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Pocket Puzzles Go DS

The Nintendo DS handheld is already offering a huge array of products and one can only wonder if there still are classic titles that were not released on the gaming console. Apparently, there are, since Avanquest Software has decided to bring to the DS two of the most popular casual puzzle games in the world: Jewel Q...

31 July 2008
03:23 GMT

Don't Worry about Your Brains, Mobiles Only Fry Users' Hands

Ever since mobile phones got popular on the worldwide markets, researchers have been trying to find a link between their emitted radiation and brain cancer conditions. However, given the fact that the achieved results are absolutely irrelevant, anti-mobile phone groups started to pinch other sensitive chords: gonad c...

25 April 2008
11:11 GMT

Apple Again Rumored to Seriously Consider Handheld Gaming

With Apple finally releasing the long-craved iPhone SDK on March 6, also using video game demonstrations to show what can be accomplished with the kit, people started wondering if Apple indeed isn't focusing quite a bit on games lately. Still, neither Steve's speech, nor Phil Schiller's showed a tenden...

10 March 2008
04:11 GMT

Apple Is Definitely Thinking of Games

Following news of Apple prepping to release an SDK for programmers, enabling them to develop better apps for the iPhone, an interview with Roger Ehrenberg of Information Arbitrage sheds more light on the possibility of seeing an Apple gaming handhled released soon.Although Apple filed to protect their trademark in re...

14 February 2008
04:07 GMT

New iPhone or New Portable Mac - What's Apple Working on?

David Sieger, of Eye On Apple, talked in a previous piece of his of a mysterious portable device "as perhaps Apple's rival product to the Intel Ultra Mobile PC ( UMPC ) initiative." The details were scarce and so the rumor expanded on that, but after "talking to several sources close to the secretive project," m...

31 January 2008
06:03 GMT

Toshiba: 1.8-Inch HDD Line Update

Toshiba have announced the expansion of their small-form, 1.8-inch hard-disk drive line. The five new disk drives are aiming at the PC and at the consumer electronics applications market. The new models include a 120GB for notebook PCs and a single-platter, 80 GB version to be used with ultra-mobile PCs as well as wi...

13 December 2007
06:21 GMT

Marantz PMD620: A New Professional Field Recording Dimension

The new M-Audio portable recording device last week, the new Marantz gear at the beginning of this week, it looks like somebody will do a lot of recording this Christmas, or is it just me? No matter what your X-Mas plans might be, here comes another great piece of audio technology, the PMD620 Professional Handheld Re...

3 December 2007
03:56 GMT

Major 40 % Sales Drop for PDAs

The Handheld segment, made of PDA devices seems to have been shrinking for years, but now registered a huge drop of 40 percent. The reason for this fall seems to be the growth in smartphone sales, the direct competitor for such devices. Only little over 700,00 PDAs have been sold at a worldwide scale during the third...

13 November 2007
09:47 GMT

Sony Reveals the Deep Red PSP

The PlayStation Portable is still a popular console, entering its fourth year on the market as the sexiest handheld gaming system ever created. More than one skin-making company has rolled out "faces" for it, but the machine still looks better in one color. For those who haven't been keeping themselves updated, ...

6 November 2007
04:54 GMT

Storex Ownzic IV20 PMP Looks Abused...But It's Hoax!

Here's another copycat in the electronic industry; apparently, MP3 and portable media players are the main items to be copied. Another example is the Storex Ownzic IV20 portable media player, which sounds pretty wacky and is said to be identical with another PMP already on the market, HandHeld ZVUE 250, to be mo...

26 October 2007
06:31 GMT

Google Docs Now in Mobile Flavor

Google quietly rolled out the mobile version of Google Docs & Spreadsheets today, allowing the handheld owners to access the service straight from their devices. Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped wrote that it was first rumored one month ago but the Mountain View company didn't say a thing about the produc...

17 October 2007
10:55 GMT

gPhones to Be Shipped Soon!

God, I know Google is one of the top companies on the web, but there are way too many rumors concerning the gPhone. This piece of speculation sustains the long-discussed gPhones are already shipping by the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC. This is not the first time when HTC is brought into discussions, so there must be a ...

17 October 2007
05:32 GMT

Mozilla Cooks the Mobile Flavor of Firefox

The famous Firefox developer Mozilla is now working on a mobile flavor of the web-browser which would be able to work on most of the handheld devices available on the market. If we analyze the decision a little bit, it is pretty obvious because the world is changing, the mobile industry evolving a lot in the recent p...

11 October 2007
04:45 GMT

Best Friends: MySpace And Your Mobile Phone

MySpace is one of the top players when it comes to social networking websites, its developers aiming to try anything they can to make their product the leader of the competition. The most recent plans concern a new pack of MySpace websites which are supposed to be compatible with the mobile devices and allow the regi...

25 September 2007
14:36 GMT

Handheld Learning Sponsored by... Who Else? Nintendo!

An official report released as soon as this morning reveals that Nintendo is now an official sponsor of the Handheld Learning Conference and Exhibition, held 10-12th October this year, at Central Hall Westminster, in London. Handheld Learning themselves made the official announcement in an effort to gather opinion fo...

21 September 2007
07:13 GMT

30 Percent of the Americans Will Own an iPhone

Lightspeed Research conducted a new study to find out the impact of the recently released iPhone and how interested the Americans are in this new handheld device powered by Apple. The survey included 39.000 persons with ages between 18 and 44 years old. According to the report, no less than 45 percent of the iPhone b...

16 July 2007
09:07 GMT

How to Spy on PDA and Mobile Phones with FlexiSPY

FlexiSPY has been until now the ultimate solution for spying all mobile phone actions and messages. Vervata has just expanded this possibility to even more devices, including those that work on Windows Mobile or which are part of the Nokia Series 60.FlexiSPY seems to have gone past the controversy whether spying on a...

31 May 2007
04:46 GMT

BlackBerry Wi-Fi/Mobile Phone Expected

The wait for BlackBerry's next handheld release will soon come to an end. A new Wi-Fi mobile phone is on its way and will soon be out on the market.Jim Balsillie, co-CEO at RIM (Research In Motion) said at the JP Morgan Technology Conference on Wednesday that such a converged BlackBerry should come out "in the b...

25 May 2007
09:26 GMT

DS - Glory Days 2 - Dive-Bomb into Battle - Video

Eidos' sub-brand "Secret Stash Games" has just announced it's publishing Glory Days 2, a new strategy action game perfectly tailored for the DS's capabilities. Glory Days 2 is an exclusive title to Nintendo's handheld gaming system, launching sometime this summer in North America.Glory Days 2 is m...

9 May 2007
19:21 GMT

FirstDefender Helps Haz-Mat Teams Identify "Powders"

Imagine this scenario in an airport: a suspicious unidentified substance is discovered and freezes the activity for hours until a first-rescue team can come in order to make a safety assessment. Well, this is where the Ahura's Corp First Defender comes in to give rescuers a hand.The FirstDefender is a handheld ...

8 May 2007
10:30 GMT

Juno ST Handheld for GPS/GIS Data Collection

The Juno ST handheld is a non-rugged GPS receiver for field data collection and mobile GIS. Or, to put it in other words, it's a PDA with GPS (Global Positioning System) capability that is not quite designed for optimal GPS performance. The Juno ST is compact, lightweight, fully-integrated field computer, provi...

27 April 2007
06:45 GMT

Infrascanner: Hand-Held Brain Scanner

InfraScan US-based recently launched a medical gadget that can spot blood clots on the surface of the brain known as hematomas. This potentially fatal problem can be detected long before the doctors can figure out things. The device was tested on 15 patients that have been enrolled in its clinical trial for hematoma ...

17 April 2007
09:04 GMT

NXP Provides the World's Smallest WLAN Solution for Handhelds

NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, recently announced the availability of BGM220, the world's smallest, single-package 81-pin TFBGA, Wireless LAN (WLAN) solution, with ultra low power consumption optimized for handheld applications such as feature phones and smartphones, handheld game...

23 March 2007
11:04 GMT

Apple Files Lanyard Patent

Apple's team of researchers is definitely not on stand-by. The US Patent & Trademark Office published yesterday Apple's patent application called 'Lanyard for handheld electronic device'. The patent relates to lanyards for handheld gadgets and would incorporate electronic circuitry. It would addre...

9 March 2007
10:57 GMT

Socket SoMo 650 - A Smartphone for the Tough Guys

Socket Communications Inc. released today a smartphone that will target both the consumer oriented PDA market and the industrial environments. It is a device good looking enough to be appealing to the usual customer that goes for the looks and doesn't care as much about the resistance of the device because he wo...

8 March 2007
09:35 GMT

Palm Treo 680 Launched in Peru

Palm Inc. and Claro recently announced the availability of the Palm Treo 680 smartphone in Peru. Claro is America Movil's commercial trademark in Peru. Claro utilizes the GSM technology as well as its GPRS and EDGE evolutions. It is the mobile telecommunications carrier with the largest coverage throughout the c...

7 March 2007
05:04 GMT




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