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Whole bunch of stylish new cellphones from Kyocera with names like the Phantom, the Blade, the Slider, and the Opal. They sound more like names for cars than names for handsets, but that type of nomenclature is loads better than just designating your phone with a string of numbers or making up something inane like…
USA Today article on how cellphones are replacing landlines, with about seven million Americans having only a cellphone. Read
Brighthand has the scoop on a new Bluetooth Pocket PC coming from HP. The long-rumored iPAQ h2200 will have a 64,000 color transflective LCD screen, up to 128MB of RAM, a 400MHz processor, have an SDIO expansion slot for adding peripherals like digital cameras and WiFi networking cards, and run the new version of the…
For those with cellphones that keep dying on them: A new cellphone from Philips that has thirty days, or 750 hours, of standby time. The only problem is that it looks like the Xenium 9@9 ++ (that’s really what it’s called, which makes you wonder if they’re actually trying to give it a ridiculous name)…
New York Times on how all the new gadgets journalists are using to cover the war, like compact satellite dishes, night scopes, digital video cameras, and of course, those live videophones, are changing war reporting: Reporters covering the war in Iraq are at one with their technology as never before. Television reporters are toting hand-held…
Mena Trott, co-creator of Movable Type and the designer of the Gizmodo website, has been having some problems with her Sidekick (it won’t turn on). But what’s been especially hilarious has been Danger’s response: My Sidekick has entered a “deep sleep” mode and can not be awoken by the fix of reseting/powering on or pressing…
ZDNet review of the Airpanel V110 from ViewSonic, the first SmartDisplay to make it to market. We still can’t figure out who these are aimed at. SmartDisplays are kind of like wireless portable monitors for the home market, but they cost over a thousand bucks (you could get a decent laptop for that), the PC…
Can you believe that a million DVD-Audio players have been sold? Is anyone else just the slightest bit surprised by that figure? Where in the heck are all of them? Read
New personal robot from Toshiba called the ApriAlpha that has face and speech recognition, a voice synthesizer, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and runs on a fuel cell rather than batteries. It’s not clear what the ApriAlpha can actually do, though it does kinda resemble one of those old Welltron 8-track cassette players. Read
Amazon deal on GVision’s L4BX 14″ LCD monitor. Not the brightest or sharpest LCD on the block, but the price ($161.57 after rebate) might make it a little easier to overlook those flaws. Amazon – GVision L4BX 14″
The first of Dell’s new line of printers – two laser jets and an inkjet – come out this week. They’re going right for HP’s jugular with this, so expect these printers to be priced very aggressively. Read
The Los Angeles Police Department is going to put WiFi-enabled handhelds from Symbol Technologies in all of its squad cars, and wireless access points in police stations all over the city. Read
Satellite phones had all but dropped out of public consciousness these past few years, but now with journalists using them to report on the war in Iraq MobileTracker has a timely post on how you can get your own satellite phone. They’re surprisingly cheap. Qualcomm has a $600 handset out, which is about what you…
No, it’s not a phone for Marc Almond; it’s a new handset from Eleksen that’s made from fabric and is literally soft. Could you imagine how stupid you’d look whipping out a floppy cellphone during a business meeting? Then again, if you’re ever going to sell cellphones to toddlers… Read
Wired News report that the Navy is working on a gadget that can instantly translate spoken Arabic into English. It’s still a year away from being ready though, and so it won’t be available for use during the current conflict. Read
Some more speculation that Palm will introduce a version of its Tungsten W handheld that has built-in WiFi instead of a GSM/GPRS cellphone. Read
Trio of reviews of Nikon’s new 3.2 megapixel Coolpix 3100. The 3100 has a 3x optical zoom lens, and unlike most point-and-shoot digital cameras, can use an external flash. Read – Digital Camera Resource Read – Steve’s Digicams Read – Imaging Resource Amazon – Nikon Coolpix 3100
Really fresh-looking keyboard for Macs called the iceKey that has the same minimal, all-white design as the iBook, and even has the same kind of keys as the iBook and the PowerBook G4. Read
New FireWire digital audio interface from Texas Instruments called the iceLynx that lets you hook up a PC with a Firewire port to stereo equipment that has a co-axial S/P-DIF connection: The Firewire S/P-DIF converter allows Dolby Digital and PCM audio to be transferred from a network of IEEE-1394 devices (which may include laptops and…
John Dvorak predicts that Apple will drop Motorola and start using Intel chips in its laptops and notebooks within 18 months. A bold claim (though nothing we hadn’t heard before), but he goes even further: that Apple will use Intel’s new Itanium chips, which PC manufacturers have largely stayed away from. This could potentially be…