For a quick solution, especially for something like a laptop that can't even get a better quality bit of hardware, it's probably worth taking a look at. A "Pro" version should be out soon that includes a remote.

Read - ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 [ViperLair]

Sharp LL-151-3D Reviewed

There's no doubt that the Sharp LL-151-3D is a cool product—3D displays without any goofy headgear is the double pluses. But are any of you guys actually using them? I can think of a few situations (medical, 3D imaging) where they'd be handy, but the 15-inch size seems a little down market for hot-to-trot medical researchers/Science Officers. And it's too expensive for gaming, costing more than most gaming PCs do in total. Anyway, just curious. There's got to be a way I can justify buying one for work.

Sharp LL-151-3D - 3D LCD Monitor [TrustedReviews]

Neuros II Reviewed

The Register has a properly in-depth review of the Neuros II 20GB HDD music player, a bulky and sort of awkward device whose main claim to fame is swappable 'backpacks' that allow additional hard drives to be added without the need for buying a whole different unit. Sadly, it seems that the implementation is less than the sum of its concepts, although I have to say I was intrigued by one aspect of its direct-to-MP3 recording of FM radio. By using a service called HiSi ("Hear it. Save it.") the Neuros is able to identify - after being plugged back into your computer - songs you've recorded from the radio by comparing short audio snippets to those in HiSi's database, which returns the correct ID3 tag. It even color codes the results depending on how certain it is that it's identified the song correctly.

Unfortunately, that's about the best part. The 20GB Neuros II is a pretty good value, though - an 80GB model can be had for just $450.

Re ad - Neuros II 20GB HDD music player [TheRegisterUK]

Yahoo 360 Reviewed

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Vonage reviewed

The Edison, New Jersey based company gives you one Cisco ATA186 and a phone number in an area code of your choosing (I had a little piece of northern New Jersey in my living room). You have a choice of two different levels of service to go along with this box: for $25.99/month you get unlimited local/regional calling (where local/regional is defined by the area code you choose for your phone number) and 500 minutes of free US long distance, and for $39.99/month you get unlimited long distance. And you also get international rates that rivals most common calling cards. The only problem is that the service only delivers one ATA186, and that specific model is required to use the service -- no other SIP compatible devices are supported yet. If you want to use more than one phone with the box, you will either have to rig up a network of telephone splitters and wires; or you can do what some have done and hack your house to plug the Cisco box into your house's in wall telephone network.

IBM ThinkPad R51 Reviewed

BIOS reviews the IBM ThinkPad R51 and finds it to be an excellent value for a solid laptop, as long as you stay away from adding lots of the overpriced options from IBM's catalog (generally good advice when buying any laptop, really). For less that thousand dollars you can bring home a ThinkPad of your own, albeit one that is wholly unsuitable for gaming or other performance-intensive activities. That's okay, though - it's still a ThinkPad, one of the best laptops you can buy.

ThinkPad R51 Review [BIOS]

Rio Carbon Reviewed Some More

< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/gearlive_carbon.jpg" alt="gearlive_carbon.jpg image" width="398" height="299" class="center border"/>GearLive got a hold of the Carbon, Rio's 5GB player that just came out a few weeks back. I like the Carbon a lot and not just because of the extra gig of space over the iPod mini. Rio has a nasty habit of making seriously quality products that get passed over too often.

< b>Read - Rio Carbon Review [GearLive]

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iRiver PMP-140 (P)Reviewed

Soroban Geek's Portable Media World got their webbed hands on a pre-release version of the iRiver PMP-140, the upcoming personal media player that is the one that isn't the Windows-branded Portable Media Center (that's the PMC- models). Although the review is a little heavy on pictures and a little light on opinion, they seem fairly impressed with the device. It does look nice enough (from a feature perspective, at least; its case is ugly as sin), and I've got fairly high hopes for this one. DRM-free means, if nothing else, greater ease of use as a rule of thumb.

Read - Teasing Preview iRIVER PMP-140 (UK/US) [PMW.SorobanGeeks]

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Rio Carbon Reviewed

Pocket-Lint manages to score the first proper Rio Carbon review I've seen, and certainly the first to use Guns & Roses as their test music. One thing that is a nice is the Carbon's drag-and-drop ability, because while music managing software can be very nice, it's also nice to have the option to just copy over some music (or whatever) via Windows' Explorer or the Mac's Finder. From the sound of it, it seems Rio has a real winner in the 5GB hard disk music player. The question is, will the consumer market think so?

Read - Rio Carbon - First Look [Pocket-Lint]

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Gravis, a division of the snowboarding outfitter Burton (and not related to the gamepad and soundcard company, to my knowledge) sent me one of their G-Pod third-generation iPod cases to review, and I have to say I'm fairly impressed. There's a number of subtle but intelligent decisions apparent in the design, like a stiff, sturdy nylon that protects almost the whole unit except for the top left corner, where the remote/minijack plug resides (I'll presume they had a reason for covering up the hold switch, since it wouldn't have affected the design in the least to move the flap to the other side). Essentially two, hard flaps of material held together by an elastic mesh, the G-Pod really seems to hold tight to the iPod -- maybe too tight, if you ever want to pull it out of the case -- and protects the unit from damage by sticking out a little past the edges of the iPod. Unless you clipped the exposed corner, your iPod should stay pretty much unscathed.

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Verizon LG VX8000 Reviewed

Mobiledia has a nice review of the LG VX8000, a pedestrian-looking but otherwise very swanky clamshell that works on Verizon's high-speed EV-DO network. They seem to be pretty impressed with the capabilities that a high-speed cellular network affords, like streaming television and really fast internet (durrr). The VX8000 even has enough oomph to play 3D games, which look sort of awful compared to a PSP, let's say, but decent enough compared to the last generation of mobile gaming gear. On the flip side, it doesn't have Bluetooth or memory cards (two things that would challenge Verizon's ability to sell you content over and over and over again).

That's because you'll be sitting inside Verizon's walled garden to get any of the high-speed content, paying a monthly subscription fee to play games or watch television. I hope you're starting to figure out why that's a bad thing, but if you need a little reminder, Doctorow wrote a great column in this month's Popular Science about just this very problem. By this time next year, I hope we're all using unrestricted smartphones on open cellular networks.

LG VX8000 Review - First Look [Mobiledia]

Nokia 6630

On Malik likes his. I wonder if I can trade out my 7610 for a 6630? Charlie?

Here's Om's post....

It is hard for me to imagine that I am carrying around in my pocket a computer that is as powerful as my first generation Pentium powered AST desktop, I wrestled with back in 1995, typing out scintiallting stories about memory chip prices for Quick Nikkei News. It seemed breezy enough, running the now forgotten Windows 3.1. With some kicking around, the TCP/IP stack on it worked for me to get Internet access as well. Fast forward by ten years, and the new Nokia 6630 packs a mightier punch - a 200 MHz ARM 5 processor - in a small but lethal package. The Nokia 6630 is based on Symbian OS. It is a tri-band phone for GSM 900/1800/1900, EDGE and WCDMA networks. Weighing 127 grams and measuring 110 x 60 x 20.6 mm, it is world’s smallest megapixel phone for GSM and WCDMA networks. It has everything you would normally want in a good smart-enough phone. Clearly, this is the best 3G phone on the market, especially given that how the others are so clunky and well ugly! It is light enough that sometimes I forget it is sitting in my pocket. (more…)

Nokia 6630+3g

Vodafone Gets Nokia 6630

Nokia has sent word that the Nokia 6630 - the "Codename: Charlie model that their lawyers loved to speak to us about - will be offered by Vodafone as part of the 3G WCDMA lineup. They claim it's the world's smallest megapixel 3G GSM and WCDMA phone. I suppose if you slap enough qualifiers on everything is the world's smallest, right?

The 6630 should be in Vodafone stores soon and will also be available in Japan. Full press release after the jump.

T-Mobile DK Gets Nokia 6630

Looks like T-Mobile Germany is getting the Nokia 6630 (or else they made a bad choice in stock photography in this marketing page). I wonder if that means T-Mobile will carry it in the US? My guess would be no, since the whole point of the 6630 is that it works on high-speed 3G networks - something T-Mobile USA doesn't really have. (Thanks, Armin!)

Read - T-Mobile to expand its cell phone service. [T-Mobile]

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New Nokia 6630 3G Phone

Nokia 6630 3G Phone

T-Mobile DE Gets Nokia 6630

Looks like T-Mobile Germany is getting the Nokia 6630 (or else they made a bad choice in stock photography in this marketing page (and putting it in the release copy)). I wonder if that means T-Mobile will carry it in the US? My guess would be no, since the whole point of the 6630 is that it works on high-speed 3G networks - something T-Mobile USA doesn't really have. (Thanks, Armin!)

Read - T-Mobile to expand its cell phone service. [T-Mobile]

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The Nokia 6630 selected by Vodafone to
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3G Motorola E1000 and Nokia 6630 for 3
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World's smallest megapixel 3G phone
Nokia 6630 selected by Vodafone

ATP Announces Mass Production of
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RS-MMC). Providing Much Needed Storage
Upgrade on New Mobile Phones (Nokia
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Nokia expands developer tools for CDMA

Nokia Buys Metrowerks Development Tools

PHP: Free Software on Free Tools

Open Source: Open Source Scripting Made Easy: This is an article about PHP scripting tools that makes an important point:

Commercial scripting languages have drawn success from powerful and widely used development tools: ASP has Visual Studio, ColdFusion has Macromedia's Dreamweaver, and JSP has a variety of tools from commercial sources such as Borland and open source projects such as Eclipse and NetBeans. PHP's enormous success, however, is not tied to specific tools.

Some friends of mine have been working with Microsoft's .Net platform. They tell me it's amazing ("fan-friggin'-tastic," one of them called it). This is great, but I guess I don't like anything where the barrier to entry is so high — first you have to have a Windows server, then you have to have the Windows dev environment.

I code PHP in EditPlus, which cost me all of $30, and that was an optional purchase because there are so many other free alternatives. Maybe I'm just a snob. Via PHP|Architect.

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