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Great deal over at Amazon for a Toshiba e310 Pcoket PC, which has a 16-bit color screen and comes with 32MB of RAM. It’s just $249 after rebate. Free shipping too. Amazon
The Gadgeteer reviews the new Zayo Pocket PC. Read CNET column on the true significance of the Archos Jukebox Multimedia 20. Read ZDnet review of Fujifilm’s new 3.3 megapixel camera, the FinePpix F601. Read Amazon
Tom’s Hardware looks at network-based digital cameras like the D-Link DCS-1000W, which connects to a your wireless LAN via 802.11b and can be used for surveillance anywhere within range. Who you spy on is your business. Read Amazon
X-bit Labs rates 13 different IDE hard disk drives. Interestingly enough, no particular hard drive dominates more than a handful of the benchmark tests. Read
Feeling the heat from Microsoft, Logitech’s introduced the MX Series, a line of stylish new mice that includes the MX700, a very cool looking silver and black cordless optical mouse. Read Amazon
Lots of Palm news lately. Geek.com has a leaked photo of the Palm’s new budget handheld, the Zire, which comes out October 7th, and will cost $99. Hard to tell from the picture, but it looks a little like an iPod. Definitely a much better looking gadget than the model it’s replacing, the Palm m105.…
A smartphone from Palm is on its wayl that looks like it’s designed to compete with Handspring’s Treo. The Tungsten W, as it’s rumored to be named, will run on the GPRS network, have a 320 x 320 color screen, and 16MB of RAM. Palm Infocenter has a sneakpeak. Read
Samsung’s come out with its own iPod clone. The Yepp YP-900 comes with the same 10GB Toshiba 1.8-inch hard disk that comes in the iPod, but uses USB 2.0 for file-transfers rather than FireWire. Read
TechTV rates sub-$400 home theater setups that come complete with a DVD player, five speakers, and a subwoofer all in a box. Their pick: Panasonic’s SC-HT75, which is just $330 over at Amazon. Read Amazon
ExtremeTech guide to setting up your PC so that it’ll work with any universal remote, so that it’ll work with the rest of your home entertainment rig. Read
It’s been a long wait, but the iPod for Windows is out! Jack Schofield of the Guardian grumbles that there it there isn’t a USB 2.0 version, and that iTunes hasn’t been ported to the PC, but those are small quibbles with what is without doubt the best designed digital audio player on the market.…
SONICblue has a new line of Rio MP3 players aimed at the sports enthusiast, the S10 and the S30S. Both come with 64MB of RAM (expandable to 192MB), and the S30S even comes with an FM tuner. Read Amazon
A sleek new Pocket PC from Zayo comes out next month. They claim will be the fastest, slimmest, and lightest Pocket PC on the market. With a 400MHz Intel processor, and just half an inch thick, and weighing just 4.9 ounces, the have a pretty strong case. It’s good to see more players entering this…
A stylish new laptop docking station from Sherpaq called the Oyster. The laptop pops in completely unfolded and upright, so that the screen is at eye level. All your cables are hidden in back in a rear storage bay. Read
Further undermining the already precarious state of foreign language instruction in the United States: new software from IBM for the Pocket PC that translates English text into one of four languages (French, Italian, German, and Spanish), and then actually pronounces the translated text for you. Read Amazon
CNET review of one of the hottest gadgets around right now, the 20GB Archos Multimedia Jukebox, which can play MP3s, shoot video, take digital photos or store them from your digital camera. This veritable Swiss Army Knife of gadgets gets an Editor’s Choice from them. Read
Another hot gadget from Japan: the XF-800, a WiFi-enabled eight-inch LCD television from Casio. A separate TV tuner uses MPEG-2 compression and sends the signal wirelessly to the TV, which can be carried anywhere within range. It’s even waterproof, so you can watch a DVD or cable or satellite television while sitting in the pool.…
InfoSync’s got the first look at HP’s new iPAQ H500 series of Pocket PCs. Wireless is the key feature of this series, with one model having integrated GPS, another integrated WLAN and a third integrated GSM/GPRS. Some models will come with biometric fingerprint scanners as well. Read
The New York Times tries to make sense of the plethora of options out there now for data storage. Read
A keyboard from Canesta made entirely of light. Instead of a cramped thumb keyboard, this works by having a tiny light that attaches to or is integrated into a PDA or a cellphone and projects an image of a keyboard onto any flat surface. Then you just tap away at the images, like a regular…