Techno-guru Walt Mossberg reviews the soon-to-be available Samsung Instinct mobile phone and deems it to be merely “ok”. Walt says the Instinct lacks the iPhone’s greatest strength namely its software.
He concludes by stating that “Samsung’s Instinct, a clone of Apple’s iPhone, doesn’t measure up”, and for good measure, adds that it’s “no iPhone”.
Samsung’s Instinct Doesn’t [...]

The Sky, From Above - Boston Globe, Jume 9 2008

Apple today announced their much-anticipated next-gen iPhone. The iPhone 3G as it’s called, is both faster and cheaper than the original model that it replaces.
Walt Mossberg lists the good points of the iPhone 3G as being speed (about 2x faster) price (about half) and the 3rd party apps. On the down side he knocks [...]

Samsung has started selling their YP-S2 washed-river-pebble-esque MP3 player. $58 gets you 2GB. Light-weight at 13.6 grams. Feature comparison to iPod Shuffle, iriver Mplayer and the Zen Stone at this link.

Samsung Electronics’ design stone that ‘MP3 player market - News release, 2008 6 4

Toyoda Gosei is in the process of developing pedestrian-protecting exterior airbags that deploy when onboard radar and image-recogition cameras detect a pending impact.
…alternatively, the pedestrians could wear the airbags instead.

Cars with hood and grill airbags for pedestrian protection! - FarEast Gizmos, June 3, 2008