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		<title>Rainy Days and BioShock Infinite Reviews Never Get Me Down</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/25/rainy-days-and-bioshock-infinite-reviews-never-get-me-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should change the title to read &#8220;snowy days,&#8221; since that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s doing here &#8212; thanks a bunch, spring! &#8212; but let there be BioShock Infinite reviews! They&#8217;re popping up everywhere, with Irrational&#8217;s new socio-political-shooter (SPS?) hitting stores tomorrow. Can you believe it&#8217;s been five-and-a-half years since we first chased (but mostly ran from) Rapture&#8217;s hulking golems in deep-sea diving suits? I&#8217;d love to tell you about BioShock Infinite, except I&#8217;ve run into a little problem: It&#8217;s making me sick. Don&#8217;t worry, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s some broader problem with the game, which I&#8217;ve been working through on my PC (it runs perfectly &#8212; and looks breathtaking &#8212; on an Intel Core i5 system with an Nvidia GTX 670 at 1920 x 1080 and the detail needle buried). I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s just me. I&#8217;m usually okay with first-person games, but for whatever reason &#8212; perhaps a tidal shift in my synaptic pathways, my plugged-up sinuses and ears, or that I&#8217;ve been sick the past week with what friends and family are calling &#8220;the crud&#8221; &#8212; I can only play for half an hour a pop before my stomach abandons ship. I&#8217;m going to try one of the console versions tomorrow, fingers crossed. In the meantime, you&#8217;ll have to settle for what the world&#8217;s saying about Irrational&#8217;s opus&#8230; Former TIME scribe Evan Narcisse has the most powerful piece at Kotaku. Evan writes the sort of game reviews I prefer: smart, politically aware, pointed, theory-informed and blissfully flavor-text-free. He also doesn&#8217;t shy from exploring the game&#8217;s brutal-playground-within-politicized-narrative-snow-globe design: It&#8217;s easy to dismiss those people floating in the fractured mirror Americas that we disagree with. They&#8217;re wrong; we&#8217;re right. Who cares why they are the way they are? But BioShock Infinite asks us to consider that very question and gives an answer that mixes hope with bitterness, wonder with despair and allegory with history. The game doesn&#8217;t offer any advice about how to make everyone get along better but it makes a powerful argument for owning&#8211; and owning up to&#8211;all of our collective past. Andrew<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158805&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fuzzy Math: The New iPad&#8217;s Battery Keeps Drawing Power Past 100%</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/23/fuzzy-math-the-new-ipads-battery-keeps-drawing-power-past-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<title>NVIDIA Geforce GTX 680 Review Roundup: Faster, Cooler and Quieter</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/22/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review-roundup-faster-cooler-and-quieter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not sure what even those of you with giant-sized monitors would need it for given the performance curve these days, but NVIDIA's Geforce GTX 680 is here and preliminary reviews are calling it a barn-burner.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=125301&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s New iPad Reviewed: Epiphanies, Some Near-Fainting and Screen Delight</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/15/apples-new-ipad-reviewed-epiphanies-some-near-fainting-and-screen-delight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts about Apple's new iPad are popping up everywhere as the review embargo lifts and we head into the final hours before the newfangled ultra-high-definition tablet with a better camera and 4G support hits the public grid. Our review is on the way, but while you're waiting, here's what folks are saying around the web.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=123388&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Effect 3 Review Roundup: Pleasing Even the Usual Critics</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/06/mass-effect-3-review-roundup-pleasing-even-the-usual-critics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 were far from great games, but even the critics who didn't care for them are giving Mass Effect 3 high marks.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=122097&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP TouchSmart 320 Review: Great Value for an All-in-One, Touchscreen Is a Nice Extra</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/16/hp-touchsmart-320-review-great-value-for-an-all-in-one-touchscreen-is-a-nice-extra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HP TouchSmart 320 makes for a great value thanks to the impressive AMD Vision chipset, easy setup, spacious hard drive and excellent display. It holds up pretty well as a standard all-in-one, and the addition of the touchscreen makes it even more compelling.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=110702&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary in Reviews</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/15/halo-combat-evolved-anniversary-in-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are, 10 years later, six games into a multimillions franchise and a seventh in sight. Make that eight games if we count this anniversary remake, out today, which slaps a little 2011 high-res lacquer on 2001's low-res visual tech.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=105005&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Fire Reviews Run Hot and Cold</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/14/kindle-fire-reviews-run-hot-and-cold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon's Kindle Fire arrives on Tuesday to shake up the tablet market, and the reviews are rolling in.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=104864&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Core i7-3960X Review Roundup: It&#8217;s Full of Expensive</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/14/intel-core-i7-3960x-review-roundup-its-full-of-expensive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandy Bridge, make way for Sandy Bridge-E, Intel's ramp-up of its LGA 2011 socket CPU platform designed to woo enthusiasts with deep pockets. SBE is Intel's platform for a trio of just-announced powerhouse CPUs, each packing over two billion transistors and weighing in at just 32 nanometers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=104878&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toshiba Portege Z835 Ultrabook Review</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/14/toshiba-portege-z835-ultrabook-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toshiba’s Portege Z835 is part of the first wave of Ultrabooks, and tries to get an edge with a relatively low price tag of $899. I’ve been using a Portege Z835 review unit for a week, and I think Toshiba’s pulled off a good first effort, but the lower price doesn’t come without sacrifice.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=104822&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Rhyme Review: Hardware, pH-Balanced</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/18/htc-rhyme-review-hardware-ph-balanced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a male tech writer, Verizon Wireless&#8217; HTC Rhyme is not a phone I would buy for myself. Its plum exterior appeals to more feminine tastes, and its tech specs are far from the cutting edge. Still, I was happy to take the HTC Rhyme for a spin on a loaner device provided for review. It&#8217;s an intriguing handset, with a focus on industrial design and useful accessories instead of raw power. For that combination, Verizon is charging $200 on-contract. But beyond the Rhyme&#8217;s skin-deep beauty, is the premium price justified? Read on to find out. (MORE: Top 20 Must-Have Android Apps) On the outside, the Rhyme lives up to its promise with a tasteful blend of soft-touch material—it feels almost leather-like—and aluminum, which runs around the phone&#8217;s edges and in a stripe through the backside. Grab the Rhyme off a table after a few minutes of idle time, and it&#8217;ll be cool to the touch, its rounded edges fitting easily in your hand. The curvy design reminds me of Apple&#8217;s iPhone 3GS, but a hair thinner and with classier materials and a slightly larger 3.7-inch display. On curb appeal alone, the Rhyme earns high marks. Internally, the hardware is nothing special, with a 1 GHz processor, 768 MB of RAM, a 5-megapixel camera in back, a VGA camera up front, 4 GB of on-board storage and an 8 GB microSD card pre-installed. I didn&#8217;t notice any glaring hardware issues, but the software stuttered a bit while installing apps, and compared to the Super AMOLED Plus screen on my Samsung Galaxy S II, the Rhyme&#8217;s Super LCD screen doesn&#8217;t have quite as much pop. Once you start playing around with the phone, the Rhyme&#8217;s character flaws start to show. The base software is Android 2.3, which I won&#8217;t review in detail. (For that, you can read our Nexus S review.) But in short, I love Android&#8217;s customization options, its turn-by-turn directions, its widgets and its excellent Google apps. I don&#8217;t like how it can be buggy and choppy on older hardware,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100010&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iPhone 4S Review: It&#8217;s the iPhone 4, Only More So</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/15/apple-iphone-4s-review-its-the-iphone-4-only-more-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.&#8221; That was Steve Jobs talking in 2007, as he was about to introduce the first iPhone. He was right about it being a landmark. But he was also correct that it was a once-in-a-while event. Most products—including Apple ones—are merely evolutionary and only change some things. Fortunately, Apple isn&#8217;t just an expert at revolution; it also does evolution uncommonly well. Consider its new iPhone 4S, which went on sale on Friday. (The company loaned me one for review.) As the 4S&#8217;s very name acknowledges, it&#8217;s no radical rethinking of last year&#8217;s iPhone 4: There&#8217;s a lot that hasn&#8217;t changed at all, plus a few major new features and some minor tweaks. That&#8217;s prompted some grumbling, but it&#8217;s okay: The iPhone 4 was an exceptional phone in the first place, and the 4S is that much more exceptional. And one new arrival—it goes by the name Siri—might just turn out to be the beginnings of a bona-fide revolution. (LIST: The 10 Most Memorable Apple Commercials) Like its predecessors, the iPhone 4S is available in a 16GB model for $199 with a two-year contract and a 32GB one for $299; new to the lineup is a $399 unit with 64GB of space, more than most of us will be able to fill. All three capacities are available from AT&#38;T, Verizon Wireless and iPhone newcomer Sprint, in black and white variants. They&#8217;re all worldphones, which means that you can use them outside the U.S. (Just be aware that international roaming charges for voice and data may give you heart palpitations.) In an attempt to ensure that as few people as possible pass on buying iPhones because they&#8217;re too pricey, Apple is keeping an 8GB iPhone 4 on the market for $99 under contract, available in versions for all three carriers. And the two-year-old AT&#38;T iPhone 3GS is now free for contract signers, giving Apple a phone to compete with a gaggle of free and almost-free handsets that run Google&#8217;s Android.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99924&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone 4S Reviews: No Disappointments</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/12/iphone-4s-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wait for Apple&#8217;s iPhone 4S is almost over—it launches on Friday—but already a select batch of reviewers have laid hands on Apple&#8217;s latest handset. No surprises here: They dig it. Here&#8217;s a roundup of the first iPhone 4S reviews. Design As you&#8217;ve probably heard, the iPhone 4S looks exactly like its predecessor, with two glass panels and an aluminum trim that the late Steve Jobs once described as resembling &#8220;a beautiful old Leica camera.&#8221; Joshua Topolsky at This is My Next doesn&#8217;t see this as a negative, considering the competition: &#8220;It’s kind of incredible when you think about it. Competing phone-makers have had more than a year (a lot more considering the leaked photos of the iPhone 4 prior to its release) to best this design, and yet no one really has. As frustrating as it is to say this, no other phone on the market comes close to this level of craftsmanship, materials, or considered design.&#8221; (MORE: Why Competing with Apple Is So Difficult) Performance The iPhone 4S has a dual-core A5 processor, good for up to a 7x boost in performance, according to Apple. Macworld&#8217;s benchmarks didn&#8217;t show such significant improvements—Apple&#8217;s claims are a best-case scenario, of course—but general performance tests indicate the iPhone 4S is &#8220;roughly twice as fast&#8221; as the iPhone 4, wrote Jason Snell. In unofficial benchmarks compiled by Anandtech, the iPhone 4S outperformed every other phone on the market. It&#8217;s a fast phone. Although the iPhone 4S gets an hour more talk time than its predecessor, it gets an hour less of Wi-Fi browsing. Still, This is My Next&#8217;s Topolsky had no qualms. &#8220;The 4S is more than capable of going through a full business day without needing a charge, and if you’re a lighter user, you’ll rarely have to worry about it,&#8221; he wrote. Camera I like how the New York Times&#8216; David Pogue described the iPhone 4S&#8217;s souped-up camera: &#8220;It has a resolution of eight megapixels, which doesn’t matter much, and a new, more light-sensitive sensor, which does. Its photos are<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99630&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BlackBerry Bold 9900 Review: RIM&#8217;s Best Smartphone Ever?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/06/blackberry-bold-9900-review-rims-best-smartphone-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make no mistake about it: The Bold 9900 is the best BlackBerry smartphone to date. But even with a handsome redesign highlighted by a new capacitive touchscreen (plus all the familiar features that make a BlackBerry a Blackberry) will it be enough to close the gap between Apple or Android? Maybe a little? Take my hand. Let&#8217;s find out. (MORE: T-Mobile&#8217;s 4G BlackBerry Bold Costs a Cool $300) The Outside On the surface it&#8217;s beautifully designed with a surprising amount of professional-grade heft. Unlike the flimsy Curve (or even previous versions of the Bold before it) it doesn&#8217;t feel like a toy, thanks in no small part to the rubbery, carbon-fiber backing joined by a metal rim that eases roundedly into the bezel. Smooth, curved edges make it especially comfortable to grip, while the hallmark physical keyboard that BlackBerry fanatics swear by is as good as ever. Actually, scratch that: It&#8217;s one of the best physical keyboards I&#8217;ve ever used on a smartphone (including sliders like the Droid line). The buttons are large and well-separated, with a discernible amount of pressure on push-back. That affirmative *click* you get with each button press? Very satisfying. Here&#8217;s a size comparison with the iPhone 4:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95895&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Cut Above: &#8216;Fruit Ninja Kinect&#8217; Review</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/10/a-cut-above-fruit-ninja-kinect-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fruit Ninja Kinect clocked in at 140.11 MB when I downloaded it a few days ago. In terms of file sizes for downloadable games, that&#8217;s practically in the featherweight division. It&#8217;s barely the size of a DLC pack for many games, but the fun to be had in playing the HD version of the hit iPhone game is very disproportionate to its aggregate bytes. At first, you might think that FNK simply exists to quickly cash in on all those Kinects Microsoft&#8217;s managed to get Xbox 360 owners to buy. After all, it&#8217;s essentially the same game as in the original mobile version that became wildly successful. The premise is numbingly simple: you play as a shadow warrior in training, honing your sword skills by slicing up all sorts of fruit that bounces on-screen in front of you. (MORE: &#8216;The Gunstringer&#8217; Preview: Finally, a Bad-Ass Kinect Game) There are various modes that change up the play experience. In Classic Mode, you have three lives, which get taken if you miss a piece of fruit. Arcade Mode tasks you with earning as high a score as possible in 60 seconds. And there are no bombs in Zen Mode—just a 90-second time limit and an endless cascade of nature&#8217;s candy. You&#8217;ll encounter some magic bananas that freeze time, double your score or unleash a frenzy of fruit to boost your score. All of those modes come to the Xbox 360 intact and looking excellent in newly redone graphics. In the iPhone version, your fingertip is the blade. With Kinect, your whole hands become razor-sharp. Aussie dev collective Halfbrick does laudable work on this port of Fruit Ninja, which is notable for how responsive and accurate it is. I had almost no lag and a very low incidence of missed movements. The same gameplay mechanics are a lot more satisfying to execute with your whole body than one little fingertip. It may be easier to score well with FN on a portable&#8217;s smaller screen, but you actually feel more like a ninja with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=93318&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motorola &#8216;Triumph&#8217; Review: Contract-Free Goes Big</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/02/motorola-triumph-review-contract-free-goes-big/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Motorola Triumph is supposed to be the cream of the contract-free smartphone crop. Available now on Virgin Mobile for a hefty up-front price of $300, it includes features that you might not expect to find on a phone that carries no commitments, like a 4.1-inch display, 1 GHz processor, 720p video capture, front-facing camera and slim design. So can the best of contract-free smartphones hold its own against an army of two-year agreement juggernauts? Not quite, but don&#8217;t let that turn you away. (MORE: Motorola&#8217;s Next Tablet Might Look More Like an iPad) Clad in a black, soft-touch coating, the Triumph is all hard angles and sharp edges. It kind of reminds me of a polygonal structure from a mid-1990s video game, with nary a rounded edge or unnecessary design flourish to be found. The sense of restraint is palpable, and I like it. On the downside, it&#8217;s pointy. Expect some mild discomfort during long stretches of single-handed use, and expect the phone to make its presence known when resting in your pocket. For software, the Triumph runs a stock version of Android 2.2, with a light amount of Virgin Mobile bloatware thrown in for good measure. If you&#8217;ve spent any time with MotoBlur, HTC Sense or any of the other custom interfaces that phone makers like to slap on their Android devices, stock Android will seem like a revelation. On the Triumph, it&#8217;s buttery smooth &#8212; at least until you start cluttering the home screen with widgets &#8212; and stylish thanks to some fancy graphical transitions scattered throughout. This version of Android has been outdated since last winter, so it&#8217;s missing some features you&#8217;ll find on smartphones running Android 2.3, such as an improved keyboard and more accurate text selection. It also lacks the native video chat that Google is building into newer versions of Android, so you&#8217;ll be stuck with third-party apps like Qik and Fring for use with the Triumph&#8217;s front-facing VGA camera. (Skype video chat only supports a handful of Android devices for now, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92548&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Smartphones</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/smartphones/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Testing the Google+ iPhone App: Fast, Sleek and Buggy (As It Should Be)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/20/google-iphone-app-fast-sleek-and-buggy-as-it-should-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a few incompatibility issues that were causing it to crash with developer versions of iOS 5, the Google+ iPhone app is a hit. It&#8217;s already the top free app in Apple&#8217;s app store (though it&#8217;s noticeably missing from both the &#8220;Featured&#8221; tab and the &#8220;What&#8217;s Hot&#8221; tab— what gives, Apple?), and it&#8217;s already amassed 1,664 ratings with an average of three stars. That number will probably grow considerably today, even though G+ is still in beta. Here&#8217;s a look at some of the new-ish features after spending some time with it this morning. (Or you can just skip to the end. I&#8217;m fine either way!) A Much Faster, More User-Friendly Stream Like the mobile web app (which in itself was already pretty impressive), the iPhone&#8217;s native interface allows users to intuitively swipe left and right to navigate between three types of Streams: Circles, Nearby and Incoming (users who are aren&#8217;t in your Circles that you may be interested in). However, whereas the web version seemed to hit walls causing you to change your swipe&#8217;s directions, the app allows users to swipe continuously either left or right. Not only does it make an already fast experience even faster, but the directive nature of it is pretty damn comfortable. Even the &#8220;Checking in&#8221; option (with the checkbox in the upper-right hand corner) is incredibly quick (the menus open faster than Foursquare!) and the list of places in your proximity is as accurate as it should be. (It automatically checked me into 52nd Street even though I&#8217;m on 50th.) (PHOTOS: A History of Google Doodles) However, I encountered a few bugs when actually trying to post an update into the Stream. Every few times I clicked into the share screen it would freeze up; it&#8217;s a bug worth noting, even though it passed after a few seconds. Also, whenever I tried to tag other users with the &#8220;+&#8221; sign, it&#8217;d bring up people I&#8217;d corresponded with over Gmail, or people I deliberately hadn&#8217;t placed in Circles. It&#8217;s a minor irk that&#8217;ll hopefully<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90872&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Google</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/companies-2/google/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>MacBook Air Review: Thin, Light, and Utterly Mainstream</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/20/new-macbook-air-review-thin-light-and-utterly-mainstream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Steve Jobs unveiled the first MacBook Air at Macworld Expo back in January of 2008, he induced lots of oohs and aahs over its astoundingly thin case. I don’t, however, remember many people declaring that it was Apple’s first pass at building the garden-variety Mac of the future. I sure didn’t–in part because I was too busy bemoaning the things that it lacked, such as built-in Ethernet. Super-thin laptops similar in concept to the Air have been around since at least Digital’s 1994 HiNote Ultra. People have usually assumed that they were aimed at well-heeled businesspeople with decidedly undemanding computing needs–or at least at folks whose real computer is something brawnier and more feature rich. (PHOTOS: A Brief History of the Computer) Today, Apple is releasing two new Airs, the successors to the much-improved ones it rolled out last October. It isn’t pitching the new models as specialty machines. Even more than with their predecessors from last year, it’s treating them as well-rounded, versatile computers that happen to be really thin and really light. In fact, a tagline it’s using–”The ultimate everyday notebook”–doesn’t even mention their lack of bulk. And just to clarify things, it’s discontinuing the last machine in its lineup that was simply called a MacBook. From now on, if you want a Mac portable, you’ll choose between a MacBook Air and  a MacBook Pro. For the past few days, I’ve been reviewing a 13″ model loaned to me by Apple, but I didn’t need any arm-twisting to accept the notion of it as a mainstream notebook. I’ve already been using its predecessor as my primary system since last fall, dual-booting it between OS X and Windows 7. (And spending a fair amount of time explaining to curious passers-by that it really is the computer I spend most of my time on.) It’s been exactly nine months since Apple announced the most recent 11″ and 13″ Air models, so it’s no shocker that today’s updated models aren’t radical departures from their predecessors. Their aluminum unibody cases are<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90941&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toshiba &#8216;Thrive&#8217; Tablet Review: Learning to Love a Beast</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/19/toshiba-thrive-tablet-review-learning-to-love-a-beast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By nearly every measure, the Toshiba Thrive is an unremarkable Android Honeycomb tablet. It&#8217;s fat, it&#8217;s heavy, and it&#8217;s got pretty much the same hardware as its peers. And yet, the Thrive—available now starting at $429 for an 8 GB model—is different. That&#8217;s because Toshiba had the sense to pack this 10-inch tablet with all the jacks and ports that geeks have been asking for in a slate since, well, the original iPad. Connectivity is the Thrive&#8217;s standout feature, and that goes a long way toward redeeming this tablet&#8217;s shortcomings. (MORE: Toshiba Thrive Is a $429 Android Tablet, Launching in July) Toshiba&#8217;s Thrive is laughably thick next to an iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and still noticeably thicker than an original iPad. It&#8217;s also rather tall, partly due to its widescreen 10.1-inch display, but also because the top and bottom bezels each measure about an inch long. The frame has some flex to it, to the point that I could distort the screen by pushing up from the Thrive&#8217;s back panel. Toshiba&#8217;s not taking home any awards for aesthetics, either. The front panel has three totally unnecessary indicator lights toward the top-right corner for power, charge and Wi-Fi—information already conveyed by the Android software—and a tacky-looking metallic strip loops around the device&#8217;s top edge, housing front- and rear-facing cameras. The back side of the Thrive is covered in ridged plastic that&#8217;s easy to grip but tough on the eyes. This panel can be removed to access a replaceable battery or swapped out for more colorful plates that are sold for $20 each.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90712&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Kind of Wand-erful: &#8216;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2&#8242; Review</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/12/some-kind-of-wand-erful-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think about it, Harry Potter video games were simply born under a bad sign. The stuff that video games can do well when inspired&#8211;incredible world-building, the explication of a fantasy construct and its rules&#8211;were all done to genius levels in the rich imaginings of J.K. Rowling&#8217;s writing. And then, the eight movies that unspooled over the better part of the last decade did the work of taking that writing and making it live in three dimensions. So, Harry Potter video games couldn&#8217;t do that either. Now, I&#8217;ve not read the Harry Potter books, but I know enough that Deathly Hallows is the place where the dark underside of the very premise of the Potterverse comes to bloom. In the endgame that is Deathly Hallows, the implicit tension of Harry&#8217;s existence becomes the main text: He&#8217;s a boy orphaned by the power of magic that can kill, and his journey has been about learning to deal with that kind of power and eventually wielding it. (MORE: Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise) This—this—was the shining moment that EA could own in a way that the books and movies couldn&#8217;t: making Harry and his crew into righteous engines of destructive vengeance and letting fans of the fiction interact their way through its adrenaline-filled conclusion. That made it all the more sad that, when it came time for tense, meaningful action, the first Deathly Hallows stumbled and face-planted in spectacular fashion. A licensed property game with a built-in audience may have seemed like a good place for a first, experimental foray with Microsoft&#8217;s Kinect motion-control technology. The thinking must have been, &#8220;Hey, they&#8217;re gonna show up anyway so let&#8217;s give them something different.&#8221; In theory, Kinect with Harry Potter would make you feel like you&#8217;re doing magic. In practice, you got glitchy, hand-wavey folderol. What was supposed to be snippets of a full-on supernatural conflict became a frustrating exercise in trying to play a game. Was video games&#8217; good-bye to Harry Potter going to be this wretched, fumbled mess?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89866&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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