Maemo’s already pretty open as open platforms go, but what’s better than a single open platform on your open phone? Two open platforms, of course, creating a vortex of pure, unadulterated openness the likes of which the world has never seen. Hacking is par for the course with Nokia’s N900, so it comes as no surprise to see that a motivated individual has managed to get his unit set up in a trick dual-boot configuration with Maemo on internal storage and Android on a separate partition loaded from the microSD card. He says it’s “proof of concept” for the moment — but to steal his words, “its [sic] real and it could be spectacular.” We couldn’t agree more, and as much as Nokia loves its own code, we can’t help but think this precisely the sort of tinkering the N900 was made for. Check video of the magical boot after the break.
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Android dual-boot could make Nokia N900 jack of two trades originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rambus, a company that has been in a long, drawn out legal battle with NVIDIA over five patents for what seems like ages now, had some good news delivered to it late last week. A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a preliminary determination finding that NVIDIA had indeed violated three of the five patents — ruling that the other two had not been violated. Now, NVIDIA says that the whole patent mystery continues to be a subject ripe for reexamination by the Patent and Trademark Office — which has consistently found the claims of infringement to be invalid. NVIDIA says it will take the claims to a full commission for a final decision. You’ll probably remember that these five patent infringement claims were part of a much larger suit that Rambus filed against NVIDIA —
some of which were dropped earlier this month. Will it never end?
Court case shocker: Judge rules in favor of Rambus, not NVIDIA… sort of originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Patent_Application_Gesture_Inputs_Solar_Powered_iPod’;
We know it’s been tough with the dearth of
Apple-related speculation as of late, but it looks like we now finally have a few more clues about what the company might be up to courtesy of a pair of recently published patent applications. The first of those is a new type of gesture-based input device, which would not only be able to detect swipes and other simple gestures, but things like brushing or scooping motions that take into account force and velocity (check out an example after the break). The other patent treads a bit of
familiar territory for Apple, and describes a built-in solar power system for electronic devices — such as an iPod, as illustrated above. That could apparently include solar cells covering the entire device, which could be configured to function even if they’re partly obstructed by your hand. The system would also supposedly be able to detect if the battery is completely drained and rely solely on the solar cells to power up the device or, alternatively, switch the solar cells to a “second operational state” if it detects that the battery is charged — if it ever actually exists, that is.
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Apple patent application two-fer: new gesture inputs, solar-powered iPods? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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All we ever hear of that SandForce SF-1500 controller seems to be about how wickedly fast it is, so we’d be remiss not to inform you that it’s found another home — this time inside Super Talent‘s new enterprise-class SSD line. Branded as TeraDrive FT2, these drives will range from 50GB to 400GB on MLC NAND flash, or up to 200GB on the even nicer SLC-based stuff. The only hurdle in all this glory is that the hardware seems destined primarily for non-consumer markets, with OEMs getting samples now and expecting volume deliveries by the end of this quarter. Then again, if you really can’t wait for these to filter through in consumer machines, we’re sure OCZ and RunCore will be more than happy to sell you some of their own silly fast SandForce-infused gear.
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Looks like everyone wants a slice of that steaming-hot e-reader action these days. Right in front of us here is the Tianji — or in our language, Phecda, a distant star — iBook EB-605, which is purported to be launched by Lenovo at some point this year (and we first heard about such plan back in December). Features include a 6-inch electronic ink display, Samsung ARM 400MHz processor, newspaper subscription, music player, picture browser and support for a variety of digital book formats including EPUB (hooray!) and MOBI. ZOL also spotted the SIM card-like icon at the top, which might suggest a thing or two about its wireless capabilities, and estimates a price tag of under ¥2,000 ($293). No word on international release yet, but hey, the more the merrier either way!
Update: eagle-eyed reader charlied spotted this e-reader in its no-frills form from Oaxis. The good news is that WiFi and SD card slot are featured as well, but no mention of a SIM card slot so ZOL‘s probably wrong about that icon. Shame.
Lenovo to launch Tianji iBook EB-605 e-reader? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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