All 4 Toys

While the Forza 3 set is still an unconfirmed listing, there’s no denying the Xbox 360 has just upped its storage capacity options with a 250GB HDD bundle clad in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 emblems. Asking price is $399.99 and that includes the game and two wireless controllers. Our friends at Joystiq have conjured up some images of the packaging as well as some shakycam footage of the debut from a LA press event, seen after the break.
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LG has joined into Android smartphone line up with the LG’s GW620 a.k.a Etna phone which became the company’s first android-powered phone that ready to hit the select European market from the quarter-four of this year. This is an entry-level android phone, featuring a 3-inch touchscreen display, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and integrated 5-megapixel camera module. Unlike the Motorolas CLIQ and HTCs Hero, the LG GW620 is runs on the standard Android OS without a bunch of modifications.

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The promotional video and leaked shots already made it clear but now it’s official: the Zune HD will be a gaming platform. In addition to a few casual games, calculator and MSN Weather apps pre-loaded onto the Zune HD, the official Microsoft press release touting the launch contains this little nugget of gaming gold:
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Apple breaking support for third-party devices in iTunes may not have been all that unexpected, but you’d think it’d have support for its own products lined up before pushing a major update out the door — especially something that it had already broken with the last major iTunes update. AirTunes users apparently aren’t that lucky, however, as reports are now cropping up that iTunes 9 is breaking connections with the home audio streaming service left and right — although at least a few people seem to be reporting only intermittent problems. No word from Apple itself just yet but, if the last go ’round is any indication, it should have a fix for the problem sooner or later. In the meantime, feel free to relay your tales of AirTunes woe in the comments.

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JVC of America officially announced its latest full HD camcorder which designed to hit the sweet spot between high-end cams and consumer-level SD cams, known as the HD Everio GZ-HM400. The camera sports a 10.3-megapixel CMOS sensor, 9-megapixel still image shots, Full HD video recording, Konica Minolta HD Lens for a high-resolution image source, SD/SDHC memory card slot, and a built-in 32GB of internal memory. Other features include There’s also Face Detection, One Touch Upload to YouTube and One Touch Export to iTunes, even you can choose from a trio of high-speed recording modes at 600fps, 300fps and 120fps. The JVC HD Everio GZ-HM400 will retail for $999.95.

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With VIZIO’s first LED local dimming backlit HDTV just days away from debut and its first Connected TV nearing production, we were able to lay eyes and hands on the television and its funky QWERTY Bluetooth / IR combo remote. Check the pics and videos (including looks at VIZIO’s smaller LED sets ready to hit shelves this fall) for a look at our walkthrough; in the demos at least, the VIZIO Internet Apps platform was speedy and easy to use, however our experience with widgets so far has given us more than enough reason to wait for a full retail rollout before making any final decisions. One tidbit for those not ready to invest a whole new TV? The next iteration of VIZIO’s Blu-ray player should pack not only integrated Wi-Fi, but also the full VIA / widget experience.
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Motorola recently unveiled the CLIQ, the company’s first Android-powered smartphone with the MOTOBLUR. For your information, the MOTOBLUR is the first and only solution to sync contacts, posts, messages, photos and much morefrom sources such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, work and personal e-mail, and LastFMand automatically deliver it to the home screen. The Motorola CLIQ/DEXT will come with a 3.1-inch 320480 touchscreen display and slide-out QWERTY keypad, a 3.5mm audio jack with dual-mic noise cancellation, Bluetooth and WiFi 802.11b/g connectivity, microSD cards slot (support up to 32GB), a 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus with geo-tagging, GPS support with Google Maps and E-compass. There also an accelerometer, proximity sensor and ambient light sensor. The Motorola CLIQ runs on the Google Android 1.5 Cupcake OS including the MOTOBLUR UI. It’s supports quad-band GSM/EDGE and Tri-band WCDMA/HSDPA 7.2Mbps networks. The Motorola CLIQ/Motorola DEXT will available in the US exclusively with T-Mobile and with Orange in the United Kingdom and France, Telefonica in Spain and America Movil in Latin America.

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We can say for sure that our own Windows 7 upgrade experience didn’t take, oh say, a whole day, but according to Microsoft, your own just might. The boys and girls in Redmond set out with a goal of seeing the Vista to Windows 7 upgrade accomplished around five percent faster than an upgrade to Vista, and while it seems that they succeeded, the staggeringly wide range in install times has us a wee bit concerned. A variety of testing situations were put in place, and nearly every profile was tested on low-, mid- and high-end hardware. A clean install of Windows 7 on mid-to-high-end hardware took just a half-hour, but a 32-bit upgrade on a mid-range machine with 650GB of data and 40 applications took an astounding 1,220 minutes, or just under 21 hours. The wild part here is that it’s not all that uncommon for a power user / all-around nerd to have a half-terabyte of information and two score programs, and in anticipation of one install actually taking over a day, the team didn’t even bother testing this path on a low-end rig. Good thing our imaginations are in check, huh?

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Noticing a “Policy Requirement” error when trying to use your Microsoft Exchange account after upgrading to OS 3.1? Then there’s a good chance you’re not using an iPhone 3GS, as Apple has just confirmed via a support page that the upgrade can now enforce the Exchange ActiveSync mailbox policy requiring encryption on the device, which just so happens to only be supported by the 3GS (guess that “S” stands for more than just speed). Not surprisingly, the only solution for non-3GS users is to contact their Exchange Server administrator and hope that they’re willing to change the policy to no longer require device encryption. Read more »