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$99 Jointech Jpro Laptop-Jl7100 Rocks Internet Explorer and Beats OLPC in Pricing

  Jointech has done what One Laptop Per Child has promised but failed to do - mass-produce a laptop that will retail for $100 or below. At $99, Jointech’s Jpro Jl7100, is one cheap mini notebook or netbook. Though reading the Jl7100 specs make you think of a smartphone instead of a laptop, $99 retail is [...]

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Teclast M55 Rocks CMMB TV

A week after RAmos announced its iTV PMP with CMMB support, Teclast has its own CMMB-enabled PMP to offer visitors and locals during the Beijing Olympics. CMMB TV is already available in 37 Chinese cities and with common Chinese PMP functionality like RMVB / RM / AVI / FLV / MPG / WMV / DAT [...]

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Nokia Cuts Phone Prices Good for Consumers, Bad for Rivals

  Nokia has made a move that may be seen as a war declaration to rivals Motorola and Sony Ericsson. The latter two cellphone manufacturers have been hemorrhaging revenues and market share this past year or so and Nok-Nok’s recent across-the-board price cuts may hasten the two companies’ demise. Reports Reuters: Nokia made the steepest price reductions of [...]

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Teclast M31 PMP With Fujitsu MVA TFT Screen and Wireless Music Sharing

Fujitsu’s MVA screen offers wider viewing angles and is considered to be better than any other TFT LCD screens in the market. You can view up to 170 degrees. Besides the MVA screen, the Teclast M31 also employs an FM transmitter for wireless music sharing. From these information, we can hardly wait till someone makes [...]

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Sony PMX-M89 16GB Adds Map Browser Suite

  Sony is serious about entrenching itself into the Chinese PMP market. Its PMX series are on the higher end of the Chnese market but are reachable for consumers willing to pay a little more for quality products. The new Sony PMX-M80 series adds a feature that pushes the envelope for the entire Chinese market: maps. [...]

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Proximi’s MagicPad brings Cut/Copy/Paste to iPhone

It looks like cut/copy/paste may soon be hitting the iPhone and iPod Touch. No, it’s not an Apple update, but rather a 3rd party application from a company called Proximi who finally decided that it was high time to incorporate such a feature into the device. MagicPad, as it’s called, is the first rich-text editor [...]

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Garmin Nuviphone Delayed

  The Nuviphone from Garmin, a great device in every sense, is going to avoid the getting slaughtered by iPhone 3G’s wake. Nuviphone (or Nuvifone) was expected late this year but due to carrier requirements still unresolved, Garmin has postponed launch date to 2009. The Garmin Nuviphone is a quadband GSM phone with HSDPA, WiFi and of [...]

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iRiver W7 Price Cut in China

  We have yet to hear about the availability of iRiver’s W7 outside of Asia. The iRiver W7 is not the perfect iRiver PMP but it’s not bad either and the unique combination of stylus-based touchscreen and joystick would no doubt tempt quite a few people looking for a portable video player. What we know is [...]

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Cantor Gaming eDeck is a Portable Casino

We like portable gaming devices, but this is the first gaming device that enables you to earn serious money… or lose it. Cantor Gaming gives you Las Vegas on-the-go with eDeck. The eDeck has WiFi and with an account, users can play Vegas games for real money whenever there’s a HotSpot around. Roulette, blackjack, baccarat, [...]

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Motorola Now Fourth Cellphone Manufacturer

Another sad day for Motorola. It’s not official yet, but according to Bloomberg, LG may have sold more than Moto in the last quarter, which means LG is 3rd, while Samsung remains in second place after Nokia. Moto sales fell 26% and Bloomberg pegs actual sales at 26.1 million handset. Sony Ericsson, which have also [...]

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