This Week in Gadgetell: 7/30/2006 – 8/5/2006

Lots of big things this week pumping out of gadgetell. We first got our hands on the LG Chocolate phone last week, then just a couple of days later, we took a peep at the Samsung SCH-a990 3.2 megapixel camera phone. We also hand a chance to test out both the Sprint and Verizon versions of the Treo 700p for the review. We also have a hunch that AOL will finally stop sending CDs to your house since they’ve officially declared themselves a free service (and are firing 5,000 to prove it). If you missed anything this week, check out the list below.

Reviews

• Gadgetell Review: An invisibleSHIELD to protect your Motorola Q
• Gadgetell Review: Palm Treo 700p for Sprint and Verizon
• Gadgetell Review: ScreenTek gives your notebook a face lift

Features

• Peep Show: Plantronics releases five new Bluetooth headsets with style, in-style
• WTFH: More car manufacturers are offering heads up displays
• Peep Show: Samsung SCH-a990 3.2 megapixel camera phone
• How To Tuesday: Get songs off your iPod with iTunes

News

• AOL to can 5,000 out of it’s 19,000 employees
• The mouse is for slow folks, give me a keyboard and some shortcuts
• 2 GB SanDisk microSD card; teeny weeny card that packs a punch
• Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1
• Sony releases PlayStation Spot for their PSP in Europe and Australia
• No power, no cables, no problem; Wi-Fi goes Green
• Griffin’s take on the iPod home media center trend
• Nokia N93 can improve your golf swing
• Keep your eyes on the snow and your hands in your pockets
• Lexar USB JumpDrive Lightning with PowerToGo software puts your PC on a stick
• Interview with Mozilla lead engineer discussing the “Road to Firefox 2?
• Griffin overs a vizor to cover your iPod
• LG will drop more Black Label handsets early next year and more chocolate flavors as well
• You talk with Bluetooth, now print with Bluetooth
• Samsung network laser color printer
• Vaja silver for your RAZR
• 3 cases in 1, a trio for the nano
• iTunes adds content from TBS and CNN
• AOL is free for all, changes their line to “You’ve got ads”
• Underwater boats for the rich
• Porsche P9611 GPS
• Video of Apple OS X Leopard?
• News we missed this past week
• On-board calling will take flight on Ryanair
• Microsoft IE 7 will automatically replace IE 6
• Griffin keeps your tempo so you pick up yours
• Firefox patches more holes with version 1.5.0.5
• The day Microsoft crashed
• Perplex City uses RFID to spur more hype in San Francisco, leading to a $200,000 reward
• Verizon’s LG Chocolate phone officially launched
• Ben Q’s Speaker
• Microsoft plans to spend hundreds of millions to compete with Apple’s iPod/iTunes
• Apple issues worldwide battery recall for 15-inch MacBook Pro
• Palm pulling out of agreement with PalmSource for next gen PalmOS
• Shure isolates you from the world with the E Series
• Granite Digital lets you store up to 1.5 TB on your G5