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by Paul Miller, posted Jul 13th 2008 at 3:45AM var Word on the street was that the $299 price slash we’ve been hearing about wasn’t about carving out a new pricepoint but instead making room for a new 60GB Xbox 360 in its place. Turns out the Mr. Word on the Street nailed this one, with Microsoft finally fessing up to the price drop, and announcing a new fancy 60GB Xbox 360 to fill in at that $349 pricepoint, which will be available in “early August.” You can pick up a 20GB “while supplies last,” but the $279 Arcade and $449 Elite aren’t budging price wise. Oh, and can we just say that this couldn’t come at any better a time? We just had to delete August Rush to make room for National Treasure 2, which we’ll probably have to drop tomorrow for Fool’s Gold. Such is life when you’ve only got 20GB to work with.

[Thanks, Sean H.]

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by Paul Miller, posted Jul 13th 2008 at 3:45AM var Word on the street was that the $299 price slash we’ve been hearing about wasn’t about carving out a new pricepoint but instead making room for a new 60GB Xbox 360 in its place. Turns out the Mr. Word on the Street nailed this one, with Microsoft finally fessing up to the price drop, and announcing a new fancy 60GB Xbox 360 to fill in at that $349 pricepoint, which will be available in “early August.” You can pick up a 20GB “while supplies last,” but the $279 Arcade and $449 Elite aren’t budging price wise. Oh, and can we just say that this couldn’t come at any better a time? We just had to delete August Rush to make room for National Treasure 2, which we’ll probably have to drop tomorrow for Fool’s Gold. Such is life when you’ve only got 20GB to work with.

[Thanks, Sean H.]

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by Chris Ziegler, posted Jul 13th 2008 at 1:29AM
Yeah, we know pixel count doesn’t equal picture quality — but like it or not, it looks like 8 megapixels are poised to become the new 5 megapixels in the upper echelon of the cameraphone world this year. Samsung’s never a company to shy away from a challenge like that, and sure enough, details are emerging on a so-called i8510 smartphone that features S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, FM radio, GPS, WiFi, and a whopping 16GB of internal storage — not to mention a microSD slot that can take you up to 24GB. Oh, and there’s the little matter of that camera, which features an dual LED flash and 120fps video capture at QVGA resolution. Add in DivX and DLNA certification, and we’re kind of at a loss to figure out what’s missing here. Boundless, unchecked hype, maybe? No word on a release date here just yet.

[Via mobil.cz]

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by Chris Ziegler, posted Jul 13th 2008 at 1:29AM
Yeah, we know pixel count doesn’t equal picture quality — but like it or not, it looks like 8 megapixels are poised to become the new 5 megapixels in the upper echelon of the cameraphone world this year. Samsung’s never a company to shy away from a challenge like that, and sure enough, details are emerging on a so-called i8510 smartphone that features S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, FM radio, GPS, WiFi, and a whopping 16GB of internal storage — not to mention a microSD slot that can take you up to 24GB. Oh, and there’s the little matter of that camera, which features an dual LED flash and 120fps video capture at QVGA resolution. Add in DivX and DLNA certification, and we’re kind of at a loss to figure out what’s missing here. Boundless, unchecked hype, maybe? No word on a release date here just yet.

[Via mobil.cz]

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Hints of a new series of Vaio’s have now been confirmed. According to the Sony Style website, Sony plans to release a fresh new series of Vaio laptops this Monday, July 14th. Unofficially, last week, Sony had leaked the specs of various laptops like their SR, FW, and Z series models. Though, no one knew exactly when Sony planned on releasing these details more, well, “officially.” Hopefully this teaser is providing exactly what we’ve been looking for. It’s leaks like these that keep us on the edge of our chairs, Sony.

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by Richard Lawler, posted Jul 12th 2008 at 10:08PM
Looks like Movie Gallery finally got something for the assortment of PBS bandwidth and spare parts remaining from the now-defunct MovieBeam service. The new owner is Indian conglomerate The Valuable Group, headed by Sanjay Gaikwad who apparently thinks serving up a remarkably limited assortment of heavily compressed HD and SD movies on demand is an idea that deserves to fail all over the world, instead of just in the U.S. Since $100 million burned up by Disney and others wasn’t enough to make things work, he plans to invest a similar amount over the next two years to relaunch the service in North America, the U.K. and “other overseas markets”. Variety notes The Valuable Group already delivers movies digitally to India and South Asian theaters via satellite so maybe they know something we don’t about this business model, and with plans to roll out service in three markets with “new, cutting edge features” by year end we’ll get to find out soon.

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Hints of a new series of Vaio’s have now been confirmed. According to the Sony Style website, Sony plans to release a fresh new series of Vaio laptops this Monday, July 14th. Unofficially, last week, Sony had leaked the specs of various laptops like their SR, FW, and Z series models. Though, no one knew exactly when Sony planned on releasing these details more, well, “officially.” Hopefully this teaser is providing exactly what we’ve been looking for. It’s leaks like these that keep us on the edge of our chairs, Sony.

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by Nilay Patel, posted Jul 12th 2008 at 8:06PM
Hey you — you looking for a quarter of the ipod touch experience for a little less than a quarter of the price? Yeah? Well, how does dropping $73 on the depressingly derivative Teclast M26 grab you? Seriously, this thing looked like it had a glimmer of potential when it was first announced, so it’s kind of sad to see it getting priced like the throwaway crap it turned out to be — we should definitely know better by now.

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Avid readers like me have a real problem when it comes to shoving in a few chapters before rolling over to sleep. The real problem is that there is just not to many ways to get comfortable when you’re forced to hold your arms up above your body. Your arms start getting tired before your brain wants to give up.

But for the voracious consumer of literature, there is nothing that can hold us back from our most beloved hobby. Inspired from the design of The Great Pyramids, the helpful Peeramid is a gadget made for us bed readers.

The Peeramid is a pillow book holder with a unique design. Its pyramid shape props up your reading material without the need of a heavy plastic gadget. The integrated bookmark ensures that you never lose your spot, even if you close your book a bit to early.

The Peeramid is offered in a wide selection of color and materials. For $33, you can enjoy the comfort of your bed even when reading. Just prop a pillow behind your back, open the pages, and let your imagination do the rest.

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