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"Samsung Unpacked" event promises a new phone on June 15


It's not every day that you see a manufacturer include an FCC filing-esque shot of a phone's innards as an official teaser, but then again, there isn't much that's ordinary about the way that Samsung's promising to reveal its latest model. The "Samsung Unpacked" event kicks off in three cities around the globe -- London, Dubai, and Singapore -- on June 10, when winners of a competition will start tearing off layers of some magical box, finally reaching the core on the 15th at which point the new model will be revealed to an astonished world. If we were selected to start opening the box on the 10th, mark our words, we'd bust right through to the juicy stuff... which probably explains why we haven't been selected. Anyhow, pictured here is the rear of the set in x-ray vision, so we'd venture to guess it's a candybar or a QWERTY slider -- but maybe more importantly, what OS is it running?

[Thanks, Nigel]

Fuzzy math: Palm Pre to run about $470 full retail?


Sprint is kicking off an exciting little contest that'll ultimately award two lucky winners with their very own Pres, Touchstones, and one year of Simply Everything service -- pretty awesome stuff. Both Sprint and Palm have been famously tight-lipped about pricing for the Pre thus far, but using a few basic calculations derived from the game's legalese, an eagle-eyed tipster pointed out that it seems that we can probably get within a few bucks of the full retail price. Here's the deal: we know that Simply Everything runs $99 a month. After federal taxes, FCC surcharges, and some fudge factor for local taxes, you're looking at, say, $105 to $110 a month. We can say with some confidence now that the Touchstone itself will run $69.99 at retail -- and that leaves the Pre itself. Sprint's rules say that the prize package's approximate retail value is $1,800, so if you subtract $105 for the plan (since Sprint can't be factoring in local taxes here) and $70 for the Touchstone, that basically leaves you with a nice, round $469.99. That sounds like a big number at first, but first off, very few folks will be paying $470 for a Pre -- they'll either be upgrading or adding new lines at a significant subsidy -- and to put the number in perspective, AT&T charges $549.99 full retail for the BlackBerry Bold. We're basically just thinking out loud here, but $470 seems like it'd give Sprint plenty of wiggle room to blow this thing out on contract, doesn't it? Check out shots of Sprint's mind-blowing contest for the ages after the break.

[Thanks, Jonathan]

Win a Nokia N85 on us and eXpansys USA!


What could be the only thing better than an S60 3.2 dual slider with an OLED display and a 5 megapixel camera? A free S60 3.2 dual slider with an OLED display and a 5 megapixel camera, that's what! Engadget has hooked up with eXpansys USA to give away a Nokia N85 to one lucky reader -- so head on over to Engadget for the full details. (Unless you hate free stuff, that is.)

Engadget Mobile celebrates the holidays with a Nokia N81 giveaway!


Statistically speaking, odds are you didn't get a new phone as a gift today. If you lie somewhere in that silent majority, we've got an awesome bit of news: we can totally remedy that for you. Well, not all of you, but at least one of you -- with a shiny Nokia N81 equipped all the N-Gage gaming support you can handle!

So how does this work, exactly? Easy:
  • Leave a comment below. We'll be picking a winner through a scientific, complicated, completely classified process that ultimately results in a random selection.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers or US contest laws if you have to be mad.
  • Winners will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted until 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time on December 26, 2008. After that we're all done. Good luck!
  • Full rules can be found here.
Special thanks to Reset Generation!

Win an AT&T Fuze from HTC and Engadget Mobile!


So HTC is running this wild contest where they're giving away a Fuze a day for 120 frickin' days -- that's a lot of days and a lot of Fuzes -- and as if that wasn't enough, there'll also be a grand prize winner getting $25,000 in cold, hard cash and four first place winners nabbing $15,000 American Express gift cards. Oh, and both the grand prize and first place prizes include a pair of Fuzes to boot!

So hey, we may not have 120 of the things to give away, but HTC was gracious enough to hook us up with a single Fuze to pass on to one of our lovely readers. Would you like it? Here's how it works:
  • Leave a comment below. We'll be picking a winner at random. Seriously, just do it.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers or US contest laws if you have to be mad.
  • Winners will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted until 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time on December 19, 2008. After that we're all done. Good luck!
  • Full rules can be found here.

Black Friday Giveaways (part 7): Nokia BH-601 stereo Bluetooth headset


Need to do some serious stereo Bluetoothing? Here's your answer: Nokia's BH-601 headset. Want to totally win these without doing anything at all (well, almost anything)? All you have to do is enter a comment below. This is how it's done.

We'll put up a gadget on the site, and you can only enter it until the next gadget lands (usually within a couple of hours). If you miss your shot, sorry, we're moving on to the next gadget. Good luck! Oh, and don't forget the rules. (Yeah, there are always rules.)
  • Leave a comment below. That's it! Who loves you, baby.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) You can enter different giveaways in today's Black Friday giveaways, but you can only enter this one once.
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers or US contest laws if you have to be mad.
  • Winners will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted until the next contest goes up. After that we're all done. Good luck!
  • Full rules can be found here.
Last round's winner: crk! (Remember, winners are selected at random.)

Special thanks to Reset Generation!

Iron Man contest winner announced!


After weeks of hand-wringing, we've finally settled on a winner of our contest for LG's uber-limited $1,500 Iron Man edition Shine! We asked you to send in pictures of the busted-up pieces of garbage you call "phones," and holy cow, did we get some doozies.

Without further adieu, our winner, Mark H., comes to us from Novato, California. Here's his story:

"I need a new phone as you can see. I have had this Nokia phone since 2001. I'm in the military service and my friends make fun of my old phone and now they're really on me since my phone was run over by a car and I use electrical tape to keep the faceplate together. I don't get paid enough by the service to buy a nice new phone."

Congratulations, Mark! Even if this relic were in perfect condition, it'd still be time for an upgrade. Let's try to keep this one a little less scuffed, because that solid gold battery cover definitely does not live up to the "Iron Man" name. Follow the break for some honorable mentions -- you guys made it really hard to choose!

Engadget Mobile, LG, and Stark Industries want you to have a $1,500 Iron Man phone


If ever there were an LG Shine to live up to its lofty name, this would definitely be it. We'd like to introduce you to the Iron Man phone -- presented here by our boy Robert Downey, Jr. -- based on the Shine slider as sold by AT&T. Unlike the garden-variety Shine, the Iron Man edition trades up to a deep red case with gold plated highlights and a solid 18K gold battery cover to commemorate the launch of the film in style. That's plenty enough element 79 to give this thing some serious heft. We're not bragging, though -- we want you to have it.

The phone is valued at a princely $1,500; twenty are being given away by LG directly -- we've got the twenty first. How do you pry it out of our hands? Easy: we want to see just how nasty, disgusting, and close to complete breakdown your current face candy is. Send us a pic and tell us a little bit about your poor, dilapidated phone and the long journey it's taken to its current state of disrepair. We'll pick the saddest entry and let you retire that terrible thing for something just a little flashier.

One word of advice though: don't bother breaking your phone or taking a photo of your dad's Dynatac or something, that's not what we're looking for.

Check out the gallery to see shots of the very Iron Man phone that could be yours, and don't forget to enter. Good luck!

The rules (yeah, there are always rules)
  • Send us your original photo. If we find your picture elsewhere on the internet, you will so be disqualified. Don't test us here, we've seen every picture of every phone. Ever.
  • Email submissions to contests [at] engadget [dawt] com with the subject "I am Iron Man!" And for the love of our inbox, please keep your images 1MB or under, ok?
  • You may only enter this contest once. If you enter this contest more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
  • Entries must be in by 11:59PM EDT, Sunday, May 18th. After that, give us some time to sort through the entries and pick out the best (or worst, depending on how you look at it).

LG touchscreen UI contest ends... in a racecar?


We're not sure how LG managed to hold a touchscreen UI design contest with a $14K prize without telling anyone, but it certainly did -- and keeping things on the DL probably explains why "Driving," pictured above, was the winning entry. The "Art in Mobile" contest started last December in Korea, and the 10 winning entries will see their creations actually turned into functional phone interfaces. There's not much info on the other nine winners, but apparently one is called "Sixty Seconds" and is designed to stall for a minute before connecting a call so you can browse photos and check messages. Uh, yeah -- if our phones were taking a minute to connect calls, we'd have a bigger problem than the UI. Seriously, LG, next time you want some consumer input on phone interfaces, we think we might know some people with ideas.

[Via Unwired View]

Read - Telecoms Korea story on the contest
Read - Translated LG press release

Black Friday Giveaways (part 16): T-Mobile Shadow


Ok everybody, here goes round fifteen. This time we've got a T-Mobile Shadow. Ready? Here's the deal.

Some big ticket gadgets we'll leave open through the weekend, but the rest we'll put and you can only enter it until the next gadget lands (usually within a couple of hours). If you miss your shot, sorry, we're moving on to the next gadget. Good luck!

Oh, and don't forget the rules. (Yeah, there are always rules.)
  • Leave a comment below. That's it! Who loves you, baby.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) You can enter different giveaways in today's Black Friday giveaways, but you can only enter this one once.
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers or US contest laws if you have to be mad.
  • Winners will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted until Sunday, November 25th, 11:59PM EDT. Good luck!
  • Full rules can be found here.
Last round's winner: Warus! (Remember, winners are selected at random.)

Black Friday Giveaways (part 9): AT&T Tilt


Ok everybody, here goes round nine. This time we've got an AT&T Tilt. Ready? Here's the deal.

We'll put up a gadget on the site, and you can only enter it until the next gadget lands (usually within a couple of hours). Some big ticket items we'll leave open through the weekend. If you miss your shot, sorry, we're moving on to the next gadget. Good luck!

Oh, and don't forget the rules. (Yeah, there are always rules.)
  • Leave a comment below. That's it! Who loves you, baby.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) You can enter different giveaways in today's Black Friday giveaways, but you can only enter this one once.
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers or US contest laws if you have to be mad.
  • Winners will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted until Sunday, November 25th, 11:59PM EDT. Good luck!
  • Full rules can be found here.
Last round's winner: Morgan Cabral! (Remember, winners are selected at random.)

The hundred gadget giveaway, grand prize round: unlocked iPhone (4GB)


Here we go -- you ready to take home an unlocked (using the iUnlock method) 4GB iPhone as a grand prize in our hundred gadget giveaway? Follow the rules below, and hope for the best.

The rules (yeah, there are always rules):
  • Leave a comment below. You know the drill.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) In other words, be careful when commenting and if you submit more than once, only activate one comment, ok?
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory.
  • Contest is open to anyone worldwide!
  • Winner will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted until Sunday, September 16th, 11:59PM EDT. After that we're all done. Good luck!

The hundred gadget giveaway: round 35

Alright everybody, round thirty-five of Engadget's hundred gadget giveaway! Up for grabs for the next six hours:

Silver - Samsung m510 (Sprint)
Bronze - Samsung m510 (Sprint)

The rules (yeah, there are always rules):
  • Leave a comment below. You can just say something nice about us, or you can tell us what you'd prefer to win -- but if you're picked you may not necessarily get it.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) In other words, be careful when commenting and if you submit more than once, only activate one comment, ok?
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory.
  • Contest is open to anyone worldwide!
  • Winner will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted for the next six hours. After that we'll move on to the next round of giveaways. Good luck!

The hundred gadget giveaway: round 34

Alright everybody, round thirty-four of Engadget's hundred gadget giveaway! Up for grabs for the next six hours:

Silver - Impatica ShowMate Bluetooth Powerpoint presenter
Bronze - Samsung m510 (Sprint)

The rules (yeah, there are always rules):
  • Leave a comment below. You can just say something nice about us, or you can tell us what you'd prefer to win -- but if you're picked you may not necessarily get it.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) In other words, be careful when commenting and if you submit more than once, only activate one comment, ok?
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory.
  • Contest is open to anyone worldwide!
  • Winner will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted for the next six hours. After that we'll move on to the next round of giveaways. Good luck!

The hundred gadget giveaway: round 29

Alright everybody, round twenty-nine of Engadget's hundred gadget giveaway! Up for grabs for the next six hours:

Silver - Samsung Upstage (Sprint)
Bronze - Samsung m500 (Sprint)

The rules (yeah, there are always rules):
  • Leave a comment below. You can just say something nice about us, or you can tell us what you'd prefer to win -- but if you're picked you may not necessarily get it.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) In other words, be careful when commenting and if you submit more than once, only activate one comment, ok?
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory.
  • Contest is open to anyone worldwide!
  • Winner will be chosen randomly.
  • Entries can be submitted for the next six hours. After that we'll move on to the next round of giveaways. Good luck!




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