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MSI extends its lineage of ultra slim notebooks with the released the new 14-inch (1366768) X430 X-Slim netbook, where it will packs an AMDs Athlon Neo X2 dual core processor, a 2GB of DDR2 RAM, ATIs Mobility Radeon HD3200 graphics, an either 320GB or 500GB hard drive capacity. Other features include a built-in speakers, a 2-in-1 card reader, a 1.3 Megapixel webcam, HDMI output, WiFi 802.11b/g/n and optional Bluetooth connectivity. There is also a HDMI output. The X430 X-Slim is pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System.

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The LG BL40 New Chocolate Christmas Edition is a re-brand phone of the BL40 which already hit the market a view months ago. This special edition phone sports a black color case with golden accents and 8 megapixel autofocus camera, instead of the 5MP one featured by the original BL40. No idea on pricing, but the LG BL40 New Chocolate should be available in South Korea on December 10, where the customers will also get a voucher than can get prizes of up to 5 million KRW (more than $4,000).

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Befuddled by the Blobo squeezable game controller developed by an upstart company out of Finland? The FCC probably was to, but that didn’t stop ‘em from putting it through their usual battery of tests, tearing it apart, and giving us a glimpse at the user manual and our first real up-close look at the device itself. Of course, it is just a rubber ball packed with Bluetooth and sensors — but if you’re curious, you can find more pics where this one came from at the link below. And if, by chance, you missed out on all the Blobo details earlier this week, you’ll no doubt want to check out the helpful and informative video after the break.

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Even though Broadcom, Atheros, and Qualcomm have all been sampling phone-ready draft 802.11n chipsets for some time now, you’re still not seeing the tech swiftly overtake 802.11g in the mobile arena — in fact, we dare you to find a single phone in your carrier’s store that can do it. Odds are you can’t, but HTC HD2 owners can win a few quid off their skeptical (non-Engadget-reading) friends by enabling support after the fact. Looks like draft-n support got buried in the company’s WinMo monster — a fitting device to add such a rare display of raw, savage wireless power, if we do say so ourselves — but it got turned off in the shipping firmware for some reason, possibly concerns over increased battery draw, flakiness, or a stark realization that the benefits of 802.11n might not be fully appreciated in a device hamstrung more by a crappy browser than by slow WiFi. If you want to live on the edge anyway and flip the switch, xda-developers has the registry hack you need — and if you’re using an HD2 in the States without 3G right now, let’s be honest: you kinda need all the speed-boosting wireless hacks you can dig up. Read more »

You might’ve thought that Google was positioning its industry-changing Google Maps Navigation as a value proposition for Android 2.0 and beyond, but yeah, not so much — instead, they’ve gone ahead and backported it to 1.6 (alias “Donut”) which means that T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G and G1 plus other 1.6-equipped devices across the land can get in on the action. In the case of the memory-starved G1, that’s especially surprising, and a heartening sign that the world’s first retail Android device still has some fight left in it. It’s available from the Android Market now, so go ahead — try to get yourself lost. We dare you. Read more »

Philips has just unveils its new 9000 LED Pro series LCD HDTV, where it will be available in the 40-inch (40PFL9704) and the 46-inch (46PFL9704) models. Both of television are incorporated the new LED Pro backlight technology which sets the standard for outright TV performance. Its already well known that conventional CCFL backlit displays have problems with washed out blacks and therefore inferior contrast levels. LED PRO backlight technology with locally dimmable segments, 2009 changes the 2008 version of the LED 2D dimming backlight featured 128 segments arranged in eight rows with 16 segments in each row. For 2009, the LED PRO version of the system features 14 rows with 16 segments to give a total of 224 – which represents a 75% increase in segments.

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It’s been a hot minute since we’ve seen a totally useful display adapter from Sewell, but the outfit’s latest is certainly worth a gander if you’ve been yearning to push high-def signals through USB. The Minideck USB-to-DVI / VGA / HDMI (video only) adapter utilizes the DisplayLink DL-195 chip, which provides support for resolutions as high 2,048 x 1,152, so 1080p and 1,920 x 1,200 LCD monitors are well taken care of. Best of all, this thing doesn’t require a Core i7 rig to operate, so your 5 year old corporate laptop should be plenty to handle the rigors of powering a 24-inch LCD via a dusty old USB socket. It’s all yours right now for $99.95.

Sewell’s DisplayLink-enabled USB-to-DVI / VGA / HDMI adapter does 2,048 x 1,152 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s a wild land of imagination over at Wired and Condé Nast these days. The pair have managed not only to dream up a colorful, animated copy of Wired magazine for the so-far imaginary Apple tablet, but actually whipped up a concept of a Apple tablet to go with it. The Willy Wonka-style pairing are being shown off at the Wired Store in New York, and go along with word the other day that Condé Nast was taking the development of “iTablet” versions of its publications very seriously. Perhaps a bit too seriously? We’re not ones to judge. Video of the tablet is after the break. Read more »