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Samsung to launch 1.3-inch hard drive at CES
Filed under: Storage
While you’re down on the street corner, sweating, hustling and dancing to Stones tracks from the early 80′s, Samsung is hard at work creating the next-greatest thing you’ll ever own. Enter the Korean company’s latest coup de grace, a 1.3-inch hard drive targeted at “mobile consumer devices.” 1.3-inch, folks — that’s real, real small. To put it in perspective, current iPod Classic drives are 1.8-inches, so you can imagine the tiny possibilities. Apparently, the magically delicious devices will be announced at the CES in January (where your faithful Engadget team will be avoiding the sleep-monster and scooping the heck out of stories). In addition to the tiny hard drive, Samsung will also be announcing a 1TB, 3.5-inch RAID Edition drive, and a less exciting 2.5-inch, 320GB disk. Except to hear more… say, in January.
[Via SlashGear]
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AT&T claims completely open network, too — “the most open,” even!
Filed under: Cellphones
Who’d have thought the end of 2007 would see US cellphone carrier heavyweights duking it out with PR one-upsmanship to be… open? Seriously, someone pinch us, it’s as amazing as it is farcical. So the latest development in big network “openness” has USA Today running off in the opposite direction with AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega’s comments that “You can use any handset on our network you want… We don’t prohibit it, or even police it. … We are the most open wireless company in the industry.” We think the headline “AT&T flings cellphone network wide open” kind of says it all.
The reality of the situation? Nothing has changed between yesterday and today, and, as de la Vega told us a couple of weeks ago, AT&T customers can continue expect the status quo from the nation’s largest carrier in terms of their level of openness and flexibility. Granted, it’s one thing for Verizon to say they’re going wide open (especially being ridiculously closed CDMA carrier they are), but it’s quite another for AT&T to lay claims as though it’s somehow more open than any other carrier in the world when that argument comes as an extension of its core network technology. Yes, you can take your AT&T SIM, put it in an unlocked device, and run it on their network without much hassle — but that doesn’t make AT&T any more “open” than the final-say testing facility Verizon intends to use in “openly” making approvals (and disapprovals) of devices and software.
[Thanks, epi117]
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Barbie B2 touchscreen MP3 player in pink and bearskin
Filed under: Portable Audio
If you’ve ever wondered how Barbie will prey upon the insecurities of the future generation of robot-assimilated little girls — this is it. Somewhere in that Planet of the Apes, dystopian fembot horde sits the touchscreen Barbie B2 MP3 player. Unfortunately, without any clues for scale, the device is either the size of a fingernail, or giant Barbies with even more preposterous breast-to-hips ratios are invading Korea as we speak. We’ll guess something closer to the former (while secretly hoping for the latter).
Update: We found the site pushing the B2. Of course, the makeup case design comes with a mirror to remind your little princess that she’ll never quite meet the corporate beauty standard. Picture after the break.
[Thanks, MadHat]
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Microsoft feeling heat from Linux in budget flash PC market
Microsoft seems determined to turn things around in the ultramobile space and is now making a valiant effort to meet the requirements of hardware manufacturers.