Flightstrap is a new product designed to hold your media player during transit. Flightstrap supports more than 100 different portable media devices out there because it is easily adjustable and has many different types of connections. With the plethora of media player holders out there, let's see how well flightstrap holds up to the competition.
Buffalo is planning to be the first to ship the first USB 3.0 external hard drive and even have available a PCI Express x1 add-in USB 3.0 controller card to be able to use the external HDD. I'm sure many of you have been waiting for USB 3.0 to become available as I know I'm getting tired of those slow and obsolete USB 2.0 transfer speeds! Bummer that this particular product is only scheduled to be released in Japan.
It's fine to announce USB 3.0 gear, but it's another thing entirely to actually put it up for retail. Buffalo's making the boast today that its HD-HU3 series of USB 3.0 hard disks will be the “world's first!!” to ship. Since a USB 3.0 device is pointless without a controller to support it, Buffalo will also make NEC's 5,300 (about $60) IFC-PCIE2U3 2-port PCI Expressx1 host controller available with its hard drives when they ship late October in Japan, almost a month before Freecom's disks hit the market. The 1TB and 1.5TB drives will cost 20,000 (about $225) and 25,300 (about $284), respectively, with a 46,600 (about $523) 2TB disk coming sometime later. Imagine it, soon you'll be able to take advantage of those USB 3.0 cables you bought back in April.
Autodesk the makers of AutoCAD and Inventor engineering software, as well as Maya and 3dsMax media software, lost its attempt to stop its popular AutoCAD software from being re-sold. I have used AutoCAD in some form for close to 15 years, it will be interesting to see how my next version of Inventor's license agreement will be worded.
Despite Autodesk's claim it has never “sold” a copy of AutoCAD to anyone, a federal judge found that restrictive software licenses can act much like sales. Thanks to the decision, AutoCAD can be resold on eBaybut courts are still all over the place on this issue.
Amazon announced a $40 price drop in the Kindle today, bring the retail price to $259 as well as international version. It isn't spelled out in the article but I have read unconfirmed reports that if you purchased one in the last 30 days (like me), you are entitled to a $40 refund.
Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field of competitors.
With Wednesday's $40 reduction on the Kindle, the device now costs $259. It debuted in 2007 at $399 and started this year at $359, before another price cut in July.
In hopes of stimulating even more growth, Amazon also will start selling a $279 version of the Kindle that will work in 100 countries and be sold to readers outside the U.S. This Kindle will begin shipping on Monday in such countries as Australia, Japan, India and Germany.
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If you have a Windows Mobile 6.1 Smartphone (touchscreen or non-touchscreen) bought new in the six months or so, there may just be a Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade in your future.
Microsoft has released a list of eight WM6.1 smartphone which are not only Windows Mobile 6.5 ready, but already have upgrades in the works. These phones are the T-Mobile Dash 3G, the Samsung Omnia, Jack and Epix, the HTC Ozone, Snap, and Touch Pro2, and the Pharos Traveler 137.
There’s no word yet on when upgrades will be made available for each device, but we hope it will be a matter of days or weeks rather than months. We’ll post any upgrade information made available on each device’s information page (which you can reach by clicking the links above). You can also check Microsoft’s 6.1-to-6.5 update page here.
IN-WIN has a new extreme case out called Maelstrom that boasts an impressive capacity for 120mm case fans should one be so inclined to max it out. How many fans? Read the article to find out and see if it makes the grade as a full tower extreme chassis.
AT&T said today that it would no longer prevent customers with the Blackberrys, iPhones or other smartphones from using Internet telephone services that bypass its own voice network. Until today's announcement, AT&T's policy would not let users of voice chat services like Skype connect on their wireless network.
AT&T said it did not ask Apple to block Google Voice, but it did ban voice-over-Internet services like Skype. (Apple said it was still mulling Googles service out of concern that it might confuse customers.) AT&T also said in its letter that it was planning to reevaluate that decision. And Tuesday it indeed reversed the rule.
HTC has made its long-unofficial ‘Leo’ smartphone official; the Windows Phone will be sold as the HTC HD2 beginning later this month in Europe.
According to SlashGear, we in the U.S. will have to wait until early next year (March 2010 at the latest) to get our hands on HTC’s latest Über-phone.
In addition to its 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, the HTC HD2 features a large 4.3-inch multi-touch display, a 5MP display and HTC’s Sense UI, currently found on the company’s Android phones.
Sprint has just announced the Samsung Intrepid, the first Windows Mobile 6.5 Smartphone (Windows Phone) from Sprint, and the first WM6.5 Messenger-class device (a smartphone with a front-facing QWERTY keyboard) in the U.S.
The Samsung Intrepid has a 2.5-inch touchscreen display, a 3.2MP camera (with Smart Read, a camera-driven business card scanner), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, aGPS and a microSDHC flash memory card slot.
Available on October 11, the Samsung Intrepid will sell for $149 with a two-year service agreement, instant savings and rebate.