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HDTV Listings for April 30, 2010

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

What we're watching tonight:

  • CW (1080i) has Smallville at 8 p.m.
  • NBC (1080i0) has the season finale of Who Do You Think You Are? at 8 p.m.
  • MyNetworkTV (720p) has WWE Smackdown at 8 p.m.
  • HBO (1080i) has the season finale of 24/7: Mayweather/Mosley at 8:30 p.m., The Ricky Gervais Show at 9 p.m., The Life and Times of Tim at 9:30 p.m., Real Time with Bill Maher at 10 p.m. and Funny or Die Presents at 11:59 p.m.
  • CBS (1080i) has Miami Medical at 10 p.m.
  • Syfy (1080i) airs Stargate Universe at 9 p.m. and Merlin at 10 p.m.
  • TLC (1080i) has Say Yes to the Dress at 9 & 9:30 p.m. and Four Weddings at 10 p.m.
  • Discovery (1080i) has Construction Intervention at 10 p.m.
  • Starz (1080i) has Party Down at 10 p.m. and Gravity at 10:30 p.m.
  • Cartoon Network (1080i) has Ben 10 at 8 p.m., Generator Rex at 8:30 p.m., and the season finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars at 9 p.m.
  • Versus (1080i) has Canadiens/Penguins playoffs hockey at 7 p.m.
  • ESPN (720p) has NBA Playoffs action with Hawks/Bucks at 7 p.m. and Lakers/Thunder at 9:30 p.m.
  • ESPN2 (720p) has NASCAR Nationwide Series @ Richmond at 7:30 p.m. and Nuggets/Jazz basketball at 10 p.m.
  • NFL Network (1080i) has Iowa/Orlando Arena League Football at 8 p.m.
  • MLB Network (1080i) has Twins/Indians at 7:05 p.m.

HDTV Listings for April 30, 2010 originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Official Twitter for Android app goes live, will go open source

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

Twitter had committed to rolling its own client for Android not long ago -- and like clockwork, here it is. Looks like the OS integration goes pretty deep, too, with support for

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LG Ally to say ‘aloha’ to Verizon in mid-May?

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

Well, LG's Moorestown-based, Moblin-running GW990 may sadly be no more, but it looks like the company will be bringing another fairly impressive-looking handset to US shores: the Android-based LG Ally. According to Android Central, it will be landing on Verizon around the middle of May and, if it looks a tad familiar, it's because it's apparently simply a US version of the phone we've known alternately as the LU2300 or Aloha (though it does seem to have undergone a few design tweaks). Details are otherwise light, but it'll presumably pack the same 1GHz Snapdragon processor as the LU2300, along with a 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 5-megapixel camera, and Android 2.1.

[Thanks, Erik]

Update: Android Central has tracked down an Iron Man 2-themed commercial on YouTube clearly suggesting the Ally is coming soon (if you recall, LG had a big tie-in with the original Iron Man, too). Viewers are encouraged to head over to lg.com/ally to check it out, but there's nothing useful there -- yet. Follow the break for the full commercial.

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LG Ally to say 'aloha' to Verizon in mid-May? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola RAZR3 comes back from the dead for a very special hands-on video

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

While you're still trying to decide whether or not we've entered the post-Moto era, or if recent sales numbers are but a mere hiccup, might we introduce you in a hands-on of Motorola's doomed RAZR3 (aka Ruby)? Featuring an improved interface, GPS, FM radio, and a touchscreen, this would have been the phone to beat -- in 2006. For a closer look at the dumphone that almost was, check out the video after the break.

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Motorola RAZR3 comes back from the dead for a very special hands-on video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola CLIQ XT update rolling out — and no, it’s not Android 2.1

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

The CLIQ's keyboardless cousin is getting a software update as we speak -- but unfortunately, it's probably not quite what you were hoping for. In fact, the T-Mobile Community board post officially announcing the CLIQ XT upgrade had to specifically call out the fact that this isn't Android 2.1, proof positive that there's a ton of interest in getting these things on something fresher than the 1.5 they launched on. Anyhow, the update still looks like a good one, promising to improve "overall phone performance" and tweak visual voicemail, Bluetooth, touchscreen accuracy, messaging, and camera issues. T-Mobile says you're welcome to wait for the on-screen notification, or you can manually check for the update in Settings and you should be able to pick it up. Good luck, folks.

Motorola CLIQ XT update rolling out -- and no, it's not Android 2.1 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Palm Pre Plus, Pantech Breeze 2 dummies showing up in AT&T stores

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

It's pretty wild that neither Palm nor AT&T have fessed up to a release date for the GSM-ified versions of the Pre Plus or Pixi Plus yet -- especially considering that there are already unboxings going on -- but we've now got confirmation that dummy units (of the Pre Plus, anyhow) are filtering into retail stores, so it definitely shouldn't be much longer now. Dummies of an updated version of the ultra-simple Pantech Breeze (uncreatively named Breeze 2) is also coming in, so between these two, you should pretty much be able to outfit every member of the family from grandpa to the newborn. Seriously though, AT&T -- wait much longer on this release, and this sucker's going to be obsolete.

[Thanks, Kal]

Palm Pre Plus, Pantech Breeze 2 dummies showing up in AT&T stores originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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T-Mobile getting new prepaid, hourly data access options next month?

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

T-Mobile's got a reputation to uphold as the US' value carrier, right? It looks to be doing that come the 16th of next month when it'll apparently be rolling out a $50 monthly prepaid option for unlimited voice and text, beating AT&T's recently-deployed plan by $10. You'll also be able to get unlimited messaging plus 10 cents per minute for voice for $15 a month, an odd combination that might be surprisingly popular considering that text has all but replaced voice as the primary means of communication in some social circles (ours included). Here's where it gets really interesting, though: there'll also be an "Hour Pass" option for prepaid folks that lets them access as much web on their handset as they'd like for 99 cents an hour, a pretty sweet option that should keep overages to a minimum if you need to do a lot of browsing every once in a while. Well played, T-Mobile.

T-Mobile getting new prepaid, hourly data access options next month? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple #1 US phone manufacturer, RIM enters top 5 worldwide, Motorola feels the burn

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

Apple, love it or lump it, has seen some big numbers lately: one million App Store apps downloaded, ten billion iTunes, and now it looks like the company can claim to be the number one phone maker in the US. According to Forbes, Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones in the first quarter, as opposed to 8.5 million mobile devices sold by Motorola -- quite a slide when you figure that four years ago the company moved something like 46.1 million in Q1. If that ain't enough to give Motorola pause, industry analysts IDC have issued a report stating that, while the mobile phone industry continues to recover (growing almost 22 percent in Q1) Motorola has been knocked out of the top five worldwide mobile vendors by RIM. We guess the next question is, will Motorola's all-Android, all-the-time strategy be enough to bring it back into the big leagues?

Apple #1 US phone manufacturer, RIM enters top 5 worldwide, Motorola feels the burn originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony BDP-S570 Blu-ray player review

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

So much has changed since we reviewed our first high-def disc player years ago, but one thing that hasn't changed is that each generation manufactures add more features and charge less. The latest Blu-ray player from Sony continues that trend featuring things like WiFi and 3D output, and at a super low price. This of course piques our interest, because we wanted to find out if there's a catch. So although the firmware update that enables 3D and DLNA hasn't been release yet, we put the BDP-S570 to task as our Blu-ray player for a few weeks to see how it fared.

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Sony BDP-S570 Blu-ray player review originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Confirmed: LG’s Moorestown-based GW990 won’t be made

April 30, 2010 By webadmin

Considering the almost complete absence of love in the commercial marketplace for Moorestown and Moblin -- and the fact that there's no sign of MeeGo building serious momentum just yet -- we're sure that Intel would've just loved for the drop-dead-sexy GW990 to serve as the platform's crown jewel for 2010. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen, because we've just been able to confirm that the 4.8-inch beast (and potential Dell Mini 5 foil) has been wiped off the product roadmap. Though we don't know exactly what happened, the fact that Moblin is effectively dead and MeeGo isn't ready for prime time might be part of LG's justification for killing it off; if you might recall, the GW990 was introduced before MeeGo was official, and the original plan was to have it on the market in the second half of this year. Then again, this might be just as well -- we weren't impressed by the fact that LG was positioning the phone as a closed device back at CES, and there are still plenty of open questions as to how Intel and Nokia plan to offer apps on MeeGo -- so let's just hope this form factor reemerges from LG's labs soon enough, yeah?

Confirmed: LG's Moorestown-based GW990 won't be made originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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