Chumbophone Mixes Chumby With Steampunk Styling
Since you can now pick up a set of chumby guts without bothering with the standard casing, the real fun for the platform is in…
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AT&T LG eXpo With Detachable Pico-Projector Coming Dec 7th [Updated]
There's no sign of an official press release yet - nor a product page - but AT&T are tipped to have unveiled their latest LG…
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Bell Mobility MiFi 2372 On Sale Today
Dear Canada, you've been very patient but your MiFi wait is over. Having announced back in October that the Novatel Wireless MiFi 2372 "intelligent mobile…
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CrunchPad Axed Amid Legal Wrangling
The CrunchPad has gone from steamrolling to just getting run-over, with project founder Michael Arrington reporting that not only has the 12-inch touchscreen web-slate been axed…
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BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Stars In Pre-Announce Video Demo
Leaked photos are one thing, but we do enjoy a video of a pre-release device to really see how it fits in the hand. Having…
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Official Google Phone Supposedly Spotted Again: Launch "A Certainty"
After the last batch of "Official Google Phone" rumors, now comes Gizmodo with a source of their own to quote. That unnamed source claims to…
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Social Networking And The Mobile Context
There's a growing call to deliver desktop experiences on mobile devices, and in general that's a good thing. I don't want to be limited to…
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Txtr Ebook Reader Loses WiFi; €299 Pre-Orders From Dec 1st
Of the flurry of ebook readers we've seen over the past six months or so, one of the more interesting has been the txtr, if…
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Motorola MILESTONE Gets Video Unboxing
Shipments of the Motorola MILESTONE began in Germany a few weeks ago, so it's a little surprising that we've waited this long for an unboxing…
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DIY Whereabouts Clock Tracks Family With Twitter [Video]
Not being a Harry Potter fan the "wearabouts clock" has passed me by, but this DIY location-indicating replica is impressive enough even without the back…
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BrickHouse Security 159-ME-PASSIVE Bluetooth Headset Hides Deep Inside The Ear
One of my big pet peeves is when people wear Bluetooth headsets when they aren’t driving and can actually hold the handset up to their…
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DoD Orders 2,200 PS3 Consoles
It used to be when it came time to upgrade a supercomputer we were talking about adding more nodes, processors, and other hardware. At least…
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Zune HD Getting Colorful Update December 1st
Up until now the colorful part of the Zune HD has been its striking OLED display; if you wanted any color in your Microsoft PMP…
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Developer Spots Usage Record For iPhone 3,1 In iBART App
Apple fans and developers keep their ear close to the ground to find the new tidbits on coming Apple products from all sorts of sources.…
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Nokia To Offer Only One Maemo Handset In 2010?
There have been a number of rumors flying around that have to do with Nokia and the Maemo operating system that is based on Linux.…
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Nokia Cuts R&D Workers
Nokia has been under increasing pressure from competitors like Apple and others in the mobile phone market. Nokia is seeing its global share of the…
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Kindle Breaks Sales Record During November
Among some of the most important things that the world may never know are exactly how many licks it takes to get to the center…
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Walmart Announces Cyber Monday Shopping Deals
If you missed out on the deals that you were hoping to find on Friday, you still have a shot to get some good deals…
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Google Maps Navigation Hacked To Work Outside US [Updated]
Google Maps Navigation is one of the stand-out features of the Motorola DROID, and thanks to Google's recent efforts those of you with Android 1.6…
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Apple iTunes Terms & Conditions Come In For Critique
Apple are the latest recipient of a scolding from the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT), after the organisation pulled the Cupertino company up on…
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Pricegrabber Unveils Black Friday Online Stats
Black Friday has come and gone leaving in its wake disappointed shoppers who were unable to get the best deals on the gadgets they wanted…
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Archos 5 MID Mod Adds Android Market, Gmail, Maps, More
Despite the recent firmware update, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet is still left without access to the Android Market, and despite Archos' attempts to encourage development…
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MID Development Slashed As Manufacturer Interest Wanes?
Many have accused Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) as being gadgets in dire search of a purpose, and despite Intel's push for the segment the talk…
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Phenom Dream Watch-Phone: Dual-SIM But No 3G
We're not going to let Phenom Communications get away with calling their Dream watch-phone "elegant", but we'll concede that it's pretty advanced for its ilk.…
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HTC Hero Running Android 2.1 With New HTC Sense Spotted
HTC's public plans for their Sense UI and newer versions of Android have basically amounted to asking device owners to wait; an update to Android…
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Intel 2010 Desktop Roadmap Tips Core i3 And i9, Frugal Core i5
Charts purporting to illustrate Intel's plans for its desktop processor range through 2010 have emerged, bringing with them talk of a frugal version of the…
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ASUS Eee PC 1201HA Gets $330 Best Buy Price
If you'd told us a month or two ago that ASUS' Eee PC 1201HA would be arriving at Best Buy priced at $329.99, you might…
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MSI Wind12 U230 Gets Video Hands-On: SIM Slot Discovered
From one Congo ultraportable to another; MSI's Wind12 U230 notebook only got official on Friday last week, but already the 12.1-incher has been spotted up…
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ASUS Eee PC 1201T Dumps Atom For AMD Congo
ASUS have pushed out another 12.1-inch ultrathin, and this time they've eschewed Intel in favor of some AMD goodness. Unlike the 1201HA and 1201N, the…
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Give A Little Bit... Of Tech
“Wow! So you just pull two fingers apart on the screen to zoom in on the site?” This was my mother’s reaction last week to…
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Samsung Bada SDK Unveil On December 8th
Samsung have confirmed the launch of their new bada mobile app platform SDK. According to an invitation that went out today, the company will detail…
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Should Nokia Abandon Symbian S60 For Maemo Linux?
Nokia has a problem: it is both the largest handset vendor in the world, by a significant margin, and the largest smartphone vendor in the…
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Technics Axe 1200 And 1210 Turntables
The digital juggernaut continues its mindless destruction of analog classics, with the latest brand to throw in the towel being venerable club favorite Technics. Manufacturing…
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LG Arena Max LU9400 Feature-Phone Spotted
New product leaks without pictures are always relatively dull, but it's Black Friday and a slow news day so we should probably be thankful for…
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Dash Cam Dually Twin-Camera Keeps An Eye On Accidents
Cameras intended to be permanently mounted inside a car and used to record evidence of crashes aren't exactly common, at least as far as we're…
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Bliptronic 5000 Synth Is Monome On A Budget [Video]
Devices like Yamaha's Tenori-On or the monome are great, but their pricing is definitely out of the "casual treat" range and well into "serious investment".…
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NVIDIA GeForce 310 Entry-Level GPU Arrives
While everyone else was eating turkey and growing increasingly frustrated with their loved-ones, NVIDIA decided to quietly set their latest GPU free. The NVIDIA GeForce…
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NTT Hikari iFrame Android Tablet Gets Hands-On [Video]
Remember the NTT Hikari iFrame Android touchscreen gizmo from earlier this month? It's not set to arrive in Japan until March 2010, but the company…
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Sagemcom Spiga MID: Yet Another Rebadged, Expensive UMID
It went unnoticed by most, but back in October Sagemcom announced it would be selling its first MID, the Sagemcom Spiga. A rebadge of the…
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8-10 Acer Smartphones In 2010: "More Balanced" Between Android And WinMo
We were less than enamoured by Acer's tubby little Liquid A1 smartphone when we had a brief play earlier in the month, but if the…
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MSI Wind12 U230 Packs AMD Congo CPU For Lengthy Runtimes
MSI's latest ultraportable has made its debut, based on AMD's second-gen ultrathin platform. The MSI Wind12 U230 has a 12.1-inch 1,366 x 768 HD-ready display…
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Sony Walkman X Firmware Update v1.10 Boosts Browser
Sony have outed a new firmware release for their Walkman X PMP, and the headline feature is an improved browsing experience. The new software tweaks…
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Stantum Japan Demo Resistive Multitouch Display Tech [Video]
It's been a while since we looked at Stantum Japan's multitouch touchscreen offerings, but the company has obviously been beavering away in the meantime. They've…
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Gets Video Playtime With HD2, Omnia II, iPhone 3GS
There's no real new technical data in this latest video of Sony Ericsson's unreleased XPERIA X10, but it does give us a chance to see…
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ViewSonic N01 3G MID Spotted
ViewSonic's deluge of new products back in July failed to include a MID or UMPC style device, but it seems they were merely waiting for…
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ASUS Eee Box EB1501 Shipping Today [Updated]
Is something afoot with ASUS' Eee Box EB1501 nettop? The Ion-toting mini desktop PC has had listings at a few major e-tailers for a while…
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Netronix Android Ebook Readers In 2010, Plus 3.5G Models
Netronix are developing Android-based ebook readers, working with Texas Instruments to push the e-readers out in 2010, according to company chairman Arthur Lu. Full specifications…
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WowWee Joebot Gets Unboxed, Video Demo
Fancy a sneak preview of what Christmas morning might be like for various tweenage kids expecting a new WowWee robot this holiday season? RoboCommunity's appropriately-named…
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Apple Black Friday One-Day Sale Kicks Off: $101 Off An iMac Or MBP
It's the day after Thanksgiving and that means Black Friday sales in the US. We're already hearing that parking spaces outside US malls are full…
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Nokia X6 On Sale Today Packing Comes With Music For €450
Love music, love Nokia, love capacitive touchscreens and live in Europe, Eurasia, the Middle-East or Africa? Three ticks and we reckon you should head down…
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Motorola MILESTONE Expansys Preorder Confirms December 7th Ship Date
It looks like the tipped release date for the Motorola MILESTONE in the UK really is December 7th, as Expansys are advertising that the European…
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Motorola MILESTONE Hitting UK December 7th?
Motorola's MILESTONE is yet to show up at any of the usual carrier subjects in the UK, but at least one UK supplier appears to…
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Kohjinsha DZ Dual-Display Netbook Shipping December
Kohjinsha's dual-display netbook was one of the stars of CEATEC back in October, but the company was quiet on whether the prototype would reach shipping…
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Happy Thanksgiving From SlashGear!
Thursday November 26th is Thanksgiving in the US, and the SlashGear team will be taking a break to spend our time talking turkey rather than…
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Citizen Gadgetry
I love watching excellence in motion. Watching Fred Astaire dance, reading a poem by Robert Frost, watching Michael Jordan play ball, Tiger Woods play golf…
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Nokia N900 In-Store Sales Delayed In UK
Looks like Nokia was a victim of its own success. Not only has the N900 taken far longer to reach the market than initially expected,…
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Lenovo IdeaPad U150 Ultraportable Arrives In US
The Lenovo IdeaPad U150 CULV ultraportable last spotted strutting its patterned stuff in Japan last month has finally made it to the US, with pricing…
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BlackBerry Pearl 9100 (Aka Striker) Appears On eBay?
When we pondered out loud last Friday on when we might see the leaked BlackBerry Pearl 9100 (aka Striker) arrive on shelves, little did we…
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K.R.T. X9 Joins List Of Multitouch Tablets We Can't Buy
Somebody needs to rent a boat, sail to China and pick up a hold-full of unknown touchscreen tablets; it's getting more than a little frustrating…
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HTC HD2 To Get Capacitive Stylus And Extended Battery
HTC's range of accessories for the HD2 pales against the array of options from which you can outfit your iPhone 3GS, but the company do…
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HTC HD2 Arrives On T-Mobile UK From Free
T-Mobile UK are the latest carrier to offer the HTC HD2, with the Snapdragon-based Windows Phone priced from free with a £35 ($58) per month,…
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Emblaze First ELSE Struts New UI In Video Demo
Still curious about the First ELSE smartphone and its nifty user-interface? Various videos of the handset in action have emerged, including a five minute UI…
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ColorWare Offer Custom iMac And Magic Mouse Paintjobs
If your Core i7 iMac isn't unique enough - and if you have one that powers on and has an intact screen, then from the…
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Opto-Electronic Contact Lenses Promise Wireless Displays
The opportunity to jab yourself in the eye with a tiny computer display is one step closer, thanks to the ongoing work with opto-electronic contact…
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King Jim Pomera DM20 Is Bizarre Folding Digital Note-Taker
King Jim's single-purpose Pomera "digital memo" DM10 electronic notebook may have been bizarre enough to warrant some gentle ribbing last year, but sales in Japan…
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Camangi WebStation Seemingly Imminent; New Android App Market Launched
Blimey, could Camangi actually be serious about selling their WebStation Android tablet? We've scoffed a little at the hitherto-unknown company's intentions of having the 7-inch…
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Pixel Qi Developing Sub-10W $100 HDTV
Pixel Qi have announced that not only are they beginning mass production of their innovative display technology this coming December, but that they've a new…
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The New York Times Offers Discount On Samsung Go To Times Reader 2.0 Subscribers
Print publications are having a hard time getting people to subscribe and pay to read their news. Even long time established publications like the New…
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TomTom Announces XXL World Traveler Edition GPS Device
TomTom is one of the biggest names in GPS and navigation devices for cars and other uses. The company offers a myriad of GPS solutions…
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OCZ And Symwave Team For High Performance USB 3.0 Storage Product
One of the new technologies that I am most looking forward to is USB 3.0. I have an external hard drive that I back my…
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Best Buy To Offer HP G60-507DX Laptop For $197 Friday
If you are the type that jumps out of bed before the sun is up the Friday after Thanksgiving to go shopping, you might want…
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Inbrics Android MID Promised For US Launch
Android-based MIDs aren't particularly rare - the allure of a free OS has already tempted many a manufacturer - but it's unusual to find one…
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iBuyPower Launches Newegg.com Exclusive Gamer Supreme 979 SLC, 922 SLC, 979, And 919 Gaming Desktops
Gaming PCs are on the Christmas wish list for lots of gaming geeks this holiday season. Boutique gaming PC manufacture iBuyPower has unveiled five new…
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Verizon Wireless Offers Up Killer Gateway Netbook Deal For Black Friday
It's hard to miss the fact that this Friday is Black Friday. The day many people rush out to stores when they would normally still…
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Iriver Story Gets Reviewed: Intuitive & Usable Kindle-Alternative
iriver's Story has been simmering away in Korea for a few months now, but so far just how good an ebook reader it is has…
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Industri Repro XBEE Reworks Xbox 360 For Your A/V Rack
Microsoft's Xbox 360 certainly has the media capabilities to earn itself a place underneath your HDTV or in your A/V rack, but the curvy casing…
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Blobo Squeezy Wireless Controller Passes FCC [Video]
We're not entirely sure that the PC gaming world has been crying out for a squeezable controller that looks like the scooped-out eyeball of some…
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iPhone 3GS Drops Into Tesco Mobile's Basket
Another O2 MVNO is causing a stir this morning, as Tesco Mobile announce it will be offering the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS both in…
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HTC HD2 To Get Official WinMo 7 Update In 2010?
Pinch of salt time, but msmobiles have heard from an unnamed source that HTC are planning to offer an official Windows Mobile 7 upgrade for…
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MSI X-Slim X430 Packs Athlon Neo X2 CPU, Skinny Frame
MSI have outed their latest X-Slim ultraportable, and they've slipped in an AMD processor rather than the usual Intel fare. The MSI X-Slim X430 gets…
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LG GW880 Android Smartphone Hits China Mobile
LG's second Android smartphone has been launched, the LG GW880, and Chinese Mobile buyers will be the first to get it. The keyboard-free GW880 is…
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Giffgaff MVNO Launches: Free Credit For Helpful Behaviour
New UK MVNO giffgaff have launched their "mutual giving" service, and while the real meat of the virtual carrier is in its system of rewarding…
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AT&T Announce HP iPAQ Glisten 3G WinMo World-Phone
You have to give HP and AT&T some credit: it takes guts to call your new smartphone the HP iPAQ Glisten. Kicking off with a…
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RIM: Time To Bend The BlackBerry To The Consumer Curve
Last week the trackball on my BlackBerry Curve decided to quit on me. The thing couldn’t roll down a hill if it tried and, well,…
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LaCie LaCinema Classic HD: 1TB, 1080p HD And DLNA
LaCie seem to be going back and filling in any blanks in their mediaplayer line-up right now, neatly slotting the LaCinema Classic HD into the…
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Kindle Gets 85% Wireless Battery Boost & PDF Reader Update
Amazon have announced a new firmware update for their Kindle ebook reader that can apparently boost battery life by up to 85-percent. With wireless connectivity…
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Twelve South BassJump Delivers Easy 2.1 Sound To Your MacBook
The not-so-great thing about Macs is that third-party accessory manufacturers tend to view Apple owners as an ideal market to be milked, at least financially-speaking.…
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First ELSE Smartphone Promises More Intuitive UI In Q2 2010
Have we been premature in lauding the iPhone, Android and webOS for their nifty user experiences? According to the team behind the First ELSE cellphone,…
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Google Chrome OS Benchmarked Already: Falls Well Short
Benchmarking the very earliest publicly-available code for Google Chrome OS seems destined to only highlight the platform's early stage of development, especially when you throw…
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Sony VAIO X Gets OS X Snow Leopard
There's a lot to like about Sony's VAIO X ultraportable - its indecently-skinny build, the engineering intelligence that went into its design, and its lengthy…
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AT&T Offers DataConnect Pass For Mobile Broadband Without Contract
The problem for me with mobile broadband is that I only need it a few days out of the year. That said, when I need…
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LG Tosses X120 Netbook Into The US Market
We may not be getting those rather odd Levi's special edition LG X120 netbooks that were spied in Korea back in July, but we are…
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RIM And Motorola Sued By Klausner Technologies For Patent Infringement
Patent infringement suits are certainly nothing new in the technology industry. Over the last year, these sorts of suits are increasingly filed in a court…
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Samsung Adds 2TB Capacity To External Story Station HDD Line
External storage is necessary for backing up data and keeping your digital media like pictures and songs safe in the event of a PC crash.…
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SGI Unveils Altix UV Supercomputer
We have talked about SGI before when it unveiled the Octane III desk side supercomputer back in September. SGI is back with the unveiling of…
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TomTom One 125 SE And XL 325 SE GPS Units Hit Walmart On Black Friday
Friday is Black Friday meaning that there will be hoards of people out shopping and some of the best deals of the Christmas season. TomTom…
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Mini QWERTY Controller With Trackpad Is Ideal Wireless Addition To Your HTPC
Unusually-shaped peripherals are always good to see, and this wireless combo trackpad and mini QWERTY thumbboard looks to be a nifty addition to an HTPC…
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LG GT540 Android Smartphone Unearthed In User Agent Profile
LG's first Android smartphone, the GW620, was initially spotted in some unearthed HTML lurking in the company's website; now some further user agent diving has…
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Nintendo DSi LL Suffers Indignity Of Teardown
We've marvelled at the prodigious size of the Nintendo DSi LL, freshly released in Japan this past weekend, but PC Watch took things one step…
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Large Hadron Collider Smashes Its First Protons
Think back over the last 24 hours or so - did you feel a shimmer in the fabric of the universe? If not, you're obviously…
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HTC HD2 Tweak Enables WiFi N Support
As if the HTC HD2 needed any more hyperbole, it's now emerged that the Windows Phone can actually be coaxed to use WiFi 802.11n networks…
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Core i7 iMac DOA And Cracked-Screen Woes Reported
Apple's 27-inch iMac did the Cupertino company proud when we reviewed the Core 2 Duo model last month, but trouble is afoot with the freshly-shipping…
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Creative Vado HD Camcorder Boosts Low-Light Performance
Creative's latest point-and-shoot camcorder has emerged, and though the feature list isn't exactly overwhelming it's a decent update over the second-gen version. The new Creative…
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Nokia X6 Arrives In UK This Friday
Nokia UK have finally announced launch and pricing details for the Nokia X6, the company's new Comes With Music flagship media phone. Packing a 3.2-inch…
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Nokia 6700 Slide And 7230 Budget Cameraphones Outed
Nokia have outed two new budget sliders with a strong emphasis on media sharing, the Nokia 6700 Slide and the Nokia 7230. The 6700 Slide…
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Android 1.6 Phones Get Google Maps Navigation Beta
Google has obviously tired of waiting for handset manufacturers to push out Android 2.0 to existing handsets before users can play with the Google Maps…
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MIMO iMo 7-Inch Secondary Touchscreen Dips Under $200
We've reviewed a fair few MIMO secondary displays - the original 7-inch USB panels back in November 2008, and then more recently the touchscreen 720-S…
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Hack-A-Sketch Takes Classic Toy Digital [Video]
Electronic versions of the classic Etch-a-Sketch aren't particularly unusual, but so far this is the first time we've seen Arduino-controlled knobs with physical resistance and…
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Honda Bicycle Simulator Injects Road-Safety Fun Into Gaming
Honda's slightly bizarre attitude toward personal mobility has given us an hybrid car, an exoskeleton to strap your granny into and a gyroscope-packed Segway-alternative; however…
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Google Chrome OS And Android "Will Likely Converge" Says Sergey Brin
Back in July, Google's execs were grudgingly agreeing that Google Chrome OS and Android have "a great deal of commonality" and "may merge even closer."…
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HP Pavilion DM1 Gets Reviewed: Decent Battery But Cramped Keyboard
HP's Pavilion DM1 is still yet to show up for pre-order on the company's US site (though the support pages are full of information) but…
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Data Robotics Unveil New Drobo S And DroboElite Backup Systems
Data Robotics have doubled their range of so-called intelligent backup systems with the launch of two new models, the Drobo S and the DroboElite. The…
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Bluetooth Spy Headset Makes You Look Properly Crazy [Video]
Bluetooth headsets are generally dull, but slap a "spy!" label on them and they become instantly appealing. Well, maybe not instantly, but when you're looking…
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Samsung Omnia II Hitting Verizon December 2nd
It comes as little surprise, given that we knew a release date from sneak-peaks into the carrier's own systems last week, but Verizon have officially…
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ArcherMind Android-Based In-Dash PND System Unveiled
Given how often we hear about manufacturers using Android for their mobile devices, it's a surprise dedicated sat-nav units don't feature more highly. Chinese firm…
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Sony Launches ICD-UX200 And ICD-UX300F Digital Voice Recorders In Europe
Digital voice recorders can be used for all sorts of things form recording lectures or interviews to making voice notes for yourself. Sony has unveiled…
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Intouch IT7150 Wireless Internet Photo Frame Breaks Cover
I am a big fan of digital photo frames and everyone who comes over to my house and sees the things sitting around likes them…
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Microsoft Roadmap Tips Up Showing Windows 8 For 2012
Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system has only just hit the market, but the software giant is looking down the road to its next big release…
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Samsung Offers Big Discounts On, LN46B500, LN40B500, PN50B400 And More HDTVs
With the holidays upon us, it's time to start looking for those gifts for people on your shopping list. This is the time of year…
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Roku Unveils Open Content Delivery Platform And First 10 Channels
Roku has announced that its new open platform for delivering content to the TV is now available. The launch of the open platform also brings…
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Shuttle Set To Offer Up To 50% Off Its Computers
Black Friday is this week and it's one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Only the brave venture to retail stores and usually…
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Apple iPod Touch With Camera Coming This Spring?
The firestorm of speculation earlier this year regarding whether Apple would push a camera-toting iPod touch out of the door at their now-traditional September music…
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Camangi WebStation Android UMPC On Sale "No Later Than Early December"
We made no attempt to disguise our confusion about what looked like a poorly orchestrated teaser campaign for the Camangi WebStation Android slate earlier this…
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Sony Ericsson Kurara Gets Reviewed: Needs To Be Cheap To Succeed
Don't let anybody tell you the cellphone industry is ruled by anything other than pricing. Mobile-Review have been playing with the Sony Ericsson Kurara and…
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HTC HD2 Hits O2 From Free
UK carrier O2 has announced that, as of today, would-be owners of the HTC HD2 will be able to drop into their nearest O2 store…
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Nintendo DSi LL Sized-Up With PSP-3000: It's Vast!
Nintendo's DSi LL hit Japanese shelves this weekend, and we hope those who braved the stores to pick up the new, oversized handheld had been…
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Sony UX490 UMPC Hugely Modded: CPU Switched, 3G Injected, Quad-OS
We've covered a few modded Sony VAIO UX-series UMPCs over the years, but it's rare to see all the headline tweaks combined into one machine.…
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Dell Mini 3i Hits China Mobile Later This Month; Specs Confirmed
Dell may have come clean regarding their Mini 3i Android-powered smartphone earlier this month, but hard specifications for the touchscreen handset were tougher to come…
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iPod Shuffle Headset Concept By Isamu Sanada
Remember Apple's iPod Bluetooth headset patent application, which polarized opinion back at the end of October? That seems to have at least partially inspired SlashGear's…
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Euro Palm Pre Gets webOS 1.3.1 (At Last)
One of our more frustrated complaints in our review of the GSM Palm Pre released in Europe a few months back was that it ran…
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Spotify Mobile For S60 Released
Streaming music-on-demand service Spotify threw the radio cat among the Nokia pigeons back in September, when it announced a S60 mobile client was on the…
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Hermés 8 Day Spiral Boule Clock: A Blob Of Expensive, Pointless Extravagence
As vaguely pointless but nonetheless desirable knick-nacks go, the Hermés 8 Day Spiral Boule Clock has to rank pretty high up on the list. A…
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Chrome OS: Waiting Is The Hardest Part...Though Necessary
Google has more than emphasized that its Chrome operating system will be super speedy; it will boot in only seven seconds and surfing the web…
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AOpen XC Mini GP7A-HD Nettop Eschews Atom For Core 2 Duo & NVIDIA Ion
AOpen have outed their latest nettop, but whereas we're used to apologetic Atom processors holding us back, the AOpen XC Mini GP7A-HD takes regular Core…
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Google Chrome OS VMWare Image, Full Install Available [Video]
Like the look of Google Chrome OS but don't want to wait until late next year to buy a system running the new, web-centric platform?…
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Atlona HDAiR Wireless HDMI Adds Analog Audio
When Atlona's HDAiR wireless HDMI adapter launched earlier this year it was one of a few working systems promising high-definition without the cord, albeit only…
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VISA Pushing NFC, Webserver-SIMs & More For Mobile Money [Video]
VISA hate carrying cash and they reckon you do too, and so they're shouting about their new wireless payment systems. Recombu caught up with the…
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Motorola Motus Spotted; Unusual Form-Factor Vaunted
Perhaps we're naive, but we'd have thought that the sort of people who get early access to unannounced mobile phones would also have a decent…
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Multiple Smartbooks Arriving In Q1 2010 Claim Pegatron
Having had a reasonably prolonged fondle with Quanta's Android Smartbook prototype yesterday, we're actually quite excited by the platform's prospects. According to one of Pegatron's…
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Xbox 360 Piracy Bans Prompt Inevitable Class Action Suit
Been subject to the recent Microsoft ban-fest on Xbox Live, where up to 1m accounts are believed to have been locked out after being modified…
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Asus Eee 1201N Full Specifications Unveiled
Earlier this month we announced that the Asus Eee 1201n would be hitting the market in December. At the time, the specifications for the machine…
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Motorola MILESTONE Gets Second German Carrier: Vodafone
There's nary a sign of the Motorola MILESTONE (the Euro-spec version of the Motorola DROID we've been so enamoured of) in the UK or indeed…
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Imation SSD Upgrade Kit Breaks Cover
When you install a new SSD into your computer, you have to get the data from your old drive to your new one. That can…
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Pantech Impact Now Available On AT&T Network
We learned back in October that the Pantech Impact was coming to the AT&T network in time for the holiday season. What we didn’t hear…
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Subsidized HP Mini 110 Hits AT&T
In mid-October Verizon announced that it was adding the HP Mini 110 netbook to its line of subsidized netbooks. Today AT&T has announced that it…
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Samsung Omnia II Hits Verizon On December 2
We saw the slick looking Samsung Omnia II when it first tipped up for preorder on Amazon earlier in the fall. The handset was cool…
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BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Aka Striker Live Shots Leak
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AMD Dorado & Leo Desktop Platforms Tipped For May 2010
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Verizon Sued By AT&T Over "Misleading" 3G Adverts
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HTC HD2 Officially Confirmed For US In Early 2010 On "Major Carrier"
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Should we be surprised that Peek's TwitterPeek messenger has pretty much fallen flat in its first review? The dedicated Twitter messenger has been official for…
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Dell Mini 3iX Shows Up With Triband UMTS And WiFi
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When companies like ASUS are reasonably legitimately launching desktop supercomputers, describing your performance PC as a "personal supercomputer" seems like asking for trouble. Still, that's…
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HTC HD2 And Touch2 Confirmed For T-Mobile UK This Month
T-Mobile UK have announced that they're preparing to offer the HTC Touch2 and HTC HD2, though it seems that someone in their web team hasn't…
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The iPhone is one of the most popular smartphones on the market and many users of the iPhone are Windows users. With Windows 7 on…
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