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Acer Liquid Glow: Glossy-coated ICS phone to show up at MWC Feb 24th 2012, 13:41 One phone is never enough. Acer's revealed that it's bringing a second handset to Barcelona next week and it's got that Ice Cream Sandwich we know you love. With a 3.7-inch WVGA (800 x 480) display, the Liquid Glow packs a 1GHz processor and a 5-megapixel camera underneath that glossy colored shell. Those underwhelming specs are pepped up a bit with the promise of Android 4.0, but we still expect those gentle specifications will keep the phone pretty keenly priced -- it's unlikely to go toe-to-toe with its quad-core sibling. Acer says that we can expect it to arrive in the UK this summer, but we'll be sure to try it out ahead of that in just a few days. Continue reading Acer Liquid Glow: Glossy-coated ICS phone to show up at MWC Acer Liquid Glow: Glossy-coated ICS phone to show up at MWC originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Pocket-lint  |  Acer  | Email this | Comments Roll out the red carpet -- Distro Issue 29 presents the Engadget Awards Feb 24th 2012, 13:15 You won't see our nominees flashing smiles and diamonds on a step and repeat, but the 2011 Engadget Awards are here and we've got all the winners in this week's issue of Distro. Alongside these champions of consumer electronics, we'll be scrutinizing Pantech's waterproof tablet, the Element, and its budget-friendly LTE handset, the Burst, as well as Sony's Walkman Z. We'll also give Apple's latest OS refresh a thorough once over in our in-depth preview of OS X Mountain Lion. In addition, the father of Nerdcore, MC Frontalot, answers our burning questions, we bring you our latest Recommended Reading and Box Brown takes Cupertino's big cats to task for Last Word. So, if you've been wondering who (or what) played second fiddle to Honda's ASIMO for robot of the year, there's only one way to find out: get to downloading! Distro Issue 29 PDF Distro on the iTunes App Store Distro in the Android Market Distro APK (for sideloading) Like Distro on Facebook Follow Distro on Twitter Roll out the red carpet -- Distro Issue 29 presents the Engadget Awards originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  iTunes, Android Market  | Email this | Comments Face-recognizing billboard ad identifies gender: no boys allowed (video) Feb 24th 2012, 12:44 A new face recognition ad will only reveal its full contents to women. It uses a "high-definition" camera to scan people's faces, detecting their gender with an apparent 90 percent success rate. The charity, Plan UK, is looking to raise funds to sponsor education for girls living in developing countries; the outdoor display will run the full advert for female viewers, while men will get a brief glimpse followed by directions to the charity's website. It's aiming to demonstrate the limits put on young women in some countries -- and is a pretty admirable use of facial recognition technology. Well, it's not withholding pudding from minors. Check the bus display in action on the streets of London right after the break. Continue reading Face-recognizing billboard ad identifies gender: no boys allowed (video) Face-recognizing billboard ad identifies gender: no boys allowed (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Time  |  Plan UK  | Email this | Comments Fraunhofer's Full-HD Voice brings high fidelity VoLTE to Android smartphones Feb 24th 2012, 12:19 The audio nerds at Fraunhofer are set to raise the bar for Voice over LTE next week in Barcelona, as the company has announced a new technology known as Full-HD Voice. By leveraging the AAC-ELD codec, Fraunhofer claims that consumers will experience audio quality that rivals the experience of chatting face-to-face. Technically speaking, it's said the codec offers four times the audio bandwidth of regular phone calls and twice the bandwidth of HD voice services, all without an increase in bit rate. The technology will only be available for Android phones initially, but that seems like a fine place to start. The full PR is after the break -- presented in Full HD, of course. Continue reading Fraunhofer's Full-HD Voice brings high fidelity VoLTE to Android smartphones Fraunhofer's Full-HD Voice brings high fidelity VoLTE to Android smartphones originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

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