CES 2008: everything you need to see
We know there was an absolutely stunning amount of stuff going down at CES last week — yet strangely enough nothing that really stood out. Before Macworld officially gets started let's bring it home with a few of the highlights of the news week you might have missed!
Bill Gates!
Mobile
- New Palm handset teased by Bill Gates himself
- Nokia N95 8GB US! (also, N95 gets red)
- Sony Ericsson announces W760 Walkman slider (hands-on)
- Motorola debuts ROKR E8 (hands-on)
- Hands-on with Mio's dual-front GPS phone concept
- OpenMoko to unveil consumer-minded Neo FreeRunner (hands-on)
- LG's Watch Phone: production please?
- Is this Windows Mobile 7?
Portable Media
- Sony's new mylo (2) now official (with hands-on)
- Sony officially announces Skype on PSP (with ears-on)
- iriver's new APlayer, Volcano and MPlayer Season II DAPs
- iriver's crystal ball predicts upcoming PMP sexiness
- Hands-on with iRiver's new toys
- iriver's CES teaser site fleshes out Lplayer, Spinn
- Sony's Rolly music player / robot coming to the US this spring
HDTV / home theater
- Warner goes Blu-ray exclusive!
- Mitsubishi laser TV unveiled
- HD DVD group cancels CES press conference in wake of Warner announcement: daaamn
- Sling announces SlingCatcher (again), SlingPlayer 2.0 with Clip+Sling, and Sling Cable modem (with hands-on)
- Sony XEL-1 OLED slips into US stores
- Pioneer's Project Kuro: The 9mm thick, infinite contrast 50-inch plasma HDTV (hands-on)
- Hands-on with Pioneer's extreme contrast concept plasma
- BT Group first to roll out Xbox 360 as IPTV set-top box
- Panasonic gets official with WirelessHD transmission system (plus hands-on)
- Live from Panasonic's CES keynote (with Gary Shapiro)
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Panasonic's gigantic 150-inch plasma is official! (with spy shot action)
- Texas Instruments shows off DLP DualView technology
Good times
- You decide '08: The best of Crapgadget at CES
- CES 2008 Adwatch: Best of the worst
- CES 2008 booth gimmickery: Best of the worst
- CES 2008 product names: Best of the worst
- Gear and loathing in Las Vegas – Engadget has left the building
Computing
- Samsung intros Spinpoint M6 500GB standard height laptop drive, Hitachi be damned
- Samsung 128GB SATA SSD now official
- Video: Sony's TransferJet gets demonstrated
- Alienware curved display rocks Crysis at 2880 x 900 (with video, more details!)
- Hands-on with Lenovo's new Ideapads
- Hands-on with Lenovo's new Ideapad Y710 for gamers
- Hands-on with Intel's MID platform
- Hands-on with Dell's XPS 630i desktop and 16-inch concept laptop
- DirecTV's PC tuner (HDPC-20) is real!
Digital imaging
- Sony Alpha A200 announced for US (with video)
- Casio gets official with the EX-F1 60fps prosumer camera / camcorder (with video)
- Canon's VIXIA HF10 16GB dual-flash camcorder and more (with video)
- Sony cranks out too many camcorders to count
GPS
- Dash Express powered by OpenMoko's neo open-source hardware platform
- Garmin's new Forerunner 405 puts the 'watch' back in 'GPS watch'
- Hands-on with Garmin's latest GPS lineup
- Video: Garmin's nuvi 880 on display
- Sony updates nav-u GPS line with NV-U73T and NV-U83T
Booth tours
- Microsoft's CES 2008 booth tour
- Sony's CES 2008 booth tour
- Blu-ray's CES 2008 booth tour
- HD DVD's CES 2008 booth tour
- Art Lebedev's CES 2008 booth tour
- Sling Media's CES 2008 booth tour
- Video: iriver's wee CES 2008 booth tour
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