| Engadget Podcast 297: E3 Hotel Party Edition - 06.07.2012 Jun 7th 2012, 14:59 Live, on tape, from downtown Los Angeles, it's Wednesday Night!, from room 827 of the Luxe Hotel, directly across from the seventeenth annual Electronic Entertainment Expo and six floors above a raging gamer party. It's chock full of accessories, Guinness-record-smashing tablet gaming, and stale, if not uninformative Wayne's World references. You wouldn't have it any other way, would you? Host: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater, Michael Gorman, Billy Steele
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Orbital - Never 00:06:15 - Engadget pre-event broadcast from E3 - Nintendo
00:08:10 - Nintendo Wii U and games hands-on (video)
00:23:50 - Microsoft SmartGlass hands-on
00:35:00 - Microsoft's Marc Whitten: SmartGlass is the 'enabling technology' of IE on Xbox 360
00:48:54 - Mad Catz unleashes the Wii U accessories at E3, we go hands-on
00:52:53 - Sony's Wonderbook is PS Move-augmented reading, launches with J.K. Rowling's 'Book of Spells'
00:58:50 - Sony PlayStation Move Racing Wheel hands-on (video)
01:00:00 - HTC officially a maker of PlayStation certified handsets, PlayStation Suite is now PlayStation Mobile
01:06:00 - IndieCade at E3 2012
01:07:15 - Visualized: the Videogame History Museum's touring exhibit
01:09:48 - Visualized: what your screen looks like after 22 straight hours of Fruit Ninja
01:15:25 - NBA Baller Beats adds a real basketball to your Kinect arsenal, we attempt to go hands-on (video)
01:19:00 - Best of E3
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Twitter: @bheater, @tim_stevens @numeson @wmsteele Filed under: Podcasts Engadget Podcast 297: E3 Hotel Party Edition - 06.07.2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Samsung ChatON messaging app comes to Windows Phone, cross-platform party planned Jun 7th 2012, 14:21  Continuing to (perhaps unintentionally) kick SMS messaging to the curb, Samsung's taken another, admittedly smaller, chunk of the smartphone crowd, announcing its ChatON messaging app for Windows Phone. It has already claimed a place on Android, Bada, iOS, and BlackBerry devices, plus its own web-based client. Now the app's finally ready to embrace those long-suffering Samsung-made Windows Phones -- it's apparently available to download from the phone-based marketplace. Unfortunately, the link has gone inert on the web store, so you'll have to hit up the dedicated Samsung zone on your phone to grab the messaging service. Let's hope Victoria Justice is still looking to party. Samsung ChatON messaging app comes to Windows Phone, cross-platform party planned originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  WPCentral | | Email this | Comments | | Toshiba Excite 10 review: a 10-inch ICS tablet that puts the Thrive to shame Jun 7th 2012, 14:00  In the tablet market, big as it is, one notion generally holds true: thinner equals better. Toshiba, for example, surely tried to equate a svelte silhouette with a premium product in its super-slim Excite 10 LE. And indeed, its 1.18-pound body and solid Honeycomb experience add up to tablet that puts Toshiba's earlier Thrives to shame. That $530 model is definitely priced like a high-end tablet, but it's accompanied by a new, lower-priced Toshiba slate, the Excite 10. For $450, you get a tablet with a tad more meat on its bones, but that increase in weight and thickness comes with some more powerful specs: a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor with 1GB of RAM -- not to mention Ice Cream Sandwich. While you can probably guess which of these slates makes a stronger contender (hint: the one without the "LE"), figuring out the Toshiba Excite 10's place in the grand hierarchy of tablets takes a little more exploration. Luckily, that's what we're here for, so join us past the break as we do our best to get through the review without a single "excite" pun. Continue reading Toshiba Excite 10 review: a 10-inch ICS tablet that puts the Thrive to shame Toshiba Excite 10 review: a 10-inch ICS tablet that puts the Thrive to shame originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | THD N2-A is a KIRF MacBook Air that runs Ice Cream Sandwich for $149, we go hands-on (video) Jun 7th 2012, 13:28  It wouldn't be Computex without some KIRF Apple products. And what we have today isn't quite a MacBook Air. But it's amazingly close. The N2-A, as it's known in the OEM underground, is one of the most impressive MacBook Air lookalikes we've seen -- and one of the cheapest. $74,500 will net you 500 of these lovely 13.3-inch bundles of almost-Mac goodness, which comes out to just $149 apiece. The THD (Thread Technology Co.)-made clamshell comes complete with an LED-backlit 1366 x 768 LCD, 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 1 gig of DDR3 RAM and 8 gigs of SSD storage. There's also built-in 802.11b/g/n WiFi (we're a bit devastated about the lack of 802.11ac), and the option to add a 3G dongle or Ethernet adapter via the pair of USB 2.0 ports. As you may have gathered from the image, there's a full-size QWERTY keyboard and a familiar, yet incredibly mediocre trackpad, along with a 2-cell 4200 mAh battery (rated to 8 hours), an SD card slot, a not-so-MagSafe 110-240-volt AC adapter, a headphone out, mic in and an HDMI port. In typical MacBook Air fashion, the N2-A is very thin and quite light (1.55 kilograms or 3.4 pounds) -- it's not as svelte as a top-of-the-line ICS tablet, but it's manageable for sure. While it may look perfectly fine on camera, the device's build quality certainly isn't up to Apple's standards -- but then again, it doesn't cost $1,000+. After a few busy trade show days, the trackpad was noticeably scratched up, with plenty of other blemishes around the silver case to boot, along with some warping here and there. The N2-A wasn't hideous by any stretch, even upon close inspection, but any Apple newbie would be able to recognize that this didn't come out of Cupertino, even before noticing the missing Apple logo and the added Windows key (it's there to support the nearly identical N2-C, which adds a dual-core Atom processor and Windows 7 support). ICS felt quite snappy, though without a touchscreen you're forced to use the unimpressive trackpad, which wasn't responsive enough for regular use. (You can always sacrifice portability and use a USB mouse instead.) Overall, the N2-A is a pretty slick device -- not to mention quite a bit of fun. Don't expect to see this KIRF in any stores in the US -- you'll need to order 500 units or more directly from THD to take advantage of that $149 price tag, though we may see the Android laptop make its way to the public through third-party channels, perhaps with a retail price of about $200. For now, you can take a closer look in our meaty gallery below, or in the hands-on video after the break. Continue reading THD N2-A is a KIRF MacBook Air that runs Ice Cream Sandwich for $149, we go hands-on (video) THD N2-A is a KIRF MacBook Air that runs Ice Cream Sandwich for $149, we go hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Netbooknews.com | | Email this | Comments | |
