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BusinessWeek is reporting that three Hollywood studios are expected to announce their intention to release at least some of their movies on Toshiba’s HD DVD next-generation optical disc format. Of course, the deal would not be an exclusive with HD DVD, meaning that their content could be released on Sony’s Blu-ray, as well. We’re pretty…
I probably should have mentioned this in the previous Sony Ericsson story, but it looks like Cingular will be getting an exclusive clamshell called the Z500A any day now. Although it’s nice (if plain) looking, it has a fair amount of features, as well, including EDGE support (nice to see this creeping down to mid-range…
SanDisk has upgraded the capacity of their miniSD and RS-MMC lines of flash memory, now topping off at 512MB. This picture is of the smaller capacity cards, but includes an image of the miniSD-to-SD adapter, just to give you some frame of reference as to size. SanDisk is banking on the increased usage and disk-space…
I4U has some pictures of a purported “World’s Smallest 3G Phone” from China’s ZTE. Unfortunately, the pictures are just of the phone itself, so it’s sort of hard to eyeball a relative size. It’s about three-and-a-half inches tall (when closed, I presume), so that’s sufficiently tiny, I guess. Since the ZTE F808 isn’t likely to…
OSX users hoping for a Sync program for their Sidekick II aren’t going to be very happy at the news that’s coming out of a developer mailing list, which indicates that a team of coders have already developed an iSync client—and Danger/T-Mobile won’t let them release it. While the isolated faux-connectivity of the Sidekick II…
Treonauts had some hands-on time with the Treo 650 at CTIA and took a few more pictures and shared a few more impressions about the upgrade. What I want to know is, since we already know AT&T/Cingular is getting the unit—with EDGE, no less—when are they going to get the phone to market, and will…
Business 2.0 has a short but sweet interview with Urban Gillstrom, president of Sony Ericsson, about the turn around the company has gone through over the last couple of years, as well as some of the directions they plan to go. A Palm-based phone, for instance, is definitely not happening (some people have been asking),…
What the hell is this? Is Apple going to start selling a branded iPod Sock? Is it just a promotional item? Will it come with the new iPod Photo? Will it be available in different colors? Is it because they want us to fill the iPod Photo with porn? Is it machine washable? It’s sort…
As the editor of the world’s largest non-pornographic gadgets weblog, I try to be wary of reviews that are just thinly-veiled product descriptions, and I have to admit: something from “RemoteShoppe.com,” didn’t bode well. But when I got to the bottom of his review of the Logitech Harmony Remote 688, there was just the normal…
MobileTracker is running a pretty confident rumor that PalmOne will be teaming up with Audi to promote automatic Bluetooth pairing with the Treo 650 and Audi vehicles, enabling hands-free functionality inside the car. More details should be available soon, but if it’s legit, there’s not a whole lot more you need to know (besides which…
In this PSP versus DS speculative battle over the last few months, I’ve been pretty hard on the PSP, mostly because of its anticipated price and battery life. Now, having played the Nintendo DS, and hearing what Sony plans to sell the PSP for—$195, with a battery life of 4 to 6 hours—I can say…
The word on the street (if the street were Nihon Keizai Shimbun) is that iRiver Japan is planning a new flash-based portable MP3/WMA player with a 2GB capacity. This makes plenty of sense to me — iRiver’s parent company, Reigncom, is also a distributor of Samsung flash memory. Nihon Keizai Shimbun expects the product (whatever…
Griffin is making a black edition of the iTrip to match the new special-edition U2 iPod. $35 pre-order now and shipping in November. They should have made it brown—then the iPod would look like a pint of Irish stout. Product Page [GriffinTechnology]
Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.
What happens if you cross a CueCat (those old free barcode scanners from Radio Shack) with a hi-fi turntable? Well, nothing. You just have a broke-ass CueCat and a useless relic. But if you’re an MIT student from the Aesthetics + Computation Group, you may instead have a fascinating thesis and a working prototype of…
I don’t know enough about electronics to make any sort of informed guess about how well this “foxhole radio” would work, but anything that uses paper clips, razor blades, and pencil lead to pick up radio waves is worth a second glance, to me. (Thanks, BentPenguin!) Full Image (Note: Sort of Huge, 300K) [Gizmodo]
Check out this image of the iPod Photo Dock. That looks a lot like an S-Video out to me. Presumably you can just use a regular cable out. It does also note that the image out is composite, not component, so that’s a bit of a drag. I’d like some high-rez progressive scan out with…
Forgive me, international friends! In all the excitement about the new iPods, I almost forgot to mention: Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain all got their own iTunes Music Stores, too. Still €.99. I’m sorry you’re getting ripped off, Euro Friends. It’s not our fault the dollar is so weak. Press…
Looks like the iPod Photo Dock and AV Cable will dump not only video but sound directly via a three-plug RCA connection. Hats optional. Get Brownie Points for Sharing If you d like everyone else to smile right along with you, iPod Photo makes it easy. Sure, you could let them take the Click Wheel…
Okay, here’s the shortbread: it’s a 65k-color screen, 220 by 176 pixel resolution. Same click wheel as before. 15-hour battery life (rock!), iTunes is bumping up to version 4.7, iTunes will auto-sync album art so you can see that whiel playing. Store up to 25,000 photos transfered through iTunes (dunno about iPhoto support for Mac…