Good old Radio Shack just can’t seem to keep its hands on internal memos. A little over a week ago, we were treated to a pair of leaked documents, slating an August 7th rollout for the LG Thrill 4G, and now another official looking missive has surfaced, pushing the release date back to August 21st. As per the document, customers will still be able to reserve their own 3D-enabled handset with the purchase of a $50 gift certificate before August 15th. Of course, we could still see this thrilling 4G phone pop up ahead of that date, perhaps from AT&T, but if you’ve already got a $50 gift certificate in hand, it looks like it’s time for another round of the waiting game.

LG’s Thrill 4G rumored launch pushed back to August 21st? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’ve been eagerly anticipating the arrival of the latest shape-shifting slate, it looks like you’re just going to have to wait. Fujitsu’s just announced that it will postpone the release of the convertible TH40/D tablet — the Windows 7 slide-out was originally slated for a late June debut in Japan. Unfortunately, the outfit’s being rather tight-lipped when it comes to details, saying simply that the holdup is due to “development delays.” Of course, we’ll keep you posted with details if / when Fujitsu decides to open up.

Fujitsu delays TH40/D release, puts slide-out tablet dreams on hold originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For a product with the word “vitality” in its name, Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii peripheral doesn’t seem to have much of a pulse these days. The oddball controller certainly piqued our interest when the gaming giant showed it off way back in 2009, but aside from some false alarms and an uncovered patent application, we haven’t heard a peep. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata addressed the Vitality Sensor’s conspicuous absence during a financial presentation, chalking the delay up to “differences in biological information in humans.” The peripheral is still coming, according to Iwata, but it won’t be released until the company can make it work well with 99 percent of consumers — a tall order indeed. And what about the other one percent? Well, perhaps they can try these on for size.

Nintendo Wii Vitality Sensor still coming to a hand near you, says Iwata originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 May 2011 20:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We were somewhat taken aback when Kno confirmed its textbook tablet had been delayed without a word on when production would resume, but the company now says pre-orders will experience up to two months’ delay before they ship out, and not all of them will. eBookNewser and CrunchGear report that shipments could be delayed until as late as April 14th, and that the first shipment will be restricted “to a limited number of students and teachers.” Kno still hasn’t provided a reason for the delay, but we think that the newly closed-off website says a lot. “You now need an invitation to get a Kno,” it reads, “There aren’t enough to go around.”

Kno says some tablets will ship within 60 days, doesn’t explain pre-order delay originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What is it with tablets and ship date shenanigans? After getting some tips from Kno pre-orderers (who should’ve started receiving this monstrosity last year) that their shipments had been delayed, we pinged Kno and got some ultra-vague confirmation of that fact:

Things at Kno are going well. However, as you noted below, there has been a shipment delay. As soon as Kno has new information, we will share that with customers and can certainly give you a heads up if that is helpful.

There’s no mention of any of this on Kno’s website, and typically with this sort of a delay there’s at least some sort of reasoning — “the boxes we got are the wrong size,” or “our Lego testing robot broke down,” or something smooth like that. Of course, we’re sure there’s some sort of explanation forthcoming. This is no cause to believe Kno is in serious danger of not shipping its tablet, or that it’s trying to pull a fast one, but Kno has unfortunately happened upon a disturbing trend in the tablet space that we’d love to be well rid of by now.

[Thanks, Chris]

Kno shipments delayed, no word on why or for how long originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The growing pains of being a small company dealing with big demand have bitten Notion Ink again, as the company has had to dish out a disappointing email to some Adam buyers informing them their delivery has been delayed to February 14th. The culprit in this sad case is a shipment of damaged touchscreens, which company chief Rohan Shravan estimates will affect just over five percent of all orders. Touchscreen supplier Sintek has promised to work through the Chinese New Year to refill that stock, so hopefully the bump back to Valentine’s Day will be the last, seemingly fitting, one for the Adam.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Notion Ink delays some Adam shipments to February 14th due to touchscreens damaged in transit originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We had nearly forgotten Lenovo’s Eedoo spinoff and its China-bound video game console, seeing as how it failed to meet a planned November 2010 unveiling, but IDG News reports that the motion-sensing eBox hasn’t slipped Lenovo’s mind — it’s just been pushed further into 2011. How far? If we were to guess, we’d say Q2 2011, and the video above spells out why. Seemingly by coincidence, we were just sent this footage of a game called Flyimal, built on the Unity Engine as a collaboration between 3D asset company Mixamo and 3D gesture recognition company Omek Interactive, and — get this — running on “the first [console] to be made by the Chinese for the Chinese market and due for launch by Q2 of this year.” We can’t think of many game systems that fit that description, to be honest. There’s not a lot to look at here, but we imagine PrimeSense and competitors will be perusing the video soon, noting that the machine captures precisely 15 points on a user’s body for its gesture recognition algorithms… and wondering if there’s a third dimension to any of that movement. Read Unity, Mixamo and Omek’s statement after the break.

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Lenovo’s Chinese eBox console suffers delay, here’s how its camera-based games might play (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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