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A couple of months ago Hitachi took the wraps off a new 4GB version of the MicroDrive, its line of miniature hard drives that fit CompactFlash Type II expansion card slots. Now Magicstor is upping the ante — just a bit — with a one-inch drive for CompactFlash slots that has 4.8GB of storage space.…
Apparently a number of people who’ve picked up the new Tungsten T3 from Palm have encountered problems with it when using SD memory cards, saying that it erases or corrupts SD cards large than 256MB. Read
Sony officially launched the PSX — a new version of its PlayStation 2 with a hard drive, a TV tuner, and a DVD burner — today. There will actually be two versions of the PSX, the DESR-5000, with a 160GB hard drive, and the DESR-7000, which will have a 250GB hard drive. Both will also…
Editorial by Steven Bush, the publisher of Brighthand, with a good overview of how both the Palm and Pocket PC platforms continue to strive towards the same goals, even if that goal has been something of a moving target over the years: In my October 1999 editorial In Search of Shangri-la, I wrote that Palm…
Barix has a new version of the Exstreamer coming out, their digital audio system for streaming MP3s around a home network from a PC to a stereo, but we’re far more intrigued by their new version of the Instreamer, which works the other way around, taking any audio source (like the radio, a CD player,…
Philips and Mitsubishi Kagaku Media have created a dual-layer DVD that nearly doubles the capacity of a recordable DVD, raising it from 4.7GB to 8.5GB. We’re assuming that the discs will be backwards-compatible with existing burners and players. Read
Some details and photos over at BargainPDA of the Pocket LOOX 610, Fujitsu’s follow-up to their Pocket LOOX 600 Pocket PC which was never released in the US. The new LOOX 610 will come in two a versions, one with Bluetooth, 64MB of RAM, and 64MB of Flash ROM, the other with both Bluetooth and…
Ok, so we’ve had our fun taking pot shots at Nokia’s N-Gage, but today is the big day when the phone finally hits stores and we get to see whether people will actually buy it or not. Read PS – We’re gathering links to (recent) reviews of the N-Gage, so if you see one somewhere,…
The most ghetto fabulous WiFi HiFi yet: an old school boom box called the Bass-Station that’s been refitted with 802.11b, a 120GB hard drive, and an MP3 decoder, and that is controlled using a web browser. Besides being able to play MP3s, it can also stream audio to other devices in its local area network,…
Well, we have a pretty good idea now how Nokia is blowing that $100 million it’s spending to promote the N-Gage. One reader just wrote in that yesterday they had an airplane skywriting “N-GAGE.COM” over and over again for hours in the skies above Chicago. Does anyone remember that film Brewster’s Millions where Richard Pryor…
We first reported back in May that Comcast was working with Samsung and Ucentric on a combination cable box/digital video recorder. Those still haven’t been introduced nationwide, but apparently in a few markets Comcast is enhancing its On Demand service, which previously offered just movies, with the ability to watch — on demand — TV…
Another new GPS receiver that fits onto an SD expansion card, this one from Pharos. No word yet on when it might actually hit stores or whether it’ll work with both Pocket PCs and Palms. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
Unlike the euphemistically entitled USB-powered “personal messager” from GrandTec, the makers of the Matrix Vibe aren’t afraid to bill their gadget for what it is — a full-on USB-powered sex toy: Your computer can now pleasure you too! Become one with your laptop or desktop as you plug the Matrix Vibe into your USB port…
It was just three months ago that South Korean manufacturer LG Electronics built a 71-inch plasma television, but now they’ve developed a massive 76-inch model which they’re showing off at the big COEX trade show in Seoul later this week. Needless to say, we want one. Read
No sooner had we mused about the need for a PDA with the form factor of a mini-laptop than Psion announced its NetBook Pro, which weighs 2.8 pounds (more than our Toshiba Portege 2000!) and runs Windows CE .Net 4.2 and has an 8.5-inch color touchscreen, a 400MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, USB ports, and…
Nokia appears to be operating under the delusion that they will sell “several million” of their almost universally derided N-Gage gamephone next year, and there are reports that they’ve sunk over $100 million in to the launch. We were willing to give Nokia the benefit of the doubt before, but now it’s clear that someone…
Five hot new 3G cellphones from Japanese carrier KDDI today, including one, built by Casio, that has a digital camera with a resolution of two megapixels. The Sony Ericsson handset can play back TV shows recorded onto a Memory Stick (presumably with the PEGA-VR100K, Sony’s video recorder for handhelds), the Sanyo phone has a built-in…
A new ultralight laptop from Sharp. The Actius MC22 has a 40GB hard drive, DVD/CD-RW combination drive, a 12.1-inch screen, a sound card which supports 5.1 channel virtual surround sound, and built-in 802.11g. But best of all, the MC22 has the same “SharpSync” technology found in their MM10 laptop as well, which let’s you automatically…
The buzz is starting to build about the P900, Sony Ericsson’s successor to its well-regarded P800 PDA phone. Some early reviews are starting to trickle out, and The Register is reporting that Sony Ericsson will officially announce the new phone on October. Mobile Review got to play with one of the phones, and says that…
The first one megapixel cameraphones have been available in Japan for a few months now, and while (frustratingly) it’ll probably be a long while before we see any higher-resolution models here in the States, later this week Samsung is coming out with the SCH-V420, its first 1.3 megapixel cameraphone, for the South Korean market. Another…