Palm teaser hints at early Centro launch for Europe

Filed under: Cellphones

We can't be certain what Palm's playing at with this teaser brochure on its website: either it's talking about the launch of a European marketing campaign for the Centro on September 12th, or Palm's managed to pull a fast one and is ready to launch the Centro (or another unseen phone) in the next two weeks. We're guessing the former, but at least this promotion tells us something about this phone, Centro or not: the first people to get their hands on one will be European. Check out the website, and if you live in The Netherlands, the UK, Germany, or Italy, enter your details to potentially win not one, but five Palm smartphones.

[Via Treonauts]

 

[via] Engadget

Zune hacked for Korean and Chinese language support

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

ZuneBoards has achieved the feat of getting the Zune to support Korean and Chinese languages, using a hack that could open the door for many new interesting hacks for the thoroughly uninteresting player. Apparently, the hackers managed to get access to the System Partition, which until now has been rather hard. Once in, all they had to do was add a new font package -- it all sounds a little dubious to us, but whatevs. By the time more hacks come around, we'll probably be playing with the Zune 2.

[Thanks, Mike]

 

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Interact-TV announces 3.75TB MediaPool home media server

Filed under: Home Entertainment

While we're still kind of left wondering where the reviews are for all of Interact-TV's previous kit, the company is announcing a new, 3.75TB MediaPool home media server. At this point, the typical conversion into # of DVDs capable of being stored becomes a little absurd: ~750, in case you were wondering. It's also upgradeable to 5TB in a RAID 10 formation -- thanks Hitachi and co. -- and features enough throughput for high definition video. We're guessing that means the MediaPool features HDMI, although since Interact-TV failed to include that basic fact in the press release, that assumption could eventually make an ass out of ... well, nevermind.

 

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Hands-on with Kodak's new EasyShare lineup

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Features

Kodak has had some trouble producing true winners with its EasyShare lineup, but while we can't guarantee that the new V1253, V1233 and Z812 IS cameras will get the job done, they're at least a step in the right direction. The V models are slim and attractive, while the HD prowess of all three cameras is certainly a winner. We just wish Kodak would stop making us feel so bad about not wanting to buy into their whole printing ecosystem if we were ever to pick one of these up.

Gallery: Hands-on with Kodak's new EasyShare lineup

 

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Archos' 605 and 405 go on sale in the US

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

We already had word that the Archos 605 WiFi would be released tomorrow, but it looks like the company couldn't wait -- the 605 and and 405 just appeared for sale on the Archos website. Pricing is right in line with what we told you earlier: the 160GB 605 is $399, with the 80GB, 30GB and 4GB + SD versions coming in at $349, $299 and $230, respectively, while the 2GB + SD 405 is just $169. Still no word on all those rumored content partnerships, but at least now we can do some digging Stateside, eh?

[Thanks, Dimitri]

 

[via] Engadget

Loewe's BluTech Vision Blu-ray player also lands

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Not to be left out of this year's HD device love-fest at IFA, German firm Loewe has a sexy yet silly named Blu-ray player surely only slightly more likely to gather respect than the American actor Rob of the same name. The BluTech Vision Blu-ray player features HDMI, 24p, TrueHD, DTS HD, 7.1 surround, although not much else is known -- like where the hell you put the discs, or where the front display is. Guess Loewe's home audience of Germany will find out when it's released in October. One more shot after the break.

[Thanks, AG23]

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Sony's Rolly, revealed

It's weird and it's hot and we likey... a lot.

Here it is, Sony's Rolly which looks (and appears to act) just like a mini robotic Miuro. You'll know as much as we do about it once you disco on through to the video.

[Thanks, diogo]

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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