Samsung U440 Gloss

Today U.S. Cellular announced the availability of the Samsung u440 Gloss. The Gloss is a clamshell with full QWERTY keyboard for messaging. It has stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player and supports microSD cards up to 16GB. The Gloss can access U.S. Cellular's easyedge content center. Pricing information wasn't immediately revealed, but the phone is available at U.S. Cellular's retail locations.

HP Mini 2140

Even though the HP Mini 1000 is only a few months old, Hewlett-Packard was actually an early player in the Netbook field. The company's business system side came up with the Mini-Note 2133 in spring 2008, with a solid, brushed-metal chassis and a nearly full-size keyboard. Unfortunately, this predated Intel's Atom CPU, and rather than using the Celeron processor that came with the very first Netbooks, HP went with an underpowered Via C7-M, which pretty much killed any chance it had of becoming a mainstream product.

Now that the plastic-clad, Atom-powered consumer version has become a hit, HP's business side is taking another crack at the Netbook market with a radically updated version, the $499 HP Mini 2140.

It keeps the aluminum construction and big keyboard, but updates the components to an Intel Atom CPU, and adds an accelerometer for the hard drive, and a full ExpressCard/54 slot--a Netbook first (Lenovo's S10 has a smaller Express Card/34 slot).

Thanks to those added features--and some concerns about the added weight aside--the 2140 is currently our favorite Netbook less than $500.

Significant Hottie:Kagney Linn Karter

Weekend Box Office Results for May 15–17, 2009

1.Angels & Demons- Sony- $46,204,168 -$46,204,168
2.Star Trek- Par.- $43,034,547 -$147,645,384
3.X-Men Origins: Wolverine- Fox- $14,702,425 -$150,993,169
4.Ghosts of Girlfriends Past- WB (NL)- $6,653,384 -$39,855,222
5.Obsessed- SGem - $4,588,973 -$62,610,148
6.17 Again- WB- $3,368,189 -$58,363,111
7.Monsters Vs. Aliens- P/DW- $3,182,085 -$190,733,766
8.The Soloist- P/DW- $2,402,801 -$27,505,154
9.Next Day Air- Sum.- $2,244,878 -$7,613,221
10.Earth (2009)- BV- $1,697,956- $29,088,771

Citizen i:Virt M Bluetooth watches

Man, talk about a long time coming. The last time we saw a line of i:Virt watches from Citizen, it was a bright fall day in 2007, and obviously our style threshold was entirely different. Thankfully, the outfit's latest line of Bluetooth-enabled timepieces are far sexier, though we have to say -- the fact that they only support Softbank phones makes us shed a tear on the inside. As with most other BT watches, these too will display emails, alert you of incoming calls and even clue you in on the latest news (via RSS, we suspect). Both the TM84-0341V and TM84-0342V feature a stainless steel case and a life of around five days with a full charge.

I love the way Best Buy just skips those annoying mail in rebates!

Best Buy may not be launching the Pre exclusively, but it's probably the place to go if you're scouting one come June 6th. Why? Pretty simple, really -- you'll leave the joint with an extra Benjamin in your purse. You see, those who waltz into a Sprint store will be forced to pay $299.99 up front (with a two-year contract) and wait eons for a $100 mail-in rebate to return. Over at Best Buy Mobile, you'll pay $199.99 free and clear, sign your contract and proceed to send us loads of personal hands-on shots. Be honest -- which scenario sounds superior to you?

Motorola's first iDEN QWERTY

Today Motorola introduced a new iDEN phone, the full-QWERTY equipped i465 Clutch. The Clutch is semi-ruggedized and offers PTT, threaded SMS and MMS messaging, as well as POP3 email support. It has Bluetooth 1.2, VGA camera with video capture, and uses microUSB for charging and data transfer. The Clutch will become available during the second quarter of 2009. Sprint has not said it will carry this device, but it is compatible with Sprint and Boost's iDEN network.

Palm Eos?

Okay everyone -- grain of salt goggles on? According to PhoneNews, not only is a GSM version of the Palm Eos (AKA Mini Pre, AKA Pixie, AKA Castle) coming to AT&T sometime in the near future, but Sprint will be getting its version of the Centro-like device come Q3 2009. The site claims that 'sources within Sprint' have 'confirmed' the launch window for a phone with specs similar to those on the device we hit yesterday, and that said device is actually in testing right now. Of course, just as we mentioned with the Eos news, this isn't actually confirmed by anyone at Palm (or even close) right now... and you know how much the internet loves a rumor. Still, this would make a lot of sense as Sprint and Palm are all but joined at the hip, and it helps jibe some of the differing reports we / the blogosphere has heard about carriers.

More PSP 2 Rumors

You can be sure this won't be the last PSP rumor to surface before E3, but the word going around now is that the so-called PSP Go! (or PSP2, or PSP Slide...) won't rely primarily on some internal memory for storage as previously speculated, but on something like Sony's new Memory Stick HG-Micro format, which is about 40MB/s faster than a standard Memory Stick Duo card. That word apparently comes from some 'sources close to PSP development' that have spoken to PC World's Game On blog, who seem to also be suggesting that the Memory Sticks would effectively replace UMDs as a game delivery format, and not simply be used for downloaded games and whatnot. All of which certainly seems reasonable enough, even if it's still far from being anywhere close to official.

Bombardier Challenger 601,private jet

This jet holds up to 12 passengers, has a top speed of 528 MPH, and costs $14,500,000