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So you’ve read our extensive BlackBerry Storm review and, despite feeling disappointment about it not living up to the hype, can’t help but wonder just what makes the thing tick click. While we were a bit too squeamish to rip one of ours apart and find out, phoneWreck felt no qualms about turning this week’s [...]

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Are you one of those thrifty-types who’s always looking for an angle, always trying to stretch every last penny? You know who we’re talking about: Montel Williams bases whole episodes around you, the kind of person who reuses tea bags and separates sheets of triple-ply paper towels. Unfortunately, it now looks like you now have [...]

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My, my — how’s this for truth in advertising? Palm InfoCenter has confirmed with a Palm spokesperson that the flagging outfit will be laying off an undisclosed amount of employees as the economy worsens and the firm attempts to keep that final nail from being slammed down on its coffin. According to the spokesperson, the [...]

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Back for more, eh? Well you’ve come to the right place — the Engadget Podcast! Join Josh, Paul, and Nilay as they take you on a magical journey through the trials and tribulations of the BlackBerry Storm, investigate the legal situation of the Apple-cloning operation known as Psystar, dish on the latest Zune and [...]

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Need another reason to live in America’s other bastion of social liberalism and homelessness? How about a billion electric vehicle re-charging infrastructure in the Bay Area? Palo Alto’s Better Place is finally bringing its ambitious, city-wide electrical grid and battery exchange service home after staking plans to do the same in Israel, Denmark, and [...]

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Okay, so this adapter doesn’t directly convert a FireWire 400 socket into a USB port, but for all intents and purposes here, it does as much. You see, Scosche’s Passport was designed to channel the energy from older FireWire-based iPod charging gear into the USB prongs that the newer iPhone / iPods only accept. Macworld [...]

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Usually when we’re talking about Nokia and patents, a mention of Qualcomm can’t be far behind. This time however, we’re looking at something entirely less boring, fascinating even: ultra-sound sensors that detect hand gestures in the air in front of the device. Now the stretch. Nokia’s chief designer, Alastair Curtis, was asked at a [...]

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With Chrysler pushing out an internet-connected package of its own, Mercedes-Benz is attempting to stay one step ahead with the intelligent, intuitive myCOMMAND system. Our pals at Autoblog were able to get a bit of hands-on time with the new setup at the LA Auto Show, and they were kind enough to host up a [...]

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Intel’s new Core i7 chip has been showing up in tons of silly-spec’d high-end gaming rigs for about three days now, so it’s obviously time to get bored and move on — and right on cue, TechRadar’s got the first benchmarks we’ve seen of the upcoming dual-processor Nehalem EP platform. The secret test machine featured [...]

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While we don’t expect it to be the type of interface that’ll replace touch screens anytime soon, Bandai is certainly forging some interesting new ground with its so-called Tuttuki Bako device, or “poking box,” which actually lets you stick your finger right into the device to control the on-screen finger. That’s apparently done with the [...]

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