Looks like the color-crazy engineers in the Pentax labs are brewing up some new goodies: these images of a new Optio H90 and new orange-topped Optio L10 were briefly up on a retailer site today, and Photorumors managed to retrieve the images from Google’s cache. There’s also an entry for a third Optio, but there was no associated image or info, so there’s at least one surprise left in this world.
Pentax Optio H90 and Optio L10 cameras briefly leak out originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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China denies any state involvement in alleged cyber attacks on Google and accuses the US of double standards.
It’d be kinda funny if someone was live-bleeping your profanity, right? Sure, but five minutes later you’d sober up to regret and lingering annoyance. Turns out the Nexus One does it for real, courtesy of Google’s speech-to-text engine — it replaces notorious curses like the F and S words with a ‘####,’ which is a more dramatic take on the Zune HD‘s now-obsolete Twitter censorship. As silly as this sounds, Google has come up with a good reason:
We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken query and return profanity when, in fact, the user said something completely innocent.
Kudos for caring, but it wouldn’t hurt to have an on / off option either — after all, it’s not like we’re asking for pinch-to-zoom here, and we’ll promise to use a swear jar.
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Zune users may have already noticed the alert warning of some impending downtime, but those that haven’t should know that Microsoft is advising folks that some maintenance scheduled for tomorrow could last for as long as 24 hours. That will begin at 10PM PST on January 25th, and will affect all Zune services, including Zune Pass, Zune Marketplace, Zune.net streaming and Zune video on Xbox Live. Once the service is back up, users will also have to update their PC software, and users of Zunes other than the Zune HD will also have to update their device’s firmware. This scheduled maintenance is also apparently just that, maintenance — although Microsoft is promising that things like Smart DJ and other features announced at CES, as well some as “unannounced features,” will be rolling out in another update sometime this Spring.
Scheduled Zune maintenance could last for up to 24 hours originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Looks like the HTC HD2 is getting a little spec bump on its way to our fair shores: the official spec page lists the version bound for T-Mobile US with 1GB of ROM and 576 of RAM, a boost over the international edition’s 512 and 448MB. What’s more, it looks like a bigger 16GB microSD card will come in the box, a big jump over the 2GB stick currently bundled overseas. Not a bad little upgrade — dare we hope that it presages a much bigger bump to Windows Mobile 7 before the scheduled spring launch?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
HTC HD2 gets a spec boost for the US originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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