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Our first episode of SlashGear TV week in review is officially online!  Each week, Ashley, Bree and I will go through the latest greatest news along with new consumer products that we get in for review.

Meet Bree and Ashley, our hosts for SlashGear.TV week-in-review.  I knew they were perfect for the part the first time I saw them.  So this first set of bloopers are taken from the pilot episode which we recorded earlier tonight at Soma Cafe in Phoenix.  There are more to come, so enjoy.

Regular readers may be aware that the guys behind SlashGear / SlashPhone / MYiPhone / Unbox.IT (among others) have been involved in a domain name dispute with Motorola since October last year. The URL in question is MOTORAZR.com, which we registered back in July 2004, and has been a source of cellphone related news [...]

Twiddling your memory knobs back to August this year you might remember SlashGear’s coverage of the Onyx concept phone, designed and crafted by bespoke hardware and interface designers Synaptics and Pilotfish. With no physical controls such as the keypad, joystick or scroll wheels found on traditional phones, Onyx instead relies on a system of touch, [...]

Sony E-Book Reader

In: UnderShock, exclusive

In the world of the future, we’ll all ride on the backs of giant robot weasels, eat food that was grown on Mars and freeze-dried into the shape of Peter Falk’s head, and read our books from the flicker-free screens of electronic books. “Electronic books?!” I hear your scoff, “are you a mad person with [...]

Micro Mosquito helicopter

In: UnderShock, exclusive

Readers in the UK will all remember bearded TV “celebrity” Noel Edmunds appearing fresh faced from behind the control stick of his helicopter gunship, gurning at cameras at whichever charity even he had decided to grace with his presence. Well, now us mere peons can pretend to be a celebrity in our own rights with [...]

The Palm Treo 700p, the announcement of which we covered earlier this week, is the latest in Palm’s long Treo line of smartphones. Available by the end of this month, the Treo 700p is Palm’s fastest PalmOS-based Treo yet, and brings a number of new features and benefits to the table. The Treo 700p joins [...]

Following our exclusive on Palm’s new Treo 700p smartphone yesterday, Sprint has become the first cellular carrier to step forward and offer a pricing plan built around the new phone. The new Treo, which is Palm’s first PalmOS-based smartphone with EV-DO wireless broadband capability, also features improved multimedia support over older Treo smartphones to allow [...]

Palm Unveils Treo 700p

In: UnderShock, exclusive

Palm, Inc., the worldwide leader of palmtop computers and smartphones, today announced the release of their latest Treo smartphone, the Treo 700p. Geared toward users who are looking to be connected to the rest of the world at all times, the Treo 700p works to improve the experience brought by its predecessor, the Treo 650, [...]