Month: October 2004
Tapwave Zodiac launches
The Palm OS PDA that's built to play games (and MP3s and all sorts of other stuff) has launched in the UK. We've had our hands on one, and it's superb – a custom 3D chip for good graphics,…
Treo 650 not heading our way soon
The Treo 650 is launching in the US today, but there's no news of when it's likely to reach these shores just yet. No carriers have been announced in the UK so we'll have to wait our turn to see…
Gas-powered blender
For all those boys in the audience who just don't feel manly enough when blending their fruit smoothies of a morning, the Daiquiri Whacker is a far more butch way to pulp fruity pieces. Delicious, nutritious fruit shakes, or manly…
Mobile phones powered by jet engines
It sounds like crazy talk to us, but according the the New Scientist, engineers are well on their way to batch producing miniturised jet engine-based generators. These "mîcroengines", it's suggested, could be used to power mobile devices such as phones…
T-Mobile's latest smartphone
We haven't had a new Pocket PC-based smartphone out for a while, so it's nice to have a bit of a break from all those Symbians and Smartphones for T-Mobile's latest addition to its smartphone handsets. The i-mate Jam (to…
Pentax Optio 750Z
The Optio 750Z is Pentax's first foray into the 7-megapixel compact camera market. The 750Z is being marketed as a camera for more experienced users. It's got a 5x optical zoom lens and offers 10 different shooting modes as well…
T-Mobile ramps up business Wi-Fi/3G offering
T-Mobile went launch crazy yesterday unveiling a slew of new handsets, announcing a new Wi-Fi roaming deal with BT OpenWorld and promising 3G handsets on the streets before Christmas. Under the banner of 'office in your pocket' the network…
PC Pro awards
PC Pro isn't only one of the best computer magazines in the whole, world, it also knows how to throw a good bash too. Last night the publication celebrated its tenth anniversary with a glitzy awards ceremony at London's wonderful…
100 Gig MP3 player
How much storage space do you need on your hard disk digital jukebox. 20 Gigabytes? 40? 80? Well Xclef has once again upped the ante by delivering a version of its Xclef 500 player that sports a monstrously large…
T-Mobile to offer 3G BlackBerry next year
In its London press conference this morning T-Mobile's UK Managing Director Brian McBride confirmed that the phone network expects to be taking delivery of a 3G version of the BlackBerry sometime before the summer next year. It is kind of…