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T-Mobile G1 preorder details leak: HTC Dream launch October 13th

August 31st, 2008 at 1:19 am » Comments (1)

Update:  To be available early…
Only postpaid customers will be eligible to preorder; FlexPay, Prepaid or T-Mobile employees will have to wait for the Dream to go to general availability.  Existing customers must be at least 22 months into a 2-year contract, or 11 months into a 1-year contract, in order to upgrade.  The preorder period [...]



Ultrasone’s ‘radiation reducing’ Pro 900 headphones

August 30th, 2008 at 11:05 pm » Comments (0)

 

Purveyors of very expensive headphones, Ultrasone Inc, has released a brand new Pro series. The first model - the Pro 900 - features S-Logic Plus Technology, which basically provides a larger soundstage inside the earcup for an “improved acoustic feeling”. At a cost of $600 per pair, we’d expect nothing less.
The 900s have a closed-back, [...]



Sony Revolutionises Speaker Technology With Sountina

August 30th, 2008 at 12:47 pm » Comments (0)

You’ve never seen a loudspeaker quite like Sony’s new NSA-PF1 — the Sountina. Nor will you ever have heard anything like it: this single, elegant column, combining glass, leather and room-enhancing illumination, delivers music over 360 degrees, providing a sonic and visual focal-point for any room.
Why Sountina? Sony’s designers explain the name is a fusion [...]



Samsung Delivers the BD-P2500 Fifth Generation Blu-ray Player

August 30th, 2008 at 12:39 pm » Comments (1)

Samsung Electronics introduces its most advanced Blu-ray player to date with the BD-P2500. Building upon key features and design elements from past Samsung Blu-ray players, the BD-P2500 is compatible out-of-the-box with the latest Blu-ray interactive features available including BD Live™. The BD-P2500 also offers breakthrough enhancements such as Hollywood Quality Video™ (HQV™) processing and 7.1-Channel [...]



120GB and 16GB Zune Spotted

August 30th, 2008 at 12:34 pm » Comments (0)

It seems that a citizen in Canada has gotten a hold of a 16gb and 120gb set of Zunes. We can almost guarantee the credibility of this image seeing it was most likely taken from a 2mp Camera phone. As you look at the image of the 16gb Zune you notice it has a glossy [...]



Navigon 7200T GPS Has 3D Landmarks, Free Live Traffic Info

August 29th, 2008 at 9:32 pm » Comments (2)

Navigon is a well-known name when it comes to GPS navigation systems, and this company has retired the venerable 7100 model, replacing it instead with the 7200T. This successor will retain Navigon’s free, real-time traffic as well as most features from it’s predecessor, but you will also benefit from a better user interface as well [...]



Comcast capping internet usage starting Oct 1st

August 29th, 2008 at 8:18 pm » Comments (0)

In the latest move to rein in the heaviest users of the Internet, Comcast Corp. announced a cap on the amount of data its customers can download.
Starting Oct. 1, residential high-speed Internet customers will be limited to 250 gigabytes of traffic per month. Typical customers use between two gigabytes and three gigabytes a month, Comcast [...]



Lenovo Ideapad U8 gets priced

August 29th, 2008 at 8:10 pm » Comments (0)

When the Lenovo IdeaPad U8 MID was launched at the Olympics in Beijing, it was expected to “go on sale in the near future” with a price “equivalent” to smartphones. Exactly what that meant has been unclear for some time now, but today yesky.com reports that the uber-connected device has been priced at 4999 yuan. [...]



Sprint’s XOHM WiMax service launching next month

August 29th, 2008 at 12:23 pm » Comments (0)

Sprint is lining up partners to help localize the WiMAX experience it plans to roll out this fall. Sprint users will get local news, weather, restaurant reviews, and other features on the XOHM 4G network through “geobrowsing.” Sprint will kick off WiMAX in Baltimore, then move to Chicago and Washington, D.C.
The partnership between Sprint and [...]



Wi-Fi Gets a new Roaming Standard — 802.11r

August 29th, 2008 at 12:11 pm » Comments (0)

The IEEE has completed 802.11r, a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between access points, improving the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs.
The IEEE 802.11 standards were originally defined with single access points in mind. But when devices move from one access point to another, it takes around 100ms to re-associate, and several seconds [...]