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The official announcement wasn t supposed to be until tomorrow, but Sony Japan is showing off its latest Clie handheld a day early. With its mini-keyboard and a landscape-style 480×320 pixel display that can rotate and twist around, the PEG-UX50’s clamshell design is reminiscent more of Sharp’s Zaurus line of handhelds than anything Sony has…
Word that Siemens is “seriously considering” making a cellphone running on Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system, most likely a version of its new ST55 handset (pictured at right). The phone would most likely (though you never know) be made exclusively for T-Mobile in Germany. Read [Via MSMobiles.com]
After facing numerous complaints from customers about the performance of their Axim X5 handhelds after upgrading them to the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system, Dell is conceding that there is a major problem and has stopped giving out upgrades and halted all shipments of new Axim X5’s with the new Pocket PC 2003 OS…
A new combination USB 2.0/FireWire hub from D-Link with four USB 2.0 ports and three FireWire ports. It’s not clear from the press release where on the PC the DFB-H7 hub connects to, but we’re assuming that it needs to be plugged into both a USB 2.0 port and a FireWire port on the PC…
Excellent gallery of some of the more, um, unusual-looking cellphones spotted at this year’s Wireless Japan trade show. We especially dig the prototype pictured at right, which is a swiveling, IP-based, wristphone. Read [Via BoingBoing]
The same people who brought you the wildly successful Bowlingual have a new gadget which purports to translate your cat’s meowing and purring into human speech. Unlike the Bowlingual, however, you can’t simply strap the Meowlingual to your cat: “Cats are smaller and more finicky than dogs so we had to change the design a…
First Tablet PC to break the $800 barrier. The Visionary V800XPT from TDV Vision has a rather small screen for a Tablet PC (just 8.4 inches), so it’s almost more like a large PDA, but it does have a 30GB hard drive, an 800MHz Transmeta processor, 128MB of RAM, a built-in digital cameras, and a…
New smartphone from GSL running on the Palm operating system. The Xplore G18, which was previously called the Zircon, runs Palm OS 4.1.2, and will have 16MB of RAM, a 160×240 pixel color screen, and a built-in digital camera. The G18 only runs on dual-band GSM, something that all but ensures that this phone will…
A UV detector for cellphones that can warn you when the level UV-A and UV-B is too high and there is an elevated risk of sunburn or skin damage. I guess the idea is that if cellphones are going to cause brain cancer they might as well help prevent skin cancer. Read [Via TechDirt]
Somehow this isn’t surprising: Apple and Volkswagen have teamed up, and are going to start giving away 15GB iPods with the purchase of a 2003 New Beetle car. It’ll be a special edition iPod custom-engraved with Volkswagen’s “Drivers Wanted” slogan and a connectivity kit for use in the car. Read Amazon – iPod [Thanks, Rafat]
A new two-piece clip-on Bluetooth headset from Nokia which separates the battery and wireless receiver from the earpiece via a cable, the idea being that an earpiece is more comfortable to wear if isn’t weighed down with its battery and receiver. Should be out sometime this Fall. Read [Thanks, Marc]
This has been out for a while, but check out this Tron-inspired concept motorcycle from Dodge. The Tomahawk goes from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds, and has a theoretical top speed of 400 miles per hour. Dodge is supposed to make a decision this Summer about whether or not to put the Tomahawk into…
Even though we love the sleek look of Sony’s Vaio W line of all-in-one desktop PCs, we’ve never been totally convinced of their practicality, especially their folding keyboards. We’re hoping we might be won over by the latest version of the W, the PCV-W500GN1, which will come with a widescreen 17.5-inch display, a 2.66GHz processor,…
Greg Elin has some smart observations on the future of digital cameras. Among them, that the rise of digital signifies a paradigm shift in the use of cameras away from being image capturing devices and towards data gathering devices: Already some still digital cameras record audio, or entire movies. But that is still thinking too…
AOL members can now remotely program their Series 2 TiVos for free just by going to AOL’s television listings page and selecting the “Record to my TiVo DVR” link for the show they want to record. In a few months you should also be able to do this through cellphones, pagers, and PDAs that have…
Need help picking a cellphone? Cellphones.About.com has a test for helping you figure out which phone will have the features you want. They recommended Samsung’s SCH-A460 for me, which is the successor to the phone I have now, and what I probably would have bought instead had it been available. So the test might be…
Fujitsu has figured out to make a 4-inch display for PDAs with a resolution of 800×600 pixels, which is a big step up from the 320×320 of Palm’s Tungsten C, and high enough for watching digital television: It will also show an entire web page, Fujitsu boasts – but we reckon PDA users will need…
If you have an Orange SPV, an Orange SPV e100, or even a MiTAC Mio 8380, and you wouldn’t mind talking to me about your experiences with the phone for an article I’m writing, drop me a line at [email protected]. Thanks!
Remember how airplanes used to have smoking and non-smoking rows? Well, if the FAA starts allowing people to use cellphones in flight, the airlines should set aside part of the cabin for those of us who’d prefer not to be subjected to some idiot yammering away on a cellphone during our next seven-hour flight to…
Another new wireless home media adapter, this one from SMC. The EZ-Stream Universal Wireless Multimedia Receiver connects your PC to your stereo and television over 802.11a and 802.11g. And because it uses those higher-speed wireless networking standards (rather than the slower 802.11b), SMC’s Wireless Multimedia Receiver can stream both video and music files stored on…