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Samsung’s new G810 smartphone is looking to be able to offer some nice competition to the Nokia N95. The G810 smartphone is expected to be announced next week during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. While the image of the phone is not that impressive, the specs are solid. The G810 smartphone is rumored to feature a 2.6-inch 262k color QVGA TFT display, 5-megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, face recognition, macro mode and auto-focus, 150MB of internal memory with a microSD card slot, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 and GPS navigation. The G810 is also expected to feature GSM/UMTS/3.6 Mbps HSDPA connectivity and be running Symbian 9.2. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung’s new G810 do-it-all smartphone’…)

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Various European sources are chiming in on prospects for the next leg of the iPhone’s European tour. Spains El Periodico says that country will have an iPhone carrier announced at the Mobile World Congress late this month. Le Temps, meanwhile, says Swisscom already has an iPhone deal locked up for the land of cuckoo clocks and bank vaults. (Read the full post about ‘Spain, Italy, Switzerland Next to Get iPhone?’…)

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The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast is sponsored by Kensington. In today’s episode of the Wired Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso avoid the gloomy weather by talking about Garmin’s surprising new foray into the mobile business, the iPhone-challenging Nuviphone.  In addition, they go over two of the latest MP3 player releases that have nothing to do with Apple or Microsoft, the Samsung YP-U3 Featherweight Media Player, and the Linux-based Haier Ibiza Rhapsody. Finally, they’ll discuss a few highlights from the PMA 2008 camera convention and talk about their gadget-related activities on Super Bowl Sunday.  Thank you for listening. (Read the full post about ‘The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #14: From Garmin’s Nuviphone to the Linux-based Haier Ibiza Rhapsody MP3 Player’…)

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Posted Feb 4th 2008 2:41PM by Darren MurphFiled under: Storage We know how you Transformers aficionados roll — you’ll spend your very last dollar just to ensure your collection stays complete. That being said, we’d probably recommend skipping right over this Autobot 1GB USB flash drive, unless you dig (likely) non-licensed gear cluttering up your pristine heap, that is. If you’re still letting your heart cloud your mind, riddle us this: what legitimate piece of Transformers kit requires you to purchase 12?[Via Coolest-Gadgets]Tags: camera, video games, hdtv, players (Read the full post about ‘Autobot flash drive probably isn’t licensed, doesn’t care’…)

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Wiinja Deluxe Nintendo Wii

The WiiKey Deluxe Wii Mod Chip is a popular Wii mod chip and is one of the cheaper mod chips available.

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It is well documented that plenty of rich (and famous - the two kind of go together always) folks often head to Switzerland and set up a home there as they don’t have to pay the taxman a single cent from their earnings. Well, what better place for Goldvish to open their store than in Geneva, Switzerland? This boutique will be neighbors with famous watchmakers and jewelry designers right smack in the middle of the city. Guess if you are a Geneva resident with more than a cool million Euros to spare, there is always the cell phone from Goldvish’s “Le Million” collection that is gold and diamond-studded, retailing for over €1.298 million. Tags: home cinema, equipment, TV, dvr (Read the full post about ‘Goldvish To Open In Geneva’…)

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"Indestructible" hasn’t been among the adjectives we normally associate with the pampered iPhone, but we’re rethinking that following the tale of Mike Beauchamp of Kansas. Seems he rested his Lovebrick on the trunk of his car and didn’t remember it until he’d been driving on the highway a good 15 minutes. Returning to the scene of the boo-boo, he got back just in time to see his phone get run over by an 18-wheel truck barreling along at full speed. Amazingly, the device still worked, with a fully functional touchsceen and little more than cosmetic damage. Says Beauchamp:This iPhone has been put through more hell than any crash test could put it through — and with the exception of the obvious scratches on the back on the small dead spots on the screen, its amazing! (Read the full post about ‘iPhone Works OK After Being Run Over by 18-Wheeler’…)

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Yahoo has announced that they will be replacing their Yahoo Unlimited Music service with Real Networks Rhapsody for their on-demand music service. All current Yahoo subscribers will be transitioned over to a Rhapsody account within a few months. Once moved over the users will be able to enjoy their music service on more devices that were not available as Yahoo customers to include the Squeezebox and also TiVo set top boxes. In addition to switching over to Real, Yahoo also announced they have acquired FoxyTunes. According to Yahoo, this will allow them to offer a “more open” music playback experience. FoxyTunes currently offers a browser plugin that has controls for offline and web-based media players. (Read the full post about ‘Yahoo moves to Real, still offering unlimited music’…)

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Popular photo sharing sites like flickr allow you to tag your photos with geographic location data and display them on a map. The metadata format built in to all modern digital cameras (EXIF) supports latitude/longitude coordinate data. The missing link is a camera that has a built in GPS receiver (well there is one, but it’s bulky, ugly and takes 30 seconds to get a location lock). This is all changing thanks to a company called Geotate.

One of the main reasons more cameras don’t have embedded GPS receivers is that calculating a GPS location is a computationally expensive endeavor. Having a radio receiving satellite data and a processor calculating the delays between the signals and triangulating your location takes many processor cycles.

(Read the full post about ‘PMA08 : Automagically Geotagging Your Shots’…)

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For the latest info on the coolest gadgets, emerging technology and wired madness, subscribe to our full news feed or have it delivered to your inbox. Always free. Always unique. Thanks for visiting! This is without a doubt the brightest flashlight I have ever seen. It is dangerously bright, using a pack of 54 batteries and a mercury arc bulb to shoot a beam of light up to four miles high. Seriously folks, this is something that you would have to use responsibly. If you can light up a cloud four miles high, it is certainly enough to cause problems for air traffic, not to mention the fact that it can actually burn skin. (Read the full post about ‘The Maxablaster-Portable Star Light, be Careful Where you Point that Thing’…)

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