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A couple of reviews of two laptops from Gateway’s new 200 series of ultraportables, the 200X and the 200XL. Both the 200X and the 200XL have 14.1-inch screens, built-in 802.11b, weigh a bit over four pounds, and are just under one-inch thick, while the 200X has a 1.3GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, a DVD/CD-RW combination…
Some more details on MiTAC’s forthcoming Mio 8390 cellphone, a slimmed-down successor to their Mio 8380 handset, and their second phone running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system. When it comes out, the Mio 8390 will run the new 2003 version of Smartphone, and have tri-band GSM/GPRS (so it’ll work in the US), a built-in digital camera…
Portables.About.com review of that new Samsung Mobile Game Pad that attaches to Samsung’s A600 and A620 cellphones for playing games sort of like a Game Boy. They say that its response time isn’t that great, but that otherwise it’s not bad. Read
That new Sony Clie handheld spotted at the WPC Expo in Tokyo last week might be one of the two new Clies that are rumored to be coming out, the PEG-TJ35 and the PEG-TJ25. These will be the successors to the current PEG-SJ33 and PEG-SJ22 Clies which came out early this year, both will run…
Third installment of TechTV’s “Don’t Buy It!” segment, this one warning viewers to stay away from Kensington’s awful WiFi Finder (a sentiment we wholeheartedly agree with), Lexmark’s $50 Z605 Color Jetprinter, which uses ink cartridges that cost $60, and iRock’s 730i digital audio player. Read
As predicted, cameraphone outsold regular standalone digital cameras in the first half of the year, with 25 million cameraphones sold versus 20 million digital cameras. Read [Via BoingBoing]
So while some universities are starting require the use of gadgets in the classroom, some high schools are trying to figure out how best to deal with students having cellphones and wireless PDAs in the classroom and the possibilites for cheating that their presence creates. Some schools are banning their use in class completely, while…
A new network hard drive from a startup called Ispiri. The Mirra, as it’s called, connects to your home network and can be set to automatically backup and synchronize files from all the computers in the house so that if there’s a crash, you’ll always have your data. The Mirra can also be accessed remotely…
From Roku, the first digital media adapter designed specifically for use with high-definition televisions. Besides being able to stream MP3s from a PC to your stereo (something which doesn’t require you to have a television), the Roku HD1000 takes advantage of better quality of a high-definition television to display photos at a resolution that isn’t…
Yet another unannounced hard drive MP3 player has turned up courtesy of J&R putting it up for pre-order on their site, this one a version of Creative’s Nomad Jukebox Zen with a larger screen. Like the original, the new Nomad Zen Xtra has a 40GB hard drive, USB 2.0 for file transfer, and a battery…
Coming From Brother, a tiny new Bluetooth portable printer. The MW140BT weighs less than 10 ounces and is just seven-tenths of an inch thick. Read
Today’s New York Times Magazine has a brief interview with FCC Chairman Michael Powell that focuses mainly on his obsession with TiVo, which he once declared to be “God’s Machine.” Despite some of the controversial decisions Powell has made at the FCC recently regarding media consolidation, it’s somewhat comforting to know that the Chairman of…
Intel is incorporating Digit Wireless’ Fastap keypad, which fits a full alpha-keyboard onto a cellphone by interspersing lowered number keys between raised letter keys, into one of its reference designs for a new cellphone. Intel wouldn’t be building the phones themselves, but rather would be licensing out the designs to other manufacturers to use. As…
Atheros says it’s figured out to extend the range of WiFi to up to one kilometer, and to improve indoor reception and eliminate dead spots. Read
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: The new threat from cellphones? The Isophone It’s official: Motorola’s Smartphone The i-move: Smart Car with an iPod More, more, more of Sony’s Clie UX50 Apple updates the 15-inch Powerbook An iPod killer from Sony? Who you gonna call? Samsung…
Mike Lanberg of San Jose Mercury News notices that there a few laptops that have come out pretty damn good screens lately, like Sony’s TR1A, which uses Sony’s XBrite technology; Toshiba’s Satellite 5205-S705, which uses something called Clear Advanced Super View; and Fujitsu’s Lifebook N 3000 series, which has Multi-Domain Vertical Alignment. Because of how…
Dell is finally set to announce those two new wireless Axim Pocket PCs we’ve been hearing about for months now, but the real news, and what we had been completely unaware about until today, is that they’re coming out with a 15GB hard drive based MP3 player designed to compete against the iPod. If anyone…
We’re often amazed at the huge sums of money people will spend on their pets, but then again our only pet is a neglected robotic dog, so maybe we’re not one to talk. Anyway, there’s a new way to spend $500 on your cat or dog: a gadget called the ISeePet which combines an Internet-connected…
Over at Brighthand, Ed Hardy wonders just how much lower prices for PDAs will go. He chalks up the price war to Dell’s introduction of a $200 Axim X5 Pocket PC, which didn’t just make other Pocket PCs look expensive, it even made Palms look pricey. Read
Aura Communications is coming out with a cheap wireless headset for cellphones called the foneGEAR that uses magnetic induction rather than Bluetooth or other radio frequency technology to connect to its base station (which then connects to the handset). The foneGEAR works at a different, lower, frequency than Bluetooth, which uses the same overcrowded 2.4GHz…