Archive for October 11th, 2009

Blackra1n jailbreak now available for iPhone OS 3.1.2, iPod touch 3G

October 11, 2009

Wow, judging by our tips jar we’d say you’re all pretty darn excited about Geohot’s Blackra1n jailbreak, which lets you open up iPhone OS 3.1.2 devices including the iPod touch 3G and new iPhone 3GSs — but you can’t unlock yet, so don’t get any big ideas about switching carriers. Windows-only at the moment, but with this level of enthusiasm out there we can’t imagine a Mac version is far behind.

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Blackra1n jailbreak now available for iPhone OS 3.1.2, iPod touch 3G originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sprint HTC Hero now on sale to everyone

October 11, 2009

Sure, you’ve been able to get it a little early in one way or another, but the Sprint HTC Hero officially launched today, which means a second US carrier is now selling an Android device. High five. Now, is anyone spending the $179 ($479 off-contract)? And Sprint customers, we have to ask: Hero or Pre?

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Sprint HTC Hero now on sale to everyone originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lenovo intros SL410 and SL510 ThinkPads overseas

October 11, 2009

Do you love Lenovo laptops, but at a distance? We thought so. That’s why we’re happy to report that a variation of the company’s SL400 and SL500 laptops have been announced for non-US markets. The devices, creatively dubbed the SL410 and SL510, will be offered with a choice of a Core 2 Duo T5870, T6670, P7570 or Celeron 900, T3000, or T3100 CPUs, a 16:9, 14- or 15.6-inch LED display, GMA 4500MH, 4500MHD or AMD M92-S2 XT GPUs, a range of hard drives up to 500GB, 1GB to 4GB of RAM, and both contain multitouch trackpads. The laptops are said to be retailing starting at 5600 Yuan (or around $820) for the SL410 — we haven’t heard a price on the SL510 yet. No word on when these models will be headed stateside, but we’re certainly going to do our best to find out.

[Via Cloned In China]

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Lenovo intros SL410 and SL510 ThinkPads overseas originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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David Hockney paints with his iPhone, results not typical

October 11, 2009
Artist David Hockney isn’t afraid of picking up new media — over the years, he’s used Polaroids, photocollages, and even fax machines to create his art — in addition to regular, old-fashioned painting. Now, he’s taken to using his iPhone to create new works of art. The resultant “paintings” have been exhibited at the Tate Gallery and Royal Academy in London, as well as galleries in Los Angeles and Germany. Like artist Jorge Colombo (whose iPhone fingerpainting was featured on the cover of The New Yorker), Hockney uses the iPhone app Brushes to create his works. In an interview with the New York Review of Books, Hockney notes that he prefers and still uses the original version of the app, not the more recent updates. Hmm… maybe the reason our own Brushes paintings stink is because we’re using the update!

[Via All Things D]

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David Hockney paints with his iPhone, results not typical originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cheap netbook sales bringing down laptop revenues, no brainers require no brains

October 11, 2009

Hey, this is probably surprising to no one, but here we go. A new market research report from DisplaySearch says that the overall mobile PC market is down about 5 percent over last year. The main reason cited for this decline? The increasing popularity of netbooks, which average around $300, and are much, much cheaper than traditional laptops. Netbook revenue is up 264 percent from last year, and have contributed to an overall lowering of the average PC cost by 19 percent. While this is certainly bad news for the PC industry itself, hooray for all of us, right?!

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Cheap netbook sales bringing down laptop revenues, no brainers require no brains originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTC’s HD2 gets sized up to the competition

October 11, 2009

We’ve already seen (and written) plenty on the HD2, and we’ve enjoyed our initial experiences with the device — but now someone has finally sized up the massive, Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone with its touchscreen contemporaries… and the differences are downright shocking. Just take a look at this beast next to Apple’s iPod touch (above) or the company’s own Hero — the displays on the older devices seem dwarfed by the HD2′s 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 WVGA screen. There are lots of other revealing pictures in the writeup, but it’s the side-by-side shots that seem most telling to us — this is certainly the direction we’re headed in for mobile devices. Hit the read link and take a full look for yourself.

[Via SlashGear]

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HTC’s HD2 gets sized up to the competition originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ultra-limited edition Nokia N97 mini RAOUL launched for Nokia Singapore

October 11, 2009

Nokia’s teamed up with fashion house RAOUL for a special, limited edition N97 mini. The leather-heavy pack will contain a stripe-emblazoned N97 mini with a custom designed Fashion Asia widget and a calf-skin leather case. The whole shebang will come in a leather bound RAOUL box. The production will be limited to just 1000 units (sort of good news for the calves, we suppose), so if you live in Singapore and want to get one, we’d suggest getting a move on: they’re up for pre-order right now for 400 euro — about $589.

[Via GSM Arena]

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Ultra-limited edition Nokia N97 mini RAOUL launched for Nokia Singapore originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Physicist wants to test Hyperdrive Propulsion in Large Hadron Collider

October 11, 2009
How come news can never come out of the Large Hadron Collider that doesn’t remind us of our planet’s impending SciFi Techno-Apocalypse(tm)? When not busy being called a doomsday machine, being bedeviled by hackers and Chuck Norris (yuck!), or just plain failing, the facility could be used to test “hyperdrive” spacecraft propulsion. Seriously! And you know what that means — someone is planning on escaping the planet, and fast. A physicist named Franklin Felber has been musing over a little known German paper from the 1920s (“The Foundations of Physics” by David Hilbert) which states, in part, that under certain conditions a stationary mass should repel a relativistic particle. If this is true, Felber, concludes, then shouldn’t a relativistic particle repel a stationary mass? According to MIT’s Technology Review, the LHC would be the perfect place to test this idea: Felber could “set up a test mass next to the beam line and measure the forces on it as the particles whiz past.” The experiment could be run in tandem with the collider’s other work — and who knows? Mankind may soon be on its way to the starts at near-light speeds. Let’s just hope we figure this out before the robots take over.

[Via Technology Review]

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Physicist wants to test Hyperdrive Propulsion in Large Hadron Collider originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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T-Mobile sending out early November event invites for Bold 2 launch?

October 11, 2009

We’re not sure whether we’ll see official PR before then, but it seems that T-Mobile is quietly slipping lucky individuals invites to “executive briefing” events for the upcoming Onyx / 9700 / Bold 2 to be held early next month. Boy Genius Report so far seems to have the inside line on a November 3 date in LA followed by November 5 in the Big Apple, and like pretty much everything else BlackBerry-related, “business casual” attire is suggested. Certainly seems to match up nicely with a November 11 retail launch, doesn’t it?

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T-Mobile sending out early November event invites for Bold 2 launch? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Engadget’s logo gets boosted… for a Croatian civic action group!

October 11, 2009

We don’t know exactly what it is about the Engadget logo that people love so much (well, we have some ideas), but our name and likeness does seem to pop up in the most unusual places. This time, it’s more unusual than, er… usual. Apparently, our sweet E is being used as the prime designator for a Croatian “civil society organization” called e-misija. We don’t pretend to get exactly what it is they do, but anything with a promo video as sublime as the clip after the break sounds cool to us.

Note: Our logo is all over their YouTube page! See it in videos here.

[Thanks, Ahmed]

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Engadget’s logo gets boosted… for a Croatian civic action group! originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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