The new Pantech & Curitel PT-S170 phone has an unusual design. The phone is a slider, with a screen that pops-up to form the viewfinder of the included camcorder.
This sliding/folding/swivel CDMA phone comes with a 1.9 inch 176X220 pixel screen and an MP3 player.
PT-S170

Spanish company Energy Sistem has a new MP3 player dubbed the Inngenio 1000.
The Inngenio 1000 is quite compact at 65×35×15 mm and 33 g. It works with MP3, WMA, WAV, MTV (video), JPG, ID3 tagged and LRC file formats. The screen is small-ish at 96×64 pixels. It comes with 1 GB of flash memory [...]

LG has a new slim slider music phone, the KV5900. Its a mere 93.5×43.8×14.4 mm in size, and weighs in at 81grams. It has 512 MB of memory, good for up to 120 songs.
Multi-tasking capabilities allow the user to play music, games and talk on the phone at the same time [ good [...]

If the question is - which LCD monitor delivers the most accurate color reproduction? … then the answer is - the new SpectraView 2180WG-LED by NEC, at least according to Tom’s Hardware Guide. The high fidelity of the 2180WG is thanks to the use of LED backlighting … instead of those cold cathode fluorescent [...]

Here’s something different. The Faucet Light attaches to most faucets and turns on with the water stream to infuse the water with a pale blue aura.
Faucet Light

Today’s New York Times has a nice review of the Fly Pentop Computer, which has just become available.
The Fly Pentop is marketed as an educational product for children aged 8 to 13. It combines a processor with some software and an optical scanner into the shape of a pen. The scanner keeps track of [...]

Taiwan’s HTC Corporation continues to design nice-looking and nicely-spec’d converged devices. The new Muse is a good example of HTC’s handiwork. Its clearly a music-oriented phone — the name and the dedicated buttons give it away –, but with a raft of other functions.
Based on the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, the Muse comes [...]

Samsung’s recently announced SPH-V8200, its new eight megapixel cameraphone, remains somewhat of a mystery item in terms of features & functions, but some pics are becoming available, such as this image from mobilekorea.tv.
Photo: Samsung 8-megapixel Phone, SPH-V8200 - mobilekorea, 08 November 2005

Just in time for the buying season, Tom’s Hardware, via their new DenGuru website, has published a new Buyers Guide. The complete list consists of 37 items ranging from notebook computers to digital cameras to caffeinated shower soap, and is heavily tech & gadget oriented.
The lead-off item, and presumably the most desirable gadget on the [...]

Motorola today announced 4 additions to the RAZR family of phones. Two of the four are just colorized versions of the original RAZR, which now comes in pink and blue, as well as the previous black and silver. The third addition is the RAZR V3c, that works on CDMA networks. The phone also comes [...]