The Mini-v S41 is the latest and greatest design from Vye Computers, a British firm with production facilities in the UK, China and Taiwan. Vye has a curious marketing strategy: certain models are specific to a few select countries. The new Mini-v S41, for instance, was introduced in Japan and has only lately become available with a US-spec keyboard. “Available” is a relative term, however - Vye markets the Mini-v S41 through an online sales venue called Dynamism. Direct orders are payable by PayPal only, no credit cards are accepted.

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For years Sanyo has been without a doubt the largest and strongest player in the Compact Digital Video Camera world, and crushed competitors generation after generation. Now after the Canon TX1, Sony is at the plate with its HDR-TG1, better know in Europe as the HDR-TG3.

A direct challenger to the Sanyo Xacti HD1000, the HDR-TG1 is also a full HD capable device (1080i), but a very expensive one. In Japan it’s twice as expensive, is the TG1 really worth it?

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Yesterday we reported that some online stores including 3rd party vendors on Amazon.com started offering the new Asus Eee PC 900. Now Amazon.com itself started to take pre-orders for both new Asus Eee 900 notebooks for $549.99 each.

Amazon.com does not state a shipping date yet for the Asus Eee 900. It is expected that the Asus 900 will ship tomorrow May 12th. Because Amazon ships them its free with Super Saver Shipping.

There were some rumors that the XP and Linux version of the new Asus Eee PC 900 would be different, but this is not true so far. The normal price is $549.99, do not pay more for it. More details about the Asus Eee PC 900.

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Sanyo presents two new projectors, the LP-XC55 and LP-XC50. Both utilize the Active Maintenance Filter (AMF) and feature a 7W speaker. You also get an Auto Set-up function which does all the work finding signal sources for you.

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RIM has finally made the Blackberry Bold official. No exact release date yet, but the press release does mention that the Bold should be available “around the world beginning this summer. ”

Key points from the announcement:

• 624MHz CPU
• 802.11 a/b/g and GPS
• Half-VGA screen (480 x 320)
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support
• microSDHC support up to 16 GB
• Quad-band EDGE, Tri-band HSDPA
• 2MP camera w/ flash and 5x digital zoom
• Replaceable “leather-like” backplates

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You may remember the “Handy Drvie 300″ from Fujitsu with its 250GB, so here you are the Handy Drive 400, which believe me on this one as really 400GB of space.
Sold in Japan for 216€, this little wonder feature a 4200rpm HDD, USB 2.0, a size of 82×141.5×22mm for a weight of 230g.

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