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HTC is going to update the Pocket PC Phone (the one rebranded and sold by T-Mobile, mm02, and AT&T Wireless) with the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system. Hopefully they’ll bump up its RAM and improve the screen as well. But it’s doubtful. Read UPDATE: Looks like sometimes you do get what you want. The…
We’re still having trouble with the migration to the new server, so there may be some problems with site’s formatting looking awry, images not loading properly, the search box not working, etc. Everything should be in order soon. Very soon.
They’re not the first ones to come out with a networkable DVD player (even though that’s what they’re claiming), but Gateway’s new Connected DVD Player can hook up to a home network over Ethernet or 802.11b and stream video and video stored on your PC’s hard drive. Read
Ever since the Tablet PC came out last fall, there have been rumors that Apple would try and one-up the PC world and come out with its own tablet-style computer, and now TaiwanHighTech.com is reporting that Apple has contracted Quanta to build a 15-inch tablet computer. Given how many graphic designers and other creative-types gravitate…
Unlike our transatlantic pals – who rarely make actual phone calls these days if they can get away with it – we almost never send text messages, mainly because we find tapping away on a cellphone keypad to be a major annoyance. Fitting a full alpha-keyboard into a handset isn’t easy, but it looks like…
Joi Ito points us to one gadget that Bandit (as in “Smokey and the”) could have really used: the CellStar SKY-230DL, a radar detector with built-in GPS. It knows where speed traps are and lets you know 2 km before you get there. (In Japan, we have automated speed traps that take your picture and…
Will personal video players replace MP3 players? Bill Howard thinks it’s time for electronics manufacturers to concede that iPod has won that war, and move onto the next battleground: portable video players like the Archos AV 320, which have large hard drives and small LCD screens for watching movies and TV shows while on the…
A new flexible, waterproof keyboard for Orange’s SPV and SPV E100 Smartphones that can roll up and fit in your pocket. Read
A handheld printer from PrintDreams that works by being moved over a piece of paper by hand. The PrintBrush, as it’s called, uses a technology called Random Movement Printing to take into account the movement of the hand when printing ink onto paper: Internet content, SMS, pictures and other information is downloaded to the PrintBrush…
Looks like we’re back up and that we successfully made the transition to the new server. Though things are going to look a bit weird for the next few hours while we sort everything out.
This is a test entry to prove that the new server is up.
We, along with our sibling site, Gawker, are moving to a new server over the weekend. Since we might experience some interruption to our email, for the next few days, send any email to [email protected]. But if it could wait until Monday, that’d be great.
Walt Mossberg takes on Sony’s new ultralight laptop, the Vaio PCG-TR1A, proclaiming it, “an impressive little machine.” The WiFi-enabled PCG-TR1A (which looks like a slightly different version of the PCG-TR1 which just came out in Japan), weighs 3.1 pounds, is about the size of hardcover book, and has a 900MHz Centrino processor, 512MB of RAM,…
How messed up is this? T-Mobile is “updating” the new color Sidekicks, using their ability to modify the device over-the-air to remotely remove a bunch of the games that had come pre-installed. Which apparently means that they can pretty much do whatever they want to your Sidekick, whenever they want to, something that our buddy…
A new ten megapixel digital camera back from Leica that fits onto its R8 and R9 35mm cameras, giving you the option of using the cameras to take either digital or regular film photographs. Read
The next generation of Dell’s Axim Pocket PC is set to come with WiFi (802.11g, in this case) and cellular (either GSM or CDMA) built-in, which would make it the first PDA to come with both. And buried right at the bottom of this article is another tantalizing tidbit of information: that Dell is planning…
The Treo 600 isn’t even supposed to be out until September or October, but PC Magazine has what is almost certainly the first review of Handspring’s new smartphone: We got to take an early prototype of the Treo 600 for a test run. The hardware was close to the final version, but much of the…
New digital entertainment PC called the ONEbox Media Center that combines a progressive scan DVD player, a digital video recorder, an MP3 jukebox, and a 6-in-1 memory card reader for viewing digital photos, and is designed to sit in your living room rather than on your desk. Interestingly, it looks like the ONEbox foregoes Microsoft’s…
ZDNet roundup of the best home-theater-in-a-box setups for under a $1000. Their pick? Panasonic’s SC-DT300. Read Amazon
Over at MacSlash, a first look (somewhat literally) at Apple’s new iSight camera for video conferencing: The camera itself is maybe three inches in length and about an inch wide, the form factor is a basic cylinder with a spot on the bottom for the firewire adapter. Apple did some clever engineering on the base…