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The rush to register for a personalised Facebook username saw users of the social networking site registering their preferred names at a rate of 550 per second.
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After “leaking” a promotional video over the weekend Nokia have officially unveiled the E72 – their new QWERTY smartphone followup to the fantastic E71- at the Connection 09 event in Singapore.
Compared to its none-too-old brother, the E72 will see its camera bumped up to 5 megapixels along with the addition of an integrated compass, an optical navigation key (not unlike the BlackBerry Gemini‘s) and sensibly a 3.5mm headphone jack. Nokia say the S60 handset features a “desktop like email experience” and will begin shipping third quarter of 2009 for $485 without contract.
Also revealed was the 5530 XpressMusic – essentially a smaller, cheaper 5800 – featuring a 2.9 inch widescreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash and a 4GB memory card. The GSM/EDGE phone doesn’t use 3G but can at least connect via wifi; it will also be available third quarter of 2009 for around $275 unsubsidized. [Nokia]
Tapulous has issued an update to their Tap Tap Revenge rhythm game which includes working push notifications, despite the fact that iPhone OS 3.0 isn’t officially available for two more days.
It certainly isn’t the most creative use of background notifications—the messages only pop up when you’re challenged by another player—and I’m already wondering how, when all kinds of apps have this capability, the iPhone’s exceedingly simple notification system will scale.
OS 3.0 users can give the free app a try now, but keep in mind that we’ll probably see more than a few push-equipped apps rolling out in the next few days, as I’d imagine Apple will want to have a few high-profile 3.0-capable downloads available at launch. Alternatively, if downloading the app, getting a friend to download the app, and having him challenge you to a Lady GaGa tap-off is a little too embarrassing for you, just watch the video below. —Thanks, Tim G! [Video from 9to5Mac]
iPhone OS 3.0 may not be available to the masses for a couple days yet, but that’s not stopping Tapulous (nor Apple’s App Store overlords, apparently) from rolling out a new version of its ridiculously popular Tap Tap Revenge that’s fully ready to take advantage of push notifications right here and right now. We’ve taken the new build for a spin, and in brief, it works as designed — notification times ranged from near instantaneous to just under a minute. One of our editors here was testing on a cellular connection and the other was on a SIM-less iPhone 3G running just WiFi, so it looks like this setup will work pretty seamlessly regardless of what kind of connection you happen to be enjoying / tolerating / loathing at the moment. Follow the break for a quick video demo.
[Thanks, Brandon]
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Push notifications go live on iPhone courtesy of Tap Tap Revenge originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
This video of iPhone OS 2.x running on a 24-inch multitouch monitor from Swedish design firm Dreamfield is almost certainly fake, but hey — it’s Sunday night, nothing’s going on, and we were thinking about how well touch-specific systems would work on a larger screen after seeing those CrunchPad videos anyway, so we thought we’d get some conversation going. We’d be willing to bet that a future Apple tablet has more in common with the experience shown in this video than with what we currently think of as OS X, but we’re not so certain we’re seeing anything here that makes us want to throw our mouse or keyboard away — or spend the entire day with gorilla arm. So — artfully mocked-up glimpse of the future, or just a pipe dream?
Keeping with the likely-fake theme, there’s also a probably-fake video of SNES and PS1 emulators running on the Pre, controlled by a Bluetooth gamepad. Yes, it’s incredibly awesome — and undoubtedly possible — but until we see some evidence of how things are loaded up and connected with the gamepad we’re sticking it in the fake category as well.
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Probably-fake video roundup: 24-inch iPhone OS, PS1 emulation on the Pre originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Seeing how these announcements are going down live in Singapore as we speak, we’ve got a few sources of live pictures of Nokia’s latest announcements coming in off the interwebs already; it’s all raw, unfiltered footage, but that’s exactly the way we like it around here. We won’t know for certain until we touch it, but at a glance, the E72 certainly looks like a worthy successor to one of the greatest phones Nokia has ever made, and the 5530 looks like the 5800 should’ve looked. What’s everyone thinking on these?
[Via The Nokia Blog]
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Nokia’s E72 and 5530 XpressMusic in the S60-powered flesh originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
You’d think that Nokia would want to do a better job of building up such important product announcements with a long, drawn-out series of frustratingly unhelpful teasers, viral videos, and global PR campaigns, but instead, it turns out that the rumored E72 and 5530 XpressMusic have been officially unveiled at the company’s Connection 09 event in Singapore. The E72 is arguably the bigger announcement of the two, succeeding the E71 by adding a whopping 5 megapixel camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack (thank goodness), integrated compass, 10.2Mbps HSDPA, and an optical navigation pad; it’ll hit in the third quarter for €350 (about $489). Follow the break for video of the E72 in slick, polished, high-orchestrated marketing action. Next up, as we’d heard, the 5530 ends up being a small step down from the 5800 in the S60 5th Edition totem pole, offering just EDGE data without any form of 3G (though you’ve still got WiFi). It’s got a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, 3.5mm jack, and a 640 x 360 touchscreen display. Like the E72 it’ll be available in the third quarter; it’ll retail for €199 (about $278) unlocked.
[Thanks, nabs]
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Nokia E72, 5530 XpressMusic get official originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Archos hit us with a couple new laptops earlier this week in Paris, and just as you’d expect, the crew from ArchosFans was there to grab some video of the new machines. The new Archos 10s pretty much just the Archos 10 repackaged in a slightly smaller package, while the Archos 13 is the company’s foray onto the CULV scene — it’s pretty nice-looking for $800, but we’re still wondering how Archos is planning on distinguishing either of these from the million other me-too netbooks and thin-and-lights on the market with the exact same specs. We’ll find out soon — they’re due in August. Videos after the break.
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Archos 10s and 13 laptops get the video treatment originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
We noted that Alienware’s “All Powerful” M17x gaming laptop was a hefty beast when we got our hands on it last month, so who better to unbox this 11.5-pound monster than Bruce Pechman, also known as Mr. Bicep? Apparently Bruce scored one of the first models off the line after betting the Alienware reps at E3 that he could do 17 straight one-arm lifts of the demo machine over his head, and his maxed-out rig packs a quad-core Core 2 Extreme, dual GeForce 260M graphics cards and a slot-loading Blu-ray burner — all of which arrived in this gigantic 32-pound box. Yeah, it’s a little ridiculous — but you know you want it.
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Alienware M17x unboxed… by Mr. Bicep originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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3, the mobile phone operator, has announced that from the 17 June, customers will be able to get the UK’s first £0 a month contract service.
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