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iRiver’s Wave Phone Taps Wi-Fi for Voice

The handset and PMP uses Wi-Fi to make calls within the home, but lacks the cell receiver that would make it a real cell phone.

Mobility Radeon 4000 Doubles Performance?

AMD has made some pretty tall claims for its new line of mobile graphics cards released at CES.

Sharp Gets into Soundbars at CES

The inexpensive BD200 and BD300 offer simulated surround sound with a finish to match Sharp's Aquos displays.

Casio Cams Do Green-Screen Style Editing

The company's latest Exilim cameras can automatically strip the background out of short videos to key in custom backgrounds.

Nokia Launches Sleek Budget Models at CES

Nokia brought a host of new phones to CES besides the $729 N97, one of which will sell for only $30 with contract.

Travel Tips: Keeping Gadgets and PCs Powered

Before you take off for a trip, take our simple advice to make sure your gadgets keep on humming.

Pioneer Receivers Make iPods Plug ‘n Play

Using only Apple's standard USB data cable, two new Pioneer receivers will pull music off the device digitally.

Iriver’s Wave Home Wears Many Digital Hats

For tasks that don't quite require busting out a full computer, iRiver hopes its Wave Home will do the trick.

Hefting Mio’s 7-Inch GPS Giant

Mio's new S700 GPS offers a mammoth seven inch screen and a revamped interface for $300.

TomTom Debuts Connected Nav Device

The GO 740 uses an integrated wireless modem to pull data like gas prices and restaurant ratings from the Internet.

Motorola Vastly Refines Noise Cancellation

Crystaltalk Plus makes a dramatic difference when using a cell phone in noisy areas.

Motorola A3100 Feels Two Years Old

Another generic Windows Mobile device fails to generate much stir for Motorola at CES.

iPrint: From iPhone to Printer in Seconds

HP's recently released iPrint photo allows iPhone users to send photos directly from the phone to HP printers.

Garmin ecoRoute Keeps Track of Gas Use

How much gas will your trip to the store cost you? Garmin ecoRoute will tell you precisely.

Garmin Brings Motorcycle GPS Up to Speed

The Zumo 660 brings a number of much-needed updates to Garmin's tired and bulky old Zumo 550, but the price hasn't dropped.

Toying with Motorola’s $2,000 Aura

The best aspects of this ultra-pricey fashion phone don't show up in feature lists or photos, but hands-on.

First Glimpses of LG OLED Display Impress

Like its brothers from Samsung and Sony, LG's OLED display boasts amazing color reproduction, 180 degree viewing angles, and tight pixel density.

TransferJet Challenges Bluetooth

An upcoming form of near-field communications needs no passcodes, no pairing, and operates at over 100 times faster than Bluetooth.

Netgear Pushes YouTube into Living Rooms

A $200 price point and seemingly endless streams of content make the Netgear Internet TV Player look like a sound buy for those who just want to bring Web video to the big screen.

Sampling the In-Home 3D Experience

Nobody's ready to cough up a set you can actually drag home from Best Buy and watch in 3D quite yet, but this year's show has plenty of demos.

Coming Soon: 10-Minute Battery Charges

New battery technology from Toshiba will allow a notebook battery to hit 90 percent of full charge within 10 minutes, and is on the brink of becoming reality.

Toshiba Cell TV Can’t Make YouTube Shine

Despite the promise of Cell TV, we found the difference in image quality hard to discern.

Top Five Coolest Features of WebOS

There are a lot of WebOS features to comb through, but here are there ones that really blew us away.

Hands On With Sony’s P Series Vaio

A smaller, lighter chassis and superior screen really do set the P Series apart from the common netbook.

The Hardware Behind WebOS: Palm Pre

Palm has released a smoking new piece of hardware to accompany its long-awaited OS, and it brings many of the features hardcore smartphone users have been waiting for.

Palm Awes Audiences with WebOS

It's all in the cards for Palm's stunning new operating system, which holds plenty of promise for breathing life into the tired brand.

A Grandma-Friendly Digital Photo Frame

Isabella Products' Vizit photo frame has a built-in cellular modem to push and pull images from the Web without a Wi-Fi connection, making it ideal for tech neophytes.

Hands On with Lenovo’s Dual-Screen W700DS

The W700DS is unquestionably a behemoth, but for those who need the extra screen space, it delivers as no other notebook can.

Panasonic Preps 1-inch Z1 Plasma for Summer

The 54-inch Z1 plasma measures on one inch thick, uses a third the energy of comparable plasmas, and connects completely wirelessly.

Sony P Series Shatters Netbook Price Limits

Sony's pint-sized Vaio P Series will hit only 1.4 pounds on scales, but hits $900 on price registers.

Will People Pay for Slimmer TVs?

Manufacturers continue to cut down LCDs to thinner and thinner dimensions, but is anyone willing to pay for it in this economic climate?

Cell Processor to Power Toshiba Concept TV

Toshiba will harness the same processor used in the PlayStation 3 to upscale 1080p content to a whopping 4,000 by 2,000 pixels, which the company believes is the future of HD.

Netgear Demonstrates 2009 Offerings

An Internet TV player, set-top media box and 3G Wi-Fi router are just 15 of the company's new releases for CES this year.

Toshiba Unveils New TV Tech for 2009

Full-array LED back lighting, 240Hz refresh rates, and new "Deep Lagoon" styling will be among the main additions to Toshiba's premium Regza LCD lineup for 2009.

Yahoo Gets in Bed with Samsung

Yahoo's Widget engine has been adapted for consumer electronics, bring sites like MySpace, eBay, and Pandora directly to the TV screen.

LG’s Skycharger Runs on Pure Contradiction

In a city and that celebrates excess, at a trade show that creates it, LG's attempt at painting itself green looks awfully pathetic.

Cases for the iPhone Nano, Before it Exists

Listings for iPhone Nano cases from two different companies have some fans believing a phone to fit them is not far behind.

Paid Android Apps Coming in 2009

Developers will be able to make a profit peddling apps on the Android Market starting in the first quarter of 2009.