Predicting 19″ LCDs to Cost $200, 50-inchers at $1000
Despite all the gloom surrounding the weak(ening) economy, some good always manages to present itself. Stocks for instance, are ripe for buying, providing an opportunity for those looking to buy.
For consumer electronics on the other hand, one of the most important factors—price—has lowered to really tempting levels. Here’s what a prediction figures:
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Aspire One shipments on pace to beat Eee PC
Acer’s Aspire One has been somewhat overlooked in the face of a relentless barrage of Eee PCs and other netbooks, but slow and steady tends to win the race — Acer says it’s on track to ship six million machines this year, which is ahead of ASUS’s target of five million Eees. Acer’s mostly pulled into the lead due to its size and ability to push the Aspire One globally, while ASUS (which less than half the revenue) has been building the Eee market by market.
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Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds Lumix DMC-G1
The question has been on your mind since we first got wind of this so-called “Micro Four Thirds” concept back in August: how will it stack up? Now that Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-G1 is filtering out to the world, we’re able to kick back and digest a mammoth review of this here camera thanks to the fine folks at Digital Camera Resource. Without going into dissertation-level detail in this space, we’ll tell you that the biggest issue critics had with the G1 was its price.
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Sanyo introduces WiFi-enabled R227 tabletop radio
Internet radios aren’t anything new, but Sanyo’s putting its own spin on things with the WiFi-packin’ R227. Aside from offering standard FM reception, this tabletop device also tunes into thousands of internet stations / podcasts, and it enables listeners to search by country or genre.
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iLuv 3G iPhone Case Review
As an iPhone owner, I have plenty of choices when it comes to cases and accessories. There are many companies out there vying for your undervalued American dollar. To shed some light on what’s cool and why, before you buy, I am here to review the iLuv 3G iCC72 iPhone Case.
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Microsoft Office Documents Editing Coming to the iPhone
The developers of Documents to Go—and Microsoft Office documents editor for BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian—are finally bringing it out for the iPhone. This is going to be an interesting one to see, specially since the iPhone doesn’t have any copy and paste capabilities, which are crucial for editing documents of any kind, being from Word, Excel o PowerPoint. Dataviz says the application is “Coming Soon”… could this mean they are actually waiting for Apple to implement it or they are just developing it so it works within their own Office editor?
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Hammer introduces skinnable morespace Portable hard drive
Make no mistake, it’s been a hot minute since we’ve heard a good word from Hammer Storage, but the outfit is back and better than ever with an all new pocket-friendly hard drive. The morespace Portable weighs in at less than 5-ounces and houses a 2.5-inch HDD with capacities ranging from 160GB to 750GB.
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Philips: Bluetooth-enabled GoGear LUXE DAP
Philips’ GoGear line hasn’t exactly sent us into uncontrollable fits of jubilation of late, but the latest DAP to fall under the aforesaid umbrella doesn’t look half bad. Boasting a prism-like motif and integrated Bluetooth 2.1 functionality, this unit will actually pause your tunes and allow you to answer a call if your BT-enabled phone is nearby and paired up.
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HP’s USB Floppy Drive Key allows BIOS installation
There’s no tingle of excitement to be felt anymore when staring at yet another USB flash drive, but HP’s new USB Floppy Drive Key does, at least, have one standout feature the rest don’t have.
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Access releases ALP 3.0 Palm OS 5
Now that the next-gen mobile phone OS wars are heating up, whither Palm? Well, they’re certainly not working on an OS anymore, but Access — the company that licensed the Palm OS 5 source code — have just released ALP, and have published some PDFs of the OS to browse through.
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