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Five years ago, stuffing a fully-functional WiFi radio into the size of a standard SD card would’ve seemed like science fiction — and actually, it kind of still does. Be that as it may, Eye-Fi is now well into its third generation of products, amazingly, and we’ve gotten a chance to check out the company’s newest top-of-the-line model that just recently started shipping, the Pro X2. Like the original Pro model before it, the Pro X2 is differentiated from its less pricey stablemates in two major ways: one, its support for RAW uploads, and two, its ability to connect to ad-hoc networks — in other words, you can wirelessly tether the card straight to your laptop rather than going through an access point. Where the Pro X2 gets the nod, though, is in what Eye-Fi calls the “X2 Engine,” a three-pack of features that includes 802.11n support, Class 6 SD performance, and a nifty feature coined Endless Memory. Let’s have a closer look at what’s changed — and for current Pro owners, whether the X2 warrants an upgrade.

Continue reading Eye-Fi Pro X2 review

Eye-Fi Pro X2 review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Motorola RAZR3 comes back from the dead for a very special hands-on video

Motorola RAZR3 comes back from the dead for a very special hands-on video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ASUS CEO Jerry Shen sure is making the rounds this week talking up the company’s upcoming entry into the tablet arena, but before giving up some more Eee Pad details he clarified that he doesn’t anticipate tablet sales surpassing that of netbooks. The latter category is for personal computing while tablets are based on consuming content and Cloud computing. Shen said something similar when we spoke with him at CeBIT, but this time he also added that without Apple the tablet category would have been slower to ramp up. We’d say he’s on the money with that one, but still he plans to launch an Eee tablet in early June at Computex. And though he mentioned there being a few versions, he revealed the “first phase will use Microsoft software.” We don’t know if that means the tablet will be Intel powered and run Windows 7, or pack a Tegra 2 processor and boot some version of Windows CE like we saw at CES. Regardless of what happens, we’d say Microsoft’s happy to hear this all after this week’s news.

ASUS CEO: netbooks will outsell tablets, Eee Pad to run ‘Microsoft software’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading PowerColor HD5970 Eyefinity 12 makes six screens yesterday’s news

PowerColor HD5970 Eyefinity 12 makes six screens yesterday’s news originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s pretty wild that neither Palm nor AT&T have fessed up to a release date for the GSM-ified versions of the Pre Plus or Pixi Plus yet — especially considering that there are already unboxings going on — but we’ve now got confirmation that dummy units (of the Pre Plus, anyhow) are filtering into retail stores, so it definitely shouldn’t be much longer now. Dummies of an updated version of the ultra-simple Pantech Breeze (uncreatively named Breeze 2) is also coming in, so between these two, you should pretty much be able to outfit every member of the family from grandpa to the newborn. Seriously though, AT&T — wait much longer on this release, and this sucker’s going to be obsolete.

[Thanks, Kal]

Palm Pre Plus, Pantech Breeze 2 dummies showing up in AT&T stores originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The first Asus netbook was a model with a 7 inch display. The Eee PC 701 was successful enough as a product to kick-start the netbook revolution, but it had a low resolution screen and a cramped keyboard. So about half a year after its launch, Asus introduced a series of models with 8.9 inch [...]

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Asus brings back the 9 inch netbook with the Eee PC 900AX

The Engadget Podcasters ‘double down’ on the juicy goss from this week. And when we say “juicy goss from this week” it means more than in other weeks – like if the juice were from a succulent, perfectly ripened, just about to fall from the vine grapefruit of a gossip week as opposed to a shriveled, 2-month old lime you forgot to use that’s been sitting out in the sun of a gossip week.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
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00:02:37 – HP buys Palm
00:03:03 – HP: ‘We’re doubling down on webOS,’ Palm: ‘That was the whole point’
00:03:15 – HP: opportunities for webOS ’smartphones, slates, and potentially netbooks’
00:08:55 – HP buys Palm: the liveblog
00:21:00 – HP and Palm: what happens next
00:30:40 – Palm Developer Day reveals interesting bits on the webOS 2010 roadmap
00:40:00 – Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop
00:49:09 – Microsoft says Android infringes on its patents, licenses HTC (update: talking to other Android manufacturers as well)
00:56:25 – Steve Jobs publishes some ‘thoughts on Flash’… many, many thoughts on Flash
00:58:21 – Adobe’s CEO: Jobs’ Flash letter is a ’smokescreen’ for ‘cumbersome’ restrictions
01:17:03 – RIM shows off BlackBerry 6 on video
01:19:40 – BlackBerry Bold 9650 hands-on: yeah, it’s a Tour with an optical pad
01:19:50 – BlackBerry Pearl 3G first hands-on!
01:22:28 – Engadget app update: iPhone app passes the 1m download mark, Android and webOS get an update!


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Engadget Podcast 194 – 04.30.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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