Welcome to Engadget’s Back to School guide! We know that this time of year can be pretty annoying and stressful for everyone, so we’re here to help out with the heartbreaking process of gadget buying for the school-aged crowd.
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Engadget’s back to school guide: Televisions
Got yourself a Sony Dash , did you? If so, right about now would be a beautiful time to unplug it and plug it back in, as that’ll trigger a minty fresh update to download and apply. This newfangled software build will not only add Shoutcast as an available internet radio station, but it also brings app shortcuts and a hastened add / delete app process
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Sony Dash update brings Shoutcast, app shortcuts and the true meaning of life
We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Jon, who just needs something to give him loads of glanceable information moments before he drifts off into the land of fairies, unicorns and deep-friend cotton candy. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com
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Ask Engadget: best media display / internet viewer for bedside?
The conclusion to the sudden flurry of rumors around Sony HDTVs featuring Android , Intel Atom processors and Logitech-designed QWERTY remotes may be near, as Bloomberg Businessweek reports the project will be revealed during Google I/O next month. The latest wrinkle for the supposed product is a name, “Dragonpoint,” for the new flavor of Android destined to operate on displays, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes. It’s obvious that Google wants search in the living room, Sony needs something to overcome the app (Samsung is back on the list of possible partners) and widget powered competition , and Intel needs a home for its CE4100 chips to show off their power outside of a demonstration for once, but we’ll have to wait and see what they’ve cooked up to know if we need any of that in our next HDTV.
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Google, Sony, Intel & Logitech’s TV project to be unveiled next month as Dragonpoint?
So you spend hours and hours toiling away on an app that adds some much-needed Dashboard-like functionality to the iPad (sort of, more on that later) only to have it rejected by Apple — what do you do? If you’re Hongrich, developer of the slightly problematically-named “Dashboard” app, you make it open source. Of course, you’ll have to be a developer yourself to actually try out the app, and it’s not exactly the full-fledged Dashboard that many have been hoping for, but rather a standalone app that simply lets you run and arrange widgets however you like.
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Dashboard iPad app rejected by Apple, made open source instead
VIZIO’s finally seen fit to bless the world with further details of its 2010 LCD lineup for the benefit of those without the scratch to ring up an XVT Pro 3D model this August . The XVT Series continues on its LED backlit way, with VIZIO Internet Apps , 802.11n and Bluetooth QWERTY remote in 42- to 55-inch sizes, waiting until May or later to buy should net an extra HDMI jack and updated StudioSound HD. Everything below that, from the 37- to 16-inch HDTVs get the Razor LED edge lit treatment, with a few snagging other bonuses along the way like VIA and 120Hz motion processing.
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VIZIO’s 2010 LCD lineup is LED from top to bottom
HTC was already in the Android software game by virtue of the fact that it drops a fully-customized UI and widget suite on some of its models, but this is new: they’ve migrated over to the Market. Now, what’d be insanely awesome here is if you could, say, buy Sense for $9.99 and install it on any Android device, but yeah, not so much — what we’ve actually got here is a four-pack of free widgets that are compatible with the Hero and Droid Eris
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HTC debuts widgets for Sense-equipped Android phones
Hikari’s iFrame (as opposed to the other , Ubuntu-sportin’ iFrame from a while back) is an Android-powered tablet with a skin that’s heavy on the widgets and — in case you’re still intimidated by its difficulty — is also being touted as a photoframe for people who don’t mind ugly photoframes. Ideally suited for the kitchen or living room (and, as such, is being marketed towards women — which we find pretty condescending, truth be told) this bad boy features a 7-inch touchscreen display, SD memory card slot, and WiFi. Due out in Japan sometime next year (no word yet on a stateside release date) look to pay anywhere between $220 and $330 (with the company giving credit to the OS for the low price point)
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Hikari to unleash iFrame Android tablet on Japan (video)
We know you love widgets, so feast your eyes on this: RIM has just announced a software development kit for creating web-based widgets on the BlackBerry platform.
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RIM posts new BlackBerry widget APIs, dev kit
Just a few weeks after debuting its Twitter and Facebook widgets , Verizon is refreshing them by giving viewers an onscreen cellphone-style keyboard to mash out their own tweets and Facebook status updates from the remote. Though we wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to just use ones actual cellphone to spread your inane viewing habits amongst those unlucky enough to count you as a friend, the services have apparently been quite popular so far, with millions of Tweets and Facebook photos viewed since it was released. As usual, the free apps can be found in the Widget Bazaar, where Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir will be looking for more tools that “engage viewers” once the SDK is released later this year
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Updated FiOS Twitter and Facebook widgets add onscreen keyboard, not friends or followers
