Wal-Mart Prepares to Sell Nexus One

good morning! well as usual i cant really find a consumer electronic article that is semi interesting so yeah its probably going to be a boring one again.. maybe one that only the picture caught my attention haha if someone is and expert on finding good articles on this topic. don't be shy and send me tips!

Google's decision to exclusively sell the Nexus One may be short-lived.

Wal-Mart Stores has created a page on its wireless Web site featuring the Nexus One. It says the device is "coming soon," but does not include pricing information.

The blog AndroidandMe spotted the page, which is still live at the time this story posted.

Google did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

The Wal-Mart page indicates that the Nexus One may soon become available for use on other networks besides T-Mobile. It says that the phone works on UMTS/HSDPA (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System/High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) as well as 1xRTT and 1xEvDO. That means the phone could operate on the Verizon and Sprint networks.

While Google is selling the phone unlocked to users willing to pay US$530, the phone will only operate on 3G on T-Mobile's network. Unlocked phones will make and receive phone calls and deliver slower data speeds on AT&T's network. The current Nexus One phones won't work on the Verizon or Sprint networks.

When Google introduced the Nexus One in early January, it said that it would be available exclusively through the Google online store initially. The search giant had hoped to jump-start the market for unlocked phones sold without a subsidy. But it quickly became apparent that Google was not prepared to offer the kind of customer support that phone buyers expect.

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4 Things that could keep 3d out of your living room

This article is far too long and i know if i post it no one will read it so let me just post a small portion and then if your interested you can go back and read more about it.


3-D Glasses are a drag
Watching a clip of Monsters vs. Aliens or Avatar on a 3-D TV can be fun. But first you have to need to put on a pair of compatible glasses — either specially polarized ones, or active shutter glasses that contain electronics synchronized with the images on the screen to deliver a 3-D effect to your eyes.

Wearing glasses for a three-hour movie like Avatar is one thing. But doing it every day, day after day, can quickly become annoying.

Though active shutter or polarized 3-D glasses are getting more lightweight and sleeker, there’s no escaping that they are still a pair of glasses you’ll have to wear every time you want to watch 3-D video on your TV.

What’s also not clear is how 3-D glasses will work for those who already wear prescription eyeglasses. For now, you just have to put them on over your regular glasses — hardly an elegant solution.

The glasses will also cost extra. Consumers who spend $3,000 for a 3-D TV will have to shell out more to get a pair of glasses. Active shutter glasses can cost $50 a pop or more and for a big family, the cost can add up. Also, buyers need to factor in losses, because glasses can be misplaced easily.

TV makers will likely offer bundled deals where a pair or two of glasses are included with purchase of a TV set, but so far there have been no clear announcements.

And if you’re having friends over to watch a movie or a game, you’ll have to remind them to bring their own glasses. If they forget, they are out of luck.

Some companies, such as LG, Samsung and Mitsubishi, are showing prototypes of 3-D TVs that require no glasses. But in that case, the TV can be a very limiting experience. 3-D TVs without glasses have a very specific viewing range — four feet in some cases — and have very specific viewing angles, so they’re not well-suited to screenings with more than a small number of viewers



Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/3dtv-analysis/#ixzz0d6OAUKPs


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Nexus One

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Q: In reviewing Google's new Nexus One phone, you said its memory is expandable to 32 gigabytes, but that the portion of memory used for storing apps is just 190 megabytes. Is the expandable memory unusable for apps? Is memory for apps expandable?


A: On the Nexus One, the Motorola Droid and other Android phones, there are two main types of memory: one internal, which is fixed, and the other external, in the form of removable memory cards, which the user can increase in capacity. In general, apps can be stored only in a small, restricted portion of internal memory, which on the Nexus One is a meager 190 megabytes. Although there are exceptions, apps can't generally be stored on the roomier removable memory cards, though some files they rely upon, like graphics, can be offloaded onto the cards.

Google acknowledges this is a limitation, but says it designed the system to protect apps from being copied by merely removing the memory card and inserting it into a PC which could duplicate its contents. The company says it is working on ways to secure the memory cards to the satisfaction of the app developers, so that apps could be stored on them. Meanwhile, Android phones can't hold nearly as many apps, especially sophisticated large apps, as some users might like.


Q: AT&T and Verizon are each saying that they have wide areas of coverage. Can you tell me who really has the widest area of coverage for cellphone signals?

A: If you are comparing basic cellphone signal availability, each of the two leaders has a very wide footprint. However, Verizon claims a larger geographic footprint when it comes to 3G networks, which are currently the fastest widely deployed cellular data networks. AT&T claims its 3G is the fastest. But, partly because AT&T has the iPhone, which is both popular and makes heavy data usage very easy, its network too often seems overwhelmed in large cities, in my experience. Verizon so far lacks a specific phone with similar popularity which users employ to consume as much data, and thus network capacity, as iPhone users typically do. However, iPhone-class phones like the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One, if they sell well, will test the Verizon network's robustness.

Q: Any idea how well or badly the new Google Nexus One syncs with Macs for things like Calendars, Notes, Address Books etc.?

A: The Nexus One doesn't come with software for syncing with computers, whether Macs or PCs. It is primarily intended to sync with online calendars and address books, not those stored locally on computers. It also lacks software for syncing even larger files, like music, photos and videos. Its method for transferring those files from Macs and PCs is to connect the phone via a USB cable, causing the phone to appear to the computer as an external hard disk. You then must manually drag and drop files onto the Nexus One's icon. In other words, Google doesn't supply any equivalent to Apple's iTunes or the BlackBerry media-syncing software. However, the third-party program doubleTwist, available at doubletwist.com, is designed to function as a sort of iTunes for syncing Android, Palm and BlackBerry devices. It runs on Macs and PCs and even looks a bit like iTunes. But it only syncs media files, not calendars or address books

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Tracking your kids, stuff is the future, according to AT&T

blahh! boring day for electronic"s .. how come people are always trying to find more ways to track there kids?? like come one give them a little freedom.. seriously.

More of your everyday stuff may be able to communicate with cell networks throughout 2010, at least if AT&T has anything to say about it. The company says that it plans to add services to a plethora of consumer products as part of an expansion of its mobile offerings, and that the first of these products may be available in the second half of this year.

AT&T head of emerging devices Glenn Lurie told Reuters about the company's plans during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, noting that AT&T is already in the process of inking deals to get into 20 consumer devices. These would include, among other things, entertainment systems in your car, your e-reader, your digital photo frame, or even your child (we assume something you strap onto your child, not put in your child). AT&T believes the venture might net the company as much as $1 billion more in annual revenue.

In theory, this would mean that users will be able to keep track of their items and locate them in case of loss or theft. Amazon's Kindle, for example, already has wireless tech built in for book downloading, but that that law enforcement could use to help track stolen devices—if it really wanted to. Though Kindle users have been somewhat frustrated in achieving that goal as of late, Lurie believes the future is definitely in tracking your things. "There's going to be more and more there in terms of anything you want to track, whether it's a parcel or a container or a kid," he told Reuters.

To many of us, being able to always find our electronics—a la Apple's "Find My iPhone" feature—would be wonderful. Imagine how much easier it would be to find your keys if you could pop onto a website and see where you last left them? But, as with most devices that have tracking capabilities, those worried about privacy are sure to be uncomfortable with the proliferation of these services. Gadget makers will have to be extremely cautious in making sure the tracking features are off by default and offered as an opt-in if they want to stay on the good side of organizations like the EFF.

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