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Nokia today fulfilled a promise from earlier this month with two new Nseries devices both aimed at driving down the cost of getting into full smartphones. The N85 as flagship appears set to replace the N81 and upgrades the camera from two to five megapixels, also adding GPS both for mapping and for geotagging shots. It also switches to a 2.6-inch AMOLED screen that should supply richer color and as much as 28 hours of music playback on a single charge.

Like the N81, the N85 slider is considered an N-Gage friendly phone and has controls suited to playing games from Nokia’s service in landscape view. Music is also an emphasis, though the handset maker has opted against the built-in storage of the N81 8GB and instead bundles an 8GB microSDHC card, giving owners the option of an upgrade to 16GB or beyond in the future. Internet access is supplied either through HSDPA-based 3G or through Wi-Fi, though international support isn’t yet known.

The N79 in turn replaces the N78 from just months earlier and upgrades the camera from 3.2 to five megapixels, also using a dual-LED based flash; Nokia is marketing the device as a fashion phone with swappable back covers that change the look to reflect its owner’s tastes. The candybar design also has the full 3G, GPS, and Wi-Fi feature set and lasts for up to 24 hours of music. A 4GB microSD card gives it more storage than the earlier handset.

In contrast to some Nokia phone introductions, the company plans a quick release and should make both the N79 and N85 available in the UK as of next month. Releases for Europe and other areas are likely to vary, though both the N79 and N81 have been available in the US as unlocked devices. [images via Pocket-lint]

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Cowon’s upcoming O2 PMP is tipped to succeed the A3, featuring the following specifications :-

• 4.3″ LCD display
• DMB-T tuner support
• Electronic dictionary
• Up to 32GB flash memory
• SD/SDHC memory card slot
• 18 hours playback time for audio
• 8 hours playback time for video
• Supports wide range of video formats
• Built-in speakers
• TV Out

No idea on pricing, but it would be interesting to see just more and more devices being released these days that are more than able to challenge the iPod’s dominance in the PMP market.

Article extracted from Anything But iPod

Long Zheng over at IStartedSomething is reporting that the Zune 120 has passed the FCC’s radiation tests with flying colors. This is fantastic news since I get a sense that many users are looking for more capacity, especially in hard drive players. One of the reasons the Zune 80 is a staple in my gadget travelling ensemble is because I can sync my entire collection without having to make a decision on what I feel like listening to in the future. While I haven’t filled my 80 yet, I’m getting close.

One of my sources says the hard drive will be a Toshiba MK1231GAL- this is a 5mm drive so the Zune 120 be sized the same as the Zune 80. As far as price I would go agree with Long’s estimated price of $300.

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Nokia’s just come up with a new entry in its Arte series of “jazzed up” cellphones with the 8800 Carbon Arte. The old slider phone now has panels of carbon fiber in its front and rear faces, along with titanium and stainless steel. Internally it looks like the phone is pretty much unchanged, though now its storage has been bumped up to 4GB from 1GB. It remains a tri-band GSM phone, though, and Nokia expects it to hit the shops in Europe by the end of the year for around $1,600.

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You mastered Donkey Kong in pre-school. You hacked your first school terminal during recess before you were ten. You speak and think in various programming languages. And you can type faster than most dullards think. Finally, there is a keyboard that understands you: Das Keyboard. And what’s even better… the Das Keyboard II has been improved with a more responsive IBM style clicky keyboard.

Das Keyboard Ultimate is an enhanced 104 or 105-key USB PC keyboard equipped with 100% blank keys mounted on gold-plated and clicky high-end mechanical key switches. Not as elite a typist as you want to be? Not a problem. Das Keyboard Ultimate can teach you to type exponentially faster in just a couple of weeks. Since there are no letters to look at when typing, your brain is forced to memorize the key positions. Slower typers almost double their speed and fast typers become über fast! Built to outlast your typing career, Das Keyboard will provide a long life of comfortable, awe-inspiring typing. Give your old keyboard Das Boot with Das Keyboard, and remain Das Elite.

Product Features

• 100% blank keys
• Glossy black upper enclosure with matching black USB cable, Darth Vader approved
• Two-port USB hub 1.1 and 2.0 compatible
• 2-meter (6.6ft) USB cable
• Enhanced 104 or 105-key layout
• Best-in-class mechanical gold-plated key switches provide a tactile and audio click that makes typing pure joy.
• Das Keyboard allows up to 12 keys to be pressed simultaneously. Great for fast typists and gamers alike.
• Rated for 50 million key strokes
• Home keys F and J have been specially shaped with an increased curvature to help find the home position
• Sleek design. Slimmer than the original Das Keyboard
• Interface: USB, Plug and Play
• OS Requirements: Windows 3.1 or higher, Linux, or Mac OS X
• Dimensions: 18in x 6.5in x 1in (thickest portion, feet not extented, 1.5in w/ extended feet)
• Weight: 1.2 Kg, 2.6 lbs

Article extracted from Scratch 99

In one of my older posts, on PHP Performance Profiling with APD, there’s a discussion in the comments about which IDE is best to use with PHP. Terence Chang recommends Zend Studio and mentions Eclipse. Dreamweaver’s also discussed and I state that I just use a text editor (with syntax highlighting).

Against that backdrop, I read with interest that the NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta has just been released and that it now caters to PHP developers (article by Lloyd Dunn).

NetBeans IDE 6.5 for PHP

Lloyd’s article discusses the features present in NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta for PHP developers. To quote Lloyd:

As web developers increasingly tackle large-scale projects that use PHP together with MySQL, they stand to benefit from an IDE that can efficiently manage their growing code base. Fortunately, the newly released NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta arrives tailor-made to help PHP developers with their particular coding requirements.

He goes on to list the features that are included:

code completion, syntax highlighting, marking of occurrences, refactoring, code templates, pop-up documentation, easy code navigation, editor warnings, a task list, as well as a debugger.

Lloyd looks in detail at the Debugger and the integration with MySQL as well as mentioning that the PHP only distribution is only 20MB (amazing!).

It sounds great to me! I haven’t had time to try it yet and I don’t really need a full blown IDE for the PHP coding I’m doing at present, but I’ve downloaded it and will give it a spin sometime soon.

If you’re interested, I’d urge you to read Lloyd’s article in full.

A Quick Look At The PHP IDE Competition

Although Dreamweaver is great for most web development, it’s really not up to scratch when it comes to PHP development and it costs money.

Zend Studio has an excellent reputation, but it’s expensive. That might be an option if you are a full time PHP developer, but if won’t be appealing to the part timers out there, such as myself.

As I’ve said, I use a text editor (with syntax highlighting) for most of my coding, but I’m only working on short simple projects at present. For more complex projects, a comprehensive IDE would be necessary.

So that leaves Eclipse PHP (PDT) and now NetBeans IDE as the free options. Which is best? I haven’t tried them yet, but NetBeans is a lot smaller to download (if you choose PHP only), has the debugger built in (you have install a separate debugger for Eclipse). It seems to have a lot going for it.

I’d recommend trying them both, but there’s no doubt that NetBeans is one to seriously consider.

Article extracted from Coolest Gadgets

Never mind if you don’t have a computer or notebook at the moment and yet want to share tunes on your iPod with a friend. The iPod, not being a Zune and hence does not have wireless capability to transfer tunes to another iPod, has this tool to help it out.

It automatically recognizes when you plug in iPods (either Mac or PC formatting) on either end, and it can transfer a three-minute song in five seconds and a 30-minute video in three minutes. The device can also transfer any files when the iPods are set to “disk drive” mode. Its rechargeable battery provides up to 1 1/2 hours of operation during transfers, and includes an AC adapter that recharges the device in four hours; iPods are recharged while connected. Songs transferred with digital rights management (DRM) formatting require appropriate iTunes password and authorization.

Hammacher is carrying this for $99.95.

Article extracted from Opera.com

Opera Software today announced that its popular Opera Mini browser will now be pre-installed and available to a significant number of cell phone users in Germany through leading service provider O2’s “Internet-to-Go” initiative. O2 customers will have access to the full Internet experience from the convenience of their mobile phone, allowing them to view the latest news, weather, e-commerce, and social networking Web sites on-the-go.

O2’s “Internet-to-Go” will be available on several models with both pre-installed or over-the-air (OTA) versions of the Opera Mini browser. The Samsung U900 Soul will launch mid-summer with the pre-installed version and as early as late July with the OTA version. Opera Mini will be O2-branded featuring a customized skin and pre-set bookmarks.

The Opera Mini browser will give O2 users the speed, ease of use and unlimited Web that they are accustomed to on their personal computer in a handheld device, and includes such options as pre-set favorites pages, news feeds, and social networking sites.

“Partnering with a leading operator such as O2 is an important step to expanding the Opera brand in Europe. It brings the full Internet experience to millions of cell phone users in Germany,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “We hope to build on our relationship with O2 in the future and use this success to continue to bringing mobile customers across the Europe the most complete Internet experience on-the-go.”

Opera Mini will first be available on the following products:

• Samsung U900 Soul
• Samsung U800 Soul b
• Sony Ericsson C902
• Sony Ericsson C702
• Sony Ericsson W760i

Opera Mini will be available on the following phones over-the-air:

• Sony Ericsson K800i
• Sony Ericsson K850i
• Sony Ericsson W880i
• Sony Ericsson W890i
• Sony Ericsson W910i
• Nokia 6233
• Nokia 6280
• Nokia 6500 classic
• Nokia 6500 slide
• Samsung U700
• Samsung U900 Soul
• Samsung Z400

Article extracted from Techchee.com

If you’re a drinker, and you’d wanna show off there is no restriction to continue drinking your favorite booze in the office, you can then make use of this portable Leather hip-flask hard drive to show to your colleagues, how you can do that without getting fired.
Besides, as a heavy drinker, you’ll always remember your hip flask. Meaning you tend not to forget an external hard drive that is shaped like a hip flask. So you won’t leave it unattended on your work desk, which wouldn’t lead to sensitive data fall into the hands of your rivals. It sounds like a hip-flask-shaped portable hard drive has many advantages to be used by alcoholic computer geeks.

This portable hard drive looks like a pocket-sized hip flask, and it’s wrapped with buttery 100% real leather. You just need to hook it up to your computer via the USB port, and it supports USB 2.0, which boasts a data transfer rate of up to 480 Mbits per second. And you need no external power for it as it takes power from the USB port.

The hip-flask portable hard drive carries a storage capacity of 250GB and works well with various OSes including Windows, Linux and Mac. Please note, drink at work is strong prohibited in many offices in this world!

Buy online, $150, ThinkGeek

Article extracted from Coolest Gadgets

No sane human seriously relishes the though of their own death. As much as we try to avoid the aging process and keep ourselves safe from life risking activities, the end is inevitable, at least until science finds the Fountain of Youth. But thinking about our own deaths is not nearly as hard to conceive when we think about the sort of festive life we can have after our last days.

Creative Coffins is a company which designs and produces custom coffins. And even on a more serious note, they make sure that us fanboys are well taken care of. How would you like your eternal slumber to take place in an iPhone coffin? Apple not your poison? What about a Vista wallpaper-themed or Halo coffin? Creative Coffins has got you covered.

OK, we’ve gotta be honest with you. These coffins aren’t “officially” listed as “products” from the Creative Coffins crew. But they shouldn’t have a problem whipping up the design for you, as they promise that they can “create almost any design from the dignified and beautiful to the quirky or humorous”.

T3 put together some awesome design renditions of some of the coffins that you fanboys out there might be interested in checking out. Living out your dream of being placed in a SNES-themed coffin might not be that far off the mark. Just remember to add the special request to your will.