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GK, our Japanese correspondent, recently hit the WPC Expo in Tokyo and came back with some pics for us of some of the new gadgets on display there: Canon’s smallest digital camera, the IXUS i, also known as the Powershot SD10 in the US. Panasonic’s ruggedized Toughbook CF-18 Tablet PC with Centrino. A mock-up of…
And also from Samsung, a couple of new GSM cellphones, one of them with a built-in TV tuner. The SGH-P705 (pictured on the left) has a high-resolution 262,000 color main display, an OLED exterior display, and an NTSC television tuner, so you’ll be able to watch broadcast TV on your phone. The SGH-E715 (pictured on…
A new 24-inch LCD monitor from Samsung that they’re claiming is the largest desktop LCD on the market. The SyncMaster 243T is aimed mainly at graphic designers who need all that extra real estate on their monitor. Read
We’d be impressed if anyone remembered this, but the very first non-test post on Gizmodo was about the Simputer, a handheld computer designed to be used by the world’s rural poor. At the time we reported that the Indian non-profit group which designed the Simputer had been having some trouble finding licensees to actually build…
Walt Mossberg gives props to the Treo 600: I’ve been carrying a Sprint Treo 600 around for a couple of weeks and I love it. It’s a great phone, an excellent mobile e-mail terminal and a full-fledged Palm-compatible PDA. I prefer it to any RIM BlackBerry model I have tested, and it blows away any…
We’re pleased that D-Link is coming out with a network drive of its own, the D-Link DSM-602H Storage Media Central Home Drive, an exteral hard drive that connects directly to a home network so that anyone can share the files on it, but just 20GB? It might be the first drive using the new Universal…
Yet more proof that the US is about a million years behind the rest of the world when it comes to cellphones: beginning next month, NTT DoCoMo customers in Japan will be able to make international videophone calls to Hutchison 3G subscribers in Britain. Read
Word of a couple of new 20GB hard drive players from Archos. The GMini 120 and the GMini 220 (pictured at right) are about the same, with USB 2.0 for file-transfer, an icon-based graphic user interface for navigating the player, and can be customized with options like a CompactFlash card reader add-on for copying files…
Motorola has managed to combine WiFi and cellular into one tiny new low-power chip, and say they’re already working on both GSM/WiFi and CDMA/WiFi cellphones. Read
A new Sony Clie handheld turned up at the WPC 2003 trade show in Japan, not a whole lot of details available right now, but it looks like it’ll be more of a low-end PDA, come in a variety of colors, and have a scroll wheel that’s part of its directional pad. Read
This isn’t exactly a surprise, but Microsoft has bumped up its line of home wireless networking products from 802.11b to 802.11g, with a new wireless base station (pictured at right), a new notebook adapter, a new PCI adapter for desktops, and wireless adapter for the Xbox. Read
Samsung and the new Napster 2.0 are teaming up on a new MP3 player that will be “Napster-ready” when it comes out later this fall. What exactly that means, or if it’s more than just a marketing gimmick, we don’t know, but we’re guessing that Samsung will try to integrate their new player into Napster…
Over at Mobitopia, Russell Beattie looks at Nokia’s new cellphones, and wonders, has their phone design stalled? [I]t seems to me much of Nokia’s new designs have been simply a combination of wacky keypad layouts and ever-so-slightly differently shaped bodies. The DIY covers on the 3200 helped jazz this sort of thing up a bit…
Update of Panasonic’s W2 laptop, the one with the optical drive underneath the touch pad. The W2b has a 1GHz Centrino processor, a DVD/CD-RW combination drive (they claim it’s the lightest laptop with a combo drive), a 12.1-inch display, a 40GB hard drive, up to 512MB of RAM, and built-in 802.11b. Read [Thanks, Sage]
As suspected last week, the Treo 600 has come out in Europe, courtesy of Orange, which will carry the smartphone in Britain, France, and Switzerland. Still no official word on when Sprint will carry the Treo 600 here in the States. Read
Some pics over at PhoneScopp of that new MPx200 Motorola Smartphone that was just announced the other day. Especially great is the photo at right, which shows how the MPx200 (second from the right) compares in size to a BlackBerry, a Sony Ericsson P800, a Sanyo 8100, and an HTC Tanager Smartphone. Read
Sony is coming out with a 40GB hard drive for the PlayStation 2 that can be used for saving game settings, downloading new levels, and storing music and digital photos. Should be out next March. Read
Royal, a manufacturer known more for its budget handhelds, is coming out with a $300 PDA running on Linux called the LineaLX. Should be out by the end of the year, but whether or not this will snap Royal out of its losing streak when it comes to handhelds, remains to be seen. Read [Via…
PC Mag on Sony’s latest version of their Aibo robotic companion, the ERS-7. Sony is finally admitting what all of us knew all along: that the Aibo is a dog. Company officials said that there was a real effort this time to make the AIBO’s movements more doglike; designers even studied the way dogs move.…
We hadn’t been aware of this, but apparently ghost sightings are down. Way down, and have been on the decline for the past fifteen years or so. Tony Cornell of the Society for Psychical Research in England thinks there’s only one rational explanation for this: that cellphones, or more specifically, cellphone radiation, are drowning out…