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PC Magazine review of Fujitsu s new convertible-style Tablet PC, the LifeBook T3010, which is basically like a regular laptop that has a screen that can swivel around and fold flat for writing on. The T3010 has some of the best specs yet on a Tablet PC: a 1.4GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a 60GB…
Good overview in the New York Times of all the different options out there for connecting your TV and stereo to your PC for streaming audio and video files and viewing digital photos over a home network, mentioning Linksys’ WMA11B Wireless Digital Media Adapter, HP’s ew5000 Wireless Digital Media Receiver, Prismiq’s Media Player, Gateway’s Connected…
Polaroid’s latest digital camera is aimed at the narcissist crowd. Their two megapixel “Miss Self Portrait Digital Camera” is designed for people who want to take lots of pictures of themselves, and has an LCD display that folds out and swivels around so you can see what you look like before you snap that self-portrait.…
Steve’s Digicam review of the Pentax’s new 6.1 megapixel digital SLR camera, the oddly named *ist D (we’re not sure exactly how, or even if, you pronounce the “*”). The *ist D is one of the smallest and lightest digital SLRs around, and is compatible with most Pentax lenses. Read [Via DesignTechnica]
That long-delayed 802.11b WiFi card on a Memory Stick we’ve been hearing about forever is finally coming out in a few weeks. Or at least it should be. The manufacturer, Hagiwara Sys-Com, says it should be out within a month or so. Read
Surprise, surprise! A new study by a British firm called Psytechnics discovered that buying a more expensive cellphone doesn’t guarantee better cellular reception, and that the biggest factor in whether or not you’ll get decent service is the quality of the network. Cellphone companies’ response: things will get better once we all move to 3G.…
The president of Acer is saying that the reason why Tablet PCs cost so much is that Microsoft is charging manufacturers too much for the Tablet PC version of the Windows XP operating system. He says that turning a regular laptop into a Tablet PC costs only an extra $200 or so, but that only…
Oh, and some images have turned up on Mobile.BPit.ch of what purports to be one of the new phones expected from Nokia next week, their clamshell 7200. You can probably guess why it’s being called the “Louis Vuitton” phone. Read [Thanks, Matt]
We just got a tip that next week Nokia is going to announce something even bigger than those three new phones we mentioned earlier today: a new multimedia-centric smartphone operating system called Series 90. They’re also going to unveil at least one new handset running the new OS next week, and the word on the…
Hands-on review over at IGN.com of the Zodiac, that new Palm-powered PDA from Tapwave that’s designed specifically for gaming. If this review is any indication, the Zodiac is almost like the anti-N-Gage: I’ve got one of the first near-final versions of the system in-hand. And brother, I am impressed. The system is one of the…
We almost forgot about another new Sony digital camera that was announced yesterday, the DSC-U40, which believe it or not, is even smaller than the already dimunitively-sized DSC-U30 and DSC-U20 cameras which came out earlier this year. The DSC-U40 only has a resolution of two megapixels, but it is just 26mm thick and a shade…
Another interesting new Toshiba Pocket PC has been spotted in Japan. The Genio 550CT has a large 4-inch LCD touchscreen, 128MB of RAM, a built-in VGA quality digital camera with a flash, and will probably never come out here. Sigh. Read
Three new cellphones due out from Nokia next week: the 7200, which will be their first clamshell handset; the 6230, which is a new cameraphone; and the 6820, which we’re guessing might be the successor to the 6800, that phone with the foldout QWERTY keyboard. Read
Regular Gizmodo readers will know that we love to complain about how hardly anyone has been able to make a hard drive-based MP3 player as compact as the iPod. Of course, one of the main reasons why no one has been able to do it has been because Apple bought up almost all of the…
Speaking of that new high-resolution Toshiba Pocket PC, we forget to mention that that the e805 officially came out today, along with another new Toshiba Pocket PC, the e405 (pictured at right). Besides that 4-inch, 640×480 display, the e805 has a 400MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, built-in WiFi, SDIO and CompactFlash expansion slots, and special…
Some cracks are starting to appear in Nokia’s claim that it sold 400,000 of its N-Gage gamephone in its first two weeks of release. Arcadia Research did its own detective work and estimates that in its first week on sale in the US, Nokia managed to sell fewer than 5,000 of these. And last week…
New high-end cameraphone from Audiovox. The CDM-9000 works on the CDMA networks and has an incredibly high-quality (especially for a cellphone) 260,000 color internal display, a smaller external display, and a built-in digital camera (with flash) that can also record video clips (with sound) of up to 15 seconds in length. Read
Just to get the point across about how much better it is to have a Pocket PC with a resolution of 640×480 pixels rather than the standard 320×240, PDAFrance.com has a photo up with shots of two Pocket PCs both displaying the PDAFrance home page — a standard-resolution Asus MyPal on the left, and Toshiba’s…
We recently upgraded our monitor here at Gizmodo HQ, from a 15-inch LCD made by KD5 to Samsung’s 17-inch widescreen LCD, the SyncMaster 172W, which we love. But that leaves us with the old monitor, which has just been sitting around the house while we decide what to do with it. We think we may…
ExtremeTech roundup of wireless PDAs, with some tips on how to connect to a WiFi network, something which isn’t always particularly easy or intuitive. Read