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In case you’re having trouble keeping track, Brighthand has a helpful chart detailing all the new handhelds that are coming out this fall. Read
Neil McIntosh of the Guardian just got a first look at the new Voq Smartphone from Sierra Wireless which was unveiled today: stacked flash memory which means that – combined with a much-improved and adapted version of Microsoft’s Smartphone software – the experience is much more snappy. There are some nice features Sierra Wireless has…
Pioneer is coming out with a new AV receiver called the VSA-AX10Ai-N that has support for Microsoft’s new Windows Meda Audio 9 Professional format built-in. This means it can stream WMA 9 Pro files from a PC, including audio files in 5.1 channel surround sound. Combined with the recent news that Microsoft is trying to…
Gateway is expanding its line up of home entertainment electronics, adding two more LCD televisions (a 13-inch and a 30-inch model) and a 1,000-watt home theater system called the KAS-303 which comes with a DVD player, a receiver, six surround sound speakers, and a subwoofer. Read
You may recall from last month our somewhat quixotic quest to get FCC Chairman (and confirmed gadgetphile) Michael Powell to check out Gizmodo. Well we can report back with pleasure that the Chairman is indeed a Gizmodo reader now. It turns out that Richard Diamond, the Deputy Director of the FCC’s Office of Media Relations…
Cellphones have gotten so small that some of the prisoners at one of Britain’s high security prisons have been successfully hiding their phones from guards by keeping them in, ahem, their “body crevices.” Which we’ll just leave it at that. Though it does raise the question, as the reader who sent this in notes, of…
If you can’t get enough low-end in your music, Skullcandy, the makers of those headphones that connect to both an MP3 player and a cellphone, has a new pair of special battery powered bass amplification headphones out called the Skullcrushers that actually have vibration subwoofer speakers built-in. Read [Thanks, Marc]
The audio on laptops is notoriously pretty lousy, partly because there isn’t a whole lot of space for putting in a decent sound card, but mainly because manufacturers know they can get away with it. The Register reviews a gadget that tries to rectify the situation, Creative’s SoundBlaster MP3+, a 16-bit external sound card for…
And not to be left out, LG Electronics says they have their own Microsoft Smartphone on the way, and this one sounds really fresh: it has a 1.1 megapixel digital camera, 192MB of RAM, and can record up to an hour of video. Should be out by the end of the year. Anyone see any…
So the crazy rumors were true: as we reported yesterday it turns out that the new Microsoft Smartphone is from Sierra Wireless. The Voq Professional Phone is a bit larger, heavier, and uglier than we’d hoped, and doesn’t have Bluetooth or a digital camera, but it does have one design twist we hadn’t seen on…
Steve Sande of PDAntic has been feeling what a lot of others have been expressing lately: that Microsoft has lost the plot, at least when it comes to mobile devices. For a little while it looked like it was Palm that was in trouble, but they’ve come roaring back and now many of the new…
A new mini-keyboard attachment for several of Motorola’s Nextel phones. The Mini-Keyboard is about the size of a two-way pager, and could prove to be an attractive option for anyone sick of tapping out text messages and emails on a cellphone’s regular numeric keypad, even though it is one extra piece of gear to carry…
The beginning of phone number portability is coming ever closer, and the FCC has issued some guidelines to cellphone carriers for facilitating number transfers. Among them, that they shouldn’t keep a customer from changing carriers even if they still own money on their account, and that there’s “no technical reasony” why transferring a number to…
Reports are trickling in that, with little fanfare, Sprint has started shipping the first Treo 600’s to customers. Apparently they started taking orders over the phone yesterday, selling them for $599 with free shipping and an additional discount if you renew your contract. Probably going to sell out really, really soon, so get on it…
Four new feature-laden additions to TDK’s line of MOJO MP3 players: the MOJO 1 (pictured at right), which is built into a pair of headphones and has 128MB of internal memory, a slot for SD and MMC memory cards, and an FM tuner; the MOJO 256F, which has 256MB of internal memory, a slot for…
A new Tokyo-based company called IPTalk is going to start offering wireless Voice over IP service in Japan next year. Customers will be able to make free calls to other subscribers and cheap calls to landlines and overseas numbers from any public WiFi hotspot using a special WiFi handset. Sounds a lot like what Jeff…
Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia have created a PDA with a voice synthesizer that you can actually hold a conversation with: Amanda is the personal assistant of the future: she is a good listener and quick at answering back. She reads email, checks the news and weather, scans exchange rates…
In the spirit of our recent roundup of reviews of those three new Palms that came out last week, here’s a list of all the reviews we could gather (including a few positive ones!) of Nokia’s new N-Gage gamephone. Thanks to everyone who helped us find these. Read – CNN.com Read – Mobile.Burn Read –…
We’re not sure how seriously to take this, but PPCW.net is reporting that the manufacturer making the “major” announcement about a new Microsoft Smartphone-powered cellphone tomorrow isn’t Samsung or LG or Sony Ericsson, it’s Sierra Wireless, which makes wireless chips and wireless PC cards. Sounds crazy, right? Maybe not. MSMobiles reminds us that way back…
We’d all but forgotten about the Neonode N1, a tiny cellphone running Windows CE .NET 4.2 that had its launch delayed and then cancelled earlier this year. But now Mobile.Burn reports that the phone is not quite dead yet and should see the light of day next year. We’ll believe it when we see it.…