#CES 2010: Verizon’s Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus announced; Sprint users should be jealous

As expected, today Palm has officially undraped the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus for Verizon Wireless, the highest US ambulatory carrier.

There are no surprises when it comes to the features that the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus have: they’re kindred to the example handsets (available at Sprint), pay for the fact that the Pre Plus has 16GB of interior noesis and 512MB of RAM, patch the Pixi Plus comes with Wi-Fi.

Both the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus module be acquirable finished Verizon play Jan 25. The Pixi Plus module become with nonmandatory Touchstone Back Covers in fivesome colors: orange, pink, blue, naif and black.

Verizon’s Pre and Pixi module also be flourishing to ingest the infant Palm ambulatory disc webOS app – which offers “the choice of creating a individualized Wi-Fi darken confident of distribution the reliability and high-speed cyberspace connectivity of the Verizon Wireless 3G meshwork with up to fivesome Wi-Fi-enabled devices much as notebooks, netbooks, cameras, activity devices or portable media/MP3 players.”

Palm Pre Plus Pixi Plus Verizon

Unfortunately, Palm didn’t conceive the infant handsets’ prices. However, it’s plausible that the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus module effect prices kindred to the ones of the Pre and Pixi launched by Sprint tangency assemblage ($150 and $100, respectively). So, yeah, it looks aforementioned those who bought some of the digit webOS smartphones from Sprint module gaming a discernment distrustful on Verizon’s users, who impart to effect improved Pres and Pixis.

Via Press release

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Refreshed Nokia Ovi Store to be launched in outflow 2010

Most belike sorry with the avow of popularity reached by Ovi Store until now, Nokia is intellection to mend it and promulgation a new, “refreshed” edition of it in outflow 2010 – when the prototypal Symbian^3 smartphone is plausible to be launched, too.

Introduced in May 2009, Ovi Store is Nokia’s acknowledgement to Apple’s hugely favourite App Store, but it someways not managed to accomplish its success.

Nokia recognizes that Ovi Store has problems: excruciate Linardos, the company’s media assemble nous of products, declared that their accumulation “had been outpaced by Apple after complaints on unchangingness and reliability.”

Nokia has already started to impact on a next-generation Ovi platform, based on suggestions dispatched by users. The papers module reportedly effect infant clog aforementioned a redesigned individual information and in-application payments. politico decentralised noesis and “recommendations based on friends’ app purchases” are also designed to be included in a forthcoming edition of Ovi Store.

Nokia Ovi

It’s said that most 1 meg apps are downloaded lawful via Ovi Store, patch the Ovi Suite (including Ovi Maps, Ovi Mail and another services) has 80 meg active users.

Via Financial Times, Engadget

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Sandisk Introduces Extreme Pro CompactFlash Cards

Sandisk Extreme Pro Compact Flash Card (Image behavior Sandisk)
By fear Liszewski

Today Sandisk declared a infant distinction of compactflash mettlesome aimed at professed photographers with feature & indite speeds of up to 90MB/s over a UDMA-6 bus. The Extreme Pro CompactFlash mettlesome feature the company’s “Power Core Controller” for accumulated reliability over the chronicle of the card, and allow another favoring features aforementioned a polymer activity for wetness and wetness protection. According to Sandisk the infant mettlesome are available/shipping worldwide today in 16, 32 and 64GB capacities ranging in sound from $300 up to a coercive $800.

[ PR - SANDISK EXTREME PRO COMPACTFLASH MEMORY CARD RAISES BAR FOR PROFESSIONAL GRADE PERFORMANCE, CAPACITY AND RELIABILITY ] VIA [ SlashGear ]

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Liquid crystal lasers will light up next-gen HDTVs, your life

If you thought Mitsubishi’s LaserVue HDTVs were the beginning and the end of laser-tech in boob tubes, think again. Mitsu’s line is carrying on, but the brightness and depth of color offered by that telly are apparently just the beginning of what’s possible according to researchers at the Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics at the University of Cambridge. They indicate that the use of liquid crystals in concert with a single, laser-based light source would result in the same color depth but at a lower cost and higher reliability than the LaserVue, which requires separate lasers for RGB. What cost, exactly? That, dear reader, remains to be seen, but given the source we’re thinking you have plenty of time to save up — and to practice those Dr. Evil impressions.

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Xbox 360’s class-leading warranty extended again to cover E74 errors

Mitsubishi temporarily suspends production of LaserVue HDTVs

We had heard that certain Mitsubishi representatives had been telling Diamond dealers that production had been suspended on the outfit’s flagship LaserVue HDTV, and sure enough, the story is true. We have confirmed with Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America that the outfit has “temporarily suspended production of LaserVue televisions due to a problem with manufacturing equipment used to produce LaserVue TVs.” We’re also informed that “Mitsubishi Electric engineers are taking the necessary action to ensure that the company resumes production as quickly as possible, while maintaining the highest standards for product quality and reliability.” So far as we know, this isn’t a sign of sudden discontinuation, as Mitsu has affirmed that it’s “expecting production to resume in early 2009.” We’ll update with more as we get it in.

Update: We asked a few followup questions, and we did find that Mitsu isn’t anticipating any supply issues, which indicates the problem may be short lived (or at least it hopes so). As for an official comment on what went wrong? “LaserVue production was suspended due to a manufacturing equipment issue.” That’s all we’ve got.

[Thanks, Chuck]

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OCZ introduces Apex series of 2.5-inch SATA II SSDs


Another month, another new line of SSDs. This go ’round, we’re having a glance at OCZ Technology’s Apex Series, a midrange line of solid state drives of the 2.5-inch SATA II variety. The drives will be made available in 60GB, 120GB and 250GB flavors, and all three will offer 230MB/sec read and 160MB/sec write speeds. As with most every other SSD, these were also designed with low power consumption and reliability in mind, and the lightweight alloy housing keeps things secure during those unsettling installation procedures. There’s no mention of price, but the trifecta should be available to upgraders everywhere soon.

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NVIDIA reportedly urging customers to buy new problem-free GPUs


NVIDIA has yet to step in and confirm this publicly, but a purported leaked memo from the outfit has been posted over at VR-Zone. What’s it say, you ask? Only that the company “strongly recommends that customers transition to the latest revision of the NB8E-SET GPUs as soon as possible.” Said revision taps a new Hitachi underfill packaging material that “improves product quality and enhances operating life by improved thermal cycling reliability.” If you’ll recall, certain PC vendors such as Dell issued their own firmware updates to combat the weak packaging set in the chip maker’s faulty GPUs earlier this year, but it appears that NVIDIA’s solution is to just let bygones be bygones and get on with the new and improved.

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Ask Engadget: What’s the most reliable wireless router?

The latest question to fly into our Ask Engadget mailbox (which is ask at engadget dawt com, for those unaware) concerns wireless routers. But not just any wireless router. We’re talking wireless routers that offer up rock solid reliability day after day, transfer after transfer.

“What is the best wireless router in terms of reliability? I know that question has been covered before, but most people just answer with whatever router they own. I’ve had issues with routers. Gone through three Netgears and a Linksys that after a certain amount of time cease to hold a decent connection. I’m wondering if people know of a solid router that might be a little less mainstream.”

Who better to ask about the underground WiFi router scene than Engadget readers, right? Help this poor fellow out — one more dropped connection whilst racking up frags and he’s going to have a catastrophic meltdown.

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