Posted Jan 12th 2008 5:28AM by Nilay Patel
Filed under: CES, Displays
All we have to do now, is take these lies, and make them true somehow.
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Posted Jan 10th 2008 10:49AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: Gaming
At the end of this month, Sony Japan will no longer carry the 20GB and 60GB Playstation 3 SKUs. Instead, they will focus their energies on promoting the relatively hot selling 40GB model — the only model available after January. That means no more backward compatibility for PS2 games in Japan. No mention of a shake-up globally but it’s pretty clear that the 40GB PS3 is Stringer’s new love child.
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For the most part, keyboards don’t usually have a built-in trackball, but thanks to the Wireless Slim Keyboard, available at Brando, that can change.
As you can imagine, having a 800 DPI trackball on a keyboard is very useful for those situations when the normal mouse stops working. Or for example, if you forget to take the normal mouse, along with the keyboard.
It works with 4AA batteries, which can be considered its negative point. Other features include a small number of hot keys, for internet, my computer, and multimedia; and a wireless working mode via a USB transmitter - 2.4GHz Radio Frequency.
Price: $55
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Via GeekAlerts
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I reported last month on Nokia’s trials with payment and ticketing in London using NFC technology and was thrilled to see some working demos up close at CES. There were 8 vendors there, including Nokia and Visa, and this is probably just a taste of things to come, as the possibilities for NFC applications are more numerous than the demos shown. But even this handful of applications is enough to change our daily lives. As Nokia is a primary driver of NFC technology, all of the demos used a NFC-enabled Nokia phone.
Innovision showed me how NFC enabled ’smart’ tags embedded in posters could provide info to people passing by and touching the tags with their NFC phones. Examples of info could be movie times at theaters nearby; product info; or the best route to take from where you are currently by touching the destination stop.
Visa told me all about their mobile payment system that uses NFC phones. Using a virtual wallet application on your phone, you can store account info for your credit and bank accounts. That information is downloaded and updated over an encrypted wireless connection. Once you pay by selecting the account and touching the payment base, the payment process works the same as when you swipe your check or credit card. If you lose your phone, the Visa folks can remotely wipe your account info from your phone. Nokia/Visa is currently trialing this payment system globally.
Other applications include ticketing systems, vending machines, parking meters, product packaging, points of interest, or even access doors!
I was somewhat surprised that the NFC forum wasn’t more mobbed, because I see this technology as revolutionizing the way we come to view and use mobile devices.
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PDAStreet reviews the Nokia N75 and writes, ” Around the back you’ll find the lens for the 2.0 megapixel camera and a small but powerful flash. There’s no self-portrait mirror, however… While we like the quality of the 2.0 megapixel camera, pictures take on a yellowish cast so be sure to use the white balance first. The N75 includes several photo controls and can even shoot video.”
Read more about the Nokia N75.
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Posted Jan 10th 2008 10:33AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Peripherals
A rumor swirling about the bowels of the Internets says that Microsoft is about to launch a takeover bid for Swiss-based Logitech. If true, Microsoft, the largest software house in the world would become the world’s largest maker of webcams, mice and other peripheral devices. Share prices are surging on speculation that Microsoft will make a takeover bid valued at 48 francs per share, a 38% premium over yesterday’s closing price. Our take? We’re pretty skeptical. Both companies have been extraordinarily successful without each other. And at first take, the union seems to offer neither company any advantage in the market. Perhaps the rumor mill confused Logitech with Japan’s Logitec — that would make perfect sense. Yeah.
[Thanks, Khattab]
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Nokia announced the latest N82 in white color. This one too is sexy like the E65 model. Nokia N82 comes with a 2.4″ LCD QVGA TFT color display featuring up to 16.7 million colors and 240 x 320 pixel resolution. Running on Symbian Operating system features battery life of (BP-6MT) 1050mAh, talk time up to 190 min for WCDMA and up to 260 min for GSM, stand-by time up to 210 hours for WCDMA and up to 225 hours for GSM. With the operating frequency of WCDMA2100 (HSDPA), EGSM900, GSM850/1800/1900 MHz (EGPRS) and automatic switching between bands and modes, Nokia N82 is rocking the market of mobile-freaks.
This camera-phone is highly on demand for:
To give the better storage place for your personal and professional information, it comes equipped up to 100MB internal dynamic memory letting thes users save messages, ringing tones, images, video clips, calendar notes, to-do list and applications. Nokia N82 also has the benefit of hot swappable microSD memory card slot. Its power management features include, still images capacity up to 290 pictures (with flash), video capture capacity up to 110 minutes (VGA, 30 fps), video call up to 120 minutes, video playback up to 200 minutes (VGA, 30 fps), music playback up to 10 hours (offline mode).
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