Designed for rugged outdoor blokes with lantern jaws and a taste for adventure, the launch of the General Dynamics Itronix “ultra-mobile” PC has been announced for us Europe types.
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Category: Portable
OQO Model 02 Ultra Mobile PC Gets Updated
The weirdly named OQO Inc – makers of ‘model 02’, the world’s teeniest ultra mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows Vista and packing 3G mobile broadband – have announced some updates to their flagship diddy-model.
The cheeky little puppy of a PC weighs just one pound, and comes with a 5″ sliding WVGA LCD screen, integrated thumb keyboard and track stick.
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Sandisk ImageMate 12-in-1 USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Reader Review (70%)
It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were confidently predicting that our Targus USB Card Reader should see us in good stead for the future with its ability to read 14 varieties of memory card.
Sadly, the recent purchase of a SHDC-capable device proved us wrong. Although the SDHC card fitted in the reader’s SD card slot just fine, it wasn’t interested in playing ball and a brief search on the web confirmed our fears: the Targus and SDHC get along like Cardiff City and Swansea City fans.
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Creative Zen Release Credit Card Sized Player
Shinier than the beady eye of a well groomed Magpie, Creative’s new Zen looks a snappy number in its all-black suit, weighing just 65g and sporting credit credit card-sized dimensions.
The 11.3mm thick mini-player doesn’t shirk when it comes to storage space, with three models offering 4GB, 8GB and 16GB options, backed by a SD memory expansion slot. According to Zen’s calculations, you’ll be able wedge in 4,000 MP3s at 128kps on the 16GB model, which converts into 266 hours of non-stop music listening action/.
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MPixx 7000 and 4000 Budget PMPs By Grundig
The German tech company Grundig has released the MPixx 7000 Fine Arts and the MPixx 4000 series of portable media players, which pack a fair bit of technology in a budget package.
MPixx 7000 Fine Arts
The MPixx 7000 Fine Arts, is touted as an advanced multimedia player and comes with a high-contrast 2.4 inch 262k TFT display and a snazzy blue illuminated touchpad (we like things that glow blue).
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Lenovo Announces Linux ThinkPads And £100 PCs
Following in Dell’s footsteps, Lenovo has announced that it will start selling its ThinkPad notebooks with the open source Linux operating system preloaded.
Commercial buyers and individual customers will now be able to specify SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell on Lenovo’s range of notebooks from the fourth quarter of 2007 – including those in the popular ThinkPad T Series.
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Philips SoniCare FlexCare: First Look: UPDATED
If you thought that your sonic toothbrush gave you the ultimate teeth clean, you haven’t heard about the latest sonic brush from Philips – the SoniCare FlexCare.
Philips have worked hard to try and improve on, what felt for us to be just about as clean as it was possible to get. The new handset has got 80% less vibration, it’s 30% smaller, 16% lighter and has an impressive 77% reduction in energy consumption when compared with the Philips Sonicare Elite.
This thing is bonkers. When we gave it a go recently, we could not believe the pure zing we felt in our mouths post-brush. You’ll find that once you”ve used it, it will be hard to go back to anything less.
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Eurcom D900C Quad Core Phantom-X Laptop Goes On Sale
Billed as the “ultimate Mobile Workstation” for graphics pros, gamers, CAD/3D wizards and video content creators, Eurocom’s quad-core D900C Phantom-X looks something of a fearsome beast.
The shiny quad-core monster comes with an upgradeable processor, with the top of the range Intel Core 2 Quad option (Q6700, 2.66Ghz, FSB1066) packing 8MBof L2 cache and adding a whopping $755 (£370, €550) to the already wallet-frightening base configuration of $2,999 (£1,500, €2,200).
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Sky Content To PSPs
Sky have announced, in the presentation of their final year accounts, a joint venture with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to offer PSP owners in the UK and Ireland a content download service.
Saying that PSP-owners can “turn their devices into personalised on-demand video libraries,” will be a big boost for the PSP UK-side, where Sony claim that there’s 2 million of the blighters.
The start date has been pencilled as “early 2008,” making it the first in Europe. With delivery to the handheld via wireless or PC-connection, it’s that expected content such as “sports, entertainment, movies, music and animation,” will be available, interestingly from “both Sky and 3rd party channel partners.”
Sky is being really prolific in distributing its content (apart from Virgin customers :) ), arguably better at it than the BBC – whose have a specific remit to do so.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Microsoft Zune 2.0 Set For Christmas
The first version of their Zune media player didn’t exactly set the world on fire or give Steve Jobs much to worry about, but Microsoft has confirmed that its second- generation Zune players will be hitting the shelves in time for the Christmas sales season in the US.
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