Archive for December, 2004

Affordable 256MB MP3 players, anyone?

Monday, December 13th, 2004

The last time we hung around Wal-Mart, we thought their ilo 256 MB Digital Audio MP3 Player was pretty spiffy with a price tag of only $79.72. But little did we know that this part of the market - flash-based USB drives with MP3 playing capability - is pretty hot. (Edit: Maybe because we were [...]

20GB portable video recorder from nowhere

Monday, December 13th, 2004

Yes, we know you guys are able to catch your latest DVDs on your hyper-PDA these days, but there are just some things it won’t do. Like being able to record cable programming right off the box without bringing along your hyper-notebook. And view it back off any regular TV or even a LCD projector. [...]

Zire 72s Special Edition offer

Saturday, December 11th, 2004

Late or not, we hear that palmOne is offering the Zire 72 Special Edition for $249.00 after a $50 MIR. Not only that, Christmas will be a golden one for new owners, as it comes with a Gold Stylus! Gold-plated one, that is. Oh well … at least it’s the real deal.
Elsewhere, the Zire 72 [...]

Tapwave Zodiacs now run WiFi

Saturday, December 4th, 2004

This must be one of the best news a WiFi and Palm user can ever have. Tapwave, makers of the Zodiac Palm powered handhelds have announced that their units will now run both SanDisk’s and palmOne’s SD WiFi Cards, making it the very first and only Palm powered PDA in the world to have this [...]

Tech beauty photoshoot

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

Writer and photographer of tech bling Lutz in Germany posted up at msmobiles.com some really awesome pics and demo pics/video clips of/from 4 of the most desirable Windows Mobile powered PDAphone and Smartphones today.
The models are branded variously in the worldwide market, but Germany knows them as T-Mobile SDA music, T-Mobile SDA business, T-Mobile MDA [...]

More 1GB deals for CF

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

From eCost:

SimpleTech 1GB CompactFlash card, $69.00 - $20 MIR expired
Lexar Media 1GB 40x CompactFlash card, $65.00 after $20 MIR

And a little bonus … Viking 128MB CompactFlash card, free after $16 MIR.

1GB SD deals

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

‘Tis the hols, and besides getting huge gift stockings all ready make sure your PDA and digital camera have the room to store the huge amounts of video clips and pics coming in. You know … the ones of people at their worst behavior.

eCost has the Lexar Media 1GB Secure Digital card going for only [...]

New iPAQ hx2000 series launch in Singapore

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

Not appearing in the homeland as yet, but the new HP iPAQ hx2000 series has launched in Europe and now Asia; in Singapore to be exact.
Launched Tuesday there, it’s all talk and demos about security, enterprise applications and software … meaning corporate buyers’ fodder and perhaps for the tech geeks - for now. Consumer-wise, the [...]