We’ve profiled pens from Lamy before, with their excellent and relatively affordable Safari line. Some of you might be a bit more flush with cash, or maybe looking to celebrate. Maybe you just landed that big promotion, or passed the bar, or are just happy to have a job in this economy. In that case, the Lamy 2000 could be the answer. If you’ve never written with a fountain pen before, you owe it to yourself to try.
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Lamy 2000 Fountain Pen
Hey, Cloud Engines — don’t say we never told you pink was a bad idea . The next generation Pogoplug has launched this afternoon, bringing with it a refreshing color change and a badly-needed WiFi module within. For all intents and purposes, the Pogoplug Pro (which, oddly enough, is a consumer device) has four USB ports and allows all four of ‘em to be accessed remotely so long as your ISP provides a suitable upload speed. Users can even access content on a variety of smartphones, with apps for the iPhone, Android, iPad, BlackBerry, and webOS being readily available
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Pogoplug Pro enables remote access to four USB hard drives, adds inbuilt WiFi
Perez, excellent advice … and I’m so glad that you made a point of telling people that you did this the normal and natural way because too many are looking for that “quick fix” to lose the weight, and that’s not the healthy way. …
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The 2 Best Bits Of Advice We Can Give You On Being Healthier …
Stephen Fry was one of the first people in the country to fall for the “delightful” new Windows 7 phones and he came on stage at the UK press conference to tell us just how much he liked it….
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Windows Phone 7: Stephen Fry likes it, but does this say more about him or Microsoft?
Microsoft officially launches Windows Phone 7 Six phones due on October 21st for the UK Microsoft launched the latest entry to the Windows mobile OS, Windows Phone 7, in a simultaneous broadcast and individual live presentations between London and New York today. Steve Ballmer opened the presentation with a speech that looked to highlight WinPho’s
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Microsoft launch Windows Phone 7 – six handsets due for UK on Oct 21st
Mercedes-Benz is on an environmentally conscious tear as of late, launching two hybrid vehicles last year, and now an entirely zero emission fuel cell car this December. We were given an opportunity to test drive the new F-Cell vehicle in Manhattan and learn more about the car. For starters, when thinking about what Mercedes has done with this specific vehicle, it’s mind blowing in itself. A non-combustion engine car that is powered off of hydrogen with zero emissions. Did you ever think you’d see the day
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Mercedes-Benz B-Class fuel-cell all hydrogen-powered vehicle test drive, impressions
Another minor refresh from Flip Video, the new UltraHD is a small, simple camcorder with only a handful of new features to differentiate it from the last model in the range. There are a couple of glaring omissions — no 1080p or photo modes, for example — but it’s still a great choice.
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Flip Video UltraHD (3rd gen)
I’ve done my fair share of laughing at Microsoft’s adverts for their mobile devices in the past – they’ve always struck me as beyond lame. Today I just spotted an ad for the (just officially announced) Windows Phone – and I’m a little amazed to say it’s pretty good. It’s called ‘Really?’ and I think it’s quite clever and funny. It still doesn’t tell us or show us anything at all about what the new line of phones can do, but at least it doesn’t look like you need 3D glasses and a lot of illegal substances to enjoy it (cough, Zune ads, cough)
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Shocker – New Windows Phone Ad Is Pretty Good
Samsung’s Omnia 7 , ladies and gents. Equipped with the only Super AMOLED display in Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 stable, the Omnia 7 provides suitably vibrant and richly saturated visuals. To be perfectly fair, we didn’t note a major advantage in using its display relative to the other WP7 devices, but that’s more a mark of distinction for the other phones on show today . The hardware really is looking polished to perfection on all these devices, and the Omnia 7 isn’t really breaking with that trend, showing off a remarkably lightweight body that combines straight lines with a nicely curved back that sits well in the hand. The power/lock button is curiously positioned on the side of the device , but all points of input seemed to perform very nicely once you know where they are
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Samsung Omnia 7 first hands-on (update: video!)
With thousands of developers churning out thousands of apps, we’ve no doubt exploring the Marketplace is going to be a full-time job for at least a day or two after you nab your Windows Phone 7 device this fall — but with all the hullabaloo today, we thought this would be a good opportunity to highlight a few that Microsoft and its partners have been talking about recently. Dig in! Continue reading Windows Phone 7 launch day app roundup Windows Phone 7 launch day app roundup originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds .
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Windows Phone 7 launch day app roundup
Adobe has released the Adobe AIR runtime to the Android Market, enabling devices with Android 2.2 to run applications created with Adobe AIR. The Adobe AIR iruntime won’t, alas, let you run Desktop AIR apps like Tweetdeck or ImageDropr on your phone. Apps will need to be targeted at the mobile runtime using Adobe’s Flash Builder or Flash
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Adobe AIR hits Android
Click To Enlarge Apparently this Japanese remix of Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements”, is hidden in every copy of the iPad app, The Elements in Japanese. Since I don’t have an iPad and I likely would have never seen it, I just have to say thank you Internet for making this available for my very sleepy Monday morning
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Sing The Elements In Japanese, The Ultimate Mnemonic Device
Here’s yet another HTC handset from the WP7 launch today: the 7 Trophy . Features like the 3.8-inch WVGA LCD, 1GHz Snapdragon and the 5MP camera certainly sound familiar; even the phone’s battery cover has taken a design cue from the Desire — same peel-off method, and same matte texture. Not all that exciting, really, but the OS was running pretty smoothly except for the buggy HTC Hub and browser. For now, help yourselves with our hands-on shots below.
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HTC 7 Trophy first hands-on (update: video!)
Samsung’s first Windows Phone 7 smartphone is now officially announced. The Samsung Omnia 7 GT-I8700 has a 4-inch (800×480) Super AMOLED touchscreen, 1GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 processor, 8GB on board memory and 5-megapixel autofocus camera. Running Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system, the new Samsung’s smartphone offers 3G with HSPA support, Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, FM Radio with RDS, A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack and 1500mAh battery.
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Samsung Omnia 7 official
If you’ve got enough time to breathe, you’re not doing it right. Our crazy tour through Windows Phone 7 land is continuing at full pelt with the LG Optimus 7 . We must admit we were very pleasantly surprised by this handset. The 3.8-inch display is a mere LCD and the construction seems to be wholly plastic, but both seem to be punching well above the weight of their constituent elements. It’s a well chiselled, handsome, and light phone, with a trio of physical buttons at the bottom
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LG Optimus 7 first hands-on (update: video!)
Today Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 7 along with its handset and carrier partners. Microsoft has had success with its Windows Mobile products in the past with enterprise customers but has failed to achieve any significant traction with Windows Mobile in the consumer’s space. Windows Phone 7 is the culmination of over two years of resources
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Windows Phone 7 Launches – Can it Compete?
As announced a bit earlier, AT&T will launch three Windows Phone 7 handsets in the US: HTC Surround, Samsung Focus, and LG Quantum. All devices come with WVGA capacitive touchscreen displays, 5MP cameras, 1GHz processors, and the AT&T U-verse Mobile app, which lets “users download and watch hit shows on their smartphone.” Available at AT&T starting November 8, the Samsung Focus (previously seen as Samsung Cetus ) is a 9.9mm thin touch-only handset that features a 4-inch Super AMOLED display. It will be available for $199.99 on contract. Next, the HTC Surround is the T8788 first seen back in August. It’s “the first smartphone to include integrated Dolby Mobile and SRS surround sound speakers” (the slide-out speakers are made by Yamaha), also coming with 16GB of internal memory
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Windows Phone 7: AT&T’s HTC Surround, Samsung Focus and LG Quantum detailed
Off the glowing recommendation of RIMarkable Robb, I decided to install the evaluation version of Xobni . If you look at just about any top 10 BlackBerry application list , Xobni, in many cases, ranks close to the top. I am, actually, kind of shocked by this considering that, although, I see some value in Xobni, there are glaring areas where the app fails miserably. I know that Xobni is one of those applications where the value is a bit more subtle and you need to use it a few times before you really realize it’s power, however, that being said, there are areas, in my opinion, where Xobni simply doesn’t work and is unreliable. Where Xobni Disappointed Adding Incorrect Numbers to Contacts Xobni collects contact information from a variety sources and publishes it to your Xobni contact list
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Review: Xobni For BlackBerry
Section: Communications , Cellphones , Smartphones , Mobile T-Mobile was lucky enough to earn the right to release one of the nine new Windows Phone 7 smartphones, the HTC HD7 which Microsoft launched just now. There are many reasons why we can say that T-Mobile was lucky to be the only US mobile operator to release this smartphone during the holiday season. For one thing, the HTC HD7 happens to have the biggest 4.3-inch touch display among the new Windows Phone 7 units.
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HTC HD7 with Windows Phone 7 and 4.3-Inch touch display coming to T-Mobile
Announced at Nokia World 2010, the Nokia C7 Symbian^3 smartphone has started shipping to customers around the world. TheC7 is the second device from the Nokia based on the newSymbian^3 platform and offers 3.5 inch AMOLED (360 x 640 pixels) capacitive touchscreen in stainless steel and glass casing. The smartphone measures 117.3 x 56.8 x 10.5 mm, weights 130 grams, has a 350MB built-in memory, HSDPA/HSUPA support, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS,FM radio, micro USB connector, a microSD slot and a 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash with 20p video recording capability. [Show as slideshow] Related posts: Nokia N95 Starts Shipping Nokia N95 Nokia Booklet 3G Presented at Nokia World
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Nokia C7 is shipping
This great painting is by Scott Listfield . Scott has got quite a few paintings featuring these lonely astronauts in them. The whole concept reminds me of 2001: Space Odyssey . Except for the R2-D2 part – that reminds me of Star Wars . The lonely astronaut is a sort of leitmotiv that comes up frequently in science-fiction.
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r2-d2 gets a parking ticket from an astronaut