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Lengthy PC World survey of the field of Tablet PCs, including a handy comparison at the and of Tablet PCs with its low-rent cousin, the SmartDisplay. They look at nine of the more popular Tablet PCs, picking Fujitsu’s Stylistic ST4000 and Toshiba’s Portege 3500 (pictured at right) as the best of the bunch. Read Amazon…
It’s like the Turing test, but for dogs: Will a real dog attack one of Sony’s Aibo robotic dogs if it thinks that the artificial canine is going after its food? Fortunately, scientists at Sony’s Computer Science Lab in Paris are on the case, with the hilarious results caught on videotape, America’s Funniest Home Video-style:…
Cellphones running Microsoft’s new Smartphone operating system are already out in Europe, and it looks like AT&T Wireless will be the first carrier to make them available in the US. Read
Turns out the rumors were true. SONICblue filed for bankruptcy today. They’re going to sell their ReplayTV and Rio business units to D&M Holdings, which is the parent company of Denon and Marantz, two Japanese stereo equipment companies. Hopefully ReplayTV’s monthly service will continue to be offered uninterrupted to subscribers. Read [Thanks, Peter]
From Panasonic: the world’s smallest and lightest external DVD burner. The LF-P567C connects to a PC via USB 2.0, and is just 17mm thick. Read [Translated from Japanese using Babelfish]
Finally, a cameraphone that works with Sprint PCS that we might consider buying: the SPH-A600 from Samsung. Like nearly every Samsung cellphone, the A600 has the clamshell design we’re partial to, a 260,000 color screen that rotates and flips around, and a swiveling built-in camera with 4x digital zoom. Read
More details on that new BlackBerry-like wireless Palm PDA from Hunetec. Looks like it’s going to be sold by WebLink Wireless for about $200-$300. Read [Thanks, Willmonwah]
Tiny new 1-inch 1.5 GB hard drive from Cornice that costs about half as much as Hitachi’s 1GB Microdrive. Apparently this is the same hard drive that Samsung uses in its “tapeless” digital camcorder, the DV-4200. Read
The photo gallery Mobile Burn put together of all the new Sony Ericsson cellphones introduced at CeBIT last week has a picture of what might just be possibly the silliest use of Bluetooth yet: to race model cars. Sony Ericsson built a race track with little cars that could be controlled remotely using Bluetooth-enabled handsets.…
Part one of Ars Technica’s guide to capturing, cleaning, and compressing video. Read
Rich Brome of PhoneScoop writes in with some comments about the color Hiptop and Verizon’s new high-speed 1xEV-DO cellular network: The color Hiptop will have a 65,000 TFT display. The Danger people told me at CTIA they have (had) various prototypes will all kinds of displays, but they have settled on the high-end TFT they…
No details on who makes this (since it’s running Windows XP it’s obviously not by Apple), but check out this “iTablet” that someone spotted last week at CeBIT. It looks a lot like what you’d expect an Apple tablet computer to look like. Read
ZDNet has a first look at Toshiba’s new WiFi-enabled e750 Pocket PC, which improves upon its predecessor, the e740, with a better LCD screen, the addition of 32MB of flash ROM, and a slightly faster processor. Read
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Also buried in that ViewSonic announcement: an update to its V1100 Tablet PC that’ll let you use it as a voice over IP over WiFi telephone via an included Bluetooth headset. Read
The followup to ViewSonic’s V35 Pocket PC is coming. The V37 looks like it’ll have a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 64MB of ROM, and an optional WiFi card. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
New BlackBerry-like two-pager from HuneTec that runs on the Palm operating system. The H5000 looks eerily like the BlackBerry 6710, and has a built-in mini-keyboard, 8MB of RAM, and a monochrome, rather than color, LCD screen. Read
A reader who wishes remain to anonymous wrote in to say that he’s played with the new color HipTop from Danger, and that’s not all that hot: I saw a pre-production model while out in CA, and if the production model follows the same specs, it’s got a *terrible* washed-out LCD display. Dual-scan, not active.…
Two new DV camcorders from Canon that double as 1.33 megapixel digital still cameras. Both the Optura 10 and Optura 20 have 16x optical zoom lenses, Firewire for transferring video to a PC, and slots for saving still images to MMC and SD memory cards. Read
You’d be crazy to connect a laptop to the Internet using this instead of WiFi, but Belkin has a new Bluetooth wireless access point which can be used for connecting a PDA or other Bluetooth-enabled gadgets to your local network. Has a USB print server as well. Read