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Friday, January 30, 2009
Phones

‘Top Secret’ Zumba Voice-Controlled Phone Looks Like Spy Gear, Smells Like Vapour

9:27PM John Herrman | In this video, the BBC takes us inside the top secret headquarters of IA Technology, where the former ejector seat company is working on the “world’s first fully accurate voice recognition phone,” the Zumba. More »
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Computers

MSI Wind Laptop to Make Eee PC Cry, “Eeek!”

4:50PM Haroon Malik | Check out the latest entrant in the UMPC race, the MSI Wind, which we missed at CeBIT earlier last week. Toting a 10-inch display, Intel Shelton’08 platform, with variable processor speeds from 1.0GHz – 1.6GHz; 2.5-inch HDD or SSD, 1GB RAM, a reported 7-hour battery life and running either Linux or Windows operating systems, it seems MSI’s offering holds a lot of promise. More »
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Friday, September 28, 2007

HP’s Fantasy Portable Gamer Is Actually Real… Vapour

1:04AM Wilson Rothman | If you ever saw the HP video Roku’s Reward where a kid walks around with a PSP-ish handheld, playing a real-life video game, you might have wondered if HP will ever release the said gaming device. It is real, at least that’s what HP Personal Systems CTO Phil McKinney claimed as he held it aloft. (Looked fake from here—what do you think?) Anyway, the Mscape may be real, but he says HP has no plans to introduce a handheld gaming platform. Not yet, at least. We’ll be here when you do, Phil. More »
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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Zenum Smartphone Slated to Debut This Month

1:00AM Seamus Byrne | The sexy Zenum Opus smartphone has been making its way around the Interwebs for quite some time, and today it’s finally getting a release date. According to the gang at Unwired (who checked in with Zenum), the smartphone will be out later this month. It’ll come with a 2-megapixel camera, Windows Mobile 6, a 2.5-inch display and both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (sorry, no 3G). Sounds really enticing, but considering their last project never came to be, I have a sinking feeling this phone will forever be a concept too. – Louis Ramirez Zenum Opus PDA Phone in May [Unwired via Slash Gear] More »
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