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Why the Nokia 6600 Might Be Better Than a Treo

Paul Boutin has a nice write up of the Nokia 6600 over at Slate, putting that relatively staid phone up against the Treo 650 and explaining why the generally less-impressive Nokia might be a better choice for many. It all boils down to the beauty of Series 60, to me. Nokia may be a heartless…

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Doss DS-220 CD Alarm with Bluetooth Speakers

I can’t imagine this DS-220 CD player alarm clock from Doss is terribly high quality, but its wireless Bluetooth speakers do allow for the possibility of placing blaring noise directly to either side of your sleeping head, while still keeping the snooze button uncomfortably across the room. Of course, wireless speakers are easier to throw.…

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Brix GT Streamer Revisited

Here’s a better picture of that Brix GT Streamer Sirius radio we talked about yesterday (but had the cheesy little aliased thumbnail). Still not much to get the blood flowing to spongy tissues, but it’s not bad for what it is, either. Orbitcast has another picture, where it is held in someone’s hand, for visual…

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eBay: Cingular Sony Ericsson S710a

Cingular got the Sony Ericsson S710a approved by the FCC, so that carrier-exclusive phone should be out fairly soon (although it might not be until January). The 1.3-megapixel phone with the camera-like profile can be yours today, though, for just $430+, as someone appears to be selling a Cingular-branded unit on eBay. I am simultaneously…

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GE GlamCam

I can’t believe that someone actually announced a new product before CES, but GE is showing off its new ‘GlamCam’ webcam/personal imager. Apparently it won yet another one of these bullshit CES pre-show awards (I’m still not sure how that works) in the “2005 International CES Technology is a Girl’s Best Friend (TechGirl) Diamond Product…

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Burton Headphone Beanie Reviewed

There’s not a whole lot of details in this review of the Burton Headphone Beanie, but then again, there’s not a lot to say. It’s comfortable, it sounds nice, and it would appear to stay strapped to domes beyond necessary X-Trem sports tolerances. And since it’s not an in-ear or noise-canceling set of mini-cans, you…

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Bluetooth Dial-Up Modem

This Wireless Modem Set is neat. Plug the base station into a phone socket and the receiver into a spare USB port and the unit uses Bluetooth to bridge the modem connection. It’ll be slow, of course, but if you happen to be cursed with a lot of travel to places that still have only…

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Sprint Nextel Going CDMA/EV-DO; Dual-Mode Phone From Moto (Someday)

Om Malik, who not only knows more about the business of wireless communication than any given Apache fork-load of hacky tech bloggers, but actually cares about it, has his initial thoughts and analysis of the Sprint Nextel (“Sextel”) merger up on GigaOm. Important for we (l)users in the field is word that Sprint Nextel will…

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Brix GT Streamer Sirius Radio

At first glance I thought perhaps Sirius was answering back to the excellent Delphi XM MyFi portable satellite radio, but it appears that billing this new Brix Streamer GT as “palm-sized” is only indicative of its size, not its function. It has no battery, I’m saying, so you still have to put in your car…

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Heat Sensitive Paper Clock

It’s not a commercial product yet (which won’t stop the spammers from sending me requests to “Please to purchase 144 one gross products”), but the inventor of this ‘Paper Clock’ is working to secure initial funding. I hope he gets it—I’d love to own a clock that heated up the back of temperature sensitive paper…

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Sprint Buys Nextel

Until the dust settles there’s not much to talk about, but it’s worth noting that Sprint has officially announced its acquisition, making the new ‘Sprint Nextel’ corporation the third-largest wireless carrier in the country. What will be interesting is their plans to unify the CDMA technology that Sprint uses with the IDEN standard that Nextel…

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Still no patch, but more info from PalmOne on Treo 650 Issues [Blueserker] • NBC’s Entire Late Night Lineup…in High Definition HDTV in 2005 [About] • Psion Teklogix recalls power adaptors [TheInquirer] • Cornice CES Plans Include Crash-Proof Drive [ExtremeTech] Business • Cell phone sales fall 41.7% in Oct [JapanToday] Reviews •…

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SilverStone LC11 Micro ATX Home Theater PC Case

White is fine and dandy for consumer electronics until they get into the ol’ A/V rack, then you want black or silver (or if I had my druthers, wood grain veneer as far as the eye can see). SilverStone’s new LC11 Micro ATX home theater PC case looks like it gets it right, then, with…

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Flexible Plastic Book Scanner

Tokyo University researchers have developed a scanner embedded in a flexible sheet of plastic that will allow archivers to get into the cracks of old and fragile books without cutting apart the spine. Plus the scanner uses a set of organic diodes to register the image using reflected light, meaning just a good, bright fluorescent…

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Wal-Mart Sells the iLo Flash Player

Wal-Mart has begun selling a flash memory-based MP3 player under its store brand ‘iLo’ for just $80. Called the ‘iLo Music Player’ (as far as I can tell), the unit comes with 256MB of memory and a built-in FM radio tuner. Someone get out to Wal-Mart and test one out for us, okay? The closest…

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Honda Updates Asimo

Yay! It looks like Honda is finally updating the Asimo, their bipedal humanoid robot. The first Asimo has been around forever—it was one of the first to actually walk up and down stairs, albeit slowly—but the next generation unit is designed to operate much more quickly with a greater flexibility (it also doesn’t appear to…

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Digital Mind DMC 8270

Digital Mind is offering the DMC 8270, a new 20GB hard disk-based player for just $250. It’s not fancy, but it does use a USB 2.0 interface and can play back Ogg Vorbis as well as MP3, plus it can sync up with Outlook to keep your contact list handy. Also, I love the progression…

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Motorola Mini-moto MS400

Motorola announced yesterday this tiny Mini-moto MS400 phone in Korea, a diminutive slider phone that’s similar in form and function to the Pantech & Curitel PH-S4000—it’s as much an MP3 player as a phone, they say. It looks just a skotch longer than the PH-S4000, but it’s still fairly small. And while slider keypads aren’t…

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Flash Memory Makers Warns About X-Rays and Film

This press release from the International Imaging Industry Association and Sandisk feels a little bit like kicking film cameras when they’re already down. According to a study done by the groups out of the goodness of their hearts, flash memory-based media (like those in digital cameras and cameraphones) will make it though airport X-ray scanners…

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Official Nintendo Game Boy MPEG4 Player

Flash memory Game Boy cartridges are always welcome around here, so seeing this MPEG4/MP3 player with a built-in SD slot was notable enough—then I realized it was from Nintendo themselves, which is even more surprising. Obviously, it’s not designed to play games, but the unit can play back movies for up to 4 hours at…

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Why the Nokia 6600 Might Be Better Than a Treo

Doss DS-220 CD Alarm with Bluetooth Speakers

Brix GT Streamer Revisited

eBay: Cingular Sony Ericsson S710a

GE GlamCam

Burton Headphone Beanie Reviewed

Bluetooth Dial-Up Modem

Sprint Nextel Going CDMA/EV-DO; Dual-Mode Phone From Moto (Someday)

Brix GT Streamer Sirius Radio

Heat Sensitive Paper Clock

Sprint Buys Nextel

Morning Bits

SilverStone LC11 Micro ATX Home Theater PC Case

Flexible Plastic Book Scanner

Wal-Mart Sells the iLo Flash Player

Honda Updates Asimo

Digital Mind DMC 8270

Motorola Mini-moto MS400

Flash Memory Makers Warns About X-Rays and Film

Official Nintendo Game Boy MPEG4 Player

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Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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