Dealzmodo: Nokia N810 For $300

The N810 WiMax edition may be hovering around out there, but who the hell is using WiMax? The specs on the original are not all that hot anymore, but this little internet tablet has never been cheaper at $300. [CompUSA]

miBook PDA is for Ladies Doing Lady Things...WTF?!

The miBook is a $130 PDA with a 7" screen that teaches skills to people through step-by-step videos and other multimedia. Now, we don't like to reinforce gender stereotypes, but the pictures of each $20 title in the gallery below, such as cooking, gardening and home decorating show a woman learning the job—all except the diaper changing lesson, which shows a man. It's sold without onboard memory, but they must think women are pretty stupid if they expect to charge $150 for 128MB. The rest of miBook's specs are gender neutral:UPDATE: That's a typo in the spec sheet, the 128MB memory is a much more reasonable $1.50, but it's for retailers only. More »

Nokia N810 Tablet Priced With WiMAX

Spotted at Buy.com with an MSRP of $479. Still not sure how this thing is going to work on WiMAX when no one has WiMAX and also, not many people use these tablets. [Buy.com CellularNews]

Elektrobit Introduces Jack-Of-All-Trades Satellite Phone

Elektrobit is bringing satellite phones to the masses with its new Satellite/Terrestrial Reference PDA Phone. Gone is the bulky antenna sported by satellite phones of yore, replaced with a sleek, qwerty-keyboard PDA look that's just a touch thicker than a Blackberry 8800. The concept product runs Windows Mobile 6.1 professional and contains a packed feature set—including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, VoIP, a touch screen, and a 3MP camera. More »

Pencil-Pushing Census Bureau Dumps Portable Tech for Pencils

To our friends at Treehugger, please look away as we report that the Census Bureau is ditching plans to go digital and will return to its sinful pencil-pushing, paper-crazy roots. Originally, the Bureau planned for workers to use 500,000 wireless handheld devices from Harris Corp. as a replacement for the paperwork used to collect information from Americans who do not respond to the census. The $1.3 billion program looked great on, well, paper, but was ultimately derailed by hardware issues and incompetence. More »

PDA/Tablet Concept Babysits Old People

Hey, old people have technological needs too. Or so this concept would have us believe. The idea behind this tablet/pda-ish device is that it uses RFID tracking technology toremind the elderly when to take their meds, when food in the refrigerator goes bad, and what to get at the store to meet nutritional requirements. But if my grandparents' foray into technology is any indication, this device would do nothing but baffle the elderly mind. [Yanko Design] More »

iFolio Converts iPhone into Ultra-Light Laptop, So Light It Doesn't Exist

With visions of the MacBook Air hovering tantalizingly before us, one designer took a page from the now-dead Palm Foleo and has docked the iPhone into a really barebones 12" chassis—essentially nothing more than a screen, keyboard and USB ports. Willy Yonkers, its creator, thinks that if you kept it simple it could sell for as little as $150. Too bad it's a pipe dream, even if it looks a bit fugly. [Willy Yonkers via Yanko Design]

All Giz Wants: A Real Universal Remote

All Giz Wants isn't about wanting what we have now. It's about wanting what we should have now, what's technically possible but practically improbable. Here's an item I've been (wet) dreaming about for some time—a universal remote that's really universal. I don't mean to control both a Blu-ray player and an HD DVD player. I mean to control my TV, computer and the air popper. More »

Palm's Black Friday Deals Clear Phoneless PDAs Out of the Warehouse

Are you looking for a PDA that doesn't have a phone component? No? Neither is anyone else, which is why Palm is using Black Friday as an excuse to push some older merch out the door. Starting right now, you can score a Palm TX for $199 and a Tungsten E2 for $149. Not that they're bad deals, what with the TX sporting Wi-Fi and coming with a free wireless keyboard and the E2, uh, well, the E2 comes with a free hard case. Deals!!! [TX and E2 via Crave]

Nokia N810 Linux Tablet On Sale

The N810 tablet, with its keyboard, GPS, linux OS, Wi-Fi but no cellular connection is on sale today. Long Live the PDA/UMPC? [Nokia]

Samsung Rolls Out Next-Gen WiMax Toys While We Wait and Wait

So is Korea actually a country from the future, or what? We're asking because Samsung is now rolling out its second generation of phones, mobile devices and USB modems that support WiMax. Heck, the whole country has a WiMax network at their disposal, while here in the States we keep hearing about how Sprint wants to build out a WiMax network but just can't seem to get it started. Anyway, check out the gallery of gorgeous geegaws Samsung announced today. More »

Bluespamming Now A-OK in UK

Bluespamming, otherwise known as Bluetooth spamming, otherwise known as "Oh, I have a message oh wait I don't," has just become extremely legal in the UK. While their Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has a set of guidelines for electronic consumer marketing that regulates spam flow (requiring users to "opt-in" to receive the marketing), they have just removed Bluetooth from their list of regulated communication mediums. So in other words, while a company may not be allowed to email you or send SMS text messages, they can bluespam you every block as you walk through a major city. The good news is that even the major advertising lobbies seem against the change, since surely it will reflect poorly upon them all. Read on for the legislation change in full. More »

iPaq 110 and 210 Apparently Cost Money

From rumor to fact, we've watched as HP has revived their iPaq line. The first two units will be coming out in just two days, on October 8th. Featuring Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, identical 624mHz processors and WM6 Pro, the cheaper 110 will run $299 while its older brother the 210 will cost $399. More »

New Palm OS, 18 Months Around Corner. Too Late?

As reported yeterday, Palm's upcoming OS is a ways out: 18 months to be specific. After Palm's unfulfilled tryst with the Foleo, engineers from that project have been moved to OS development. But all the same, engineers can't get the Linux-based project completed fast enough. So what do you think, readers? Will your heart still beat for Palm in 18 months? More »

Palm Cans Foleo (For Now)

We just got word that the controversial Palm Foleo has been canceled "in its current configuration." More »

Brix Modular Cell Phone Concept Can Expand to Big-Screen Proportions

Watching TV on a cell phone is about as fun as taking a drill to your eye — and that's something concept designer Seokwon Hong hopes to alleviate with the Brix. The Brix is a modular concept for a cell phone that would allow you to create a bigger and bigger screen depending on how many Brix bezel-less modules you may have. More »

Gizmondo's Elusive 'Dietrich' In Police Custody

Remember when Gizmondo's CEO Stefan Eriksson completely obliterated his Ferrari Enzo on the PCH and blamed his make-believe German buddy "Dietrich" for the whole thing? It appears that even the friends of rich-and-infamous failed entrepreneurs can't outrun the law forever. After spending over a year on the lam, a man Los Angeles police are calling the Dietrich is sitting in a cell on $60,000 bail. More »

If Palm's mutant smartphone/laptop Foleo is your kind of bag, Brighthand gets its hand(s) on the previously unrevealed full spec list: the mystery processor is a 416 MHz Intel/Marvell PXA27x, and it packs 128MB of RAM with 256MB of non-volatile memory. [Brighthand]

30 Years of Apple Evolution

For those who haven't seen the project, designer Edwin Tofslie assembled nearly every Apple product from the company's history into one giant picture. And studying the trends while they're all laid out is like re-watching The Sixth Sense—pretty obvious in retrospect. More »

Zacod's "3-axis" Touchpad Concept Should Stay A Concept

Zacod's new concept touchpad is sporting its unique "3-axis" design, which originally debuted on cell phones and turned QWERTY keys into three-way joystick rockers. The PDA version has been adjusted to the stylus typing method; selecting a letter brings up a circular wheel of other possible letters and you drag/drop them into place. More »

Your RAZR for $2 Million? No Way.

The mobile research institution Carphone Warehouse has recently published an extraordinary finding, as reported by TechDigest: "One in three people said they wouldn't give up their phone for a million pounds. 76% said they believed it was a social requirement to have a mobile phone, while 85% think that having a mobile phone is vital to maintaining their quality of life." More »

Asus Eee PC Gets Pricing and Release Date

Asus' tiny Internet PC just got a little sweeter. The 7-inch handheld is rumored to be coming out this August for a mere $199. That's less than half the price of the Palm Foleo. There's even rumblings that future versions might have a 3G radio embedded. So between the Foleo and the NanoBook, the Eee PC still has the upper hand in my book. – Louis Ramirez More »

Asus Eee PC: the Tiny Ultraportable for Web Browsing

Step aside, Foleo, there's a new sheriff in town. Asus' Eee PC 701 (we know, the name sucks) is an ultraportable/UMPC hybrid designed especially for Web browsing. The tiny handheld weighs 1.9 pounds and packs a 7-inch screen with a full keyboard. Intrigued? That's just the beginning. More »

General Dynamic's 2-pound Handheld is World's Most Rugged UMPC

If Panny's new Toughbook is too big for your taste, General Dynamics today unveiled the GoBook MR-1, a pint-sized UMPC built to take a beating. The unit is essentially a repackaged FlipStart with a brushed aluminum cover, built-in WWAN, and an Intel Core Solo CPU. All this inside a 2-pound frame. But the smaller they are, the more they cost. The MR-1 will sell for $4,450 when it debuts this September. Personally, I'd save the cash and splurge on a souped-up ultraportable. – Louis Ramirez More »

Toshiba G900 - Good to Go with FCC

Remember the badass Toshiba WM6 Pro smartphone we told you about with QWERTY, WiFi, 2MP camera, tri-band HSDPA and 800x400 touchscreen? Well, the FCC gave it their stamp of approval. More »

Palm Foleo vs. DIY Palm Pilot Notebook

This week Palm announced the Foleo, an ultraportable Smartphone companion laptop. The January 2007 issue of Make shows you how to take a hardcover book and turn it into an ultraportable laptop by embedding a Palm Pilot and keyboard. The designer, Allen Wong, even powered it with AAA batteries that last for days. How does the Foleo stack up against Wong's Palm Notebook? It's time for... Iron Gadget! More »

Palm's Secret Weapon is a Smartphone Companion?

If this rumor is true (and we're still debating its validity), then Palm's new handheld, dubbed the Palm Foleo, is a "smartphone companion." More »

Ten Takes on T-Mobile Wing

The T-Mobile Wing is on one hand, another HTC smartphone with that same old HTC form factor. On the other, it's the first Windows Mobile 6 Professional phone on this side of the pond...either pond. More »

Apple Patent Watch: Apple to Turn iPhone and MacBook Into Crime Fighters

A recently discovered patent filed by Apple in 2004, seems to point to a new feature that could help protect your portable electronics from getting stolen. More »

Ten Takes on the Helio Ocean

After scoring a few units of our own to play with, we talked about the Helio Ocean a ton last week—eventually posting an extensive features review that shouldn't be missed by anyone seriously considering a smartphone. More »

Tablet PC Concept Folds Up and Doubles as Cellphone

Design-wise, the Flexi PDA concept may be one of the most interesting Tablet PCs I've seen in a while. When its unfolded, it works like a tablet and features its own QWERTY keyboard. Thanks to the handheld's flexible screen, you can also fold it in half and use as a cellphone. More »