We caught a glimpse of Altec Lansing’s iMV712 audio / video iPod superdock during CES, but they haven’t been available until today. Looking like the unholy love child of the ubiquitous iM3 and a portable DVD player, Altec’s new top-of-the-line speaker dock sports an 8.5-inch “high-resolution” LCD, a universal iPod dock, a remote control, a “stage” for non-iPod MP3 players, and two 3-inch drivers backed up by a 4-inch subwoofer. While that screen seems a little superfluous — it doesn’t show cover art or anything during audio playback and we’re not quite certain where you’d watch movies on it (kitchens? prison cells?) — at $350 this bad boy’s a no-brainer over, say, the iPod Hi-Fi.

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We know, no one likes paying extra for those built-in backup features that you reckon are just as easily handled by your own diligence, but TrekStor‘s latest external hard drive boasts even more fanciness for your hard-earned buck. Aside from coming bundled with Nero’s BackItUp2 Essentials, the dashing aluminum drive packs an infrared remote, AV adapter, USB 2.0 connectivity, and a front-panel full of media-centric playback controls for times when the remote mysteriously vanishes. The unit was designed to capture your video files, pictures, and other multimedia, and then plug right in to any television for instant, painless viewing / listening. Additionally, it plays nice with OS X, Linux, and nearly every flavor of Windows, and handles MPEG1/2/4, AVI, DivX, XviD, MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG file formats all on its own. HD freaks aren’t forgotten either, as 720p / 1080i is also in the cards thanks to its component output capabilities, and the optical digital audio output can even pipe surround sound from the HDD to your AV system. The MovieStation maxi t.u comes in 250GB, 320GB, 400GB, and half terabyte sizes, but unfortunately, no pricing deets were readily available just yet. [Warning: PDF read link]

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Picture an 8800 with its tie loosened and a couple buttons undone, and this here is pretty much what you’d get. Hot on the heels of the aforementioned 8800, RIM has officially taken the wraps off its hotly anticipated (and well scooped) 8300 “Curve,” a device that takes the standard QWERTY BlackBerry formula and throws in a handful of consumer-friendly features for good measure. Clearly at the top of the list is a 2 megapixel cam with integrated flash — but other goodies include comprehensive media support (WMA, WMV, and H.263 all make the cut), stereo Bluetooth, a true 3.5mm headphone jack, microSD expansion for when you exhaust (quickly) your 64MB of internal ROM, and a 15.5mm thick shell that’s pretty stylish by RIM standards. Now that the phone’s official, we’re hoping to see it hit AT&T — among other carriers — in the coming weeks.

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