Monday, August 31, 2009

Mobile

New Palm Phones Appear In Sprint Inventory

11:43PM August 31, 2009 | Joanna Stern

Looks like the CDMA carriers are going to battle over which can carry more Palm phones. Like Verizon, it appears that Sprint also has a few additional Palm handsets in its arsenal. More »

Cameras

Olympus E-600 Ditches The Power Windows And Climate Control

11:38PM August 31, 2009 | Mark Wilson

If the Olympus E-620 was a cheap Four Thirds camera, consider the E-600 an even cheaper Four Thirds camera. More »

SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Keeps The Bizarre SlotRadio Dream Alive

11:04PM August 31, 2009 | John Herrman

Remember slotRadio, SanDisk’s anachronistic plan to load microSD cards with sometimes DRMed music, as if they were CDs? It was strange! Also strange: SanDisk still believes in it, and they’ve even produced a second, fuller-featured player called the Clip+. More »

Entertainment

Medion X9613: A Multitouch PC That Longs To Be Your Home Theatre

10:32PM August 31, 2009 | Mark Wilson

If you can handle its 24-inch screen, the Medion X9613 all-in-one certainly looks the part of a perfectly contained HTPC. More »

Software

Samsung Gets In On The App Store Action

10:00PM August 31, 2009 | Danny Allen

Samsung plans to roll-out an app store for its Omnia smartphones, and has signed on the likes of Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Capcom and TAITO to help it expand the 300 launch applications to 2000 by the end of the year. More »

Nanontron 3000: The iPod Nano Hacking Lego Robot

9:45PM August 31, 2009 | Danny Allen

Lego Mindstorms put to nefarious deeds! While iPodLinux works with older iPods, newer models have encrypted firmware updates. That’s why the Linux4nano team has designed the button-pressing Nanotron 3000 to help with a repetitive brute-force attack. More »

Cameras

Yoostar Green Screens You Into Classic Movie And TV Scenes

8:00PM August 31, 2009 | Danny Allen

Now you can desecrate your favourite movies and TV shows by using Yoostar’s bundled Webcam, green screen and software to insert yourself into famous scenes. The results are easily uploaded to YouTube, and you can buy more scenes online. More »

Mobile

Wait, Did This Bell Palm Pre Video Just Diss Americans?

6:06PM August 31, 2009 | Danny Allen

Bell Canada’s latest Pre promo video is intended to illustrate the phone’s ease of use in a tongue-in-cheek way. But its opening line certainly caught our attention: “Unlike our neighbours to the south, Canadians are an active people…” More »

News

Win! One Of 10 Copies Of Stargate SG-1 Children of the Gods: The Final Cut

5:34PM August 31, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Gizmodians and Sci-Fi go together like aliens and anal probes. That’s why we’re giving away 10 copies of Stargate SG-1 Children of the Gods: The Final Cut to Giz readers this week. More »