Month: May 2004
Samsung Napster player due in UK in summer
Samsung has confirmed that its YH-920GS digital music player, which is designed to work seamlessly with the Napster music download service, will go on sale in early summer. The 20 Gigabyte hard disk based player integrates with the Napster 2.0…
Three mega pixel camera for under £100
There's a hot new contender in the budget end of the digital camera market. Goodmans, part of the Bush/Alba group, has lined up a whole range of models kicking off with the first sub £100 snapper to take three mega…
The new SPV? Not quite
Ok Orange network users, fancy a new smartphone? French company Sagem is the latest company to offer a mobile that uses microsoft's Windows Mobile for smartphones software. Due in the UK in the summer on an as yet unspecified network…
BT Voyager finally sets sail
How long does it take to get a product to market? Six months? A year? Well if you are BT and the product is the Voyager Digital Media Player it is actually over two years. We first clocked this neat…
Sony/Vodafone – back in black
Interesting news from Sony and Vodafone. The two huge companies have apparently inked a deal whereby Sony is to licence its music to the phone networks to be used on real music ringtones, polyphonic ringtones, artist images, video streaming and…
Surprisingly cool laptop bags
Fancy a half-decent bag for your laptop? Over at Shiny Shiny the team have been playing with the latest notebook carriers and although some of them are aimed ostensibly at women we'd definitely be seen around touting the Crumpler cases…
Nike Bluetooth MP3 player/pedometer
With the Great British summertime looming here at TD we are making a concerted effort to convince ourselves that the six pack we really want doesn't come in cans from the off-license. And in our attempts to get fit we'd…
Wi-Fi cards for MS phones
Wi-Fi is set to be this year's must-have feature for your mobile phone with upcoming models like Nokia's 9500 Communicator and Motorola's MPx all able to access the web at high speeds via wireless networks. But what if you already…
Sony 'iPod' review
For details on Sony's NW-HD1 iPod killer click here So is Sony's new Vaio Pocket Series VGF-AP1 hard disk music player going to prove too hot for the iPod? According to The Guardian, probably not. In a preview of…
Wireless Internet on a dial-up
Life without broadband isn't a lot of fun. All that waiting around to log on and then the hours spent waiting for music to download – not nice Nevertheless Socket is hoping to come to the rescue of those lumbered…