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Just a couple of days ago we were enjoying the delicious irony that Samsung, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cameraphones, was banning cameraphones from the same factories where they’re built. But unfortunately it isn’t to be. The ban extends to all their manufacturing facilities except the ones where they make cameraphones. Read
Rumor going around that Dell’s new Axim X3 Pocket PCs will be out this November, with a wireless handheld with WiFi and Bluetooth coming the following month. Supposedly there will be two models for the Axim X3, an advanced version with a 400MHz processor and a cheaper model with a 300MHz processor; both will have…
Sharp and Texas Instruments are collaborating on a reference design for a one megapixel cameraphone, though it’s not yet known which manufacturers might actually build the phones. With any luck the we’ll have some one megapixel cameraphones here in the States early next year. Read
Putting Samsung to shame, which earlier this year introduced a puny, miniscule 70-inch plasma television, LG has a massive new 71-inch plasma television with a high contrast rate of 1200:1 and a brightness of 1000 candelas per square meter. No word on what it’ll cost, but if you really have to ask, you probably can’t…
New 10GB hard-drive MP3 player from iRiver. The iHP-100 doesn’t quite have the design of the iPod, but it does have a few nice features like USB 2.0 for file-transfer, a built-in FM tuner, and a microphone for line-in recording. Hopefully they’ll have a 20 or 30GB model out soon. Read [Thanks, Paul]
Not a whole lot of details available, but there’s word of that HP is working on an iPAQ Pocket PC that will combine a cellphone with both WiFi and Bluetooth. Should be out sometime next year. Read
Interesting new 3G cellphone from Hutchison in the UK that looks a little bit like that new Treo 600 that’s due out from Handspring later this year. The new handset has a large 65,000 color display, a full QWERTY thumb keyboard, 64MB of RAM, and a built-in digital camera for video conferencing. Read
Zack over at Valley of the Geeks can’t wait for Smart Car, a line of low-cost, lightweight, mini-cars now owned Daimler Chrysler, to make it to the US: Forget Dean Kamen’s massively overblown Segue human transporter; the Smartcar is far more likely to impact the world than a $5,000 scooter. In fact, if you’ve been…
A new Smartphone-powered cellphone from HTC. The Voyager, as it’s code-named, is probably going to be called the SPV2 when it’s released by cellphone carrier Orange late this year, and will have a built-in digital camera and integrated Bluetooth. Apart from the digital camera, the Voyager is said to look exactly like the SPV E-100…
We’ve seen Bluetooth versions of this, but we think this is even more useful: a wireless print server adapter from D-Link that uses 802.11b to connect a parallel-port printer to a home network. Read
So there might actually be some positive benefits to getting exposed to the electromagnetic fields emitted by cellphones. In a study that almost seems like it could have been sponsored by the cellphone industry, researchers at Bradford University discovered that exposure to cellphone radiation actually improved short-term memory function — but only in men. Read
New York Times article on how digital single lens reflex cameras are getting better and cheaper, and are starting to win over some of the remaining film enthusiasts: For years, sophisticated photographers held onto their analog cameras in the belief that no digital alternative could replicate the richness of film. But now, falling prices and…
This could be huge, assuming it’s for real: a company called Sandbridge Technologies says that later this year it will start shipping software defined radio chipsets for cellphones that can morph from CDMA to GSM to WiFi or any other wireless standard, and that two handset makers will start making phones with their chips next…
Our good friend Om Malik tries to get untethered and go for an all-wireless lifestyle, and finds that it’s actually not all that difficult: I tried a little experiment – how to be wired always, and be not beholden to a Bell pipeline to the Internet. I have to say it proved to be much…
A CD burner from Plextor that can overburn, fitting nearly a gigabyte onto a 700MB CD-R, or potentially almost 112 minutes onto an 80 minute disc. The major downside to the PlexWriter Premium is that most other CD players and CD-ROM drives can’t read the disc, which sorta defeats the purpose. You’d probably be better…
Well, Ricoh’s new digital camera just totally one-upped that WiFi-capable digital camera from Sanyo we blogged about last week. The 3.24-megapixel Caplio Pro G3 has optional cards for adding WiFi, Bluetooth, or GPS (so you can stamp each photo with its exact coordinates) to the camera. Read
Pundits weigh in on what the future holds for the Palm-Handspring merger. They think that the company will be split into handheld and smartphone divisions and that the Treo will survive (duh), but that the merger will ultimately have little effect on the “battle royale” between the Palm and Pocket PC operating systems. Read [Via…
Well besides moving to a new server and installing a new version of Movable Type (a process which isn’t completely finished yet), here are some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: The PrintBrush Radar detector with GPS Apple’s tablet Mac Gateway’s Connected DVD Player The radio that remembers Toshiba’s 17-inch laptop VIDEONOW: a personal…
PC World on the gadgets that are hot in Japan this summer, like Canon’s 3.2-megapixel Ixy Digital 30 digital camera (known as the Elph Powershot SD100 elsewhere), Sharp’s Zaurus SL-C760 and SL-C750 handhelds (pictured at right), Toshiba’s RD-XS31, a combination DVD burner/digital video recorder, and anything from Sony’s new Qualia line of high-end electronics. Read…
Another one-megapixel Japanese camerphone. Besides the built-in digital camera, the J-SH53 from Sharp also has a large 2.4-inch, 260,000 color, high-resolution display and a slot for SD memory cards. Read