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Hands-on with the touchscreen Verizon Hub

Think of it as a Wi-Fi-enabled home VoIP phone complete with smartphone features—well, some smartphone features, anyway, including customizable weather and calendar widgets, mapping and searchable directories, streaming videos, and more. Read on for my hands-on impressions.

Available Feb. 1 for $199 with a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate (a pricier no-contract version will also be available), the Hub connects to your home broadband network via Wi-FI or Ethernet and looks something like a wireless base station on steroids, complete with a jumbo color touchscreen boasting time/calendar, weather, voice mail/missed call, and calling feature widgets.

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Foldable Keyboard for Bluetooth Handheld Devices

For all the talk about touchscreen displays and interactive keyboards on handheld devices, you just can’t beat the real thing for bashing out those outraged Internet comments or long-winded corporate nonsense management briefs. Still, most keyboards are too big for slipping easily into your inside pocket.

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Kisai Keisan Aluminum LED Watch

Tokyoflash, purveyors of fine eye-candy for your wrist, has hit another homerun with their latest LED watch, the Kisai Keisan, which uses long convex lenses to diffuse the LEDs underneath, producing a striking effect. And lest you fear that this watch is uncharacteristically simple to read, fear not: “Simply touch the button and digits will appear in four vertical lines. Add the digits in each vertical line to read the time. The date is displayed in the same way after the time. The time and date can be accelerated by pressing button A again.”

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Compulab Exeda Android Phone

Is it just us, or do Android handsets shown off to date just plain boring when it comes to design? Guess that seems to be the recurring theme, augmented by the Exeda from Compulab. Targeting the enterprise market (who seem to be sidelined when it comes to beautiful design), you will get the following on the Exeda :-

• 3.5″ sun-readable VGA touchscreen display
• QWERTY keyboard
• Capacitive touchpad
• 520MHz Marvell processor
• 128MB RAM
• Windows Mobile 6.1 bootable
• Quadband GSM/GPRS, CDMA and 3G UMTS
• 10/100Base-T Ethernet port
• Wi-Fi connectivity

It will arrive this March for a yet unannounced price.
The device in the picture here is a new handheld from Compulab. The exeda has a 3.5 inch sun-readable VGA touchscreen, a full QWERTY keyboard, a capacitive touchpad, a 520 MHz Marvell CPU and 128 MB of RAM. It will also have quadband GSM/GPRS, CDMA and 3G UMTS, WiFi support and a 10/100 Baste-T Ethernet port. The best of all is that the handset will work with Android and in case you don’t like it, there’s Windows Mobile 6.1 support too. The exeda will arrive in March so that’s when we should have some pricing details for you.

Pink Samsung Instinct From Sprint

Ah, at least some parts of the world are still pretty sane – Sprint will be offering a pink version of the Samsung Instinct from today onwards, instead of the Valentine’s Day release which we originally thought. Nice to know they have priced it at just $99.99 after you settle for a 2-year contract and $100 rebate, which makes the $599 Best Buy pricing extremely outrageous, which is probably due to misinformation. As mentioned before, the change is only cosmetic, so don’t expect anything different inside. Will this color draw more people to the Instinct?

How to Get Windows 7 Beta Key Right Now

So many people are searching the internet for ways to get Windows 7 Beta key.

The big news for yesterday was the free Windows 7 Beta download, which was only made availbe to the first 2.5 million users who subscribed to it. There are many other users who did not get a chance to download the latest Operating System, but thanks to Helmers Blog , they know a way of acquiring an official Windows 7 beta key.

On there website, they posted two direct links to where you was able to get the free Windows 7 Beta OS downloads. There were two made available, x86 (32bit) and x64 (64 bit). Below are details of how to get this key:

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Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program (CPP) Official URL Lives

Windows 7 Beta program registration URL is now live, although the registration process, and hence download of ISO and beta product key appear to be not yet working. The beta program for Windows 7, Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program is providing pre-release version of Windows 7 available to the first 2.5 million people who download, slated to begin anytime now on January 9, 2009.

The Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program can be accessed via the following URL, which is hosted on TechNet Evaluation Center.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx

If you attempt to register for the beta download, the following error will appear after profile is been submitted:

Error

The site is currently experiencing technical difficulties, please check back in the next business day.

The stop error is displayed on https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/productkeys/win7-64/enus/default.aspx or https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/productkeys/win7-32/enus/default.aspx. However, you can already start downloading the Windows 7 Beta ISO via leaked 32-bit Windows 7 beta ISO, while waiting for registration to open to get a genuine working beta key to activate the installed copy.

It appears that the previously leaked Windows 7 beta download page URL (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx) also been redirected to TechNet site.

Both Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available for downloading. Each version is available in five languages: Arabic, English, German, Hindi (32-bit only) and Japanese.

Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 DVD ISO Image Torrent and NamiPan Download

If indeed the Windows 7 initial first beta release will have the build version number of 7000, the DVD ISO image of the 32-bit (x86) Windows 7 6.1.7000.0, 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso, has been leaked to Internet.
The downloaded ISO image will have the MD5 hash value and size

File: 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso
Size: 2618793984 bytes
MD5: f9dce6ebd0a63930b44d8ae802b63825
SHA1: 6071184282B2156FF61CDC5260545C078CCA31EE
CRC32: AABA5A48

To download the Windows 7 Beta1 full ISO image, download the following torrent
to download the content in any BT client:

7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso.torrent
Demonoid Link: Windows_7_Beta_1_7000_0_081212_1400_iso_o-Demonoid.com-o.torrent
Mininova Link: 7000 [mininova].torrent

Another alternative way to download is by using Namipan file hosting (net disk or web drive space) service. Namipan is a China based file hosting service. As the Windows 7 Beta1 full DVD ISO is in hot demand, the HTTP download has been disabled. Thus, those who intends to download the ISO through Namipan must download NamiRobot (some interface in English, mostly in Chinese), which also serves as a peer-to-peer (P2P) downloader. Download and install the NamiRobot by using one of the direct download links below:

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Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard, G35 Surround Sound Headset and G9x Laser Mouse Unveiled

Expanding the G-series of gaming peripherals, Logitech released G19 keyboard, G35 Surround Sound Headset and the G9x Laser Mouse in the market.

Said to be the first Logitech keyboard to sport a color GamePanel LCD, the Logitech G19 keyboard features a tiltable, 320×240-pixel display that can show in-game information for over sixty games like World of Warcraft; VoIP communication data; clock; CPU load; and other non-gaming specific items such as pictures or videos. Apart from that, the keyboard also comes with 12 fully programmable G-keys with three macros per key. Supporting multi-key input functionality, the G19 enables gamers to engage up to 5 keys simultaneously.

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LG Watch Phone hands-on

The cool new gadget you see on the top is the new LG Watch Phone recently unveiled by LG at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008.

Consumer Electronics Show is a trade show held every year where new products are announced and introduced.

LG Watch Phone was one of the best gadgets introduced at CES 2008 today and attracted quite amount of people towards it according to the reports by Engadget. It might be just a prototype or the final show, well no one knows about that yet. However we are sure that we are going to see more of it in the coming future.
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