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There’s a new service for GPS-enabled cellphones called uLocate that makes it possible to easily keep tabs on your friends and family, allowing you to see their exact location on a map, 24 hours a day; review everywhere they’ve gone throughout the day; and set up and automatic alert if the person goes outside of…
Though they’re not shipping it yet, Acer’s C300 convertible-style Tablet PC has turned up on its web site. The C300 is a big deal if for no other reason than that it will have the largest screen (14.1-inches) as well as the fastest processor (a 1.5GHz Centrino) of any Tablet PC yet sold. The rest…
A couple of new “Ultra Zoom” digital cameras from Olympus both with 10x optical zoom lenses, the 4.0 megapixel Camedia C-755, and the 3.20 megapixel Camedia C-745. Both have only been announced for Japan, but should be available in the rest of the world soon. Read
Smart, that subsidiary of Daimler Chrysler which a few months ago started selling a car that came with an iPod, is coming out with a special edition of its City Coupe with built-in Bluetooth: The vehicle comes bundled with a six-month Orange contract or pay-as-you-go package and a Sony Ericsson T610 handset. Once the driver…
Wired News reports that the iPod, which just happens to be the world’s most popular MP3 player, won’t play music files downloaded from the new Napster 2.0 music service. Why? Because the new Napster uses only Windows Media Audio files, not MP3s, and the iPod doesn’t support that format. The workaround is to burn tracks…
While a few lucky Sprint customers have already gotten their hands on the new Treo 600, over at TreoCentral a few people are reporting that T-Mobile has delayed the launch of their version of the Treo 600 until Novemeber 24th, which coincidentally (or not) is the first day that cellphone number portability goes into effect.…
Another SD WiFi expansion card for Pocket PCs, this one built by a company called C-Guys that we’d never heard of before. Read [Via MSMobiles]
The news just broke that Orange is going to carry a third Microsoft Smartphone, the SPV E200. The E200, which is built by HTC, is actually the SPV 2 that we first heard about over the summer, just with a different name. And as suspected, it’s essentially the same as the SPV E100, but with…
Palm Infocenter is reporting that the SGH-i500, Samsung’s Palm-powered GSM/GPRS PDA phone, has been delayed and won’t be out here in the US until next year. If it ever comes out, the SGH-i500 might actually be a nice phone. It has a 300MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, 32MB of Flash ROM, a 65,000 color display,…
Samsung’s launching its Napster MP3 player today. The YP-910GS is a 20GB hard drive player, and the Napster angle is that you can directly connect with the new Napster 2.0 music download service for automatically transferring tracks to the player. They’re giving away 20 free Napster 2.0 downloads with purchase and it also comes pre-loaded…
We almost missed Electrovaya’s new versions of its Scribbler Tablet PC, the SC-2000 and the SC-2010. Electrovaya isn’t exactly one of the better known Tablet PC manufacturers, but their models do have some of the best batteries around. Anyway, the SC-2000 and the SC-2010 both have 1.2GHz Centrino processors, built-in 802.11b, 12.1-inch displays, integrated biometric…
We’re hearing reports that Sprint has already sold out on the Treo 600. Amy Langfield says she tried to buy one over the phone, only to be told that there were no more in stock and to go to a store to buy one. Which is a problem since they’re not in stores yet. Anyone…
It looks like the Sony Ericsson T608, which was to have been the first Sprint cellphone with Bluetooth, is back from the dead. The phone had been pretty much killed when Sony Ericsson decided to quit making CDMA handsets for the North American market, but now SprintUsers.com reports that the T608 should be out soon.…
We were flying cross-country last night, and The Man, aka American Airlines, forced us to stop using the Kensington Pocketmouse Pro wireless mouse we were using while we were writing a few emails inflight. Apparently the wireless mouse, which has such a weak signal that it would stop working if I moved it more than…
Nokia has finally officially announced the 3660, the updated version of their 3650 cellphone with a more traditional keypad rather than the bizarre circular keypad that the 3650 sports. Otherwise about the same, with Bluetooth, tri-band GSM/GPRS. There’s also a dual-band GSM/GRPS version of the 3660 known as the 3620 that’s specifically for North America.…
We’ve been a big fan of KiSS Technologies, which lately has been a step or two ahead of many bigger electronics companies, coming out with some of the first DVD players that could play DivX video files and came with Ethernet ports for streaming content from a PC. They’re cranking it up a notch with…
Fujitsu has updated the LifeBook P5000, this latest iteration has a 1.0GHz Centrino processor, a DVD/CD-RW combination drive, a 10.6-inch widescreen display, a 60GB hard drive, up to 512MB of RAM, and built-in 802.11b. Read
If you’re really big on cleanliness, or deeply concerned about all the nasty germs that you might be picking up, you may want to try and find the new “Hand Clean” mouse that uses light to kill germs and sterilize your hand. Or you could try and get help for your obsessive-compulsive disorder, it’s your…
Steve’s DigiCams review of the Dimage G500, Minolta’s new five megapixel with a 3x optical zoom lens that has one interesting feature you don’t see two often in a digital camera: two memory card slots. The G500 has slots for both SecureDigital and Memory Stick memory cards and can even use both at the same…
A new home entertainment PC from Asus that’s designed to fit into your home entertainment center rather than sit on your desk. The DiGi Matrix is what people in the biz call a “barebones” system, meaning it comes without a hard drive (and thus, an operating system) or an optical drive, but it does come…