Portable Technology Category - Page 39

You surely do remember the Motorola CLIQ don’t you? One couldn’t miss such a phone, not because it’s spectacular, because it really isn’t something else, but because it’s something totally different than what Motorola has done over the last few years. The CLIQ is not yet another RAZR clone set [...]

Audioholics beware. The days of blasting your iPods and your Zunes at ear piercing volumes may just be over.  Why you may ask? Well that’s what the Powers of Be at the European Commission have decided. The European Commission has issued new volume standards that ensure that the MP3 touting [...]

Philips have just gotten us a new toy to play with. Dubbed Philips SA075, it’s a new portable media player that joins the HD-capable crowd there is out there. Although not much is known so far about this little fellow, rumors have it that the SA075 features a relatively large [...]

I remember the days when I wanted a mobile phone with a camera to take pictures wherever I was. But they never had the quality I was looking for, so that’s when I bought a digital camera, too. However, looking at the newly announced Samsung SCH-W880, it certainly looks like [...]

Trying to keep down in size and weight, most portable electronics these days make sacrifices, but not the new iLuv i1166. Hot from the wires, the new iLuv i1166 portable multimedia player has been announced to be available with a compact (16×9) 9-inch screen, DVD player and an iPod dock [...]

If you’re looking an in-car (head unit) entertainment system Alpine hope that there just released iXA-W407 Digital Media Station, which comes a 7” touchscreen display and touts both iPhone and iPod support, may get you splashing the cash in no small part due to its optional capability to function as [...]

Using Bluetooth headsets when speaking on your wireless phone can be both a great convenience and painful annoyance at the same time. This is especially true when it comes to some of the cheaper models of headsets that are flooding the market. They don’t sound great, they pick up background [...]

Following up from the heads up we offered you yesterday concerning the release of the Bookeen Cybook Opus e-Reader, we can now confirm that iRiver’s new e-Book reader, namely the QWERTY keyboard touting iRiver Story, is now being offered as available to pre-order though, unfortunately, only in the Asian market.

Remember the much hyped Apple tablet and the Crunchpad? Well it looks like Microsoft is going to smoke everyone by announcing a secretly developed tablet-like device. Dubbed Microsoft Courier, the stylish booklet is already in the “late prototype stage of development” and should be officially unveiled sometime soon.

Many people argue that electronics and the digital age will never spell the end for books. They claim that the very tactile nature of the book-reading experience is more than enough to keep them around for years to come. This has yet to be proven, but it certainly isn’t for [...]