LG will show off its recently unveiled KS20 at IFA 2007 (Europe’s largest Consumer Electronics show), which begins this Friday, August 31st. It’s slim at 12.8mm thick and features a 2.8″ touch screen display. It runs on Window Mobile 6, can rock the HSDPA (3g high speed Internet) unlike the iPhone and sports a 2MP camera. Will it be an iPhone killer? I doubt it. The touch screen, based on the pic and operating system, is probably more equatable to Palm’s Treo’s minus the tactile keyboard.  The LG-KS20 is set to hit the European market Q4 2007 with no word on the price tag.
My advice: Hold out for the 32GB iPhone. Course, Apple didn’t include some slutty ‘barely legal’ chicks to show it off…
I’m sorry. I thought you could only get HDMI if you bought the Elite system? According to this Amazon listing you can pick up the Xbox 360 with 20GB HD and HDMI for $350.
A cool $710 million later and you too can own the 3rd largest PC maker in the US. Acer is simply looking to increase it’s footprint here in the US and also prevent Lenovo from making yet another acquisition. What’s shocking is that they purchased the struggling PC maker. Gateway’s hay day has come and gone. I purchased a Gateway P60 (the Pentium 1 with 60MHz) when they were at the top of their game. It was a solid machine, but I only ran DOS, downloaded porn pics (no movies back then) over my 28.8kbps modem and played video games. I think Acer has made a mistake but then again if they can reorg things and institute some of their Korean business practices (aka fire some folks and cut costs) then they might find themselves in a position for success with the Gateway brand. Who knows if they’ll kill the ‘cow’ branding but the deal does include Gateway’s Emachine line of computers as well. Part of Acer’s move was to get right of first refusal on the Lenovo Packard Bell deal. I don’t know too much about that, but you can read more about it at Business Week.
The Acer brand is number 6 in the US. With the purchase of Gateway they now have combined machine sales of 18.6 million beating out Lenovo which boasts 16.6 million.
Paramount has dropped Blu Ray in favor of HD DVD. One, its cheaper to produce HD DVD discs. Two its more “market ready� – whatever that means. And three, HD DVD offered (allegedly) $50 million and $100 million in marketing dollars.
I don’t know this for sure – it’s a guess, ok – but I am predicting that Apple will release new iPods either on 9/18 or 9/25. Why you ask? We’ll first off Apple is currently running their College Student ‘free Nano (rebate)’ with the purchase of a Mac. This helps clear out a shit load of stock. Why the date? The ‘free Nano’ promo ran last year and shortly after Apple released new Nanos. Total shot in the dark but time will only tell.
Unfortunately, my MacBook’s screen began to flicker (known problem) and the Airport card has issues connecting to networks (note that I said plural networks – tested it to make sure it wasn’t just mine). Fortunately, I am still under my 1 year warranty.  I figured my best bet was to take it to the Apple store and drop it off for service. Ain’t that simple. First you have to make an appointment; I can live with that. But the real hook is when you get there at the specified time you sit around wondering when your next. They have a screen that displays your place ‘in line’, but the employees don’t give you a time gauge. I eventually gave up (after about 20 minutes of having zero communication) and called Apple’s tech support. If you’ve got a tech problem and you’re under warranty I highly, highly suggest this. Apple sent me a prepaid box direct to my door within two days. No line, no silly questions and no need for patience.
I’m not going to make any grandiose claims about this new Pleo video. Hard to tell if its real, but from where I stand it looks legit. Plus, who or how did they get three of them? If you recall the “True” Budweiser commercials then you’ll get the vid.
The 99 cent store will sell 9 4GB iPhones for $.99 on Thursday, August 9th. They expect over 300 -400 people in line by 7.30am that day. I bet it’ll be worse. The deal is only available at their first store in Westchester, LA. The 99 cent store has sold iPods in the past for $.99. Folks in position 10 – 108 will have the opportunity to purchase a scooter for $0.99. No word on what kind of scooter it will be.
Shoes.com says they’re a “one stop shop for thousands of men’s shoes, women’s shoes, and kid’s shoes”. As all shoe companies should, Shoes.com offers Free Shipping both ways – that means if it don’t fit you can return it worry free. Furthermore, Shoes.com has a 115% price guarantee. Shoes.com has a wide variety of shoes, including the top brands and what they claim as the greatest selection of athletic footwear.
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