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New budget priced iPAQ Pocket PC from HP. The h1935 is basically the h1945 without the built-in Bluetooth, with half the RAM (32MB rather than 64MB) and a slower processor (206MHz rather than 266MHz). Also comes with an SD expansion slot and the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system. Should be out today. Read
New 802.11g wireless access points and laptop cards from Netgear that manage to double 802.11g’s top-speed from 54Mbps to 108Mbps, which is fast enough for us to consider abandoning Ethernet for big file-transfers between our computers. Of course, it should go without saying that you won’t get the bump up in speed if you try…
Rumor that Palm is working on a Bluetooth SD card that’ll work with handhelds running Palm OS 5. Palm does already have a Bluetooth SD card out, but it only works with handhelds running OS 4, and Palm hasn’t released any drivers to make it work with newer products like the Zire 71 or the…
From Hewlett-Packard, the latest in what looks like a long line of failed attempts to build a successful e-book reader. The device looks like a thin Tablet PC, and animates the turning of pages to more successfully approximate the “reading experience”. Besides the animation part, we’re not sure what distinguishes this effort from any other…
Some more details and pictures of Motorola’s v700, which is expected to be one of the first cellphones running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system to be released here in the States. The phone will have two displays, a 65,000 color internal one and an external monochromatic one, a mini-USB socket for connecting to a PC, and…
One of the advantages to living in Manhattan is not needing to own a car, but if we ever have to break down and buy a one, we’re getting this: Toyota’s new self-parking car that’s a modified Prius with a rear-mounted camera and a special computer program for parallel parking. Officially debuts next month in…
Hitachi is pumping up its Microdrives, those tiny hard drives that fit into a CompactFlash Type II card slot, to 4 gigabytes. And it looks like these’ll actually give CompactFlash some real competition, with a 4GB Microdrive set to retail for about $499, or less than one-third what a 4GB CompactFlash memory card goes for.…
Illuminating write-up of the trials and tribulations one TiVo owner experienced when trying to add WiFi to his Series 2 TiVo so that it could update itself over the Internet without having to run an Ethernet cable from the box to the router. It took several different USB WiFi adapters and a heck of a…
Yet another creepy new GPS gadget for surreptiously tracking people. The matchbox-sized Followit is designed to be covertly dropped into someone’s bag or attached to their car and can text message you with the location of whoever it is that you’re keeping tabs on. Read
Over at Luminous-Landscape.com, Mike Johnston explains why he’s more excited about Sony’s new 8-megapixel F-828 (pictured at right) rather than the new camera that has everyone’s tongues wagging, Canon’s new digital SLR, the EOS 300D, which is known as the EOS Digital Rebel here in the States: The 300D, to me, is a mass-market 10D,…
An off-the-shelf Sony Clie loaded with special software so that audience members at classical concerts can figure out what’s going on. It’s one of the more innovative uses for wireless handhelds that we’ve seen: Conceived by former Kansas City Symphony executive Roland Valliere, the Concert Companion displays a sort of musical road map during a…
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: Gadgets for surviving the next blackout The SpyFinder The Nokia Music Stand Beating the odds Lukewarm review of the USB cup warmer The stolen Segway culprit The baby translator Toshiba’s iPod killer Canon’s new inexpensive digital SLR SmartID’s WiFi Detector…
A first look over at BargainPDA at ViewSonic’s new Pocket PC, the V37, which has a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 64MB of Flash ROM, an optional WiFi card, and a slightly better screen than that of its predecessor, the V35. Oddly, it looks like it comes with Pocket PC 2002, rather than the latest…
We’ve been logging a lot of hours in the air lately, and while we wait patiently for airlines here to finally start offering WiFi inflight, over at PC Magazine, Lance Ulanoff muses wistfully about all the tech that could be found in airplanes these days, but isn’t. To be fair, the cash-strapped airlines (which except…
New York Times piece about Gateway’s new focus and the company’s continuing struggles. We’ve been a little skeptical of Gateway’s latest strategy (the third change of course in three years) of trying to become a consumer electronics company rather than just a PC manufacturer. It’s not that we don’t appreciate that they shook up the…
We’d heard that MiTAC’s new Mio 8380 cellphone running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system was big, but we didn’t realize it was this big. Someone over at HowardForums.com posted up some pictures placing the Mio 8380 alongside the P800 Sony Ericsson’s P800 which make it abundantly clear just how large the 8380 really is. Fortunately the…
Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Kyungbuk, South Korea have gone and invented something actually useful: a microphone sensitive enough to pick up whispers and smart enough to still filter out background noise. Sooner these start showing up in cellphones the better, we’re tired of people screaming into their handsets in public.…
Surely pleasing the Slashdot Set, the first cellphone running Linux is out, at least in Asia. Motorola’s A760 looks a bit like an old school Handspring Treo, has integrated Bluetooth, but lacks both a built-in keyboard or even a numbered keypad for dialing (you gotta use the touchscreen for that). Read [Thanks, Serge]
Not too happy that Palm ditched its original Graffiti handwriting recognition software and replaced it with Graffiti 2, which is based on CIC’s Jot software? PalmInfocenter has a guide to how to replace Graffiti 2 with the O.G. It’ll only work with Palm’s running Palm OS 5. Read
Not that this is any surprise, but it’s now official: President Bush is not interested in gadgets, at least according to the Washington Post. The president, for example, doesn’t experiment with digital cameras, but a professional White House photographer is always nearby. He doesn’t need to deal with online banking or shopping because his personal…