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Peek Pronto gets official: Push email, 5 accounts, unlimited SMS

, Mar 24th 2009 Discuss [0]

The Peek Pronto email device tipped last week has been officially launched, offering push email functionality, Microsoft Exchange compatibility and support for up to five email accounts rather than the usual two.  The Pronto is priced at $79.95 and requires the same $19.95 monthly service charge as the original Peek messenger. Video overview after the cut Read The Full Story

No monthly subscription needed for Xact’s personal GPS tracker

, Jan 9th 2009 Discuss [2]

Many personal GPS tracking options hit you with two costs - the cost of the device and then the additional cost of a monthly subscription.  Xact Technology hopes that, by doing away with the subscription cost, you''ll give the XACT | TRAX a go. Read The Full Story

iRiver’s WAVE-HOME wants to be your all-in-one communications hub

, Jan 8th 2009 Discuss [0]

iRiver will be briefing the CES crowd in a few short hours, but we thought we'd take an early look at one of the new products they've brought to the show.  The WAVE-HOME is not an easy device to categorize other than to say this - iRiver wants it to do a lot for you. Read The Full Story

Peek add SMS, image attachment viewing, to email messenger

, Nov 19th 2008 Discuss [1]

The Peek email messenger is either the pinnacle of task-specific devices, or an under-functional waste of pocket space, depending on your stance on convergence.  Reviewers seem fairly happy, but one regular critique is the device's unwavering obsession with email above all other types of messaging.  Now Peek have responded by adding SMS compatibility, together with updating the email app to support a broader range of image attachment viewing. Read The Full Story

WaSnake SMS & RSS personal flexible news ticker

, May 8th 2008 Discuss [0]

Jean Louis Frechin, who designed the strange chronopictographic digital photo frames, also has an idea of what you could keep your WiFi picture viewer on.  His bendy WaSnake shelving doesn't just stop at holding up the odd vase, though; it's a clever display in its own right.  Colored LEDs and optical fibres fill blocks periodically along the shelf, and these can display SMS messages and RSS feeds that scroll across its length. Read The Full Story

CES 2008: Underwater Technology Center’s UDI allows text messaging underwater

, Jan 5th 2008 Discuss [0]

This nifty little arm mounted SMS device could be the thing that saves your life if you find yourself caught underwater with a lack of Oxygen or coming up too fast. Also, when it’s not being used to bring those capable to your rescue, you can just use it communicate with the rest of your team or with those on the ship you dropped in from. Read The Full Story

Happy New Year!

, Dec 31st 2007 Discuss [0]

I just wanted to wish a happy new year to all of our readers, staffers, and all the people we work(ed) with on a daily basis throughout the past year and in the year to come! As far as I know it the next big thing on the SlashGear calendar is CES, we’ll be there covering it live too, and then Mac World and there are a ton of other events I am forgetting but those are the most immediate. Read The Full Story

InterGrafx 3D Virtual Secretary on your phone

, Dec 5th 2007 Discuss [2]

So it can wake you up, schedule your appointments, and other clerical tasks. It cant answer your phones, and although it might look attractive to you (sick freak) you can’t have an affair with it, so stick to the real thing, if not for adultery, do it so you don’t have to answer your phone so often. Read The Full Story

Samsung SGH-a747 SLM Napster Phone

, Nov 21st 2007 Discuss [0]

So we already mentioned this, but we have something new, more specs, and a whole lot more pics. In fact if I recollect right, we didn’t have a single pic of the actual handset last time. It has Bluetooth 2.0, Quad-Band GSM, Dual-Band UMTS, and a talk time of about 3 hours. There is the 2MP cam that has up to a 4x digital zoom, and other than all the video and music services that come with it, it has Java, and SMS, MMS, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! instant messengers built in. Read The Full Story

Cre8txt IM slang translation keypad

, Nov 13th 2007 Discuss [0]

Do you have someone in your family that just absolutely refuses to IM you using proper grammar, maybe even complete sentences? Are you sick of having to go to Urban Dictionary just to look up what the crap that hellion is talking about? Well Cre8txt, a UK based company, has got a solution, you plug this remote looking thing into your computer and it will work its magic and do translations for you. It appears to work both ways, both converting their l33t sp3@k into common English and also offering you the option to speak their language, to an extent. Read The Full Story

Yahoo Mail Adds SMS Messaging Via Email

, Aug 27th 2007 Discuss [2]

So this isn’t really new technology, or even and entirely new concept, however most companies that tried it previously had it as their main feature, whereas for Yahoo it is just an added bonus. Previous iterations of such a service either failed miserably, or began charging money, not this one, its completely free. Read The Full Story

Globe shuns fake snow for 160 characters

, Jun 26th 2007 Discuss [0]

In my day job we've got one of those infernal text-messaging systems where people can send in their suggestions and queries for us to ponder over.  The average day sees a number of obscenities, sexual suggestions that would be illegal in a number of US states and the odd message so riddled with "txt spk" that I've had to plug a USB-13-year-old into the computer to decipher it.  Since I'm the one who usually ends up checking the mailbox, I'm indecently tempted by this 360-degree textable message globe so that everyone else in the office could share in the joy of being told "U blO goatz".   Read The Full Story
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