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Entertainment Weekly Print Edition Comes with a 'Smartphone-like Android Device'

Entertainment Weekly print edition comes with a 'smartphonelike Android device' [1]

If there's one advantage a print magazine [2] still has over an online publication, it's the ability to offer all manner of crazy freebies glued to its pages. Maybelline samples [3], CDROMs packing the latest version of WinZip [4], or -- in tomorrow's edition of Entertainment Weekly -- something that actually looks pretty enticing. Flick it open to the right page and you'll spot an LCD display that magically displays video ads and live Tweets [5] from the CW Network. Intrigued by how such a thing could function, Mashable did a teardown (literally) and discovered all the ingredients of a budget Android smartphone, including components which aren't strictly necessary for the task at hand: a 3G modem with T-Mo SIM (which seems to have some degree of voice connectivity), a full-sized battery, USB port and even a partially-built QWERTY keyboard. Suddenly, that $50 myTouch [6] doesn't seem so cheap.

See the Video [7]

 

October 4, 2012

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Links:
[1] http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/04/entertainment-weekly-smartphone-teardown/
[2] http://www.engadget.com/tag/print+media/
[3] http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/augmented-reality-mirror-picks-makeup-for-the-ladies-video/
[4] http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/17/winzip-comes-to-ios-doesnt-nag-you-to-register/
[5] http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/25/the-october-5th-edition-of-entertainment-weekly-has-a-built-in-t/
[6] http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/07/t-mobile-mytouch-and-mytouch-q-review/
[7] http://mashable.com/2012/10/02/ew-has-smartphone-inside/