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Audiovox is showing off a prototype of a new Pocket PC Phone. The PPC5050 looks very much like its predecessor, the Thera (and just about every other Pocket PC Phone), and will have a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, built-in GPS (!), and an SDIO expansion slot for adding Bluetooth or WiFi. Should be out…
Article in the Bangkok Post about Taiwanese manufacturer BenQ, which spun off from Acer a few years back and is rapidly becoming a brand name to watch when it comes to high-end consumer electronics, and some of the products they’re working on that we’ll be keeping an eye out for, like a hard drive-based audio/video…
A British company called Sensaura claims that it has invented a way to block cameraphones from taking pictures by transmitting a signal which can disable just the phone’s digital camera, but not affect any of its other functions. The trick is that it’ll only work with phones that have special “control” software installed on it.…
ZDNet UK posted, and then promptly pulled, a review of Motorola’s new MPx200 cellphone which will run Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system and be available in October from Orange in the UK. Fortunately for us, both Smartphone Thoughts and MSMobiles grabbed most of the text of the review and posted it up on their respective sites.…
A new cellphone from LG with a fine, luxurious, um, fake leather covering. The clamshell VX3100L is being offered by Verizon here in the States, and also comes in a fake leather-less version, the VX3100, which has a regular silver finish. Read
Some details (but no photos) have turned up on a new Pocket PC from Toshiba. The e405 looks like it’ll be a mid-range model, and have a 300MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 16MB of Flash ROM, an SDIO expansion slot, and run the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system. Read
We know that Delphi already has one of these out, but Panasonic is coming out with it’s own DVD-Audio car stereo system for the North American market. Honda’s 2004 Acura TL will be the first car to have it as an option. This is a big deal, of course, only to the very small population…
This sorta reminds us of that 3D crystal ball that turned up a few months back, except with out the crystal ball. It’s a prototype of a display from IO2 Technology called the Heliodisplay that can project a floating image into thin air that you can walk through. The press release compares it to that…
Yet another article, this one from the BBC, about how clothing with built-in computers is just about to take off. You can embed control panels into sleeves, put circuit boards in fabric, but the biggest reason why wearable computing hasn’t taken off is that the clothes are usually ugly. Just let us know when Hedi…
Speaking of disappointments, Mobitopia has some problems with Motorola’s new 3G A920 smartphone, which is being offered by 3 in the UK. Sure, the built-in GPS is exciting, but they’re not so thrilled by the A920’s huge size, or the fact that 3 won’t let you actually use it to check your own email account…
GearBits says that the biggest gripe about Sony’s new Clie UX-50 (the one with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth that everyone’s been buzzing about lately) seems to be that its keyboard is no good: Well, we heard that several lucky few who have gotten to fondle the forthcoming Sony Clie UX-50 (pictured) have found the keyboard…
That long-rumored laptop with a 3D display from Sharp is finally coming out. The Mebius PC-RD3D can create 3D images without you having to wear special glasses or anything: The computer display produces 3-D images by sending a slightly different image to the right eye and the left eye at once by bending them in…
A sneak peek at Intrigue Technolgies’ new programmable universal remote, the Harmony SST-659, which can be programmed using a PC by connecting it using a USB cable, rather than having to go to all the trouble of setting everything up manually. Read
A bunch of people wrote in with varying theories about what that USB-powered noodle strainer we wrote about yesterday really was. The most common conjecture was that it’s some sort of noodle “cooler” (something we weren’t even aware existed, let alone merited a USB-powered version) for serving cold somen noodles. Others suggested that it wasn’t…
Probably because they’re sensing the coming disaster of November 24th, the date when people can change providers and take their number with them, the cellphone carriers have come out with a voluntary consumer code that includes such provisions as a 14-day trial period for new service, accurate labeling of charges and fees on billing statements…
Apparently Orange is going to start carrying Handspring’s Treo 600 smartphone in Europe really, really soon, maybe even as soon as next week. We’ll keep you posted. Hopefully a US launch date won’t be too far behind. Read
PC Magazine review of the lustworthy Portege R100, Toshiba’s update of their superskinny Portege 2000 line of laptops (and, yes, we did buy breakdown and buy that Portege 2000 we’d had our eye on, and so far we love it). They describe the R100, which weighs 2.4 pounds, and has 40GB hard drive, 256MB of…
It doesn’t exactly make a whole lot of sense to us, but we couldn’t resist posting something about this: a USB-powered, um, noodle strainer. At least as far as we can tell, that’s what it is. Not surprisingly, this is only available in Japan. Read [Translated from Japanese via Babelfish]
Courtesy of an FCC filing, some details have turned up on a hot new tri-band GSM cameraphone from Samsung. The SGH-D410, which closely resembles the SCH-170 (pictured at right) that’s been announced for the South Korean market, has a swiveling digital camera at the top of the phone and looks like it might be the…
A somewhat boxy-looking new Pocket PC Phone from Chinese manufacturer Legend. The Lenovo XP618 has dual-band GSM/GPRS, a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 32 MB of Flash ROM, a 320×240 pixel, 65,000 color display, an SD memory card slot, and a drop-resistant metal case. Maybe it’s time somebody started a Dynamism.com to start importing all…