Archive for September, 2009

Vodafone Nabs iPhone in Prelude To UK Price War

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Now that O2 has lost exclusivity, everyone’s getting in on the iPhone action in the UK. First it was Orange, now Vodafone has inked a deal said to have been signed only last night as a defensive move to stave subscriber defections. The new agreement sees Vodafone selling the iPhone 3G and 3GS to the [...]

Apple Store Outage incites Tipping Riot

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Toshiba Satellite T100 Series of Thin-and-Lights Receive Windows 7 Nod

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Hope you’re ready for it ’cause a deluge of new computing hardware is coming with the launch of Windows 7. Here’s Toshiba’s T100 series with LED backlit displays, Intel CULV SU4100 processors, DDR3 memory, eSATA/USB combo ports, integrated webcams, 5-in-1 card readers, HDMI-out, a claimed 9-hours of life from 6-cell batteries, and multi-touch trackpads set [...]

TomTom Car Kit For iPhone Will Run $120

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

We’ve been waiting quite a while to hear pricing info for the much-anticipated TomTom car kit for the iPhone. The kit, which will be sold separately from the navigational iPhone app, will be available in October (that’s almost now!!). While we still don’t have full details on what the whole package will include, it’s officially [...]

LG’s BL20 Chocolate Gets official With €269 Price Tag

Monday, September 28th, 2009

LG’s BL20 Chocolate – the younger sibling of the insane BL40 Chocolate Touch — has recently been making a real splash around these parts. Ever since we got our hands on it, we’ve been wondering when we’d hear some official pricing and launch information, and the wait seems to be coming to an end. It [...]

$38 Zipit Wireless Messenger Receives Linux injection, Becomes $38 Netbook

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Poor Zipit. As a $149.99 instant messenger client nobody got particularly excited about you. Even now, as a $38 IM client you aren’t exactly in high demand — but as a $38 portable Linux machine, well, that’s another story altogether. The machines have been tweaked before, but the latest and greatest is this hack from [...]

Samsung’s SCH-W880 12 Megapixel Phonecamera With 3x Optical Zoom

Monday, September 28th, 2009

In a welcome reversal of trends, Samsung just stuffed a 3G cellphone into a 12 megapixel camera making this M8920 / SCH-W880 more of a camera than most 12 megapixel cameraphones can claim. While this presumed follow-up to Samsung’s Pixon 12 (M8910) isn’t official, the announcement looks imminent based on the leaked collateral above and [...]

Airis Praxis Slim Air is One-inch Thick, KIRFtastic

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Airis is no stranger to the fine art of imitating without getting sued out of existence, and its latest effort — the shamelessly titled Praxis Slim Air — is no exception. It sports a 12-inch display spanning 1366 x 768 pixels, a gig of memory and a 160GB hard drive, and if you think this [...]

Windows 7 Coming To Netbooks in All its Myriad Flavors

Monday, September 28th, 2009

It would seem that the humble netbook owner’s Windows 7 options just keep improving as the grand new OS comes closer to release. After plans to limit netbooks to running three apps at a time were thankfully scrapped, Microsoft has now confirmed with us that it is going to allow OEMs to splash any version [...]

iPhone 3G And 3GS To Be offered By Orange UK — official

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Well well, turns out rumors sometimes do come true. The widely speculated end to O2’s exclusivity of the iPhone is now upon us and Orange is the first competitor to throw its hat into the ring. The company has not yet released tariff pricing, but there’s a tantalizingly small release window, as availability is promised [...]