Blog Entries tagged 'GADGETS'

Palm Treo Pro is Windows Based

jamespermission@gmail.com — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The Palm Treo Pro that was previously annouced as the Treo 85, is going to be Windows based and not have the standard Palm OS. No news as to why this move was made or if the phone will be available in both OS formats when it comes time for retail. The Palm Treo Pro will be availble for GSM and no news about CDMA has been announ [...]

Samsung i7110 With Symbian S60 OS And A 5.0 Megapixel Camera

jamespermission@gmail.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Samsung is expected to annouce the release a new Samsung handset. When it is officially announced, it's anticiopated to have a the Symbian OS preloaded and also with a 5.0 megapixel camera.

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, one of the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones [...]

Motorola Diversifies The ROKR EM25, EM28 and EM30

jamespermission@gmail.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Motorola announced that the set of music-oriented devices, which add affordability to the ROKR series. The ROKR series is currently led by the Motorola E8, and all three devices seem to borrow something from its design. The new devices are Motorola EM25 ROKR, EM28 ROKR, and EM30 ROKR. Each of the handsets has a different form factor - a slider, a clamshell and a bar.

The Motorola EM30 ROKR is the bar-shaped handset and it comes with a morphing keypad (called ModeShift by Motorola). The [...]

Samsung INNOV8 Symbian OS Phone

jamespermission@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The Samsung INNOV8 has features of a high end digital camera phone including 8 megapixel camera with blink shot and smile shot. It has a choice of an 8 or 16GB internal memory with FM radio and Bluetooth.

Other core features include a 12000mAh battery and a large 2.8” LCD screen, offering a convenient environment when viewing content on the Internet or maps [...]

iPhone Is Going To Best Buy and Radio Shack

jamespermission@gmail.com — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It looks like this time around it will not just be the Apple Store and ATT Authorized Dealers selling the Apple iPhone. This time around, it is rumored that Radio Shack and Best Buy will have the second coming of the Apple iPhone with its’ new 3rd generation data feature. The first time ar [...]

The RIM Blackberry Bold Delayed Until Mid-August

jamespermission@gmail.com — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The highly anticipated RIM Blackberry Bold 9000 is not being release until mid-august, there are apparently some issues regards to ATT software compatibility with the Blackberry Bold 9000. "It seems like AT&T and RIM are still having software issues with battery life and overheating. It has not be [...]

Delta Airlines Now Testing Cell Phone Boarding Pass

jamespermission@gmail.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A cell phone could help Delta Airlines passengers avoid long lines at the airport. This pilot program was not first introduced by Delta Airlines, last December, Continental Airlines was the first U.S. carrier to test this type of mobile check-in program.

The carrier, in partnership with the Transportation Security Admi [...]

Sprint Instinct To Drop the Price On The Samsung Instinct

jamespermission@gmail.com — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The Award-Winning Samsung Instinct(TM) will be available for sales on June 20th 2008. Sprint dropped the price on the exclusively phone from Samsung and we that this move will increase sales and profits for the 3rd quarter. Sprint annouced on wednesday that when the phone is released it will be available for $129.99. [...]

IOGEAR GearJuice AA Cell Phone Rescue Charger

jamespermission@gmail.com — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Say it with me people, "The best thing since sliced bread". This is very handy, unlike the previous portable emergency devices that did the same exact thing but were not rechargeable and/or reusable in most cases is making going green even cooler. The portability alone is enough to rave home about, the Rescue Charger provides an instant boost of power making it the ultimate [...]

Nokia Maps 2.0 Now Available For Download

jamespermission@gmail.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Sprint announced today that they would start selling the Samsung SCH-M800 Instinct. This particular Samsung model is what is to supposedly compete with the iPhone. But I think "supposedly" might be the wrong word to use in the case, the form factor and design display are almost identical to the [...]

New MW2 Wrist Phone Actually Looks Good

info@tronixnews.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The new Van Der Led MW2 Watch Phone is the first of it's kind we would actually wear. Most other watch phone attempts, failed miserably both in their design and fucntion. They were either too bulky, too ugly, or didn't work right, or a combination of all three. However, that is obviously not the case with the MW2.

BlackBerry Bold 9000 Priced!

jamespermission@stylishpc.com — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We finally have some news about the pricing of the new Blackberry Bold 9000, There has been alot speculation on the price and the release date of the Blackberry Bold 9000. Well the release date is said to be in sometime around September. InfoSyncWorld claims to have the pricing and availability info for the upcoming BlackBerry Bold. It' [...]

Samsung Announce It's New Dual Slider Music Phone

jamespermission@stylishpc.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Samsung Announce It's New Dual Slider Music Phone, the F400. Our device has been created for music lovers. Our new F400 mobile is equipped with ICEpower technology which provides high music quality. It also features a stereo speaker (accessible when your mobile is slid down), a 3Mpix camera with AF, Bluetooth v2.0, 1GB SD memory card, a microSD slot which supports up to 8GB, a 3.5mm output jack, and FM radio. You& [...]

iPhones Are Limited To One Per Customer At AT&T Stores

jamespermission@stylishpc.com — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We all knew it was coming so, so we cant be shocked by this news. A "breaking news" bulletin was just sent out to all AT&T Retail employees today stating that they have started limiting iPhone purchases to one per customer. The email isn’t exciting, but the inventory is definitely starting to dry up. Full email (which isn’t that interesting) [...]

Refurb iPhones For Sale

jamespermission@stylishpc.com — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Refurbished iPhones For Sale, Remember that refurb iPhone deal we told you about a while back? AT&T is bringing it back, though with a couple of amendments. This time, both the 8GB and 16GB versions are available. Just as before, the 8GB model will run you $249, while the 16GB model is a full $349. Not bad, but certainly not great considering the impending arrival of the [...]

BlackBerry Javelin & BlackBerry Niagara Specs!

jamespermission@stylishpc.com — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

There was a little bit of confusion with the 3G-less BlackBerry 9000 we posted. We heard two different codenames: Javelin and Niagara. Well, we were just told some more information on both devices. It seems the BlackBerry codenamed Niagara is actually an EV-DO device slated to hit Verizon in May of 2009. That seems a long way away but here are the specs on that model:

"Large screen family"QWERTY keyboard480×360 LCDEV-DO Rev. AaGPS3.2 megapixel camera4.7 OS platformBES 5.0 [...]

HTC keeps letting the Shift shift

elite.electronix@gmail.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Like seriously. You’d think a company as fantastic and buttoned-up as HTC would be able to stick to a release date, right? We stopped counting a while ago, but off the top of our head, it looks like the HTC Shift release date has slipped more than 4 times. While initially announced to be available in Q3 ‘07, the [...]

Hands-on with the ASUS R50A

elite.electronix@gmail.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It's been a real MID / UMPC bonanza at CES this year, and we're not done quite yet. We got to handle the ASUS R50A at the company's small -- yet crowded -- booth, and we've brought back pictures for the gang. While the design is fairly solid on the device, the unit feels a bit slippery to the touch. The button / navigation placement works, though coming [...]

Bluetrek's SurfaceSound Bluetooth car kit puts a flat speaker on your visor

elite.electronix@gmail.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Bluetooth car kits are usually pretty fuglicious, but Bluetrek is showing off a couple sunvisor-mounted NXT speaker-based units here at CES that are actually pretty nice. The SurfaceSound DUO (pictured) has a mini-USB port for docking in compatible BlueTrek headsets, and it'll charge 'em up while piping the audio through the speaker -- a [...]