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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
Mobile Miscellany: week of May 7th, 2012
Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you're like us and really want to know what's going on, then you've come to the right place. This past week, Sprint reassured us with optimism for Windows Phone 8, and T-Mobile's CEO found a new partner to continue the fight against Verizon's AWS acquisition. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore the "best of the rest" for this week of May 7th, 2012.
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Mobile Miscellany: week of May 7th, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 May 2012 20:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HP EliteBook 8460p
It starts with the lid latch. Where other business laptops offer a small, flimsy latch or, worse, make you scrabble with your fingernails at a nonexistent one, the HP EliteBook 8460p ($1,239 direct) has a big, burnished button that unlocks the securely latched lid. It's the first of your daily exposures to the 8460p's solid construction and classy design.
We don't say "solid construction" lightly?like other EliteBooks, the 8460p is a business-rugged system, built to withstand military tests for shock, vibration, dust, and heat. It's not as invulnerable as fully rugged systems such as the Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 ($4,843 street, 3.5 stars) or Dell Latitude E6420 XFR ($5,612 direct, 3.5 stars), but it's built to shrug off the scuffs and bumps of travel?along with inadvertent liquid spills, thanks to a spill-resistant keyboard and drain hole in the bottom.
Against that, its sturdy construction makes the 8460p a bit bulkier and heavier than other 14-inch laptops such as the Lenovo IdeaPad U400 ($899.99 direct, 4 stars) and Dell XPS 14z ($1,299 direct, 4 stars), and it lacks a couple of up-to-date features such as Intel Wireless Display (WiDi). But it's still a handsome, helpful business companion.
Design
Compared to the basic black of, say, Lenovo ThinkPads, the EliteBook 8460p is a stylish platinum-silver slab measuring 1.3 by 13.3 by 9.1 inches (HWD) and weighing 5.4 pounds, with an aluminum lid, palm rest, and encircling strip that contains the ports on a black magnesium alloy base. A DisplaySafe rubber frame protects the screen, which has a tiny LED next to the webcam to illuminate the non-backlit keyboard (well, part of the keyboard) in shadowy situations.
The matte-finish 14.0-inch display offers 1,366 by 768 resolution. Though not the brightest or highest in contrast that we've seen, it delivered good detail and color. Audio from the HP's twin speakers?both mounted left of center, one on the front edge and one on the bottom?was loud enough to fill a conference room, but sounded flat.
The slightly concave, island-style keys of the 8460p's keyboard provide a nicely firm typing feel. Except for HP's bizarre keyboard trademark?small up and down arrows sandwiched between full-sized left and right arrows?the layout is fine, with dedicated Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn keys and three buttons at top right that toggle Wi-Fi, audio mute, and browser launch. The last, when the computer is switched off, opens HP QuickWeb, which satisfies impatient surfers and e-mail checkers by bringing up a Web browser plus widgets such as weather and news headlines without booting Windows.
The glass-topped touchpad is first-rate, with smooth cursor motion, tapping, and gesture control and not-too-stiff, not-too-noisy mouse buttons below?and above, with the latter pair of buttons belonging to the pointing stick located at the intersection of the G, H, and B keys. The concave pointing stick isn't quite as successful as the touchpad (or Lenovo's TrackPoints), but should please users who want a choice of pointing devices.
Features
An old-school 56Kbps modem, along with VGA and Ethernet ports, decorates the EliteBook's back edge. On the right side of the chassis are microphone and headphone jacks, two USB 2.0 ports?one an eSATA/USB combo port, the other able to charge handheld devices?and a DisplayPort and Smart Card slot. On the left are two USB 3.0 ports, a FireWire port, SD/MMC and ExpressCard slots, and the DVD?RW drive.
A docking connector on the bottom completes the hardware connectivity roster, which lacks only HDMI. Similarly, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth check two of three boxes on the wireless shopping list, with Wireless Display, as mentioned, absent. With neither HDMI nor WiDi available, business travelers planning a big presentation with the 8460p had better rely on a VGA projector rather than an HDTV set.
IT managers will like the 8460p's Core i5 vPro processor and TPM security chip, but small and medium as well as large enterprises can benefit from the best part of the 320GB (7,200 rpm) hard drive's software preload: HP ProtectTools, a suite of utilities that steer you through security functions ranging from managing passwords to encrypting data and sanitizing (securely deleting) files. Other software found alongside Windows 7 Professional includes HP Power Assistant for managing power profiles, Microsoft Office 2010 Starter, and a 60-day Norton Internet Security trial. HP stands behind the EliteBook with a three-year limited parts and labor warranty.
Performance
Its PCMark 7 score of 2,065 is 200 to 300 points shy of slugging it out with the likes of the Lenovo U400 and Gateway ID47H07u, but its Handbrake video encoding and Photoshop CS5 image editing times of 1 minute 46 seconds and 3:56, respectively, are extremely competitive with other Core i5-based, 14-inch laptops, though they trail the Core i7-equipped Dell XPS 14z (1:37 and 3:27, respectively).
And though we'd be the last to suggest that a busy business traveler waste her time playing games, we must note that the Radeon HD 6470M graphics powered the HP to playable frame rates at 1,024 by 768 resolution in Crysis (38.3 fps) and Lost Planet 2 (31.3 fps). Our biggest disappointment in benchmark testing was that the 8460p balked at our MobileMark 2007 battery rundown test, obliging us to fall back on our DVD simulation test of looping a two-hour MP4 video from the system's hard disk. The HP's removable 62Wh battery lasted 5 hours and 1 minute with screen brightness set at 50 percent.
Compared with the Editors' Choice pair of the Acer TravelMate 8481T-6440A and Dell Inspiron 14z (Core i5), the HP EliteBook 8460p is a little heavy and short on battery life. But even with the extra weight of its semi-rugged construction and the lack of those laptops' HDMI and WiDi, the EliteBook 8460p is a first-class business laptop. It's attractive, with a great typing and touchpadding experience, and built with security in mind.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
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Unnecto Quattro hands-on (video)
It's Italian for the number four and also the name of a certain German auto, but Unnecto's latest device bearing that very moniker has little to do with either. In fact, the star feature of this low-end Android 2.3.5 handset, shown off on the CTIA 2012 show floor, is its ability to accommodate dual-SIMs. Yes, much like the touchscreen-only TAP that preceded it, this phone offers users with multiple lines the option to pack two SIMs -- full-sized and micro -- for easy account switching.
Spec-wise, the 4-inch handset's not much to get hot and bothered about, loaded up as it is with a middling 800 x 480 TFT display, VGA front-facing / rear 5 megapixel cameras, 4GB of storage (augmented by a pre-loaded 8GB microSD) and a 1,400mAh battery. There's no dual-core running under the hood either, just a lone 650MHz MediaTek 6573 processor and it shows given that our brief hands-on with the preliminary software was riddled with lags and stutters. Keep in mind the phone's still a work in progress and that mostly stock UI will eventually ship sometime this June with a customized overlay. An upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich is also purportedly on deck for Q4, but we're somewhat skeptical the single core handset could even support it. As for the price, well that all important bit is still up in the air, although we've been told it should retail between $150 to $200. If you're interested in buying what Unnecto's selling, check out the gallery below and hop on past the break for a brief video demo.
Terrence O'Brien contributed to this report.
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Video Gaming By Means of Computer Social Networking | Lygaria ...
Among the crucial requires of mankind (in addition to food, clothing, and refuge) is entertainment. We?ve had many forms of entertainment since the dawn with the mankind for instance dancing, vocal range, chanting, and operating. Several of these forms of entertainment have grown to be practices to several civilizations from across the globe. No matter what flavor a community might have, they have got their own sort of enjoyment.
Individuals have already been winning contests for most causes; a number of them are to reduce these kinds of of boredom, others to flee the tough facts of life, and many to simply relax. No matter what factors they?ve got, game titles happen to be performed by every person. The advancement of game titles comes together with scientific advances that may or is probably not directly a part of them. We now have advanced quite a bit because the events of Pac Man as well as Area Attacker. One discipline that?s assisted the development of video games continues to be laptop or computer Social networking.
PC Networking
This is actually the take action of linking computers or perhaps a community of these with each other. This could be the bond of desktops and other devices. We see this through joining units for instance modems, webcams, fax and copy machines, and printers to personal computers.
LAN
A local area network connects desktops in just a room, house, or developing. Players have observed what?s so great about playing video games that utilize pc marketing. Multiplayer game titles for example first particular person shooters, real-time tactic game titles, and racing games happen to be common amongst avid gamers. They have been capable of use computers that are hooked up, and are able to connect to each other inside game. This has created video gaming an extremely interpersonal task, in contrast to prior to when we would likely play by them selves, or with only an added player at any given time. Which has a lan, 10-20 gamers can engage in a game at the same time.
Games
It?s fairly obvious the Net has forever changed the way in which we interact with one another. So much data can be found online, with an endless number of actions are available online as well. Lots of video games nowadays are ?playable? online. This is why, avid gamers have the ability to talk with other players of all throughout the world. You?ll probably be surviving in Ohio and also be playing a capturing game with someone from Barcelona. And also this created a different sport type referred to as massively multiplayer online role-playing game titles.
Additional popularly referred to as MMORPGs, massively multiplayer online role-playing games are getting to be really common amidst kids, young adults, and adults spanning various ages. It allows players to serve in the virtual world and build a particular character. The great thing about it truly is that 1000s of players from around the globe could possibly be playing inside the same game together with you simultaneously. You would be in a position to get connected to these players by trading items, dueling, teaming-up, or perhaps chatting.
Computer Networking continues to be developing with a rapid rate, plus more advancement in gaming are certain to come. All you want do is relax and like the ride.
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