We’re hearing reports that Sprint has already sold out on the Treo 600. Amy Langfield says she tried to buy one over the phone, only to be told that there were no more in stock and to go to a store to buy one. Which is a problem since they’re not in stores yet. Anyone…
It looks like the Sony Ericsson T608, which was to have been the first Sprint cellphone with Bluetooth, is back from the dead. The phone had been pretty much killed when Sony Ericsson decided to quit making CDMA handsets for the North American market, but now SprintUsers.com reports that the T608 should be out soon.…
We were flying cross-country last night, and The Man, aka American Airlines, forced us to stop using the Kensington Pocketmouse Pro wireless mouse we were using while we were writing a few emails inflight. Apparently the wireless mouse, which has such a weak signal that it would stop working if I moved it more than…
Nokia has finally officially announced the 3660, the updated version of their 3650 cellphone with a more traditional keypad rather than the bizarre circular keypad that the 3650 sports. Otherwise about the same, with Bluetooth, tri-band GSM/GPRS. There’s also a dual-band GSM/GRPS version of the 3660 known as the 3620 that’s specifically for North America.…
We’ve been a big fan of KiSS Technologies, which lately has been a step or two ahead of many bigger electronics companies, coming out with some of the first DVD players that could play DivX video files and came with Ethernet ports for streaming content from a PC. They’re cranking it up a notch with…
Fujitsu has updated the LifeBook P5000, this latest iteration has a 1.0GHz Centrino processor, a DVD/CD-RW combination drive, a 10.6-inch widescreen display, a 60GB hard drive, up to 512MB of RAM, and built-in 802.11b. Read
If you’re really big on cleanliness, or deeply concerned about all the nasty germs that you might be picking up, you may want to try and find the new “Hand Clean” mouse that uses light to kill germs and sterilize your hand. Or you could try and get help for your obsessive-compulsive disorder, it’s your…
Steve’s DigiCams review of the Dimage G500, Minolta’s new five megapixel with a 3x optical zoom lens that has one interesting feature you don’t see two often in a digital camera: two memory card slots. The G500 has slots for both SecureDigital and Memory Stick memory cards and can even use both at the same…
A new home entertainment PC from Asus that’s designed to fit into your home entertainment center rather than sit on your desk. The DiGi Matrix is what people in the biz call a “barebones” system, meaning it comes without a hard drive (and thus, an operating system) or an optical drive, but it does come…
No word on whether they’ll ever actually put these into production, but a concept design for a new handheld from Fujitsu turned up at at the CEATAC trade show in Japan this week. Called the .U Pocket PDA, it runs on Windows CD .NET, and has a high-resolution 800×600 display, built-in Bluetooth and WiFi, a…
In case you’re having trouble keeping track, Brighthand has a helpful chart detailing all the new handhelds that are coming out this fall. Read
Neil McIntosh of the Guardian just got a first look at the new Voq Smartphone from Sierra Wireless which was unveiled today: stacked flash memory which means that – combined with a much-improved and adapted version of Microsoft’s Smartphone software – the experience is much more snappy. There are some nice features Sierra Wireless has…
Pioneer is coming out with a new AV receiver called the VSA-AX10Ai-N that has support for Microsoft’s new Windows Meda Audio 9 Professional format built-in. This means it can stream WMA 9 Pro files from a PC, including audio files in 5.1 channel surround sound. Combined with the recent news that Microsoft is trying to…
Gateway is expanding its line up of home entertainment electronics, adding two more LCD televisions (a 13-inch and a 30-inch model) and a 1,000-watt home theater system called the KAS-303 which comes with a DVD player, a receiver, six surround sound speakers, and a subwoofer. Read
You may recall from last month our somewhat quixotic quest to get FCC Chairman (and confirmed gadgetphile) Michael Powell to check out Gizmodo. Well we can report back with pleasure that the Chairman is indeed a Gizmodo reader now. It turns out that Richard Diamond, the Deputy Director of the FCC’s Office of Media Relations…
Cellphones have gotten so small that some of the prisoners at one of Britain’s high security prisons have been successfully hiding their phones from guards by keeping them in, ahem, their “body crevices.” Which we’ll just leave it at that. Though it does raise the question, as the reader who sent this in notes, of…
If you can’t get enough low-end in your music, Skullcandy, the makers of those headphones that connect to both an MP3 player and a cellphone, has a new pair of special battery powered bass amplification headphones out called the Skullcrushers that actually have vibration subwoofer speakers built-in. Read [Thanks, Marc]
The audio on laptops is notoriously pretty lousy, partly because there isn’t a whole lot of space for putting in a decent sound card, but mainly because manufacturers know they can get away with it. The Register reviews a gadget that tries to rectify the situation, Creative’s SoundBlaster MP3+, a 16-bit external sound card for…
And not to be left out, LG Electronics says they have their own Microsoft Smartphone on the way, and this one sounds really fresh: it has a 1.1 megapixel digital camera, 192MB of RAM, and can record up to an hour of video. Should be out by the end of the year. Anyone see any…
So the crazy rumors were true: as we reported yesterday it turns out that the new Microsoft Smartphone is from Sierra Wireless. The Voq Professional Phone is a bit larger, heavier, and uglier than we’d hoped, and doesn’t have Bluetooth or a digital camera, but it does have one design twist we hadn’t seen on…
