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Samsung and Microsoft team up

Samsung and Microsoft have partnered to create a reference design for a low-cost Pocket PC that will have 32MB of RAM, a 200MHz processor, a Secure Digital slot, and weigh just 2.9 ounces. If this brings the price of a Pocket PC down to $99, Palm is in big, big trouble. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 12

TheFeature on SmartDisplay

Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing takes a first look at SmartDisplay for TheFeature. SmartDisplay is sort of like a portable, wireless-enabled monitor. They’re kinda like a crippled Tablet PC without the internal hard drive or powerful processor, and they can’t function at all when they’re out of range of their base computer. Mark pretty much likes…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 12

T-Mobile Sidekick: Just $99.99 at Amazon

The T-Mobile’s Sidekick mobile communicator, with camera, is just $99.99 at Amazon with service activation. Unlike T-Mobile’s other mobile data plans, which irritatingly charge by the megabyte, service for the Sidekick is all-you-can-eat, so you can email and IM to your heart’s content. Amazon

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 12

A Bluetooth briefcase

A Bluetooth-enabled briefcase from Samsonite. For real. Each business case in the Hardlite 600 and 625 series comes with an embedded Bluetooth chip that can alert its owner if it’s removed and store personal data and travel information. The cache alone should help sell a few of these, but I’m not sure how useful this…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 12

Toshiba e740 Pocket PC on Sale

Toshiba’s flagship Pocket PC, the e740, is on sale at Amazon for just $389.94 after rebate. The e740 comes with 64MB of RAM, a 400MHz processor, Secure Digital and Compact Flash slots, a 64,000 color screen, and best of all, integrated 802.11b. Amazon

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 11

Budget PDAs

PC World on the burgeoning field of budget PDAs. They’re pretty bullish on the new Viewsonic V35 and Dell Axim 5 Pocket PCs which are about to come out. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 11

Who plays that song on the radio?

Another 20GB MP3 player is coming. This one isn’t the best looking player around, but the Neuros does have a few interesting features that the iPod and the Nomad Zen don’t have. It has an internal microphone, a built-in FM tuner that you can record from, and the ability to broadcast on any open FM…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 11

From red to blue

Tired of the LED in your optical mouse being red? Probably not, but if for some reason you are sick of it, Extreme MHz has a DIY guide to switching that red LED to the color of your choice. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 11

New GPRS modem from Sony Ericsson

A new tri-band PC card modem from Sony Ericsson that supports GPRS, HSCSD, and GSM. The GC75 works in 160 countries, and you can get up to a 57.6 kbps connection with it. Can’t wait for these things to merge with 802.11b cards so you can seamlessly move from a GPRS network to a Wi-Fi…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 11

Invisible laptop stand

An “invisible” laptop stand from Griffin technology called the iCurve that’s designed to be used with the PowerBook and the iBook. Read [Thanks, Derek!]

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 11

Quiet is the new loud

The OverClock Intelligence Agency guide to building a soundproof PC. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 11

Tablet PC roundup

ZDnet roundup of six of the first Tablet PC models out: Acer’s TravelMate C102TI, Fujitsu’s Stylistic ST4000, HP’s Compaq Tablet PC TC1000, Motion Computing’s M1200, Toshiba’s Portege Tablet 3505, and ViewSonic’s V1100. Expect a great many more of these roundups in the coming months as more and more models hit the market. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 11

Forget Linksys tech support – buy this book instead

Linksys’ inexpensive networking equipment is pretty popular, but almost anyone who has had to deal with their tech support knows just how ineffectual they are if you have any major problems. I actually once had a tech support guy hang up on me when I called regarding some trouble I was having setting up my…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 10

New Ultra-Thin Tablet PC

A new ultra-thin Tablet PC from Fujitsu, the Stylistic ST4000, which is just 2.2cm thick, weighs just 1.4kg, and pops into a docking station whenever you want to use it at a desk. Comes with an 800MHz processor, a 10.4″ screen, a 40GB hard drive, and up to 768MB of RAM. Read [Via PDABuzz]

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 9

CNET on Dell’s Pocket PC

CNET has an early look at Dell’s new budget Pocket PC, the Axim 5. The Axim is kinda bulky and heavy compared to a lot of other Pocket PCs coming out like the Viewsonic V35, but the specs are tight. Comes with either a 400Mhz or 300MHz processor, with the faster one having 48MB of…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 8

Digital Camera Companion

Handy article over at Glass Lantern on what you should look for in a Pocket PC if want to use it as a portable picture viewer or as a drive for storing digital photographs. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 8

Intel’s Computer Microscope is Back

Intel’s discontinued QX3 Computer Microscope has been licensed by Prime Entertainment, and is back on the market. It’s aimed at kids, but it’s pretty powerful for a toy: it has up to 200x magnification, connects to a PC through a PC for real-time specimen viewing, and you capture video and still images of whatever it…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 8

World’s Thinnest Portable CD Player

I-O Data Device’s new HyperHyde Loops II (that’s its name, seriously) is the thinnest portable CD player on the market. Just 14.1mm thick and plays MP3s as well. Only available in Japan, of course. Read [Translated via Babelfish from Japanese]

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 8

It Doesn’t Just Ring, It Snaps

Not sure if it’s gauche to link to one of my own articles, but my latest column for the Guardian is about cameraphones. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 7

Smartphone Shocker

A few people have written in about Sendo’s stunning and unexpected decision to completely stop supporting Microsoft’s new Smartphone OS. This is just a few weeks before the second cellphone to run the Smartphone OS, Sendo’s Z100 was about to hit stores. Apparently Sendo is going with Nokia’s Series 60 platform instead. No word on…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 7

Samsung and Microsoft team up

TheFeature on SmartDisplay

T-Mobile Sidekick: Just $99.99 at Amazon

A Bluetooth briefcase

Toshiba e740 Pocket PC on Sale

Budget PDAs

Who plays that song on the radio?

From red to blue

New GPRS modem from Sony Ericsson

Invisible laptop stand

Quiet is the new loud

Tablet PC roundup

Forget Linksys tech support – buy this book instead

New Ultra-Thin Tablet PC

CNET on Dell’s Pocket PC

Digital Camera Companion

Intel’s Computer Microscope is Back

World’s Thinnest Portable CD Player

It Doesn’t Just Ring, It Snaps

Smartphone Shocker

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