Motorola unveils new ultra-thin RAZR models

U.S.-based Motorola unveiled a range of new handsets on Monday that will be built around its popular RAZR model, and showed a long-awaited music phone with Apple's iTunes music player software.

PlayStation 3 Cell chip aims high | Tech News on ZDNet

PlayStation 3 Cell chip aims high | Tech News on ZDNet

"Engineers from Sony, IBM and Toshiba are set to provide fresh details on the Cell processor that will power the next version of Sony's PlayStation video game machine, but at least one analyst already has a pretty clear idea of what's coming. "

Pentax Optio SV

Pentax Optio SV

Pentax has pretty much reinvented itself over the past few years. There’s no doubt that the company has invested a huge amount of time and resource into the design of its latest camera range, and you’d be hard pushed to find compact digital cameras that look more appealing than the latest Optios. I suspect that it’s no coincidence that the Optio SV in my hand reminds me of the Canon Digital Ixus 500 that I reviewed last year, and if you place the two cameras next to each other, you’ll see that they sport almost identical dimensions.

PlayStation Portable delayedin Europe

Notice how Europe gets shafted on regular basis when it comes to new video game consoles? Apart from occasionally geting a minor platform like the Gizmondo first, the continent is consistently a lower priority for giants like Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft than the US and Japan markets (which makes sense on a business level—these are the two biggest markets for video games). The Nintendo DS still isn’t slated to debut in Europe until March 11th (and honestly, doesn’t it seem like the DS has already been out here for ages?), but the latest bad news is that the PlayStation Portable, which Sony had been promising would be released before the end of March just like here in the States, now won’t come out there until sometime in the second quarter of this year because of “chip shortages”. Sony spokesperson Kenichi Fukunaga conceded in an interview that the company simply doesn’t have the manufacturing capacity to make enough PlayStation Portables for all three markets.

[Engadget]

Sprint cancels Samsung i550 Palmphone

We’d already given up on this oft-delayed cellphone a loooooong time ago, but SprintPCSInfo says that Sprint has finally decided that they’re never going to carry the SPH-i550, Samsung’s Palm-powered clamshell with an OLED external display, 32MB of RAM, an SDIO expansion card slot, and a built-in one megapixel digital camera. The reason? Sprint wanted to focus its resources on selling another Palm-powered smartphone—the Treo 650.

[Engadget]

Sony to Release PlayStation Portable

Yahoo! News - Sony to Release PlayStation Portable

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) (news - web sites). said Thursday it will release the PlayStation Portable in North America on March 24 and have 1 million units ready for sale in the first week.

The PSP machine, a challenger to Nintendo (news - web sites) Co.'s long-standing grip on the handheld video gaming market, will be sold as a "value pack" for $250 in the United States and for $300 Canadian dollars. It will include numerous accessories and — for the first million sold — a copy of the "Spider-Man 2" movie on the new Universal Media Disc format that Sony designed for the PSP.

I want one.

HP says it develops technology to replace transistor - Feb. 1, 2005

HP says it develops technology to replace transistor - Feb. 1, 2005

"Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that its researchers have proven that a technology they invented could eventually replace the transistor, a fundamental building block of computers. "