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What the deuce? Cingular appears to have taken the Motorola V3 Razr off their website. I swear it was there yesterday—I even took a screenshot. (Thanks, David!) https://gizmodo.com/cingular-selling-v3-razr-24645 Related Cingular Selling V3 Razr [Gizmodo] Razr Archives [Gizmodo]
Nokia’s other two new phones, the 3230 and the 6020. Nokia 6020 Press Photos [Nokia] Nokia 3230 Press Photos [Nokia]
Boy that wasn’t much of a scoop, was it? Here are high-quality pictures of Nokia’s new smartphones, starting with the Nokia 7710. More pictures after the jump.
Investment bank Needham & Co. published a note yesterday claiming that PalmOne had “tacitly admitted” it was developing a version of the Treo smartphone that used Microsoft’s mobile versions of Windows as its operating system. Of course the news hit PalmOS maintainer PalmSource pretty badly as investors freaked a little about the future of the…
News is leaking a bit early of three new Nokia handsets, the 6020 [pictured], the 7010 (the big crazy Series 90 device we’ve been following for a while), and the 3230. The Nokia 6020 is a candy bar tri-band unit that will come in both European/Asian and American varieties sometime early next year, for about…
Although I’ve decided that FM transmitters are about as effective for me as looking through my playlists and humming the songs, iRock has announced two new Beamit wireless adapters, the 440FM and 450FM. The lower-end model should probably be skipped over, as it’s not only funky looking but it also is limited to just 12…
Ambient Devices, the people who make the Ambient Orb glowing plastic thing, have just released a new product into Radio Shacks everywhere, called the Wireless Weather Forecaster. Operating on the same wireless network that gives the Orbs their information, the $100 device will show weather forecasts for five days at a time, updating about every…
While it’s not a gadget, exactly, we felt it would be pretty rad of us to inform you of a new product from BMW—the “dog safety belt” represents the world’s first dog-only safety belt from an actual automobile manufacturer. Scheduled to be available for about 21,000 yen from dealers all across Japan on November 5th,…
There might be a cheesy Blockbuster banner ad blocking some of the text, but I’ve managed to make out from this DS IGN article that GameStop has allegedly stopped taking preorders for the Nintendo DS due their initial stock being all “reserved up.” Citing how the corporate party-poopers didn’t want to over-reserve the Nintendo DS,…
Because we like to start the day with the least interesting news ever written, we’d like to pass on the word that Verizon Wireless and LG have launched the LG VX6100, a clamshell phone that is an update of the reportedly popular LG VX6000. It looks… okay, I guess, with a 262k-color screen and a…
Samsung’s new 6-megapixel CCD camera, the Digimax A6, has launched and is available at your favorite retailer for the sporting price of $300. Only 32MB onboard (up from 16MB on the A5), but with SD/MMC capacity up to 512MB, which should be enough to hold a fair number of 2816 by 2112 pixel images. Not…
Dynamism has a pretty decent holiday line-up coming together, but the most notable has to be the Sushi USB flash drives. These, too, can be yours, for the extremely expensive price of $110 apiece for a 128MB version, or the less-money-but-even-more-ridiculous price of $80 for a 32MB version. If I’m keeping my maguro straight from…
Cingular finally has the Motorola V3 Razr online. If I weren’t all tenty about the Treo 650, this would probably be my next phone. In fact, I’m really thinking about getting one to go with my nice outfits, most of which are all totally metal, as well. It’s $500 with a two-year contract. (Thanks, Matthew!)…
Sonos Digital Music System—a networked music streaming platform probably most notable for its iPod-like remote control—has been delayed until Q1 ’05, according to Om. I saw them showing off their gear at DigitalLife and it looked ready to rock, but they reportedly delaying due to some “fine-tuning issues” (says Om). That probably means, “We just…
There’s a new Portable Media Device in town (well, a few, actually) but you might not recognize it (them). No screen? Well, the screen isn’t part of the portable equation, you see. The portable part only applies to the media itself, and quite a lot of it at that: up to 400GB on some of…
No big surprise, but AT&T Wireless has officially announced that they will be selling a version of the PalmOne Treo 650—the “first EDGE-Capable Palm OS Handheld.” The slight information doesn’t exactly make it clear if the Bluetooth stack will be crippled to prevent using the Treo as a modem for another device (we’ll suppose it…
Lexar is in the flash player market with two new players, the LDP-400 and the LDP-600. The 400 is a joke: if a player is going to have 128MB of memory in this day and age it better have some amazing secondary quality, like the ability to grant the power of flight to humans or…
While I wouldn’t go quite so far as the Beeb, who maintains that consumers “‘snub portable video'” over dedicated music-only media devices, the numbers from a recent survey of Europeans does bear out that people just don’t care about watching video on the run. At first the numbers don’t look too awful for video, with…
Product Highlights • Become a wireless ISP: for £30 [TheRegister] • Trendy laptop bags with built-in location tracking [GadgetryBlog] Business • Toshiba offers worldwide notebook component recall [TheInquirer] • Price Check: LCD TVs See Big Cuts [PCWorld] Reviews • Audiovox SMT 5600 vs Motorola MPx220 [MobileGizmo] • eMachines M6810 [PCMag] • Creative Zen Touch 20GB…
Crime rates are going down all over, including within the US as well as the UK. Despite this, public perception of crime rates is going up. Why? I don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter. The point is people are increasingly scared, even as they have less reason to be. It’s been inevitable that some…