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	iPhone 3G S review If it ain't broke, don't fix it -- right?		iPhone OS 3.0 now available Mash the update button in iTunes -- you need 8.2.
	AT&T relents a little, lets iPhone 3G customers with upcoming upgrade dates buy 3G S at full subsidy Unfortunately, the way the upgrade date is calculated is black magic involving your monthly bill, your credit rating, your contract, and your astrological sign.	Other news of import Amazon puts code where its mouth is: releases Kindle source to the world Xbox 360 Jasper motherboard with 512MB storage hitting US stores Apple tells UPS to stop overachieving, puts brakes on early iPhone 3G S deliveries
	Samsung HT-WS1 soundbar review Without a doubt, soundbars are a popular market. They certainly have an appeal -- better sound quality than the terrible speakers and amplifiers typically built into TVs, no-hassle installation, small footprint, and modest pricing.		Palm responds to iTunes / Pre statement, defiant and unfazed We're still not 100 percent clear what Apple's next move is, but we do know they're a little more than nonplussed about Pre's ad hoc iTunes syncing methods.
ContourHD helmet cam now shipping for aggro dads everywhere LG 15-inch OLED TV on sale in December		Samsung Blue Earth finally gets a hands-on treatment LG's GW550 WinMo Standard phone bows at CommunicAsia

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Scroll down to the bottom of our last six all-in-one desktop reviews and you'll find CNET Labs' latest addition to the desktop testing regimen. With the help of the Environmental Protection Agency's EnergyStar program, some impressive-looking power meters, and not a little trial and error, we're happy to report that we've finally published the first batch of power consumption results.

Our power results come courtesty of Chroma ATE's EnergyStar-certified 66202 Digital Power Meter.

(Credit: Rich Brown/CNET)

We have a few goals in mind with our new power tests. We want to help you make more informed buying decisions, for one thing. You'll see an annual energy cost chart in each review that compares the yearly estimated cost to operate a variety of systems. We don't expect the actual dollar amount will influence most of you one way or another (we're only talking about a range from $15 to $30 in this first round), but an annual cost figure also distills the relative efficiency between systems down to straightforward terms. You can also refer to our newly official Juice Box, located above the cost chart, for the individual power ratings across a variety of usage states for each system.

Apple does exceptionally well on our annual energy cost chart.

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Delayed for years, a high-profile game originally to be published by Sierra and now in the hands of Atari has finally become reality: a Ghostbusters video game for the Xbox 360 and PS3 that's actually billed as a sequel to the movies.

Written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and voiced by nearly the entire cast of both films, it's not lacking in official Ghostbusters cred. The question is, how does it play? Reviews have been generally solid, but our intra-office discussions among the CNET editors' gaming roundtable have been just this side of heated. We're presenting our sometimes-conflicting views, and leaving it up to you to sort out who's right. Give us your opinion in the comments section below. Also, be sure to check out our exclusive trailer featuring many of the phantasms you'll encounter in the game! ...

We’ve spent some quality time with the iPhone 3GS over the last couple of days and it looks like Apple is going to remain king of the smartphones with its latest iDevice. Although the 3GS is not significantly changed from the older 3G model, there are still a number of updates that make the 3GS noteworthy. From the mind of reviewer Steven Levy:

It’s not as dramatic an advance as the previous ones. But the new phone introduces a long list of improvements, big and small. Taken together, they’re enough to re-establish Apple’s once-shrinking lead in a brutal technology competition that is making the chariot race in Ben Hur look like a walk in the park.

As promised, Apple has indeed ramped up the speed with which the new phone performs tasks like launching apps, loading web pages, and displaying graphics. Apple claims speed boosts of up to two times of what the 3G delivers, and in some benchmarks cites even better performance. I haven’t done scientific measurements, but you don’t need a stopwatch to notice the new phone is zippier than its predecessor. I appreciated getting box scores faster and videos playing sooner in the MLB.com At Bat application, and it was clear that web pages loaded faster. In the case of a game like Tiger Woods Golf, the boost is significant enough to make me more likely to play when I don’t have much time.

In part because Apple is offering many of its innovations as part of the general iPhone 3.0 upgrade — the wise thing for those more recent buyers to do will be to install the new software and stick with their 3G iPhones at least until their contracts run down. This will provide a saner upgrade path to the 3GS’s considerable, but not earth-shattering, improvements. Speed is wonderful. But sometimes it’s prudent to wait for it.

Remember, this isn’t the whole review — just a mere sampling to get your motor running. For the deeper download hit up wired.com/reviews or click here for the full version.

Samsung first announced its eco-friendly Blue Earth phone at the Barcelona-based Mobile World Congress in February. It's been awhile since the announcement, but we finally got to spend a little personal time with the solar-powered handset here at CommunicAsia in Singapore.

Get ready for some frantic hand action in ...

	Olympus E-P1 'digital Pen' gets official, so does our lust Dubbed, E-P1 "digital Pen" (reflecting the camera's Olympus Pen-series heritage) this MFT shooter aligns with the looks and specs that came our way yesterday in leaked format		Opera Unite: a cloud-based promise to 'reinvent the web,' again A bold claim, sure, but just look at the breadth of the cloud-based services available to Mac, PC, or Linux/Unix users:
	BlackBerry Tour announced by Sprint, too: $199.99 later this summer Sprint has announced its plans for carrying the Tour 9630 just minutes after Verizon.	Other news of import Like weeds: new Natal Xbox rumor shot down, 3D Xbox rumor pops up to take its place TomTom's Homer Simpson voice skin is just like the real thing, without the Duff's Adamo redux: Dell teases new thin-and-light laptops in Paris with no specs
	PopcornHour's latest C200 media box is Blu-ray (& anything else) ready The followup to the popular PopcornHour media streamer series has finally been announced, and the list of features makes it look worth the wait.		Garmin-Asus G60 slated for August launch, will be last non-Android Linux phone for the couple What's that, you're still holding your breath waiting for the G60 release?
New Total Home DVR, remote scheduling & guide features coming to U-verse Audyssey's Sub Equalizer aims to tame the pro bass		Palm Pre coming to Romania (and the rest of Europe) in September? Huawei U8230 Android phone officially launched at CommunicAsia

The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.