32GB, 64MB cache, and read and write speeds of 125MB/s and 70MB/s aren’t terribly exciting when it comes to an SSD drive, but the OCZ Onyx still caught our eye because it’s among the first SSDs to slip below $US100. [Hot Hardware via CrunchGear]
The leaked-to-all-hell BlackBerry Onyx may have undergone one last change before manufacture: judging by this shot nabbed by BlackBerry Underground, it’ll also have a Curve 8520-esque optical trackpad. More »
Here’s why you should be excited about the BlackBerry Onyx: It’s the first BlackBerry with 3G, Wi-Fi, a 3MP camera, the Bold’s awesome keyboard and giant battery in a package the size of the tiny Curve. CrackBerry’s actually got one, and they love all over it: [CrackBerry]
The first handset to fulfil last month’s BlackBerry codename prophesy is here, and we’re pretty sure it’s the Onyx. That means Curve-8900-like proportions, but with Bold genes (read: 3G).
If you’re the kind of BlackBerry gadgetphile who loves product code names, please sit down, because that’s what we have here. Three new cologne-sounding code names for BlackBerry products, coming soon: Onyx, Driftwood, Magnum.
Onyx Online, for the iPhone, is kind of like Xbox Live. Sort of. The ambitious service is the brainchild of Trism developer Steve Demeter, who hopes to add a slew of “social media” features to iPhone games, like leaderboards, achievements, forums, and the like. There’s even a pissing contest feature, wherein Onyx-enabled games will allow players to view each other’s profiles, scores, challenge friends, and see what games people are playing. Like we said, just add a headset and some 15-year-old boys screaming “your gay” and you have Xbox Live (and no, there’s no typo there— even when they scream it, they use the wrong spelling, just like in the forums).
