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Toyota and Samsung turn your smartphone into a second display for your ride Feb 28th 2012, 08:55 Toyota and Samsung are pairing up to get the latter's smartphones to work perfectly with the former's vehicles. The duo will launch Samsung Mobile Car Application to sync your Android device to the in-vehicle-infotainment (IVI) systems of modern cars. You'll be able to use voice control and improve the accuracy of your GPS by hooking it up to mobile internet. At the minute it's just an announcement, we won't see any products entering the market until the second quarter of the year. They just wanted to tease, those lovable scamps. Continue reading Toyota and Samsung turn your smartphone into a second display for your ride Toyota and Samsung turn your smartphone into a second display for your ride originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Panasonic names Kazuhiro Tsuga as new president after old one loses $9 billion Feb 28th 2012, 07:54 In the aftermath of company losses that passed $9 billion, Panasonic has announced that Fumio Ohtsubo is to step down as company president. He'll be replaced by current senior executive Kazuhiro Tsuga in an executive reshuffle that'll take place in June, when Ohtsubo will step up to become chairman of the board, replacing Kunio Nakamura who is taking an "advisory role." Tsuga was formerly an exec. at Matsushita (before it was renamed... Panasonic. Confusing, we know), where he spent a lot of time thumbing his nose at HD DVD and promising that Blu-Ray would win the last format war -- so we know his instincts are at least halfway decent. Panasonic names Kazuhiro Tsuga as new president after old one loses $9 billion originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Bloomberg, Nikkei  |  Panasonic (Japanese PDF)  | Email this | Comments LG Optimus L-style series hands-on Feb 28th 2012, 07:14 LG's Optimus L-style family of (slightly more) affordable devices is here, packing a similar designer flavor to the Prada phone 3.0 alongside some reduced specifications. Three models made their debut here at MWC, from the 4.3-inch Optimus L7 to the dinkier 3.2-inch L3, with the 4-inch L5 offering a size and specification compromise right in the middle. Skip on past the break for some first impressions. Gallery: LG Optimus L-series hands-on at MWC 2012 Continue reading LG Optimus L-style series hands-on LG Optimus L-style series hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Canon EOS-1D X ship date slips into April, takes with it our hearts Feb 28th 2012, 07:08 Bad news camera aficionados, Canon's confirmed its mother of all cameras, the EOS-1D X, won't ship until the "end of April." Depending on how one counts, that's a lag of a month or two from its previously estimated "March" arrival. Unfortunate, as we were looking forward to it going tête-à-tête with its equally impressive crosstown rival from Nikon, which will nonchalantly make its March due date. On the bright side, though, now you've got ever more time to scrounge up the necessary $6,800 to purchase Canon's offering, in addition to re-reading our hands-on ad nauseum. Go on, you supply the clicks and we'll bring the tissues. Canon EOS-1D X ship date slips into April, takes with it our hearts originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink CNET  |  Imaging-Resource  | Email this | Comments

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