Filed under: Announcements

You’ve already heard our impassioned plea; we won’t go over that again. You know all the details of the challenge; we’re not going to rehash them here. This is just a quick heads up that today is your last chance to contribute to the Engadget Energizes Education charity drive on DonorsChoose.org, as well as a gentle reminder that we’re still far from our goal. Forty-nine generous souls have banded together to donate almost $6,800 as of this writing, funding a variety of projects that will impact over one thousand disadvantaged public school children. But our goal is $25,000, meaning that as it stands, thousands of additional students will go without the critical technology they need to start life on an even playing field. Please, do whatever you can to help this worthy cause reach as many young lives as possible. Thanks for your time, and your selflessness.

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Those waiting in tense anticipation for any of HP’s iPAQs could be twiddling their thumbs even longer. Amidst the recent delays (and subsequent clarifications) of the 110 and 210 comes news that a whole slew of the devices will not be shipping on time. Reportedly, HP Austria has confirmed to TamsPPC that the 110 won’t arrive until early next month, while the 200 series won’t land until January of next year. It gets worse — the 614 / 614c Business Navigator is purportedly delayed until next February, and the 914 / 914c isn’t set to arrive until the cows come home May of 2008. As for the 314, you can still expect it by the end of next month. Granted, we can’t confirm that Austria-based delays will necessarily affect America and the rest of the globe, but it certainly isn’t confidence instilling news, regardless.

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Been looking for a PMP that really snaps out of the mold and lightly dances into the realm of the truly daring… and your heart? Feast your eyes on the Shenzhen Shibang New Age Technology S1808 (no kidding), a brand new player that comes across like some retro-future, steampunk-meets-Gundam sidearm from the year 4000. The PMP is housed in a leather-esque casing with an ornate, shielded speaker — which certainly wins it a few points for originality. In reality, the player is nothing special, featuring a 1.8-inch, 160 x 120 screen, storage capacities ranging from 128MB to 2GB, an optional FM radio, and playback of a few of your favorite formats, like WAV, ASF, MP3, and WMA. Oh, yeah — it also has a place to attach a lanyard. No word on price or availability, or what kind of alien robot it transforms into.

[Via PMPToday]

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Two and a half years of waiting, and two million plus copies later, Leopard has made its way into many a Mac — but are all its users completely satisfied? Probably not, but there’s still a lot to love. Apple really did a spot-cleaning on OS X this time, and virtually every nook and cranny of the system has been tweaked, tuned, modified — and in almost all cases improved. You don’t need a lengthy review from the likes of us: if you’re an Engadget reader and a Mac user, Leopard is a must-have. If you haven’t already snagged it (or just wanted to read over some of the news you may have missed) check out our coverage roundup below.

Leopard: impressions, features, hardware, questions, and the BSOD icon
All about Leopard: gallery, apps, impressions
Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown
Mini How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug
We’ve got Leopard, what do you want to know?
Leopard on an 8 year old G4 Power Mac — can it be done?

Sad Mac
RIP, Classic Mac OS: 1984 - 2007
Getting Leopard’s BSOD? Try uninstalling APE.
Apple halts Boot Camp downloads ahead of Leopard’s release

Everything else
Apple: 2 million copies of Leopard sold
Leopard reviews coming in, usual suspects agree: it’s all gravy
Leopard hacked for Intel PC consumption
Leopard: final features and further upgrade details
Poll: How do you want us to cover Leopard?

Rumble on
Poll: OS war, 2007

Nostalgia
Post-Tiger wishlist from way back in 2005 — we actually got some of the things we wanted!
Tiger Direct sues Apple over Tiger (and then calls it off)

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Filed under: Laptops

If you’re still hanging in there even after the price-hike, then you’ll be happy to know that the Asus Eee PC just busted free on-line over at NewEgg. No sign of it at Best Buy yet so you’re stuck with a $399 4GB model (only) at the moment. A $10.33 shipping insult is added to the failed expectation injury starting today.

Update: Sold out! Of course, NewEgg’s initial allotment could have been one unit for all we know. Fortunately for those on the hunt, it looks like NewEgg expects to restock tomorrow.

[Via I4U News, thanks Jason H.]

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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

We realize what day it is, but we’re pretty certain the FCC isn’t messing around on this one. Right on cue, regulators have “approved a rule that would ban exclusive agreements that cable television operators have with apartment buildings, opening up competition for other video providers that could eventually lead to lower prices.” The move was apparently “unanimously approved,” and Chairman Kevin Martin went on to say that there was simply “no reason that consumers living in apartment buildings should be locked into one service provider.” Not surprisingly, a spokeswoman for Comcast proclaimed that “many consumers were likely to wind up paying more for services if the FCC’s interference in the competitive marketplace stands,” but it’s fairly safe to assume Verizon and AT&T see things very differently.

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Filed under: GPS

Man, it must feel mighty fantastic to be Tele Atlas right about now. Not even a month after TomTom finalized a whopping $2.5 billion offer to take the map maker over, Garmin — which currently relies on NAVTEQ maps — has come out swinging with a staggering $3.3 billion bid of its own. As expected, Tele Atlas is now taking a good hard look at both offers and examining its options, and some analysts are even suggesting that a bidding war could take the figure even higher. ‘Course, such a conjecture is easy to make when TomTom has already proclaimed that it would reply in some way “in the near future.” Bust out the blank checks — this one could get ugly (or very pretty, if you’re a Tele Atlas shareholder).

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!