Cards app for iPhone sends snail mail best wishes, for a price
We’ve got at least one completely unexpected announcement from Apple’s Let’s Talk iPhone Event: a new app that sends out greeting cards. For $2.99 within the US and $4.99 internationally, sending a greeting card the old fashioned way is just one click away on your mobile, complete with notifications when your card is mailed. Taking shots at PC makers and Android’s apps are a given, but a bomb dropped on Hallmark? Welcome to the Tim Cook era. Check the liveblog and gallery below for more details.
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Cards app for iPhone sends snail mail best wishes, for a price originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone 4 gets upgraded for NFC payments the hard way
Softbank customers in Japan can simply get an NFC sticker to add some contact-less payments to their iPhone 4, but most folks don’t have it quite so easy just yet. There are some alternatives while you wait for Apple to hop on the NFC bandwagon, however, like this solution from Unplggd‘s Vivian Kim. It uses one of the smaller NFC-equipped credit cards now available from some banks, which is apparently just small enough to fit under the back cover of an iPhone 4 (a clear one, in this case, to show off your cleverness). And, yes, it apparently still works just fine under there — even if you add a case on top of it.
iPhone 4 gets upgraded for NFC payments the hard way originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPad, iPad 2 get unofficial CF card compatibility (video)
Given the impressive knockoffs and official camera kits we’ve seen, we’d say the iPad’s definitely got the stuff to help out most shutterbugs, but up until now, uploading content from a CF card wasn’t exactly easy. Well, our friends over at MIC Gadget recently showed off an iPad / iPad 2-compatible card reader that fixes that on the cheap. Simply called the CF card reader for iPad and iPad 2, the thing slips right into the slate’s dock connector port and, as you can see from the video below, it transfers HD video and high-res images in a snap — it also sports USB connectivity. Like its predecessor, the reader’s available from MIC for $29.90, but you’ll have to wait at least a month to get your hands on one. Oh, and a word of warning, you might want to make sure the iPad supports your camera’s video format before shelling out the dough, as MIC found the slab couldn’t playback video from a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
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iPad, iPad 2 get unofficial CF card compatibility (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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DIY business card displays your info via persistence of vision, fails to impress Patrick Bateman (video)
DIY business card displays your info via persistence of vision, fails to impress Patrick Bateman (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Kingston’s Class 10 microSD family gets bigger, stays tiny
Kingston is putting an extra boost the smallest of its tiny memory cards. The popular provider of flash storage is upping its 4GB and 8GB microSDHC cards from Class 4 specifications (up to a 4 MB/s transfer rate) to a whopping Class 10 spec and all of its 10 MB/s goodness. The newly announced models join a 16GB version that has been available for several months. By completing the family tree of Class 10 cards, Kingston is offering faster all-round performance for file transfers on smartphones, quicker write times for microSD-wielding cameras and basically a few seconds of your life back — at lower prices than before, though you’ll still be paying a premium compared to slower cards. Our microSDHC-accepting devices are itching to hop aboard this speedier train of data storage, and luckily we won’t have to wait long. The two memory cards start shipping at the end of March and are being offered with an available Mobility Kit, which includes an SD adapter and a USB card reader. But, if you want a full-fat 32GB model, you’ll have to wait for Q2 of 2011 like the rest of us. Pricing starts at $22 for a 4GB model up to $138 for the 16GB model — check after the break for full breakdown of prices and more in the PR.Continue reading Kingston’s Class 10 microSD family gets bigger, stays tiny
Kingston’s Class 10 microSD family gets bigger, stays tiny originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
How to swap the Sprint HTC Evo 4G microSD card
If you’re the type of person who frequently swaps microSD cards and are looking at the Sprint HTC Evo 4G, then this video might be a little painful. First, the card’s under the battery. That’s not all that unusual, though it’s still a tad unwelcome. But getting at the card on the Evo 4G’s a little tricky. First there’s a tab that needs to be pried up to unseat the card. And that’s easy. But actually removing the card is a bit more difficult given its placement. Long fingernails may help (and forget about it if you’re a nail-biter), but even then it’s pretty tough, and we needed tweezers to actually remove the card.
Getting it back in is a little easier, but it still might take a couple of tries. It’s just one of those trade-offs we have to come to live with in the smartphone world.
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Android doesn’t play nice (yet) with 32-gigabyte microSD cards
If you were thinking about shelling out some serious jing (translation: spending a lot of money) on one of those new 32GB microSD cards, you might want to hold off for a little bit. Google confirmed to CNET that Android can’t actually format a card that big, which could lead to some trouble. The good news is that a fix is on the way and "will be part of our next over-the-air update." Google didn’t say when that might be. [CNET]
Update: Yes, folks, let there be no confusion: You in fact can use a 32GB card. Never said you couldn’t. You just can’t format it. It’s not a huge deal, but it’s something that needs to be fixed.