| Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile review Jun 28th 2012, 19:00  If three's a crowd, the Samsung Galaxy S III party in the US is about to get pretty stuffy. Having already reviewed AT&T and Sprint's variants -- not to mention the original I9300 before them -- we're now ready to put a third iteration through its paces, this time from the country's fourth-largest carrier, T-Mobile.
Of course, the phone itself needs no grand introduction, as it's fast become the new darling of the smartphone world. And rightfully so, in many respects: it's the first high-end device to launch on all four major mobile operators in the US (a feat in and of itself), and it's done so with minimal carrier branding, hardware changes or bloatware levies. It is, in essence, an unadulterated handset. The reason this piece of news is so wondrous is that it opens up your ability to choose your phone service based on the network, not on the actual phone each individual carrier offers.
Sadly, the big tradeoff here is the loss of an Exynos quad-core processor in exchange for a Snapdragon S4 dual-core chipset and additional RAM. Join us as we take a deeper look at the T-Mobile Galaxy S III. Is it the best phone on the network? Is it worth shelling out $280 (with a two-year contract) for the 16GB model? How well does it perform? This and more answers await you in our full review below. Continue reading Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile review Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Dolphin unveils Garage, API access for add-ons and web apps Jun 28th 2012, 18:32  The Dolphin browser has earned quite a following, by offering a healthy mix of speed and features. Now the company is opening up its offerings to further expansion though an open API service called Garage. The new portal opens up 150 APIs to third party developers who might want to build upon Dolphin's solid browser base, or integrate their web apps. As part of the launch of the Garage, four new add-ons have been added to the Dolphin repository. Dropbox, Evernote, Pocket and Wikipedia all now tie directly in to the browser's UI, exposing all the important features of those services. For more, check out the PR after the break and the Garage portal at the source. Continue reading Dolphin unveils Garage, API access for add-ons and web apps Dolphin unveils Garage, API access for add-ons and web apps originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  Dolphin Open Portal | Email this | Comments | | Sergey Brin hopes to bring Google Glass to market in 2014 Jun 28th 2012, 18:12  If you're not one of the lucky few who met Google's requirements (be a U.S. citizen attending IO) and don't have $1,500 to drop on an early dev unit of an unproven technology, you might be wondering, "when can I get my hands on Glass?" The answer, straight from Sergey Brin's mouth, is 2014... hopefully. The Google big wig told Bloomberg that, if all goes according to plan, Google Glass will become available to consumers en masse sometime in 2014. Of course, how much cheaper they'll be two years from now is anyone's guess. But we wouldn't expect the first-gen to be an impulse purchase. When you check out the video after the break, you might notice that Sergey is wearing a new set of Glass glasses (how's that for awkward sounding), these ones with some snap in shades. If you're wondering if progress could be made any faster, we wouldn't count on it. Brin says he spends more than half his time on this project -- which means Google is putting a lot of stock in the future of wearable computers. Check out the complete interview after the break. Continue reading Sergey Brin hopes to bring Google Glass to market in 2014 Sergey Brin hopes to bring Google Glass to market in 2014 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Yahoo! News | Bloomberg | Email this | Comments | | Google Compute Engine brings Linux virtual machines 'at Google scale' Jun 28th 2012, 17:47  As anticipated, Google has just launched its cloud service for businesses at Google I/O 2012, called Google Compute Engine. Starting today Urs Holzle announced "anyone with large-scale computing needs" can access the infrastructure and efficiency of Google's datacenters. The company is promising both performance and stability -- Amazon EC2 they're coming for you -- claiming "this is how infrastructure as a service is supposed to work". It's also promising "50 percent more computes per dollar" than competitors. Beta testers will be on hand at later meetings to give impressions of the service, if you want to know how running your apps on 700,000 (and counting) cores feels. During the presentation we got a demo of a genome app and we're sure if we understood what was going on, it would have been impressive. Hit the source links below for more details on "computing without limits" or to sign up for a test yourself. Check the live blog for more details as they're revealed. Check out our full coverage of Google I/O 2012's developer conference at our event hub! Google Compute Engine brings Linux virtual machines 'at Google scale' originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Google Developers Blog, Google Compute Engine | Email this | Comments | | Google announces offline editing for Docs, available later today Jun 28th 2012, 17:36  We're live at day two of I/O and the theme of this keynote is all about "Going Google." With this focus on Mountain View's various cloud-based apps, Clay Bavar, Director of Product Management for Google Apps, announced that Docs will now work offline for editing. In the onstage demo, Bavar was able to log into several devices, including a Nexus phone and tablet, to interact and collaborate in real-time on a document. Thanks to the smooth syncing at work, edits made from each device showed up as they were being entered, keystroke-by-keystroke. Now, those edits can also be created without a working internet connection and synced up later. You won't have to wait long, either, to take this offline mode for a test spin, as the feature will be enabled later in the day, with that functionality "coming soon" for presentations and spreadsheets. Check out the official PR after the break. Check out our full coverage of Google I/O 2012's developer conference at our event hub! Continue reading Google announces offline editing for Docs, available later today Google announces offline editing for Docs, available later today originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Google Drive client comes to Chrome OS and iOS, available today Jun 28th 2012, 17:33  Windows, Mac and Android users are no longer alone in their access to Google Drive's online repository. Now iOS and Chrome OS users can install a client and pull down their data and docs (though, the promised Linux client was nowhere to be seen at IO). The iOS app has all the features that make Drive drive great on Android, including OCR and picture recognition. As part of the demo, Clay Bavor, Director of Product Management for Google Apps, showed off the apps ability to decipher and index text from receipts he had taken a picture of. Perhaps more impressive though, was his ability to simply type "pyramids" and have his vacation snapshots pop up. There was no metadata attached to the images identifying them as the pyramids in Egypt, Google was able to recognize the landmarks by analyzing the photos. Obviously, Drive and seamless integration with it is key to Chrome OS's success. Now the browser-based OS finally has a native Drive client allowing you to quickly sync and access your data on the lightweight Linux machines. The ability to sync files with Chrome OS is great, but more importantly, an update to the web service has now made offline editing available -- perhaps the most requested feature. Now with offline access ironed out and all the major desktop and mobile OSes under it's belt Drive may actually be ready to challenge peripheral competitors like Dropbox. Check out our full coverage of Google I/O 2012's developer conference at our event hub! Google Drive client comes to Chrome OS and iOS, available today originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | |
