It’s the final Christmas morning of the decade , and considering that there are only two or three of these left before the world ends , we certainly hope an exuberant Santa Claus dropped off a fairly swank stash of gadgetry overnight. ‘Course, today just wouldn’t be today without pigging out on calorie-infested foods and spending copious quantities of time with folks you dearly love and desperately loathe, but frankly — we’re just interested in learning what kind of gizmos entered your life this morning for the first time. Tell us what you did (or didn’t) get in comments below, and be sure to tell us if you reacted similarly to the kids posted up after the break (no fibbing — Sir Kringle is already making his list for next year, don’tcha know?)
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When Microsoft finally launched Windows Mobile 6.5 earlier this year, there may have been lots of fanfare, but there was little honest excitement.
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HTC HD2 review
To think, it’s been over five years since we last tackled how to get music off your iPod , as opposed to the other way around. Back then, the classic model had only recently added the infamous click wheel (while still rocking the monochrome screen, mind you), iPod nano was still called the mini, and viewing photos was a brand new feature worthy of having its own line .
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How-to: get music, videos, and photos off your iPod or iPhone
If the Pomera Digital Memo DM10 appeals to anyone (and we figure it must appeal to someone ), you can chalk it up to the device’s narrow scope: it’s for writin’ with, and for folding up and puttin’ in your pocket — and that’s it. The DM20, our friends at Engadget Japan tell us, expands the brief ever-so-slightly, bumping up storage to 89MB, upping the display to 5-inches, and adding USB cell phone tethering (for emailing documents). Seriously, though, in the end it’s really just a word processor.
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Pomera DM20 Digital Memo puts your old Brother to shame
Inbrics, a company known in Seoul for its VoIP solutions, looks set to rock your world with an Android MID early next year at CES . All we have for you at present are the barest of specs, machine translated Korean PR that declares “a full convergence of the future,” and one of those vague, uplifting videos that demonstrates the myriad of ways that its one platform can dramatically change your life — without ever really telling you what it does. The device itself is a QWERTY landscape slider that features an AMOLED touchscreen, GPS, compass, WiFi, and an ARM Cortex A8 800MHz processor.
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Inbrics announces Android MID, promises ‘inspirational moments’ (video)
The iPhone keyboard (or the lack thereof) has been a polarizing point for many, and while we’ve seen a workaround or two in our day, we’ve yet to see a solution to the lack of tactility as beautifully simple as this. 4iThumbs is a screen overlay that adds minuscule bumps on your iPhone display — bumps that correspond to where the keys are when using the vertical keyboard. ‘Course, these things are apt to bug you when using the horizontal keyboard (or no keyboard at all), but we’re guessing the heavy texters in the crowd won’t mind.
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4iThumbs overlay adds a tactile keyboard to your iPhone… sorta (video)
Data Robotics’ RAID solutions have always been a cut above the rest — and a little more expensive, and better looking, for that matter. As one clearly ecstatic reviewer at PC Perspective will attest, the DroboPro even does you one better, sporting eight bays of storage, extremely effective cooling, and support for FireWire, USB and Gigabit Ethernet connections.
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DroboPro RAID array causes reviewer to fall madly in love (video)
This Dragon Skin armor has been knocking about since 2007, but now that piezoelectrics and intelligence have been thrown into the mix we couldn’t stop ourselves from taking a peek at it. The armor’s strength is derived from a reptilian arrangement of overlapping ceramic and titanium composite discs, which simultaneously block incoming rounds and dissipate the impact to a wider area
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Dragon Skin body armor gains piezoelectric sensors, keeps bullet-stopping abilities
We all know Microsoft’s feeling pretty smug — and with good reason — about Windows 7 right now. In an effort to drum up yet more hype for its latest OS, and perhaps to try and gauge customer interest in an East coast Store , Microsoft has decided to open up a cozy “PC lounge” inside Saks Fifth Avenue’s flagship New York store — you know, the one that actually is on Fifth Avenue
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Microsoft opens PC lounge in Saks Fifth Avenue for holiday season
We don’t know what exactly China Mobile is putting in its manufacturer partners’ tea during contract negotiations, but considering how rapidly China’s largest carrier has grown its OPhone line into the most desirable single-network lineup of Android handsets in the world, we’d strongly recommend they continue to do it. Rumors of an LG entry back in August have now come to fruition in the form of the GW880, a full touch handset launching this month featuring a solid 3.5-inch WVGA display, 5 megapixel camera, and support for a pair of pretty important homegrown standards — TD-SCDMA for 3G and CMMB for mobile TV tuning. For comparison, LG’s only other announced Android phone — the GW620 Eve for global distribution — steps down to a HVGA display, so yeah, if you’ll excuse us, we’ve got a Mandarin lesson in a couple minutes
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LG bows its GW880 OPhone for China Mobile, we start packing our things
