admin | August 31, 2009
It may have been briefly, sort of official before Dell decided to do some backtracking earlier this month, but it looks like the company’s China-bound Mini 3i smartphone has now made yet another public appearance, and Sina has thankfully delivered what looks to be the most thorough hands-on with the phone to date. That, [...]
admin | August 30, 2009
I usually love making assumptions about handsets before having them in my hand even for a few seconds, and I definitely like being proven wrong about them. That happened with the N82 which I first believed was a silly replacement for the N95 until it bluffed me with its full package, the E71 whose design [...]
admin | August 28, 2009
You’ve been posting your angry rants on the YouTubes for a while now, and quite frankly your act is getting old. You know what you need, right? A spec bump. How about replacing that built-in pinhole netbook webcam with this spicy number from Hercules? The Dualpix HD720p is (you guessed it) an HD-capable USB 2.0 [...]
admin | August 27, 2009
To think it was just a few months ago that we thought taking 15 minutes to crack WPA encryption was a feat. Researchers from Kobe University in Japan are claiming they can best that by a wide margin by cracking any WPA-protected connection using the TKIP algorithm within just one minute flat. The details will [...]
admin | August 27, 2009
Remember the tiny 5cm robot grasshopper that could leap like a superhero but had trouble landing its, um, landings? Well, it still hasn’t figured out those basics, but its Swiss developers are already marching ahead with plans to endow it with a pair of wings and light awareness. Now described as a self-deploying microglider, the [...]
admin | August 27, 2009
Do you remember the Mobira Talkman? No? That’s okay, you may not have been born yet. In 1984 this was what all the sierra hotel financial traders had glued to their faces — and clutched to their hips, since the thing was as big as a briefcase. 25 years later skilled modder Jani ‘Japala’ Pönkkö [...]
admin | August 27, 2009
In backwards order, Nokia has finally launched the N900 after we’ve already seen a review and countless leaks. Nevertheless, it’s good to have the new Maemo 5 Internet Tablet out in the open and official-like. The specs include a 3.5-inch 800×480 pixel (resistive) touchscreen, sliding QWERTY, 32GB of on-board storage expandable to 48GB via microSD, [...]
admin | August 27, 2009
We’ll burst that bubble right quick and say it’s not actually a Batmobile, but it sure reminds us of one. The British Steam Car Challenge might not have reached its original goal of 200mph, but it has finally succeeded in becoming the world’s fastest boiler on wheels. We noted preparations for the world record attempt [...]
admin | August 27, 2009
Fanboys have been running Ubuntu on Sharp’s deceased Zaurus lineup of PDAs for years. Now Sharp makes it official with the launch of this 5-inch, 1024 x600 TFT LCD touchscreen NetWalker smartbook, aka the PC-Z1. It’s not a Zaurus per se, but the compact 161.4 x 108.7 x 19.7 ~ 24.8mm / 409g device certainly [...]
admin | August 21, 2009
It’s not official, but we’ll take whatever information we can get when it comes to the launch of ASUS’ all-in-one Eee Keyboard PC with 5-inch LCD. After seeing rumored launch dates come and go, out pops another, this time from DigiTimes and its Taiwanese industry sources who tend to be pretty accurate with hometown ASUS’ [...]
