For your next spy mission, consider the F-01A phone from Fujitsu.
It’s a sleek-looking phone with some serious, sophisticated technological and rugged credentials. It’s submersible–it will still work if dunked in 3 feet of water for up to 30 minutes–and also functions as a fingerprint-scanning device.
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CES 2009 is a distant memory, but even after last week’s deluge of gadget news, this week didn’t disappoint. Here’s a quick primer to get you up to speed on the most interesting stuff on Crave this week.
Trying out Windows 7 on a Netbook.
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After exploring other options, Circuit City said Friday it will begin liquidating all remaining stores.
Circuit City calls it quits.
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About 30,000 employees face layoffs as the rest of its 567 stores are closed. The fates of outstanding warranties, its Firedog repair service, and Canadian stores …
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LAS VEGAS–The undeniable winner coming out of CES 2009 is Palm. The smartphone maker took a giant step toward a much-needed comeback by announcing the Pre and accompanying mobile operating system, WebOS.
The Pre announcement garnered a ton of pre-show buzz, and dominated news coverage on the opening day of the event. But the Pre wasn’t the only thing noteworthy about this year’s gadget extravaganza here. High-definition televisions with Internet access and without wires, Netbooks and notebooks became harder to tell apart, and wireless products came in some surprising packages.
As the show comes to a close Saturday, here’s a look back at some of the most important themes that emerged.
Blurring the line: Sony's "not a Netbook" Lifestyle PC is dwarfed by HP Mini Netbook.
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High-definition television makers are getting real
CES is usually a competition among TV makers to see who can make the largest screen or thinnest set. While there was still an element of that here, the top-tier television manufacturers also competed another way: who could make the new HDTV most accessible to the mainstream consumer in a down economy.
Toshiba’s Scott Ramirez put it best: Sure we could make a 150-inch TV. “But nobody buys those.”…
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A model shows off Dell's new luxury notebook called Adamo.
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LAS VEGAS–Dell trotted out a fashion model to show off the newest addition to its notebook lineup, but beyond explaining the name of Adamo, gave no further details.
Though rumors about Adamo circulated …
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TrueMotion remote is set to ship in December.
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LAS VEGAS–Imagine playing baseball on Nintendo’s Wii Sports and being able to pull the ball to left field or lay down a bunt instead of just randomly smacking doubles or home runs.
A Silicon Valley company says …
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LAS VEGAS–Despite the troubled economy and an expected drop in consumer purchases, LG Electronics said it doesn’t plan to reduce its marketing and research spending in 2009.
President and CEO of LG Electronics North America Michael Ahn said his company’s North American sales increased to more than $14 …
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The International Consumer Electronics Show kicks off next week, and premature product news releases and apparent leaks have already been rolling in.
While there’s of course a certain amount of surprise in store at the year’s biggest tech showcase, there likely won’t be anything too unexpected. But …
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Quick programming note: posting is going to be rather light on Crave starting Tuesday.
Many of us will be on vacation for the holidays for the next week and a half, so the normal font of gadgety goodness will at times seem …
Is Sony referring to a Netbook here?
CES 2009 is fast approaching, and rumors of new laptops are everywhere. This week though, the focus is on Sony.
Though enterprising news outlets have dug up hints at new products from the likes of Dell and Lenovo weeks before the big gadget exhibition, Sony is outing itself as having a new portable PC that will “change the way you think about laptops.” A clock counting down the days and hours until January 9, when the new product is scheduled to appear, popped up on Sony’s New Zealand site, as pointed out over the weekend by Engadget.
Putting the teaser in context of the photo of the oddly-shaped Sony device that popped up on the FCC’s Web site two weeks ago, it certainly seems likely that this will be a notebook unlike what others are offering.
But the question is, will it be a Netbook? Sony has been conspicuously absent from the Netbook market among its Windows-wielding brethren. (Apple has held out too, but it’s not price-matching with other PC makers.)
Netbooks have taken off in the past 12 months, moving from a quirky offering from Asus to the form factor that’s giving the PC industry a whiff of hope. All the major manufacturers are on board, and it’s paying off now since the price tags are cheaper than standard notebooks. However, how it will hurt them in the long run (dragging down average prices of notebooks, cannibalizing lower-end laptop models) is still to be determined.
The argument for Sony keeping out of the low-end fray is certainly there. Sony–like Apple–fancies itself a maker of luxury devices and is loath to get into price wars with the likes of Dell and HP. (Of course, it didn’t want to wrestle with the lower-tier Vizio and Westinghouse in LCD TVs either, but the reality of the HDTV market forced Sony’s hand.)
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