Xperia X10 Hands-On Shows Why We Have To Wait Until 2010

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Sony Ericsson unveiled today their first Android phone with the Xperia X10 formerly known as Xperia X3.
The Xperia X10 looks like a great Android smartphone with a cool UI dubbed UX, powered by the 1Ghz Snap Dragon CPU and a big 4-inch screen.
Engadget had the opportunity to get hands-on with a pre-production model of the Xperia X10. The hands-on video shows that the graphics performance is still far from what the promo video suggests. The software is apparently still in a much unfinished state also.
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Posted on Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:18:48 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Motorola Droid Hands-On Test And Photos Appear Early

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Verizon Wireless started officially teasing their new iPhone killer Motorola Droid over the weekend.
If you want to see the Motorola Droid in the wild and get some first hand impressions, BoyGeniusReport has you covered. BGR got their hands on a brand new Verizon Motorola Droid early and published several photos as well as unannounced details. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:30:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Rock Band For The Apple iPhone Hands-On Video

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EA brings Rock Band to the Apple iPhone. The Rock Band App is supposed to be available soon on the iTunes App Store. Rock Band for the iPhone supports a 4-way multi-player experience via Bluetooth. Get ready to air guitar with your iPhone.

IntoMobile got some hands-on time with Rock Band for the iPhone and published a sneak peek video of it in action. Read more

Posted on Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:38 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony PRS-600 Reader Hands-on Photos and Video Appear

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Sony announced the new PRS-600 Reader earlier this month.
Someone got their hands on a PRS-600 already and published hands-on photos and videos on Flickr reports German Lesen.net. Read more

Posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Zune HD Brief Hands-On Review Raves

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Microsoft made the new Zune HD official. CNET's Donald Bell got some hands-on time with a pre-production Zune HD and is quite excited about Microsoft's next try of getting some market share from the Apple iPod.

This hands-on review of the Zune HD favors the new Zune web browser, return of EQ, 720p video playback, 3.3-inch capacitive OLED touch screen and the Zune pulling background information on the song that is currently playing. The latter sounds like the Apple Cocktail stuff that is rumored to come. Read more

Posted on Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Layar Hands-On Video Out

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The other day we brought you the video demo for Layar, an augmented reality app made by Netherlands-based SPRXmobile. Today Engadget has posted up a video interview with one of the designers of Layar.

The video is seriously impressive, and it gives us an idea of what we can expect when this hits in the U.S. Layar looks like a very useful tool for job searching. You can order a search of jobs meeting certain payment and distance parameters. Layar populates the live world map with little dots to represent the location of your search results. You can alter your search parameters to increase or decrease the number of hits you get. If you like the look of one of the jobs, you can select it to find more details or call the company.

Posted on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:10:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Nokia N97 Hands-on Photos

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The new Nokia N97 is on sale in the US since yesterday. Amazon has the unlocked Nokia N97 on sale for only $603.99, but the shipping date is June 25th. At Nokia flagship stores you get it already now for $699.
BoyGeniusReport already got their hands on the Nokia N97 and they published some hands-on photos before they are going to publish their full Nokia N97 review. Read more

Posted on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Project Natal Hands-On Video Out

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The boys at Engadget became the objects of jealous rage across the tech community today when they posted up a video and a lengthy report about their hands-on demo with project Natal. While Microsoft wouldn't let them show any pictures of the prototype motion sensor they did give Engadget a chance to play a few games on the new device.

Based on their first impressions, we can confirm that the Natal works almost as well as Microsoft's hype-filled video demos lead us to believe. Engadget said that the Natal's ability to create an avatar that follows your exact motions was 'more than a little eerie'. They didn't get to check out the new gadget's ability to scan-in real world items, but at least we have confirmation that Microsoft's new baby is the best motion capture device out there.

Posted on Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:40:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

MSI U200 unveiled and Hands-On Photos

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The new MSI U200 CULV Notebook leaked already yesterday. Today MSI unveiled the MSI U200 in Taipei.
The guys from Tweaktown attended the MSI and Intel press-conference and brought back some hands-on photos of the new MSI U200.
Quote from the report: "Jointly with Intel and Microsoft, MSI held a pre-Computex press conference earlier today in Taipei to unveil its range of X-Slim notebooks including the X340 (13"), X400 (14") and X600 (15.6"). They aren't a slim as American maker Apple has got their products, but they are still pretty impressive. Read more

Posted on Thu, 14 May 2009 06:09:43 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nikon D5000 Hands-On first Impressions

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Nikon launched the Nikon D5000 DSLR camera today.
PhotographyBlog got some hands-on time with the D5000 at the UK launch event. They could not shoot any photos with the D5000 as it was still a pre-production model.
They have published 22 photos of the D5000 though. Their initial take is rather positive. The D5000 handles like the D90. The missing auto focus in the video mode is still an issue that prevents this DSLR from being a real video camera. Read more

Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dell Adamo Unboxing and Hands-On

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Dell officially launched their new premium notebook line Adamo this week. The starting price for a Dell Adamo notebook is $1,999. Sounds high, but that price already includes a 128GB SSD.
Engadget has published an unboxing video of the Dell Adamo and some hands-on.
If you ask me Dell should just switch all their notebooks to the Adamo design language. I like it a lot, but it is not stunning or luxurious. The design would just be great on the average Dell notebook. Read more

Posted on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:34:24 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MWC 2009: Windows Mobile 6.5 Hands-On Videos

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Microsoft officially unveiled Windows Mobile 6.5 at the MWC 2009 in Barcelona. The new WinMo update looks quite nice and is something to look forward to when it gets released on the first handsets in the middle of this year.
The new HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC Touch Diamond2 will be upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5. At the MWC 2009 HTC already showed off a Diamond2 running Windows Mobile 6.5. Engadget and Gizmodo published video walkthroughs of the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS running on the Diamond2. Read more

Posted on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:42:03 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA ION Platform gets Hands-On Treatment

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NVIDIA announced the ION Platform back in December. As reported NVIDIA ION products were a no-show at the CES 2009.
The guys over at Techgage where able to get some hands-on time with ION earlier this month.
Techgage witnessed the performance of games like Call of Duty 4 and Spore on the ION platform as well as manipulating photos in Photoshop CS4. Read more

Posted on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:32:13 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Palm Pre Hands-on shows that Palm did everything Right

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Palm officially unveiled the new Palm Pre smartphone running their new webOS. Engadget got the chance to sit down with Palm to get a more indepth hands-on look at the Palm Pre and webOS, which are actually still in pre-release state and not finished.
A video gives some impressions on how fast the Palm Pre is at scrolling and flipping web pages. This looks awesome. The fact that Palm has based webOS on Linux gives them two thumbs up from me.
Palm managed to put a web technology layer on top of Linux that allows full flexibility that web technology offers today on a smartphone. Read more

Posted on Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:07:48 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Virgin America In-Flight Wi-Fi hands-on Test

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Gizmodo's Brian Lam did a hands-on test (photo rather indicates a hands-off test) of the In-Flight Wi-Fi internet service on a Virgin America plane.
The Virgin America Wi-Fi rollout is still in beta, but 2009 several airlines are supposed to offer Wi-fi in planes powered by GoGo.
The bandwith of the Wi-Fi internet service is shared, so if many people watch Youtube videos the download speed drops considerably. Wi-Fi service will not be free. Virgin will charge $9.95 for flights under 3 hours, and $12.95 on flights over 3 hours. Read more

Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Motorola Aura Hands-on Photos

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Motorola unveiled the Aura luxury phone with the signature round LCD screen about 10 days ago. Motorola's mobile phone unit is actually restructuring right now and a lot of phone designs get cut. The fact that the Aura still made it into the open is a bit surprising.
BGR has got their hands on an Aura and published several hands-on photos. Read more

Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nikon D90 Hands-On Video

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The Nikon D90 DSLR was announced today. Photographer Chase Jarvis has been using the Nikon D90 for a long time before the launch and he published a video testing the Nikon D90. You can see the video below.
On his blog you can also find several sample photos taken with the Nikon D90. Read more

Posted on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:05:55 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

OCZ Core SSDs Hands-On Review

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A few weeks back OCZ announced its new lower cost Core series SSD drives. The Core series drives were significantly cheaper than other offerings on the market with a 128GB SSD going for $479. Laptop Magazine has got hands on the drives and offered up some fast benchmarks in front of a full review.

Laptop found that the read rate for the drive was 112.4Mbps and the drive had a seek time of 1ms. HD Tach gave the drive an average read time of 89.5Mbps. Boot time using the Core SSD was 36.3 seconds, less than a second slower than the much more expensive Samsung SSD. To copy a 5GB file using the 64GB OCZ core series SSD took 3 minutes and 59 seconds. Read more

Posted on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:12:43 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Dell XT Tablet with Multi-touch Hands-On Video

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The newly updated Dell XT Tablet Notebook features multi-touch. Laptop magazines had a chance to put their fingers on the touchscreen and published a video of the new capabilities.

Quote: "N-Trig and Dell today released the multi-touch firmware update for the Vista running XT. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pure Xbox 360 Hands-On Preview

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TTGamer today posted a hands-on preview of Pure for the Xbox 360 (also being released on PC and PS3). Pure for PS3 will be shipping on September 23rd from Amazon.com.

Quote: "This ATV arcade style racer could prove to be one of 08's biggest surprises. At the very least, it is certain to have some of the prettiest environments seen on the current consoles to date. Read more

Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 Hands-on

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Sony Ericsson announced the highly anticipated XPERIA X1 Windows Smartphone in February. The XPERIA X1 is slated for a release in the second half of 2008, but Boy Genius Report already got their hands on the first Sony Ericsson Windows Smartphone.

Quote: "Let’s not forget the physical design of the device as it’s one of the coolest and hippest-looking phones we’ve seen in a very long time. Since our unit isn’t a production version, the software runs a little slow. Even so, in most tasks, it performs very well. We can’t wait to play with a final production unit. Read more

Posted on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr