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iPhone 4’s ‘Retina’ Display Claims Are False Marketing

Wired: Gadget Lab -- The iPhone 4s screen may be the best mobile display yet, but its resolution does not exceed the human retina, as Steve Jobs claims. The math just doesnt add up, said Raymond Soneria, president of DisplayMate Technologies, who explained that the iPhone 4s purported retina display was a misleading marketing term. It is reasonably close to being a perfect display, but Steve pushed it a little too far...     06-10
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BeagleBoard Gives New Power to Open Source Gadgets

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Open source hardware hobbyists now have a chipset to play with thats comparable to the powerful processors found in smartphones such as the Nexus One or HTC Incredible. Texas Instruments has released a new version of its low-power, single-board computer called BeagleBoard-xM. Its based on the same 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor that drives the most sophisticated smartphones today. That gives it far...     06-10
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Oops! Sprint Says it Overstated HTC Evo Phone Sales

Wired: Gadget Lab -- On Monday, right before Apple announced its next version of the iPhone, Sprint declared the HTC Evo 4G to be its best-selling device ever. Sprint said the Evo was such a big hit that just first day sales of the phone were three times higher than the number of Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre devices sold over their first three days combined. Sprint never released exact sales figures. Evo hit Sprint r...     06-10
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Could a $50 ‘Paperback’ Kindle Beat the iPad?

Wired: Gadget Lab -- E-books are, in both price and size, still in their hardback stage. Author, blogger and all-round clever-thinker Seth Godin thinks its time for a paperback e-reader, a cheap Kindle which would be completely bare-bones but also put e-books into the hands of just about anyone who can read. Godin suggests that Amazon forget about a touch-screen and 3G connectivity and instead make a mass-market Paper...     06-10
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Triangle, Circle, Square: Odd-Shaped Traffic-Light Concept

Wired: Gadget Lab -- This cute concept traffic light, called the UNISignal, aims to avoid the dangers caused by colorblind drivers or foreigners who dont know the local ways of the road. It does this by changing the shapes of the colored lights. Instead of using three circles, the red light is now a triangle and the green light is a square. The amber lamp remains round and central, just as it always was. But the only ...     06-10
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Joby’s Gorillatorch Flare Puts On the Red Light

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Should you ever crash your car into a strip-club, then the pole-dancing, red-light-shining new Gorillatorch Flare from Joby will be your perfect companion. The ball-jointed tripod will wrap its limbs tightly around around any convenient protrusion or stick to metal (poles or otherwise) using the neodymnium magnets in its feet. Once suitably dangling, you can fire up the focussed 100 lumen white LE...     06-10
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Lomo Spinner Puts 360-Degree Panoramas Onto Film

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Lomo just cant stop inventing cheap, junky cameras that are just plain awesome. Here, for your retro-panoramic pleasure, is the Spinner 360º, a camera which will paint an entire 360-degree panorama onto a strip of 35mm film, pushing the image right over the sprocket-holes. Its also easy to use: Just like old-style talking action figures, you grab the ring and pull the cord. Hold it up above you an...     06-10
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Video: SNES for iPad, Controlled by iPhone

Wired: Gadget Lab -- I am an unashamed fanatic for Super Mario. To be more accurate, I love any Mario game from Super Mario 64 backwards, and my favorite video game ever is probably Super Mario World. The reason I stopped here? I got me a girlfriend. Thats why this latest SNES emulator for the iPad, SNES (HD), has gotten me so excited. Youll need a Jailbroken iPad to run it, and a jailbroken iPhone to run the wireless...     06-10
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Sony’s New Alpha SLRs Are Built to a Budget

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Sony has birthed two new DSLRs, popping them out into the competitive entry-level market. The A290 and A390 will cost $500 and $600 when they ship next month, and are almost identical save for some subtleties. Both have a stabilized 14.2 Megapixel CCD sensor, both shoot up to ISO3200, and both share a relatively low-res 230,400 dot, 2.7-inch LCD screen. Then the differences begin. The screen on th...     06-10
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iPhone Hacked to Run Android 2.2

Wired: Gadget Lab -- If you are stuck with an old iPhone but wish you had an Android device, theres a way to combine the two, creating a smartphone with the body of the former and the brains of the latter. A recent hack shows how to run the latest version of Googles mobile OS, Android 2.2 aka FroYo, on Apples iPhone 3G. The mod still has a few bugs and isnt stable enough for everyday use, but its a first step towards ...     06-09
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Wireless Woes Rain ‘Fail’ on Steve Jobs’ Keynote

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Gizmodos leak of the iPhone 4 already made Mondays Apple keynote slightly awkward. But the most uncomfortable moment was when part of Steve Jobs iPhone 4 demo failed due to Wi-Fi issues. Watching the video below (shot by IDG), you can almost feel the increasing frustration of the CEO, and you can only imagine what was going on backstage to resolve the problem.After about a minute of troubleshootin...     06-09
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Prices Slashed on Current iPhone, But Don’t Buy One

Wired: Gadget Lab -- While we wait for the iPhone 4 to land in stores late June, Apple and AT&T have slashed prices of the current 3GS models. But that doesnt mean you should buy them. The iPhone 3GS on Monday saw a price cut: The 16-GB iPhone 3GS now costs $150, down from $200, and the 32-GB model costs $200, down from $300. AT&T highlighted the price change on its website with a tag: New prices on iPhone 3GS...     06-09
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Why You Should Avoid Phones With Android Skins

Wired: Gadget Lab -- HTCsEvo might be the last phone running custom software on top ofAndroid that you should even consider buying. Because the whole trend ofskinning Android has become a horrible, dividing mess. The problem and Android phone running a phone manufacturers homebrewsoftware, like HTCs Sense or Sonys TimeScape, is well known: Youregoing to wait a lot longer to get the freshest version of Android. Thatwai...     06-09
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Why The iPhone 4 Camera Is So Good

Wired: Gadget Lab -- When Steve Jobs showed off the new iPhone 4 yesterday, he seemed particularly proud of its camera. And understandably so: take a look at the unretouched pictures over on Apples site and youll see that this camera can take gorgeous photos. But how does this new 5 megapixel camera face up to competition from real cameras? After all, camera-phones are almost universally bad thanks to their tiny chips...     06-09
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Bookmate, The Multi-Tasking Book-Holder

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Kwon Jieuns concept Bookmate is a book-cover, a stand, a light and a bookmark, all in one. The flexible jacket has a pair of wraparound grips which grab the two halves of the book when it is open, keeping the book either flat on the table in front of you orif you flip out the kick-standpropped up on a counter-top or your lap. Those rubber hands also contain lamps, illuminating the paper from the s...     06-09
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Apple Leaks iWork for iPhone

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Can you spot the difference between the two iPhone shots above? Both come from the mail page in Apples new iPhone 4 features section. The one on the left was posted yesterday after Steve Jobs presentation. The one on the right quickly replaced it when Apple presumably realized it had leaked its own product. As you can see, the option is given to open a presentation in Keynote, Apples PowerPoint-li...     06-09
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Adobe Lightroom 3 Released, Adds Lens Distortion Tweaks

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Adobe has released the final, baked, non-beta version of Lightroom 3, its photo organizing and editing software. Most of you will likely have been using the very stable betas for some months now, but there are a few extra goodies in this final release that will tempt you to upgrade. Well, that and the fact that the beta will expire at the end of this month. First, a quick summary of the new featur...     06-09
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Spider Holster Adds Arca-Swiss Mount, Third-Party Belt Support

Wired: Gadget Lab -- The Spider Holster people have added a boxful of accessories to their belt-mounted camera-carrier, letting photographers hang their cameras on belts from various other manufacturers and generally make their DSLRs more secure. The Spider Holster, you will remember, is not a way to keep an arachnid close at hand for some comedy mom-scaring action. It is instead a very sturdy metal bracket which whic...     06-09
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Showdown: iPhone 4 vs. HTC Evo 4G

Wired: Gadget Lab -- Apples new iPhone 4 is the companys biggest update yet for the handset and it will have you drooling. The phone is a snazzily slim, glass-backed slab that boasts some impressive specs: dual cameras, a big operating system update and video chat, among other things. Apple introduced the phone at its developer conference Monday and said it will be available on AT&Ts network starting June 24. But ...     06-08
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Apple iOS 4 vs. Google Android 2.2: How Do They Stack Up?

Wired: Gadget Lab -- The competition between Apple and Google is getting intense as the two companies battle for supremacy in the smartphone business. Last month, Google updated its Android operating system, introducing Android 2.2, aka FroYo.  On Monday, Apple shot back by making its latest mobile operating system, iOS 4formerly called iPhone OS 4.0official. Apples iOS 4, which will be available to customers starting...     06-08
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