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One of next-generation Treo mobile communicators, which aren’t due out until September, was spotted at a Sprint PCS user forum in Dallas the other day. The Treo 600 looks like it’s going to pretty different from previous models, and will be thinner and longer than any of the earlier Treos and have a smaller thumb…
A couple of new flat panel high definition televisions, a 37-inch LCD from Sharp’s AQUOS line, and a 42-inch plasma from ViewSonic. Read – Sharp AQUOS Read – ViewSonic VPW450HD
Three new EasyShare digital cameras from Kodak (pictured from left to right), the two megapixel CX6200, the three megapixel CX6330, which also has a 3x optical zoom lens, and the four megapixel DX6440, with a 4x optical zoom lens. The CX6200 is set to retail for $129, pusing the price of a two megapixel digital…
Looks like Samsung’s long-overdue hard drive MP3 player, the YP-900GT, has been delayed even further and won’t be out now until September. The YP-900GT, which has a 10GB hard drive, a built-in FM tuner, and an FM transmitter for listening to it on a nearby radio, would have been a great competitor to the iPod…
Over at MobileBurn, a gallery of photos of the Compal Avenger, the cellphone that Microsoft is including with its Smartphone operating system developers kit. The Avenger isn’t out yet, but it looks like it might be the third phone running the Smartphone OS to hit the market. Read
CNET on Cornice’s new low cost 1.5GB hard drive, which is just 1-inch in diameter. We first reported on this a couple of months ago, when it turned up in Samsung’s “tapeless” DV-4200 digital camcorder, and now it looks like this hard drive is going to start showing up in MP3 players from RCA, Rio,…
No doubt disappointing a great many people (myself included), Steve Jobs says Apple isn’t working on a tablet computer or a PDA: Interviewed on stage at the D:All Things Digital ‘executive conference’, Jobs said that Apple had taken a look at the tablet – a notebook computer into which data can be entered by writing…
GK, our Tokyo correspondent, tips us off to Sotec’s new all-in-one desktop PC which is made with laptop parts and is designed to look like a high-heeled women’s shoe from the side. The Afina AS7180AV comes with 1533MHz Athlon processor, 256MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, a DVD/CD-RW combination drive, and a built-in TV…
For those that like gagets, this is the place. It covers new gagets as news of them hits the net. Even non-geeks can enjoy it, as its keeps the entries as simple summaries, with a link if you want to go deeper.
This is what I call “Geek Heaven”. This site, which is updated 2-3 times a day, lists all the gadgets that come out in the market. The site also has short writeups about most items, and provides links to detailed ones too.
To add to today’s previous posts about the world’s smallest fuel cell and rugged Tablet PC, it’s the world’s smallest external DVD/CD-RW drive. The Komodo is just six-tenths of an inch thick and combines a 24x CD-RW burner with an 8x DVD player. Connects to a PC using USB 2.0. Guess it’s a big day…
Not technically a gadget, but Mitsubishi has developed what they’re claiming is the world’s smallest 1 kilowatt fuel cell. It still sounds a bit big to us (100x60x30cm) but then again we don’t really know much about fuel cells except that we expect to have one powering our next laptop. Read
Instead of using a password to unlock your cellphone, a Japanese company called Earth Beat has come up with a way to use a picture instead. You just snap a picture of yourself with your cameraphone, then whenever you want to unlock the phone it uses face recognition technology to verify that the person trying…
Nothing particularly surprising about this, but TiVo is going to start selling information about what its users are watching and (more importantly) how they’re watching to advertisers and networks: [T]he company can monitor viewers’ second-by-second behavior. It can tell how many viewers in a certain ZIP code clicked away at what moment in a commercial,…
The rumors were true. After a flurry a last minute speculation about this, Canon just announced today its latest “flagship” digital camera. The PowerShot G5 has a resolution of five megapixels and a 4x optical zoom lens. Hits stores later this month. Read [Via MacMinute]
From CNET Asia, some do’s and do not do’s on using cameraphones in public. Most of them are pretty obvious, and apply to regular photography as well, but there are few good tips, like: DO point the lens away from others when you’re using the phone, preferably at the ground. DO make sure you have…
From Itronix, the world’s smallest and lightest ruggedized Tablet PC. With battery the GoBook Tablet weighs just 3.7 pounds, and comes with a 30GB hard drive, up to 640MB of RAM, and the option to have integrated GPRS, CDMA, 802.11b, or Bluetooth, or any combination of three of those. The processor on the GoBook is…
New line of personal video players from Archos. The AV300 comes in 20GB and 40GB varieties, both of which have 3.8-inch color LCD screens, TV out ports for connecting to a television, can record up to 80 hours of programming directly off of television (courtesy of an attachment), and can play video files encoded in…
This has been in the works for ages, but RIM has finally released its first color BlackBerry, at least in Europe. The 7230 has 16MB of RAM, and besides doing email it also has a built-in GSM phone. Read
ThreeGMobile.net review of the Sagem MY-X6 (the cellphone on the right), which somewhat resembles Sony Ericsson’s T610 (you know, the one that just got recalled). Anyway, the MY-X6 has a 65,000 color screen, a decent built-in digital camera, but, unfortunately, no Bluetooth. Read [Thanks, Mike]