OQO crawls back from the dead, releasing Model 03 in China this month (Updated)

Holy moly! We genuinely never saw this coming. If you recall, the last we heard from OQO was when it said its final goodbye back in May 2009, and even today its website still declares the company “out of business.” Well, that’s not exactly the case anymore — a little research led us to CCW, which reports that Audiotone — OQO’s business partner in China — confirmed a successful merger with the UMPC manufacturer in April this year (on the condition that the latter’s R&D to remain in the US). This would explain why OQO’s Chinese site was still being updated with news after the “closure,” while its Western counterpart remained frozen in time.

The juicier news, however, is that OQO’s launching a Model 03 for Chinese buyers in Q3 2010 (and the website’s banner specifically says August). Don’t be fooled by the model number, though — this 15-ounce device essentially shares the same chassis with the Model 02, but is now packed with Windows 7, Intel Atom Z500 series chip, SSD, 3G radio (compatible with WCDMA, EVDO and TD-SCDMA), and a 4.8-inch 1024 x 600 multitouch LCD (previously 5-inch 800 x 480 single-touch). You’ll also get the same old Bluetooth, WiFi, built-in mic and HDMI across the four flavors: Gold, Diamond, Elite and Business, which range from 1.2GHz to 2GHz, 32GB to 128GB (1GB to 2GB of RAM), and ¥12,999 ($1,919) to a whopping ¥31,888 ($4,708). Well, these are still far from what most of us would consider as affordable, so here’s hoping the Chinese market will keep OQO alive until it can bring us some cheaper alternatives. Or at least avoid sending the company to its second funeral.

Update: Eerily, the long static OQO home page has been updated with a brief, but telling bit of text at the bottom of the page: “We did not sell out to Audiotone. Anything by them is a Clone.” So much for the ressurrection. [Thanks, Picasso]

Update 2: Looks like the previous OQO home page update is a hack… by zombies!

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Samsung’s faster EcoGreen F4EG hard drive does 2TB for less

Samsung latest 3.5-inch EcoGreen desktop hard disk does with three platters what its F3EG did with four: obtain a 2TB capacity. That’s 667GB per platter for what Samsung calls the world’s highest areal density, environmentally friendly hard disk drive on the market. Specifically, this 3.0Gbps SATA disk with a 32MB buffer brings a 19 percent improved standby performance and requires 23 percent less power in standby mode than its EcoGreen F3EG. Better yet, it does all this for $60 less (just $119.95) when it ships to the US and EU markets in early September.

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A Listing Of Alternative Google Domains

This article was written on March 06, 2006 by CyberNet.

A Listing Of Alternative Google Domains

If you are a fan of Google, then you may find this post amusing and useful. Google has many alternate domains that will take you to the Google homepage other than just ‘Google.com‘. They also have sites like ‘Ho.org‘ or ‘Titanium-spork.com‘ for some of the funny examples. One of the more useful links that I found was ‘GoogleMaps.com‘ which will take you to the Google Local site. A full listing of the sites can be found at Httproxy.net.

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Casio EX-S200 and EX-Z800 point-and-shoots spontaneously appear with ‘super resolution’ zoom

We’re not quite sure when they’ll arrive or for how much — we haven’t heard a peep out of Casio — but Digital Photography Review is reporting a pair of new pocket shooters from the Japanese company. Both the Casio EX-S200 (pictured) and the EX-Z800 are your standard 14.1 megapixel compacts with 720p video recording and 4x optical zoom, as well as the Exilim Engine 5.0 processing the company introduced this year and the supposedly fire-and-forget Premium Auto mode. We doubt you’ll find any surprises in the spec sheet or even figure out a good reason to choose between the two, but the S200 is slightly thinner, has an autofocus assist lamp and an instant-on Quick Mode. Meanwhile, the Z800 is slightly lighter and shorter in both directions. Oh, and in case you’re curious, that “super resolution zoom” is just marketing speak for a 6x digital zoom plus algorithms that will hopefully reduce image degradation — you’re still blowing up those pixels. PR after the break.

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CBS and Hulu in talks about shows on Plus service, says broadcaster’s CEO

CBS has been doing a good job testing the waters of its online content — and has even promised to have HTML5-supported episodes this Fall season. All the while, however, it’s remained one of the last broadcast holdouts against offering content to the Hulu empire. Now, CBS chief Les Moonves says new Hulu Plus subscription service has interested the broadcaster enough to open talks with the video service. Don’t get your hopes up, though, as discussions won’t necessarily lead to anything and it’s not necessarily your only option for legally streaming the channel online. Still, feel free to fancy a converged queue of episodes from across the networks. Why, that’d be awesome times awesome. That’d be awesome squared.

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The 411: Data plan conundrum

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EVO 4G starts getting Android 2.2 update over the air


We’ve just gotten a deluge of tips that EVO 4Gs are starting to get blessed with the official update to Froyo — a few hours prior to the promised August 3 rollout — so if you’ve got one handy, you’re going to want to start checking it right this second. Seriously, now that it’s got a trick flashlight app included in ROM, what could you possibly be waiting for? On a related note, if you happened to apply that early update that HTC posted and pulled late last week, the company’s working on a fix so that you aren’t out of the over-the-air update loop and promises to “get back” in “the coming days.”

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Shure announces full-size headphones for iPhone

Shure is well-known for its extended line of sound isolating in-ear headphones, but the company never ventured into the full-size design space…until now. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20012389-233.html” class=”origPostedBlog”iPhone Atlas/a/p

New Kindle comes with microphone, seeds of possibility

Amazon’s new Kindle has plenty of desirable features — like a month-long battery, double the storage and a more responsive screen — but some exciting new additions weren’t highlighted on the press release. Diving through the official User’s Guide for just such unheralded items, the Kindle World Blog discovered the unit will come with a second English dictionary, a PDF contrast adjustment and… a microphone. As you can see immediately above, that last won’t be accessible out of the box — and may just lead to audio annotations down the road — but the hacker community (or more legitimately, Kindle developers) could do very interesting things with the discovery. We hesitate to even mention for fear the feature will get pulled, but we’re dreaming of Skyping across that free 3G connection already.

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Digital City 91: Android surges; how to avoid eBay scams; and gamers fight back

This week, we examine the 800-plus percent surge in year-over-year Android phone sales (complete with another open-market versus walled garden debate); and also check out which new cities are getting WiMax.

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