Asus launches tough notebook, the B51E
In a new attempt to appeal to the rugged market, Asus has launched the B51E, a semi-rugged laptop aiming for those markets that are rough on their computers. The B51E offers a magnesium-alloy chassis that is sturdy enough to survive strong pressure and is braced by rubber edges that lowers the impact from a [...]
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Rumored ‘Minority Report’ style interface coming soon?
Dashboard Minority Report Display
Has anyone here dreamed of the day when we can all have work stations like Tom Cruise in Minority Report? We thought so. Now if you had to pick one global computing company to try something this crazy-cool, who would you pick? Well, we’ll tell you; according to rumors emanating from Kotaku, [...]
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Upcoming Motorola V9x to launch in US
Motorola RAZR V9x
If you like the Motorola V9 on AT&T, but don’t prefer the mahogany color, then you’re in for a treat. The V9x is coming, and it appears to be heading to AT&T. The phone is identical in dimensions to the V9, but is black in color.
The device will support AT&T’s Navigator service, [...]
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Nextel planning to launch BlackBerry 8350?
We all heard from Dan Hesse at the beginning of the year that Sprint would launch a new BlackBerry on the Nextel side by the end of the year. Engadget Mobile is reporting that the new device will be an iDEN variant of the Curve (8350), and is on track to arrive in late 2008 [...]
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Upcoming HTC Touch Diamond gets spotted with Sprint logo
HTC Touch Diamond
We had heard several times that HTC’s Touch Diamond was coming to Sprint, however it is certainly nice to see it in pictures. We’ve known about it coming to Sprint since April, however the tipster is reporting that the device will launch before the Touch Pro, even though it hasn’t been spotted at [...]
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Apple building an iPhone with a real QWERTY keyboard?
Some new reports reveal that the Cupertino giant is at it again and this time it is rumored to be building a new Apple iPhone with a built-in, physical keyboard.
Aimed at the enterprise market, ahem BlackBerry, a physical keyboard versus the existing virtual onscreen keyboard used today in the original iPhone and upcoming iPhone 3G [...]
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Upcoming Asus Eee PCs 904 and 905
Upcoming Asus Eee PC
Neither of the new Asus Eee PCs (904 and 905 models) rumored to be forging an existence over at Asus labs, may exist. Come again?
Well, not strictly speaking anyhow. According to a UK website, the rumored Asus Eee 905 is no more than word play, and the 904 version will not, as [...]
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Get a CDMA boost with Airave’s signal booster for Sprint
Sprint’s Airave
Sprint may finally introduce its signal boosting Airave to the rest of the country. Originally only available for customers in select areas around Denver and Indianapolis, the portable base station looks as though it may go countrywide this month.
The Airave, which uses broadband data to carry mobile calls over the Internet, requires a broadband [...]
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ATI graphics cards running nVidia PhysX?
AMD ATI Radeon HD 3870
Extreme modders over at NGOHQ reveal that they have been successful in porting nVidia’s PhysX to an AMD ATI Radeon HD 3870.
AMD (who own ATI) have been playing catch-up to nVidia’s new GPU-accelerated PhysX technology. With the launch of nVidia’s GTX 200-series, anyone has been able to experience PhysX. However, AMD [...]
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Upcoming Creative ZEN X-Fi media player gets WiFi
Creative ZEN X-Fi
Some new promo photos of Creative’s new ZEN X-Fi digital audio players have surfaced and are set to include WiFi as part of the package. The new player is set to feature chatting abilities with Yahoo and Microsoft messaging support and have the ability to stream media direct from Creative’s public media [...]
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