Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on July 13, 2007 by CyberNet.

You know that PS3 price cut for the 60GB model that we wrote about a few days ago? Well come to find out, it’s just a short-term price-cut to get rid of the supply that they have. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Sony expects that all of the 60GB models recently priced at $499 will be gone by the end of July, and after that your only option will be the 80 GB model for $599 (the original 60 GB price).

Why Sony would announce a price cut for such a short amount of time really doesn’t make sense. I get that they’re trying to clear out the stock that they’ve got, but a price drop for less than a month hardly seems worth it. Unless they didn’t think they’d move them otherwise.

Are any of you going to help Sony clear out the 60GB stock and purchase a PS3? Remember, you can also get 5 Blu-ray Movies for free with your PS3 purchase or other Blu-ray Disc Player. Not a bad deal!

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What we really want from HP is a brand new webOS smartphone, but it’d be unfair to say we’d “settle” for a Palm Pre — especially at prices like these. To commemorate the opening of the new HP Wireless store, the company’s offering both Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, on AT&T or Verizon, free of charge for a limited time. Not only that, but these handsets feature free shipping, and the Pre comes with free accessories (including a Bluetooth headset, car charger and leather case) to boot. Meanwhile, Sprint’s still sitting in the corner all alone, expecting folks to slap down cash money (up to $100) for these handsets’ original incarnations. If you’ve been considering these devices already, it seems that now’s the time to choose… but before you sign your life away, why not read our full review?

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Truth be told, it’s been awhile since we’ve seen a gadget-laced jacket that really caught our eye. There’s the occasional winter coat with a built-in iPod slot, and there’s a few unaffordable threads that don’t much matter to the vast majority of you, but it’s difficult to think of a single overcoat that’s as connected as this. Teased by Scottevest, the forthcoming Carry-On-Jacket is as functional as it is delightful, with an internal pocket made specifically for touchscreen devices so you’ll never even have to reach inside to skip tracks. There’s also an internal Personal Area Network (PAN), a dedicated BlackBerry (or any smartphone, really) holder, passport pouch, a digital camera compartment, iPad pocket (er, “PadPocket”) and a separate area made specifically for those zip-locked liquids that you’ll need easy access to at the TSA screening zone. Needless to say, the avid traveler with a pinch of geek lust should be grinning from ear-to-ear just gazing at this masterpiece, and honestly, we could see this converting even the hardest of hardcore Rollaboard warriors. Now all we need is a price and release date, STAT.

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This article was written on April 25, 2007 by CyberNet.

Dell has taken a huge step in the world of notebook computers…they added a solid state drive (SSD) to the list of hard drive choices available on select notebook models. The two models that received the option are the Latitude D420 and the D620. It is important to note that both of those laptops are high priced and targeted for businesses, not for consumers.

Right now the only solid state drive option available is a 1.8–inch 32GB from SanDisk. That doesn’t sound like much since you can get a 160GB+ hard drive put into most notebook computers at a much lower cost, but if you don’t need all of the extra hard drive space then this might be perfect for you. Well, that is if you can get over the $549 price tag, which should be a little lower if you’re just upgrading the hard drive on a new system you’re building (as pictured above).

Solid state drives are definitely what the future has in store for us. Unlike a traditional hard drive, they have no mechanical parts to spin which makes makes the SSD perform better and also more reliable. Here is what Dell has to say about adding the solid state drives:

Engineering tests show that the SSD has an operating shock tolerance of up to 1,300 Gs, which is twice the rating of mechanical drives. In fact, during extreme impact testing the surrounding notebook hardware breaks before the drive. In addition, the drives are predicted to reduce the probability of failure by three-and-one-half times compared to standard mechanical drives.
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The new drives can also increase system performance by up to 23 percent and decreases boot time by up to 34 percent compared to traditional HDDs available with the Latitude D420 and D620 ATG.

A few months ago I made a comparison between the solid state drives and traditional hard disk drives to demonstrate the differences. The article also included a video so that you could see the decreased boot time from using a SSD in a notebook computer. There is no doubt that these drives will continue to increase in size and decrease in cost, but hopefully that time comes soon rather than later because I would love to have one of these!

I looked around the Dell store and didn’t see them selling these separately, yet. Since these drives can easily replace your existing hard drive I am sure that Dell will begin selling them shortly by themselves.

Dell Press Release

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We never did quite get the name of Nokia’s prototype slider — it certainly isn’t the C7, and it’s apparently not the N9 — but regardless of what you call our dearly departed, its journey is over. In what will no doubt be a fairly familiar tale to readers everywhere, TechnoBuffalo saw the phone remotely wiped right before their eyes, and Negri Electronics (our original source) says they’ve got private investigators breathing down their necks for the device. Stalwart to the bitter end, RM-626 gave one last performance before it dropped. See the 4-inch handset play an embedded YouTube video after the break if you must, but be sure to stop at the 5:45 mark. For true phone lovers, the rest is too painful to watch.

[Thanks, Larry N.]

Continue reading Mystery Nokia slider shows off proto-Symbian^3 one last time, commits cellular suicide (video)

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