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Nintendo partners with Netflix to bring — Netflix on Wii

Soon this spring Nintendo Wii owners will have access to Netflix’s media streaming services. Start at a minimum plan of $8.99 a month, users will have the same privileges as Xbox 360 and PS3 owners. As with the PS3, Wii owners will have to obtain a free disc from Netflix’s website, and will have to load the disc to actually stream content. The disc ships this Spring, and you’ll need a broadband connection on your Wii. What I’m wondering though is that since the Wii cannot go past the 480p mark, there will be no HD. Would you still bite?

[Via Associated Press]

LaptopMemo Holiday Gift Guide 2009: PMPs

This is looking nice. It’s time for PMPs (portable media players) to come into the party (or Christmas, your choice). Translation: iPod and Zune are included. Average price: $150+ (it depends). Are there good ones in this guide? Yes. Is the Zune HD and iPod Touch in here? Yes, oh yes.  Let’s take a look around here, shall we?

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Zii Trinity: 1080p HD Android power & 4G, looking for OEMs

ziitrinity001The Ziilabs creation, the Zii Trinity is a go (sort of)! This smartphone truly has the power to be one of the coolest phones of all time: Packing Full HD video,  3.5 / 4G wireless,  built-in WiFi, 5 megapixel autofocus camera, accelerated 3D graphics, and mini-HDMI and Composite video outputs, as well as Android with ZiiLife -- a content delivery and productivity suite. And then, and then, it’s powered by either that awesome powerful ZMS-08 chip or ZMS-05. Who wouldn’t love this thing? Who?

Right now the geniuses at ZiiLabs are looking for OEMs in China to produce and manufacture this -- this, beast.

[ZiiLabs]

Lenovo X100e netbook Leaked: it’s Revolutionary

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Here it is guys. The Lenovo Thinkpad X100e. It has an island-style keyboard, and 3 color options. Colors! This is a miracle for Thinkpads! White on the exterior and black on the inside. It has a 11.6-inch HD 16:9 screen, AMD Neo processor, weighs 3 pounds, and a maximum battery life of 5 hours. Here’s the shocker, it’s priced at less than $500 dollars. A perfect gift for the holidays. It comes in red, black, and white.

[Gizmodo via Ubergizmo]

Paul Thurrot: Zune HD will kill all previous Zunes. Whoa.

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Only the mighty Zune HD gets to stay at the party: According to Paul Thurrot, all previous Zunes, (ALL of them) will be discontinued. Probably because the Zune HD needs all of the spotlight to itself. Oh well, the Zune HD is better than all of the other Zunes combined, right?

He also stated that if you want one of the “Zune Originals” colors, you would have to wait till September 15th. All of this sounds very interesting. Maybe Apple will kill and bury the iPod classic at the “It’s Only Rock and Roll” event in California this September 9th.

Stef

the 12 year old gadget blogger

[via ZuneSpring]


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Zune HD? A threat to the iPhone & iPod Touch?

Microsoft has unveiled a new Zune mp3 player:

Source: Microsoft.com

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The new Zune HD is a touch screen mp3 player with an OLED screen, HD radio, and HD video. With such power could this be a threat to the iPhone and Touch?

To clarify my questions I took a deeper look into what the Zune HD has and doesn’t:

1. The new Zune will have Internet Explorer as the primary web browser. It will have an onscreen keyboard along with the typical Zune features(song sharing, Channel streaming, things like that).

2. No one knows if it can browse Flash media on it’s built-in browser, things that the iPhone and Touch can’t do.

3.  Microsoft plans to update the Zune Marketplace to such a point where it will be able to hold Xbox downloads , such as movie rentals.

4.  It isn’t new to see an OLED screen on an mp3 player,  it has been done before,  and there are rumors about the new iPhone which state that the new screen will be included. This type of screen is extremely energy efficient and expensive while providing high screen quality.

5. Things we don’t know is:  How Much is it? What Colors? Other features?

6. It is believed the new Zune HD will be released in Fall 2009.

Stay tuned for more updates and don’t forget to tell us what you think!

Stef

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