Archive for February, 2009

“Close to perfect” — the 17-inch MacBook Pro

“At 6.6 pounds and 0.98 inches thick,” reports Dana Wollman (laptopmag.com), ”the 17-inch MacBook Pro is the world’s thinnest and lightest notebook with that size display.” Wollman calls it a ” a superior desktop replacement with epic battery life that you can take almost anywhere.” An “Editors’ Choice” at Laptop Mag, the 17-inch MacBook Pro […]

Nokia’s XpressMusic 5800 troubled with speaker and NAM radio woes?

Seems all’s not rosy in North American XpressMusic 5800-land, as tipsters and forums are buzzing with reports that the newly launched touchscreen isn’t connecting to 3G. We did a little spelunking on the newly launched set ourselves, and we can confirm that 3G appears to be a complete no-go — GSM works fine, but apart […]

NTT DoCoMo’s overheating BlackBerry Bold not caused by battery, says RIM

While RIM and Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo still don’t know why their BlackBerry Bold is feeling a little toasty around the keyboard, the duo has ruled out a likely culprit, the battery, as its unwelcome heat source. Word on the street is an estimated 30 people have issued complaints about the mobile device heating up […]

Dell’s 22-inch LED-backlit G-Series LCD now available in renewable quantities

After teasing its entries last month and offering up the 24-inch G2410 a couple days ago, Dell’s officially rounding out its eco-game on the desktop panel scene with the 22-inch G2210, a display so energy efficient it can only display pictures of windmills and solar panels (seriously, hit the read link). The 22-incher has an […]

The Engadget Interview: Paul Aiken, Executive Director of the Authors Guild

digg_url = \’http://digg.com/gadgets/Engadget_takes_on_the_Authors_Guild_about_the_Kindle\’; As you’re no doubt aware, this week’s launch of the Kindle 2 came complete with copyright controversy — the Authors Guild says that Amazon’s text-to-speech features will damage the lucrative audiobook market. To be perfectly frank, we’re of two minds on on this debate: on one hand, we’re obviously all for the […]

Jobo unveils two new GIGA photo storage devices

Just in case you really needed yetanother alternative in the portable photo storage drive department, Jobo is doing you one better — introducing two new devices. Both the GIGA Vu Sonic and GIGA One Sonic will download up to 1GB in 30 seconds, and both feature RAW decoding, up to 250GB storage, and a 3.2-inch […]

Engadget’s recession antidote: win a Kodak Zi6 pocket HD camcorder!

This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget […]

Nokia laptop a Snapdragon or Atom-based netbook?

Adding further fuel and confusion to the Nokia laptop fire sparked by yesterday’s comments from CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasuvo, we have DigiTimes reporting that Nokia is actively seeking Taiwanese manufacturing and design partners for its netbook — a very specific laptop form-factor. DigiTimes‘ sources wag their gossipy fingers in the direction of Compal and Foxconn (aka, […]

Engadget Podcast 135 - 02.27.2009

After last week’s international extravaganza from MWC, everybody’s back in the land of freedom and opportunity for this week’s Engadget Podcast. Josh, Nilay and Paul chat up the Kindle 2 in matters both philosophical and legal, Josh brags about his new non-glossy MacBook Pro 17-incher, and things get really heated when the red Xbox 360 […]

How would you change Apple’s Rev. B MacBook Air?

Generally speaking, we wouldn’t bother asking you how you’d change the second iteration of something, but Apple’s MacBook Air is a different beast. Given how Apple maintained a lot of those severe limitations the second go round (see: single USB port, non-removable battery, etc.), we’re extra curious to see how you want the next round […]