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Three new PCs from Gateway: an updated version of its ultraportable 200 series, the company’s first Tablet PC, and a new widescreen laptop. The new Gateway 200 is just one inch thick, weighs a bit more than its predecessor (4.3 pounds as opposed to 3.8), and has a larger, 14.1-inch screen, built-in 802.11b, a 1.4GHz…
New form of RAM from IBM and Infineon, called magnetic random access memory, or MRAM, that could make it possible for computers to boot up instantly. Read
Business 2.0 on the troubles Microsoft has been having getting its Smartphone operating system out of the starting gate, such as complaints that the phones are buggy; a lawsuit that’s been filed against them by one of their hardware partners; and the staunch opposition of Nokia, Motorola, and others not to let Redmond gain a…
You might have to wait until next year for an update of the Tablet PC operating system, but the new version of the Pocket PC OS, Pocket PC 2003, is still slated to come out on June 23rd. Like we said last week, it doesn’t look like a major change, but it is said to…
Contrary to what Microsoft had indicated a few weeks ago, there isn’t going to be an updated version of their Tablet PC operating system appearing this year. It’s still only been about eight months Tablet PCs came out, so it was probably a bit premature to expect an sequel so soon. Read
Turns out the real reason Samsung’s 10GB Yepp YP-900 hard drive MP3 player is delayed until September is that Apple threatened to sue them, saying that it too closely resembles the iPod. Rather than stand their ground, Samsung caved, and is redesigning the YP-900, hence the delay. Read
From Philips’ HomeLab consumer electronics research incubator, a line of LCD televisions that can double as mirrors: The Mirror TV uses a unique polarized mirror technology, which transfers close to 100 percent of the light through the reflective surface… For home use, Philips is currently testing more advanced versions that could connect the user wirelessly…
From Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, the world’s smallest, “free-roving” robot. The microbot is just 1cm tall, rolls around on two track wheels, has 8K of onboard memory, and is powered by three watch batteries. [F]uture versions could be outfitted with anything from chemical sniffers to a miniaturized camera or microphone. Lightweight, mobile and…
When last we’d heard, the MiTAC Mio 8380, the first clamshell phone to run Microsoft’s Smartphone OS, had been postponed indefinitely because of SARS. Now apparently the phone will be available in China later this month and in Taiwan sometime next month. No word on a possible US release date, but the phones are tri-band…
ZDNet has some advice if you’re thinking about changing cellphone carriers. It’s mainly to wait until next year, if you can manage it, but if you’re thinking of switching, it’s worth the read. Read
A couple of new Vaio laptops from Sony. The PCG-GRT190G, has a TV tuner and Sony’s Giga Pocket software installed so it can double as a digital video recorder, and has a 16.1-inch screen, a 2.8GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a dual-format DVD+/-RW drive, and a 60GB hard drive. The WiFi-enabled PCG-TR1A (which looks like…
Motorola is going to flood the market with up to 25 new cellphones later this year, nearly half of which will be cameraphones. So it looks like they’ll be keeping me rather busy in the coming months. Read
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It’s official: when the new ReplayTV 5500 digital video recorders come out in August, they’ll be missing two of their best features, automatic commercial skipping and the ability to send a show to a friend over the Internet. You’ll still be able to manually fast-forward through commercials, but D&M Holdings, the new owner of ReplayTV,…
Speaking of Sony’s Qualia line of gadgets, the first digital camera to bear the name is coming out in Japan. The 2.11 megapixel Qualia 016 will be Sony’s smallest digital camera to date – it’s just 2.7 x 0.9 x 0.7 in – and comes with a bunch of accessories like a flash, and wide…
New slate-style Tablet PC from Electrovaya. At 3.3 pounds and just 0.87-inches thick, the Scribbler SC1000 is somewhat smaller than its predecessor, the SC800, but still manages to squeeze in a 12-inch LCD screen (the SC800’s is just 10-inches), 512MB of RAM, a 30GB hard drive, built-in 802.11b, and a 1GHz Transmeta processor. Read
A new cellphone from Samsung with a built-in TV tuner that lets you watch television shows on its tiny screen. The SCH-X820 can also capture images from a TV broadcast to use as wallpaper. Comes out in Korea soon, a US release is unlikely. Read [Thanks, Mike]
Prototype from Pioneer of a wearable computer that is a jacket that comes with a screen built-into the sleeve. Don’t expect to find this at the Gap anytime soon though, it’s designed to be used by firefighters and medical workers. Read
PocketPCThoughts review of the FlyCam-CF, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera attachment for Pocket PCs. It’s about time that the resolution of these modules started to bump up a little, it’d be nice to be able to take a decent photo with one of these things. Read
CNET on Sony’s Qualia line of ultra-high end electronics that is hand picked by CEO Nobuyuki Idei, COO Kunitake Ando, and the several other top Sony types. Among the gadgets that’ll make up the Qualia line are a 36-inch color monitor, a 2.11 megapixel digital camera, and a Super Audio CD player. They come out…