It’s Monday, and we know that getting the week started can be tough. We’re here to help by letting you peek into the recording booth when the Engadget HD podcast goes to tape at 4:30 pm . Think of it as a kind of time machine that will help you power through your day by reviewing what happened in the week HD-wise
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Not sure if you heard, but some “stuff” happened in the mobile industry this week — stuff we’d like to talk about, if that’s quite alright with you.
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Engadget is live in Barcelona at Samsung’s big show. We’re expecting the first Bada handset to arrive in all its glory, but who knows what surprises might be in store.
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Live from Samsung’s 2010 WMC press event
We don’t know much about this thing, Ikonoskop is only teasing the bare minimum of specs, but while we don’t expect to be able to afford it, the upcoming A-cam3D is certainly an object of lust. The company has cut its teeth on a $10k 1080p RAW camera, the A-cam dII, and now it’s taking that same tech into the realm of 3D.
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Ikonoskop teases A-cam3D to shoot 1080p RAW video in stereo
Finally, after closing 18% of its manufacturing facilities and cutting 20,000 heads across its global organization, Sony just posted a profit for the quarter. We’re talking an operating profit of ¥146 billion ($1.5 billion) for the quarter on ¥2.2 trillion in sales. Sony’s net profitability came in at ¥79.2 billion after three straight quarters of losses , handily beating The Street’s mean estimate of ¥33.73 billion sending stock up some 4% at the time of this post.
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Sony returns to profitability as core electronics business struggles
Apple might have finally released the iPad , but the rumor mill is already on to prognosticating about the next rev — and as usual, Apple’s patents and patent applications are everyone’s favorite place to start. (And for good reason, really — that very first design patent we inititally noticed way back in 2004 is exactly what the iPad looks like, down to the bezel and Dock connector.) The latest tidbit is a patent granted earlier this week on an intelligent touch-sensitive bezel, which would essentially extend the touchpanel beyoned the edges of the screen to create an entire border of context-specific soft buttons — the iPod app might have playback controls at the bottom, while Safari could put the navigation bar down there and Pages could do formatting stuff at the top.
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Apple gets a patent on smart screen bezels
Oh, Symbian, you tease ! For an organization as committed to openness and sharing its roadmap (and its code) as the Symbian Foundation , it’s pretty unusual that they’d be counting down to a big unveiling of anything — but sure enough, they’ve been tweeting decreasing numbers with the hashtag “#symbiancountdown” starting back on January 26 with 108. Today we’re down to 12 (it’s hard to say what sort of jacked-up counting system they’re using here) with a note of “what will tomorrow bring?” so it looks like we can expect this all to go down in just a few short hours.
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Symbian’s revealing something tomorrow, but what? (update: open source!)
Yes, we’ve seen this puppy before — but last time, we’d merely heard it was running Android. This time around, we’ve got a little more confirmation that the so-called Zeppelin from Moto is sporting Google code (allegedly Cupcake , sadly) with a dash of Blur added in for good measure.
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Motorola Zeppelin spotted again, Android-ness confirmed
In a country whose carriers’ phone lineups are dominated by domestic giants like NEC, Sony, Sharp, and Fujitsu, you wouldn’t necessarily think that the road to 4G would begin elsewhere — strangely, though, South Korea’s LG has garnered the honor of becoming the first company to have an LTE device certified by Japan’s TELEC, a necessary, FCC-like step to getting cellular equipment deployed in those parts. NTT DoCoMo, which intends to launch commercial LTE service later this year, is undoubtedly stoked to hear that the LD100 external modem is the lucky recipient of TELEC’s seal of approval (following FCC certification last year, coincidentally), meaning the carrier now has the green light to use it in trials.
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Japan certifies its first LTE device, LG says ‘whoa, ours?’
Remember back at CES, when we got ahold of Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 ?
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Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 now available in US for $850
