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As a music technology nerd who makes a living criticizing gadgets, I’m not an easy guy to shop for. You do this work long enough and you get pretty jaded …
Originally posted at MP3 Insider
Filed under: Peripherals
We get pretty tired of keyboards that don’t completely rule. The Eclipse III from Saitek probably isn’t one of them — it’s backlit, after all, and that backlighting is totally multi-color, which is pretty important. At least to us. If that wasn’t enough, this USB plug and play beast boasts a “two stage height” adjustor system, keys which are “laser-etched,” headphone and microphone audio ports — oh! and “time-saving Windows and internet shortcut keys.” We have yet to see any indication of price, nor do we know when it will drop. Can we make a suggestion? ASAP would be for the best.
Eclipse III Backlit Keyboard: a backlit keyboard enthusiast’s dream originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Displays
The portable Dell M109S projector which we saw a while back has just been reviewed over at Laptop Magazine. Similar to other pocket projectors, the verdict seems to be that the quality is nothing to explode in excitement over, but is impressive for such a small machine. Laptop praised the projector’s LED as one of the “brightest in its class,” though they seem disappointed with its non-standard native resolution of 858 x 600. They also laud the simplistic design of the projector, but found the buttons on the box “hard to use,” and complained about the lack of remote control capability. Ultimately, they conclude that the size — not as small as pico projectors, but not large enough to compete with higher-end models — makes the M109S an awkward middle child. If you want the full rundown, however, hit the read link.
Dell’s M109S pocket projector gets itself a ho-hum review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Motorola has come out with a phone, the Cliq, targeted at a specific market and utilizing the power of Google’s Android platform. It is the first of a family of new Motorola phones, where the Cliq stands at the patronymic fore. As far as features go, Cliq is doing all right. The phone is complete [...]
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Ever since June of last year there has been talks of Verizon and Alltel merging, but now it is official. Verizon wireless has now become the largest mobile carrier with over 83 million subscribers. Alltel will continue to run under the Alltel name until a complete merger of the two brands later this year. Now [...]
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