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Actually, T-Mobile will do you one better than merely putting a date on the release of the low-end Sentio touchphone — they’ll just go ahead and release it today to make it the carrier’s first LG phone ever. That’s right: you can now pick up the Sentio in-store and online for $69.99 on contract after $50 mail-in rebate, giving you a trio of threes — 3-inch display, 3 megapixel cam, and 3G data — as long as you’re happy with a soft-touch blue finish, which is the only option at the moment. Until a good Android phone gets this cheap stateside, we suppose this’ll have to do.
LG Sentio priced, dated for T-Mobile originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Chris Ziegler
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What did JFK, Obama, and Martin Luther King Jr. all have in common? If you believe the makers of You Prompt-It!, it’s the ability to use a
teleprompter. And now you can join the pantheon of important Americans who inspire us regular schlubs to greatness. What does your $130 get you? Tripod, base, beamsplitter glass display, and a carrying case. Fits your iPhone or iPhone-esque device, and will sit comfortably on your laptop. To get that scrolling text effect, the manufacturer suggests that you check out the PROPROMPTER app from the App Store. What are you waiting for? We’re quite frankly getting sick of all the hemming and hawing on your YouTube rants. Maybe
now you can start winning people over with your “Larry King is an alien from the future” message — it’s worth a shot at least. A video, of sorts, after the break
Continue reading Prompt-It iPhone teleprompter perfect for business meetings, Internet cranks
Prompt-It iPhone teleprompter perfect for business meetings, Internet cranks originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Joseph L. Flatley
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Apple hasn’t been shy about dropping support for older hardware and software in recent years, and it looks like the iPhone and iPod touch are no exception: according to a short note on the iPhone developer site encouraging devs to get ready for iOS 4, the App Store will no longer affect apps that target iOS 2. That doesn’t really mean much right now — apart from a few iPod touch owners who didn’t pay the $10 iOS 3 upgrade fee, we doubt there are many people out there still running iOS 2 — but we can see Apple dropping support for iOS 3 apps next year when iOS 5 and a new iPhone are announced, and that’ll effectively be the end of the original iPhone and touch, which can’t be upgraded to iOS 4. That’s a four-year shelf life, which isn’t too bad considering the insane pace of mobile development, but we can still shed a tear — especially since we paid $599 for the damn thing on contract way back when.
iPhone OS 2 apps no longer welcome on the App Store originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Nilay Patel
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Not feeling hot about the trouble-prone iPhone 4, but still tempted by its optional iMovie app? Now you have a choice! Turns out to run said app on other devices (including iPod touch, supposedly) running iOS 3.0 and above, all you need are a jailbroken iOS device, iMovie for iPhone from the App Store, and two quick edits in the app’s info.plist file — change minimum system version to “3.0.0″ and front-facing-camera to “false.” Sounds easy enough, although we’ve yet to see the hacked app actually running on devices other than the 3GS demoed in the video after the break. And sorry, Redmond Pie’s already confirmed that this sucker doesn’t work on the iPad… yet.
Continue reading iMovie for iPhone gets a cheeky hack for jailbroken 3GS, runs well-oiled
iMovie for iPhone gets a cheeky hack for jailbroken 3GS, runs well-oiled originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Richard Lai
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You didn’t think the folks at iFixit would simply teardown the iPhone 4 and call it a day, did you? They’ve now gone the extra mile and done a detailed teardown of the iPhone 4′s gyroscope with a little help from Chipworks. That’s of course a MEMS (or microelectromechanical system) gyroscope and, according to Chipworks, nearly identical to an off-the-shelf STMicroelectronics L3G4200D gyroscope, which is actually what they used for the teardown. What’s more, they also went even further and put another gyroscope (not used in the iPhone 4) under an electron microscope just to illustrate how incredibly complex and minute the structure of MEMS gyroscopes are. Head on past the break for a glimpse of that, and hit up the link below for the complete teardown.
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iFixit and Chipworks teardown the iPhone 4′s gyroscope originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Donald Melanson
Posted on 30 June 2010 by
That didn’t take too long, did it? That pulled EVO 4G update promising a handful of fixes for WiFi, Exchange, and battery life (no Froyo yet, sorry) is back online according to our contacts at Sprint — and indeed, we’re getting prompted on our own unit, so that’s that. Go forth, readers; get your update on, now with less brick than ever before.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Latest EVO 4G update is back online, presumably won’t brick your phone this time originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Chris Ziegler
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From the front it looks like any other iPhone 4, but flip it around and a glint might catch your eye — that’s the doing of Russian technology tailor Gresso, who’s embedded Swarovski crystals and an 18-karat golden Apple logo in a sheet of African Blackwood attached to the device. As usual, one wonders why anyone would bother, but honestly we can’t complain — the design is worlds more tasteful than the solid gold and diamond-encrusted contraptions we’re used to seeing. Expect the dainty dillantante to arrive in December at a surprisingly reasonable $3,500, or $3,000 for the male-targeted version at right. Of course, if you’ve got that kind of money to spend, you want one now, right? Good news: the iPhone 3GS gets the same luxurious treatment — and price — in July.
[Thanks, Bob]
Gresso gussies up iPhone 4 with rare wooden veneer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Sean Hollister
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Care about Samsung‘s GT-B3730? Probably not… but what if we told you that that very device is the planet’s first commercially available dual-mode LTE / 3G WWAN modem? Now that we’ve got your attention, you may be interested in knowing that overseas operator TeliaSonera — hailed as the first carrier on the planet to fire up an LTE network and make it available to Joe and Jane last year — is just about ready to start shipping the aforesaid Samsung. As of now, the only way to hop onto their LTE superhighway is with a 4G-only modem, and while it had promised a two-faced stick in the second quarter of 2010, we’re elated to finally put a face to a promise. The primary downside is that there’s no current way for the USB modem to switch from LTE to 3G (or vice-versa) on the fly; instead, you’ll need to kill the connection and start a new one when you leave / enter a 4G zone. Purportedly, the stick will play nice with both Windows and OS X, and it can hit real-world download rates as high as 80Mbps and upload rates of 16Mbps. Suddenly, a relocation to Sweden seems altogether more inviting, no?
TeliaSonera gears up to ship first dual-mode LTE / 3G USB WWAN modem originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original post by Darren Murph
