All 4 Toys

First off, it’s rather amazing that someone in a developed nation is still using the Nokia 1600 as their primary handset. Secondly, it’s even more astounding that said handset lasted a week in the belly of a cod and could still make calls after it was rescued. In a just-barely-believable story hosted up at The Sun, a businessman was both shocked and confused when his presumably sunk cellphone began ringing his lady friend around five days after he dropped it at sea. As the tale goes, a 25 pound cod managed to swallow the thing, and a pair of fishermen discovered it upon gutting their catch. The best part? The bloke who it was returned to is still using it, despite the fact that it literally reeks of rotten fish. Who knows — maybe he suffers from ichthyomania.

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Amazon has begun to ship the unlocked Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 with a listed price of $615.99, while the originally priced is currently set at $999.99. Just to refresh your memory, this Windows Mobile-powered handset comes with a 3-inch wide VGA display and a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and has designed for on-the-go professionals who want a fashionable and functional smartphone to manage their busy work and personal lives. The unlocked version will compatible with GSM network at 850/900/1800/1900 MHz as well as Tri-band 3G HSDPA network compatibility at 900/1900/2100 MHz. Interested? Check it out at Amazon!

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Here’s something that managed to slip beneath our radar but is definitely worth the double-back: Musiblocks. The design project consists of a central control block at the base of the tower with an embedded force sensor and 6 circular connectors. Add more (or heavier) blocks to increase the volume or twist the block atop the base to switch tracks. The only block with any electronics is the core, control block at the base — the other blocks are just hardwood slabs with tin conductors. Remember, if Sony can mass produce the Rolly, don’t be surprised to see Musicblocks go retail sometime soon. Video after the break.

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ASUS‘ heavy-hitting W90Vp-X1 gaming-friendly laptop is now on sale from and shipping from Newegg. The 18.4-inch behemoth’s sporting a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9600, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2, WUXGA resolution, 6GB DDR RAM, 320GB HDD at 7200RPM. Of course, with specs like that, you weren’t expecting it to come cheap, were you? The retailer’s demanding a $2,200 ransom to take it home. Admit it, you’re just happy it’s an ASUS machine with no “Eee” in sight.

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Check it: three new colors of the Nintendo DSi just announced in Japan for the usual ¥18,900 starting March 20th. How’s it feel to know that Nintendo is already working on secondary DSi colors when they’ve yet to launch outside of Japan? Not that it matters, Australia will be limited to the black and white DSi models starting April 2nd; Europe’s will launch in choice of black or white starting April 3rd; and the US will get a black and blue DSi choice of injury to accompany the insult starting on April 5th. Read more »

We never in our wildest dreams imagined UMID would be the one to blur the line between netbooks and MIDs, but sure enough, it has. The all too elusive mbook (or M1, as it were) has reserved itself a spot on the web, and moreover, we’ve finally found ourselves a video of this fellow in action. We’re still believing a 4.8-inch screen is just too small for the Atom inside to be fully appreciated, but maybe our goliath fingers and awful eyesight aren’t indicative of the majority.

[Via PMP Today]

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In October of last year, HTC informed us that the Touch HD would sadly not be coming to the States via its Twitter feed. Shortly after Mobile World Congress, that same feed has delivered much, much better news in regard to the Touch Pro2. Directly from HTC: “And to answer the big question on everyone’s minds, the Touch Pro2 will be broadly available in all major markets, including North America.” A followup tweet affirmed that a launch date and country wasn’t yet set in stone, but that the phone would begin shipping out in “late Q2.” Oh, where art thou, May through July time frame?

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