Fans of LG’s Viewty mobile phone should be excited by the news that the Korean company is bringing its successor, the Renoir, to Australia. Aside from having one of the worst names for a mobile phone we’ve ever come across, the Renoir is a bit of a spec machine, with an 8MP camera, xenon flash, 120fps video mode, A-GPS, HSDPA connectivity, built in Wi-Fi and a 3-inch touchscreen. All of that is crammed into a phone that’s just 14mm thin… The Renoir is available now for $799 from Optus, Vodafone and 3 resellers on contract.
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Jim Jannard has announced a price reduction on their Scarlet and EPIC cameras, their latest modular systems for still and motion photography. Plus, now there are multiple trade-in upgrade paths:
BKIS, a Vietnamese security centre, recently demonstrated that face-recognition security programs found in Toshiba, Asus and Lenovo laptops can be bypassed with a special photo.
We’ve featured crazy arse Christmas lights on here before, and seeing as it’s officially past Thanksgiving, it’s time to show them off again.
Hey Brian, remember the book Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft wrote? The one on Japanese game centres (arcades) and the different types of games, players and cultural influences surrounding them? It’s available now!
All iPhone users get free AT&T Wi-Fi, hurray. But the text-message-based access system makes it a pain in the arse to log onto. Enter Easy Wi-Fi for AT&T, an app that makes it, well, easy. When you fire up the app for the first time, you just enter your number. After that, when you hit an AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot, like at Harbucks, you just mash a giant button to log in, no hassle required. Ars says Devicescape is planning more automated connection apps for other operators, AT&T is just the first, thanks to the “approval store nightmare.” It’s free until Friday, then it jumps to $US1.99. [iTunes via Ars]
Our Toys for Tots fundraiser and all mega gadget exhibition, Gizmodo Gallery starts this Thursday in NYC. And among the ~40 devices we’ll have more than just a huge TV; we’ll have one of the world’s tiniest projector, like the Aiptek Wilson reviewed last week.
While us normal folk were gorging on turkey and fixings, the tireless US Patent Office was busy filing an interesting Apple patent detailing a mobile liquid cooling system–something that looks like it could be used in a future portable device.
I know we had oranges a coupl of days ago, but I’m still sick and need the Vitamin C boost…
Nokia N97 Unveiled, The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone What is Nokia going to do when they reach N99? Move to triple digits?
QIGI i6-Goal Looks to Be the First ‘Next’ Android Phone to Actually Come Out looks like the Chinese are jumping on the Android bandwagon…
Optibike OB1 is a Hybrid Electric Mountain Bike You Might Actually Want to Ride I always thought the point of a bike was exercise.
Xbox 360 Outsells PS3 3:1 on Black Friday I wonder if that had anything to do with price, much?
Canon Clear to Resurrect SED Technology But Might Not Forget it, Canon… The world has moved on…
iPhone Mosaic Celebrates 10,000 Apps and Counting One for the fanboys.
