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This probably won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone, but The Register is reporting that the first week of sales have been rough for the N-Gage, Nokia’s gamephone, at least in the UK. A poll of 6000 game stores in Britain found that only 500 were sold, which is going to make it…
Dell was rather skimpy with details when they announced their new Axim X3 series of Pocket PCs a few weeks back, but now they’ve deigned to tell us what’s inside of them (not that we didn’t know most of this already through other sources). The new X3’s will be lighter, shorter, and thinner than the…
Also spotted at the CEATAC trade show in Japan this past week, a TV wrist watch from NHJ that uses that tiny new TV tuner chip that Sony’s developed. Read
Vonage, which offers flat rate broadband Voice over IP telephone service here in the States, is shipping a bunch of their Analog Telephone Adapter boxes to Iraq so that soldiers there can make free phone calls to their families during the holiday season. SkyFrames is providing the wireless satellite Internet connection. While obviously a PR…
A very nicely designed new all-in-one desktop PC from Sony that is the first in their new Vaio V series of desktops to hit these shores. Like its cousin, the Vaio W, the Vaio PCV-V100G is meant for watching TV, and comes with a TV tuner, a remote control, and Sony’s GigaPocket digital video recorder…
Amazon is giving away the Sony Ericsson T610, which has Bluetooth, a built-in digital camera, and a 65,536 color display, for free with new T-Mobile service activation. Amazon – Sony Ericsson T610 [Via I4U]
D-Link has a new upgrade which can bump up the speed of its Xtreme G 802.11g wireless networking gear from 54mbps to 108mbps. As usual with these kinds of things, this sort of speed boost only works if both the wireless networking card and the wireless access point you’re using are from D-Link and have…
We weren’t exactly blown away when we Sierra Wireless announced their Voq cellphone running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system. Besides looking sorta cheap and not having Bluetooth or a built-in digital camera, after actually playing with one of the phones last week at Microsoft’s Mobius conference (disclosure, Redmond covered our airfare and hotel) we also discovered…
Some details over at DAPreview of the new HDD060 MP3 player from Philips which has the same 1-inch, 1.5GB hard drive found in Rio’s Nitrus and Nomad’s MuVo2 players. Like so many other MP3 players, the HDD060 seems to take its design cues from the iPod, with its white plastic and chrome casing. Even the…
Fascinating article in BusinessWeek about Celldar, a “passive” radar system that sort of piggybacks on the whole cellphone network to track almost any moving object anywhere. It works by using complex signal-processing software to interpret how signals from cellular base stations bounce off of and interact with boats, planes, cars, and maybe even people, and…
Samsung is showing off what it is probably the first dual-3G cellphone, the SCH-W110, which works on two different 3G cellular networks, WCDMA and CDMA2000-1x EV-DO. Comes out in South Korea next month. Read
Your next TV might be a Motorola. The company, which is best known for its cellphones and two-way radios, is going to follow the lead of Gateway, Dell, and HP, and enter the flat-screen TV business. The article doesn’t say whether these will be plasma or LCD TVs, but they’re also going to start selling…
LG’s new G5300 cellphone has a feature aimed specifically for the Middle Eastern market: a compass that can automatically point the user towards Mecca when it’s time for prayer. They eventually plan to expand sales of the phones to countries like Indonesia and Malaysia which also have large Moslem populations. Read [Via MobileBurn]
We haven’t had a chance to go and try this out yet ourselves, but a group of artists sponsored by Panasonic have created a special program for PDAs called PDPal which visitors to Times Square can download from a special kiosk on 42nd Street. They can then use the program to annotate their journey on…
Dell is dropping its plans to build a cellphone running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system: Chief operating officer Kevin Rollins said this week that the presence of Nokia would make handsets a difficult market to break into and that the sector is less attractive than other consumer devices because so much profit and balance of power…
Speaking of multiple monitors, over at Xbit Laboratories there’s a lengthy head-to-head comparison of a whole slew of 19-inch LCD monitors, including three models from LG, three from Sony, two from Samsung, two from Iiyama, and one from NEC. Read [Via CompReviews.About.com]
Anyone who has visited Gizmodo HQ will know why we’re posting about this: a study sponsored by NEC, ATI, and the University of Utah touting the productivity benefits of having multiple monitors connected to your PC. Normally we’d be somewhat suspect of a study like this, given that NEC (which makes monitors) and ATI (which…
Monster Hardware review of Creative’s inexpensive, credit-card sized, PC Multimedia Remote Control for watching DVDs on your PC or controlling music software like WinAmp. We’re just perplexed as to why the IR receiver for the remote attaches to a PC using a serial, rather than a USB, connection. Read [Via DesignTechnica]
And we’ve found a couple of robots that look like they could kick the QRIO‘s ass: the Morph3, which was built by researchers at the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan and can perform all sorts of martial arts moves, and Fujitsu’s HOAP-2 (pictured at right), which can assume Sumo wrestling stances and moves from…
Sony’s QRIO entertainment robot, which we last saw riding the train in Japan, is coming to America. Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei showed one off on Saturday at the Japan Society of Northern California, and said that they will probably start selling them in the US in about a year. Read [Via CacheOp]