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Yep, Motorola’s MPx200 cellphone running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system is officially out today from AT&T Wireless. Read
Wireless carrier E-Plus is bringing Danger’s Hiptop mobile communicator to Germany. We always figured that it would have been T-Mobile Deutschland that brought the Hiptop to Germany, as it’s T-Mobile USA that offers the Hiptop, though they sell it as the T-Mobile Sidekick. Read
So this is what Nokia should have done with the N-Gage. Rather than just have a poorly designed phone that tries to do too much, they should have done what Samsung’s done with their Mobile Gamepad, which makes it possible to turn a cellphone into a reasonable approximation of a Game Boy rather than having…
Word of a fancy new wireless iPAQ Pocket PC from Hewlett-packard that will have not just built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, but GSM/GPRS as well, so that it could be used as a cellphone and get online from almost anywhere. Supposedly will come out early next year. Read
New dual-format DVD recorder from Sony that can burn a DVD+R disc at 8x speed, which means it should take just about ten minutes to write an entire disc. Burning a DVD-R with the DRU-530A is a bit slower, just 4x. Comes out in December, with an external version due out the very next month.…
One of the first reviews we’ve seen of the MPx200, Motorola’s new cellphone running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system, giving an overview of how the OS works and all the different applications it comes with: While I have already read reports of people complaining that this device does not include the Windows Mobile 2003 for Smart…
Honda’s built an artificially intelligent robotic helicopter that can fly entirely on its own without any human guidance. Nice, but would you let yourself be flown around in one of these? We didn’t think so. Read
While we already knew about the P900, Sony Ericsson managed to announce another new cameraphone yesterday that we hadn’t known anything about. The T630, which looks like it follows in the tradition of the company’s previous handsets like the T610 and the T616, has a 65,000 color display, and built-in digital camera which can “automatically…
ViewSonic is coming out with an SD 802.11b WiFi card for its line of V36 and V37 Pocket PCs. Read
We’re never leaving the house again, because while we were out, Sony Ericsson officially announced the P900, its revved up version of its P800 smartphone. The funny thing about the P900 is that everything about it is just a little, but not a lot, better than with the P800. Compared with the P800, the P900…
Attempting to squash all those circulating rumors, Handspring is asserting that the GSM/GPRS version of the Treo 600 is most definitely not delayed and that its release is right on schedule. Read
Have we finally found an iPod killer? CNET reviews iRiver’s 20GB iHP-120 MP3 player, declaring it a “true threat to the iPod.” The iHP-120 is almost exactly the same size as the iPod — the length and width are identical — but it is a miniscule two-hundredths of an inch thicker than the 40GB iPod.…
New cameraphone from Motorola. The V300 will have a 65,000 color display; a second, smaller, external display; a built-in digital camera with digital zoom; and Motorola’s MotoMixer software for composing your own ringtones, though the V300 also supports MP3 ringtones if you want to upload a favorite song instead. Should be available from T-Mobile sometime…
Now that cable companies are starting to build digital video recorders into their set-top cable boxes, the New York Times wonders if this really is the beginning of the end for our old friend TiVo. Apparently, TiVo is trying really hard to get the cable companies to offer “premium” versions of their DVRs that will…
Some photos have turned up of the e800, a new Pocket PC from Toshiba sporting a crisp-looking 640×480 resolution display, which is four times the resolution of every other Pocket PC out there. Read
New version of Logitech’s superskinny megapixel Pocket Digital camera. The Pocket Digital 130 gets a bump up in resolution to 1.3 megapixels (the old one only had VGA), and has a strobe flash and a lithium-ion battery that recharges itself over a USB cable everytime the camera is connected to a computer for transferring photos.…
We can’t help but love this: an 802.11b wireless USB adapter for PCs that also happens to come with 128MB of Flash memory storage. The Aerielink Wireless Flash Combo can even function as both at the same time. Read
New superslim external dual-format DVD burner from Pioneer. The DVR-SK12D is just 22mm thick, uses both FireWire and USB 2.0 to connect to a PC, and can record DVDs in both the DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW formats. Read
A new wireless baby monitor from Philips called the Read-and-Rest Easy that has a built-in thermometer for displaying the room temperature. In almost Gizmodo-like fashion, the New York Times notes that the Read-and-Rest Easy operates at a frequency of 900MHz and this won’t interfere with a home WiFi network. Read
Pricey new Bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo from Logitech. The diNovo Media Desktop comes with both a wireless Bluetooth keyboard and Logitech’s MX900 Cordless Optical Mouse, but what really makes it worth the cash is that it comes with a third wireless Bluetooth peripheral called the MediaPad which can be used to control your PC’s…