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For those of you eagerly awaiting the release of Sony’s new wireless Clie PDA UX50 here in the States, there’s some new video of it up on the Sony Japan website to further whet your appetite. It’s on the right hand side of the site, under the word “New!” in red boldface lettering. Read [Via…
Some pics of the F88, CEC’s new wristphone, which is very, um, large. It almost looks like it’d be more convenient to just to strap a regular cellphone onto your wrist. Also note the earpiece/ring in the picture on the left. From what we’ve heard, Samsung’s GSM wristphone, which actually looks like a wristwatch, should…
One thing we’d like to know is, why aren’t there any wristphones available here in the US? We’re not saying we’d buy one, but at least give us the option. Anyway, yet another wristphone has come out that almost certainly won’t be sold here. The F88, which is made by CEC, runs on China’s CDMA…
With all the buzz brewing about cellphones running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system, there’s actually a PDA phone in the works running not on Smartphone or even the Pocket PC Phone Edition software, but on Windows CE.net. The STAMP PC phone, which looks remarkably like one of Motorola’s Accompli handsets, runs on either GSM/GPRS or CDMA,…
To promote its line of Centrino wireless chips in Britain, Intel has commissioned the Design Laboratory to create a line of WiFi-enabled furniture with wireless access points built-in. The chairs themselves are made of computer cables encased in clear resin (which is meant to make good use of all the cables we’ll be throwing away…
There are no actual photographs of the product on the site (just illustrations, something which always makes us suspicious), but there’s a new personal video player available from a Taiwanese company called GP Evergrowth. The GP-DVT1000 can playback MPEG-4 video files, double as a TiVo-like personal video recorder when attached to a television, and has…
We’d meant to write something about this last week, but we’re supposedly on a working vacation at the moment, so a few things have fallen through the cracks here and there. The SIPphone looks just like a regular telephone, and is the latest brainchild of MP3.com and Lindows.com founder Michael Robertson. It’s basically a telephone…
First Samsung, then NEC, now Sanyo has a prototype of a cellphone with an integrated digital television tuner. The new phone has a 2.2-inch organic electroluminescent display, two built-in digital cameras, 128MB of internal memory, and we think (it’s hard to tell from the translation) that it can function sort of like a TiVo and…
MSNBC review of the new color BlackBerry, the 7230, which has finally reached these shores. Reviewer Gary Krakow gives it high marks, saying that its color screen is “terrific” and that, “[u]ntil someone comes up with something better, RIM s BlackBerry 7230 now sits at the top of the roost for wireless PDA/phone/email devices.” Read
Gateway may (or may not) have dropped out of the PDA business, but they’re about to dive headfirst into the digital camera market with three cameras of their own (they already sell other manufacturers’ cameras in their stores and on their website): the 2.1 megapixel DC-T20, the 4.1 megapixel DC-M40, and the 5.25 megapixel DC-T50.…
Sprint keeps the cameraphones coming with another sleek clamshell from Samsung. The VGA1000 is the sixth cameraphone for the Sprint PCS network, which might not sound like many phones, but is actually more than most everyone else offers here in the US. Besides the built-in digital camera, the VGA1000 has two 65,000 color displays (a…
On the off chance you’ve ever wondered what it’s like here at Gizmodo HQ, today’s Manhattan User’s Guide profiles your humble editor and gives a behind-the-scenes look at the array of gadgets filling the miniscule one-bedroom apartment that doubles as our offices. Read
South Korean company Woori has a new guide robot designed to show visitors around at trade shows and exhibitions: The robot is able to guide spectators to their destination and provide them with information using a liquefied crystal display (LCD) monitor as well as voice recognition and response systems, the robot maker said. By recognizing…
In case you hadn’t heard, Palm is formally splitting up into two companies: PalmSource which develops the Palm operating system, and Palm Solutions Group, which will make handhelds and hardware. The spinoff of PalmSource won’t be done for a few more months, but Palm Solutions Group, to avoid the inevitable confusion, is changing its name.…
Microsoft is upgrading its line of home WiFi networking gear from 802.11b to the faster 802.11g. The first network cards and wireless access points with 802.11g should start showing up sometime this fall. Read [Via WiFi Networking News]
Roundup over at TabletPCBuzz of all the hot Tablet PC action we can look forward to this fall, like the release of a 14.1-inch model from Acer, a convertible Centrino Tablet PC with a 12.1-inch display from Fujitsu, and Sharp’s long-awaited Actius TN10W (pictured at right). Oh, and that IBM might be coming out with…
The release of Gateway’s 100X Pocket PC, which was already pushed back a month from July to August, has now been postponed “indefinitely”, which makes us think they might have just killed it altogether. Anyone have the inside track on this? Read
This is kind of scary: one in nine five to nine-year-olds has their own cellphone in Britain. Besides concerns about exposure to dangerous levels electromagnetic radiation (which are probably unfounded), it just seems a little weird to think of a five year-old kid walking around with their own cellphone. On the other hand, maybe someone…
We heard rumours of this about a month ago, and now it’s been confirmed that a new version of Orange’s SPV Smartphone is coming out next month. The SPV 2 looks about the same as its predecessor, the SPV E100, with the main differences that it is supposed to have integrated Bluetooth and a built-in…
Now that all the hysteria about “wardriving” (and that armies of roving hackers are just waiting to break into unsuspecting people’s wireless networks to steal sensitive data) has died down a bit, there’s a new study out from a British computer security firm identifying Bluetooth-enabled gadgets as the next big security risk. Oh, and of…