Filed under: Features

You read the keynote, now see all the live photography in far higher res than our in-column coverage. (We’ve also included a few shots that didn’t make it into the liveblog, too.) Or, you know, skip this post entirely — we won’t fault you if you’re on Apple overload today.

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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

You should know by now that these brief claims of superiority won’t mean much when the other camp flips the numbers around and cranks out a jaw dropping figure of its own, but the North American HD DVD Promotional Group has recently announced that it’s currently livin’ the high life. Supposedly, standalone HD DVD players now hold 60-percent of the market share amongst standalone high-definition disc players, and the recent “aggressive spring retail and marketing campaigns” are to thank. Unsurprisingly, Toshiba’s heavily (albeit momentarily) discounted HD-A2 was dubbed the “best-selling next-gen DVD player model to date,” and we were even told that over 75,000 HD DVD titles were sold in the final week of May alone. The countdown for the Blu-ray rebuttal starts… now.

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Filed under: Laptops

It appears that Dell won’t just be lining the shelves of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club with cheap-as-free desktop offerings this year, they’re also prepping a laptop to keep the budget shoppers happy. Unfortunately, that’s all we know right now, other than that Dell is planning the model for “later in the summer.” Well, that and the fact that we don’t plan to be blown away by the release.

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Filed under: Cellphones

We first caught wind of Nokia’s N77 handset all the way back in February, but those in Finland should now be able to actually get their hands on it, with those in India and Vietnam set to follow later this month. The big selling point here is the handset’s DVB-H mobile TV capabilities, which’ll let you watch live TV from a variety of channels, with a program guide also provided to help you out. Otherwise, the phone (or “multimedia computer,” as Nokia insists on calling it) packs a 2.4-inch widescreen display, a 2 megapixel camera, tri-band GSM / EDGE capabilities, and support for MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA media. While Nokia isn’t saying as much in this latest announcement, last we heard the N77 would run you €370, or roughly $490.

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Filed under: Laptops

In most situations, a donation of a thousand laptops is a pretty awesome thing. But when the donation comes from Intel, a multi-billion dollar corporation with an interest in promoting its low cost laptop line, and the recipient is Vietnam, a nation of 85 million living on less than $3,500 per capita, it’d be a long shot to say that the donation came out of the goodness of the company’s heart. Education minister Nguyen Thien Nhan seems to be happy enough with the deal, saying that Vietnam recognizes the value of technology in the classroom (even if America doesn’t). Frankly, we don’t buy the PR line: it’s not sustainable for Intel to constantly “give away” their machines, so the payoff is inevitably going to be some sort of lock-in by getting there first. Even if the concept of laptops in schools isn’t flawed, this isn’t the way to go about getting them into the hands of students — let alone students from a country that is listed in the mid-hundreds on the GDP rankings.

[Via The Inquirer]

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