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Nice, detailed review of HP’s new iPaQ H5450 Pocket PC over at PocketPCPassion.com. Read
FutureLooks review of Samsung’s stylish new 17-inch LCD monitor, the SyncMaster 171P, which is designed by Porsche Design of Austria. That’s the same firm that created the vpr Matrix 200A5 laptop for Best Buy. Besides looking good, the Syncmaster 171P can also rotate from landscape to portrait position depending on what you’re working on. Read…
Gadgets boutique TKNY is having a party tomorrow night. If you’re in New York, come by. Read
Lots of handhelds news today. Infosync looks at HP’s new flagship Pocket PC, the iPAQ H5450, which comes loaded with high-end features: a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, built-in Bluetooth and 802.11b, a 3.8″ 16-bit transflective touchscreen, a Secure Digital I/O slot, and a biometric fingerprint scanner. Read
Speaking of budget PDAs, Royal has a couple of new low-end handhelds coming out, the Linea16, which has 16MB of RAM, and the Linea8, which has 8MB of RAM. Each sells for $99 and $59 respectively. Read
Palm Infocenter on rumors of a new Palm OS powered SmartPhone that looks a little bit like a Pocket PC Phone. No details on who is behind this or when it might come out. Read
You gotta love Palm for coming out with the Zire, its new budget handheld, but to keep the price low, they only put a measly two megabytes of RAM in it, which is nothing these days. Rather than wait for Palm to offer an 8 or 16MB version of the Zire, some industrious gadget hackers…
CNET reviews Motorola’s new 3.3×1.7×0.8 inch V66 cellphone, and asks a question not often posed in the gadget world: Is it too small? Read
A new Linux-based handheld co-developed by IBM with Consumer Direct Link that doubles as a dual-band (GSM and GPRS) cellphone. The Paron MPC, as it’s called has built-in Bluetooth, a 320×240 pixel touchscreen, a 206MHz processor, up to 64MB of RAM, and perhaps most interestingly, a biometric fingerprint sensor for authenticating users. Read
It’s a little scary to think about ordinary people, instead of trained medical professionals, electroshocking your heart, but Phillips has received approval from the FDA to sell its HeartStart Home Defibrillator to the public. Priced to sell at $2295. Read
CNET guide to power-line networking, which uses your home’s electrical wiring to create a high-speed, 14mbps network. Read
The New York Times on TiVo’s latest competition: new DVRs, like RCA’s Scenium DRS7000N (pictured at right) and Panasonic’s DMR-HS2, that have built-in DVD players along with their hard drives. Read Amazon – RCA Scenium Amazon – Panasonic DMR-HS2
Viewsonic and Dell aren’t the only ones entering the low-end of the Pocket PC market. HP has its own budget handheld on the way, the iPAQ h1910. The h1910 has a relatively slow processor (just 200Mhz), but does have a 64,000 color, 3.5-inch screen, 64MB of RAM, and 16MB of Flash ROM. Read
InfoWorld on plans by StepUp Computing to introduce an $799 tablet computer called the DocuNote that doesn’t run Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, but can run a version the Lindows OS. The DocuNote has an 8.4-inch touchscreen, a 667MHz Crusoe Processor, 256MB of RAM, and a 20GB hard drive. Read [Via Slashdot]
Amazon has no fewer than sixteen DVD players on sale for less than $100. Hyundai’s HDP-550S (pictured at right) is just $69.99. How much cheaper can these things get? How long until the first sub-$50 DVD player? Amazon
You knew something like this was coming sooner or later. At Comdex next week Microsoft is planning to unveil Smart Objects, a whole line of household items like alarm clocks, kitchen appliances, and stereo equipment that can connect to the Internet. In theory this means alarm clocks that can wake you up earlier if there’s…
A couple of CD burner reviews, one by Hardware Zone of Iomega’s new Predator portable 40x burner, and another by Extreme MHz of Yamaha’s CRW-F1 44x internal burner. Read – Iomega Predator Read – Yamaha CRW-F1
The Gadgeteer review of a PCMCIA card from I-O Data that can read Secure Digital cards, Memory Sticks, and Smart Media cards. It’s as much as ten times faster to use one of these readers for transferring data to or from a card on handheld or a digital camera than to connect the device directly…
Nick’s up on Vonage: “Vonage supplies a box which you plug into your local network. The difference: you can plug an ordinary handset in the back, Vonage offers a local phone number, and routes inbound calls to the box. It’s full local and national phone service, for $40 per month.” Read
Excellent, lengthy article in by Peter Lewis in Fortune about Sony and its vision of the future for gadgets and consumer electronics. Get ready for the Airboard, the SDR-4X, and the Cocoon. Read