Mr. T’s favourite laptop maker rolled out slick, useful and budget-minded updates to its Satellite line today. First up, the 13.3″ U400, 14.1″ M300, 15.4″ A300 and 17″ P300 have a new look called “Fusion,” a shiny finish with pinstripes and smoothed edges, not unlike that sucka HP’s successful smooth-n-shiny-n-pinstripey look. The eight shots in the gallery make the design look a bit greenish, so we’ll have to wait to pass final judgment. It’s one thing to look nice on the outside, but like T, these have a lot going on on the inside, too…
Does the world need yet another company making Windows Mobile phones? Maybe, maybe not, but Velocity Mobile is doing it anyway with their Velocity 103 (left) and 111 (right) smartphones. Both are running Windows Mobile 6.1 and will launch in Q2 and Q3 respectively. What’s this have to do with Mr. T? You can’t spell Velocity without T, fool. Plus Mr. T likes smartphones.
Who you callin’ a momma’s boy? Me? That’s right. T’s proud to love my momma! You should too. Here’s some scientist explainin’ why being a momma’s boy is natural. I don’t need no science to explain that punk. Mr. Scientist, I got three words for you. Respect yo momma! [Sciencentral]
Mr. T says I’m crazy and he may be right. I’m a bird! I’m a plane! I’m a choo-choo train! But Mr.T-Mobile is the only crazy one: they requested Engadget Mobile to stop using their shade of magenta in his logo because it may lead to “confusion in the marketplace.” Their shade of magenta? I’ve known magenta since she was a kid! She was called Cynthia back then. Don’t worry Mr. Block, it’ll all pass. Just hold your breath, and remember your exercises! [Engadget via Gadget Lab]
If you’re like me, you worry about your momma, even if you’re just runnin’ out to the grocery store. I used to like the Jitterbug, but ClarityLife phone might be what I should get her. It’s got a big screen cuz her eyes aren’t so good anymore, and it’s got an amplifier that brings incoming voices up by 20 dB, cuz her ears aren’t like they used to be either. There’s a one-touch button on the back that will call and send text messages to five pre-programmed names, so if she takes a spill she can call for help. Best of all, no contract. What is my momma gonna do with 800 minutes of talktime? She’ll talk for 800 minutes, but she doesn’t need a phone to do it. Even if you don’t buy her some fancy new old-person’s phone, remember, treat your mother right. [Clarity Products]
Yo! You may not know it but I’m a caring kinda guy. I worry about the environment: my fist’s gonna see you later if you don’t too. So you guys should check out the Sola Unagi generator, made by Fuji Technologies. Weighs just 10 kilos, and even you weaklings could carry that. It’s got two solar cells, and the rechargeable battery will run your laptop for up to six hours, and a mini fridge for four. Hell, you can even charge 20 mobile phones at the same time if you like. It’s designed to help people in developing countries, but using it here will cut down on your power use. US$1,360 each. [Red Ferret]
It looks like writing “John Mayer here” really works to get Apple’s attention when you report a problem. According to Steve Jobs’ fab guitarist, they got back to him directly only four days after he sent the bug report ramblings:
All you business fools who’ve been waiting for Windows Mobile 6.1 can all relax. It’s here. And it’s supporting all kinds of jibba jabba technologies like a new Internet Explorer Mobile with IE6 tech and h.264, Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support. There’s also even more stuff for your I.T. crew (I put the T in I.T.) such as better System Centre Mobile Device Manager 2008 (only the suckas at Microsoft would name a product like this) and Exchange Server 2007 SP1 support. And here’s a big list of new and old phones that are getting the update:
Mr. T likes his multi touch gestures, but doesn’t like the lack of gold. Aside from the leather back in this new model, Mr. T needs to know why the screen isn’t golden even if he does enjoy catching his reflection from time to time in the iPhone’s mirror-like finish. Hey Mr. Goldstriker International! Give Mr. T the solid gold iPhone that Mr. T wants before he calls Mr. Steve Jobs with your tonsils. Or his iPhone that’s only kind of gold. [goldstriker]
Samsung’s Instinct may be the best stab at the coveted title of iPhone killah this CTIA. The 3.1-inch touchscreen phone has localised haptic feedback, plus three hard navigation keys. If it sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve seen versions of it before, but only in Korea. Mind you, this is not the LG Prada-ripoff Samsung F480, which had a much smaller touchscreen.
