The IEEE has approved the new FireWire 2008 specification, which will include the S1600 and S3200 standards, running at 1.6Gbps and 3.2Gbps each. The new IEEE 1394 flavours will use the same connectors as FireWire 800 and will be fully compatible with the previous standard. [TG Daily]
We put up with too many cables. There are at least four different kinds of USB plugs, two kinds of FireWire and like a million different ways to connect something to TV or monitor. Modern gadget life can be kind of retarded in this way. Why not one kind of cable, or just a couple? I don’t know. But until everyone gets on the same appendage-to-hole scheme, in the meantime, you can use this: an illustrated guide to pretty much every kind of cable you will see in current gadgets and what it’s used for (unless, you know, Sony springs a new one on us overnight, which is honestly possible).
BlackBerry’s been everywhere recently, with their upcoming Bold phone to take on the iPhone and their Touchscreen Thunder also rumoured for a release later this year.
But if you’re after a HSDPA-enabled Blackberry and don’t want to wait for either of those models to launch, you could always download BlackBerry Connect onto a Motorola Q9h.
Motorola has very recently made the Blackberry Connect service available for download from their website, giving your Q the ability to receive push email from BlackBerry Enterprise Server, plus BlackBerry’s desktop software for syncing details between your PC and phone.
It’s a free download, although you do need to have a BlackBerry Connect Data plan added onto you phone plan.
