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Did the Galaxy S III just pop up on Samsung's support site?

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:48 PM PST

Did the Galaxy S III just pop up on Samsung's support site?


Did the Galaxy S III just pop up on Samsung's support site?
Seriously, we can't caveat this one enough -- there is no way of knowing if this is in fact the Galaxy S III or, if it is, when it might come to market -- but, it looks like Samsungs "next big smartphone" just made a cameo on the company's support pages....

Most extreme nachos

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Most extreme nachos


Most extreme nachos
With Super Bowl on the way nachos --a football favorite -- is usually a gloppy, greasy bar food mess. Here are some truly extreme nachos that will be sure to win over the crowds.

Review: 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Review: 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque


Review: 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
This is the Truck of the Year. Deal with it.

Sony reveals new 3G/WiFi PS Vita bundles: free data, PSN games and memory cards...

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Sony reveals new 3G/WiFi PS Vita bundles: free data, PSN games and memory cards for everyone


Sony reveals new 3G/WiFi PS Vita bundles: free data, PSN games and memory cards for everyone
Sony's PlayStation Vita hasn't exactly sold like hotcakes over in Japan, so the company has sweetened the pot for the portable's potential Stateside buyers. Those who placed pre-orders will get a couple of extra goodies for their $350. To go with the previously promised limited edition case, 4GB memory card and copy of Little Deviants, you'll also receive 250MB of data from AT&T and a PlayStation Network game gratis as soon...

A word on Nissan Leaf sales, orders and reservation numbers [w/poll]

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:13 PM PST

A word on Nissan Leaf sales, orders and reservation numbers [w/poll]


A word on Nissan Leaf sales, orders and reservation numbers [w/poll]
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, AutoblogGreen Exclusive What's up with the sales, orders and reservations of the Nissan Leaf? Nissan loudly trumpeted the 20,000 reservations it originally collected back in September, 2010 and Nissan's Mark Perry recently told AutoblogGreen that, since then, that number has climbed to around 26,000. Where do things stand today?...

Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with guest CrackBerry Kevin, live at 5PM ET!

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:13 PM PST

Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with guest CrackBerry Kevin, live at 5PM ET!


Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with guest CrackBerry Kevin, live at 5PM ET!
Just wake up from a very restful week-long slumber? First of all, we're envious of your good fortune. Second, Research in Motion made a few changes to its leadership chart. Third, you must be really hungry right about now. So grab a sandwich, come back in an hour and join Myriam, Brad, Sean Cooper and our very special guest Kevin Michaluk (yes, Mr....

First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:13 PM PST

First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down


First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down
He was appointed with a fair bit of fanfare as the United States' first Chief Technology Officer back in May of 2009, but it looks like Aneesh Chopra has decided that it's now time to make room for the nation's second CTO. The White House confirmed today that Chopra is stepping down from his position, noting that he has amassed a "dizzying array of accomplishments." Among those are his contributions to...

HTC Titan II works its charm on the FCC with AT&T LTE included

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:13 PM PST

HTC Titan II works its charm on the FCC with AT&T LTE included


HTC Titan II works its charm on the FCC with AT&T LTE included
What's that? An HTC PI86100 Windows Phone with AT&T-specific LTE (bands 4 and 17) showing up in the hallowed halls of the FCC? Why, this must be the Titan II, announced a tad over a fortnight ago. Docs show that a production unit of the device, sporting the aforementioned LTE bands as well as 850 / 1900 3G (also AT&T compatible), is ready to take on its new Windows Phone competition...

Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:22 PM PST

Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition


Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition
We took a break from the Android round-up in December because, well, to be honest I was on vacation. But January gave us a few extra smartphones and the holidays are over, so we're back. What we've got for you today leans into more expensive turf, and unfortunately, our favorite Android devices for the past two months are also exclusively at Verizon, so Big Red subscribers should pay attention....

OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SATA 3.0 SSDs doubles your (MacBook) Airspeed velocity

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:22 PM PST

OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SATA 3.0 SSDs doubles your (MacBook) Airspeed velocity


OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SATA 3.0 SSDs doubles your (MacBook) Airspeed velocity
It's MacWorld, which means those providers of Apple gear are busting out wares for aftermarket insertion into your objects of desire. Other World Computing's latest offering is a slender solid-state drive ready to be crow-barred into last year's MacBook Airs. The bombastically named OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD is a SATA Rev....

Verizon-bound ZTE V66 slate gets photographed, looks just like you imagined

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:22 PM PST

Verizon-bound ZTE V66 slate gets photographed, looks just like you imagined


Verizon-bound ZTE V66 slate gets photographed, looks just like you imagined
It wasn't long ago that we first crossed paths with the ZTE V66 tablet, though at the time we were unfortunate to only meet its dull black-and-white renders. Those of you unfamiliar with the tab won't have your jaws dropped by its innards, which are expected to be missing out on the Ice Cream Sandwich treatment....

Chevrolet introduces new Ecologic window sticker, coming first to Sonic

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 11:32 AM PST

Chevrolet introduces new Ecologic window sticker, coming first to Sonic


Chevrolet introduces new Ecologic window sticker, coming first to Sonic
Filed under: Etc., Manufacturing/Plants, MPG, Chevrolet At the Washington Auto Show today, Chevrolet introduced a sticker. Okay, the new Ecologic environmental labels that will be coming to all new Chevy vehicles - starting with the 2013 Sonic - is a lot more than just an adhesive piece of paper. Last year, the EPA revamped its mileage stickers, and GM has realized that many people like more information about the environmental impact of the...

Insert Coin: Dash car stereo gives your iPhone a new home, away from the cuphold...

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 11:32 AM PST

Insert Coin: Dash car stereo gives your iPhone a new home, away from the cupholder (video)


Insert Coin: Dash car stereo gives your iPhone a new home, away from the cupholder (video)
In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. We're pretty fond of new ways to integrate smartphones with car stereos here at Engadget, which is why we're particularly intrigued by a new Kickstarter project called Dash....

The Love Box is an analog video mixer, house of mirrors for your iPhone (video)

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 10:39 AM PST

The Love Box is an analog video mixer, house of mirrors for your iPhone (video)


The Love Box is an analog video mixer, house of mirrors for your iPhone (video)
There's something romantic about hacking the iPhone, especially when it means finding ways to personalize the massively popular handset. Apps like Instagram may help you realize artistic talent, but software just doesn't get those creative juices flowing like an old-fashioned piece of hardware can. Despite its taboo-sounding name, The Love Box isn't an adult toy in the traditional sense, instead serving as an analog video (and stills) mixer for your iPhone...

Google upgrades Earth with better rendering, teaches it to sing in perfect harmony

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 10:39 AM PST

Google upgrades Earth with better rendering, teaches it to sing in perfect harmony


Google upgrades Earth with better rendering, teaches it to sing in perfect harmony
Google's bringing a number of changes to its Earth service courtesy of version 6.2, including Google+ integration and improvements to search. Most notable here, however, is a new method of rendering that stitches aerial photos together in a manner less patchy than before, making for "the most beautiful Google Earth yet," according to the company....

Microsoft reportedly working on Kinect-enabled laptops

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 10:39 AM PST

Microsoft reportedly working on Kinect-enabled laptops


Microsoft reportedly working on Kinect-enabled laptops
It remains to be seen when or if they'll turn into actual products, but The Daily reports that Microsoft is at least working on getting its Kinect technology shoved into laptops. While details are light, the iPad-based publication says that it's seen a pair of prototypes that "appear to be Asus netbooks running Windows 8," but which have had their webcams replaced with an array of sensors that run along the...

Face.com Launches KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial Recognition Camera App For iPhone

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 09:49 AM PST

Face.com Launches KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial Recognition Camera App For iPhone


Face.com Launches KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial Recognition Camera App For iPhone
Facial recognition company Face.com has just released a new mobile application that takes advantage of its technology to identify the faces of your friends in photos. Called "KLIK," the app is a real-time, facial recognition mobile camera app for iPhone that automatically identifies your friends by name before or after you take their their photo. To use the app, you have to configure it with your Facebook account, as that's how it...

Sony Xperia S jogs past the FCC carrying plenty of AT&T (and some T-Mobile) radios

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 09:48 AM PST

Sony Xperia S jogs past the FCC carrying plenty of AT&T (and some T-Mobile) radios


Sony Xperia S jogs past the FCC carrying plenty of AT&T (and some T-Mobile) radios
The FCC boys were clutching at their multimeters in horror when they saw how much work they'd have to do when Sony's new Xperia S rolled into the bunker. Still, their loss is connectivity's gain, as the Ericsson-branded phone is packing: GSM 850/900/1800/1900, GPRS/EGPRS, UMTS I, II, V, VIII, HSPA, RFID, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 802.11 WiFi b/g/n and GPS....

Jon Rubinstein leaves Hewlett-Packard

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 09:48 AM PST

Jon Rubinstein leaves Hewlett-Packard


Jon Rubinstein leaves Hewlett-Packard
Former Palm chief Jon Rubinstein has left Hewlett-Packard, having completed the 24-month commitment period agreed when HP acquired Palm. An HP spokesperson has confirmed the story, first reported by AllThingsD, in a brief statement: "Jon has fulfilled his commitment and we wish him well." Rubinstein rose to fame as a hardware guru at NeXT ultimately joining Apple after the company acquired NeXT in 1996....

Toyota works on electric-drive powertrains that don't need rare earth metals

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 08:57 AM PST

Toyota works on electric-drive powertrains that don't need rare earth metals


Toyota works on electric-drive powertrains that don't need rare earth metals
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Toyota Toyota is working on a method of making electric-drive powertrains without using magnets that require pricey rare-earth metals such as neodymium and dysprosium, and may start integrating that process into vehicle production within two years, Reuters reported, citing Japan's Kyodo News. The world's biggest maker of hybrid-electric vehicles is trying to find ways to cut costs by reducing dependency on rare earth metals, which are expensive...

Toshiba announces color e-reader in Japan, hopes people buy more e-books from it...

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 08:57 AM PST

Toshiba announces color e-reader in Japan, hopes people buy more e-books from its store


Toshiba announces color e-reader in Japan, hopes people buy more e-books from its store
If you're gonna be late to a party, you should at least be fashionably late. That's the mindset behind Toshiba's entry into the dedicated e-reader space with its new 7-inch BookPlace DB50. Toshiba hopes adding an e-reader alongside its existing AT200 and Thrive tablets will push more eyeballs towards the 100,000 or so titles in its BookPlace online bookstore....

World's longest lab experiment still going strong, via webcam

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 08:04 AM PST

World's longest lab experiment still going strong, via webcam


World's longest lab experiment still going strong, via webcam
In 1927, a physics professor named Thomas Parnell launched an experiment on viscous liquids. 85 years later, we're still waiting for his results. It all began with a funnel, a beaker, and some melted tar pitch. Parnell, a professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, was hoping to demonstrate that brittle tar pitch actually behaves as a liquid when kept at room temperature....

Strategy Analytics: Nokia tops global handset shipments, Apple sees quarterly surge

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 08:04 AM PST

Strategy Analytics: Nokia tops global handset shipments, Apple sees quarterly surge


Strategy Analytics: Nokia tops global handset shipments, Apple sees quarterly surge
Fresh off the publication of its latest tablet report, Strategy Analytics has come out with a new batch of statistics on the global mobile market. In a report published yesterday, the research firm crowned Apple as the world's largest smartphone vendor by volume, on the strength of the 37 million iPhones it shipped during Q4 2011 -- good for 23.9 percent of the market....

Better Place starts Renault EV deliveries in Israel

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 07:12 AM PST

Better Place starts Renault EV deliveries in Israel


Better Place starts Renault EV deliveries in Israel
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Better Place Better Place, the Silicon Valley company founded by former high-tech executive and Israel native Shai Agassi in 2007, has delivered the first 100 electric cars to Israeli customers. After years of tests and trial programs, the deliveries mark a big step in the company's efforts to build out an electric-vehicle charging and battery-exchanging network throughout the country. Better Place has delivered the Renault Fluence Z.E....

RIM’s New CEO Backtracks: “There Is A Lot Of Change”

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 07:12 AM PST

RIM's New CEO Backtracks: "There Is A Lot Of Change"


RIM's New CEO Backtracks: "There Is A Lot Of Change"
On Monday of this week, RIM's new CEO made a statement that set off a bomb on the blogosphere, and I'm not sure he understood its repercussions at the time. "I don't think any drastic change is needed." If you've been paying attention to RIM and its numbers, you know that what the company desperately needs is change....

Apple Overtakes Samsung As World’s Largest Smartphone Vendor In Q4

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 07:12 AM PST

Apple Overtakes Samsung As World's Largest Smartphone Vendor In Q4


Apple Overtakes Samsung As World's Largest Smartphone Vendor In Q4
According to the latest report from Strategy Analytics, Apple has now overtaken Samsung to become the world's largest smartphone vendor by volume. Apple achieved 23.9% market share during Q4 2011, narrowly beating out Samsung's 23.5% share. In addition, Apple shipped 37 million units in Q4, again going neck-and-neck with Samsung and its 36.5 million units shipped during the same time. However, notes Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, "while Apple took the top...

Engadget Podcast 278 - 01.26.2012

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 07:12 AM PST

Engadget Podcast 278 - 01.26.2012



Engadget Podcast 278 - 01.26.2012
Sometimes we like to tell ourselves it's not, but in the end, it's all about the Benjamins. We tried to get someone named Benjamin on this podcast to underscore this point, but, you know, he had other plans. Tune in for this special Rich Dad, Poor Dad edition of the Engadget Podcast: we'll let you decide which dad is which.Host: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater, Dana WollmanProducer: Trent WolbeMusic: Longview01:14 - RIM's...

With new privacy controls onboard, Google+ opens up to teens

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 07:12 AM PST

With new privacy controls onboard, Google+ opens up to teens


With new privacy controls onboard, Google+ opens up to teens
The world's teenage population can pontificate from a new digital platform, now that Google+ has decided to open its doors to high schoolers. Google+ VP Bradley Horowitz made the announcement yesterday, confirming that anyone old enough to own a Google account can now join the social network. In most countries, that applies to anyone older than 13 (previously, Google+ had been restricted to the 18-and-over crowd)....

Chew on this: what Republican presidential hopefuls are eating

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 06:20 AM PST

Chew on this: what Republican presidential hopefuls are eating


Chew on this: what Republican presidential hopefuls are eating
You may know where the Republican presidential candidates stand on certain political issues, but do you know where their strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to food? 

Shelby Supercars dropping the "Shelby" from its name

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 06:20 AM PST

Shelby Supercars dropping the "Shelby" from its name


Shelby Supercars dropping the "Shelby" from its name
Sports carmaker settles with automotive legend Carroll Shelby over naming rights.