http://rgadget.com Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:47:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just four days after its launch, the iPhone 3G has been unlocked for the first time exactly like the original iPhone: using a special card that piggybacks to your SIM card, fooling the phone into thinking it's using an official carrier. While this is not the software unlock being developed ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/15/iphone-3g-unlocked-with-sim-card-adapter/ We learned in May that there would be delays to Intel's Centrino 2 chipset for notebooks, but today it gets an official launch from Intel. That certainly tallies with the slew of notebooks hitting the news which have the chips inside. Alongside the Centrino 2, Intel gives us word on ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/15/intels-centrino-2-gets-official-launch-alongside-core-2-extreme/ Lenovo launched the 13.3" IdeaPad U330 laptop tonight at Intel's Centrino 2 launch event, and it looked pretty nice. As far as specs go, the Centrino 2-powered device is 0.9 inches thick, under four pounds and has five hours of battery life, with a Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz P7350 at ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/15/lenovo-ideapad-u330-is-super-shiny-and-slim/ Either this little girl is very ballsy or very, very dumb, but I have to give her credit for just going for it. Not content to be ripped off by one of those claw game scams, she just went for it, climbed up into the machine somehow, and picked her ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/15/girl-cheats-claw-game-in-creative-way/ Casio announced today the release of World's slimmest stylish Digital Camera Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z150. The Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z150 features a wide-angle zoom lens, a CCD-shift anti-shake function, a very large LCD monitor and an 8.1 effective megapixel resolution. The Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z150 has the features and functions ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/14/casio-ex-z150-worlds-slimmest-4x-optical-zoom-digital-camera-announced/ Two series of Vaio Centrino 2 consumer notebooks: FW is the world's first 16.4-inch widescreen notebook, meant to deliver a 17-inch widescreen 16:9 experience in a 15-incher's footprint. (The math sort of works.) It's optimized for HD and Blu-ray playback (though optional) with built-in PS3 and Vaio Home Theater PC ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/14/sony-vaio-fw-and-sr-series-first-164-inch-notebook-macbook-style-keyboards/ We all laughed at that key legend-less leather keyboard the other day, didn't we? Metadot, the makers of the new Ultimate Keyboard didn't: it also skips all that troublesome bother of having labeled keys. Presumably it's in the name of coolness, since the whole thing looks pretty slick and has ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/14/das-ultimate-keyboard-is-too-cool-for-key-legends/ The iPhone 3G came, it saw, it faltered quite a bit, then it conquered: the one millionth iPhone 3G was sold on Sunday, according to Apple. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve himself, and I don't think we can really argue with that, since it took 74 ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/14/one-millionth-iphone-3g-sold-already-says-apple-despite-ipocalypse/ Yeah, we know pixel count doesn't equal picture quality -- but like it or not, it looks like 8 megapixels are poised to become the new 5 megapixels in the upper echelon of the cameraphone world this year. Samsung's never a company to shy away from a challenge like that, ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/13/samsungs-i8510-inspires-8-megapixels-of-awe/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klteYv1Uv9A[/youtube] If laws about driving and using cellphones in American cities are cramping your style, move to scenic India where anything goes! Watch in horror as this lunatic barrels down the highways of New Delhi sending text messages. Hey, why stop there? Yeah, go on and take that nap. Your fellow ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/13/moron-lies-down-on-moving-motorcycle-to-send-text-messages/ We're not certain why Kodak is trickling out these middle-of-the-road digicams instead of announcing them all at once, but here we are. Joining the M1093 IS are the new M1073 IS (pictured) and M1063, while the C813 get a new friend in the C913. As you'd expect, almost nothing about ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/12/kodak-intros-the-c913-m1073-is-and-m1063-cheapcams/ Fans of laser engraving can now prettify all their stuff with Epilog Laser's new Zing Laser, a machine that's roughly about the size of a bulky office scanner. The Zing Laser, one of the first fully functional low-cost laser etchers on the market, has 25 watts of cutting power and ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/12/zing-laser-brings-laser-cutting-goodness-to-the-average-guy/ Microsoft's portable Arc Mouse folds down to half its size for travel. But that semicircle shape can't be as comfortable as it looks. Then again, who needs to point and click and work when you can flip and drool? It comes in red or black for $60 and will be ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/12/microsofts-portable-transforming-arc-mouse-unfolds-to-a-beautiful-semicircle/ Creative's got a good thing going with the multifaceted Zen X-Fi -- at least on paper -- and we're quite thrilled to see it already hitting the websites of US e-tailers. Announced earlier this week in Singapore, the well-equipped PMP should be available soon (no specific ship date is mentioned) ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/11/creative-zen-x-fi-gets-us-pricing-details/ AOC's 2230Fh LCD was fine and dandy, but if you're looking for something similar to pull triple duty as a media player and digital photo frame (its words, not ours), you'll need to refocus on the 2230Fm. Said display is apparently the first from the firm to boast HD3 technology, ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/11/aocs-22-inch-2230fm-hd3-display-includes-integrated-media-player/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9jcA4decA[/youtube] It's Friday, you've been swimming in a sea of iPhone news... so what's better to distract you than this amazing vid. It's a demonstration of the joys of non-Newtonian liquids (look 'em up: amazing things), showing exactly how they can confound your expectations. In this case it's a cornstarch fluid ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/11/cornstarch-water-subwoofer-amazing-physics-video/ I've thought for awhile that the key to selling the super cheap yet very underpowered sub-notebooks that are exploding all over the place would be carrier subsidization, and now a carrier in Japan is taking the the idea and running with it, selling the Eee PC 701 for less than ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/11/japan-has-subnotebooks-for-1-with-data-plans/ Hey, at least it's not being secretive about it. AOC has just introduced its new $429.99 2218Ph LCD monitor, which -- among other things -- claims to bring PC users "the element of style Mac users have enjoyed for the last few years." Judging by the image above, we're not ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/10/aoc-says-its-22-inch-2218ph-lcd-monitor-has-that-mac-flair/ Clearly one to take a good idea and run with it, Brando has just come up with this new cartridge-style HDD dock that also acts as a media player. So via its s-video and composite sockets you can stream audio, pictures, and video (including divx, with subtitles) to TV and ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/10/brandos-new-cartridge-style-hdd-dock-goes-full-multimedia-player/ We brought you some leaked info on Creative's upcoming PMP not long ago, and now it's official. The credit-card-sized player will come in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB versions, and the larger two will support 802.11 b/g wi-fi for wireless syncing of music, video and photos and an IM chat function. ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/10/creative-zen-x-fi-gets-launch-timing-price/ The second generation terabyte hard drive is here. Wondering whats different from the "first-generation"? Well, according to Hitachi, its second generation Deskstar drive is much more energy efficient than the earlier version. Touted as the "world's most energy efficient" hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000.B is the first product of the ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/09/hitachi-deskstar-7k1000b-1terabyte-hard-drive-announced/ A few weeks ago we brought you news about the Hyperwall-2 which was developed by NASA and dubbed the "world's highest resolution visualization system." However, it appears that that title has already fallen to the Hiperspace, or the "Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Space project" developed by UC San Diego. According ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/09/hiperspace-is-the-worlds-highest-resolution-display/ Back in January, you might have read about the Mitsubishi FL7000U projector. This little wonder is able to display full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution and comes with a variety of special features. The FL7000U has the latest in anti-theft systems including an alarm and password menu security. This model ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/09/mitsubishi-fl7000u-projector-released/ ECS has been teasing the netbook market for months now with its G10IL -- meticulously surveying the competition and batting its eyelashes at US consumers. Fortunately, LAPTOP was able to sit down with Henry Kwan of ECS to help bring the flirtatious cycle to a satisfying end. Accordingly, we now ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/09/ecs-g10il-stateside-september-for-399/ Canucks screamed, Rogers listened. Word from the North this morning is that Rogers will be offering a promotional 6GB data plan for $30 bucks a month if you activate a three-year contract before August 31—not the unlimited data we Yanks will be using, but pretty close. Click on for the ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/09/rogers-caves-offers-6gb-iphone-3g-monthly-data-plan-for-30/ We mentioned it back in February, and Samsung has now come good with its promise, announcing today that it's started mass-production of 128GB SSDs. They're of the slightly slower but cheaper multi-level cell technology, with a read speed of 90MBps and write speed of 70MBps. And Samsung claims they'll have ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/09/samsung-starts-mass-production-of-cheap-128gb-mlc-solid-state-drives/ We all need a little extra screen real estate from time to time. So when widgets, windows and various other digital ephemera start to metastasize, there are generally two common fixes: Upgrade to a more spacious 24 or 30-inch monitor, or shell out a little extra scrilla for a second ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-bicephalous-monitor-de-clutters-your-desktop/ After weeks upon weeks of painstaking delays (okay, so maybe that's a stretch... maybe), MSI has finally started shipping the Wind to US customers. As you very well know, these buggers have been showing up everywhere across the pond, but we've just received word that Fry's, NewEgg, Amazon, ZipZoomFly, MWave ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/msi-finally-ships-the-wind/ Nokia has inadvertently confirmed the existence of a future device today through an openly accessible product page. The 8208 will be the first non-Nseries phone from Nokia to sport a two-way slider that helps the new device's music-heavy focus: sliding the display downwards reveals controls for navigating tracks and will ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/nokia-8208-two-way-music-slider-leaked/ Montevina-based laptops are slowly but surely starting to trickle out, and Samsung's the latest to joint the party with a new Aura machine and the entirely new Eclipse line. The new R510 Aura sports a 15.4-inch screen, 2.53GHz T9400 Core 2 Duo on Montevina's 1066MHz bus with integrated X4500 graphics, ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/samsung-unveils-aura-and-eclipse-montevina-based-laptops/ We’ve known about the Asus Eee Box for over a month, but now we can finally confirm the official pricing and specs for the tiny box of tricks. Coming in at an incredibly wallet–friendly £199, the new machine, officially dubbed the Asus Eee Box B202, will show up in white and ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/asus-eee-box-%e2%80%93-full-pricing-and-specs-unveiled/ We've already seen and heard a handful concerning Canon's new entry-level DSLR, but now the company has finally given us some hard facts and figures to tear into like the rabid animals we are. The camera -- which ships in August -- will clock in at $699.99, and comes bundled ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/canons-eos-rebel-xs-dslr-gets-official-a-price-tag/ Apple's apparently so fed up with the high pricing that Rogers is shoving into Canadian iPhone owners' faces that there will be no iPhone 3Gs sold at Apple Stores in Canada this Friday. This follows up Apple's previous action of diverting stock from Canada to Europe, and really sets the ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/apple-not-selling-iphones-in-canadian-apple-stores-on-launch-day/ The Intel Atom based Asus Eee PC 901 finally started to ship in the United States. NewEgg offers the Asus Eee PC 901 for $599.99 with Windows XP. The Asus Eee PC 901 is available in Galaxy Black and Pearl White. The Windows XP model features 1GB of RAM and a ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/asus-eee-pc-901-finally-ships/ Last September, Transcend had the bright idea of cluttering up the digital photo frame market even further with its own ho hum offering. Apparently the idea went over okay -- or the brilliant suit who decided to go for it is to prideful to admit otherwise. Either way, today we're ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/transcend-doles-out-7-inch-tphoto-720-digiframe/ If you gotta go the desktop route, Acer's got three mini-PCs packed heavy with ports that don't take up a ton of space. Measuring 10.6" x 4" x 14.4", about the same as a hardcover book, the X1200s have an HDMI port—like Dell's leaked mini, aka the green PC, but ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/acer-aspire-x1200-series-mini-pcs-stuff-hdmi-jack-9-usb-ports-and-more-in-a-tiny-space/ The 8AM times previously mentioned as the iPhone 3G sale time applied only to AT&T stores. Apple just updated their retail page to reflect the same time of sale within Apple retail spaces. I think we all assumed this was fact, but now it is. ---Source http://rgadget.com/2008/07/08/official-iphone-on-sale-at-8am-on-friday-in-apple-stores-too/ Alright, it's finally here -- Voodoo's configuration page for the Envy 133 just went live with pricing information, and we're being told that orders are being accepted over the phone. Depending on options and paint jobs, you're going to put a dent in your wallet anywhere from $2100 to $3400, ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/07/voodoo-now-accepting-envy-133-phone-orders/ Wait a second -- are absurdly large, overdecorated gaming desktops making a comeback? With Acer's Aspire Predator and ASUS' ARES CG6155 lighting up eyes everywhere, we're beginning to think yes -- particularly when you take one glance at Packard Bell's elephantine ipower X2.0. Revealed at the Electronic Sports World Cup ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/07/packard-bell-reveals-gargantuan-ipower-x20-gaming-desktop/ In addition to recently leaked Samsung GT-B2700 rugged phone, Samsung is prepping another interesting GT handset to the market. And this time it’s not about durability, but about cool innovative music features. The new Samsung GT-M5310 is a ultra-thin music phone with the innovative music player that can be controlled via various ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/07/samsung-m3510-music-candybar-with-shake-control/ Just last month we were reporting 42GB research DVD technology, but Panasonic's scientists have blown that figure out of the water with a 400GB optical disc. The trick's been done by making a 16-layer deep Blu-ray disc, and a player with sufficiently clever optics that it can pick up the ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/07/pioneer-pushes-blu-ray-discs-to-16-layers-400gb-capacity/ Gigabyte recently released a new tablet PC with 8.9-inch touch screen display. The Netbook M912V is an Atom powered tablet with decent specification. The M912V features swivel touch screen display that can be rotated 180°, 2.5” 160GB SATA hard drive, Express Card slot, optional HSDPA, and a built-in 1.3 mega ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/05/gigabyte-netbook-m912v-tablet-announced/ Sony is probably OLED's most vocal prophet as the TV of the future. But according to Nikkei, they're hedging their bets and getting more serious with another next-gen display tech: field emission display, which is a lot like a good ol' cathode ray tube, except that it's super thin—it has ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/05/sony-gets-serious-with-another-next-gen-display-tech-fed-like-crt-but-really-thin/ eMachines launched a new line of computer desktops directed toward home users and students heading back to school come summer’s end. The new desktops feature Intel processors and the latest multimedia features. The new machines include: * T3656 - Intel Celeron processor, 1GB DDR2 memory, 160GB hard drive for US$299.99 * T5274 - ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/02/emachines-pushes-out-low-cost-desktops-the-t3656-t5274-and-w3653/ The term "widescreen" is one of the most notoriously confusing monikers (this side of Full HD) used to describe a display's specifications. Widescreen generally translates to a 16:10 aspect ratio when discussing computer LCDs (monitors or laptop displays) or 16:9 if you're talking about the living room TV. Of course, ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/02/widescreen-lcds-going-widescreen-by-2010/ It's not the Stateside discount we've been waiting for, but at least Australia and New Zealand are looking at discounted Xbox 360 pricing across the board. No press release, just an update to the Aussie Xbox site indicating a new starting price of AU$349 Australian dollars for the Xbox 360 ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/02/xbox-360-price-cuts-official-in-australia/ Previously it was double slots and eSATA, now the cartridge-style HDD dock gets a one-touch backup button. Makes it ideal for backing up your main drive to an old HDD you've got spare, and then bunging the backup in a cupboard until you need it. It's got eSATA and USB ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/02/brando-usb-esata-hdd-dock-gets-one-touch-backup-button/ HP this morning used an educational conference as an opportunity to unveil a quad-core workstation inexpensive enough to be bought by anyone: the xw4550 uses a latest-generation 2GHz AMD Opteron to offer up performance which is normally off-limits to those in school or at work. The system can handle video ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/01/hp-launches-599-quad-core-amd-workstation/ Medion’s Akoya Mini E1210 budget ultraportable had little to differentiate it from the rest of the crowded market on announcement, but perhaps some unboxing photos will make the little laptop more appealing. MSI-Wind.de have just brought one home, and they’ll be the ideal people to confirm whether, as predicted, ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/01/medion-akoya-mini-e1210-unboxed/ Here comes the Fujitsu LifeBook P8010 Limited Pink Gold Edition, now with 3.5G. The notebook is pure beauty mixed with sophisticated computing power, sporting an elegant look and the best known tech specs. This Pink Gold version kicks the visual appeal to new heights. The high-gloss finish and the signature ... http://rgadget.com/2008/07/01/fujitsu-lifebook-pink-gold-beauty-of-power-and-the-power-of-beauty/