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Dr. Phil just did a whole show yesterday afternoon about how to liberate yourself (or more specifically, your husband) from gadget addiction, which is about as close to heresy as you can get in our eyes (we can quit anytime we want, we swear!). If you really are suffering from gadget addiction, we do have…
NEC is coming out with a credit card-sized cellphone that is just 10mm, or four-tenths of an inch, thick. The N900 also has a built-in digital camera and will be sold initially in China with Southeast Asia and Europe to follow. Read [Via Picturephoning.com]
New waterproof underwater digital camera from Ffreefire (that isn’t a typo, either). The EWC300F is submersible to a depth of five meters, has a resolution of three megapixels, and uses SD memory cards for image storage. Read [Via I4U]
Sony is officially denying that they have a Clie UX80 in the works, that updated version of their UX50 handheld there was some speculation about last week. We only partially believe them, since they’ll almost certainly come out with a successor to the UX50 sooner or later. Read
Samsung’s SPH-i600 cellphone is finally coming out. The phone, which will be the second running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system to be released in the States, has turned up on Verizon’s website. No built-in digital camera or Bluetooth and it runs the older 2002 version of the Smartphone operating system, but it does have a 65,000…
We’re pretty sure that RingtonesNokia.co.uk — a site that offers short porno video clips for downloading to your cellphone — isn’t affiliated with Nokia. But we almost wish that it were, since Nokia has seemed awfully uptight lately. Read
It’s about freaking time, but technology companies are starting to wake up to the importance of good design, and how it’s just about the only way to stand out of the crowd in today’s ultracompetitive electronics market. Dean Takahashi, who we used to work with back at the old Red Herring, has an article about…
Partially ending the mystery of when the GSM version of the Treo 600 would arrive, Cingular has begun taking pre-orders, offering them for $449 with new service activation. Service from AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile is expected “soon.” Read
New media-centric PC from Moka that bears a strong resemblance to Sony’s line of Vaio W desktops, and has a 17-inch display, 5.1-channel digital surround sound outputs, a TV tuner, a DVD drive, an FM radio, and comes with a remote control. Now this might get confusing, but please just stay with us on this:…
MobileBurn takes a closer look the 6230, one of those new cellphones Nokia announced last week. Weighing in at 97 grams and just 20mm thick, the 6230 is plenty small considering all the features it has: an integrated VGA quality digital camera which can record video clips, a 65,000 color display, Bluetooth, and an MMC…
Dell is confirming that they will be putting Bluetooth into the next version of their wireless Axim X3i Pocket PC which is due out next year (the current version only has built-in 802.11b WiFi, though that isn’t anything to complain about). They originally were going to put it in there (the Bluetooth logo even appears…
Really want one of those new SPV E200 Smartphones (the one with both Bluetooth and a built-in digital camera) that are coming out later this month, but don’t happen to live in a country where Orange is a cellular carrier (they’re the only carrier offering the phone)? It turns out you can get the very…
Two new single speaker surround sound systems from Nirotek. Both the NIRO 1.1 and the NIRO 1.1 PRO only need one speaker and a subwoofer to create 5.1 channel Dolby surround sound. Pioneer has something similar; their PDSP-1 is actually a single panel with 254 small speakers that project the sound in different ways to…
Apparently there are some problems with the new 15-inch Powerbooks which just came out. Hundreds of users have been complaining about white spots that keep showing up on their screen of their laptop. Read
With Dell and Gateway now in the game, PC World wonders, Should you buy a TV from a PC maker? Read
Now that everyone seems to have a digital camera it seems like consumer-grade digital scanners aren’t exactly the hot commodity once were (could you even imagine scanning an entire roll of pictures these days?), but if you’re in the market for one, Hardware Zoom has a head-to-head comparison of Epson’s Perfection 1260 and Canon’s CanoScan…
Alberto Escalarte of CacheOp alerts us to the new practice of “bluejacking,” which involves using Bluetooth to surreptitiously send messages to strangers: [U]sing a phone with Bluetooth, you can create a phonebook contact and write a message, eg. ‘Hello, you’ve been bluejacked’, in the ‘Name’ field. Then you can search for other phones with Bluetooth…
A couple of new tapeless camcorders from Logitech. The Pocket Video 550 and the Pocket Video 750 (pictured at right) both record MPEG4 video files to SD memory cards and have TV-out ports if you want to connect them to a television for watching your clips. Read
Despite having fought tooth and nail to prevent the imposition of number portability, that hasn’t prevented the cellphone carriers from exploiting the FCC’s new rules by using them as an excuse to rip off customers with all sorts of fees and charges. I just noticed noticed the charges on my cellphone bill the other day,…
Brighthand review of the new iPAQ h4155 Pocket PC from Hewlett Packard. The h4155 (which has a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, and both Bluetooth and WiFi built-in) has largely been overshadowed by some of the other handhelds that have come out recently, like Palm’s Tungsten T3 and Dell’s Axim X3i, but if Brighthand’s enthusiasm…