According to a report from AnandTech, the new Apple TV also includes a second Wi-Fi antenna with better gain, allowing for better reception and network throughput.

Another welcoming change to the new Apple TV is the new user interface, which seems a lot more like iOS, with similar home screen with rectangular icons. Improvements were also made to the on-screen keyboard, now featuring a regular, QWERTY layout.

With iTunes in the Cloud, you can purchase and play your favorite movies and TV shows from the iTunes Store and watch them instantly on your HD TV. The new Apple TV features a simpler, refined user interface making it easier than ever to access your purchased movies, TV shows and music with iTunes Match right from iCloud. And with AirPlay, you can stream or mirror your favorite content from your iPad or iPhone 4S to your HDTV with Apple TV, including AirPlay screen mirroring, which allows you to port your iOS device display onto your large screen TV, allowing you to stream music, home videos, webpages, spreadsheets, games, social media sites, and more. For those who want to be able to play music from their iPad or iPhone and play through their home theater stereo system, Apple TV using AirPlay makes it a piece of cake.

“People are going to love streaming movies and TV shows in 1080p with the new Apple TV, and photos look beautiful displayed at the maximum resolution of your TV,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Apple TV is easier than ever to use with its new icon-based interface and the ability to access your purchased movies, TV shows and music right from iCloud.”

Apple TV users can choose from an incredible selection of programming including over 15,000 movies and over 90,000 TV episodes on the iTunes Store. Apple TV also offers great content from Netflix’s streaming catalog, live sports from MLB, NBA and NHL as well as Internet content from Vimeo, YouTube and Flickr.

With iCloud, you can buy movies and TV shows on Apple TV and watch them on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC. iCloud also stores photos and pushes them wirelessly to all your devices including your HD TV via Apple TV. iCloud provides an incredibly easy way to get instant access to all of your content, no matter which device is being used.

Apple TV makes it easy to enjoy iTunes video, music and photo libraries from your computer right on your HD TV—and with iCloud you can instantly enjoy content that was purchased on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch as well. iTunes Match customers can now play their entire music library from iCloud—even songs they’ve imported from CDs. Users can also control Apple TV with their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch using the Remote app, available as a free download on the App Store.

The new, 2012 version of Apple TV is now for sale for $99 at the Apple online store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.
Apple TV requires iTunes 10.5 or later. Apple TV requires an 802.11g/n Wi-Fi network or Ethernet network, a broadband Internet connection and a HD TV capable of 1080p or 720p and an HDMI cable that is sold separately. iTunes movie and TV show availability varies by country. Second generation Apple TV users can install the new Apple TV user interface via a free software update, available today. Third generation Apple TV hardware is required to play 1080p video.

I use LogMeIn to connect to the office PC from my home PC or laptop, or vice versa, and I even utilize the LogMeIn apps on my iPad and iPhone for the occasional remote control of one of my PCs from those devices.

I was happy to hear at press time that LogMeIn has launched a new service called Cubby (www.cubby.com), which is an all new cloud data service to simply and securely share information across PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android devices, or with other people. Cubby lets you turn any number of PC or Mac folders into ‘cubbies’ that can be accessed from other devices, stored in the cloud, and shared with colleagues and friends. Cubby also gives you the option to simply share or sync an unlimited amount of information across your devices for free, and without ever counting against cloud storage limits. As a result, you have the flexibility to share and access information across your devices without having to worry about creating a new, separate version of your digital life in the cloud.

“When it comes to sharing data in the cloud today, most solutions on the market are ultra simple but inflexible, or highly flexible but inherently complex. We see Cubby as an opportunity to deliver an ideal balance of simplicity and flexibility,” said Marton Anka, LogMeIn’s CTO. “It is designed to adapt to the way people naturally interact with their information — to deliver the benefits of the cloud without forcing people to change their behavior.”

LogMeIn CEO Michael Simon recently mentioned that file sync is the #1 most requested new feature from LogMeIn customers. And for added security, Cubby will allow users to use their own encryption keys.

Cubby is built on LogMeIn’s Gravity Data Services, LogMeIn’s own, proprietary data synchronization and storage cloud. Architected to deliver secure, high-scale data sync and storage capabilities at incredibly low cost, the new Gravity Data Services has been designed to help bring new offerings, like Cubby, to market, as well as to introduce cloud data benefits into virtually any other offering, service or application. LogMeIn plans to use Gravity Data Services to expand its suite of essential cloud offerings, add a variety of new cloud data capabilities to its existing family of access, customer care and remote IT management products, and create opportunities for 3rd parties to build their own cloud offerings on LogMeIn’s platform.

With Cubby, you can make any file public and get a link to it to share with others, assuming the file is synced to the cloud. Cubby also does file versioning for data stored on its servers, so it can be used as a backup service.

People interested in participating in the Cubby beta, which includes 5GB of cloud storage, free unlimited folder syncing across devices, as well as apps for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, can request an invitation. Prices haven’t been announced for cloud sync plans over 5GB.

The Canon PIXMA MX892 Wireless Office All-In-One (AIO) printer is designed with the home office user in mind. The print, copy, scan and fax machine has a variety of connectivity options for easy printing of documents and images from the cloud and other compatible portable devices.

Canon has designed the PIXMA MX892 Wireless Office AIO printer to help home-office users easily access and print materials through utilities such as Google Cloud Print and PIXMA Cloud Link. Google Cloud Print will enable Gmail messages, file attachments and select Google Docs to be sent to the printer for printing from any computer, tablet, or smartphone. For those registered with Google’s PicasaWeb Albums, there is PIXMA Cloud Link so users can print photos directly from their online albums. The printer also provides direct access to a wide range of printable templates, such as stationary and calendars, so photographers can get creative with their images.

Adding to the printer’s connectivity options is the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint (EPP) mobile app, for use with compatible Apple and Android smart phones and tablets, where documents can be scanned on the printer and sent to the device. Users can also print PDFs of documents that were created with the app directly from these devices.

The Canon PIXMA MX892 Wireless Office AIO printer will also have 802.11n wireless capability allowing for a high-speed network transfer rate and easy sharing on a network. Setting up a wireless network for multiple users to quickly share information can be accomplished with the press of one button when using Wireless Protected Setup (WPS). An Ethernet port has also been included as an alternative when wireless is not available, allowing for a hard line connection for easy sharing with multiple users as well.

“With users increasingly utilizing the cloud to store important documents and images, it is imperative to provide an easy way for these materials to be printed easily when they are needed,” said Yuichi Ishizuka, executive vice president and general manager, Imaging Technologies & Communications Group, Canon U.S.A. “The variety of connectivity options supported by the PIXMA MX892 Office All-in-One printer allows the flexibility to do just that, and provides the users with the comfort of knowing that the end result will be high-quality.”

The Canon PIXMA MX892 Wireless Office AIO printer utilizes the ChromaLife 100+ system with five individual ink tanks producing superb quality for presentations and memorable images at a maximum color resolution of 9600 x 2400 dpi. When the latest task includes creating a family photo album, the printer allows you to easily view images on the 3-inch LCD screen and can generate a 4” x 6” borderless photo in approximately 20 seconds. The scanner capabilities feature an incredible resolution of 2400 x 4800 dpi to help ensure the duplicate copy will be equivalent to the original. Further adding to the functionality of the machine, is the capacity to provide print output at approximately 12.5 images per minute (ipm) for black-and-white documents and approximately 9.3 ipm for color.

A major concern for home office users is being able to scan oversized documents to be distributed at important meetings. With the Canon exposed user interface, scanning or copying of large sized documents can be accomplished without interfering with any buttons needed to perform a task. Further adding to productivity is the Dual Function Panel, which makes navigating through menus and functions a very smooth process. When switching between the fax function and either print, copy or scan functions, the keypad will switch from the standard numbers to a directional keypad thus making the printer look sleek, clean and easy to use.

The Canon PIXMA MX892 Wireless Office AIO printer comes with additional features which can help increase productivity and conserve paper usage. With Advanced Media Handling capabilities such as a 35 sheet Duplex Auto Document Feeder that allows for quick two-sided copying and scanning in addition to Auto Duplex printing, users can perform other tasks while the printer handles the bulk of the workload.

The printer also has two paper feeds which can hold a maximum of 150 sheets of plain paper each, helping ensure paper will not run out unexpectedly while working. With the two paper feeds, there is the option to load one tray with standard paper and the other with specialty paper so the user will not have to re-load when changing types of print jobs and save time.

For those interested in customizing photos, Easy-PhotoPrint EX software is available for this feature-packed printer with a variety of fun filter effects such as Fish-Eye, Miniature, Toy Camera, Soft Focus and Blur Background. Full HD Movie Print software has also been included, producing clear images of frames from videos captured on compatible HD Canon EOS and PowerShot Digital cameras. An added bonus is exclusive printable content through CREATIVE PARK PREMIUM. The content on this website includes family projects such as Eric Carle greeting cards and photo frames as well as calendars to keep track of important business meetings and appointments.

The Canon PIXMA MX892 Wireless Office AIO printer will have an estimated selling price of $199.9912.

The Logitech UE Air Speaker with Apple’s AirPlay allows you to stream uncompressed music from iTunes or an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch connected to your home’s Wi-Fi network to a Logitech UE speaker that delivers high-quality audio with a big sound stage boosted by dual tweeters and woofers.

With Logitech UE, it’s about delivering pure, undiluted music wherever you want to listen. The new Logitech UE Air Speaker offers superior functionality in a stylish design. Its subtle curves and handsome piano-black finish look great in any room, while its custom-tuned acoustics deliver a big soundstage with impressively detailed stereo sound.

“There’s a new breed of music fans whose iPad and iPhone devices are at the center of their listening activities,” said Rory Dooley, senior vice president of music at Logitech. “We created the Logitech UE Air Speaker to give those people a great audio experience that combines effortless streaming with fantastic sound. With its stylish, modern design, easy setup and excellent sound, the Logitech UE Air Speaker looks and sounds phenomenal in any room in the house.”

Setup is easy: just dock your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, follow the on-screen instructions to download the Logitech UE Air app, enter your Wi-Fi network password and you’re ready to go. After that one time setup process, any iPhone 4s, iPhone4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch (2nd, 3rd or 4th generation), iPad, iPad 2, or iPad (3rd generation) with iOS 4.2 or later, or any Mac or PC on your network with iTunes 10.1 or later is instantly connected. Plus with the Apple Dock Connector, you can charge your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch while you play music.

The Logitech UE Air Speaker has been named an International CES Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree in the Wireless Handset Accessories product category. The $399 device is now available at computer outlet stores, Logitech.com, Amazon and other electronics retailers.

Recently, Google announced we could expect a 7-inch Android tablet coming this year. While Google is as tight as ever to release any information, the Wall Street Journal cited unnamed Google sources suggesting the 7-inch tablet is being designed with Samsung and Asus. The only statement officially from Google is that there are, indeed, plans to unveil a Google-branded tablet this year. The tablet will be sold through a new, online tablet store that will be introduced with the release of the tablet.

As with any Google launch, speculation abounds. The current reporting from DigiTimes and the UK’s V3 suggest that Google will be pricing their tablet in the $199 range to compete against Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Other sources cite that a deal between Asus and Android is complete and that we could see the tablet as soon as May or June with price points between $149-199.

Earlier this year, Asus showed off the Asus MeMo 370T at the Consumer Electronics Show, stating the device would retail in the $199-249 price range. This device can no longer be found on Asus’ website, further feeding the Google-Asus $199 tablet rumor mill. As of last week, The Verge reported the tablet is official and Google will be launching in July, pending some design tweaks to make sure it can retail under $249.

It appears Google is trying to enter the affordable tablet market to gain ground on a tablet market that Apple dominates with over 60% share. Other reports suggest Apple is planning a smaller, 7” version of the iPad and Google is trying to stay ahead of any news Apple may or may not have planned.

Also remember that Google always makes a big splash of major announcements as its fourth quarter winds down in June. From the Google I/O developer’s conference at the end of June, Google has always made large announcements and product features. In previous years, these announcements have included the Droid Bionic and lapdock, partnerships with Adobe and Verizon, and their social endeavor: Google+.

With the iPad2 recently re-priced at $399, Apple still won’t compete on price. But do they have to? Would you be inclined to “Go Google” on a tablet device if the price was right? Or do you need the sleek, coolness that is the iPad? Leave a comment and let us know!

The first thing you notice about the IoSafe Solo G3 is that it’s beyond sturdy – weighing in at a whopping 15 pounds, and you could tap dance on it – in ten feet of water – for 3 days. This thing is really amazing!

The IoSafe Solo G3 is a backup system, and is available in 1, 2, or 3 terabyte storage capacities. It plugs into your computer via USB 3.0, and moves data at about 5GB of data per second. It’s also fan-less (you Mac people will be delighted to hear that), so it’s also quie, and works with both Windows and Macs and has some pretty impressive specs in terms of protection as well:

• Fire: it’ll protect your data from a 1,550º F fire for half an hour – for those of you to whom this means anything, it meets ASTM E119 standards for fire exposure
• Flood: immerse it in 10ft of water for 3 days – no damage (I wasn’t kidding about tap dancing underwater)
• It meets UL, FCC and CE Standards, so you can use it pretty much anywhere
• Physical Theft: you can cable lock it or mount it to the floor

The IoSafe Solo G3 comes with a 3-year warranty for hardware defects, and 1-year of data recovery service. You can buy more if you like, up to five years as added insurance.

What’s really important, of course, is recovering your data. In the really, really unlikely event that you’ll need data resurrected from one of these things, you get one free “data recovery event.” A second one would cost you $500; a third, $1,000. But, honestly, I don’t really foresee you needing it! This thing is beyond sturdy. I did not take a baseball bat to it, but I was sorely tempted to. I don’t think it would have noticed!

Basically, the IoSafe Solo G3 just runs every day. I set it up, I got it running, and was promptly able to forget about it. It worked on a Windows machine and on a Mac., and I’m about to see if I can connect it on a Linux box.

I really love the IoSafe Solo G3. If I had one thing to complain about, it would be that they don’t seem to have a network-attachable version. That would make this thing the ultimate! IoSafe, are you listening? Of course, I can attach it to the network through a computer, but that’s not quite the same thing.

Bottom line: if you’re looking for a backup solution that’s sturdy, simple, bulletproof, and just works every day, check out the IoSafe
Solo G3.

The one thing I was looking forward to the most at PAX East was getting my hands on Borderlands 2… and I was not in the least bit disappointed by anything other than the amount of playtime I got. I could have stayed there for hours if they had let me. As it was, we had barely enough time to assign our skill points in our tree and get acclimated to the guns, before we ran around as much as we possibly could, wreaking havoc in a shiny new Pandora. Read on to find out what’s new in the Siren class, how the new guns feel, and why I can’t wait for September 18.

The game was set up so that you could play in pairs, one person as Salvador the Gunzerker and the other person as Maya the Siren. Having already logged over 80 hours as Lilith the Siren in Borderlands, I was eager to see what they’d changed about her class. The answer: a lot.
We got to play in an area called the “Caustic Caverns,” and it definitely lived up to its name. Filled with acid pools and monsters shooting acid, the terrain was… well… pretty caustic. But what threw me into an immediate panic was that we got to play the characters at level 20, and we had 15 skill points to assign. Considering the fact that I often agonize over one or two skill points, throwing me into a brand new game with so many skill points sent my brain straight to overload.

With 15 minutes to go, I hit the Select button, scrolled over to the Skill Tree, and immediately fell in love. The user interface is much slicker in the sequel, with the Skill Tree branching out in 3D in three different sections that you can cycle through instead of just being a straight, flat layout.

I assigned my points, deciding to experiment with the new healing options that the Siren has, as well as maxing out as many damage bonuses as I could. Regenerate the health of me and my allies while I have an enemy Phaselocked? Don’t mind if I do. Just like in the first game, assigning a certain number of points unlocks later abilities in the tree. Once I was done being overwhelmed by all my new options, I got to work.

First thing is first: the guns feel great. Reloading is fast and smooth, aiming with the sights works better than ever before, and shooting is less cartoony and more realistic… meaning the recoil is now far more obvious than it was before. Jumping still has that same floaty quality, like the gravity is just slightly less here on Pandora. Some of the buttons have been changed a bit, but for the most part, the control scheme is exactly the same as the first game. And instead of hitting a button to pick up items, money and ammo are automatically picked up, while guns and shields must be grabbed manually.

As I was shooting the enemies, it was clear that some of them had resistance to corrosive weapons, so I started switching my guns out and trying them all. I shot off round after round, tearing through the enemies and exploding some barrels for good measure. Barrels now have a lifebar as well, so you can tell when they’re about to wreak havoc on enemies and allies.

The enemies we were fighting against were Larval Harkids, and they were spawning out of gross-looking hives. The hives themselves, like the Skag dens from the previous game, were impervious to damage, but it was cool watching the creatures crawl and fly out. After fighting off some enemies, I decided to try out my Phaselock, which lifts an enemy into the air, making it easier for you and your allies to attack them. It reminded me of Paxton Fettel from F.E.A.R. 3 and his ability to lift enemies into the air so Point Man could pick them off.

Then we were up against some pretty big monsters, giant three-legged creatures that came towards us through the acid pools and shot corrosive material at us. They had crystals around their legs, and shooting off these crystals did two things: 1) allowed you to collect them, and 2) opened up a place to give them critical damage. This was important, because shooting them anywhere else did no damage at all. So I ran around killing the creatures and harvesting their leg crystals, completely sucked back into the world of Pandora and enjoying every second of it.

One thing I noticed was that when I went near Sal, a prompt popped up that just said “Trade Disabled.” This caused me to freak out, because it means no more chucking items on the ground when you want to trade with a person. Things just got a lot less complicated and a lot more awesome in the world of Borderlands. They’ve taken so many things that were monotonous – like picking up money and ammo, or tediously going through your stuff and throwing it at a person to trade with them – and made it far more streamlined. Gearbox definitely knows what they’re doing on this one.

The animations have gotten much smoother as well. The creatures that took ongoing acid damage were melting; the crystals growing back on the leg of the three-legged monster grew in seamlessly. Everything is much crisper and clearer, though it’s still got all of its cel-shaded charm. The reload animations are very quick and clean, too. Also cool is the animation that happens when you die and re-spawn, bringing on a much more cyberpunk feel of being decompressed and recreated through a machine.

Another interesting change is that you can now move around when you’re “fighting for your life,” which is your chance to get a “second wind” and get back up again after you’ve gone down. You can move around on your knees instead of spinning around, trying to find an enemy within your line of fire to kill.

The map is smaller but crisper, and the enemies are far more obvious on the map now, coming up as giant red diamonds. I hit a point where I was fighting some tentacle monsters, “Threshers,” which had big bulbs to aim at. When they hit me with their tentacles, a cheesy slash went across the screen. There’s also an effect when you get shot with something – the screen seems to get covered with it. I’m not in love with these animations, but hopefully they’ll grow on me.

After finding my first chest (woo!), I ran into some monsters that were fighting each other. This created a cool dynamic, allowing me to let them fight one another while I took some shots at the monster that was more dangerous to me. The implication here is that you can lure monsters to other monsters in order to get them to fight each other, creating a level of strategy Borderlands has never seen. Oh, and your characters still shout out their signature phrases – so far, all I heard Maya say was “Got somethin’ for ya!” and, when I second winded, “It wasn’t my time!” It made me nostalgic for all the hours I’d spent with Lilith.

After finding some cool shields, including a Spiked Shield (perhaps it does damage when you get hit with a melee?), my 15 minutes was up. I spent way too much time running around aimlessly, shooting my guns off, killing monsters, and checking out the user interface in the game. I hadn’t gotten anywhere near my objective, that elusive blinking diamond on the map. But it didn’t matter, because I had a blast just running around on this new Pandora.

Borderlands 2 comes out on September 18th for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Gearbox also announced the collector’s edition at PAX East, saying it would be made to look like a loot box, and that it would come with a Marcus bobblehead. More details on that and the new character, the Mechromancer, can be found here. All I have to say is: September can’t come soon enough.

A: I am a little confused about what you mean when you say “Auto-Install.” What devices are you talking about? I am assuming you mean the USB device is not being recognized by Windows. So try this: When the device is plugged in, right-click My Computer on the desktop, click on Device Manager on the left and notice if there are any red or yellow symbols. If there are, then right-click on the exclamation symbol and click “update device driver software,” then click “search automatically for updated driver software.” This will search your computer and the Internet for updates. If it finds updates, then follow the prompts and you’re done and the exclamation symbol will be gone. If this is not the issue, please email me with more information and I will do my best to help you out before the next issue of Computer Link Magazine.

Q: We had a recent problem after using our laptop and then moving it briefly to use it, then restarting and received the following error: “HP symbol on startup,boot attempt and then text: “no bootable file found, insert file, and press any key” HP Pavillon dv5310nr “no bootable file found”

We have recovery discs and attempted installing. Recovery manager starts, but fails to correct the issue. We tried hard start with battery removed. We can hear the hard drive running but nothing happens.
What shall we do? – Pete

A: After reading about the issues you are having, it sounds like you have a problem with the hard drive. The hard drive is what stores all the files and folders in your Laptop. If that fails then all your personal files could be gone. Since that sounds like what has happened, I am hopeful you have been backing up your personal files regularly. Backing up is something that should absolutely be done on a regular basis. By “regular” I mean doing so at least once per week. Computer users should understand that a computer’s hard drive could fail at any moment – and usually without any signs of pre-failure.

A hard drive is basically it is a platter that is spinning at a very high speed with a needle of sorts floating above the platter. Most drives are spinning at 5400RPM (revolutions per minute). If a laptop is dropped or even handled roughly when it is running, the hard drive could be damaged. With all this being stated let’s talk about backup. There are many ways to do this. You can buy an external hard drive that usually has some sort of backup software that comes with it. I have found that these programs are generally difficult to use and are not very reliable. If you are running Windows 7 then you can use the backup feature that comes packaged with the operating system. To use the Windows 7 backup, follow these steps. Make sure you have an external hard drive and that it’s connected to your desktop computer or laptop.

1. Click on the Orbit at the lower left of the screen (Start Menu)
2. Click on Control Panel
3. Click on Backup and Restore
4. Click on Set Up Backup
5. For the backup location, select your external drive and click Next
6. If you are not familiar with Windows file structure select Let Windows Choose and click next
7. In this next screen are the details of the backup you have created. It will back up all default Window folders at Sunday at 7PM. If this time does not work for you then click Change Schedule and pick the time you prefer. When this is done click Save Settings and Run Backup.

This backup could take a while so go have some lunch or dinner and it should be done when you come back. If you don’t want to buy and external drive and want a backup that is off-site, then as backup service, such as Carbonite will do it for you. You pay a monthly subscription fee for a backup service, download their software, and create and schedule your backup. The Carbonite software is very user friendly and once it is configured, backups automatically in the background without your having to remember to do it manually. The advantage to a service such as this is that all your important information is stored automatically and off-site, not where your computer is.

Well, let me tell you, this is more than a Bluetooth headset. It takes the Bluetooth audio from your iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and broadcasts it onto an unused FM radio channel. Unlike some lesser models I’ve tried, it auto scans for an available frequency. The audio doesn’t have to be phone calls, either. That’s where the “Internet Radio” portion of the name comes in – you can stream Pandora, Grooveshark, iTunes and other apps. Livio even has their own app, optimized for operation in the car, that offers 45,000 AM, FM and Internet Radio stations.

The Livio Radio is pretty smart. I never had to enter a PIN #… it automatically sensed my iPhone 4S, when I ran Settings -> General -> Bluetooth and selected the Livio. The iPhone even told me there was a free app I could download, and it took me to it on the App Store.
I like the gooseneck design, but it depends on the placement of your car’s cigarette lighter outlet. In my case, I had that GPS unit taking up the port. But the good news is they provide a USB port to plug your iPhone charging cable or other devices in.

At first, the volume seemed too low, and I had to crank my car’s stereo volume all the way up. But then I read the manual! It turns out the knob that controls the frequency also controls the volume if you push it in first. I might have preferred separate buttons for volume, but once you set it, you’re probably more likely to use your car’s stereo to fine tune the volume. After that, the sound was quite good(Aerosmith, BTW).

There is a line-in so you can connect your MP3 player independent of Bluetooth as well as a line-out, so if your stereo supports a line-in, you don’t have to deal with the FM broadcast issue.

If you need either a Bluetooth speakerphone for the car, or a way to stream audio to your non-Bluetooth car stereo, the Livio Radio fits the bill nicely, but if you need BOTH capabilities, then look no further.

The HTC TITAN II is HTC’s first Windows Phone to run on a 4G LTE network. Available now to AT&T customers, the smartphone includes the largest display among Windows Phones, an advanced 16-megapixel digital camera and access to 4G LTE speeds.

“HTC’s history of innovation in 4G technology includes delivering the first 4G-powered devices to each major carrier in the U.S., so it is exciting to continue that leadership with our first 4G LTE Windows Phone, the HTC TITAN II,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corp. “This full-featured smartphone combines HTC’s design with AT&T’s high-speed 4G LTE network and Microsoft’s powerful Windows Phone software, giving people more of what they crave.”

The HTC TITAN II comes equipped with a brilliant 4.7-inch super LCD capacitive touchscreen display for an optimized viewing experience when watching movies, playing games or enjoying photos and videos. The HTC TITAN II offers quick and easy access to the latest movies and TV shows via HTC Watch and on-the-go gaming with Xbox LIVE.

Packed with advanced imaging technology, the HTC TITAN II features a 16-megapixel camera with a wide-angle lens, autofocus, dual LED flash, red eye reduction, image stabilization, a backside-illuminated sensor and a physical camera button, offering a viable replacement for digital point-and-shoot cameras. The HTC TITAN II delivers a number of features that HTC has developed to help consumers capture photos in a variety of conditions; for instance, panoramic shot for sweeping landscapes and burst shot for action photography. The smartphone also enables 720p HD video recording with the rear-facing camera, as well as on-the-go video chat over Wi-Fi with its 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera.

“Here you’ve got a device that takes everything great about Windows Phone and places it on the most high-quality gigantic device in the field. HTC knows what they’re doing when it comes to delivering top-class smartphones, the HTC One series for Android is proof of that. This device isn’t quite as premium as the HTC One series, as it turns out, but it’s certainly one of the nicest all-round Windows Phones on the market,” reports Chris Burns from Slashgear.com. “You’ll have quite a time choosing between the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II – and you’ll want to hold both of them before you pop your credit card out. The Titan isn’t as iconic as the Lumia, but it’s got its high points. HTC is here for the long haul with Windows Phone, and the experience they’ve delivered here does more justice to Microsoft’s vision for smartphones than any that have come before.”

Access to AT&T’s speedy 4G LTE network paired with Qualcomm’s 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, enables the HTC TITAN II to deliver fast web surfing, streaming and downloading. This new powerful smartphone also features a 1,730mAh lithium ion battery to support the robust mobile experience on one of the fastest 4G LTE networks.

The HTC TITAN II enhances connectivity, efficiency and productivity for busy consumers with its large on-screen keyboard and instant access to Windows Phone Office Hub, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Outlook Mobile. The Live Tile display brings friend and family groups to life and delivers the latest updates and news from popular social networks directly to the home screen. HTC TITAN II customers will also be able to download a number of exclusive HTC applications for free within Windows Marketplace through HTC Hub.

The HTC TITAN II is expected to become available exclusively from AT&T in the U.S. in the coming months.