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There are rumors floating about of Handspring’s demise – apparently the Treo just isn’t selling as well as expected. In what one might take as a sign of desperation, Handspring is now offering free DVD players along with the purchase of a Treo 90. 270, or 300, even though they’ve dropped the prices of those … Continued
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Gateway’s Tablet PC
Rather than develop its own line of Tablet PCs, Gateway has decided to rebrand the M1200 from Motion Computing, which has a 12.1-inch screen and is less than one inch thick. Gateway’s rebranded Tablet PC will be unveiled on December 9th, and have retail price of around $2,500. Read
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Another digital entertainment hub
HP’s Media Center PC may have been the first computer to come loaded with Windows XP Media Center Edition, but the Navigator Pro is the first PC running the new OS that actually looks like it belongs with the rest of your audio/visual equipment. It’s much smaller than HP’s Media Center PC (just 7.4″x7.88″x11.82″), but … Continued
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SciAm on the Simputer
Scientific American reviews the Simputer, a handheld that is aimed at the world’s poor rather than at corporate executives: “We envisage that a village might club together to buy one,” notes Shashank Garg, vice president for product development at Encore. A farmer in India, for example, could use the Simputer to find out the latest … Continued
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Philips converges on convergence
Digeo isn’t the only company going after the “convergence” market. Philips has just announced its own convergence device, the Wireless Home AV Platform, a box that wirelessly connects your PC to your TV and stereo, so you can watch or listen to video or music files stored on PC. Read
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Nokia takes it to the EDGE
The Nokia 6200, the first phone from Nokia to run on the GSM/EDGE network, which can in theory support data speeds of up to 384 kbps (which is practically DSL), though apparently 118 kbps is more realistic for everyday use. That’s still pretty fast, and more than twice dial-up. No word on when the 6200 … Continued
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Moxi’s digital entertainment hub
Any article about digital home entertainment hubs and the convergence of PCs and TVs and stereos that’s supposed to be just around the corner is bound to mention Moxi. It’s a personal video recorder with a 100GB hard drive that can also play MP3s, MPEGs, DVDs, and function as server and a router for your … Continued
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Field Report from Akihabara
Gizmodo friend Gabriel Meister has a field report from Akihabara, Tokyo’s famed consumer electronics. Here’s some pictures and notes he took on some of the cutting-edge gadgets he found there: “An NTT DoCoMo wireless handset, presumably part of this. So strange, I picked it up and couldn’t figure out what it was for the life … Continued
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It’s all in the wrist
There was a lot of speculation last week about who would be the latest licensee of the Palm operating system, and it turned out to be Fossil, a name that almost no one was expecting to hear. Fossil introduced a Wrist PDA earlier this year that was really just a companion to a Pocket PC, … Continued
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The ever-expanding laptop
HP’s the latest PC manufacturer to come out with a supersized laptop. The Compaq Presario 3005US has a 16-inch screen, weighs over 8 pounds, and has a 2GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and CD-RW/DVD combo drive. It’s designed to compete with other 16″ models from Toshiba and Sony, but … Continued
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The big day
Dell’s two new Axim 5 Pocket PCs officially come out today, just in time for the holidays. It’s going to be very interesting to see how these shake things up,, since with their pricing ($299 for the “advanced” model, and $199 for the “basic”) it looks like Dell isn’t just going after the rest of … Continued
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Sony’s new five-megapixel camera
Digit-Life.com review of Sony’s new 5.2-megapixel digital camera that’s coming out this Friday, the Cyber-shot DSC F717. It’s basically an upgrade of the F707, with a few improvements like an increase in megapixels (from 4.9) and the use of USB 2.0 for file-transfer to a PC rather than USB 1.1. Read Amazon
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A stylish 802.11a wireless access point
Stylish-looking new wireless access point from Sony that you might actually want to have around the house, unlike most other, less aesthetically-pleasing WAPs that are on the market. The PCWA-A500 also operates on 802.11a, the higher-speed cousin of 802.11b, which is nice, but Sony should have made it support both 802.11a and 802.11b, like those … Continued
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World’s thinnest Pocket PC
PDA Buyer’s Guide has an early review of Viewsonic’s new ultrathin, ultralight Pocket PC, the V35. The V35 is just four-tenths of an inch thick, weighs just 4.2 ounces, has a 300MHz Intel processor, 32MB of ROM, 64MB of RAM, a 3.5-inch, 240×320 pixel transflective 64,000 color display, and perhaps best of all, a retail … Continued
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Sales of cameraphones soaring
Strategy Analytics is projecting that sixteen million cameraphones, which are cellphones with digital cameras built-in, will be bought this year, mainly in Japan and Europe. To put this number in perspective, sales of PDAs are expected to top out at around thirteen million. Cameraphones are going to be everywhere very, very soon. Read
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