Verizon has announced that the Samsung Ativ Odyssey, a 4-inch budget Windows Phone 8 handset, will arrive on Verizon on January 24th for a price of $ 49.99 with a two-year contract and after a $ 50 mail-in rebate. The phone was supposed to release last December, but the release date slipped — still, it’s Samsung’s first Ativ phone in the United States. The Ativ Odyssey is a lower-end Windows Phone 8 device, with a 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED screen, a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1.5GHz Qualcomm processor. The phone joins the HTC 8X ($ 99.99) and Nokia Lumia 822 ($ 49.99), becoming the third Windows Phone 8 device in Verizon’s lineup.
If the regular ol’ S-Pen that arrived inside your Galaxy Note 10.1′s packaging just isn’t cutting it, Wacom is looking lend a hand with its latest offering. The outfit has announced the Bamboo Stylus feel that touts performance similar to a ball-point pen (or S-Pen) for Windows 8 and Android slates outfitted with the company’s “feel IT” pen tech. Of course, this means that these styli make use of electromagnetic signals to interact with devices, differing from their capacitive Bamboo siblings that we’ve seen. Two options are set to arrive on January 7th with replacement nibs in tow and carrying price tags of $ 39.95 and $ 79.95, respectively. The full PR resides just beyond the break should you need a few more particulars before deciding.
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CBS has been the lone Hulu refusenik among the biggest US broadcasters — even with rumors of licensing discussions underway at least two years ago, we’ve usually had to visit the network’s own site if we wanted a CSI fix without paying by the show. The deadlock is over at last now that CBS and Hulu have struck a deal. The agreement isn’t quite what we’d hope for, focusing almost exclusively on back catalog titles like Medium and Star Trek, although celebrity gossip junkies will like knowing that Entertaintment Tonight segments will be viewable the day they air on regular TV. We’ll have to wait until January 2013 for the selection to be ready — not to mention shell out for Hulu Plus to get full access — but there’s at least an end in sight to one of the longer content droughts in streaming video.
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And RIM’s post-earnings PR offensive continues. This time, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins sat down with the folks at CIO for an in-depth interview about himself and the company’s future, and as you may expect he had a few juicy tidbits to reveal.
The most notable of those little revelations has to do with the company’s forthcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Last month RIM infamously delayed the launch of their first BB10 devices until “Q1 2013″ and left it at that. Interestingly, Mr. Heins seems to have put a finer point on that launch window.
When asked how long it would take for RIM to prove that it’s still a real contender, Heins offered up the following (emphasis mine):
“Faith in RIM and the financial expression of that are two different things. I’m not happy with the situation at RIM either. Who can be happy and satisfied with where we are? What I am satisfied with is that I know we have a path to the future with BlackBerry 10, because I see it. In January with the full touch device and the QWERTY coming, I think we will reinstall faith in RIM.”
That seems like a pretty strong indicator (assuming he didn’t misspeak) that RIM is planning something big involving their first, full-touch BlackBerry 10 device in January 2013. Exactly what that something is remains to be seen — a launch is certainly possible, but so is a big media event meant to whet our appetites before devices hit shelves.
Heins also dives a bit into why the delay happened in the first place, noting that it was because the team was “overwhelmed” by the process of integrating “feature components and building blocks.” Such are the drawbacks of trying something drastically different from their norm, something to which RIM’s US chief Richard Piasentin would likely agree. In a brief chat with TechCrunch, he was quick to note that the company wasn’t interested in just “iterating an existing OS” like its competitors:
“Our corporate mission is to build a new mobile computing platform to empower a people in a way they didn’t think possible,” he continued. “It’s much more important to get it right than to get it done fast.”
But will the slow and steady approach ultimately help RIM inspire faith once again? That remains to be seen, but for now Heins, Piacentin, and the rest of RIM are intent on putting what positive spin they can on things and getting some work done. Hopefully, Heins’s cheerleading doesn’t get the company into any more trouble than it’s already in.
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Details leaked about Microsoft’s $ 15 Windows 8 Pro upgrade offer earlier this month, and we are now able to confirm it will run from June 2nd to January 31st, 2013, according to one source familiar with the company’s plans. Microsoft Store customers who purchase a Windows 7 PC from June 2nd will be offered a Windows 8 Pro upgrade for only $ 14.99. The limited-time “Windows Step-Up Offer” will run until January 31st, 2013 — providing upgrades for holiday and sales shoppers.
Microsoft Store customers who participate in the Windows 8 Pro upgrade offer will also be invited to exclusive workshops to learn more about Windows 8. Microsoft will also supply a $ 20 Microsoft Store gift card in exchange for attendance at one of its planned…
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Answer by JoeCoolYou might get some special bundle deals before christmas, but considering how new it is and the fact that microsoft sets prices that retailers must follow, the actual price should remain the same.
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This week may not have been incredibly packed with news in the mobile world, but it was still easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of January 23, 2012:
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Mobile Miscellany: week of January 23, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy!
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FCC Fridays: January 27, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery from the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!
Continue reading Refresh Roundup: week of January 16, 2012
Refresh Roundup: week of January 16, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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