The first round of reviews and hands-on are coming in from Europe on what may be one of the sexiest smartphones around. Everyone’s got a hands-on or review of some kind, and we’re sure that you’re far too busy tapping out SMSes to read ‘em all, so we’re going to boil ‘em down for you. Treonauts enjoys the lighter weight (15 percent, its says) on the new 750v, and the folks at Shiny Shiny point out that some users may actually miss the now-gone antenna as some folks used it to grip whilst retrieving the phone from a pocket or purse. Pocketinfo has a lengthy review (with some very large photos) and likes it overall, but laments the lack of WiFi and a better cam. Finally, CNET weighs in as well with its minute-long video, and digs the rubberized exterior — something that we had to add on previously with those adhesive egrips stickers. Enjoy your new Treos, European Vodafone subscribers, because remember: here in the States, our Treos still all have stub antennas whether we like it or not.

 

Read – Shiny Shiny
Read – CNET
Read – Treonauts
Read – Pocketinfo
Read – TreoCentral

From engadget

We’re developing a major submarine fetish around here, and there’s no shortage of objects after which we can lust. Here’s one more, the Discovery 1000 from US Subs, a serious underwater yacht that can dive to 1000 feet. This one’s good for overnight adventure, where you can stay underwater for up to 28 hours and cruise with a range of 56 nautical miles.

It’s available in a few different sizes, accommodating from two to 10 people on board, and it resembles a private jet inside with its luxo-sport furnishings. It’s easy to steer the thing, too—it’s similar to a video game with its joystick control and animated touchscreen display. These subs were designed for launching off uber-yachts, but they can also cast off from the shore, too. – Charlie White

US Subs New Discovery 1000 Submarine [Bornrich]
from gizmodo

You didn’t think HP, a company known for its bulletproof corporate storage solutions, was about to just let Maxtor eat up all its chances for butting into the nascent home NAS market, did you? We acquired some interesting info on their first foray into consumer network attached storage: the HP Media Vault, a run of the mill RAID 0/1 unit coming in either 300GB / $379 (with one empty bay) or 500GB / $549 (with one empty bay) configurations. It’ll also feature gigabit Ethernet, three USB ports, and expandability up to 1.2TB, but our favorite bit from the internal HP briefing was where some analyst at a pre-briefing noted the unit was “Well designed. Will be better once it is not designed like a PC.” So who knows, by the time this thing gets released perhaps it’ll look a little less like a Pavilion s7600 Slimline, and a little more like the ugly coupla drives in a box that it is.

From engadget

Samsung’s been hogging the Solid State Disk limelight for months with their 32GB SSD first peeped at CeBIT. So it does our invisible hand some good to hear TDK launch their version of the 32GB SSD, albeit in sample quantities only for the time being. TDK’s unit connects to a standard IDE connector yet measures in at 80 percent the size of standard 2.5-inch laptop drive. And like the Sammy SSD, we expect to see some blazin’ reads and writes with better protection against shock, faster OS boots and sleep recovery times, longer battery life and reduced weight when TDK gets around to mass production. So for now, all we really want to say is welcome to the party TDK. Now how ’bout driving down that premium pricing, mkay?

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If you are longing to buy an inflatable movie screen for your outdoors, but can’t afford to spend thousand bucks for getting your backyard this luxury then pep-up your spirits and buy yourself this Airblown Inflatable Movie Screen. This 120″ diagonal inflatable screen outdoor screen can be set up and inflated in minutes, and includes two UL-listed inflating blowers, stakes, tethers, even a storage bag. And, this luxury won’t burn a big hole hole in your pocket for the complete unit sells for just $250. So, make your Christmas party more merrier with this giant outdoor movie screen!!

From Coolbuzz