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Sony’s 9.1 channel surround sound amplifier

A 9.1 channel audio/video receiver from Sony that we think just might be about the most number of channels we’ve seen yet in a consumer-grade surround sound system. If you actually have the space for nine speakers plus a subwoofer, there’s a good chance you can afford the huge price tag as well. The TA-DA9000ES…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 17

A slow week for gadgets comes to a close

Is it us, or was this a really slow week for new gadgets? There were a bunch of big launches earlier this month (the Treo 600, those three new Palms, the N-Gage, that Voq Smartphone, etc.), but there’s been virtually nothing major of note this week, except for that new Segway HT.

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 17

Bluetooth syncing

BluetoothNews has a straightforward, step-by-step guide to wirelessly syncing a Pocket PC with a PC over Bluetooth. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 17

Nokia CEO: Almost all Nokia phones will be cameraphones

Nokia CEO Jarma Ollila is saying that by the end of next year nearly every Nokia cellphone will come with a digital camera built-into it and the company may very soon become the world’s largest manufacturers of digital cameras. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 17

First impressions of Viewsonic’s V36 Pocket PC

BargainPDA takes a first look at the Viewsonic’s V36 Pocket PC, which is one of the first Pocket PCs to come with a built-in digital camera. You may recall (though we’d forgive you if you didn’t) that Viewsonic first came out with their V35 Pocket PC, followed soon after by the V37, skipping the V36…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 17

Loving the Treo 600

We’ve been getting a TON of email about the new Treo 600, mainly from readers who have gotten one and can’t believe how good it is. We’re pleased to report that we received one from Sprint to review just yesterday morning and have been having a lot of fun playing with it. The keyboard is…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 17

First review of Samsung’s YP-910GS MP3 player

First review we’ve seen of Samsung’s new YP-910GS 20GB hard drive MP3 player, the one that’s designed to be used with the new Napster 2.0 music download service, though obviously using Napster with it is optional. The YP-910GS has a few built-in features that the iPod lacks, like a line-in jack for making recordings, an…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 17

The death of the PDA?

It’s become fashionable lately to declare the demise of the PDA, and the Economist is the latest to jump on the bandwagon, or at least they appear to in the headline of the article. But if you read the piece all the way through, they actually concede that it’s really more a matter of opinion…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 17

The iPod accessories are out

Those two iPod accessories we hinted at this morning are the real deal. The iPod Media Reader (pictured at right), which is made by Belkin, connects to the iPod via the port on the bottom and can read Memory Stick, MMC, SD, Smart Media, and CompactFlash Type I and II memory cards. It ain’t cheap,…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

The Cyclone disposable cellphone

A “disposable” cellphone — one that came with a half hour or an hour of talktime, and that you could either then refill with minutes, recycle, or just throw away — isn’t such a bad idea, but so far no one seems to have gotten it right yet. One such attempt, the HopOn, was massively…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

More fun with remotes

We actually got one piece of vaguely comprehensible hate mail in response to our post yesterday about how high school kids are using gadgets to cause all sorts of mischief (such as the kid who used a universal remote and then walked through the hallways surreptitiously switching on all TVs in the classrooms), but then…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

Buyer’s remorse

Another interesting article about gadgets in yesterday’s New York Times, this one about people who buy lots of new gadgets and then never end up using them: People acquire these things — hand-held personal digital assistants, flatbed scanners, compact disc copiers and a host of other objects — because they promise to make life more…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

Sharp’s Bowlingual phone

Right off the bat we’re wowed by Sharp’s new V601SH cameraphone, which is another new handset being carried by Vodafone in Japan beginning in December. It has a built-in 2 megapixel digital camera (with an auto-focus lens!) that can record high-definition video clips, a video out port for watching those clips on a TV, and…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

Review of the Photo3-D 303

Dan’s Data review of the Photo3-D 303, Mission3-D’s kit for taking three-dimensional photographs with almost any digital camera that we first mentioned a few weeks ago. It does work, but you need those red and blue 3D glasses to look at the resulting images, but Dan says that with a little effort you can probably…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

Keeping it old school

Scott Kirsner of FastCompany says what a lot of people are probably feeling and what execs at Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung really don’t want to hear: that he doesn’t need a fancy new cellphone and that he’s perfectly happy with the handset he has now: Want to tick off the CEO of Nokia? Tell…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

Two new iPod accessories?

ThinkSecret is pretty sure that Apple is going to announce two iPod peripherals when they unveil iTunes for Windows later today, a microphone for recording voice memos and a Flash memory card reader for storing digital photos on an iPod. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

DVD/DVR with a swappable hard drive bay

From Danish company NorthQ, a new progressive scan DVD player/digital video recorder with one unusual feature: you can swap out the hard drive. The NQ7100 DVD Player comes with a swappable hard drive bay so you can easily replace whatever’s in there with a much higher capacity drive whenever you want, which should certainly help…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

Creative’s 60GB Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra

We already knew about this one because J&R Music World accidentally leaked the news a few weeks ago, but Creative has officially announced the Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra (which is the regular Jukebox Zen but with a larger display), and it’s even better than we’d originally reported. J&R listed a 40GB player on their site,…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

T-Mobile offering to replace defective color Sidekicks

T-Mobile is issuing replacements for some, but not all, of their color Sidekicks. Apparently some of the Sidekicks that were shipped with swivel screens that have faulty hinges that could eventually damage the screen’s wiring. T-Mobile has already contacted Sidekick owners offering a free replacement, so if you own a color Sidekick and didn’t get…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

First Japanese TV phone

We almost missed this: Vodafone says that starting in December it’s going to carry NEC’s V601N cameraphone with an analog television tuner. You can’t record TV shows and save them for later with the V601N, but it can capture still images of whatever you’re watching that you can use as wallpaper or email to friends…

Tech News Gizmodo Oct 16

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Sony’s 9.1 channel surround sound amplifier

A slow week for gadgets comes to a close

Bluetooth syncing

Nokia CEO: Almost all Nokia phones will be cameraphones

First impressions of Viewsonic’s V36 Pocket PC

Loving the Treo 600

First review of Samsung’s YP-910GS MP3 player

The death of the PDA?

The iPod accessories are out

The Cyclone disposable cellphone

More fun with remotes

Buyer’s remorse

Sharp’s Bowlingual phone

Review of the Photo3-D 303

Keeping it old school

Two new iPod accessories?

DVD/DVR with a swappable hard drive bay

Creative’s 60GB Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra

T-Mobile offering to replace defective color Sidekicks

First Japanese TV phone

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