Apple’s Magic Mouse is impressing us on the desktop, but what sort of evil spirits might be lurking inside? iFixit bravely donned protective eyewear and grabbed the nearest set of screwdrivers in order to strip the multitouch mouse down to its bare boards, in their latest Apple teardown.
After Dell CEO Michael Dell confirmed that the company’s Android smartphone would, in fact, make it to the US – albeit with some changes from the original Chinese model – details of a second Android-based device have leaked. According to Tinhte.com and another image supplied to SlashGear, you’re looking at the Dell Streak, a 5-inch WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen Android 2.0 Donut MID, with WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G WWAN connectivity. Front photos of the Dell Streak – together with size comparison shots – in the gallery, together with a hands-on video after the cut.
After rumors earlier this year about a BlackBerry Bluetooth watch, now CrackBerry have managed to acquire some renders of what’s tipped to be the wrist-worn peripheral itself. Believed to be called the inPulse, the watch won’t be made by or for RIM and won’t carry the BlackBerry logo, but it will be designed especially to work with the messaging-friendly smartphones.
Up until now, choosing a Bluetooth headset has demanded you pick between outright style and audio performance. Devices like the Plantronics Discovery 975 and the Jawbone PRIME have gone some way in disguising their boom microphones and preserving sound quality, but there’s still no mistaking that you’re wearing a Bluetooth headset. Into the fray steps the Jabra Stone, distinctive both for its curvaceous styling and its promises of boomless natural-sounding audio. Is your next Bluetooth headset a Stone’s throw away? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
The market for wireless-connected ebook readers is hotting up, and so we’re happy to welcome the latest entrant, txtr. Set to hit European and US markets from December 15th, the €319 ($477) device has a 6-inch 600 x 800 E Ink display, capacitive slider, accelerometer, USB 2.0, WiFi and “txtr Net”; like Amazon’s WhisperNet service, txtr Net is an onboard 3G connection which keeps ebooks synchronized between the txtr reader itself and a user’s online account.
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The ability to record phonecalls is pretty standard on cellphones these days, though it's arguably one of the less-commonly-used functions out there. So we're a little bemused by the Celltronix VR1 Recordable Bluetooth Headset; as well as supporting Bluetooth 2.1+EDR with multipoint for dual simultaneous connections, it can record up to 8 minutes of your conversation.
One of the big problems for me with Bluetooth headsets isn’t comfort or call quality, it’s remembering to bring the headset inside from my car and charge it up. I end up getting in the car and the headset is out of power. i.Tech has announced a new Bluetooth headset that might make the days of forgetting to charge your headset a thing of the past called the SolarVoice 908.
LBook have been quietly selling ebook devices for a while now, but the company is hoping to make a splash into the multitouch tablet market next year with their T9. The LBook T9 is an Intel Atom-based 8.9-inch slate running Windows 7, and is tipped to arrive in March 2010 with a price tag in the $350 to $375 region. If they can pull that off, it’s an excellent price for a 12.7mm-thick sofa surfer.
T-Mobile are certainly positioning themselves as the go-to guys for Android in the US, and the Samsung Behold II doesn’t do anything to damage that reputation. Samsung’s latest has a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with flash, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1, together with 3G connectivity.
Hands free Bluetooth speakerphones are more appealing to me than Bluetooth headsets. I don’t like to wear headsets and the speakerphone is more comfortable to use. Not all Bluetooth speaker phones are created equal, many of them have poor call quality. Jabra has announced a new Bluetooth hands free speakerphone called the Cruiser that promises good call quality.
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