Hardware

There’s a new announcement from Samsung and T-Mobile: the Samsung Katalyst will support the T-Mobile HotSpot @HomeSM service. Of course, this will be in addition to the extra fee added on a customers bill for the @Home service:
“Samsung and T-Mobile USA today announced the availability of the new Samsung Katalyst (SGH-t739). The Katalyst adds a [...]

Ever since the Treo 700w was released just a few months ago, the ‘Net has been a buzz with rumors of a Palm version. While PalmSource has left its operating system to age and wither, Palm, Inc. made its commitment to the OS of its beginnings clear early this year when CEO Ed Colligan [...]

Mom once told me when I was a kid that the small Christmas present didn’t mean it was something crappy. Nope, on the contrary, it may just be the best gift of them all.
Well the folks at Sirius would bark right along with my mother in agreement as it’s just plopped in front of [...]

Cell phones are going to get a little more room when Intel’s latest advancement is soldered into them. Announcing it’s latest advancement Tuesday, Intel has developed a process that allows what it once did in 90nm to do in 65nm. Nearly slicing a third of fat off the chip, Intel’s NOR Flash memory [...]

OS5 handhelds usually can play media files. Car audio systems usually don’t have a headphone plug. But since all car audio systems can handle FM radio, the transmission of such signals is a logical conclusion. And this is where a FM transmitter comes in.
Brando ships its stuff by regular mail. Customs left the pretty stuffed [...]

If you own a Tungsten C, you probably have the same complaint as many other TC users: WHY doesn’t it have a stereo output? As sad as it may be, Palm thought it would be a good idea to put a mono output onto a feature packed top-notch device like the Tungsten C. It is [...]

One thing I missed from my Canon G5 when I went to my Nikon D70 was the live preview in the LCD screen. I was forced to look through the viewfinder, which was fine, but there are times that just couldn’t be done. If you’re holding your camera high above a crowd of [...]

Blazing wireless speeds of up to 600Mbps is almost official as the IEEE Task Group “N” has voted to confirm the next standard, 802.11n. The next step is, “IEEE ratification process, which includes letter balloting, comment resolution, sponsor balloting and final ratification,” which Geekzone is reporting could take up to a year.
With companies such [...]

So here I am, 30,000 feet above the California Sierra and my iPod is pausing to take a look. I press play and off it goes into pause mode again within a few seconds. My iPod and continue to play this game until the captain of Southwest flight 1132 levels us off. [...]

With all the rumors that Apple was in talks with XM to bring an iPod with satellite radio on it pretty much just that, rumors, Samsung today announced its living and breathing DAP that does have the ability to do the XM shuffle. The Helix XM2go will play XM radio “anytime, anywhere” and will [...]

It’s like that old Twister Sister video use to ask, “What do you want to do with your life?” If you’re like that kid in the video, then you want to rock! So why can’t you do that on the Sony A1000 or A3000? Man, it’s just not loud enough. With [...]

Howard comes to Sirius in just a week or so but hold out a little longer you XM listeners and you’ll soon be able to get your classical and free-form music in pure digital 5.1 surround sound. Yes, that means you’ll need to get new equipment in order to enjoy that wall of sound [...]

Wonder why those 1GB shuffles are all out until January? Interesting timing, no? I’d say you can expect some new shuffles from Macworld as well a bump up in storage, too. There’ll probably be a 2GB shuffle along with the 1GB. I’d be surprised if the 512MB sticks around. As [...]

Hey, bummed you can’t get an iPod shuffle in the 1GB format? Not really into the iPod craze? Or you’re just looking for something different? Well the Philips GoGear HDD6330 Jukebox may be just that. It’s bathed in a really gorgeous black skin and has all the common buttons of [...]

Sirius is doing everything it can to beat out XM. In just a few weeks, Howard Stern, it’s largest investment into the nationwide service since slapping some satellites into Earth’s orbit, will be chanting uninhabited choruses to the 1 million Sirius listeners. But that’s still 2 million less then XM and thus Sirius [...]

Looks like you can get a good taste of what’s to come from Verizon this January when it will reportedly release the Palm Treo 700w. Treonauts has a little write up on the first Windows Mobile Palm unit and it’s a mighty nice review at that. You’ll get to see some more screen [...]

Best Buy did the secret handshake with Microsoft that involves bowing down and chanting, “Bill is our god,” a few times over. That done, Best Buy walks away with a new shipment of Xbox 360’s and leaves their soul in Redmond. This scanned document proves the hottest game boxes (in the U.S.) are [...]

If you want a more stunning video on your DAP then the iPod video has to offer, then you may be interested in the Zen Vision: M. Nearly a night and day difference in picture quality, the Zen will make your squinting eyes say, “Wow!” The Zen also supports my much loved video [...]

I’ll spare you the Nicole Simpson joke related to this product as it’s just too distasteful to repeat, but I will let you know there is a new DAP player on the market and it brings your childhood fondness of Pez into full swing. Yes, the Pez MP3 is here and it’ll play about [...]

Man, I’ve got to admit, I’m am biased when it comes to DAP’s. I think the iPod is the best all around music player available. But I know that doesn’t mean Apple’s always is going to make the best and thus I keep my eyes (and mind) open for anything new that comes [...]