Samsung unveils South Korea-bound Galaxy R Style: 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display, LTE and ICS on board

Posted on 31/05/2012 by Edgar Alvarez

Not satisfied with the launch of its newest creation, the Galaxy S III, Sammy's taken the wraps off of yet another member of the famed galactic family: welcome the Galaxy R Style. While Samsung isn't coming out and saying it, the device is essentially a follow-up to last year's 4.2-inch Galaxy R -- and although the handset keeps a similar form factor, it's changed quite a bit on the inside. For example, the 4.3-inch (960 x 540), 9.79mm thin R Style now houses an LTE chip, 16GB of onboard storage and a TouchWiz flavor of Ice Cream Sandwich. As if that wasn't enough, the slab also packs a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 CPU and a 5-megapixel camera to take care of those filtered Instagram shots -- all while being powered by a 2000 mAh battery. Samsung's R Style will be priced at 700,000 won (around $590) when it goes on sale in South Korea later this year. If we were there, we'd take two.

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Samsung unveils South Korea-bound Galaxy R Style: 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display, LTE and ICS on board originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 May 2012 12:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cookoo Watch Lands 75% of Its Kickstarter Funding

Posted on 31/05/2012 by shane

If you like to fund Kickstarter projects and have been following the cookoo watch it is a digital watch for the connected generation, the watch is very near its funding bill. The project has gathered...

USB Flash Drive R2D2 Cufflinks

Posted on 31/05/2012 by Netta Siach Lindenfeld

Geeks, suit-up! These R2D2 cufflinks will complete your hi-tech spy look. Did I mention they include a working usb flash drive?

So much coolness in one small package! These 4GB storage capacity (2GB on each) cufflinks do not come cheap, since 1 pair retails for a cool $200.00! But then again, how can you price awesomeness?

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The Avengers Meet Justice League of America

Posted on 31/05/2012 by Ehud Riven

No one expected the Avengers film to be this big. Not using two of Marvel’s biggest character, Spiderman and Wolverine, turned out to be a good idea. Building up the movie with separate ones turned out to be a great idea. $1.3 Billion dollars in the box office so far ...
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Amazing War Machine Papercraft From Iron Man 2

Posted on 31/05/2012 by Federico Lo Giudice

Being that our pal didn’t get any screen time in Avengers, most people seem to be forgetting about War Machine. You guys shouldn’t and here’s a good reminder of his looks.

The people at Paper Replika know what they’re doing: thanks to their brilliant paper craft, one of our favorite comic ...
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Sony Rejected Idea for Download Only PS 4

Posted on 31/05/2012 by Shane McGlaun

I can only imagine how bad it would’ve sucked if Sony had decided to make its next-generation game console, expected to be called the PS4 only support downloadable games. Maybe Sony learned its lesson with the PSP Go and the mega fail that was download only video games. Game companies seem to forget that in much of the US has broadband Internet connection so slow that downloading a single game can take many hours. And even on a fast connection, you could still be waiting much longer than you would to just pop a disc into your console.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony originally considered making PS4 software available via download only, but abandoned that idea. The sources say that Sony opted to include an optical disk drive on the upcoming console. That’s a good thing too, because many people justified the expense of the PS3 because it happened to be one of the best Blu-ray players on the market – and watching a movie on Blu-ray still affords a much better picture quality than any streamed or downloaded content out there due to the aggressive compression used on those formats.

The same sources claim Sony is aiming for a 2013 release for the PS4 game console. Retailers wouldn’t have been happy about download only games either since it would effectively cut software sales out of the picture for retailers. Microsoft has still offered no official comment on their future game console, but there have been rumors about a download only model for them too.

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Sony NEX-F3 review

Posted on 31/05/2012 by Zach Honig

Just shy of a year ago, we reviewed the Sony NEX-C3, a mirrorless camera that quickly became our benchmark when it came to entry-level interchangeable lens cameras (ILCs). We praised its excellent image quality, generally consistent performance, overall solid design and, best of all, its $600 price tag -- including an 18-55mm kit lens. Since then, the landscape has shifted drastically for this particular type of compact shooter, with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 raising the bar for focusing performance, Nikon's cute J1 winning the hearts of many (likely due to a heavy marketing budget and adorable design) and the Fujifilm X-Pro1 pushing the envelope when it comes to price and body size. For its part, Sony also attracted plenty of attention with its flagship NEX-7, which appears to have been the inspiration for the company's brand new NEX-F3.

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Based on its price tag and release schedule, you might have assumed that the NEX-F3 is here to dethrone Sony's NEX-C3. That may or may not be the case (we're hoping for the latter) -- the F3 is much more a scaled-down version of the NEX-7 than an update to the C3. Sure, designs can change drastically from one year to the next, but we were quite fond of last year's model, and many of you were, too. From a specification perspective, the F3 has a new APS-C sensor (though resolution remains unchanged), with a higher top ISO setting of 16,000, a 3-inch LCD that can flip 180-degrees to face completely forward, a new NEX-7-esque pop-up flash and a bulkier design. But does bigger mean better in this case? Click past the break for our take.

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Sony NEX-F3 review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 May 2012 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google+ Events leaks out through Google Calendar, will let your knitting circle schedule a Hangout

Posted on 31/05/2012 by Jon Fingas

Google has been on another one of its Google+ feature addition streaks lately, and it's so eager to please that it's spoiling other features early. More than a few people visiting Google Calendar have been given an introduction to "Events in Google+" in recent hours despite the extra component (and its splash page) being absent. From what we know, Events will provide the obvious Facebook-like option to create and track events among Google+ circles, but it will also let organizers slot in a Hangout video chat in advance as well as pool together photos and videos associated with an event. The Google+ app for Android has even been showing an empty button that's speculated to be a dedicated Events section. Google hasn't sent any official word as to when Events will go live, although we suspect it won't be long before everyone from photographers through to grandmothers knitting scarves can use Google+ to coalesce.

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Star Wars & Revenue [Infographic]

Posted on 31/05/2012 by Federico Lo Giudice

Star Wars rules, and that’s no secret, but are you even aware of how much money it has made throughout the 35 years it’s existed? The first movie dates from the late 70s, and has ever since become a mediatic leviathan of a franchise that by now includes novels, comics, ...
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Vodafone UK launches Smart II: Android Gingerbread for £70 (hands-on)

Posted on 31/05/2012 by Mat Smith

UK carriers often like to elbow their way into the limelight when a rival's getting some attention. This time, Vodafone's cutting into Orange's Intel excitement with the Smart II; an update to its wallet-happy Android device from 2011. The UK carrier even let us get some hands-on time with the pebble-sized phone. While the specifications (800MHz processor, 3.2-inch screen) aren't going to wow, at £70 (around $109) it could reel in plenty of feature phone graduates. Check out a brief hands-on video and our own impressions right after the break.

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