Now available for purchase and ready to take on the Sony PRS-505 is Cybook’s Gen3 e-book reader, an ultra-light reading device based on ‘E ink’ screen technology.
Mike Slocombe
Cybook’s Gen3 E-book Reader Hits The UK
T-Mobile Shadow Looks To Take On The Blackberry Pearl
T-Mobile have today announced the Shadow, a low-cost, consumer-focused Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with a slide-out keypad heavily ‘inspired’ by the BlackBerry Pearl.
Just like the one seen on the hugely popular Pearl, the slide-down keypad is five keys wide with each key offering two letters, with the phone using Tegic’s XT9 predictive software for speeding up text input.
(more…)Apple Refuses Cash Payments For iPhones
In an intriguing move, Herr Jobs has now dictated that folks without credit cards will not be allowed to purchase an iPhone, declaring that Apple will “no longer accept cash for iPhone purchases.”
Moreover, Apple will be limiting sales of the hit iPhone to two for each customer in an attempt to preserve stocks for Christmas and stop people reselling their handsets.
i-mate Ultimate 9502 And 8502 Smartphones Announced
Smartphone kings i-mate have shuffled out two new high-end Ultimate smartphones, both packing QWERTY keyboards.
The 9502 packs in more features than a Friday night multi-screen cinema, offering a high resolution touch screen display, tri-band 3.5G, 802.11b and 802.11g Wi-Fi, integrated GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR and quad band GSM with EDGE.
The beefy handheld features a 2.8″ VGA (640×480) touch screen that slides out Sidekick-stylee, with a 39-key Qwerty keypad lurking below.
(more…)Dell Remains #1 in US, Apple Hits 3rd Place – But Not For Long
Dell remains the King Of The Hill of PC sales in the United States, owning a hefty 29.1 percent of the market ahead of nearest rival Hewlett-Packard, at 25.7 percent.
The figures come from the latest quarterly PC shipment report from Gartner, who placed a surging Apple in third place with 8.1 percent of the US PC market (in a similar report, rival analysts IDC put Apple’s share at a smaller 6.3 percent of the U.S. market).
(more…)Samsung Announces 5 Megapixel Cameraphone With Optical Zoom
Samsung has pulled on the little rope and sent the velvet curtains shimmying asunder to reveal the Samsung G800, triumphantly declaring it the world’s first 5 megapixel camera phone with 3x optical zoom.
Although the quality of phone cameras has been increasingly steadily recently, most come burdened with the digital zoom, which is, frankly rubbish.
Yamaha PJP-25UR VoIP Conference Call Sound Station
Anyone who’s ever sat through long conference calls with a load of people sat around a table will be familiar with occasionally having to lurch over the desk to talk into the ‘sound station’ thingy.
(more…)Sheffield Wednesday FC Fails To Unmask Seven ‘Defamatory’ Posters On Fans Site
In a move sure to please football fans arguing the toss on bulletin boards all over the UK, a High Court judge has ruled that lively banter of a “strictly defamatory” nature can still be so trivial that The Man can’t always force board owners into revealing poster’s identities.
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