Sharp has an interesting new smartphone with a sideways-sliding QWERTY keyboard. With this model, Sharp also makes a sharp turn away from the use of Linux in their PDAs and towards the phone-centric Windows Mobile 5.0. Sharp touts the W-Z3 as having a 3.7 inch VGA touch screen, that plays well with Excel, [...]

Bluebird has a new CDMA phone/PDA combo, the BM-150. Its ruggedized and offered in two varieties: CDMA and WLAN, or CDMA and GPS. The BM-150 comes with a 3.5 Inch QVGA LCD screen, a Intel 520MHz processor and runs on Windows CE 5.0. It has a Mini-SD slot and Bluetooth and an MP3 [...]

Samsung has just announced the SCH-M709, a new 7MP camera phone. It seems to be the Chinese edition of the SCH-v770, which was announced to great fanfare back in March 2005. The M709 is very similar to the V770. External memory has been boosted to a max of 256MB. The size has come [...]

The new Belkin TuneFM extracts music and power from your Apple iPod, and beams them both to any nearby FM receiver. It snaps onto the iPod via the headphone jack. FM frequency is selectable via toggle buttons. Belkin TuneFM for iPod Offers Another Way to Play Your iPod - press release [...]

The new LG KW9200 is a GSM-CDMA phone with a 1.3 MP digital camera, among other features ‘n things. It also has a nice acid-etched metal keypad. The keypad’s resemblance to that of another manufacturer whose logo consists of a stylized letter ‘M’ and whose name starts with the letters “Moto…”, is [...]

A wooden case might not normally be suitable for most MP3 players because of the added weight and bulk. But in the case of the Apple iPod nano , it seems entirely appropriate. Despite having written a short piece about the iPod nano, and having made note of the diminutive size of [...]

MobileBurn has a mini-review of the newly introduced enterprise-oriented Nokia E61 smartphone. Although they had only a prototype to work with, they generally liked what they saw. They thought highly of the device’s look and feel, but were underwhelmed by the keyboard. They had a few other negatives, but were pleased with [...]

Today’s Washington Post has an article that starts a kind of deathwatch for RIM and its BlackBerry devices. They cite market dominance, patent problems with NTP Inc. and increased competition from Microsoft, Palm, Good Technology and Nokia as things for RIM to fret about. The WP paints a gloomy picture for RIM and suggests [...]

The company once known as palmOne is oferring a new PDA to be called the TX. Its basically a stripped-down Tungsten T5. At 128MB and 312MHz, the TX has both less memory and a slower processor as compared to the T5. However, Palm Inc. was nice enough to cut the price to [...]

Samsung’s new 80-inch Plasma TV model SPD-80X5HD is about to go on sale, thereby making it the largest plasma TV that one can actually buy. The set delivers a resolution of 1080p, a 13-bit-per-color depth and a contrast ratio of 2000:1. The price of $124,000 also affords one the opportunity to [...]