being out of the picture, the oversized handset looked as shiny as ever in its Marble White attire, which is the only color Sprint was happily showing off for the night. And while this particular Jelly Bean-loaded Note II was capable of running on the carrier's new LTE network, we weren't able to test out out data speeds due to matters out of our reach.

On the software side of things, we didn't notice any major hiccups worth pointing out, with the experience being rather similar to the one during our first encounter with Sammy's second-gen Note -- or, in other words, it felt very, very snappy and overall great. That said, the carrier, as! it did with the Galaxy S III, looks to be pre-loading the device with some of its own applications, including ones such as Sprint Zone and other third-party apps like Polaris Office 4. Naturally, we popped the obvious question to Sprint of when we could expect the device to legitimately become part of its lineup, to which the carrier told us that it'd be sometime "this holiday season." For now, it looks like the hands-on gallery below will have to suffice, but you can be sure we'll let you know as soon as we find out the official release date.

Gallery: Samsung Galaxy Note II for Sprint hands-on

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Samsung Galaxy Note II for Sprint hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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