Filed under: Home Entertainment
Hey, look at that — the Squeezebox Duet just popped up for pre-order. Slim Devices’s answer to Sonos was pretty impressive when we played with it at CES, and it looks like pricing is exactly what we heard: $400 for the wireless controller and a single Squeezebox Receiver, which can stream music off your home machine or tune into Rhapsody or Pandora. Units are expected to ship at the end of the month, but it doesn’t look like you can buy additional $150 receivers or $300 controllers yet.
[Thanks, Gregg]
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Business types, it’s time to finish your spreadsheets and get excited. Palm is dropping their neat Centro smartie right here in the UK.
Running on Palm’s own OS 5.4.9, rather than the Windows flavoured system they’ve been favouring with the likes of the Treo, the Centro is already a hit Stateside.
Now you can snag one over here for a penny shy of 200 nicker, minus a SIM card of course.
That’ll get you a fairly puny 1.3-meg camera and no 3G, but if you’re after an email work horse, then this is the phone for you. Palm’s messaging system is dead easy to use and something we’ve been fans of here at T3 Towers for some time now.
You get a chat style view, so none of that farting about trying to find old messages. The thread’s right there in front of you.
It also has support for 4GB SD cards, so you can stack away up to 1,000 tunes if it takes our fancy too.
We all know that the U600 is a cracking phone. Clocking in at a mere 10.9mm, it’s the thinnest slider around and has got plenty of neat features on board.
Samsung though, has seen fit to tinker with its high end war horse, offering haptic touch as part of an update announced last night in London.
The tech means the touch sensitive keys now respond with a neat vibrate every time you fondle them. This is something LG has been fond of in the past, shoving it onto the Viewty. Motorola has also stuck in on the E8, which we fooled around with at CES.
The new U600 is out now on O2 contract, or £99.99 SIM free if you’re feeling flush. Not bad considering you get a 3.2 meg-peeper, 60MB of on board memory and Bluetooth 2.0.
As relaunches go, this one is pretty vanilla, so we’re hoping that this is just an entrée before Samsung serves up more meaty mobile morsels next week at MWC in Barcelona.
We’ll be bringing you live coverage of MWC, so be sure to keep it here for all the newest phones as they’re outed.
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We hear this new phase-change memory stuff is awful special, which is why we’re hoping to get our hands on some now that Numonyx (the “pospective” company founded last year by Intel and STMicroelectronics to make the stuff), is apparently shipping “Alverstone”-codenamed prototypes. Of course, with progress comes hype: according to Ed Doller, Numonyx’s “prospective” CTO, “This is the most significant non-volatile memory advancement in 40 years.” Show us the memory!
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
The achilles heel of RC racers has always been the battery. A few minutes of play after hours of charging is no way to waste the sacred years of youth — we have video games for that. Now this race fans, the H2GO racer fueled by hydrogen cartridges from Horizon Fuel Cell. Produced by Corgi International, the clean running H2GO is designed by the slightly mad, Red White Barron of design — Luigi Colani — and ships with a water refueling station, solar panel, and remote control. Details are otherwise frustratingly scarce. Though we can assume that the car features water-activated HydroPak Mini prototype cells and will easily cost a couple of Benjamins by the time it goes production. Unfortunately, that would be sometime in late 2008 or 2009 based on Horizon Fuel Cell’s earlier estimates of commercial fuel cell availability. Oh, the agony.
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