Back during the summer we reviewed the ioSafe Solo ruggedized external hard drive and found the external storage solution to be pretty nice. An external hard drive that is both fireproof and waterproof might seem like overkill, but in the event of a fire or flood your data will be safe.
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The BBC has announced that it will be "relaunching" the iPlayer streaming TV system on the Nintendo Wii, with the system now present as a dedicated Wii channel. While iPlayer access on the Wii has been possible since April 2008, the new iPlayer channel will apparently offer a "faster, high quality and improved viewing experience" according to Erik Huggers, direct of Future Media and Technology at the BBC.
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Earlier this year analysts were predicting 2009 would be huge for femtocells. A femtocell is a device sort of like a router for mobile phone calls. The device sends mobile calls and data requests across the user's broadband connection rather than the mobile network. In April, ABI Research forecast that 790,000 femtocells would ship this year.
Audio-Technica has been making audio products like headphones and turntables for a long time. We may be in the midst of the digital music revolution with most other music formats becoming an afterthought to many consumers, but there are still those out there who like the old school sound of vinyl.
Android’s progressive spread to non-smartphone devices continues, with the latest manufacturer to jump on the open-source Google bandwagon to be Innovative Converged Devices (ICD). The ICD Vega will initially have a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 resistive touchscreen, paired with NVIDIA’s Tegra chipset, Android 2.0, integrated WiFi b/g/, Bluetooth 2.1 and 3G WWAN data, with the company expecting to ship the tablet in the first half of 2010 across hroughout North America, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Palm have announced the next carrier for the Palm Pre, and if you’re in Mexico you’ll be pleased to hear it’s headed to Telcel stores on November 27th. In this case, the Pre will be the GSM model for North American frequencies, in this case quadband GSM/GPRS?EDGE and 850/1900 UMTS 3G.
You can usually rely on the FCC to provide not only pre-announcement shots of upcoming gadgets, but internal images that give modders a good idea of how the final device might be tweaked into something far more useful. The Archos 9 PC Tablet has already been well fondled in real life – we grabbed one back in September – but thanks to the FCC we now have some teardown shots to counter the glossy exterior images.
The original Chumby was a curious, beanbag-esque blob of WiFi connectedness and difficult-to-explain purpose; the new Chumby One, meanwhile, strips away the squishy exterior and drops the price. Currently up for preorder at $99.95, one of the first Chumby One units has dropped onto the desk of jkOnTheRun’s Kevin C. Tofel.
What’s red, fuzzy and makes your mouth water? Why, this photo of Lenovo’s first Smartbook of course, grabbed from Qualcomm’s recent webcast and promising to officially launch at CES 2010 this coming January. The Snapdragon-based ultraportable will apparently have an HD-capable display for 720p video together with AT&T integrated wireless connectivity.
T-Mobile have announced a launch date for the Samsung Behold II, the company’s latest Android smartphone. As of November 18th, those in the market for a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 5-megapixel autofocus camera with flash, WiFi, 3G and Samsung’s TouchWiz UI on top of Android 1.5 will be able to pick up the Behold II for $229.99 with a new, two-year service agreement.
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