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Samsung Gusto added to Verizon Wireless flip phone catalog
Written on 12 Aug, 2010 at 8:04 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
Not every phone can be a bleeding-edge 1 GHz smartphone, right? Earlier today, Verizon Wireless announced that it would add the Samsung Gusto to its feature phone lineup. The light-weight flip phone sports a 2-inch internal display, VGA camera,... (Continue reading)
Flip goes off-mission, releases lumpen Flip SlideHD
Written on 13 Apr, 2010 at 7:10 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
Remember when Flip was all about video cameras in your pocket? Well those days are gone thanks to the lumpen, misshaped SlideHD. The new model has a landscape screen that “slides” up so I can put the device on... (Continue reading)
Flip Slide HD officially official, on sale now
Written on 12 Apr, 2010 at 22:21 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
After a week of essentially non-stop leaks from Best Buy , Cisco's finally coming clean with the Flip Slide HD, the newest member of its Flip family. Obviously the big feature here is that pop-up three-inch screen -- when... (Continue reading)
Flip S1240W priced at $280 in Best Buy’s systems, reads an awful lot like ‘Slide HD’ to us
Written on 9 Apr, 2010 at 7:36 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
Our army of Best Buy informants has struck again, this time delivering an internal systems entry that references an S1240W model from Cisco's consumer division , described as a digital camcorder. Aside from the obvious appearance of the Flip... (Continue reading)
Flip Slide HD caught at Best Buy, slides into camera’s view (updated)
Written on 7 Apr, 2010 at 11:51 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
All we have is this one image, care of a gracious anonymous tipster who said it was found at Best Buy. Our best guess? Well, it's a Flip camcorder, and there's a sliding element to it -- amazing deduction... (Continue reading)
iFixIt Tears down the Flip Mino HD
Written on 17 Feb, 2010 at 13:54 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
Ooots outs outs. It’s Wednesday morning and there’s nothing you deserve more than a little soft house music and a Flip Mino HD teardown. The folks at iFixIt know you’re feeling the need so they prepared this detailed slideshow... (Continue reading)
Daily Crunch: Into the White Edition
Written on 5 Jan, 2010 at 10:24 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
Parkour flip book-style Beam me up, Scotty: Some weird wristband lets to you talk to the hand Star Trek wetsuit lets you boldly go where few have gone before Hitachi’s develops brain signal-powered remote control Review: The Torch, a... (Continue reading)
Switched On: The camcorder strikes back
Written on 17 Dec, 2009 at 19:27 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
Ross Rubin ( @rossrubin ) contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. As it often does at its product introductions, Apple took a subtle swipe at the Flip camcorder when it introduced the video camera-equipped iPod nano... (Continue reading)
Bag Week: Sumo Messenger Bag
Written on 16 Dec, 2009 at 10:21 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
Short Version: Sumo is fairly new to the bag game but this is a strong showing for the company. For $79.99 you get a 17-inch laptop bag made of waterproof ballistic, rip-stop nylon. Sadly, a lack of internal organization... (Continue reading)
Rumor: Is Panasonic working on a sucessor to the GF1?
Written on 16 Dec, 2009 at 10:21 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
So what’s the deal? Is Panasonic working on a new camera? The short version is yes. The long version is a little more complicated. Micro Four Thirds cameras are hot right now. Between Pano’s G1 and the Olympus E-P2... (Continue reading)