6 May, 2008
HTC officially unveiled the HTC Touch Diamond today at a press event in London. The Touch Diamond features a 2.8-inch VGA touch screen, HTC’s new user interface: TouchFLO 3D, auto sensor screen pivoting, HSDPA, HSUPA, a customized Web browser that lets you zoom and pan websites, a YouTube application, a Google Maps app, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, FM radio, 3.2 megapixel camera, and more. Peter Chou, president and CEO of HTC Corp, had this to say: “The HTC Touch Diamond will make browsing the Web and using Web-enabled applications just as practical and easy to use as making calls.” The HTC Touch Diamond will be available in Europe in June and later this year in Asia and the Middle East. (Read the full post about ‘HTC brings 3D to Windows Mobile with the Touch Diamond’…)
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6 May, 2008
It really wouldn’t be stylish to be caught cranking this USB power charger to rev up your cell phone battery, but in all probability, that would be the last thing on your mind if the battery went lifeless during an important call. This cute little power charger connects to cell phones, cameras or any device with a USB cord. All you have to do is crank the handle on the charger fto add those few minutes of extra battery time on the connected device. Precious and completely eco-friendly. The charger kit contains adapters to fit most cell phones (Motorola, Samsung, Nokia, and LG) and weighs a negligible 6 ounces. And at $39, it fits the wallet quite decently too. Available from National Geographic Online. (Read the full post about ‘Eco-friendly Hand-Crank USB Power Charger’…)
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6 May, 2008
In what amounts to little more than another animated i-Dog speaker alternative, The Sharper Image has recently come forward with the iDance WALL-E MP3-playing robot ($25) in preparation for the buying frenzy that will likely accompany the summer release of Disney-Pixar’s new WALL-E flick. The 8-inch trash-compacting robot dances and makes sounds when it’s packed with a trio of AA batteries and nearby or plugged into an audio source. Pretty cute in a useless sort of way, don’t you think? Via Crave. Tags: mobile phone, TV, Hi-fi, cellphone (Read the full post about ‘WALL-E dancing robot plays MP3s’…)
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6 May, 2008
Software security company Webroot unveiled their E-Mail Security SaaS business solution back at the beginning of the year. The aim was to remove the need for special software, servers or expertise on-site of any small business when dealing with e-mail security. Webroot would instead offer the protection before any e-mail reaches company machines, as well as a host of additional features including encryption, archiving and management for a subscription charge.
With that e-mail service now well-established Webroot are going to try a similar service, but for desktop security.
(Read the full post about ‘Webroot turns desktop security into an off-site service’…)
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6 May, 2008
As expected, Dell today launched two new addition in its Vostro line of budget notebook computers. The 13.3-inch 1310 and 15.4-inch 1510 are targeted towards home users and SMBs, and offers decent specification at a reasonable price-point. The 1510 can be customized with Core 2 Duo T5670 (1.8GHz), 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Intel GMA X3100 graphics, dual layer DVD burner, 802.11g wireless, Bluetooth, fingerprint reader, and Windows XP. It starts at $600 with Celeron M 540 (1.86GHz) processor. (Read the full post about ‘Dell Vostro 1310 and 1510 Notebooks Now Available’…)
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6 May, 2008
Electronics product maker Sharp is thinking of the kids with their latest PMP, and adds a little educational functionality to the thing aside from its regular multimedia features. The name of their new product is the RD-CX310, and it’s a little PMP that other than playing your music and converted videos, tells you the meaning of words via a built in dictionary. But mind you, it doesn’t only have a single dictionary, but a total of 82 dictionaries with English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Korean. Twenty unspecified audio books are also included in the package, supposedly from the world’s best novelists. (Read the full post about ‘Sharp’s RD-CX310 PMP turns you into walking, talking, rocking dictionary’…)
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6 May, 2008
As if the CompUSA saga has not been dragged out enough. The stores were being closed, then some were snapped up by Tiger Direct and now we are learning that yet another big-box retail giant will be assuming some of the remaining locations. Reports are claiming that Best Buy has snapped up 17 of the CompUSA retail location leases, which range from three years up to fourteen years for a total of $13.5 million. It seems like CompUSA may have gone away, but instead of something new and exciting coming in return, it appears to be just more of the same standard electronic retail locations. Best Buy is planning on opening a mix of new Best Buy and Pacific Sales stores at these locations over the next two years. (Read the full post about ‘Best Buy moving in at 17 CompUSA locations’…)
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6 May, 2008
Well after all the hype during these past three months Microsoft has withdrawn their bid for Yahoo. With the final offer coming in at $33 per share or a total of $47.5 billion, that was just not enough to match the $37 per share or $53 billion that Yahoo was requesting. Steve Ballmer was also later quoted as stating that Microsoft would not proceed with a hostile takeover because they felt Yahoo “would take steps that would make Yahoo undesirable as an acquisition for Microsoft.” That is that, the deal is dead. Read [Yahoo! News] Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → Tags: cellphone, hi fi, PDA, gadgets (Read the full post about ‘MicroHoo is dead; Microsoft officially withdraws bid for Yahoo!’…)
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6 May, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted May 5th 2008 at 7:54AM Just in case you haven’t learned enough about the forthcoming Samsung Instinct from our hands-on gallery / UI video walkthrough, Sammy has launched a promotional website designed to give you the skinny. Within the site, you can peer at a handful of press shots, get schooled on all of its features and sign up to be notified when it’s ready for your hands to be wrapped around it. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung launches Instinct promotional site’…)
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6 May, 2008
We here at Gadgetell are all for smartphones, and new models, especially the ones that “gotz tha skillz” are never unwelcome. Now we’re hearing that a certain SMT 5700, which has been showing up in various AT&T rebate sheets for quite a while now, could be seeing a launch some time in the near future. We didn’t have the chance to cover the SMT 5700 story when its spy shots leaked on the nets over a year ago, but we’re here this time to lay the smack down on the potential final specs of the thing. A 2-megapixel camera will be built-in, first and foremost for good measure in this multimedia and cameraphone crazed world, and storage is complemented via microSD cards. (Read the full post about ‘AT&T looks set on finally releasing SMT 5700 smartphone’…)
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