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French company Novatek’s first foray into the world of the Pocket PC, the PPC640. 64MB of RAM, and a 240×320 TFT display, but at 380 euros, seems a bit expensive. No word on whether the PPC640 will be sold in outside of Europe. Read [Babelfish translation from French]
Samsung’s ML-1440 Laser Printer receives TweakNews.net’s Top Rank Award, which apparently is the site’s highest accolade. Read Amazon
Missed this news from the other day. DirecTV is cutting the monthly fee it charges subscribers who have DirecTiVo from $9.99 to $4.99 per month. Read Amazon
T3 on Sharp’s new Linux-based the Zaurus SL-A300, which at 13x69x113mm and 120g, is touted as the world’s smallest PDA. Sadly, Sharp has no plans for a US release. Read
We don’t normally cover gaming in Gizmodo, but it’s kind of a slow day for gadgets news. Reuters hints that the PlayStation 3 may not actually be a new box at all, but an operating system that can support games on a variety of networked home entertainment devices. Distribution is the new convergence. Read
Huge sale over at Amazon on DVD players. Samsung’s DVD-V2000 DVD/VCR Combo is down to $189.99. Amazon
CNet roundup of the latest digital video recorders. Read Amazon
A new mobile wireless voice communications system from Vocera which runs on top of an 802.11b network. The best part: the voice-activated, Star Trek: The Next Generation-style communication badges. Read
HP’s new Deskjet 5550, which can print in over a million colors. Tom’s Hardware is calling it the star of the season. Read Buy
Amazon deal on a Pocket PC Phone from T-Mobile. Just $299.99 with activation and mail-in rebate. Buy
Nokia introduces its camera phone, the 3650, today. It’s the first one to hit the American market with the camera built-in, rather than as a separate attachment. Read
Wearable computing to take off. Venture Development Corporation are predicting yearly sales of over a half billion dollars in 2006 of clothes and accessories with built-in MP3 players and PDAs. The only problem: does anyone really want to have to wear the same jacket every day just to be able to check your email? Read
Danger’s Sidekick Hiptop device hasn’t even hit stores yet, and already the rumors are flying that a version with a color screen is in the works. Read
The SDcam from Hanvit. It’s a camera that pops into the SD slot of a Pocket PC, though like many of these things, it doesn’t take the greatest pictures. Comes out next month. Read [Babelfish translation from Korean]
Could a 19″ iMac be on the way? Taiwanese publication Economic News is reporting that Apple has contracted a Taiwanese manufacturer to build them and that they’ll debut in the fourth quarter of this year. Read
Faced with a class action lawsuit, Palm has decided to offer full refunds to m130 owners who feel duped by the fact that the m130 can only display 58,621 “color combinations”, not the 65,000+ colors promised in advertisements. Definitely the right thing to do, even if it’ll cost them a lot of money. Read
CNet compares the four high-end Pocket PC models that each come standard with 64MB of RAM. Read Buy
For the travelling digital photographer – the eFilm PicturePad, a portable hard drive with a slot for CompactFlash cards. When you run out of space, just pop the card in and copy the images onto the drive. It even comes with a small LCD screen for viewing the pictures you’ve just taken. Comes in 20…
The HiFi-Link, from Xitel, which is basically a USB cable with a built-in 20 bit digital-to-audio converter that connects your PC directly to your home stereo system. There are a few other USB audio output devices like Roland’s UA-30 which do the same thing, but the HiFi-Link is probably the most affordable available. Read Buy
There’s a new Bluetooth-enabled digital camera from Sony, the four megapixel DSC-FX77. You can transfer files to your PC wirelessly now, rather than have to connect up a cable. Eventually these cameras should be able to bypass PCs entirely and transfer files directly to little Bluetooth-enabled storage drives. Read