Month: April 2004
Pocket PC Wi-Fi cards arrive at last
After a series of delays lasting the best part of a year, SD/IO Wi-Fi cards for microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PC 2002 and 2003 PDAs have finally gone on sale in the UK reports The Guardian. The £110 card from…
Five mega pixel camera for under £200
It would have seemed incredible a couple of years back, but a five mega pixel camera has just gone on sale in the UK for less than £200. Centon, whose products are available in the UK via the Jessops…
Nokia N-Gage 2
In a bid to address many of the design problems that have severely limited sales, Nokia has launched a new – and much improved – version of its N-Gage game player. The new model, dubbed the N-Gage QD, is…
Shinco's portable DVD for £150
Are these the cheapest portable DVD players around? We think so. Now available from Firebox are two sub-£200 units from Shinco (no we've never heard of the brand either). Available in 5 and 7inch versions, the portable players feature…
Mega fast and cheap broadband – from your lamppost!
It appears the passport to ultra-fast broadband in the home could be tucked away inside your nearest lamppost. In one of the most bizarre stories we have stumbled across in a while, a British start-up, Last Mile Communications, is…
Cowon iAudio M3 review
The Guardian has the first review of a product touted as a potential rival to the Apple iPod, the Cowon iAudio M3. The very stylish metallic finished player is actually smaller and lighter than the iPod, and beats it…
Nokia clamshell 7200 hits UK this week
One of the year's biggest mobile phones is apparently on its way to UK stores this week. Nokia's 7200 is the company's first clamshell model – except of course Nokia, which insists it doesn't make clamshell handsets, won't call…
New microsoft smartphones
The number of phones using microsoft software continues to grow. For after the XDA II and the SPV E-200 comes a pair of connected PDAs/smartphones (it is hard to tell the difference nowadays) that use microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003…
Skype delivers free voice calls on the move
We must admit to have not been too caught up in the hype surrounding the voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software Skype. Devised by the team that brought you the peer to peer file sharing software KaZaa Skype, once it…
Navman's PIN GPS PDA
The PDA with GPS market is continuing to expand. We hear that Halfords apparently already sold out of its Medion Windows Mobile based device. Coming in early summer is the first PDA with integrated GPS facilities from Navman. The £500…
