2/28/2010 12:07:00 PM
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Microsoft's Aaron Woodman just pulled off a little surprise here at The Engadget Show: he brought out LG's Windows Phone 7 Series pre-production prototype! The QWERTY slider is the first branded Windows Phone 7 Series device the world's ever seen, and while the hardware and software are both obviously early, we can tell you a few things about it: it's just a hair thicker than an iPhone or Nexus One, there are dedicated hardware camera, volume, and power buttons in addition to the back, home, and search buttons dictated by Windows Phone 7 Series, and we noticed a five megapixel camera with a flash on the back, along with a headphone jack. Can't say much apart from that right now, since things are so early and everything is subject to change, but things are certainly moving along. It's all going down on the show right now -- see it on video after the break!
2/28/2010 12:06:00 PM
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Apple's famous desire for total control over its operations seems to have extended to its manufacturing facilities as we've come across Cupertino's Supplier Responsibility 2010 Progress Report, which details audits the American company has done of its overseas suppliers and the failures identified therein. The findings are pretty damning on the whole, with more than half (54 percent) of all factories failing to meet Apple's already inflated maximum 60-hour work week, 24 percent paying less than the minimum wage, 37 percent failing to respect anti-discrimination rules, and three facilities holding records of employing a total of eleven 15-year olds (who were over the legal age of 16 or had left by the time of the audit). Apple is, predictably, not jazzed about the situation, and has taken action through train-the-trainer schemes, threats of business termination with recidivist plants, and -- most notably -- the recovery of $2.2 million in recruitment fees that international contract workers should not have had to pay.
2/28/2010 12:04:00 PM
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Classic role-playing games Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II have made their way to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Publisher Square Enix announced both games are now available in Apple's App Store for $8.99. Both titles -- which were originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in the late-1980s -- include specially designed controls tailored to the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as additional dungeons not featured in the original release.
- GameTrailers has posted some pretty astonishing video of Sony's big hack-and-slash action game God of War III, slated for release March 16. The footage features a handful of Kratos' new tricks, including boots from Hermes that allow him to perform quick dashes. Viewers will also get a peek at a boss battle featuring Hades and another encounter with the massive Leviathan.
2/28/2010 12:03:00 PM
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Likely a direct counterstrike to Verizon's $79.99 Pixi Plus, Sprint has dropped the retail price of its original WiFi-less Pixi all the way down to $49.99 after $100 mail-in rebate on a new two-year contract. As you might recall, the Pixi debuted at $100, but now that the Pre's leaving it in the dust with both high-quality gaming and Flash support, a little more price separation between the two makes a lot of sense. Alright, Sprint, strong work -- now you've just got to drop the Pre a few bucks to distance it from Verizon's Pre Plus and you'll be good to go.
2/28/2010 12:00:00 PM
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With many curious about the content to the conference between 2PM 6 members and the fans which took place on 27th February, a list of answers and questions by 2PM fan union was released after the conference.
Go under the cut for the translations.
2/28/2010 12:05:00 AM
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Ricky Gervais has been dating the same woman for 25 years – but The Office creator, 48, might find it reassuring that he can still turn the head of some of today’s young pop singers – especifically “TiK ToK” singer Ke$ha. The 22-year-old L.A. party girl, known for her glittery makeup and club anthem, has a thing for the portly comic, who she met at the Shockwaves NME awards earlier this week.
“I met [Meighan] backstage and he’s hot. You guys have a lot of hot babes over here,” Ke$ha told The Sun. “That fat guy who’s in The Office. I’d hit that.”
Not a heck of a lot to report on this one, but a picture is worth a thousand words, no? The Mozilla team has posted a couple teasers pictures, on their Facebook page, of the Fennec mobile browser running on the HTC Nexus One and Motorola DROID. No word on a release time line or when a public build of the mobile Mozilla offering will be available to the masses. We’ve got the DROID picture queued up for you after the break.
2/27/2010 12:17:00 PM
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Well, that didn't take too long. Just a day after we pondered the shipping status of Fusion Garage's JooJoo tablet, the company's come clean and told us shipping will delayed to March 25 because of a manufacturing issue with the tablet's 12.1-inch capacitive screen. Yep, it looks like it's going to be at least 27 more days until you've got a JooJoo of your very own -- which means, of course, that Fusion Garage will now be trying to launch this thing during the same week Apple's scheduled to launch the iPad. Ouch. To its credit, Fusion Garage says it's not happy with the delay and has promised a free accessory to pre-order customers to make it better -- we're told it's likely to be the $30 stand. We'll see if that's enough to hold back the effects of Cupertino's coming media blitz, but either way we're quite excited about making a tablet sandwich at the end of March.
2/27/2010 12:12:00 PM
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After teasing us twice with MV teaser images, BEAST has finally revealed their MV teaser for their upcoming title track Shock! The teaser is blazing with fire and charisma, check it out below!
2/27/2010 12:06:00 AM
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Want a tablet computer sans all the brand loyalty drama and eye-opening prices? Haleron's got just the thing for you with its iLet Mini HAL. Its humble spec brings only a 600MHz VIA CPU and 128MB of DDR2 RAM to the table, but it runs Android 1.6 and if all you want is a tablet to access the web with, do you really need more? Additionally, the onboard 2GB of flash storage is augmented with 10GB of cloud storage and the cheap expandability that's on offer via flash memory cards or USB drives. The iLet Mini HAL costs $199 with shipping starting next week, and we've been reliably informed that there'll be no additional charges no matter how many poor Space Odyssey jokes you decide to make.