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There’s a new car kit in town courtesy of Nokia - the CK-600. This model aims to bring convenient handling, simplified installation and software updatability in a single device by featuring Nokia Talk voice guidance and a remote control to help you get started. Other specifications include a removable color display and an active call management system accessible via the included remote control, helping you stay focused behind the wheel while attending to a million-dollar negotiation over the phone. Tags: PDA, DVD, AAC, players (Read the full post about ‘Nokia CK-600 Car Kit’…)

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Someone at Danger has put up the Sidekick Gekko manual a little early for our Viewing pleasure. We have not had a chance to review this manual yet, but we will keep this post updated with anything that catches our eye about the Gekko and the Upcoming OTA for the LX (It’s pretty safe to assume they will have a similar (If not the same) OS.) Sidekick Gekko Manual Manual has since been taken down. Ok, so at a quick Inspection of the manual, Here’s what we’ve noticed. (Read the full post about ‘Sidekick Gekko Manual Leaked Early!’…)

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There’s nothing worse then the image of a car mechanic coming out from under your car to tell you what their estimate for repair will be. Many car owners feel helpless at this point because they have no way to quickly and easily find out whether the estimate they have received is fair. That’s why a new website called RepairPal has come to the rescue.

Using RepairPal’s RepairPrice Estimator consumers will be able to receive market-based, unbiased research specific to a consumer’s car brand, model, service type and location. This ensures that the consumer is always paying for repairs or service at a fair price.

(Read the full post about ‘Fair car repair pricing is a click away with RepairPal’…)

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Don’t get all too hot and bothered under the collar just yet - blackberry has yet another smartphone coming out sometime in the middle of next year - nicknamed the Javelin. Unfortunately, you won’t find any 3G connectivity with this handset, although it is rumored to feature WiFi connectivity, GPS navigation, and a 3.2 megapixel camera. Do you think a smartphone with such meagre specifications (by the middle of next year, for Pete’s sake) will actually take off? Tags: lcd, TV, cellphone, Hi-fi (Read the full post about ‘BlackBerry Javelin Spotted’…)

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by Donald Melanson, posted Jun 16th 2008 at 4:09PMThere’s no indication of an exact release date just yet, but word just dropped on the official playstation blog that the PSP will be getting a boost to firmware version 4.00 “soon.” That’ll bring with it the addition of Google search directly form the XMB interface, which Sony says “replicates the Google Internet search experience.” Apart from that somewhat notable upgrade, the only other new feature they’re talking about at the moment is the ability to change the viewing speed during playback of videos stored on a Memory Stick. (Read the full post about ‘PSP firmware 4.00 due “soon,” adds Google search to XMB’…)

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Just when you thought $199 was dirt cheap for the 3G iphone (before taking all the monthly costs into consideration), along comes an announcement that T-Mobile Germany will be offering this messianic handset for a low, low price of just 1 Euro! That’s just totally nuts, but if you happen to love O2 and will only use phones from that mobile carrier, you’d be pleased to know O2 is offering it for…yes, you’ve guessed it - free. Just make sure you have at least 89 Euros left in your bank account each month to pay off the monthly plan. Of course, you can always settle for the 169 Euro iPhone as long as you prefer the (much) lower 29 Euro monthly T-Mobile plan. What’s your pick? (Read the full post about ‘3G iPhone going for 1 Euro’…)

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JVC Victor are forging ahead with a couple of new HDD-based high definition camcorders - the GZ-HD30 and the GZ-HD40. The former will feature an 80GB hard drive, while the latter has an extra 50% capacity in comparison. Among the shared features include :- 1,920 x 1,080 recording capability microSDHC memory card slot 1.8″ hard drive used Records in AVCHD and MPEG-2 formats Auto Light, Focus Assist, and Manual settings 16:9 widescreen flip-out displayBoth models will hit the US this August, with the HD30 retailing for $999.95 while the HD40 is more expensive at $1,299.95. Tags: consumer electronics, mobile devices, ipod, PDA (Read the full post about ‘JVC Victor has new HDD Camcorders’…)

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by Nilay Patel, posted Jun 16th 2008 at 3:20PM NVIDIA’s Tesla GPU-based high-performance computing workstations and add-in cards have been on the market for a whole year now, and to celebrate, they’re getting birthday cake, balloons, and an upgrade to GT200-based chipsets. Like AMD’s recently-announced FireStream 9250, the new T10P processing units are capable of breaking the teraflop barrier, up from the first gen’s paltry 518 GFlops, and they’re up to 240 cores from the first gen’s 128. You’ll have to shell out to get all that horsepower, though: the entry-level, 900GFlops C1060 PCI card will sell for $1699, while the four-GPU 1U S1070 blade will sell for $7995 for two PCIe-interface version or $8295 for the single PCIe connect model. (Read the full post about ‘NVIDIA unveils second-gen Tesla GPU-based workstation cards’…)

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What happens when Nintendo take the novel concept of motion controls and couples it with a games console that has topped the charts since it was released? Competitors like Sony pay them the compliment of copying what they did.

That’s right, Sony are apparently developing a new controller for the playstation 3, which is one unit, but breaks apart to allow a section to sit in each hand. Within each section sits an accelerometer to allow for games to be controlled via motion of the hands.

Sony Computer Entertainment has not officially commented on the existence of such a controller, but it is expected that an announcement will be made at E3 this year.

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10 facts you should know about mobile phonesJun 16, 2008 Mobile phones have become an indivisible part of modern world. You may think you know everything about them: their design, features, innovative functions. But I present you 10 interesting things about mobile phones, that were collected from around the world, that you barely know. 1. There are dozens of them. Can you imagine how many active cell phones are there on the planet? There are 3.3 billion active mobiles, which mean that their quantity is equal to the half of the population of the world. For example, there are 158 active gadgets for every 100 people in Luxembourg. 2. They make a huge mess. People cast 125+ million cell phones every year. (Read the full post about ‘10 facts you should know about mobile phones’…)

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