Well we just got to lay hands on the above Foxconn-manufactured, Tegra 2-powered Android prototype, and we'll be honest -- it was awfully sweet. There wasn't much going on beyond some gaming action -- we didn't see it boot into standard Android -- though it was running the 3D football title you see above at a pretty healthy clip (check out the video after the break). NVIDIA reps weren't very keen on sharing info about the device, though we can tell you that it's apparently got 1GB of RAM inside cuddled up to that 1GHz ARM Cortex 9 CPU, a front-facing camera, and the WSVGA screen measures 8.9-inches (it's also a much wider aspect ratio than something like the iPad). We're going to hold any judgment till we see this thing cooking with a full UI, but we're not knocking it -- get this in at the right price, and we'll likely be first in line.
5/20/2010 01:46:00 PM
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As a mobile platform, the EVO 4G's Android foundation is still an infant -- well, okay, perhaps it's a tweener -- but in its two-odd years in the public spotlight, the list of truly revolutionary devices to use it has been a significant one: the G1 for being the first to market; the Nexus One for ushering in a new (and subsequently killed) retail model; perhaps the CLIQ for introducing Motorola to the platform or the Droid for bringing the company some desperately needed, long overdue success. For the moment, anyway, a whopping fraction of the world's most important phones are running Google's little experiment.
Needless to say, Sprint, HTC, and quite frankly, many of us have come to expect the EVO 4G to join that short list for some obvious reasons. Put simply, its magnificent list of specs reads as though it was scribbled on a napkin after a merry band of gadget nerds got tipsy at the watering hole and started riffing about their idea of the ultimate mobile device: a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4.3-inch WVGA display, 8 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, HDMI-out, and WiMAX compatibility. Of course, the list of potential deal-breakers for a phone is as long as the EVO 4G's display is wide; to put it another way, there are countless ways HTC, Sprint, or even Google could've screwed this thing up. So does this moderately intimidating black slab of pure engineering and marketing -- this high-profile bet on Sprint's future -- deliver the goods? Read on.
5/20/2010 01:42:00 PM
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AT&T made a pretty big splash last year when it launched the Nokia E71x, and now it appears that T-Mobile is hoping to do the same on June 16th. That’s the date Engadget has been informed T-Mobile will introduce a new, business-centric and Symbian-based QWERTY smartphone from Nokia known as the E73 Mode. Other than it will have 3G and Wi-Fi, concrete specs have yet to emerge (although we think it pretty safe to assume it will best the E72 based upon nothing but our knowledge of Nokia’s naming conventions). We’ll hit up some of our T-Mobile connects and try and find out what we can, but in the meantime please feel free to speculate at will.
5/20/2010 01:39:00 PM
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WonderGirls’ comeback new song ’2DT’ has been accused of plagiarism.
On an online community site Bestiz, a netizen pointed out that the song sounded similar to English singer Wham ‘Bad Boys’, garnering much interests from other netizens. The part of the song in question is the 8 bars after the part ‘I’m trying to’. Even for one who is not an expert in music, one will be able to link the similar in the bpm (beat per minute).
The song ‘Bad Boys’ is the first track off Wham’s 1983 debut album ‘Fantastic’. Plagiarism is definitely a serious crime, the evaluation of assessing whether there is plagiarism has taken place has also changed over the years, but it seems that nowadays it can easily do serious damage to the artiste accused of plagiarism.
5/20/2010 01:37:00 PM
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It’s a good day to be a Twi-Hard: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner put on their best “Dark & Edgy” looks in this newly-released Twilight Saga: Eclipse promo poster.
Eclipse sees werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner), lovesick vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the eternally-torn Bella (Kristen Stewart) joining forces in gripping battle against the Vampire Royal Family, The Volturi.
We've yet to see concrete proof that Apple's portable media players will ship with a camera, but the new iPhone OS 4.0 beta shows Cupertino's at least considering the notion for the iPod touch and even the iPad. It seems AT&T tethering wasn't the only thing hidden in iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 -- 9to5Mac found a variety of telltale references to an a flash when pouring through the update's source code. Does that mean that the iDevices will actually get cameras, let alone supporting light fixtures? It's too early to tell... but we did spot an LED flash on that early iPhone HD, and a recent Vietnamese leak proves that Apple at least prototyped an iPod touch with a camera -- though no flash, sadly -- as well. Is Apple simply updating their error messages, or is there something to this? You make the call.
5/20/2010 01:35:00 PM
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Ariel Lin has been waiting to film idol drama "華麗的挑戰" ("Extravagant Challenge") for more than a year. Male lead has changed from Jerry Yan to Wu Zun. But it's changed back to Jerry after Wu Zun started to film movies. It's said Joe Cheng wasn't satisfied with the amount of screen-time he has and left the cast. Female lead Ariel has been waiting for her Mr. Right for a long time. Now it's rumored that Super Junior's Donghae and Siwon would pair up with Ariel. The two collaborated with Ariel for her MV before. Plus Ariel graduated with a Korean degree so there is no problem in communications.
Before working with SJ members, Ariel would first film Taiwanese version of "The First Shop of Coffee Prince." She would chop off her hair and play a handsome boy. The ironic thing is that the male lead would be Jerry, so in the end Ariel is still going to pair up with Jerry, just in a different drama.
5/20/2010 01:34:00 PM
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The "Yahoo! Emotive Brand Award 2009-2010" was held yesterday. Joey Yung, Charlene Choi and "Little Sister Man Ling" Winky Wong were this year's award winners. Joey was very thankful to the advertisers giving her opportunities. She smiled and did not dare to tease little Winky being her rival, she praised that Winky is very cute. Winky's mom expressed that her daughter likes to get close to boys more, Joey said: "Not really, she responses to me too. Maybe I'm too tomboy and not as pretty as her!"
Coincidentally Winky appeared at the scene, Reporters asked Joey for a group photo with Winky. Initially Winky was sitting on the sofa, but once she saw Joey she quickly 'refused to the same gender' and turned away. Winky then complained to her dad wanting him to carry her. The scene was quite funny.
5/20/2010 01:33:00 PM
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Male idol group BEAST goes for the dark and masculine concept for their latest upcoming photoshoot with fashion magazine Marie Claire.
Go under the cut for more photos.
5/20/2010 12:22:00 AM
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Interested to know how you were gonna fill up that Chrome OS app page? Google just announced its new online web app store at I/O. So far they've shown off Dark Room for image editing, a pretty slick version of TweetDeck, and yes, like every other platform known to man, there's Plants. vs. Zombies and Lego Star Wars. For-pay software will be offered -- Dark Room is $4.99, if you want to go ahead and put that money aside. No word on a launch date, but we'll keep pushing for more. We were just shown a demo of Sports Illustrated's interactive magazine, and we gotta say, it's mighty impressive -- embedded video, fully searchable, some pretty clever tricks with geolocation that frankly exceeds most anything we've seen on the iPad thus far. The web store -- for Chrome and Chrome OS -- will hit the dev channel "soon."
5/20/2010 12:20:00 AM
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Google's plan to open-source the VP8 video codec it acquired when it purchased a company called On2 hasn't exactly been a secret, and the company's finally made it official today as part of a new format called WebM. The WebM container is based on Matroska, with VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis audio streams packed inside -- Google says the format is efficient enough to support playback on lower-power devices like netbooks, tablets, and handhelds, while the encoding profiles are simple enough to limit complexity when you're trying to create WebM files. WebM is open-sourced and licensed royalty-free under a BSD-style license, so all those H.264 patent licensing concerns shouldn't be an issue -- and as you'd expect, Mozilla is supporting WebM right off the bat, with support in Firefox nightly builds as of today. Chromium nightlies will also support WebM as of today, with Chrome early access builds getting support on May 24 -- and Opera is listed as "coming soon."
Google's also going to be supporting the format as an option for YouTube playback, so that should drive adoption in a big way -- if you're running these latest Firefox or Chromium nightlies you can actually try it out now. The big question, of course, is whether Apple and Microsoft will roll WebM support into Safari and IE and onto their mobile platforms. We'll see -- Google definitely has the ability to push a format into the mainstream.
To think, it was about this time last year that Google first unveiled its "collaboration tool" Wave, and today the company's taking out the invitational step and opening it to the public at large -- which begs the question, did anyone not have an invite that wanted one at this point? It'll also be now available in the enterprise-centric Apps suite for no extra charge. On the developer side of things, expect some more open source code be unleashed, including most importantly the rich text editor. Can't say we've really dug around in the service ourselves since its beta launched, but co-creator Lars Rasmussen tells us we should be giving it another go. He further acknowledged that they've got some work to do on educating users on the best ways to use the service, which at this point seems to be mid- and small-scale collaboration. To that end, expect some new tutorial videos, and with any luck, some amusing animation.
5/20/2010 12:04:00 AM
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The cage was out. The feathers were in full effect. And Miley Cyrus pretty much replicated her "Can't Be Tamed" music video on Dancing with the Stars last night.
But did the singer go too far?
5/20/2010 12:03:00 AM
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Guess who has another Apple scoop? Tinhte, the upstarts from Vietnam have first pics of the mythical iPod touch with a camera. The "DVT-1" stamp on the back makes it clear that this is an early design verification test unit in the evolution of product testing. In other words, this might not be the final design whenever Apple chooses to announce it, say, on June 7th. A check of the device's serial number identifies a late 2009 third generation iPod touch -- could be that this device was one of those eBay prototypes that never made it to production for whatever reason.
The Foxconn manufactured device is also running the same base diagnostic utility that we've seen before (who could forget that "serial number" icon). The Foxconn label appears to indicate a 64GB model ("64G" using a pair of Samsung 32GB Flash modules presumably) in addition to a 2 megapixel, backside illuminated sensor manufactured by Omnivision (part OV2665-6s). Video after the break.
5/20/2010 12:02:00 AM
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Get ready to rumble, the latest Gartner and IDC smartphone numbers are out to give us a pretty good idea of how things shape up globally. Remember, IDC measures vendor shipments while Gartner measures actual handset sales to end users. So what does the data tell us? Well, to start with, in terms of smartphone devices, Gartner claims a 48.7% increase in smartphone sales of 54.3 million units in Q1 2010 compared to Q1 2009 -- IDC pegs growth at 56.7% on 54.7 million units for the same period. Both estimates easily outpace the 17% or 21.7% growth in worldwide units of mobile phones moved according to Gartner and IDC, respectively.
IDC's list of top 5 smartphone device makers (pictured after the break) has Nokia at the number one spot repeating its 39.3% share as it did in Q1 of 2009 while RIM is down slightly from 20.9% in 2009 to a 19.4% market share in 2010. Apple (up from 10.9% to 16.1%) more than doubled its device shipments in the last year as HTC (up from 4.3% to 4.8%) and Motorola (up from 3.4% to 4.2%) all managed to increase their shares on higher volumes.
5/20/2010 12:01:00 AM
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Aussie stunner Miranda Kerr — who is penning a book on self-esteem in young women — strikes a sizzling pose on the June issue of GQ Magazine.
And if you think that’s sexy, wait until you see the video!
5/20/2010 12:00:00 AM
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More details on the leaked iPhone 4 that keeps leaking and leaking: Taiwanese site Apple.pro says that the next generation iPhone may come in an completely white version. These are the photos that, according to them, prove it.
In a Surprise to Few, Casey James is Voted Off in Season's Penultimate Episode
Earlier reports said the studio had decided not to renew Fox's option.
There's one thing CBS honcho Nina Tassler wants you to know about their surprising new lineup: There's no love lost.
Unfortunately all good things must come to an end, as is the case today with our beloved Smallville.
The independent studio behind "Twilight" on Wednesday said it reached a deal with Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz to reprise their supporting roles as vampires in the fourth film in the franchise.
Microsoft is working on a patch to fix a hole in a 64-bit Windows 7 graphics display component that could be exploited to crash the system or potentially take control of the computer by running code remotely.
Tiffany Hsu and Ethan Ruan (Xiao Tian) have been going out for two years now, and yesterday was the fifth in a string of incidents to rock their relationship. A media reported that Ethan took (Yan Yan) Esther Liu's virginity, and before he entered the entertainment circle he also left behind his then-pregnant girlfriend Yvonne. After hearing these reports, Tiffany's emotions took a big hit, but kept going to work as usual, and continued with her usual mode of action in these situations involving Ethan's misdeeds: silent, and unwavering support for her boyfriend. She also said that these reports were just old rumours, and had no proof.
The new issue of Us Weekly has the latest pics of Sandra Bullock with her new son, Louis Bardo Bullock.
The tagline on this new movie poster may read "Who is Salt?" but a better question would be: "Where is Angelina Jolie?"
All signs point to ABC rescuing Ghost Whisperer from CBS’ trash heap. An Alphabet reprieve for Old Christine, however, appears unlikely. And I think we can all agree that that sucks something major.
