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GoGear Muse refresh sports touchscreen, Songbird media player, HDMI output originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Chip maker Broadcom has unveiled no fewer than three new mobile-themed hunks of silicon this week in preparation for MWC in just a few days’ time. You ready for this? Alright, first up we’ve got the catchily-named BCM20751, which performs the rather ordinary tasks of GPS, Bluetooth, and FM radio management but also throws in an audio processor to offload some work from the phone’s primary CPU, which the company says can reduce battery consumption enough to improve playback time by up to 100 percent in some situations. Next up, we’ve got the BCM4751, a GPS receiver that Broadcom’s confident is going to set a new benchmark for mobile location-based services; a complete setup takes less than 30 square millimeters of precious board space and is claimed to be a guru at picking up weak signals all the while sipping power. Finally, the BCM2049 supports Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, FM (both transmitting and receiving), and Bluetooth Low Energy — something that was recently adopted for standardization in Bluetooth 4.0. All three should be on display at the show next week. That’s not all, though — the company is also announcing comprehensive support for Android across much of its product range, which seems like a pretty prudent business decision all things considered.

Broadcom announces Android support, three-pack of chips to make your phones more awesome originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yinlips is jumping on the e-reader bandwagon with a 6-inch, touchscreen E Ink reader all its own. While we don’t have full specs for this think-looking little guy yet, we do know that it supports a wide array of file formats, supposedly gets around 20 hours of battery life, and that it’s got an FM radio with recording functions. There’s no word on pricing, other specs, or even the official name of this product yet (possibly just ‘E-Book’?), so make your suggestions in the comments, and we’ll try to get word to Yinlips for you.

Yinlips busts out a 6-inch, E Ink-boasting e-reader originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh, man, we haven’t seen a video of a poorly thought-out tattoo since this guy was shilling for Ray-Ban (although there’s talk that the ink was fake). Thank heavens for this lady, who got a tat of a DJ’s face on her lower back so that her daughter could meet Justin Bieber, who is apparently very popular with the kids.

This video has been out for a few days now, but it’s been racking up the views — mostly for the sheer “Why, God, why?” factor of it all. We all know that YouTube sensation turned super popular pop star Justin Bieber makes people do crazy things (and sometimes gets folks fired for not being scarily attentive enough), but this little stunt takes the cake.

Apparently the host of FM radio show Mack at Night has a little project called “Tats for Tickets,” which promises just that. In this case, a mother got what is commonly known as a tramp stamp of the DJ’s face (a rather flattering representation, I might add) in exchange for a meeting between her daughter and the singer. Check it out below and be happy that this girl is not your daughter. (Bonus awfulness points for the “Pants on the Ground” reference.)

[via Buzzfeed]

Tags: justin bieber, music, pants on the ground, viral video

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXLVIII: Xderia X2 packs 2X the KIRF originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The annual fall update for the Xbox 360 dashboard is here, bringing with it support for Last.fm radio, Facebook and Twitter integration, and HD streaming through Zune’s online marketplace.

To grab the update, just fire up your Xbox and sign into Xbox Live. You should be prompted to apply the update, after which you’ll have access to all the new features. The Last.fm addition is probably the most exciting update for most of our readers, but the Facebook and Twitter integration looks pretty solid (and let’s face it, Twitter and Facebook are both determined to find a home on every single electronic device you own). The Zune marketplace integration seems like a decent option for instant-streaming HD video rentals, though the selection doesn’t look that impressive at the moment (we still prefer the Netflix integration). Still, if you’ve got a 360, it’s certainly a worthwhile update.

It’s been a pretty long while since we heard anything from MPIO — so this is certainly good news. The V7 — a 3-inch PMP which will apparently boast a (possibly capacitive) touchscreen LCD, an accelerometer, and an FM radio, at a thickness in the neighborhood of 10.5mm. We also know that it’ll come in both 4GB and 8GB varieties — but specs beyond this are sadly absent. We’ll see what else we can dig up for you, but look for it to run ₩129,000 for the 4GB model and ₩159,000 ($109 and $134, respectively) for the 8 when it launches on Korea on October 26th.

[Via PMP Today]

Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio

MPIO V7 PMP hits October 26th, 2009, we struggle to contain ourselves originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google and Apple continued to cut their official ties this week while Apple irked musicians with iTunes LP. The company also admitted to a major Snow Leopard bug and may be working on adding FM radio functionality to the iPhone. Catch up with our roundup of the week’s top Apple news:

Time Capsule failures lead to opening of virtual cemetery: Is there a Time Capsule pandemic going on? There may be, as more and more people are reporting dying units to the Time Capsule Memorial Register.

Google-Apple board ties severed; collaboration next to go? Google and Apple no longer share any board members thanks to increasing legal scrutiny from various government entities. Because of this, the two companies can no longer afford to be public friends, but does that mean the end of collaboration between them? It might.

If we were tickled by how quickly the PSP Go was hacked, we must say that we’re surprised at how long it took for this bad boy to get KIRFed. And as most shanzai manufacturers do, they packed as many features into this portable as they could: 4.3-inch display (compared to the PSP Go’s 3.8-incher), all kinds of retro gaming support (including NES/Famicom, Gameboy / Gameboy Color, SNES, SFC), a camera of some sort, FM radio, microSD card slot (the device’s only form of storage), TV out, and generous video codes: RM, RMVB, AVI, WMV, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MPE, MP4, DAT, and MOV. Not exactly “aspirational” at $84, but we’ll take it nonetheless.

Gallery: PSP Go KIRF makes due with NES emulation, generous codecs

[Via PMP Today]

Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVII: PXP-2000 aspires to little more than playing NES games, a host of video formats originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia has been handing out the N900 for selective “artsy” uses lately through its “Push” program, and the folks at Tinker it now! sure seem to have put their model to good use. They’ve paired the device with all matter of nostalgia, including a Rolodex, FM radio and a 3D Viewmaster. Our favorite by far, however, is the Speak & Spell hack, which puts the gargantuan Speak & Spell keyboard to good use in penning text messages for the N900 — which displays them in the classic font and even articulates your words with a speech synthesis engine. It’s all a testament to the flexibility of Linux, hacker ingenuity and of course liberal application of Arduino, but it’s also a little advertorial-ey, so you might want to leave your gag reflex at home for this one.

[Via Nokia Conversations]

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Peripherals

N900 hacked to replace the innards of a Speak & Spell, can never bring back your childhood originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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