While Sony’s new Bloggie Touch provides the template for how simple and easy a touchscreen camcorder could really be, Kodak’s similarly well built and attractive PlayTouch provides a stark contrast, with a modicum of simplicity on the surface, but a megaton of functionality to uncover. The PlayTouch isn’t as pick-up-and go as the Bloggie, but the basic touchscreen controls can be quickly mastered. What sets the PlayTouch apart are the in-depth features like an external microphone jack (complete with gain control), video effects (like black & white and sepia modes), and the particularly ambitious video editor.

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Kodak PlayTouch preview
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Chinese telecom giant Huawei — which has been playing the Android game with major carriers around the world for some time now — has selected IFA to debut the Ideos, a new entry-level model running Froyo in a variety of colors. Huawei’s press release calls the Ideos “the world’s first affordable smartphone” — which seems like a bit of an overstatement (okay, a huge overstatement) to us — but really underscores the fact that this thing is going to be launching for somewhere between $100 and $200 unsubsidized in Europe, Asia, and both North and Latin America.

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Huawei Ideos hands-on
Great devices aren’t great without content and if you want it done right, sometimes you have to do it yourself. For Toshiba that means a new online content and services portal called Toshiba Places

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Toshiba Places to deliver web content across all Toshiba screens
Remember when you were 5, and you went to McDonald’s one day with your parents and they got you the Happy Meal with the windup Luigi toy in it? Remember how ecstatic you were that you had a real version of Mario’s bro in a plastic bag along with your cheeseburger and fries, and remember how you went home and played with it all day until it stopped winding and you completely forgot about it until you had to clean out your desk drawer for college?

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Massive Mario collection will make your inner 5-year-old jealous
Sprint’s treating the East Coast to a shot of adrenaline-fueled mobile internet today, with Daytona Beach in Florida, Providence in Rhode Island, and Boston (you know the state, right?) all getting the green light for 4G activation. Notably, this takes the number of markets Sprint has now lit up in sexy WiMAX airwaves beyond 50 and ratchets up the states that have at least some coverage up to 21.

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Sprint adds Boston, Daytona Beach and Providence to its 4G coverage map
Poor, poor Sony. First PSJailbreak splayed wide the PS3’s security model, now PSGroove has arrived calling itself the “open source PSjailbreak.” The code must first be downloaded and installed onto a $30ish AT90USBkey or a $25ish Teensy++ USB development board. After that, homebrew enthusiasts can then execute unsigned third-party apps and games on their PS3.

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PS3 homebrew jailbreak released into the wilds
Once you get past that initial thrill of opening the packaging, setting it up and toying around with its settings, any platform is only as good – and as fun – as the games available for it. With the launch of PlayStation Move, the lineup of what’s on offer is relatively limited and, as the hardware’s all about getting people to, er move around, focuses on sports and party games, with a couple of notable exceptions

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PlayStation Move review: The launch games
The latest Hothead dev diary is out and, well, it doesn’t have much to do with video games, with hardly a mention of DeathSpank . Actually, it does note that Hothead’s games combat communism, though it never elucidates how

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Hothead’s games prevent communism, apparently
Fire Hose Games’ Slam Bolt Scrappers impressed us at E3 even though it was a ways off from its expected “early 2011″ launch on PSN. PAX , taking place this weekend in Seattle, will be the public-at-large’s next chance to see what we were talking about. The game will be playable at booth #3834, and the developers will be on hand for feedback

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Slam Bolt Scrappers playable at PAX