Tag archive: announcement

Ferrari has been a part of the Test Drive series since the very beginning, with the games featuring everything from the Testarossa to the 458 Italia, and now Atari has announced a title dedicated to the legendary brand. Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends is its name, and it promises to be everything the tifosi could want. Atari's CEO Kim Wilson has called the game “a landmark chapter” in the Test Drive saga, and it will offer… Read More

After a decade of lackluster online support, Nintendo may finally be wising up. During an investor's briefing today, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced that its upcoming console, the Wii U, will have two new features: NFC built into the controller and an Xbox Live-like online service called Nintendo Network. Downloadable content, including fullly downloadable retail games is also a possibility. Details below. Wii U to have a solid… Read More

Following their recent attempts to terrify us into buying a gaming PC with the Aurora R4, Alienware has now come over all friendly and announced the X51, a gaming PC that's hidden in a console-style box. With the ability to stand vertically or lay horizontally, the new X51 could happily sit alongside other gaming machines under your TV too. Despite a footprint barely larger than an original PS3, the X51 still packs in plenty of tech, and… Read More

Apple has sent out invitations for a media event to be held in New York City on January 19. But banish from your mind images of CEO Tim Cook strutting around a stage holding aloft the iPad 2 successor or iPhone 5—the tagline on the invitation reads, “Join us for an education announcement in the Big Apple.” According to ApppleInsider, the event is rumored to involve the announcement of improvements to the iBooks platform, possibly connected to… Read More

What do the Nokia N8, the LG Optimus 3D, the HTC Droid Incredible, the HTC Desire S, the Motorola Atrix 4G, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and more than 500 other devices have in common? They all use Corning's incredibly tough Gorilla Glass to cover their screens. Hailed as a “tremendous success” by the company's senior vice president, Gorilla Glass can currently be found on 575 products from more than 30 different… Read More

Motorola has officially unveiled its Droid Xyboard tablets. As we suspected, they are rebranded Xoom 2 tablets, which were announced last month. If you care to look at that post, you'll see the same specs we're about to explain again. The move from the Xoom brand to “Droid Xyboard” was likely made due to lackluster sales of the original Motorola Xoom, which, like all Android tablets outside of the Kindle Fire and Nook… Read More

Spotify is now an app platform. At an event in New York today that is ending now, Spotify CEO and Founder Daniel Ek revealed its newest plan to edge out its streaming rivals: apps. As Facebook and so many other services are slowly doing, Spotify is planning to allow developers to make custom apps that interact with its streaming music service. Examples of apps that could appear on the service include an app that displays song lyrics, a concert… Read More

Lenovo has unveiled and launched three new tablets and a phone for the Chinese market. The Lenovo LePad S2005 S2007, S2010, and S2 are all hitting Chinese store shelves soon and have screens ranging from 4 to 10 inches. We weren't able to attend this event, but the Chinese version of Engadget (1, 2, 3) was able to get the details on the new devices.  LePad S2005: This is a 5-inch Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) tablet. It has a 800×480… Read More

Today was Apple's big day. Nokia, Microsoft, Google… they've all been holding off their phone announcements to see what Apple is cooking up for the holidays. After all, Apple hasn't updated the iPhone for almost a year and a half, and with Tim Cook now officially at the helm, you'd think the company would want to prove itself. Well, not so much. Instead of a new iPhone 5, we got the iPhone 4S, which is nearly… Read More

Update: Check out our ongoing iPhone 4S coverage below for a full run-down on the latest iPhone, or read on for a blow-by-blow with all the nitty-gritty details, as penned lived during the October 4 announcement. Ongoing iPhone 4S Coverage Apple iPhone 4S: Everything you need to know What’s missing from the iPhone 4S? Turns out plenty Siri voice control for iPhone: Everything you need to know How to get your hands on a new iPhone 4S   The… Read More

The era of mainstream cloud computing officially arrived today with Amazon's launch of three cloud products: Cloud Drive, Cloud Player for Web and Cloud Player for Android. Through this release, Amazon has catapulted itself over the competition, to the forefront of consumer computing — and left Apple and Google eating its dust. The Cloud Drive, news of which leaked out Monday, serves as a “digital locker” for storing any type… Read More

Steve Jobs took the stage today at Apple's special event. Though he has been on medical leave since January, the CEO came on stage today to announce Apple's newest product: the iPad 2. ”Good morning, we've been working on this product for a while, and I didn't want to miss today,” said Jobs as he greeted the crowd looking a little thin, but as energetic as ever. The iPad 2 The iPad 2 will ship on March 11. The… Read More

June must be getting close. Rumors about Apple's presumably inevitable next generation iPhone(s) are flying left and right. One day, the iPhone talk is all about a small, cheaper phone in the works. The next, the phone has grown. And that's what we've got today. DigiTimes is reporting that, according to “upstream component suppliers,” the next generation iPhone, or “iPhone 5,” will go to a 4-inch screen.… Read More

Today Nokia CEO Stephen Elop held two separate press briefings detailing the Finnish phone maker's new strategic alliance with Microsoft. In the first briefing (full details here), which we have video for below, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer joined Elop on stage to announce the new deal. Later, Elop came back out, joined by his CFO, to further explain Nokia's strategy, outline restructuring efforts, answer questions, and share… Read More