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I have the iTrip for my trusty ipod, but have been waiting impatiently for Griffin to develop one for my iphone, which is constantly running down the battery. Like its sibling, the new iTrip product allows users to play AND control iPhone or iPod while charging its battery. iTrip sends the music wirelessly to a car’s FM radio so the user can listen through the car’s stereo speakers. Ta da!

SmartScan technology makes it easy to find the best three radio frequencies, then saves them automatically as presets for easy recall.

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Dell CEO Michael Dell was showing off a cherry-red mini notebook at the D6: All Things Digital conference this week. This will be Dell’s first entry into the now-hot market for subnotebooks, which has taken off in the last 6 months with the unexpected success of the Asus EeePC.

After eagle-eyed Gizmodo editor Brian Lam spotted the notebook, Mr. Dell gave him an exclusive closeup look at the thing, and a little later Dell officially confirmed the subnotebook’s existence. No details on specs yet, though the company is saying the product is a response to a call they made to the user community to help the company design a mini laptop.

But if you go by the initial impression of the blog community, the unnamed mini-Dell might be one generation behind.

(Read the full post about ‘CEO Reveals Dell Mini Notebook, But With Few Details’…)

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Google’s been teasing the supposedly-called HTC “Dream” and its interface, Android, at the company’s I/O Conference in San Francisco. In case you didn’t know, it’s highly anticipated. It is the Google Phone (UI), after all. The Dream appears to be the real deal, though. Featuring a touchscreen, the model really is the one that Android is built for. In a demo of Android at Google Headquarters, the developers showed off the phone’s accelerometer by using it in “compass mode.” How else this will be used is not really yet known, but using Google Maps’ Street View feature, the phone can be a window into what you’re already looking at and give you directions as you move.

(Read the full post about ‘Google Shows Off the HTC Dream’…)

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by Paul Miller, posted May 29th 2008 at 9:50AM
It wouldn’t be a decent pointless chip marketing program if you didn’t get minor computer builders supporting the “spec” in an effort to make a name for themselves. AMD GAME! just got its first product announcement from Vigor Gaming, and it’s quite the yawner. Vigor is sticking the required AMD components into its Force Recon SP desktops, with a “mainstream” version running an Athlon X2 5600+ processor, ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics and 2GB of RAM for around $1,845, while an AMD Game! Ultra configuration bumps up to a Phenom X4 9650 chip and Radeon HD 3870 graphics for $2,733. Both systems are naturally based on AMD’s 770 chipset and run Vista. (Read the full post about ‘Vigor Gaming latches onto AMD’s GAME! brand for new Force Recon SP desktop’…)

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by Donald Melanson, posted May 29th 2008 at 2:25PMIt’s only just barely made it out into the wild, but DigiTimes is now reporting that ASUS has already stopped taking orders from resellers for its 8.9-inch Eee PC 900 in anticipation of the now imminent launch of the Atom-based Eee PC 901. That word apparently comes from some unspecified “industry sources,” who also claim that the Eee PC 900 was only ever a “transitional product” to begin with, which ASUS pushed out the door with a plain old Celeron M processor in order to get an 8.9-inch model out ahead of its competitors. (Read the full post about ‘ASUS said to be holding off on Eee PC 900 orders in anticipation of Atom’…)

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HTC fans can rejoice as the Touch Diamond has begun to show up a little earlier than expected at a handful of online retailers. Originally scheduled for an “early-June” release date, it seems these lucky few retailers were fortunate enough to get an early shipment, and if you are willing to shell out the rather high price tag one can be yours. Currently being listed on three websites, which include DechoWireless, PopularElectronics and Welectronics. The Touch Diamond is retailing as low as $780 and topping out at $900, this pricing is of course for an unlocked version. If like us, you have never shopped any of these retailers, its pretty safe to think that once we see the official release date come that we will also see a wider selection of sites to shop from.

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by Darren Murph, posted May 29th 2008 at 11:14AM DeviceVM’s Splashtop — the (almost) instant-on Linux system — has made its way onto an ASUS laptop before, but the company has announced today that said application is coming to even more of ASUS’ rigs. If you’ll recall, ASUS decided to bring Splashtop to all of its motherboards earlier this month, and now consumers who snap up a M70T, M50V, M51Vr, F8Va or F8Vr series machine can also look forward to having near-instant access to multimedia playback, chat capabilities, etc. as soon as they hit the power button. On these lappies, the system will be dubbed Express Gate, but you can rest assured it’s absolutely the same thing. (Read the full post about ‘DeviceVM’s Splashtop comes to ASUS laptops as Express Gate’…)

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The direct-to-TV movie/video rental market is heating up with each of the major industry players coming up with their own proprietary movie rental services for the movie-watching public. The latest news that we have is coming courtesy of TiVo which has just sealed an agreement with Disney-ABC and CinemaNow to a offer direct-to-TV movie rental service. Under the said agreement, TiVo subscribers can now download their favorite Disney movies from TiVo for a 24-hour rental period. This deal will boost TiVo’s lineup of movie offerings coming from major movie studios as well from Amazon Unbox, Music Choice and other movie content providers. (Read the full post about ‘TiVo prepping 24-hour Disney movie rental service’…)

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VIA’s exciting Isaiah processor, which we have been looking forward to for months has officially been dubbed the “Nano” family of processors. With the 64-bit, 65nm processor line VIA expects to offer up to four times the performance within the same power range as VIA’s C7 line while maintaining pin compatibility. This means C7-powered hardware, like small form-factor motherboards, subnotebooks, and UMPCs will will be able to get a substantial power boost without serious internal changes.

VIA has announced five models so far, which will scale from a TDP (max) of 5W-25W.

(Read the full post about ‘VIA’s Isaiah launches as Nano’…)

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Hands-On Mobile, Inc. has announced today that Guitar Hero III Mobile has not only become the top selling mobile game on the Verizon network, but has set a sales record for mobile games across all mobile platforms.

The mobile game has been downloaded nearly 1 million times, with 250,000 songs played daily by mobile subscribers in the U.S. Top songs for the mobile game are “Slow Ride,” “Mississippi Queen” and “Black Magic Woman.”

New tracks for the service will be available on June 1 and will include “Stricken,” “Talk Dirty to Me” and “Rock and Roll All Nite.” This pack will bring the total available song list on the service up to 50 songs and 150 note charts.

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