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Welp, that didn’t take long. Just a few months after TerreStar announced that it had completed its first call on the new bird, the revived sat phone provider has now announced the first dual-mode smartphone for AT&T. Granted, we knew these two would be holding hands in the near future, but it’s still refreshing to see the Genus hit the landscape

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TerreStar Genus: AT&T’s first dual-mode cellular / satellite smartphone

To be sure, a certain number of dropped calls are to be expected when you’re dealing with the wonders of cellular communication, but some phones do seem to fare worse then others when paired with certain carriers in particularly congested regions . Apparently fed up with such problems in New York, Gizmodo reader Manoj decided to stop by an Apple Store to see if something might be wrong with his iPhone — this, after apparently being assured by AT&T that everything was all right on its end

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Apple Genius says 30 percent iPhone call drop rate is average in New York

Love that brain-pounding sensation when you jack that volume past the sensible limit? If so, you best hop on the next flight to somewhere not within Europe, as the almighty European Commission is fixing to peg the default volume limit on portable media players at 80 decibels.

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EU seeks to make ‘cranking it to 11′ on DAPs nearly impossible

mSpot has been streaming full-length movies to cellphones for a few years now , but not until this week has the company had a potential customer base of 40 million. As of right now, mobile phone users on Sprint, AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile can surf over to m.mspot.com in order to stream major motion pictures, and being that the service is on-demand, you can also pause and restart ‘em whenever you darn well please. Deals have been inked with Paramount Studios, Universal Pictures and the Weinstein Company, and we’re told that more agreements are in the works.

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mSpot brings new release movie streaming to major US carriers

Today’s the day that VUDU goes live for owners of the LG BD390 Blu-ray player , so of course the crew over at Engadget HD managed to get an early look . As you might expect, those HD snobs at EHD are hard to please, so that combined with the comparison to Blu-ray and Netflix’s Watch Now , makes for an interesting read that you’ll just have to click on through for. The bottom line though is that new features on existing hardware is always appreciated and if you’ve been waiting to pull the trigger on a Blu-ray player, this might just be the feature that’ll make your finger twitch

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Engadget HD reviews VUDU on the LG BD390 Blu-ray player

Today’s the day that VUDU goes live for owners of the LG BD390 Blu-ray player , so of course the crew over at Engadget HD managed to get an early look . As you might expect, those HD snobs at EHD are hard to please, so that combined with the comparison to Blu-ray and Netflix’s Watch Now , makes for an interesting read that you’ll just have to click on through for.

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Engadget HD reviews VUDU on the LG BD390 Blu-ray player

Fido conked out for the evening? Your youngster not really into “playing catch” at age 14?

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Video: TOTO robot catches tennis balls, hopes for a deeper purpose in life

Fido conked out for the evening? Your youngster not really into “playing catch” at age 14? Enter TOTO — a brilliant robotic contraption conceived at Reinhold-W

All we’ve got to go on here are a few screen images, but at a cursory glance, they sure match what we expect the Motorola Sholes (or Tao, as it were) to look like . The biggest news is that Android is alive and well, and while we’re still waiting for an official release date, things are looking up for this to be the outfit’s second-ever Google-powered device

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Motorola Tao (Sholes) purportedly seen running Android, traversing America

We’ve already seen Nokia’s Maemo 5 -powered N900 pull off some pretty fanciful tricks , but without qualification this is the one most dear to our hearts. Somehow or another, Konttori managed to get his palms around an N900 of his own, and rather than testing out the social networking abilities or battery life, he simply installed an SNES emulator, tweaked it to accept Wiimote controls and even connected it to his TV for a staggeringly authentic gameplay experience. Vicarious living is just a click or two away, so hop on past the break for a video of the action.

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Video: SNES runs beautifully on N900, makes out hearts flutter