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Finally accepting that number portability is going to happen and that there’s nothing they can do about it, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (the trade group representing the cellphone industry) says it’s giving up and isn’t going to fight the measure in court or try to get Congress to overturn it. Read [Via Smartphone…
We couldn’t help but post this up: Motorola is marketing their MPx200 Smartphone in Hong Kong as the “Gizmomoto.” Though if you think about it, it really should be called the “Gizmoto.” Read [Thanks, Jacek]
Over at Brighthand, reviews of three new Pocket PCs: Toshiba’s e405, HP’s iPAQ h4155 (the one with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and Dell’s Axim X3i. Read
That $11 disposable digital camera that Ritz Camera sells has been hacked. Someone’s figured out how to get the images off of it without having to take it back to Ritz for processing, thus obviating the need to pay an additional $12 to get prints made and your photos saved to a CD-ROM. Read [Via…
One of our favorite features of the new Treo 600 is that we can watch videos on it (they’re a bit pixelated, but it works). So you can probably understand why we’d be happy to discover that just this past Monday someone created a Yahoo group specifically for talking about creating and sharing music and…
Following up on the 6108, Nokia has another pen-based cellphone with built-in handwriting recognition software. The 3108 flips open to reveal a small pad where users can write out text with a stylus, and like its predecessor is also aimed at the Chinese market as it’s considerably easier to write out Chinese characters with a…
Apparently Samsung’s new i600 Smartphone, which Verizon just introduced on Monday, will work with SDIO expansion cards. This means you’ll be able to easily add WiFi, Bluetooth, or GPS to the phone. This might not sound like a big deal at first, but you’d be surprised at how much of a hassle it is to…
Besides that new 20GB MP3 player, Gateway also introduced a few other new gadgets yesterday, including two new digital cameras, a couple of new laptops, a new Tablet PC with a 14.1-inch screen, and some powerline networking gear. Read
Back in April, when the new iPods came out, a photo circulated of what looked like a black iPod, but which turned out to actually be a regular white iPod that had been backlit to show off its illuminated buttons. Somehow completely missing all this and failing to even do the most cursory factcheck to…
Also new from Sony today, another one of those not-a-laptop, not-yet-a-desktop PCs that you wouldn’t want to carry around with you all day, but does fold up for easy portability. The PCV-P101 has a 17-inch widescreen display, a 1.06GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, DVD/CD-RW combination drive, and a handle for carrying.…
To go with that brand new DVD-Audio car stereo that you are surely having installed at this very moment, Fujitsu is coming out with a 5.1-channel surround sound car amplifier and subwoofer. Read
Extensive review posted up at MoDaCo of Orange’s new SPV E200 Smartphone (which comes with both Bluetooth and a built-in digital camera), comparing it with Orange’s first Smartphone, the original SPV: I think the E200 is an excellent device. As a phone it does everything you would expect from a modern mobile phone. As a…
Nokia says it’s going to “aggressively pursue” whoever it was that cracked the copy protection for games for their N-Gage gamephone which makes it possible to swap copies of the games online and also play them on other phones besides the N-Gage. Best of luck with that! Read
A hyperfuturistic-looking new concept vehicle from Bombardier that looks something like a one-wheeled motorcycle. The Embrio has a hydrogen fuel cell for power and like the Segway HT uses a gyroscope to stay balanced. Looks doubtful that this will ever make it into production, at least not anytime soon. Read [Via Slashdot]
Not sure what to make of this, but a Spanish researcher has invented press-on nails that can change color to match your outfit. Read
New super skinny Sony Vaio laptop. The PCG-X505, which weighs a mere 785 grams and is just 9.7mm thick, is pretty much the lightest and thinnest laptop you can buy, and has a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 10.4-inch display. No built-in WiFi though, and most of the ports on it (like Ethernet…
Just when we were wondering why Iomega, the maker of Zip drives and other obsolete storage devices, even bothers anymore, there’s news that they’re coming out with a new high capacity storage format called the Removable Rigid Disk with a capacity of 35GB. The disks will cost between $39 and $49, so the cost per…
There had been a little bit of confusion about this, but the FCC has spelled it out for the telephone companies: number portability applies to landlines too, and will be requiring the local telephone companies to let their customers transfer their number to a cellphone. As long as it’s technically feasible and within the same…
Another new game controller for the PlayStation 2, this one the iType2 from Nyko Technologies which comes with a mini-keyboard for tapping out messages to other players while playing online games. Read [Thanks, Marc]
Well, not the tyranny of TiVo specifically, but rather how the rise of the digital video recorder, in perfectly dialectical fashion, has resulted in people feeling both more and less in control of their television watching. On one hand DVRs let you take control of what you TV shows watch and when you watch them,…