Now that Moto’s phone and set-top box divisions are being split out into their own company, it looks like there’s some convergence afoot: the MOTOBLUR interface found on the CLIQ and the Backflip is currently being tested on the company’s cable boxes with a tentative release scheduled for this year. That’s the word according to CEO Sanjay Jha, who also told the Wall Street Journal that...

Nissan will begin taking reservations for the Nissan Leaf in April, actual orders can be placed in August and cars will be delivered by the end of the year.  But a big question sitll looms - how much will it cost? You can reserve a Leaf for a $100 refundable fee, but as for the actual cost of the EV, the company has only said that it will be competitively priced with similar-sized vehicles, but that allows...

Sensory Inc. may stay behind the scenes most of the time, but the company’s speech recognition chips are already used in toys from JVC, Mattel, Hasbro and others, and it’s now announced a new chip that could lead to toys with some significantly improved capabilities. Costing just $2 apiece (in quantities over 100K/year), the company’s NLP-5X chip not only boasts support for speech recognition...

OpenPeak is a company so open it just can’t resist throwing the word into damn-near every product it makes, and the new OpenTablet 7 is no exception. The number refers to the size of the thing: a seven-inch TFT LCD tablet with LED backlighting, 802.11b/g/n wireless, Bluetooth, and 3G connectivity. It’s all powered by an Intel Moorestown processor, and is designed to serve as a “fully functioning...

Microsoft took a dramatic step with Windows Phone 7 Series this morning at MWC in Barcelona, and obviously we’ve been talking about it all day here at Engadget HQ. Just like with the iPad and the Droid, opinions on the staff are all over the map — it’s not every day that a company reboots an entire OS — so we’re going to let everyone speak for themselves, starting with the people...

Samsung has finally confirmed the Samsung I8520, which is touted as the company’s first Android projector phone. The gadget comes jam packed with a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen, an 8-megapixel camera, and a “Specialized Projector UI”. Stay tuned for more updates. [Phandroid]

EA has proudly announced that the Bad Company 2 demo has been downloaded more than 2 million times since its release just a week ago. The demo was released on the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3. The game is scheduled for release on March 2, 2010 in North America and March 5, 2010 in Europe. [Bad Company 2 Blog]

LG isn’t dishing out many details about this one just yet, but company exec KW Kim (head of LG’s Middle East and Africa Operations) has told Emirates Business that LG will soon be launching a product — “maybe by April” — that “will compete with Apple and Amazon.” And, well, that’s about it. As you may recall, however, LG has been showing off various bits...

Chinese company Newman is back with another one of its MP3 player known as the B30. Measuring 63mm x 26mm x 10mm and weighing 17.5g, this compact device offers a 1.1-inch display, a 2GB of storage, a voice recorder, a photo viewer (JEPG), a USB 2.0 interface and supports MP3, WMA, APE as well as FLAC audio formats. Sadly, there’s no word on pricing yet. [Yesky]

After releasing the Motorola BackFlip in North America, China, and Latin America, the company will also release this handset in Italy, which is probably the first European country to receive it. FYI, the Motorola BackFlip features a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen display, Android 1.5 with MotoBlur, a full QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA, GPS, Wi-Fi, a full HTML browser, a 3.5mm headset jack, a social networking integration...