Archive for May, 2009

Sprint Affirms Palm Pre Exclusivity “Through 2009″

Ready for your daily dose of obvious? Good. After Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam proudly proclaimed that America’s largest mobile operator would be painting the Palm Pre red “in about six months,” Sprint has come forward to make sure we know that said statement is probably right on the money. According to Sprint spokesman James [...]

Video: Acer’s Aspire One 751h Handled And Opined Upon

Not to be mistaken with the Vmedia-equipped Aspire One 571, Acer’s Aspire One 751h has just been handled over at GadgetMix. The machine, which rocks a pretty unorthodox setup for a netbook, was said to sport one of the best displays ever put on a netbook, but that lethargic Atom Z520 CPU made the standard [...]

Clevo TN70M UMPC Gets Checked Out in The UK

Clevo’s TN70M touchscreen little 7-inch UMPC / netbook has just made its way to the UK, and UMPC Portal’s gotten its hands on some shots of the little guy. The netbook boasts a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 CPU, a full QWERTY keyboard, a webcam, and a fingerprint reader, and is available with either XP or [...]

Alienware’s M17X Gaming Laptop With Twin GTX 280M GPUs Truly is All Powerful

The announcement wasn’t scheduled for a few more days — four according to the teaser site — but it looks like Alienware’s All Powerful gaming laptop has been set free anyway. So, does it live up to the clues? Pretty much… how does a pair of 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPUs strike you? No [...]

Live Sky TV Coming To Xbox 360 in UK And Ireland, Hooligan Avatars To Follow

US Americans, go ahead and enjoy your Netflix streaming over your Xbox 360, Brits are about to land a deal that’ll put live football, TV, and films over Microsoft’s broadband-enabled console — a first live television service for Xbox 360 anywhere. Beginning in Autumn, Xbox Live subscribers in the UK and Ireland will gain access [...]

Video: First DJ Hero Game Trailer Promises Living Room Celebutantes

The folks behind DJ Hero know something we can’t even admit to ourselves: we’re losers, a deep disappointment to our parents who wanted us to ride with the cool kids. That’s going to change in October when DJ Hero puts us on stage with nothing but a silver thong and faux deck peripheral to bring [...]

Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow Arena Movie Download Service Ready For June

Everybody’s getting into the mobile movie sideload business — just ask Samsung — and following an MWC unveiling earlier this year, Sony Ericsson is gearing up to launch movie content starting next month as part of its existing PlayNow Arena service. Direct on-phone downloads over WiFi or 3G would be awesome, but as most of [...]

Microsoft Touts 30 Million Xbox 360s Sold, 20 Million Xbox LIVE Members

Sony may have been the first to claim the 20 million users number, but most will no doubt agree that Microsoft has a considerably stronger claim to that title, as their just-announced 20 million users apparently includes only “active members,” and doesn’t include users that have simply signed up to use their online forums. Even [...]

MSI introduces GT729 And EX723 Gaming / Multimedia Laptops

Every few weeks or so it feels like we’re being formally introduced to yet another MSI laptop, and today we’ve the pleasure of greeting a pair. Up first is the gaming-centric GT729 (shown left), which rolls in with 3GB of RAM, a Core 2 Duo processor, WiFi, 17-inch LCD, ATI’s 1GB Mobility Radeon HD 4850 [...]

Sony Ericsson Satio is Idou’s Final Name, Ships in October

It’s been announced today that the Symbian-powered Idou unveiled at Mobile World Congress earlier this year will be coming to market as the “Satio.” The full 640 x 350 3.5-inch touchscreen device features a whopping 12.1 megapixel camera, dual-band HSPA, microSD expansion (yes, microSD, not Memory Stick Micro), and a xenon flash. It’ll be available [...]