The Wind U120 has been drifting around for months now in the minds of undersized laptop aficionados, and being that you’ve already heard it talked up, seen it ripped apart and perused a gallery full of hands-on images, all’s that left to do is break out the plastic. Yeah, we know — $469.99 is tough to hand over even for a rather respectable 10-inch netbook, but at least you get a six-cell battery, right?

[Thanks, Abigail]

Filed under: Laptops

MSI’s Wind U120 netbook is go for purchase originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been a long, long time since Belo-owned stations were transmitted on Charter systems (what, two years or something now?), but the two are finally burying the hatchet before 2009… or partially burying it, anyway. According to Belo, 11 of its 15 markets can finally see Belo-owned locals in SD and HD on Charter, including KMOV-TV in St. Louis, WFAA in Dallas / Fort Worth, WCNC-TV in Charlotte and KONG-TV in Seattle / Tacoma. Few details about the actual agreement were made public, but we’re just stoked that the two have finally made amends.

[Thanks, Shane]

Most Belo-owned stations finally permitted for transmission on Charter originally appeared on Engadget HD on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While we feel that some objects shouldn’t be solar powered for the sake of being solar powered, we can’t help but dig Nextar’s approach here. The NXBT-001 / NXBT-002 seem to primarily differ only in the amount of charge they have the ability to hold, with the former offering 250 hours of standby time / 10 hours of speak time and the latter boasting 150 hours of standby time and 6 hours of yappin’. As for functionality, both devices are designed to enable handsfree calling in the vehicle with any Bluetooth-enabled mobile, and of course, they each soak up the sun while you’re out cruising about. The ideal part? The fact that you no longer have to run yet another power cable to that 8-port cigarette adapter hub sitting in your center console. The pair will ship this Spring for $59.99 / $69.99 (thanks to a bundled caller ID display), respectively. Full release is after the break.

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Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Transportation

Nextar cuts the cord with solar-powered in-car handsfree kits originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While EMTEC clearly knows how to have a good time, it’s getting back to business with the Gdium. If you’ll recall, we heard about this here netbook eons ago, but since then, we’ve been too overwhelmed by countless Eee models and various changes in Wind direction to even give this fellow a second thought. Now, however, we’re told that the firm will be debuting the 10-inch netbook at CES in preparation for a US release. The Linux-based machine will come loaded with loads of open source software as well as a G-Key, which is described as “a bootable USB key on which the Linux operating system, applications, and personal data are stored.” Anticipate it to ship in white, black and pink sometime between January and the end of time for $400.

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EMTEC bringing 10-inch Gdium netbook to America for $400 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It was deliciously inevitable that a watch phone would eventually show up that could actually “pack it all in,” and it looks like LG has actually accomplished that feat in its LG-GD910 model. Of note, the phone packs a touchscreen LCD, 3G data, and a built-in camera for videoconferencing and being a general badass. Sure, browsing to your favorite gadget blog might be a tad bit difficult on that 1.43-inch screen, and there’s always the question of fashion, but those are minor quibbles — the real question is where can we get one, and for how much. LG should be showing this off at CES next month (it showed off a predecessor this January), and plans to release it in Japan and Europe, but we’ve got a couple of cereal box-delivered 2-way wrist radios crossed behind our backs in hopes for a US berth.

[Via Electronista]

LG’s magical GD910 wrist phone packs touchscreen, camera and rainbows originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve seen self-parking automobiles before, but Ford’s system — part of the company’s new power steering technology — not only works on hills (unlike the Lexus), but employs sensors that are also used on the road to monitor blind spots and notify the driver of approaching traffic. The auto-parking technology is set to debut on the 2010 Lincoln MKS sedan and Lincoln MKT luxury crossover automobile, while the new-school power steering — which uses the vehicle’s battery rather than its hydraulic system, improving fuel economy and reducing carbon emissions in the process — should be popping up in nearly ninety percent of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury cars by 2012. Pretty soonish, by auto industry standards, but not soon enough for the nation’s tenth graders, who will need to perfect their three point turns if they want to get their licenses before the Spring Fling.

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Ford announces self-parking vehicles, future 16 year olds totally psyched originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The pessimistic among us will insist that Netflix is implementing this change in order to avoid acquiring more new releases and ditching the infamous throttling process, but we still maintain that it’s superior than nothing. For totally zero dollars more per month, Netflix has committed to shipping the next “Available” motion picture in your queue from a local distribution hub as well as the number one unavailable title in your list from another hub (when available) in order to superior meet demand and keep subscribers happy. In essence, this change gives users a free (albeit less desired) flick while a more highly sought after disc gets shipped from somewhere else. Netflix only recently announced that this process was in effect, though it was supposedly put into place a few weeks ago — so, has anyone benefited yet?

Netflix makes pro-consumer shipping adjustment to deal with long waits originally appeared on Engadget HD on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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