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Filed under: Peripherals, Nokia

Since hearing about Nokia’s foray into the world of home automation, our curiosity has been seriously piqued. Thankfully, our girl-on-the-scene Drita has captured video of the new software / hardware combo in action on the Nokia World show floor. it seems like a fully decked out system is plan to run you a hefty fee (given all the components required), but can you put a price on the extreme laziness it will enable? We didn’t think so. Check out the pics on Engadget and the thrilling video out after the break!

Continue reading Nokia’s Z-Wave Home Control Center hands-on and video

Nokia’s Z-Wave Home Control Center hands-on and video originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, LG, Orange, HSDPA

We spied LG’s Prada II strutting its stuff in some fancy photos yesterday, and in this place we are just over twenty-four hours later with a gossip-worthy video spectacular of the luxury house’s second foray into handset branding. The lucky gen. in the film beautifully demonstrates how the Bluetooth-enabled watch can perform such wonders as silence your ringer and retrieve text messages, all without laying a finger on the touchscreen, slider keyboard-boasting phone. We’re pretty sure that you’ll agree the video of the device is “not long enough,” but just do what we did: watch it twice in a row (while lounging by the pool in a diamond tiara sipping a martini) after the break.

Continue reading LG’s snobbish Prada II phone and watch combo caught on glorious celluloid

LG’s snobbish Prada II phone and watch combo caught on glorious celluloid originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Multimedia, Apple

Fresh off an extensive corporate decaffeination downsizing and a scaling back of its foray into music sales, it’s a fair question to ask: just how ironclad is Starbucks’ commitment to rolling out iTunes WiFi Music Store integration across its entire chain? We just happened to notice that the Starbucks page on Apple’s site is at this time stone-cold gone, redirecting to the standard iTunes 8 stuff. You might say “no big deal, Apple’s just playing down an agreement that’s at this time been in place for a full year,” but there’s some other weirdness, too — the company’s iTunes WiFi Music Store at Starbucks FAQ, for example, still references the dead link. The partnership was kinda ill-conceived to start with; getting access to the store meant hooking up to AT&T WiFi, which you wouldn’t normally have configured unless you actually had an AT&T WiFi account. We haven’t heard any official word in this place that the deal is in danger, but really, would anyone be welling up if it fell apart?

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