Archive for March 20th, 2008

Intel’s Classmate PC headed for US, European consumers

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Filed under: Laptops We've seen 'em in India and the Philippines (among other locales), and if all goes according to plan, we'll be seeing 'em in the US and Europe, too. Reportedly, Intel will be making its Classmate PC available to the everyday joes / janes in America and Europe, though ...

ASUS keeps things tiny with NOVA LITE Mini 2L PC

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops Granted, the Nova P22 is probably small enough for the vast majority of folks, but if you weren't feeling the aforementioned machine for whatever reason, here's another option. The NOVA LITE Mini 2L measures in at 9.09- x 7.24- x 2.00-inches and weighs just a few raisins ...

Jeff Bezos posts Kindle apology on Amazon’s front page

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Filed under: Handhelds Sure, Philippe Starck may not care for the Kindle, but an open letter posted on Amazon's front page suggests he's in the minority. We already knew that the company was having a difficult time filling orders, but we had no idea the wait for buyers would warrant what ...

USB Gadget Display does status updates slide show-style

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Filed under: Displays, Peripherals It may not boast fancy OLED displays, let alone three of 'em, but if you just want to get some basic status updates in convenient slide show form, it looks like this so-called "Gadget Display" should do the trick, and presumably on the relative cheap. While complete ...

Nokia bringing N-Gage beta testing to an end, dishes out free game

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming Well, it looks like we're now one step closer to a full-fledged launch of Nokia's N-Gage First Access service, with the company announcing today that the beta testing phase will end on March 27th. As was announced before, that means all your scores and other data will ...

Screen grabs: disoriented, time-traveling Hodgman takes call on upside down iPhone

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Filed under: CellphonesOur latest micro-series, Screen grabs chronicles the uses (and occasional misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with a screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com. Last night's Daily Show discussion on the nation's impending recession prompted John Hodgman (aka PC) ...