Archive for June, 2005

The Moto RAZRberry

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Woo-hoo! Not going to take anything away from engadget, folks: They have been on this “RAZRberry story” for quite awhile now, and had just landed further confirmation on the new BlackBerry-styled Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone, codenamed Franklin. (Yeah, we prefer RAZRberry too.)

We just look forward to it being available in the market: when, when?

The Tungsten|XX

Monday, June 27th, 2005

engadget has news and pics courtesy of their source wolwol, of a new yet-released Tungsten|XX from palmOne (or would it be just Palm by then.) Pictures look all fine to us, looks just like the T5 with a black body … but with WiFi+Bluetooth onboard this time ’round.

HP breaks out the hw6515 Mobile Messenger

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

HP broke out news on the Malaysian availablity of its hw6515 Mobile Messenger July 2005 at RM2,888 (approx. $760) a pop. The phone number you see below is the HP Online Store, Malaysia.

LifeDrive’s boring promo

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

The palmOne LifeDrive is being pushed out to the market like crazy in Asia Pacific since it was launched. They have a current promo where a TMNet Hotspot (Malaysia) prepaid access card (of a month’s access) is given away for every purchase of the WiFi’ed LifeDrive. And some Kodak printer dock …

Skype on any mobile phone?

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

“The IPdrum Mobile Cable connects Skype to a mobile telephone via the mobile telephone network — allowing Skype users true mobility and worldwide calling for local rates.”
- IPdrum press release
Woo-hoo! Although the press release is ever so vague as to how the IPdrum doodad is gonna work (cable, software?) but it’s great news nevertheless. We [...]

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet hands-on

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

PDA phone? Smartphone? PDA and phone?
While we at PDA-1 see the future in compact PDA phones. there are still some of us who would prefer separate gadgets, for separate times in our lives. In which case, a standalone PDA and phone would make better sense, both to the occassion and the girth of our pockets [...]

Tungsten E2 price update

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

Buy.com has the palmOne Tungsten E2 at $217.99, the current Web lowest is $198.75. Check back on the same link for price updates by the day.

HP to upgrade models to Windows Mobile 5.0

Saturday, June 4th, 2005

HP is pleased to announce that we will be supporting the Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ Version 5.0 for Pocket PC upgrade for the HP iPAQ Pocket PC … HP will provide upgrades for the HP iPAQ hx4700, hx2000 series …
- quoted from HP upgrade announcement on its website
Notice that certain iPAQ series are not upgradeable (a [...]

Another sub-$50 1GB memory card

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

eCost shows us the EDGE 1GB SD card for $49 after a $25 MIR, good thru June 30.
- from sister site Digicam-1