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3D is all the rage this year with the 3D television in the works and a 3D movie preview planned during Super Bowl.Add to that a cellphone with 3D.

Hitachi has developed a cellphone with 3D- capable display that it says will launch in April.

The Hitachi Wooo H001 phone has a 3.1-inch 3D TFT LCD display with 854 x 480 resolution. The screen can render images and videos created in 3D formats and convert 2D images to 3D. The Wooo H001 comes with a 5 megapixel
camera of its own.

The clamshell-like form factor of the phone has a toggle that allows users to switch to a 3D parallax view, says Electronista. It also means users can customize the depth and phone works in both the portrait and landscape mode.

The phone wont’ be available in North America but if it does well in Japan, it coudl spark off the trend of having more 3D displays in phones. 

We tell ya, Maingear doesn’t get a lot of play amongst the big timers like Dell and HP, but it sure knows how to crank out machines that are just different enough to be worth examining. Enter the Remix workstation, a desktop designed for creative professionals who dabble in graphic design, video production and pro audio. As expected, there’s plenty of horsepower under the hood including a Core i7 CPU, Quadro FX / CX GPU options, up to 12GB of DDR3 RAM, RAID 0 HDD configurations, gobs of ports and an advanced liquid cooling system to keep the fans from making too much racket. The “handbuilt in America” machine starts at $1,999, though you can easily push that figure above the four grand mark with just a few tweaks. Full release is after the break.

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Forget the Microsoft Windows 7 beta. The alpha version of Moblin, an open source-based Linux operating system designed specifically for netbooks, is out.

The preliminary version of the Moblin 2 OS has been specifically
created for netbooks that run Intel’s company’s Atom processor.

The idea is to build a new experience for netbook users, who so far have been buying netbooks loaded with either Microsoft’s Windows XP or a Linux flavor OS. It could also help notebook makers maintain their price margins by building greater differentiation among their devices.

Inexpensive lightweight netbooks have become one of the fastest growing categories in the PC industry. The Moblin project sponsored by Intel among others attempts to create an OS specifically designed for a netbook processor that will be offer users a better experience on these tiny devices.

Earlier this month, Rahul Sood, chief technology officer for HP’s Voodoo Business Unit complained on his blog that netbooks in their current form could kill PC innovation.

Netbooks were designed as companions for laptops and desktops but increasingly users are buying them as their primary device. That means users get a stripped down version of a notebook that doesn’t entirely give them a satisfactory experience, says Sood.

Operating systems created specifically to take advantage of a netbook’s processor such as Intel’s Atom could help change that. It could also make it easier for notebook manufacturers and chip makers to prevent cannabilization among their products. "How do
you
differentiate the higher performance machines from the netbook equipped
systems?," asks Sood.

Netbooks with their own customized OS could help create more distinct products. It’s also one of the reasons that Intel has been actively supporting Moblin offering it the resources needed to optimize the OS for Atom processor.

The alpha release of Moblin 2 is the first chance for interested users to start multiple-level testing of the core Linux OS including the boot process, the connectivity and networking manager and the user interface development tools. The software has been tested on the Acer Aspire One, Asus eeePC 901 and the Dell Mini 9.

The release may not be something that Joe the plumber would want on his on his netbook yet, but as the user interface for Moblin develops it could become a viable alternative to XP and other Linux distributions, says Ars Technica.

Photo: (ekosystem.org/Flickr)

I just got an invitation to a press lunch that Motorola is holding on Feb. 10, with the theme “experience style and simplicity.” The last time they threw a lunch like this it was to introduce the H15 noise-cancelling Bluetooth headset, but I suspect something bigger is afoot this time. I noticed Sprint and Boost logos in the corner of the invitation, which pretty much guarantees that the topic will be new iDen phones for the Nextel and Boost networks.

Boy Genius Report recently reported that Boost’s promotional fliers are featuring a new phone, the i9, so that may be the one we’ll hear about. You’ll get a full story when it happens.