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The FCC’s just granted Handspring approval to sell both the GSM/GPRS and CDMA versions of its new Treo 600. We hadn’t realized this before, but there is actually a slight difference between the two versions. Both have the same internal specs (32MB of RAM, 144MHz processors, Palm OS 5.2.1), but the CDMA model (pictured at…
A new digital camera from Casio which can power up in just one second, and an image record lag time of 0.01 seconds. The four-megapixel QV-R4 also has a 3x optical zoom lens. Read
Gizmodo’s one year anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks (can you believe it?) and we’re looking for both potential sponsors and potential venues for the party. Or actually parties, as ideally we’d love to have one in New York and one in San Francisco (sorry, everywhere else). Anyone interested, email me at…
Some high-resolution photos over at Mobile.Burn of Sony Ericsson’s forthcoming P900, which is also known as the P810. There’d been speculation the P900 would have a 1.3 megapixel digital camera built-in, but it looks like it’ll just be a more commonplace 640×480 resolution camera. Read
JVC’s slick-looking line of high-end Pocket PCs should be out on September 15th (Amazon is already taking pre-orders). The MP-PV131 and the MP-PV331 are designed specifically with multimedia in mind, and come with special audio and video software player that plays MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, and MPEG4 files. Both have 400MHz processors, 128MB of RAM,…
Verizon’s fixed a major bug in their text messaging website that let anyone find out a subscriber’s phone number and view their private messages. Apparently the problem has been around for months, and Verizon only just now got around to doing something about it: The glitch exposed the information like this: An exploiter would send…
We were plenty impressed by Mustek’s all-in-one gadget, the DV3000, but apparently they’re already prepping its successor for release this November. The palm-sized DV4000 combines a tapeless digital camcorder that records to SD memory cards with a 3.1 megapixel digital still camera, an MP3 player, a digital voice recorder, and a PC webcam. The video…
The Smartphones keep coming, the latest is a clamshell design from Asus. The AGP-600, which will run the new 2003 version of Microsoft’s cellphone operating system, is a GSM/GPRS handset with integrated Bluetooth, a built-in digital camera, 32MB of Flash ROM, 32MB of RAM, and a 2.2-inch 65,000 color display. Most likely just for the…
A Malaysian court has ruled that it’s legal for a man to divorce his wife via text message: Sharia judge Mohamad Fauzi Ismail declared that the divorce declaration was valid and that as such the marriage between the plaintiff Azida Fazlina Abdul Latif and defendant Shamsudin Latif was annulled, the Utusan Malaysia newspaper reported. Mr…
Some bad news. Dell’s patch for its slow-running Axim X5 Pocket PCs, which we reported on Friday as being imminent, has been delayed, possibly until September. Read [Thanks, Christopher] UPDATE: So it looks like a downloadable patch should be available from Dell’s customer support website on Wednesday. But it still looks like a CD-ROM with…
Palmtops.About.com review of the Duo, a combination pen/stylus/laser pointer: You rotate the pen one direction for ink and the opposite direction for the stylus. Pretty simple huh? The cool part is the built-in cat torturer (aka laser pointer) on the end of the pen. This isn’t one of those cheap laser pointers, this thing is…
The Register speculates that one reason why cellphones running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system have been so late coming to market is that the cellphone industry thinks that a PDA phone needs Bluetooth to succeed, and that Microsoft hasn’t quite sorted out integrating Bluetooth into the OS. Read
After numerous delays, the first Palm with built-in GPS, the Garmin iQue 3600, is finally out. As Forbes helpfully reminds us, the iQue 3600 runs on Palm OS 5, and has 32MB of RAM, an SDIO expansion slot, and, of course, plenty of GPS mapping software. Read Amazon
We know this is sounds crazy, but doesn’t Peter Eisenman’s design for the new Arizona Cardinals football stadium bear an odd resemblance to Sony Ericsson’s P800 cellphone? Anyone else got any good “separated at birth?” gadgets? Email them to me.
As usual, in case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week in Gizmodo: Yamaha’s MusicCast wireless digital audio system Samsung’s overstuffed Pocket PC Phone The big deal about Sony’s new Clie The WebStation It’s official: Nikon’s new D2H digital SLR camera Pocket full of MP3 players Chinese province bans sexual text…
Brighthand review of one eagerly awaited gadget, SanDisk’s miniscule new WiFi card for PDAs and cellphones that fits into an SDIO card slot. Even more exciting, a version of the card with 256MB of memory storage should be out in December. Read
We’re gonna resist the opportunity to engage in some crude humor (though I’m sure Nick will be disappointed), but someone’s just patented a cellphone with a sensor for warning about gas leaks. Read
Some (blurry) pics over at Mobile.Burn of two new Sony Ericsson phones, the P810 (the phone on the left) and the Z600 (the phone in the center). The P810 looks even better than its predecessor, the P800, while the Z600 is said to be a essentially a clamshell version of the well-regarded T610 (the phone…
Dell says they’ve fixed the performance problems plaguing Axim X5 Pocket PCs running the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system, and are releasing an update tomorrow. You gotta give Dell props for quickly acknowledging the problem and doing something about it rather than stalling its customers and trying to pretend nothing is wrong. Read
Another ingenious gadget from MIT’s Media Lab, this one a “corporate fallout detector” that’s meant to help consumers quickly gauge the social and environmental records of the companies behind the products they’re considering buying. It functions sort of like a geiger counter, using a barcode scanner and information culled from databases about pollution and corporate…