Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
They’re still miles away from T-Mobile’s ridiculously cheap $10 for unlimited BlackBerry email, but Verizon’s trying to reach out to a more personal, consumer-based audience as it preps to launch its own Pearl with a new data pricing structure of its own. Unlimited web and email will run you $29.99 when purchased [...]
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio
UK-based CyrusLink has released a few iPod speaker systems, but we hadn’t heard anything about the outfit’s latest effort, the LinkMini Two, until the crew at ShinyShiny spotted its nondescript Amazon page. Featuring a 10-watt sub and two five-watt satellites with aluminum cones, the Two probably won’t win any design [...]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
RAmos hasn’t exactly set the standard for sexy looking PMPs, and while the V80 may not make you cringe when facing it head-on, checking out the whole package is likely to leave you disappointed. Nevertheless, this unit does manage to hum along on WinCE 6.0, boast a 1.3-megapixel camera and [...]
Filed under: Features, Misc. Gadgets
There’s no doubt Bug Labs is getting closer to launching its open source modular gadget kits, but for those wondering when we’d see some physical hardware, today’s your lucky day. We got a chance to check out an early BUGbase unit and the full complement of BUGmodules. While we didn’t get [...]
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Verizon FIOS customers have been feeling left out of the great HD race lately. Sure they have access to some of the fastest Internet connections in the US, but at a time when other providers are adding HD goodness in record number, FIOS customers only got one new HD channel in [...]
Filed under: Features, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Yeah, we already got our P2 touching on back in those heady days of August, and we even saw this sucker unboxed in September, but now Samsung has made everything official and thrust it into some impenetrable plastic packaging for our own unboxing pleasure. Seriously, this thermoformed plastic was [...]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wireless
As if the beginning of November wasn’t reminder enough that CES 2008 is a scant two months away, we also happened to get greeted by our press badge and associated admission tickets when we opened the mailbox today. Normally we’d just toss the envelope aside and pretend that our week of [...]
Filed under: Ask Engadget, Features, Portable Audio, Wireless
Speaking of Korea, Samsung’s P2 made its way into the States today, and you know what that means: it’s time to start shopping for stereo Bluetooth headphones. At least that’s what Bala’s up to, who wrote in to Ask Engadget for advice as follows:
OK, I give up. [...]
Filed under: Laptops
What’s better being the nerdy guy on a nerdy hit TV show? Being a nerd in real life, of course. Masi Oka — you probably know him as Hiro from NBC’s Heroes — has it all going on, and has now signed up to be OLPC’s “ambassador” to really flesh out his resume. [...]
Filed under: Portable Audio
Move over, UC Irvine: your colleagues across the state at UC Berkeley have just one-upped your nano-scale radio by not only using nanotechnology for the demodulator, but actually “stuffing” all the components into a single carbon nanotube. By utilizing mechanical — rather than electrical — vibrations of a nanotube protruding from an [...]
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Wal-Mart may have been the first to tempt HD-fence-sitters with a $100 HD-A2 player (however limited), but it looks like it’s not the only one, with Best Buy now also listing the very same player for the impulse buy-inducing price of $99.99. Of course, it’s sold out online, so you may [...]
Filed under: Cellphones
Apple’s “love it,” “hate it” or “hack it to pieces” iPhone is Time’s “Invention Of the Year,” following up last year’s YouTube win. Nothing more to say about this thing that hasn’t been said a million times, but don’t worry, Time is careful to retread it all just in case you’ve been in [...]
Filed under: Cellphones
We’ve had plenty of face time with this little guy already, but Verizon Wireless has finally fessed up to a precise release date and price point for its EV-DO BlackBerry Pearl 8130. The phone is available for pre-order at $200 with a 2 year contract and an automatic $100 online discount, and will [...]
Filed under: Laptops
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. First the Eee PC gets reviewed, then it gets ripped apart, in this case by the always curious folks at TweakTown. While there’s not too many surprises on the inside, TweakTown’s organized destruction of the budget-friendly laptop is nothing if not thorough, including eight [...]
Filed under: Home Entertainment
We’re sure you’ve been drooling over Sony’s sexy little 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV since the official launch last month, and though we thought that only the Japanese would be lucky enough to snap one up this year, Sony Electronics President Stan Glasgow has just revealed that US customers may actually have a [...]
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