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BusinessWeek article on what the cellular carriers have to do to survive once number portability goes into effect on November 24th. The carriers are deathly afraid of this, because up until now they’ve been able to lock in customers who have stayed in part because they weren’t able to keep their number with them when…
Panasonic is increasing the size of the hard drive in its combination DVD burner/digital video recorders from 80 to 120 gigabytes. The DMR-e100h is already out in Japan, and should be on sale in the US in August. Read
Word that Sony will announce a new Clie handheld on Friday. Brighthand thinks its the gadget pictured at right, a prototype of which was originally shown off by a Sony exec at a press briefing last May, and that it’ll have a digital camera and built-in wireless. Read
In the spirit of Wired magazine’s recent picks for the best gadgets of the first half of the year, what are people’s faves for the year so far? Besides the new iPods, of course.
A new wireless “network appliance” from Procom. The Taurus isn’t cheap — the price of the basic configuration starts at $1,700 — but it can function both as a web and email server and as an 802.11b wireless access point. It also comes with pp to a 250GB hard drive for networked storage and an…
Supposedly cellular carrier Hutchison (branded as Orange) is charging subscribers in India a mere 99 rupees a month, or two bucks, for unlimited GPRS data service for cellphones. Similar service from T-Mobile runs about $20 or so a month in the US. Read
A new portable printer for cameraphones from Fuji that connects to a handset over an IR port. The NP-1, which is out only in Japan, has a resolution of 254dpi and weighs about 250g including its battery and printer paper. But why does the NP-1 use IR and not Bluetooth? Read
It took a while, but that Wireless-B Media Adapter that Linksys has been promising for months is finally out. The Wireless-B Media Adapter is another one of those gadgets designed to connect your stereo system to your PC over 802.11b, so you can stream all of those MP3s trapped on your hard drive on something…
All those Toshiba e740 owners demanding an upgrade to the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system better be careful what they wish for. Apparently Dell’s Axim X5 Pocket PC that have been upgraded to the new OS actually run more slowly than they did before, not faster as one might expect. Dell is said to…
Sure, you could do all sorts of research if you’re in the market for a Tablet PC. Or you could just consult Christopher Coulter’s handy guide where he compares each brand of Tablet PC to a different kind of hamburger, and pick the one you find most tasty. Brilliant. Christopher was kind enough to let…
Some more details on that $99 personal video player that HandHeld Entertainment claims they’re putting out this October. It’s called the ZVUE! and it’ll have a 2.5-inch color display, a USB 2.0 port for file-transfers, and play videos stored on SecureDigital and MultiMediaCards, and also play MP3s. Unfortunately, it looks like they’re using their own…
MobileBurn review of NEC’s new 3G cellphone, the e606, which just came out in Australia. The e606 comes with two built-in digital cameras (one for taking pictures, the other for self-portraits and making video calls), a 65,000 color screen, and 32MB of internal memory. Doesn’t sound like they weren’t too impressed with it, especially its…
Pursuant to our post the other day about hacking the Nomad Jukebox Zen to put in a larger hard drive, apparently it is possible to swap out the hard drive of an iPod to put in a bigger one. But only with the hard drive from another iPod, so it’s not quite the hack you’d…
I’ve been looking for an inexpensive ultralight laptop to use just for travel or bringing down to Teany, the cafe a few floors below Gizmodo HQ. So far the top contender is Toshiba’s Portege 2000. They’re not so pricey these days, and it seems like it’d be light enough and powerful to get the job…
Unconfirmed reports of a new digital SLR from Nikon coming out on July 22nd. The four-megapixel D2 is geared towards the professional market, and apparently makes up in speed what it lacks in megapixels. Read
Article in the Christian Science Monitor on how more and more people are choosing laptops over desktops as their computer of choice. This past May even marked the first time ever that more money was spent on laptops than on desktops. Read
You can missed any of them, some highlights from the past week in Gizmodo: WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS digital camera Cellphones improve memory – but only for men The Yopy 3700 Speedpass-enabled Timex watch Gateway’s new widescreen laptop The Marine Corps crowd-control robot The BluePAD Bone conduction headphones Anti-mosquito phone Bluetooth camera WiFi finder Ultrathin 1.3-megapixel digital camera…
Helpful guide to all (or at least most) of the new Pocket PCs running the recently-released Pocket PC 2003 operating system, including details on their processor speeds, memory, and other features like Bluetooth, 802.11b, etc. Read
Wired magazine’s picks for the best gadgets of the year — so far, that is. Among their picks, Casio’s Exilim Z3 digital camera, Fujitsu’s Stylistic ST4000 Tablet PC (pictured at right), Danger’s color Hiptop, Kanguru’s KangaruMicro keychain MP3 player, and Casio’s SY-4000 portable TV. Read
A new wireless adapter for video game consoles from Linksys. The Wireless-B Game Adapter can connect any console with an Ethernet port to a home wireless network. Also has a cool feature for manually selecting which channel the adapter operates on, in the event that you just want to wirelessly connect two consoles together for…