La Fonera 2.0 emerges for developers, encourages USB-related shenanigans

Filed under: Wireless, Networking

La Fonera fans, it’s finally time to celebrate. Iteration 2.0, which is fittingly dubbed the Liberator, is at long last ready for shipment… to developers, at least. The La Fonera 2.0 box will certainly look familiar to owners of the first, with just 1,000 of these being prepped for consumers in France, [...]

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Latest spy shots show AT&T Fuze defaced with carrier’s logo

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

We’d been encouraged in previous spy shots that AT&T was intending to keep a clean, brand-free look on the front of the Fuze, but what were we thinking? That’d never sit well with the suits up on the 49th floor of AT&T’s headquarters (we just made that up, by the way — [...]

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PSP-3000 sneaks out a bit early, suffers an unboxing

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

Due to be launched next Tuesday, the PSP-3000Ratchet & Clank Entertainment Pack has managed to slip into at least one Best Buy a few days early, where it was quickly snatched up by friendly tipster Aaron G. He sent us a few unboxing shots out of the kindness of his heart, and [...]

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Sony Ericsson’s 8.1MP C905 Cyber-shot cellphone gets unboxed on video

Filed under: Cellphones

Oh sure, you’ve seen the 8.1-megapixel C905 Cyber-shotin the wild and in our very own hands, but have you seen it unboxed entirely on video? No? Well, today’s your lucky day. Sony Ericsson’s shutterbug-of-a-cellphone is a touch on the thick side and doesn’t come with too many extras (you know, like a detachable [...]

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Metal Gear Solid 4 Bluetooth headset now shipping to ears everywhere

Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals
This is it, soldiers. The day you’ve been anticipating has finally arrived. Okay, so maybe that’s a build up not deserved by the lowly retail version of the Metal Gear Solid 4 Bluetooth headset, but seriously, we’ve been waiting ages for this thing to ship. Like, so long that the whole MGS4 [...]

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Motorola’s Krave ZN4 acquired, photographed

Filed under: Cellphones

Here on the right coast of the US of A, it’s not quite October 14th. That factoid aside, someone has still managed to acquire one of Motorola’s peculiar (in a good way) Krave ZN4s from Verizon a few days in advance of its official release date. The touchscreen-heavy flip phone looks mighty impressive [...]

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ASUS at it again, calling out Gigabyte’s excessive copper usage

Filed under: Desktops

Oh ASUS, you bring us such joy. When this company isn’t busy diluting its Eee brand, it loves to pick fights with noted rivals, and this latest spat with Gigabyte (who isn’t at all innocent in this war) is wonderfully trivial. Apparently ASRock, ASUS’s budget motherboard wing, has taken it upon itself to [...]

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MacBook / MacBook Pro rumor roundup

Filed under: Laptops

Well the rumoratti has certainly been working overtime today when it comes to Apple, so we’ve decided to bundle all the news that’s currently doing the rounds into one tasty and nutritious post.
First up, there are new — and quite detailed — pictures out of what appears to be those MacBook and MacBook [...]

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FCC expected to recommend unlicensed white space spectrum use

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless
The back-and-forth between mainstream carriers and external mega-corps may finally be coming to an end, with the almighty FCC expected to make a pivotal determination regarding the use of white space in short order. For those unaware, white space refers to the freed spectrum that will become available when broadcasters move completely [...]

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Bandai’s Peri Peri keychain lets you rip open shipping envelopes continually

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Look, you don’t have to explain to us how weird this thing is. Trust us, we fully understand. But as gadget editors, we have a certain love for receiving surprise packages and ripping ‘em open as quickly as possible to discover what goodies reside within. Bandai’s so-very-Japanese Peri Peri keychain is apt [...]

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Raon Digital prepping SSD-based Everun Note UMPCs

Filed under: Laptops, Storage

We’re glad to see that Raon Digital isn’t just ditching its Everun Note entirely after having to recall the thing, and better still, we’re stoked to hear that it’ll soon be doling out speedier iterations with built-in SSDs. UMPC Portal has it that two new Everun Notes will be landing shortly, both [...]

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T-Mobile launches BlackBerry Pearl 8220, available today for $149.99

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

The BlackBerry Pearl 8220 runs neck-and-neck with the Storm for the title of “most leaked RIM device of 2008,” but for what it’s worth, T-Mobile is just now getting around to announcing a date and price for the most fliptastic phone in Waterloo’s ever-expanding lineup. That’s good news — but perhaps the [...]

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Nokia shocks no one, confirms N-Series touchscreen handset

Filed under: Cellphones

Hey, it’s not like you really expected Nokia to ride the coattails of its N95 / N96 forever without adding in a dash of innovation, right? At a recent Nokia event held in New Delhi, Devinder Kishore (the director of marketing for Nokia India) was quoted as saying that “We will have lots [...]

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1.5 million T-Mobile G1s already pre-ordered

Filed under: Cellphones

T-Mobile sold right out of its original allotment of G1 pre-orders quick, fast and in a hurry, and even the second round has been claimed in a flash. What’s it all mean? It means that someone at T-Mobile and Google are sitting in a fancy restaurant in France sipping on the good stuff, [...]

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12.1-inch Dell E Slim laptop spotted in the wild?

Filed under: Laptops

It’s hard to say what we’ve come across here, but if our retinas aren’t deceiving us too badly, this looks to be an in the wild shot (sans blur, amazingly) of Dell’s forthcoming E Slim. If you’ll recall, we caught a glimpse of said device way back in June, and the two look [...]

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