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Lenovo K800's initial benchmark scores look promising, but not ambitious

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 03:02 PM PDT

Lenovo K800's initial benchmark scores look promising, but not ambitious


Lenovo K800's initial benchmark scores look promising, but not ambitious
If Lenovo's sticking to its promise, it should only be another two months maximum before its Intel Medfield-powered K800 smartphone debuts in China. Until then, we won't know the full potential of the 1.6GHz Atom Z2460 powering Ice Cream Sandwich, but we do have the next best thing for now: what we've just obtained are some benchmark results from a K800 prototype with Android 2.3.7, and while the graphics performance wasn't...

Comcast confirms full HBO Go access on Xbox 360 coming next week

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT

Comcast confirms full HBO Go access on Xbox 360 coming next week


Comcast confirms full HBO Go access on Xbox 360 coming next week
Just as the rumors indicated, Comcast has revealed its subscribers will be able to access the standard HBO Go app on the Xbox 360 starting "early next week." The only bad news? There's still no news on when / if those Comcast logins will ever give HBO Go streaming access through other connected TV platforms like Samsung's Smart TV apps or the Roku box, and Time Warner cable customers are still...

After A Bump From SXSW, Banjo Tries To Bolster Its Position As The All-In-One Lo...

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT

After A Bump From SXSW, Banjo Tries To Bolster Its Position As The All-In-One Location App


After A Bump From SXSW, Banjo Tries To Bolster Its Position As The All-In-One Location App
What's a SXSW bump worth? To Redwood City's Banjo, which pools check-ins and geotagged updates from friends across all the major social networks, it was worth 100,000 downloads during the interactive part of the conference. That brought the app to more than 900,000 users. Of those, a little more than a half-million users are active every month and iOS users still outnumber Android ones by two-to-one. That's not bad for an app that...

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1-inch) priced at $399, still unavailable for purchase

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1-inch) priced at $399, still unavailable for purchase


Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1-inch) priced at $399, still unavailable for purchase
Office Depot probably isn't the first place you'd think to look for Samsung's incoming Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), but it looks to be the first legitimate retailer to throw a price tag on the aforementioned slate. Just weeks after cruising through the FCC, the Tab 2 is now being shown with a $399.99 price....

Delorean Electric travels back in time to the basement of the New York Internati...

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT

Delorean Electric travels back in time to the basement of the New York International Auto Show


Delorean Electric travels back in time to the basement of the New York International Auto Show
Yes we've seen it before but, with a cheeky license plate like that, we couldn't resist stopping by to ogle it again. It's the DMCev and, while it's been in the cards for quite some time now, it's finally getting close to production. Delorean Motor Company president Stephen Wynn was on-hand to demo the machine and give a few nuggets of information....

A Sedan, a Sedan, Everywhere a Sedan

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT

A Sedan, a Sedan, Everywhere a Sedan


A Sedan, a Sedan, Everywhere a Sedan
The New York Auto Show debuted more sedans than any show in some time.

Sports Cars Stage a Comeback in NY

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT

Sports Cars Stage a Comeback in NY


Sports Cars Stage a Comeback in NY
After years of fixating on fuel economy, automakers turn to performance.

Monthly record sales for Prius, Volt help drive up March alt-fuel sales almost 40%

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 01:29 PM PDT

Monthly record sales for Prius, Volt help drive up March alt-fuel sales almost 40%


Monthly record sales for Prius, Volt help drive up March alt-fuel sales almost 40%
Filed under: Diesel, EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, MPG, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, USA Rising gas prices may not have lifted all alt-fuel vehicles last month, but they did a pretty good job for some of the higher profile models. Overall, U.S. March sales of hybrids, extended-range plug-in hybrids, battery-electrics and diesels jumped about 40 percent from a year earlier as both the Toyota Prius hybrid and Chevrolet Volt extended-range plug-in set all-time monthly sales records....

RIM confirms departures of two top BlackBerry, BBM execs

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 01:29 PM PDT

RIM confirms departures of two top BlackBerry, BBM execs


RIM confirms departures of two top BlackBerry, BBM execs
Word of a big exec shakeup at RIM leaked out just ahead of the company's quarterly earnings late last month -- something that was then quickly confirmed in said earnings report. It looks like that wasn't the end of it though, as RIM has now also confirmed the departures of two more high-level executives....

On The Nokia Lumia 900 And How AT&T Is The Phone’s Only Downside

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 01:29 PM PDT

On The Nokia Lumia 900 And How AT&T Is The Phone's Only Downside


On The Nokia Lumia 900 And How AT&T Is The Phone's Only Downside
This is it. The stakes couldn't be higher. The future of Windows Mobile hinges on the success of the Nokia Lumia 900. The phone has a huge amount of hype. It's priced right at $99 on-contract and it's a drop-dead gorgeous device. Nokia's latest marketing campaign directly targets Apple and Google....

MyWi gets friendly with iOS 5, brings faster connection speeds and improved reli...

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 01:29 PM PDT

MyWi gets friendly with iOS 5, brings faster connection speeds and improved reliability


MyWi gets friendly with iOS 5, brings faster connection speeds and improved reliability
Why shell out cash for those extra tethering fees when you've got MyWi, right? Well, you'll be happy to know the $19.99 jailbreak app has gone through a major revamp. MyWi v5.5 brings along the heavily requested, long-awaited iOS 5 compatibility, while also promising a speedier connection, faster hotspot load times as well as improved overall reliability....

Too Drunk To Drive, But Still Wanna Get Your Car Home? There’s An App For That

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 12:42 PM PDT

Too Drunk To Drive, But Still Wanna Get Your Car Home? There's An App For That


Too Drunk To Drive, But Still Wanna Get Your Car Home? There's An App For That
You know what I hate most about getting too drunk to drive home? The hangover. No, no, I'm kidding (well, sort of) – it's having to go retrieve my car from wherever I left it the next day. Sometimes, it's been towed. Other times, it's been broken into (true story)....

IRL: Blue Mics Yeti, Western Digital My Passport and Razer's Naga Hex gaming mouse

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 12:41 PM PDT

IRL: Blue Mics Yeti, Western Digital My Passport and Razer's Naga Hex gaming mouse


IRL: Blue Mics Yeti, Western Digital My Passport and Razer's Naga Hex gaming mouse
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. It's been a busy week for tech writers. Capping out a week populated by not one, not two, but three smartphone reviews, we're happy to take a breather and return our attention to life's littler pleasures....

Keep Google Weird

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:55 AM PDT

Keep Google Weird


Keep Google Weird
There's a sign that hangs in the windows of shops in downtown Santa Cruz, California. "Keep Santa Cruz Weird." It's not unique to that town, of course -- the best known implementation of the slogan is the one seen all over Austin, Texas. Localized versions have also been spotted on t-shirts and bumper stickers in places like Portland and Boulder -- any area where the undercurrent of independent thinking does daily...

Fox News vs. the Chevy Volt

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Fox News vs. the Chevy Volt


Fox News vs. the Chevy Volt
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, GM, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, At Witz EndPolitical agenda trumps Volt facts on "fair and balanced" channel Political liberals have long hated General Motors, partly because long-ago GM leaders did bad things and built bad products, but mostly because it was really big, successful and profitable. And most probably still do....

AT&T Will Unlock Your Off-Contract iPhone Starting On April 8

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:09 AM PDT

AT&T Will Unlock Your Off-Contract iPhone Starting On April 8


AT&T Will Unlock Your Off-Contract iPhone Starting On April 8
Ask (enough times) and ye shall receive. AT&T has kept the iPhone under lock and key since day one, but we're hearing that a pretty dramatic policy shift will go into effect starting this Sunday. Once April 8 rolls around AT&T will unlock your iPhone should you so choose, at which point it'll play nicely with a microSIM from any GSM carrier....

Toray unveils new self-repairing film for devices, fixes scratches in under 10 s...

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Toray unveils new self-repairing film for devices, fixes scratches in under 10 seconds


Toray unveils new self-repairing film for devices, fixes scratches in under 10 seconds
Toray's advanced film department has finished its new self-cure coating and is set to start using it as a decorative layer on a series of as-yet unannounced notebooks. Fortunately, the company is already chasing down more pervasive uses on smartphones and touch-panels. The science involves a wet coating method that adds a special recovering layer to PET film....

AT&T to begin unlocking off-contract iPhones this Sunday, April 8th (update)

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:09 AM PDT

AT&T to begin unlocking off-contract iPhones this Sunday, April 8th (update)


AT&T to begin unlocking off-contract iPhones this Sunday, April 8th (update)
We've just received word of a spicy strategy change, to be enacted this Sunday, that's sure to please the AT&T iPhone-loving masses. On Easter, select Ma' Bell customers with iPhones -- those off-contract with accounts in good standing -- will be able to request a carrier unlock for their device....

Microsoft Still Fighting For Windows Phone Developer Love (And Buying It When Ne...

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Microsoft Still Fighting For Windows Phone Developer Love (And Buying It When Needed)


Microsoft Still Fighting For Windows Phone Developer Love (And Buying It When Needed)
Microsoft is pushing their Windows Phone platform like crazy these days — it recently debuted in China, and the flagship Nokia Windows Phone is due to hit U.S. shelves soon with a huge marketing blitz in tow — but the company still has a little app problem to deal with. More than a few developers don't see developing Windows Phone apps as a priority, and the New York Times reported yesterday that...

Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor map...

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 10:21 AM PDT

Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping


Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping
Are folks still getting lost in the faux marble expanse of your airport or shopping mall, even after you've uploaded the floor plan to Google Maps? Then maybe it's time you went the extra mile and improved indoor mapping using the official Floor Plan Marker app. It instructs you to walk around the "entire surface" of your place of interest, while gathering position data from GPS, public WiFi signals and cell...

Tesla's 'almost ready' with the Model S

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Tesla's 'almost ready' with the Model S


Tesla's 'almost ready' with the Model S
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors Tesla Motors is close to rolling out the first Model S battery-electric luxury sedans from the company's Fremont, CA, plant, and customers who reserved the Model S Signature Series are already sending in their specification requests, indicating that the company will likely hit its July deadline for first deliveries. Tesla also added three colors - Piano Black, Lacewood and Banana Leaf - to its interior options and said...

Flurry Revamps Its Free Mobile App Analytics With Custom Tracking, Alerts

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Flurry Revamps Its Free Mobile App Analytics With Custom Tracking, Alerts


Flurry Revamps Its Free Mobile App Analytics With Custom Tracking, Alerts
Even though San Francisco-based Flurry hardly makes any direct revenue from its mobile app analytics, the product has become so widely used that one out of every three iOS apps and one out of every four Android ones downloaded from Google's Android app store includes it. Now the company is overhauling its analytics product by adding custom dashboards, alerts and funnel analysis....

American Idol gets Shazamed, Captain Marvel ashamed to be eliminated before the...

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT

American Idol gets Shazamed, Captain Marvel ashamed to be eliminated before the live finals


American Idol gets Shazamed, Captain Marvel ashamed to be eliminated before the live finals
Shazam has a-ha-ha-ha-nounced that the re-he-ma-hay-ning episodes of vowel-adding warble-fest American Idol will be tied into its music-identifying app. During each of the shows, it'll offer up the set list, behind the scenes videos and let you buy both the live cover versions and original editions of classic songs -- usually hewn from a simpler, gentler time before Mariah Carey was seen as someone worth em-hem-hem-ulating....

Ferdinand Porsche Dies at 76

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Ferdinand Porsche Dies at 76


Ferdinand Porsche Dies at 76
Legendary 'Butzi' Porsche designed the original Porsche 911.

2012 New York Auto Show: Top 10 Cars

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 09:31 AM PDT

2012 New York Auto Show: Top 10 Cars


2012 New York Auto Show: Top 10 Cars
Some of the more notable vehicles from the Big Apple.

Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 08:44 AM PDT

Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on


Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on
Until now, Amped Wireless has been best known for its industrial networking gear, capable of maintaining a signal up to 1.5 miles away from the base station. Now, though, the outfit's also selling some equipment for folks with a more modest setup: the R10000G Home Router and SR10000G Smart Repeater, which promise to coat 10,000 square feet of your abode / office in robust, high-quality WiFi....

SUVs Take Center Stage in New York

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 08:43 AM PDT

SUVs Take Center Stage in New York


SUVs Take Center Stage in New York
If these offerings are any indication, SUV's are getting even sportier.

Lithium-ion battery costs will still be about $400/kWh by 2020

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 07:55 AM PDT

Lithium-ion battery costs will still be about $400/kWh by 2020


Lithium-ion battery costs will still be about $400/kWh by 2020
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Manufacturing/Plants, North America Count Lux Research among the pessimists when it comes to the costs of lithium-ion battery packs. Lithium-ion battery costs will fall to about $400 per kilowatt hour by the end of the decade, more than double the $150 per kilowatt hour the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium says will be required for battery-electric vehicles to be affordable to most of the car-buying public....

Engadget Podcast 288 - 04.05.2012

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 07:55 AM PDT

Engadget Podcast 288 - 04.05.2012



Engadget Podcast 288 - 04.05.2012
If you look at this edition of the Engadget Podcast through our own pair of tortoise shell-framed, azure-lens'd Google Glasses it looks like Darren is saying "Welcome to the Ghost Rider 900 edition of the Engadget Podcast" from beyond the void.Host: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater, Darren MurphProducer: Trent WolbeMusic: Orbital - Never00:03:20 - HTC One S review00:03:30 - HTC One X review00:04:00 - HTC One X vs....

New York Auto Show: Day 2 Wrap-Up

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 07:54 AM PDT

New York Auto Show: Day 2 Wrap-Up


New York Auto Show: Day 2 Wrap-Up
A new Ram 1500 and Toyota Avalon; Honda and Infiniti concepts shine