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Laptop Magazine review of Samsung’s new clamshell PDA phone, the SPH-i500. The i500, which still isn’t officially out yet, runs Palm OS 4.1, and has a 66MHz processor, a 65,000 color, 2.5-inch touchscreen display, 16MB of internal RAM, and a Graffiti area just above the dial pad. While it’s impressive that they were able to…
Extreme Tech guide to hacking Nomad’s Jukebox Zen and Jukebox 3 MP3 players to put in larger hard drives. Only recommended if you’re comfortable with voiding the warranty and busting open your player. Has anyone heard about hacking a 5GB iPod to swap in a larger-capacity drive? Read [Via Slashdot]
PDAPhoneHome.com has a first look at Hitachi’s gargantuan new Pocket PC Phone, the G1000. The G1000 is the first Pocket PC to feature a built-in thumb keyboard (hence its larger size), and also comes with 32MB of RAM, a 400MHz processor, an integrated digital camera, and an SD memory card slot. Here in the US…
People need to quit freaking out about the misuses of cameraphones. We’re getting tired of all these alarmist articles that keep popping up, it’s not like the ability to surreptitiously take a photograph is something revolutionary or new. It’s been possible to secretly videotape, photograph, or tape record another person without their knowledge for years…
In a marketing stunt that is sure to backfire, AT&T Wireless is going to start sending actors dressed up as grandmothers out into public places like Grand Central Station to shush rude cellphone users who speak too loudly on their phones and reward polite ones with candy and vouchers for accessories. I’m sure someone things…
They’ve finally found a legitimate use for nanotechnology: making inexpensive, big-screen TVs. Motorola has figured out a new technology called NED, or Nano Emissive Display, which uses nanotubes to build 50-inch flat screen high-definition televisions that they claim will cost as much to build as regular, 32-inch CRT televisions: Turns out that these nanotubes are,…
MobileMag review of Edge Memory’s new DiskGO!, which doubles as a 64MB USB flash drive. Apparently, the DISKGO! also comes in an 128MB version now as well. Read
ZDNet wonders, Who needs a five-megapixel digital camera? And they’ve got a point. Five megapixels is more than most people need, especially if you aren’t making prints and are only going to put the photos on a website or email them. Read
Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, the company behind the Orange SPV Smartphone, is rumored to be working on a Smartphone with a clamshell design and a built-in digital camera. Read [Via MSMobiles.com]
New York Times on battery-powered portable ink jet printers, like Canon’s i70 (pictured at right) and HP’s DeskJet 450 cbi. The DeskJet also has an optional slot for Bluetooth card, for printing wirelessly from a PC or PDA. Read
Not that we were able to catch this (I think I forgot to set the TiVo or something), but apparently on today’s episode of the Oprah Winfrey show today, Oprah gushed about the iPod and then gave every member of her studio audience a brand new 15GB model to take home. [Heard via the Pho…
Prototype from NEC of a cellphone with a built-in tuner for watching digital television broadcasts. It would help if there were actually some digital TV programming to watch. There aren’t yet, but digital broadcasts should begin in Japan by the end of the year, which is at least a year before a commercial version of…
A new superslim 1.3-megapixel digital camera from Fuji Axia. The credit card-sized Eyeplate Mega is just 8mm thick, and will have 16MB of internal RAM, a slot for an SD memory card, and an external flash add-on. Should be out later this year. Read
IBM and Toshiba are both said to be working on low-priced Tablet PCs. Not only will it be interesting to see what IBM does with the Tablet PC, it’s good to see prices for these finally creeping towards a $1000. Read
Why there aren’t more of these available, we don’t know, but Kensington has a pocket-sized WiFi detector coming out that can detect 802.11b and 802.11g signals from up to 200 feet away and has three LEDs to indicate signal strength. Read [Via WiFi Networking News]
Sony is recalling a bunch of its FRV series Vaio laptops. Apparently if the laptop is plugged into a wall socket and the modem is connected to a phone jack (but not online), you could receive a nasty shock if you happen to be touching a metal part of the laptop and the phone rings.…
Some more photos have surfaced of Gateway’s new Pocket PC, which is due out later this month. The 100X will run the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system, have a 400MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, 32MB of ROM, Compact Flash and SD expansion slots, and a 3.5-inch reflective (rather than transflective) color display. Read
The wireless cameras keep coming. The latest is a 2-megapixel digital camera from Concord with built-in Bluetooth. The Eye-Q Go can beam images to a PDA, a printer, a cellphone, or a PC, or it can save them to SD and MMC cards. Read [Via The Gadgeteer]
A company called AirCell has patented a new technology which they claim makes it possible to safely use their own cellphones while in flight. It works by directing the signals of all the phones being used to a special box on the plane, which then relays calls to one of AirCell’s 134 cellular towers on…
Two new cellphones running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system are due out from MiTAC by the end of the year. No details on what the phones will be like, but there is a good chance they’ll be something like the Smartphone MiTAC already has out, the Mio 8380. Interestingly, this tidbit of news surfaced in an…