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The Creative Zen Micro 5GB MP3 player bagged an award in a digital products tradeshow, and had the major media gushing over it … probably due to the huge choice of colors available:

Malaysia, has in one fell swoop eliminated its fast-rising status of a PDA haven, angering the local PDA community and probably the ire of retailers, too.
The Star, a local daily reports that the Malaysian government has decided to slap an extra 10% sales tax on all PDAs equipped with Bluetooth and/or WiFi radios. This is [...]

PDA input can be a real pain if done over an extended period, but thankfully they have keyboards for that. Three flavors are available in the market: Serial, Bluetooth and infrared.
Serial-connecting ones are fast getting old for the wireless age, and can only be used for particular PDA makes and models. So Bluetooth and infrared [...]

Russia-based RoverPC (site in Russian) decided to market a “new” Windows Mobile Phone Edition cellphone called the S2 to its residents. It’s also known as the Lenovo ET560 (Chinese website) in China.

Since we can’t read Russian nor Chinese, we’re gonna attempt to spec this unit from what Roman alphabets are visible on the websites:

For those of you that have these gadgets with Bluetooth radios built-in, these latest models from Jabra are good to go:

Jabra BT110, $69.99 at HelloDirect.com
Jabra BT800, price and availability to be announced January ‘05.

We like the BT110 because it use a single, common AAA battery instead of a built-in rechargeable (as if we mobile geeks [...]

A bit of a surprise even for iPodders, Apple launched its iPod Photo early today. It was initially expected to debut early-2005.
Looking similar to the regular iPod, it comes with a 65k TFT LCD screen that displays photos, album art, and is slightly thicker and heavier - presumably to accomodate a bigger battery which will [...]

Well the President of palmOne is supposed to deliver the news later in the day, but the company decided it ain’t no big deal to announce it on-site first. See the Treo 650 in full glory at palmOne’s product webpage.
As expected, TreoCentral already has an overview of the new Palm OS-based smartphone. Expected price $599.00 [...]

It does crack us up sometimes; the funny ways technology-centric websites try to beat each other to the very second in announcing the latest-and-greatest gadget launches. And we are not only talking about the niche players …
CNET decided that, if they cannot get an early scoop on the Treo 650 - why not plaster a [...]

If you are an average PDA user with a SD slot on your handheld you might want to check out eCost’s very low price of $9.00 (after rebates) for the Kingston 256MB SD card. That’s decent enough to hold the pics of the kids, your significant other, and the occasional game or two …
Memory-starved PDA-philes [...]

We noticed that we are still getting lots of search requests on the peeling Zire 72 problem - even after we tried giving it a rest - so we sent one of us out to the streets recently to find out what’s happenin’ …
Graffiti came back with some good news and he wrote up a [...]