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If you’re the type of individual who can never decide between the Cobb salad, the lobster bisque, and the sesame prawns and end up ordering all three, take note — your phone has arrived. The long-rumored LG Versa lets you have your cake and eat it too by starting life as a full touchscreen slate, and when the time comes for some serious emailing, texting, or notetaking, you just snap on the included cover that includes a full QWERTY keyboard. The cover also features its own OLED display — handy, since the Versa’s 480 x 240 main display is concealed while the cover’s closed — while the phone itself rocks EV-DO Rev. A with tethering capability, a 2 megapixel cam with face detection and video recording, microSD expansion, and GPS. It’ll be available starting March 1 for $249.99 on contract before a $50 mail-in rebate.

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LG Versa heading to Verizon on March 1 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tired of PSP colors yet? Sony doesn’t think you are — and it also thinks you’re a lady, because it’s squarely targeting the new Lilac PSP at girl gamers. Tween girls, to be specific: the Lilac will debut as part of a $199 Hannah Montana Entertainment Pack that features young Miley’s PSP game, a UMD with a few HM episodes, a 2GB memory stick, and some fun stickers. What do the less overstimulated among us get? An Assassin’s Creed Entertainment Pack that’ll launch with Altair’s PSP debut later this year and “other content that will announced later.” Awesome, thanks for loving us too, Sony.

[Via Joystiq]

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Sony announces Lilac PSP, Hannah Montana and Assassin’s Creed entertainment packs originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Looks like that red Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 bundle wasn’t just some tripped out figment of your imagination. Just moments ago, the package popped up for Xbox Live subscribers, detailing a handsome red Xbox 360 Elite with a 120GB hard drive, Resident Evil 5, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, and a few other odds and ends (like a handful of cables). There’s an indication that you can pre-order the kit, but at this point, we’re not aware of any place to follow through. We’ll keep our eyes peeled, of course.

Update: According to the German press release we just received, the limited edition bundle will hit Europe on March 13th for €299 — likely $399 Stateside. Gallery updated with official press pictures.

Update 2: Boom! Pre-order at Best Buy for $399. [Thanks, Ivan]

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Red ‘Resident Evil 5′ Xbox 360 unveiled! (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Better start checking your order status, kids — Amazon’s Kindle 2 has started shipping a couple days before the February 24 launch date. Of course, it’s Sunday, so we’d bet these things actually ship tomorrow and arrive on Tuesday as promised, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting — and even better, our tipster wasn’t a preferred Kindle 1 owner, so it looks like even new orders are due to arrive on time. Fingers crossed!

[Thanks, Parker]

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Kindle 2 shipping now originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Look, we’ll level with you: we don’t know exactly what we’re looking at. After seeing that Mac mini pic yesterday, we were about 140 percent sure it was a classic Photoshop disaster. Now we don’t know what to think. One thing is for sure — this isn’t done with Photoshop. The above video was offered up by the original poster of the first pic to back up his or her claims of a “2009 Penryn” mini. Something feels fishy about this, but it’s hard to write off the video as pure sleep-deprivation-induced fantasy. So what do you guys think? Crazy mod, new mini, shared hallucination? Fire back in comments!

[Thanks, Blake]

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New Mac mini revealed in video? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Looks like Google is officially in the mobile app store game — Android Market now contains paid apps. We haven’t gotten the update on our G1 yet, but if you have RC33 it’s rolling out now — reboot and let us know what your first purchase is!

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Paid apps appear in Android Market originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So is Vodafone’s HTC Magic the same as T-Mobile’s G2? Could very well be, considering Google’s little slip-up during a demo of its offline Gmail support on mobile devices. What we have up there clearly ain’t a Voda logo, and if our knowledge of T-Mobile logos around the world is accurate, this isn’t a European T-Mobile logo, either — it’s straight-up Yankee. Would certainly make a ton of sense for this thing to shake out as the G2, and there’s no shortage of folks holding out for a keyboardless Android device ’round there… so your move, T-Mob.

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Google’s offline Gmail demo reveals seemingly US-bound HTC Magic — is this the T-Mobile G2? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re still feeling all giddy about getting your mitts on a DSi here in the States on April 5th, prepare for a bit of a downer. Nintendo Europe has just announced gamers within its territories be getting the multi-screen multi-cam wonder a full two days earlier, on April 3rd, but hasn’t said how much they’ll be paying for the privilege. Also, while we’re stuck with black and a rather cheeky baby blue, Euro gamers will be getting the more stolid/boring color selection of black or white, which may be good or bad depending on your monochromatic tendencies. Regardless, whether you’re domestic or abroad, you’d best get your pre-orders in now.

Update: LostProphet commented to say that it’s showing up for pre-order abroad at £149.99, or about $214. That’s quite a premium for a few days worth of exclusivity.

[Via Nowhere Else]

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Nintendo’s DSi planning a European tour ahead of US release originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to the good chaps over at Joystiq (and, you know, Nintendo), you can get your grubby mitts all over the DSi in North America come April 5th. The system will launch for $169.99, will include all the goodies you’ve been reading about — like those dual cameras and downloadable content called DSiWare (starting at the totally mysterious price point of 200 DSi Points). The handhelds will come in either blue or black, and while we can’t quite explain why they’ve omitted white, we can be pretty sure we’ll see some more colors join the fray before too long. Anyhow, this is Nintendo, so remember: it’s never too early to get in line.

[Via Joystiq]

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Nintendo DSi to launch in North America on April 5th originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This thing’s been on quite a journey from concept to production, but here we are — finally, a true successor to Pantech’s quirky Duo on AT&T. The Matrix PRO features HSDPA (up from UMTS), integrated GPS with AT&T Navigator, Bluetooth, a 2 megapixel cam, Video Share support, and Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, but the real draw lies in the device’s pair of sliders — one for QWERTY, one for digits. At nearly 23mm thick, it’s not the thinnest smartphone in the world — that honor supposedly belongs to the Nokia E55 — but where else are you going to get this many buttons on a single device? Pricing and availability are forthcoming.

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Pantech’s Matrix PRO slides two ways onto AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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