Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert
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Cool in-car accessories
For those that spend a lot of time in the car, Keith has four accessories to make traveling a little bit easier and more entertaining.
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Palm launches Treo 700wx with Sprint
The latest smart phone from Palm is the Treo 700wx, which runs Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition software and accesses Sprint’s Palm evolution data optimized (EV-DO) wide-area wireless network. The device is available at Sprint stores and business channels for $500 (after discounts and promotions). The 700wx is the first Windows Mobile-based Treo smart phone for Sprint, which also sells the Palm OS-based Treo 700p (the Treo 700w is available on the Verizon Wireless network).
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Alltel supports Kyocera mobile router
Viewers of the Cool Tools Video Show may remember an episode we did on the Kyocera KR1 Mobile Router (clidk to watch video), a device that bridges a wide-area wireless network (EV-DO in this case) and then offers Wi-Fi connectivity for multiple users, letting everyone share in the high-speed data love.
CTIA merges ‘enterprise’ with ‘entertainment’
The CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment trade show kicks off today in Los Angeles, an odd merging of devices and services that aim to appeal to the wireless IT guru in the enterprise, but with a lot of “entertainment” products aimed at the average hipster.
Record TV directly to a memory card
SanDisk’s V-Mate ($130, expected in October) is a video flash memory card recorder that lets users capture TV shows and films directly onto a flash memory card and then make them available for playback on devices like mobile phones, gaming consoles and notebooks.
Initial thoughts on the BlackBerry Pearl
Research in Motion (RIM) and T-Mobile today launched the BlackBerry Pearl, a wireless e-mail device that adds multimedia features in an attempt to appeal to the non-executives (ahem, consumer) out there who would like a BlackBerry-like device but without all the “stuffiness” of a regular BlackBerry.
