Category: PDAs
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Viewsonic Ruggedized Handheld
By David Edney Viewsonic, the makers of all things monitor, have decided to come out with not one, but seven ruggedized handhelds. Here’s the deets and there are a lot of them: the units run on Windows Mobile 2003 and are powered by Intel XScale processors. They meet IP54 design standards for sealing against dust,…
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EOps Tech’s SDIO TV Tuner Card For Mobile Devices
By David Ponce Say you’ve got a SDIO-enabled, Windows Mobile based device; a shiny new smartphone, or a blinging PDA. Say also that you either got it as a gift, or sold your right hand for it and so now you can’t afford to pay for the data plans that would allow you to watch…
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DualCor cPC: Mobile And Tablet PC In One
By David Ponce The stuff DualCor is promising with the cPC sounds pretty exciting. The machine is loaded with some serious specs: – 1.5GHz Via C7-M processor – 5″, 800X400 LCD – 40GB shared hard drive – 1GB DDR2 RAM – 1 GB NAND flash memory – Windows XP Tablet Edition – Windows Mobile 5.0…
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The iRiver D20, A Jazzy Pocket Dictionary
By David Ponce Pocket dictionaries are usually pretty drab affairs. You might see them in the hands of glasses-clad overachieving Asian students on an exchange program, whose idea of fun might include a heated game of Sudoku or something (pardon the stereotype). That being said, they’re useful as hell and if you’re going to be…
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The VPen
By David Ponce If you ask me, using your thumb to send an SMS is asinine. Really, think about it. What’s intuitive about tapping a key four times to get one letter? The VPen might solve those problems though. It’s essentially a laser-equipped pen that uses Bluetooth to connect to your cell, PDA or whatever.…
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Palm Commits Act Of Heresy And Turns To Microsoft For OS
By Jennifer Palm recently announced the unthinkable when it told the world that it will soon be partnering up with Microsoft to release a new Treo Smartphone powered by the Windows Mobile, and not the Palm, operating system. The new device, the Treo 700w, will take advantage of the software giant’s Outlook Mobile, Office Mobile…
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The MPrint From Brother
By Jennifer Finally there is a solution for printing from a PDA, smart phone, or from a laptop when you are away from the office or home: the MPrint from Brother. Connect it to your PDA/smart phone/laptop by using an infrared connection or a Bluetooth connection, and print your documents from a special cassette of…
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The Pepperpad, Seeking an Identity
By David Ponce Stuck somewhere between a full fledged laptop and an oversized PDA, the Pepperpad (aka the Wireless Pad) from the interestingly named company Pepper Computer, is aimed at the consumer looking for something more substantial than the quick and dirty Palm experience, yet disinterested in the commitment and emotional involvement of a laptop.…
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Virtual keyboard
By Wesley Dores. Nothing new under the sun, but still relatively cool: a “virtual keyboard”. How does this work you ask? Well, ok, so, you can use the VKB (Virtual PC Keyboard) with both your laptop and PC and with a compatible mobile device, be it a Smartphone or a PDA. It uses both infrared…
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Underdog PSP Killer Spreads Universal Love to File Formats
By Mac Harris Korean upstart Gamepark Holdings may actually have a shot at the big boys (Sony & Nintendo) [Forgive him in his foolishness, for he is young -Ed.] with its new GPX2 “Personal Entertainment Player” portable everything console. While there aren’t legions of game companies dumping millions into developing titles for the console, the…