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Three new cellphones from Sony Ericsson: the Z600, which has a clamshell design, a built-in digital camera, tri-band GSM/GPRS, a 65,000 color display, and swappable faceplates, which is a first for a clamshell handset; the Z200, (pictured at right, we agree with The Register’s assessment that it’s oddly reminiscent of the original Apple iBook), which…
ATP is coming out soon with a 512MB MultiMediaCard for MP3 players, digital cameras, and PDAs (a big step up from the 128MB the cards were topping out at previously) and is working on a 1GB MultiMediaCard as well. Read [Thanks, Russell]
Over at SecurityFocus.com, Bob Rudis pits Kensington’s WiFi Finder against SmartID’s WFS-1 WiFi Detector, and confirms what we reported the other day: the WFS-1 blows away the Kensington. In test after test, the WFS-1 outperformed the WiFi Finder; if Kensington were smart, they’d pull their product off the market before they embarrass themselves even further.…
A first look, and the first actual picture we’ve seen, of the new ZVUE! personal video player from HandHeld Entertainment. The ZVUE!, which up until now was suspected to be pure vaporware, is supposed to cost just $99 when it comes out, and has a 2.5-inch LCD screen and a 200MHz processor. There are a…
PPCSG.com review of the MiTAC Mio 8380 cameraphone, which is one of the first handsets to run on Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system. They give the 8380 points for having lots of memory (32MB of Flash ROM, 16MB of RAM) and nice features like the ability to record unlimited amounts of video with its integrated digital…
There been been a few dual-format DVD burners to come out that can handle both competing recordable DVD standards out there (DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW), but CNET reviews LG Electronics’s GSA-4040B, which looks like the first drive to support those two formats as well as DVD-RAM. There doesn’t seem to be a huge amount of demand…
A GPS receiver for Pocket PCs and Palms that’s been squeezed down to fit into an SD expansion slot is coming from iGolf Technologies in November. There are already a few GPS receivers for Pocket PCs that use CompactFlash slots, but so far no one else has been able to make one small enough to…
Yme Bosma visited the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin, and has some highlights from the show exhibition floor. Among them, a wireless hub from Philips which connected different Bluetooth devices; the Broadbandbox, which combines a digital video recorder with a DVD player, and software for doing Voice over Internet Protocol and video conferencing;…
Sony is confirming that the PlayStation 3, whenever it does actually come out, will be backwards compatible with both PlayStation 2 and PlayStation One games. Read
This isn’t quite as destabilizing for the diamond industry as those laboratories you might have read about in this month’s issue of Wired which are growing flawless diamonds that cost $5 a carat, but a company in Canada has built an army of robots which can cut and polish a diamond in about an hour,…
In light of Singapore’s ban on text messaging while driving, reader Fazal Majid writes in with this tragic bit of news from France: The French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy held a conference on June 30th where he mentioned the case of a woman who attempted to send a SMS while driving at over 100 mph.…
Apparently, New York City’s ban on talking on a cellphone while driving hasn’t had much of an effect. The New York Times confirms what we’ve seen, that drivers are ignoring the ban and cops aren’t going out of their way to hand out tickets for people violating the law. Read [Via MobileTracker]
PDAclub.pl, a Polish website, has some more details on Dell’s forthcoming Axim X3 Pocket PC, and what purportedly are illustrations of what it’s going to look (pictures which should be taken with a grain of salt). If this is for real, the X3 looks a heck of a lot better than the X5, Dell’s first…
Roundup of ten different standalone home DVD recorders that are out there, like Sony’s RDR-GX7 (pictured at right), which can record in both competing formats, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW; Panasonic’s DMR-E100HS, which comes with a 120GB hard drive for recording shows; and Samsung’s DVDR-4000. Read
A few other companies are working on something similar, but mQuery has a new software program called Cicero which runs on cellphones with built-in WiFi or Bluetooth and lets them make cheap Voice over Internet Protocol phone calls over a WiFi or Bluetooth access point in the same way that a service like Vonage lets…
A new FM radio tuner for Palms that fits into an SD expansion slot. The SD Pocket Radio works with the Palm m125, m130, m500, m515, i705, Tungsten T, Tungsten T2, Tungsten W, and Handspring Treo 90. No word on whether a version for Pocket PCs might be coming out or not. Read
Mobile.Burn review of the GX-20, Sharp’s new tri-band GSM/GPRS cameraphone, which has a 65,000 color display that they’re saying is the best they’ve ever seen on a cellphone. Read
Some more dirt on those three new Palm PDAs which are due out next month. The Tungsten E will have a 144MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, and run Palm OS 5.2, and is said to look like a cross between the Palm m515 and the Zire 71. The Zire 21 is expected to be the…
You gotta love how stupid people are sometimes. A guy in Wisconsin stole a gadget that he found outside someone’s house and brought it home with him. Turns out that he’d swiped was a GPS satellite receiver used to monitor the movements of criminals on probation who are under home detention. The police were automatically…
CNET review of Gateway’s new 46-inch plasma television. It’s certainly one of the least expensive flat-panel TVs you can buy, but apparently has many of the same problems as Gateways’s 42-inch plasma display, like poor black-level performance. The resolution also isn’t any better than that of the 42-incher (so it can’t display full HDTV), and…