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Wait a second. So Sony Ericsson’s widely anticipated P800 smartphone is about to go on sale in Bulgaria, but it’s still weeks away from being available in the US? Read
Well probably not, but a new report by In-Stat/MDR suggests that PDAs will ultimately lose out to smartphones, and that PDAs won’t ever break out and become mass market devices. Probably true, but if so it’ll be because smartphones adopt many of the features associated with PDAs, like email, Internet, organizer, etc. Read [Via Mobitopia,…
Tiny new 2.8GHz desktop computer from Stealth Computer Corporation that just 10″x5.82″x2.79″ and might be the smallest full-featured PC you can buy. Don’t hold us to that though, cause you never know these days. Read
Oh, and if you’re having trouble keeping track of all those new Sony Ericsson cellphones that’ve just come out (something that’s perfectly understandable)CNET also has a handy roundup. Read
CNET review of that new widescreen Dell laptop, the Inspiron 8500. It’s not too much of a surprise that they like it: Dell should bundle a big supply of popcorn with its new Inspiron 8500 series because the laptop’s awesome 15.4-inch, wide-aspect display will have you watching DVD movies all night. This completely redesigned desktop…
Piece in this week’s Circuits section of the New York Times on efforts to make robots more human-like. Read
New 3 megapixel digital camera from Ricoh that is supposed to be not just one of the fastest digital cameras around, but actually even beats out regular 35mm cameras in terms of shutter response time. But what’s also nice about the Caplio G3 is that in a pinch you can swap out its rechargeable lithium-ion…
Despite the fact that they’re made by a Canadian, rather than an American, company, members of Congress love their BlackBerrys so much that Congress actually intervened recently in the recent patent-infringement lawsuit that’s been filed against RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry. Read Amazon
Amazon sale on all iRiver MP3-compatible CD players, like the superthin (16.7 mm) SlimX iMP-350 (pictured at right). Amazon
New redesigned version of Handspring’s Treo mobile communicator is due out this summer. Read
If you really love toast you might want to consider kicking back a few bucks to The Toaster Museum. They’re trying to raise money to find a permanent location for their extensive collection of toasters, toaster art, vintage toaster ads, and toaster toys. In the meantime you can check out their online Cyber Toaster Museum.…
Decent BBC news article on the hot smartphone of the moment, the P800 from Sony Ericsson and the wide array of features it has: The P800 unquestionably boasts a tantalising array of features. It has a built-in digital camera, video player, an MP3 player, a personal organiser with a colour touchscreen. It boasts polyphonic sound,…
80211-Planet review of the new AirPort Extreme wireless base station from Apple. Still can’t get over how bad the name is. Read Amazon [Via EnvyNews]
Review of the Anoto, a new Bluetooth pen that can transmit what you’re writing directly to a computer or a cellphone and either store it as a file or send it off as an text message or email. You do have to do the writing on special paper, but the Anoto looks like it’d be…
PC World on Panasonic’s SV-AV30, a four-in-one gadget that combines a digital camera with an MP3 player, digital voice recorder, and a camcorder that records video directly as MPEG-4 files and stores it on SecureDigital memory cards. The SV-AV30’s predecessor, the SV-AV10, didn’t exactly find a warm reception, and the SV-AV30, with a low resolution…
It started with the 200A5 from vpr Matrix; now the trend of putting widescreen displays in PC laptops continues, with Dell of all companies coming out with a new widescreen laptop. Their new Inspiron 8500 has a wide aspect 1900×1200 pixel 15.4-inch WUXGA screen, which is reportedly enough resolution for high-definition television. The rest of…
New Pocket PC from Toshiba. The Genio e550c has a built-in digital camera with a flash on the back, a 400MHz processor, and 128MB of RAM. Available in Japan in three weeks, but there’s no indication when the e550c might go on sale here. Read
Admit it, there’s no way to not look like a complete tool when you walk around town talking on a cellphone with one of those hands-free headsets. To rectify the situation, some guy at MIT (where else?) hacked an old telephone handset and hooked it up to his Nokia cellphone. Read
First fuel cell for laptops from Toshiba. Uses concentrated methanol, but right now a single catridge can only power a laptop for about five hours, which isn’t much longer than most lithium-ion batteries. Read [Via BoingBoing]
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