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Microsoft is hosting a chat with the team behind the Pocket PC Phone tomorrow at 4PM EST, so if you’re thinking of getting one, or already have one and want to tell them what you like or don’t like about it, you might want to drop by. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
Not sure how well something like this is going to go over, since there are plenty of guitar players who look down on people who use transistors in their amps rather than vacuum tubes, but music equipment maker Gibson is building guitars, amps, and speakers that all have built-in Ethernet ports and can be networked…
Oddly enough, keyboards keep getting weird and weirder. Witness the Combimouse, a keyboard split into two parts, the right side of which you can grip and move around like a mouse. Read
Someone’s finally ported Doom to Sony Ericsson’s P800 color cellphone. The ability to play Doom has become something of a rite of passage for just about any gadget that comes out these days with an operating system. Read
Coming next year: the Hi Vision Recorder from Hitachi, which will be the first DVD burner to use a blu-ray laser, as opposed to a red laser, to store up to 27GB on a single disc. A blue laser has a shorter wavelength than a red laser, and thus can fit more data into the…
Ric Manning does a side-by-side comparison of Gateway’s new 42″ plasma television and a new 34″ flat screen television from Philips that features something called “Pixel Plus”, which is supposed to increase image resolution. Both cost about the same amount of money ($3000), and while the Gateway’s bigger and thinner, the Philips can display high-definition…
Everyone attending this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is getting an iPAQ h5450 Pocket PC from HP. Yeah, let’s give free handhelds to a few thousand of those people in the world who least need to be given anything for free. Read Amazon
Tom’s Hardware Guide review of the DP-450 from KiSS Technology, the first DVD player that will also play videos encoded in DivX. DivX is a video codec that can compress video to much smaller sizes than MPEG-2, which is what is used for regular DVDs. If you’ve ever downloaded a movie over the Internet using…
From Anthro, a computer desk called the iCart II designed specifically for iMac owners who don’t have much extra space around the house or office for a proper computer desk. Read
It’s only just starting to splash into public consciousness, but EvDO, that new standard for high-speed cellular networks, is already well on its way to edging out WiFi as the wireless world’s latest buzzword. Thankfully Alan Reiter breaks it down for us, and delivers the lowdown on whether EvDO, which rivals 802.11b in speed, and…
For those of you who need a more “rugged” handheld computer, ComputerWorld has a roundup the available options for PDAs, like the MX4 from LXE, that’ll take a licking and keep on ticking. Read
Ok, the names for MP3 players are getting totally out of hand. First there was the HyperHyde Loops II. Then the WalkieMusic from CyQ’ve. Now there’s the 5.4cm thick, business-card-sized Ravemetal CardRec MP3 Recorder from Seagrand. Ravemetal, huh? That’s just too easy. Read
Details are sketchy, but JVC is going to begin offering the first MiniDV camcorders that can record in high-definition. Read
Envy News review of the latest flash memory card format to be foisted upon the public, the postage stamp-sized XD-Picture Card. Besides adding further confusion to the mix, these cards don’t seem to be cheaper, faster, or even that cheaper than what’s was already out there out there. Read Amazon
Big sale on ink jet printers over at Amazon, like HP’s color Deskjet 3320 (pictured at right), which is just $47.49. How is it exactly that color inkjet printers got to be so cheap? Amazon
Kiss Technology has been coming out with some pretty hot gadgets lately, like a DVD player that plays DivX files and has an Ethernet port in the back. Now it looks like they’ve jumped into the monitor business, with a hot-looking, ultrathin widescreen 15″ LCD display. Read
PocketPCThoughts review of the IBiz Pocket Radio, an FM tuner that pops into the CF slot of a Pocket PC. These seem like these would be pretty handy, but how much would it cost to actually just build an FM tuner into a Pocket PC? If they can do it with an MP3 player, it…
In a piece last month about a new Pocket PC Phone from Samsung, we noticed that this new PDA connected to a new cellular network in South Korea called EvDO that promised speeds of up to 2.4 Mbps. We were slightly incredulous at the time, if for no other reason that something a whole other…
CNET roundup of the digital cameras that’ll give you the most bang for your buck. Their picks for the best of the bunch are Canon’s PowerShot S30 and the buzzworthy Dimage F100 from Minolta (pictured at right), which has been a favorite of reviewers lately. Read Amazon – Dimage F100
The iPod clones keep coming. The latest is the BA1000 from Bantam Interactive, which comes with a built-in MP3 recorder, so you can record directly from a CD player or turntable without having to use a PC. Comes in a 5GB and a 2GB version, has a built-in FM tuner (that you can record from…