runMobileCompatibilityScript(‘myExperience803696749001′, ‘anId’);brightcove.createExperiences(); This week’s Gadget Lab podcast zooms in on the Motorola Xoom tablet, the upcoming iPad 2 and Intel’s new Thunderbolt connectivity standard. The Motorola Xoom is a neat piece of hardware. It’s got a...

Feb 25, 2011

Don’t go jumping off the Android sailboat just yet, these are very early numbers, but the Samsung Galaxy S II has been priced by a couple of UK retailers and the category they’ve placed it in is the distinctly high end. Expansys is listing £630 ($1,020) for the Gingerbread-sporting unlocked handset, while Play.com has it at £600 ($971)...

Feb 25, 2011

Tired of using the default browser on your smart phone to browse Engadget? Got a thing for Firefox? Great, ’cause Mozilla just pushed out the fifth beta of Firefox 4 for mobile. You might be familiar with the on-the-go version of Mozilla’s creation, but if not, here’s your chance to grab the latest (and probably) the most stable build to date....

Feb 25, 2011

Hey, look, at this point, we just want ourselves some good, old-fashioned copy and paste — but we’ll give Microsoft some credit for looking a year (or two, or ten) beyond that watermark at what could be coming down the pike for human-machine interaction — and specifically, how phones could play a role. In a presentation and promotional video...

Feb 24, 2011

Though it’d originally been pegged for the second quarter, it seems HTC’s bumping that up a smidge with the launch of its new flagship — the Incredible S — in the UK this week. Pre-orders are going on as we speak with shipments promised for tomorrow, but there’s a catch: rather than shipping with Gingerbread, the phones will come...

Feb 24, 2011

The Android world’s been a-buzz this last week over a few new Android Market URLS, including http://market.android.com/music/ and http://market.android.com/movies/. In case you thought there was nothing to this tip, guess again: the third member of this trifecta (http://market.android.com/books/) has gone live. That’s right, visitors to the Android...