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Cingular is rolling out its BlackBerry phone variant, the 7100g (why not 7100c?). It was first announced in January, so it’s not exactly unknown—even more so when you realize that it’s effectively the same model as the T-Mobile 7100t. It’s only available via the business sales units right now, but you’ll be able to pick…
The AP review of the m:robe 500i tears apart Olympus’s new flagship music player as “basically a shiny brick.” While that could be high praise depending on context, it echoes my feelings about the 500i ever since I had my hands on it at CES: too big, too expensive, and too little camera from a…
Firebox has another Skype-capable Voice-over-IP phone, called the ‘Cyberphone.’ Just plug the corded handset into an available USB port and away you go. The price of around $50 is actually a bit high for this sort of thing, believe it or not. It won’t be too long before you’ll be getting free USB handsets when…
Dell has updated their Digital Jukebox to include the new DJ30, a 30GB version of the company’s MP3 player which will sell for $300. It’s basically the same unit as the DJ20, but does include a cradle for charging and audio out. I would have hoped that the DJ30 would take the DJ20’s price point…
Denon is showing off this update to 1993’s S1 amplifier, dubbed the PMA-SA1 (the ‘S’ is for ‘Sensitive’). The amp is a 30kg metal shelf-monster that Denon claims can stand up to the best tube amps around, and uses manufacturing tricks like a sand-molded condenser plate designed to soak up vibration. I’m sure it’s filled…
Being the next iPod might be difficult, but being the next Walkman is pretty easy. Maybe that’s why Panasonic has announced their new RQ-SX59 K7, an audio cassette player with in-line remote and rechargeable battery. It even comes with its own docking cradle to make topping off the battery easy-peasy. With a long-play cassette, Panasonic…
In what at least to me seems like a proper waste of time spent both researching and developing, Saab has announced that they are working on a keychain breathalyser. Because losing your keys isn’t already an ordeal enough, now you’ll be losing your keys and a $400 key fob that carries with it the healthy…
I don’t know how much stock to put in either organization, but TRUSTe has withdrawn its approval of FreeiPods.com, saying they do not protect children’s data and had changed their method of dealing with customers’ private information without properly notifying them. So basically the upshot is two-fold: the spam farmers marketing company isn’t taking utmost…
Showcasing their creativity in the tight constrains of thick and less-thick black bars, Design Barcode, Inc. has developed a series of (functional!) barcodes inspired by surfing, pizza and, well, anything else they can think of. This’ll be pretty neat to start seeing on product packages if it ever makes it stateside. Of course, nothing this…
DoCoMo’s new ‘Lechiffon’ handsets for girls are supposed to be cute, but except for the nifty hinge that reminds me a bit of the Nokia 2650 (probably the most stylish Nokia ever made). The handsets are built by Panasonic and have matching, fake leather covers. In fact, besides the fact that they’re pink, there’s really…
Mozongo reviews the Motorola MPx220, which has been out for a while, but has a new firmware that aims to resolve some of the issues people first experienced with the Windows Mobile handset. The biggest issue, the sound quality while making calls, appears to be fixed—that means it’s probably worth considering the phone again, especially…
Lifehacker Don’t let others listen in on your email Thou shalt not click on emailed links MP3Tunes – buy songs online, no strings attached https://lifehacker.com/dont-let-others-listen-in-on-your-email-32565 Kotaku Video: Bug Creates Bombs in World of Warcraft Making A Real Living Off Virtual Land Pre-E3 Playstation 3 Debut http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/oddities/video-bug-creates-bombs-in-world-of-warcraft-032609.php Jalopnik Audi and the Weekend Handyman Hummer on a…
We now know where those Sirius satellite radio iPod rumors came from: Sirius themselves. Apparently Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin talked to Apple’s Steve Jobs about adding satellite service to the iPod, but Jobs turned them down. That’s sort of a bummer—after playing with the XM MyFi units for a while, I’m convinced portable, record-capable satellite…
Czech manufacturer Jablotron is making this cellphone—and I mean the one on the right—for the elderly. The idea is that the larger unit will be easier to handle and use, although obviously not as easy to carry to bingo. I’d call them crazy, but Jablotron claims to have receiver over 100,000 orders for the phone…
Thanko has updated their MP3 playing headphones to include a new 512MB model, although they remain in most other respects pretty much the same. The ButterFly 2 has a 10-hour rechargeable battery which can be charged over its USB 1.1 connection. The best part, though, is that they headphones cost around $130, which is pretty…
Totally fake, of course, but a pleasant design, I thought. What I like the most is the indented acrylic on the sides—don’t ask me why, I just think it looks swanky. Of course if the phone bulbed out in the middle over the screen, you’d never be able to get the earpiece and the microphone…
FireWire has plenty of bandwidth for things like audio, and Terratec’s new Aureon 7.1 sound ‘device’ aims to exploit every bit of that bus it can. With a brash orange and charcoal design you’ll either love or loathe, it’s aimed more at home theater user more than the music maker (Terratec makes another FireWire sound…
Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has gotten the axe from HP’s board of directors. That’s not important today (unless you’re riding the currently 11% stock jump since the news broke), but gives us hope that HP may bootstrap itself again into a pioneering computer and consumer electronics company. They’ve got a lot of good products…
I’m pretty sure this patent from Nokia, filed in 2001 and just approved by the US Government (and hey, what isn’t!) is talking about using a simple radio frequency detector to light up an LED indicator on a pair of glasses and not anything more fancy than that. That would make it easy to tell…
It’s camera season again, and Sanyo adds a new Xacti to their line-up to replace the S3 and S4 models. The DSC-S5 is a 5-megapixel cameras with a 1.8-inch LCD screen and a 2.8x optical zoom. It’s not going to blow your mind or anything, but it’s expected to hit the streets for a little…