by Chris Ziegler, posted Oct 6th 2008 at 4:55AMWe’ve been holding off on running this until we got confirmation from Samsung on just what was going on, and now we have it; it’s official, folks — the Instinct’s latest firmware update is all about the browser. To quote Sammy, “most of the traits of this upgrade focus on improving the Web browser experience,” and the word on the street seems to be in line with that with faster page loading and generally fewer crashes being reported across the board. As best we can tell, it doesn’t solve every last issue in the book, but it’s awesome to see that Sprint and Samsung seem to be staying on top of this stuff. Have an Instinct? (Read the full post about ‘Samsung Instinct firmware changes confirmed: it’s the browser’…)
by Chris Ziegler, posted Oct 6th 2008 at 4:55AMWe’ve been holding off on running this until we got confirmation from Samsung on just what was going on, and now we have it; it’s official, folks — the Instinct’s latest firmware update is all about the browser. To quote Sammy, “most of the traits of this upgrade focus on improving the Web browser experience,” and the word on the street seems to be in line with that with faster page loading and generally fewer crashes being reported across the board. As best we can tell, it doesn’t solve every last issue in the book, but it’s awesome to see that Sprint and Samsung seem to be staying on top of this stuff. Have an Instinct? (Read the full post about ‘Samsung Instinct firmware changes confirmed: it’s the browser’…)
by Chris Ziegler, posted Oct 6th 2008 at 6:37AM Welcome to Incrudo country, gentlemen. Out here, we grow chest hair as bushy as the tumbleweed, and we like our phones built thick. We’re not talkin’ no ordinary thick, either, no sir — give us 2 to 3mm of solid titanium casing here. We like our phones heavy, too; a half pound sounds about right. We didn’t get these burly muscles wrasslin’ cattle just to tote around a Samsung X820, if you know what we’re saying. Make it look like a brick, because it’s built like a brick. Just like us, because we’re men. (Read the full post about ‘Incrudo Phantom: “Mobile Phone with a Man’s Character”’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Oct 6th 2008 at 3:10AM We know, the minuscule magnets adorned on this 4-port USB hub aren’t technically strong enough to have any severe effect on your data, but seriously, why would you chance it? In what has to be one of the worst ideas in low-end technology to ever grace our eyes, the magnetic 4-port USB hub enables users to stick their hub on any nearby file cabinet, metal plate or refrigerator door, though we can’t figure out why that’s such an awesome benefit. (Read the full post about ‘Magnetic 4-port USB hub: for brazen daredevils only’…)
by Joshua Topolsky, posted Oct 5th 2008 at 11:19PM The Toshiba E105 has been sneaking around the fringes for a few days now, but apparently it’s not just announced — it’s available for purchase. That’s right, the oddly familiar looking 14.1-incher can be had at Best Buy for the totally reasonable price of $1,199.99, packing a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo, a 1280 x 800 TruBrite LCD display, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and an Intel 4500MHD integrated GPU. The Satellite also sports 802.11a/b/g/n, an HDMI out, Vista Home Premium, and that all-important fingerprint reader (just remember, this increases the odds of someone cutting off your finger). The laptop is available right now online, no word if it’s on store shelves yet.[Via LogicBUY]Read (Read the full post about ‘Toshiba’s MacBook Pro-esque Satellite E105 arrives at Best Buy’…)
CNET reviews the Samsung MyShot and writes, “Though the phone is called the MyShot, don’t expect stellar pictures from this handset. The 1.3-megapixel camera is good enough for decent quick photos, but photo quality was decidedly mediocre, with an overcast look and slight blurriness. You can take pictures in five resolutions (1,280×960, 640×480, 320×240, 160×120, and a Picture ID mode which will presumably be around 96×96 to fit in the external display), three quality settings, five white balance presets, 11 fun frames, and four color effects. Other camera settings include a self-timer, a night mode, a multishot option, and three shutter sounds (plus a silent option). (Read the full post about ‘Samsung MyShot Review - CNET’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Oct 5th 2008 at 5:04PM WowWee goes out of its way to make one thing very clear about the Rovio: “this is not a toy.” That being said, it doesn’t make the patrolling sentry any less fantastic, as critics over at Robots-Dreams proclaimed that it was “intuitive and a pleasure to use from the moment you first open the box.” From the painless setup process to the unparalleled mobility, reviewers sounded like they were grinning from ear-to-ear during the entire writeup process. (Read the full post about ‘WowWee’s Rovio gets reviewed: it’s one awesome robotic sentry’…)
Let’s say that you’ve run out of beer and for some awful reason you can’t go get more. What could possibly taunt you more than a beer filled USB drive? I swear it would not surprise me in the least to see a news bulletin somewhere, where a guy decided to try to suck the beer out of his USB drive. It’d likely start with one guy either daring or offering up some small fund to do it, like a dollar. It really wouldn’t take much for someone to do it. Well luckily there are no links to actually purchase this USB drive, instead it is just an example of all the cool things a certain company can do with USB drives. (Read the full post about ‘The Beer-filled USB Drive’…)
Most of us know that 3D displays require a special set of glasses, and so far no fashion house has come up with frames that help you look cool instead of a bona fide dork for obvious reasons - style and geeks tend to be at loggerheads. Good thing the geeks are smart enough to come up with a 72 “3D display that not only gives you the whole 3D works, you can view it without having to wear any silly special glasses. This new display is a collaboration between Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Victor Company of Japan Ltd,, and is currently on display at CEATEC Japan 2008. Features include full HD resolution at 1,920 x 1,080, and NICT hopes to commercialized this display by the year 2011. (Read the full post about ‘72″ 3D display needs no glasses’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Oct 4th 2008 at 11:10PM HP’s got the Special Edition itch again, and it’s scratching it with both hands as evidenced by the newest dv4t and dv5t SE notebooks. Starting with the former, we’ve got a flashily designed 14.1-incher with a WXGA panel, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a handful of Core 2 Duo CPU choices, NVIDIA’s 512MB GeForce 9200M GS, up to 400GB of hard drive space, WiFi, optional WWAN and an integrated HDTV hybrid tuner. The equally fashionable Pavilion dv5t SE sports a 15.4-inch LCD, a GMA4500MHD integrated graphics set, optional Blu-ray writer and most everything already mentioned on its smaller sibling. You can snatch either of these up for $1,099.99 / $949 (or higher) right now, but we’d make sure y (Read the full post about ‘HP offers up Special Edition Pavilion dv4t and dv5t’…)
