The room is utterly packed at Samsung’s IFA presser, and it’s not hard to figure out why: Samsung typically goes wild at this show, and with the Galaxy Tab leading this year’s lineup, it looks like we’ve got another winner on our hands. Follow along after the break! Continue reading Live from Samsung IFA 2010 press event Live from Samsung IFA 2010 press event originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:59:00 EDT
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Live from Samsung IFA 2010 press event
Been wondering how much T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ phone will set you back? Why, it’s that most generic of all smartphone prices: $199 with a two-year commitment or $499 without. To be fair to T-Mo, the G2 was one phone that it could plausibly have upmarked to, say $249, as Sprint has done with the Epic 4G , but nope, it’s landing squarely in the middle of the well beaten path to smartphone sales.
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T-Mobile G2 priced at $199 with contract, $499 without, by latest leak
Infineon , the company behind the baseband chips inside your super-duper new phone , is about to cash out from the wireless industry courtesy of Intel’s insatiable appetite . The Wireless Solutions Business (WLS), which accounted for nearly a third of Infineon’s €3 billion ($3.83b) revenue last year, is being sold to the American chipmaker for a cool $1.4 billion. For its part, Intel is quick to reassure the world (and its antitrust authorities) that WLS will continue to operate as a standalone business and continue to support ARM-based devices
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Intel gobbles up Infineon’s mobile unit in $1.4 billion deal, looks to ‘accelerate 4G LTE’
We have a fondness for Commodore computers (as you’ve probably noticed by now) and we are psyched that Commodore USA is still flying the flag for the once-ubiquitous brand, but as they always are in this biz, things are a little… complicated. We were first contacted way back in March when the company shared the news that it had acquired the rights to sell PCs under the name
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Commodore USA announces the PC64, an Atom-powered PC in a replica Commodore case
This actually happened a few days ago, but since we admittedly weren’t on the lookout for hot filings from Chinese manufacturer ZTE, we totally missed it until we circled back for our FCC Fridays roundup this week. That’s right: what you’re looking at above is a non-carrier-branded version of the Fivespot global mobile hotspot for Verizon that we’d broke the news on last month — and if you sift through the user’s manual in the FCC filing, you’ll see that this is indeed the same thing as the Verizon device.
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Verizon’s Fivespot gets FCC approval by way of ZTE
The NFL is serious business.
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NFL mulling microchips in footballs for those life-or-death goal line rulings
Off the shelf 3D HDTVs may still be a bit expensive from a consumer’s point of view, but they’re a downright bargain compared to the usual high-end virtual reality gear. This gave some researchers at UC San Diego a bright idea: they’ve paired a $2,300 Samsung 3D TV with a half-silvered mirror and a touch-feedback controller for a haptic -enabled heads-up virtual reality system (or HUVR) that costs just $7,000 (without head tracking)
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UC San Diego researchers repurpose 3D HDTV for heads-up VR system
Acer’s 6-inch LumiRead e-reader just hit the FCC, but there’s not a lot to learn — the company smartly withheld the user’s manual and detailed images, so all we have are the triplicate forms of stalwart government employees trying to irradiate themselves. Those thankfully painless tests reveal that the Kindle-alike will have standard 802.11b/g WiFi alongside its monochrome E Ink screen, and the whole 532MHz Freescale iMX357 kit will be powered by a 3.7V, 1460mAh battery. Exciting stuff, we know
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Acer’s LumiRead 600 hits the FCC with slow bursts of 2.4GHz radiation
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 has been out and about for some time, facing off against the competition and predictably getting ripped to shreds . Now it has reached the next natural step of its evolution: receiving the root treatment by a bloke at xda-developers
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has been rooted, all is right with the world
